. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . OLD BANNER OF VOLUNTEER FIREMEN S ASSOCLVTION. gold tassels. When used for parades it will be mounted upon a frame of pol-ished ash, with scroll iron-Avork burnished. The whole will be surmounted bya large gold eagle, with silken festoons, and will be borne by six men. Alto-gether it is an admirable work, a thing of beauty. and will be a joy for-ever to those who remain to cherish the pleasures and sorrows of their idol—the Old New York Fire Department. OlH K 1 K K M K N . ;.
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . OLD BANNER OF VOLUNTEER FIREMEN S ASSOCLVTION. gold tassels. When used for parades it will be mounted upon a frame of pol-ished ash, with scroll iron-Avork burnished. The whole will be surmounted bya large gold eagle, with silken festoons, and will be borne by six men. Alto-gether it is an admirable work, a thing of beauty. and will be a joy for-ever to those who remain to cherish the pleasures and sorrows of their idol—the Old New York Fire Department. OlH K 1 K K M K N . ;. THE NEW YORK FIREMENS association. Soon after the Volunteer Fire Department was disbanded, a number of theold officers assembled at t be bouse of ex-Fire Comnnssioner Thomas Lawrence,under Jefferson .Market, and formed the New York Firemens Association, with. NEW BANNER—VOLUNTEER FIREMENS ASSOCIATION (FRONT).[Painted by Joseph H. Johnson.] ex-President Henry Wilson, of the old Board of Fire Commissioners,as president;ex-Assistant Engineer Wm. Lamb, as first vice-president; Lewis J. Parker,second vice-president: Robert Wright, secretary; and Frederick A. Ridabock,treasurer. Over three hundred names were enrolled, among them ThomasC. Burns, Alderman Eugene Ward, Dearborn G. Piper, Abraham Clearman,Colonel W. R. W. Chambers, William J. Smith, Charles Miller, Jonas L. Coe,George W. Williams. John Underbill. Judge Alfred A. Philips, Frank Bjrns, 760 OLK Andrew Holly, William Spear, Tobias Lawrence, Timothy L. Wes., ThomasLawrence, and others. During the month of October, 1865, they visited Phila-delphia, and took part in the last parade the Volunteer Department of thatcity held. The same year they fitted up fine quarters on the northwest cornerof Sixth Avenue and Fourth Street, where they received many visiting com-panies. In 1870 t
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