New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-21
NEW FIRE HOUSES OPEN
Ten Pieces Of Motor Apparatus
Put Into Commission.
FIRST ALARM BY GAYN0R
Sent from Box at City Hall
Mayor Then Awards Medals
TO Brave Firemen.

I Tine presentation Of medals e. twenty
nine brave smokc-eaters. the official OPEN
/ INK OF ton now IRE houses and the IN
stallation Of ton new pieces o. motor ap-
paratus made yesterday a rod-lctter day
for the Fire Department incidentally.
Mayor Gayuor sent in the first false
alarm over transmitted Dos NV YORK
Mayor
The alarm 10 the new engine companios
was sent al 20 O'Clock from specially
constructed box on the plaza In front OF
/ the city Hail 1t it. signal the COM
panics ram from their station houses {
the nearest Tire alarm boxes = speciacu-
lar feature was contributed ht Deputy
Chtcf hinus. vino arrived AZ IN city Han
IN his new red motor car in forty seconds
from the house at Fulton and Church
! streets. with No TO- an old motor engine,
trailing about one hundred yards behind.
! Tho combination chemical and his.
wagon from the same house and tho
truck followed within the length OF a
block. The crowd which viewed the ccrc-
mony was cleared away by the police as
soon as the whistles were heard. and the
apparatus rushed up into tho space I'm
front OF tie CITY Hall steps i'm true fire.
fighting fashion
Almost ut the same moment that tho
! motor engines dashed through the crowd
and came to a stop. n horsc-draWn On
eino and truck. returning from down
town fire. lahorcd up Broadway. Tie
dramatic quality OF the incident was At
once felt by the people. who craucd their
nccks to get 1t sight Of the old-fashoncd
equipment as il disappeared north.
As soon as he had pulled the alarm and
I greeted the responding men and apparat-
us. Mayor Gaynor. Commissioner John
son and the other officials retired TO the
Mayors office. where the medals were
| presented Tho decorations and those who
received them were as follows:
James Gordon Bennett medal and d
par,mcnt medal. to Seneca Larke jr en-
! sinccr Of steamer. Engine Company ~.
! Hugh Bonner medal and department
medal, to James q. Brown. first grade
/ fireman. Hook and Ladder Company 80 b.
Emily Trevor Mary Il. Warren medal
and department medal. To James \. Mol
: 10y. first grade fireman, Engine Com
: panv %.
{ William l.. Strong medal and depart
: mcnt medal. to Thomas kilbridc. first
grade fireman, Iiook and Ladder Com
: pany
! ll'nn +. Wertheim medal and depart
mont medal, to John IT, Mooney arst
grade Grcman. Hook and Ladder COM
, pany T.
! Brooklyn "Citizcn's" medal. to Captain
james J. Walsh, Engine Company 2D.
J William 5. Hurley medal To- Charles
I Helmholtz. first grade fireman. Engine
/ Company 23s.
! John T. Agnew medal. To Arthur L..
! Boylan, first grade fireman. Hose Com
rany I.
J Thomas r.. Crimmins memorial medal
/ and department medal. To- Lieutenant
/ Charles ". Rankin. Engine Company %.
John T. Stephenson medal. 10 Captain
! John j. Kelly. Hook and Ladder Com
I pauy .
Department medal to Francis X
Shields. first grade fireman. Hook and
/ Ladder Company p.
Department medal. To- Frederick J. Deiss-
roth. FIRST grade fireman. Engine Com
panf7
Bronze efficiency medal. to each member
of Hook and Ladder Company .
Department medal. To DR. Henry NJ.
Archer. honorary medical officer.
OF the new companies put in commits