New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-13
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bench, and Surgeon Smith, Of the Fire
Department, and Lieutenant Kennel,
the Mayors own bodyguard, ATTENDED
him.
In contrast was the comedy the
Kings County Volunteer Firemen's As
ISOLATION supplied They were drawing
a double-deck hand pump engine of
+ 1850. They came to the hill on River
side Drive from Ninety-siXth to Ninety
ninth st. They pulled and they hauled,
and their aged backs bent double, and
they began to think that indeed their
FIRE days were but dim and fast fad
ing memory, for they could not get up
the hill.
They had noticed that the old fire
machine had pulled heavy all along the
level stretches Of the parade, but they
had bucked up and given IL their best.
But at the hill it baked and demanded
more than they had. Then bystander
asked them if the wheels were made to
slide or roll. Il was a question that
caused an investigation, and the in
vestigation showed that the brake had
been on all the time.
The display, with all its variegated
color Of days past and present, was
arranged by Fire Commissioner Adam
son 70 celebrate the fiftieth year since
the city organization was put, in
1865, upon the present paid system,
taking the place of the many volunteer
4 organizations that gave the city more
or less protection before that date.
The procession started at Fifth Ave
nue. and Forty-hfth Street, went UP 10
Fifty-seventh Street, over to- Broad
way, up TO Eighty-sixth Street, then
over 70 Riverside Drive and on out 10
10bth Street. At Tooth Street and the
Drive was the reviewing stand.
Twenty-Five hundred men we're
spared from the department to swell
the parade. At the head came the old
fellows. In addition to the hand pump
engine of 1925 there was q goose neck
hand pump engine of 1900. drawn by
the Veteran and Exempt Volunteer
Firemen's Association Of the Edge
water Fire Department, Staten Island;
q piano fire engine of 1870. drawn by
members Of the same; the double
decker, drawn, braked, by the Kings
County men; a hand drawn hook and
ladder truck Of 1855, lent and drawn
by the Exempt Firemen's Association
Of the town of Newtown, and a hand
hose jumper Of 1850, lent and drawn by
a company from the same town.
after this formation came the horse
drawn types and then the present day
motor propelled kinds, ponderous, steel
built, looking like wagons of war and
destruction instead Of preservation.
As 70 men, in addition 70 the volun-
teers there were veterans Of the paid
department in service in 1866 Then
came the present day uniformed force,
led by Chief Kenlon. The chief, who is
a rather small. wiry, slightly built
man, trudged along at the head of his
men on foot, with a great red sash as
emblem of his position. The heroic
feature in him was that so little man
should have risen TO be commander in
chief of so great body of rough and
tumble, death defying fire fighters.
Binns Leads Honor Men.
Special divisions among the men of
to-day were the honor men Of 1914
under command Of Deputy Chief Binns
and escorted by the honor corps OF
the department, and at the end the
famous fire horses Of long service. The
oldest of these was Alameda, twenty
six years old. a mare, which answered
alarms for twenty years, having gone
to sos fires when she was retired
There was Buster, a year younger and
year less in service, with a record OF
/, 6S9 fires; Dick, twenty-five years
eighteen of which were in service, an.
swering 1872 calls, and Beaver, the
same age, seventeen years in the de-
partment, 1908 fires.
Then came a dozen dogs, the mas
cots Of various companies. Among
them were two Dalmatian hounds
Racquet and Tennis by name, given
10 Engine 65 by the Racquet and Ten
mis- Club, next door 70 them. The
parade done, Mayor Mitchell came down
from the stand and gave the medals
to the men who won them by special
acts Of bravery or meritorlous services
rendered in 1914.
The new administration medal given
for the Arst Zine yesterday, for the
best suggestion 70 promote the EN-
cheney Of the department, was pinned
on Deputy Chief Patrick Maher. of the
llth Division. The suggestion was foI
a record system TO distinguish between
Efficient and inefficient members.
The James Gordon Bennett and de-
partment medal went to Captain Thorn
as w. Smith, Engine Company 2. for
heroic work in saving the life of Louis
Berlin al TAI Eighth Avenue. The
. Bonner and department medal was
given Fireman James T. Daniel, Hook
and Ladder Company 26, for saving the
lives of Mrs. Annie Griffens and John
Martin al 11s East 10th Street.
The Trevor-Warren and department
medal went TO Engineer William j.
5 Fealy, Engine Company 80, for reseu-
ing Mrs. Regina Weiss at 401 St
Marks Place. Fireman John J. Gil
? len. Hook and Ladder Company 6, got
, the Strong medal for saving Benjamin
/. Levine az 90 Essex Street. The Vert
helm medal was awarded to Fireman
: John W. Donohue. Engine Company SO,
for saving Mrs. Teresa Schermer, So
. East Fourth Street
THE Brooklyn Citizen" and depart
ment medal was carried off by Fire
man Ferdinand A. Boyer, Hook and
Ladder Company los, for saving Mrs.
Rose Barone, 1853 Myrtle Avenue.