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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE PICTURE AND SPORTING SECTION. NEW YORK CITY. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 3. 1908.

PICTURE AND SPORTING SECTION. rri 3. -Ik. j0 PARADE AND BANQUET TO MARK MUSTERING GUT OF FLUSHING VOLUNTEER FIREMEN. I Thomas J.

Brennan, Foreman of Young America Hose Co. No. 2. Henry Seimon, Foreman of Kuipire Hose Co. No.

1. I brilliantly bedecked than It is to-aay in Honor oi the firemen's parade and other John McCabe. Albert E. Methven, tvf' lift -a. i Foreman of Murray Hill Hose.

Foreman Mutual Engine No. 1. -J-, It I WfffcA-V pi i Nash In charge. Here will be located a and hose wagon. A chemical engine will be stationed at the house of the Mutual Engine Company, on Union street between Amity and Madison, and to tie known as No.

173 Engine Company, Captain Henry Kreuti Is In charge. Rescue Hook and Ladder Company's house, on Grave street, between Lawrence and Main, Is being extensively altered by the city and will continue to be used as a truck house to be known as No. 70. Captain George C. Irving is In charge.

At the Murray Hill Hose and Hook and Ladder house, on Madison avenue, will be stationed a hose wagon with a chemical attachment, drawn by three horses, the company to be known as No. 174. John J. Livingston is In charge. Young America's hose house in street, between Prince and Lawranco, will be used for a storage depot.

It is said that 00 per cent, of the paid men are from Queens and nearly all the remainder from Brooklyn, to which the Queens department Is attached as a part. The general officers of the department at the time of the muster out were as follows: J. Frank Ryan, chief; Owen Lowerre, first assistant; Richard Btapleton, second assistant. The chief was In charge of the apparatus, but the real estate, consisting of five two-story frame engine houses and two hose towers, was controlled by the village trustees, and at the time of consolidation became the property of tho- city of New York, except the Young America hose house, which was the gift of Mr, Bowne, and about the ownership of which there, may be some question. The oldest of the volunteer companies to be mustered out is the Mutual Engine Company organized in 1S54.

Its officers at the muster out were as follows: Albert Methven, foreman; Richard C. Warren and William J. Halleran, first and second assistant foremen, respectively; John Dobson, secretary, and John J. Cleary, treasurer. The officers of Empire Hose Company No.

1 mustered out are as follows: Henry Seaman, fore- exercises attendant upon tb final master oat or the volunteer fire department that has served the village efficiently and continuously for fifty-four years. This department has been the pride of Queens County ever since Its organization. The parade will start at 750 o'clock at Library Square, lit the head of Main and will march down that street and through Broadway and other principal thoroughfares of the town. The old volunteer organizations with their apparatus will have the position of honor In the line of marching companies. A large number of visiting fire companies from neighboring villages will be In the parade, also the paid fire department companies with Chief Croker, Fire Commissioner Hayes, Deputy Commissioner Charles S.

Wise, Deputy Chief Thomns Lally and Battalion Chief William C. Clark, In charge of the paid men. Flushing's oldest firemen and chiefs, past and present, with James A. McDonald, former village George W. Pople, president of the Businessmen's Association; John H.

WllBon, former fire commissioner of Flushing, and Clarence M. Lowes, president of the Flushing Association, are to be in line. The paid department will be escorted by the exempt firemen, the Donnelly Cadets, the Kyle Institute Cadets, Company I of the Tenth Regiment and the various civic organizations, to the Broadway Lyceum, where a banquet will be given to the visiting guests. The new paid department will consist of thirty-eight men In four companies, classified as follows: One battalion chief at Sjf.OOO per year; four captains at $2,140 dach; eight lieutenants at $1,800 each; two engineers at $1,600, and twenty-three firemen at from $800 to $1,400 each. Chief Clark will have his headquarters at Empire House, on Lincoln street, between Main and Garden, which will, be known as Engine Company No.

172, Captain Thomas J. Old Rescue Co. Is Now Hook and Ladder Co. 79.. William B.

Carpenter, President of the Exempt Firemen. man; William Murray and George Tinsdale. first and second assistants; W. B. Carpenter, treasurer, and Harry S.

Young, secretary. The last officers of Young America Hose No. 2 were Thomas J. Brennan, foreman; William Farrell and Edward Cain, first and second assistnuts; Robert Brennan, James Scully, recording secretary, and Patrick Heaney, finan- J. Frank Chief of Volunteers.

clal secretary; Joseph Kenna, ser-geant-at-arms. Flusbing Hose No. 3, whose home was a frame house on Robinson street, between Queous and Forest, was commanded by the following oflicel-s: A. G. Plusis, fore-roan; Frederick Sehnrff and Louis Henze, first and second assistants; Martin Scharff, secretary- and, Daniel Sylvester treasurer.

Rescue Hook and Ladder Company had these officers: Robert Ballant'me, foreman; John Valentine and Henry Lewis, first and second assistants; James McCormlck, secretary, and James L. McElroy, treasurer. Murray Hill Hose roll of officers at the muster out was: John E. McCabe, foreman; Thomas Olmack and James J. Joyce, first and second assistants; William Rasquln, president; Robert Brennan, treasurer; Charles Fitchett, financial secretnry; C.

V. Garrison, recording secretary. The College Point companies mustered out at the same time are as follows: Eagle Hook and Ladder, organized in 1854; Union Hose, started in 1857 as a bucket company aud reorganized In 1804 as hose company, nnd Enterprise Hose, organized in to protect tho Enterprise Rubber Company's work, but afterward made a public organization. 'R'Jj Old Hand Carriage in Use for Over Thirty Years By the Empire Hose Co. li i Old Empire Hose Co.

No. 1. Engine Co. No. 173, Stationed in Old Mutual Company Quarters.

Engine Co. No. 174, Old Murray Hill Hose Co. RIOTING IN PRAGUE BETWEEN CZECH STUDENTS AND GERMANS. ft 4 i i4i i i -i- iiit Mir sj via, t.

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J. Martial law has been proclaimed in Prague, Austria. This action on the part of the government served greatly to exasperate the Czech students of Prague, and they forthwith started rioting. There was a sanguinary conflict 4 yesterday between them and police and gendarmes at Weinberg, a suburb of Prague, In which many students'were It had been hoped that It would not be necessary to mar the Jubilee of the anniversary of Emperor Fran- JL els Joseph's accession to the throne by any such drastic steps, but the continued rioting between Czechs and the Germans of Prague forced the government to issue the proclamation. The Atistvinn Parliament begins its fall session 4.

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