. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . eurStreet, near Henry, and located in the house afterwards used by EngineCompany No. 6 on its organization in 1840. The first name of 33 EngineCompany was Bombazula. and when they moved over into the SeventhYk ard a lady, who then lived in the large house on the corner of Gouverneurand Henry Streets, and who was a descendant of the Gouverneur family, wasanxious that the name should be changed to that of Lady Gouverneur,offering the company a golden trumpet to so name it, and the
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . eurStreet, near Henry, and located in the house afterwards used by EngineCompany No. 6 on its organization in 1840. The first name of 33 EngineCompany was Bombazula. and when they moved over into the SeventhYk ard a lady, who then lived in the large house on the corner of Gouverneurand Henry Streets, and who was a descendant of the Gouverneur family, wasanxious that the name should be changed to that of Lady Gouverneur,offering the company a golden trumpet to so name it, and the question of achange was agitated. The exploits of a certain privateer, called BlackJoke, which had performed some wonderful deeds during the war of 1812,was the talk of the men near the docks in those days, and a vote being takenthe name of Black Joke was adopted, and on a later engine the leaderjacket had a picture of the vessel in an action in which she had captured twomerchantmen. The same engine had a picture of the Three Graces on theback at the fire in the shipyard of Adam & Noah Brown at the foot of. BLACK JOKE NO. 33. 610 OUR F 1 R E M E N. Stanton and Houston Streets, East River, in March, 1824. The enginebelonging to the company—old Bombazula—which had a square box withsolid wooden wheels, was destroyed by the flames. James P. Allaire was thefirst foreman of 33 Engine, and S. P. Allaire, his son, Edward Winship,Philander Webb, Edward Penny, Harry Andrews, Tom Primrose, MalachiFallon, Edward Fernon, Samuel Dunlop, and Thomas Mclntyre were allforemen in later years. Engine Company 33 was the first fire company to start a target excursion,which practice they continued for many years, and which was soon afterwardsfollowed by the other engine companies. In 1843 Samuel Dunlop opened aplace at the junction of East Broadway and Grand Street. This was a greatresort for 33 Engines followers. He had a lunch between the hours of tenand one oclock, and the boys christened it
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