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July 2nd, 1839 AD (search for this): chapter 3
ame type and build, and our illustration may well portray the one in charge of the Governor Brooks Company. There is much in these old books that throws light upon the doings and diversions of some of the men of the time before the war. The apparatus they used is obsolete, the volunteer system a thing of the past, but the records are both instructive and amusing. The original company of the name was formed in November, 1835. James T. Floyd was foreman and George L. Stearns, clerk. By July 2, 1839, its numbers had been so reduced that it was voted to surrender the engine to the selectmen and disband. Twenty days later a new company of twenty-nine men was formed, with John T. White as foreman and D. H. Forbes, clerk and treasurer. The town had procured a new engine, to which the same name was given, and had voted to sell the old one. Passing over a period of ten years, we find that the company celebrated its anniversary on June 6, 1850, which was the ninety-eighth of the birth
December 4th, 1858 AD (search for this): chapter 3
lk out of the company, which then formed the Ex-Brooks Company, and hired a room to meet in for a time. On September 7, 1852, the record shows a reinstatement of the company by the engineers. Things moved smoothly once more until March 14, 1858, when at a fire at the Plains a disagreement arose, and the company was disbanded by the engineers. Then the Ex-Brooks Association was formed, a constitution adopted, officers elected and a few meetings held, the records ending with that of December 4, 1858, when Mr. Palmer was chosen a committee to get subscribers to a good time generally among ourselves. Medford had two other engine companies, and there was certain and constant rivalry between these men that manned the brakes and ran with the machines, and mostly of the younger men. Clannish, jovial, they were always in for a good time—oyster suppers, clam chowders, target and fishing excursions—and always ready to help any Hunneman tub that was challenged to a trial. The engineers c
March 14th, 1858 AD (search for this): chapter 3
ing flames, but no mention thereof appears in the records of the company. It appears that despite the excellent lessons of discipline and obedience to authority drawn by Mr. Usher from the life of Governor Brooks, a year had not elapsed when there was a walk out of the company, which then formed the Ex-Brooks Company, and hired a room to meet in for a time. On September 7, 1852, the record shows a reinstatement of the company by the engineers. Things moved smoothly once more until March 14, 1858, when at a fire at the Plains a disagreement arose, and the company was disbanded by the engineers. Then the Ex-Brooks Association was formed, a constitution adopted, officers elected and a few meetings held, the records ending with that of December 4, 1858, when Mr. Palmer was chosen a committee to get subscribers to a good time generally among ourselves. Medford had two other engine companies, and there was certain and constant rivalry between these men that manned the brakes and
1839 AD (search for this): chapter 3
ly tried, with partial success, for subduing fire. These have since materialized in the modern chemical engine. Mr. Usher was then in his thirty-sixth year, and no doubt was at his best, as flashes of wit appear at intervals in the address. The Town Hall where he spoke was not our recently much-maligned and still doing business at the old stand edifice, neither was it the first Town Hall of Medford, but the second and larger building, built ten years before. It replaced the one burnt in 1839, and the good judgment (regardless of civic pride) of the Medford people followed the old design of a leading architect of Boston, who planned the former structure. A few months after this anniversary occasion it fell a prey to the devouring flames, but no mention thereof appears in the records of the company. It appears that despite the excellent lessons of discipline and obedience to authority drawn by Mr. Usher from the life of Governor Brooks, a year had not elapsed when there was a w
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