Reminiscences of the old fire laddies and volunteer fire departments of New York and Brooklyn. . on by Mayor F. C. Latrobe, ex-Fire ChiefHarry Howard responded, and said : Mr. Mayor : It is my happy privilege to respond in behalf of the Veteran Volun-teer Firemen of New York to your very nattering address of welcome, accompanyingit with these ancient and beautiful symbols, the keys of your old and magnificentMonumental City. We have command of words, but they are inadequate to expressour heartfelt thanks and gratitude : our hearts are filled with what the clergymen terma halo of rapture in lis
Reminiscences of the old fire laddies and volunteer fire departments of New York and Brooklyn. . on by Mayor F. C. Latrobe, ex-Fire ChiefHarry Howard responded, and said : Mr. Mayor : It is my happy privilege to respond in behalf of the Veteran Volun-teer Firemen of New York to your very nattering address of welcome, accompanyingit with these ancient and beautiful symbols, the keys of your old and magnificentMonumental City. We have command of words, but they are inadequate to expressour heartfelt thanks and gratitude : our hearts are filled with what the clergymen terma halo of rapture in listening to your grand oration and witnessing this enormousgathering of your citizens, who have waited patiently for five hours after the time setfor our arrival, to cheer us on our way to Washington to take part in the inaugurationof the new Government. We have always heard that Baltimore was more like NewYork than any other place on earth, and to-night proves the assertion to be true. YourHonor says you were proud to have been a volunteer fireman, but steam -fire-engines A Unique Memento. 31. 312 Reminiscences of the Old Fire Laddies. had superseded them. Sir, we admit that is partially true, but everything that is nowaccomplished by steam fire-engines, horse-power, and paid firemen, was all cheerfullydone by the volunteers with a scant water supply, cumbrous fire apparatus, limitedsupplies, and the want of nearly all necessary implements for extinguishing fires. The volunteers rendered all this vast service without pay and without the present firemen without steam fire-engines and horses, and you have ourcase. It is wonderful how we so successfully extinguished fires under all these dis-advantages. There was great prejudice in the New York Fire Department tochange. I was one of only a few who favored paying the officers and mendeclaring for steam fire brigades in large cities. I knew the people were as favorableto paying the firemen as they were to pay the mi
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