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Boss Tweed’s Fire Hat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

      Passin\u2019 by an engine house the other day and seein\u2019 the fireman seated around chattin\u2019, I got thinkin\u2019 of the times when the engine houses used to be the clubs\u2013the almost homes\u2013of the bunkin\u2019 boys of the old Volunteer Fire Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      It is true the law distinctly forbade bunkin\u2019 or sleepin\u2019 or livin\u2019 in the engine houses, and Joe Hoxie, when he became alderman, made himself very notorious and very unpopular by tryin\u2019 to enforce this law. A new broom and a new alderman swept clean, and Alderman Hoxie made a very clean sweep indeed. One night he ordered a sort of grand raid on all the engine houses and cleaned them out. This made a big stir for awhile, but the fireman were too much for the alderman, and the raid only made a short-lived sensation, and the boys bunked on more than ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      One of the kind-hearted clergymen of the time offered the use of his \u201csacred edifice\u201d as a \u201ctemporary home\u201d for No. 33\u2019s boys, who accepted the offer, and not only \u201cwent to church\u201d every Sunday, but stayed at church all the week, and made \u2018emselves so thoroughly at \u201chome,\u201d smokin\u2019 and drinkin\u2019 and tellin\u2019 yarns and playin\u2019 euchre in church that they were obliged to vamoose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      One of the East Side engine companies hired a house in Scammell street, payin\u2019 the rent out of the company treasury. They fitted up two big rooms in this house as sleepin\u2019 or bunkin\u2019 rooms, arrangin\u2019 the berths or beds or bunks around the walls in three rows, one on top of another, just like the cabins in river steamboats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 They had a good deal of fun among \u2018emselves in these two rooms, more fun than sleep sometimes. They played all sorts of pranks upon each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Night Alarm<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

      Once two wags waited until the boys were asleep, and then had a circus. They took the signal lantern, which hung by the door ready for use, and got some lampblack from it. With this lampblack they proceeded to decorate the faces of the sleepers, giving \u2018em extempore beards and mustaches, applyin\u2019 the lampblack cautiously, of course, and only on the soundest sleepers. This lampblack was easy to put on, but very hard to get off. It would stick like Peter Cooper’s glue, or a creditor, and when the boys woke up at a fire alarm and saw how they were daubed, they would try to wipe their bogus beards and false mustaches off, but generally failed, succeedin\u2019 only in makin\u2019 \u2018emselves more \u201cdirty-faced\u201d than they found \u2018emselves at first. It was no use gettin\u2019 mad, and though everybody lampblacked vowed vengeance, of course, nothin\u2019 ever came of it but a good wash as soon as possible and a good laugh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Some of the fire engineers were decidedly in favor of the boys usin\u2019 the engine houses freely. Harry Howard made himself very popular in encouragin\u2019 this sort of thing, and so did Bill Tweed. Tweed carried his big ideas even into fire matters, and was the first to turn the engine house into a first-class club house. When he was foreman of Big Six he carried through a scheme for puttin\u2019 up expressly for this purpose a big, three-story buildin\u2019 which soon became a sort of political headquarters, and in this way soon paid Tweed for his time, trouble and expense in the matter, for he took all three.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Harry Howard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

      Talkin\u2019 about the old time firemen, perhaps the best managed benevolent institution ever started in New York, doin\u2019 the most good with the least fuss and the least expense, was and is the Volunteer Fire Department Benefit Fund. The idea of this fund occurred as a sort of accident at a jolly party some of the fire laddies held at a tavern in Nassau street not far from Fulton. I don’t know who started the idea, but whoever he was, there are thousands of people who have blessed him for it. At any rate Engine No. 12 and Hose Company No. 4 took up the matter in a practical shape and got nearly $30,000 subscribed for it in a few months, though New York then was small and the times were bad. But the old Volunteer Fire Department was always popular with the people, and the people and the merchants subscribed to the fund heartily and liberally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Big events in the history of this Fireman’s Fund were the annual balls for its benefit. The first of these was held at the Bowery Theatre\u2013the first Bowery Theatre\u2013then the finest theater in the country. There is one old man, hale and hearty yet, whom I see every now and then, who was just of age when this great Fireman’s Fund ball took place. The price of the tickets was two dollars. The old fellow has seen ten dollars paid for ball tickets since then, but he is willing to swear he then had more fun for two dollars than was ever had at one of the more pretentious balls of the period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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      Just a little while after this first ball the first Bowery Theatre was burned down. Celeste was drawin\u2019 big houses then, assisted by Madame Achilles and Madame Hutin, the first French dancers that were ever imported into this country. They made a bigger sensation than the \u201cBlack Crook\u201d did, and were even more vigorously denounced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The first Bowery Theatre took fire from the sparks from a burnin\u2019 stable in Bayard street. Unlike most theatre fires, this began at the roof of the theatre and burned down into the auditorium. The Bowery Theatre was a prime favorite, and the whole town almost turned out in response to a \u201cgeneral alarm\u201d to save it. Every one of the forty-seven engines, every one of the nine trucks belonging to the Fire Department, were soon hard at work, nearly two thousand men, most of \u2018em skilled firemen, and yet this fire defied \u2018em for hours, and kept on burnin\u2019 fiercely till it stopped from sheer lack of anythin\u2019 to to burn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The fault was not with the engines or the firemen, but with the water. There wasn’t enough of that, and it was very hard to get. Although the fire was on the Bowery, the water had to be got direct from the East River. That was the trouble. A line had to be formed of seventeen engines, extendin\u2019 from the foot of Catherine street to the theatre. The first engine of these seventeen pumped up the water from the East River; the second engine in the line pumped it on to the third, the third to the fourth, and so on, till at last, after hard work and a fearful delay, it got to the theatre. It took over six hundred men to attend to this line, and under the circumstances it is not only no wonder that the theatre was destroyed, but it was a wonder that a big fire wasn’t started that might have consumed the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bowery Theatre Fire, 1828<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

      After the burnin\u2019 of the theatre the annual Fire Department balls were held at the Park Theatre and then at the Opera House, old Clinton Hall. Some were also given at Niblo\u2019s. The very last entertainment given by \u201cthe fireman’s ball Committee of the old Volunteer Fire Department\u201d was held in the Academy of Music not more than six or seven years ago, and was held for the benefit of the yellow fever sufferers, and brought in over $6,000. The fireman’s ball died and as it had lived, in successful charity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Peace be to its memory. It is one of the good things \u201cgone and forever.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[Editor’s notes: The above column was adapted from the two-part article: Sheldon, George William. \u201cThe Old New York Volunteer Fire Department\u201d\u00a0 Harper\u2019s New Monthly Magazine<\/em>\u00a0 Jan-Feb 1881.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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