The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-04-26

More trouble with the new hose.
Mulligan, of One Engine, says the
weather is too warm to suck eggs
What is it that must play before it can
work fire engine.
Engine Company No. rs team of Newark
are hitched up in three and one-quarter
seconds.
Washington, N. j., has elected one of
her fire laddies as her Mayor.
For trying to show their ssSullivanic"
powers Driver Lennon and Stoker Michaels
of Two Engine were fined one days pay
each.
Since Mat Bligh, of Six Engine, began
using hair dye he cannot count the 'sgong. /"
Lea hers last official act was to fine Doc
Saunders one months pay for getting off.
Chief Farrier's weekly report shows
nine fires, four being bell alarms
Thos. F. Smith has been appointed and
assigned to Six Engine.
Gardener, of Ore Truck, has a ring bic
enough to make washer" for a fire by
drant
Jack Barry has the contract to sskalso.
mine" driver Quinn's bald head.
Bun Mccarthy, of One Truck, has din
ner pail made out of an old fire extin-
guisher % years old.a
Under the efficient eye OF Commissioner
Brennan the P. r. r. fire department is
rated as A No. by the insurance compa.
MES.
Jim Riddle, of Fire Headquarters, is now
busy writing the lives Of all the ex- Chiefs
He was seen going up Montgomery street
last Thursday morning with a big "ledger'
under his arm on his way to the City Hall
John Reilly, the well known veteran fire
man, is now at the 2. R. R. depot A fire
| will have poor show while he is there.
The ''spring' fever has struck some Of
the boys, especially 'sCovert, the carpen.
| ter, Who is SO tired that he cannot lift an
| idea.
dyson" has just added to his museum
picture of an old Chinese fireman, and 8
pair of socks worn by the last man who
came out of the Brooklyn fire.
At a recent chowder party Kelleher. Of
One Engine, complained of the chicken
81 plant none of it, he said; ''give me
corn beef and cabbage"
Hayes, of One Engine, :" says he is called
'sthe fair-haired boy" by the girls in the
tobacco factory.
Sutton, of One Engine, says fire depart
ment life is snap. He says just think
three months buffalo and amt got a wei
foot yet.
Jack Culbert, of Three Engine, almost
knocked the s'board' out Friday night in
his Shakesperian recitations. He is now
looked upon as a rival of Henry Irving.
We hope that with the return of the
warm weather Chief Farrier will be himself
again. The Chief is deserving OF great
praise for the able way he has handled the
| fires during the past winter. Although d
cripple he has been at his post of duty every
time. Jersey City can congratulate herseii
in having such a man at the head of hel
| Fire Department.
The Fire Board willredect credit on itself
| by electing Commissioner Brennan as its
President. The Commissioner under
stands the workings of the department to q
letter, and he would be the right man in
the right place.
Commissioner John Egan, the retiring
member of the Second District, leaves be-
hind him a sterling record. While in the
Board Mr.. Egan has made for himself
many friends, and as some of the laddies
say well miss the old man." He will de-
vote himself to his business, which at pres
ent demands his personal attention.