The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-07-19
FIRE ITEMS.

Mulligan is lonely since he left One en-
CINE.
Jobs, of Engine 10, is away up on civil
service reform.
Graham, of One truck, is lonely since the
Academy closed.
The ssladdies won't have their salaries
raised this year.
Masker, of Engine 9, is the g masher of
the Department.
"slatcher ONeil, of Engine l, has a
touch of the " lifts.
Mulligan, of Four engine, has a mania
for eating cracked ice.
Four alarms of fire kept the Ladies' >
in the hill district busy.
It is reported that the heat melted the
strings off Dan Dinan's banjo
It is reported that Lou" Meyers will
be Three engines new foreman.
The members of Six engine say that they
have the hottest quarters in the city.
Chief Farrier should have an assistant to
look after the fire district on the Hill.
Haley, of Engine l, cut a fine figure on
the steamer Stockton last Wednesday.
AS the TArTnER predicted, President
Brennan is fulfilling every expectation.
Engine z is beginning to make better
time. Commissioner Isley is after them.
Chief Farrier is always happy when
smoking good cigar, but he never has the
mate
Dingler of Three engine don't like the
hot spell, but this is the time for ice cream,
George.
Dan Morrow of Three engine has been
elected chief of Dodd and Magee's fire de-
partment.
We wonder if the members of Five en-
CINE really think that they are an engine
company.
The Jersey City Department is rated as
a No. by the insurance companies, but it
they only knew.
What has become of all the old volun-
teers that once constituted the old J. G.
Fire Department.
Jacob Marnius, an old citizen, and a
member of the old volunteer fire depart
ment, died during the past week.
Why not appoint Jack Barry assistant
for the hill? He will use " silence, put q
gong on his gig, and the outfit will be COM
plete.
Eek President of the Department, Thomas
Leather, while walking down Erie street
Friday night, was assaulted and knocked
down.
1t is well-known fact that great many
people in this city actually believe that at
9 p NJ. the fremen lock the engine-house
and go home.
"Jim" McKenna of One engine, and Old
po1,abIo EolIov, Of Two opoiuo
gave an. exhibition with hand-granades in
the Lyceum last Thursday.
The way in which Commissioner Bren-
nan explained the grievances of the Dc
partment to the Finance Board was credit
to himself and the Fire Board.
The Department was well represented on
the Lyceum excursion last Thursday. The
TATTLER noticed Ex-Commissioner John
Egan, Ex-Chief Francis. Chief Clark, of
Dunkirk. N. Y ; Assistant Chief O'Mara,
of Newburgh, N. Y. Foreman Bliven, of
Brooklyn; Chief Remsen, of Jamaica, L.
/. Peter Fallon, of Three engine !; j. Nc
Kenna, of One engine, and Foreman Wolf,
of Thirty-eight engine, New York, and
host of others.
Is it not disgrace for a city containing
10000 people to have its Fire Board beg
ging and pleading for money with which to
protect the city's interests AS it is, the
Department has lot of old relics in the
shape of trucks and steamers, that would
shame town of one-quarter its size also
a lot of hoze that won't stand hydrant
pressure. But if it should be our misfor-
tune to have two or three big fires, the very
ones who are crying retrenchment would
be the first to condemn the Department
and its officers, when they are to blame
themselves. Jersey City is growing fast,
and should have a department. that could
be depended upon in case of need.