Reminiscences of the old fire laddies and volunteer fire departments of New York and Brooklyn. . 760 Reminiscences of the Old Fire Laddies. F. & A. M., Royal Arcanum, Long Island Council of the WesternDistrict, and the Masonic Relief Association. He is also an enthu-siastic member of the Mombashshaw Fishing Club. In 1871 he became an active member of the Thirteenth RegimentN. Y. S. M., and has performed meritorious service in that organiza-tion. He has been for years a member of the Veteran Associationof that famous organization. Mr. Brown is associated with his brother in business as a lock-s
Reminiscences of the old fire laddies and volunteer fire departments of New York and Brooklyn. . 760 Reminiscences of the Old Fire Laddies. F. & A. M., Royal Arcanum, Long Island Council of the WesternDistrict, and the Masonic Relief Association. He is also an enthu-siastic member of the Mombashshaw Fishing Club. In 1871 he became an active member of the Thirteenth RegimentN. Y. S. M., and has performed meritorious service in that organiza-tion. He has been for years a member of the Veteran Associationof that famous organization. Mr. Brown is associated with his brother in business as a lock-smith on Myrtle Avenue. At the latter establishment may benightly found men who for years willingly left the workshop orhastily quitted their warm couches in response to an alarm of Brown brothers welcome these old-timers, and listen respect-fully to the wonderful tales,recounted by them of thedays of the Old James K. Leggett. —Among the engines whichparticularly attracted atten-tion at the great triennialparade of the New YorkFire Department in October,1857, no one was moreconspicuous than PacificEngine No. 14, of the cityof Brooklyn. It was uni- versally conceded that it by ~ David Simpson. far excelled anything else of the Philadelphia was built by John Agnew, of the Quaker City, in 1850, andcost, when new, $3000. It was the private property of the one side was a beautiful picture of Balboa discovering the PacificOcean, on the other that of Fame and Ambition. On the front ofthe gallery was a picture of a lion and a lamb lying down together,and in the rear was a beautiful allegorical design of Protection —represented as a woman and child, with a fireman by their gallery was surmounted by a bust of Washington, and the sidesand edges heavily mounted with silver. In November, 1856, the members of this enterprising company gave an elegant reception toa few se
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