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Show -i--i-:-n !., .- f -r-5 : ) y l no Pension for crco : J Hard cm In Old R3 of IJe i I ci'P' FaiTDfui Strcats.... '.-i t 44-t- Thla la the lrl of uUl Joe of Fire Engine 7. It la fitting that he ahould begin thla oiorv. for he la the olifcg an I wlacat of fie city a four footed aer-vanta. aer-vanta. and he la mil like.y to lie ia Hie i lly a arvUe lung. Soon, unleaa ba dlea In the menr.tlnie, he will go t u'jitl'in lilm k, aa lfiig. the police bore, did a few werka a:o. When the two leered nieniherv uf the elty'a pollie and fire department! have given their Im et !a; a lo Ita ai-nhe and have penned their uaefulneaa. If lliey hnve nerved long aid faithful!;., fie ilty iieimiona Idem and they live i.ut thi-lr Uvea at ofie. The eity Kt!a tie four-legiied niemtiera of the force, III like i line, fur Wlil-t they will ret, I Joe hoe Iw en taelva jeara la ' e de;jartmetit and ten of them In the quartera nf Hevtn Engine. If, hiwon a prize at the Horaa Hhnw and haa held the department rei ord for gitilns bla.aclf Into liarucaa quicker than any ether home. He rau ph k hla nwn collar up hum the floor going down on hla knee lo wriggle Into It -whan the alira bell rluga. He ahakea hauda with hi right fore foot and on e he even tut wood under lha engine boiler when thay told blm to do it. He doea lota of trli ka When idna flaga are thrown before him oft tha floor and he la told to pick out tk moat glorloua flvg on earth he'll tike r the American colore up In bla teeth rv- TJ ery time and trwa hla head with tniei. C . And he haa aerved the city falUfmly P I stf for twelve yeara. j, lVj .' ju';;,' ' That la the hutory nf all four fonrd oJW & aervanta lhat eat the city a oata; for flhSf VI p1 ; five yeara or ten the comfortable qr- fi t ' -at)fe J; " tera of tn fire horre and lha Jlrtienf f :. fc'fix f vVr the allver entlne hella. or a aofi atill f C ,2k'v' 1 L ,'v-vl In the park and a dally tour of dutj In I ' y' '"vl ;.'i' tha bright blue and yellow trapping! of P"J--m.'JPt',mm the mounted police. Ll - Then the auction block ami the null "A ' '.-."It', i '' tradnmana wagon, or maybe Hi "1 ''"'' Cir neddler'a cart, with work from damn Vrk to rtark In old age: and very aoon after that t apeedy Journey to tha laat place for poor old borer a - the offal dock. 5- There waa Pug He went Ir-.othe Pillra I'f ;'rtmnt al t yoar old, a handaom. plucky and trim a bay toiae at aver anttred It. Kor tan year h did hla eight houra of dally duly In Hi l'rk with out or ftnolhar hrvywelght pullcanien on hla back. HI official record aae thai kataa Inttrumeiital In atopplng five hundred runawaya In lhat time. Tha me tl o rode him ileclare I hut the number waa nearer a thouaand. They were ao aany tl at nobody counted them. After ten yeara of II. ra-lng txiut on bard roaila for eight hour day, and every nnw and then atralntrj every nerva to catch aome frlghtonod trotter, I'ug couldn I do aa well an Tl bla young dn;a. Hut the whole I'ark aqi-.ad vii'.A have reaenteil ji-ttlng rid of him. Ba he wa put In the patrol waiton g:il I'oll. anion ligldwtn wna niade the driver. That la no light Job, either. la ly In the hot autn-inr. when there romra ft call from acme dIMr.nt It of t: I aili ivciy bn,f hour or ao. I'ug kept at It for four yeara more. Then the derartmenl veterlnamn looted him over rul derided that ther waa no place left for him In the cltyi lint, and he went to auctlun. Hut It I difficult, even for a tome, t.i do hla d-ity In the public ervlca for fourteen yeara and not make tlenita. fiiorra knew Pug and hi record, and the new that he had been continued lirougM ao-7-a of them out. Hlo fcata were repeated ami hliiiacea ahown and nwn on every aide began to bid. They carried b i price up li H07 60. T'la laat 60 rente waa bid by hla old tnuater, Policeman llaldwln, andto llnldvln he wn kno ked down. The policeman bought blm In fir the raalmt life th.it eeomed open to him. He waa to go to the president andiiipvrlnlecdrnt of a carriage, company for uae In hla own buggy. Ho Pug pnaaed out of tho clly'a ervlre and more itorlea were printed about hla ante. Then people who love biiaia heron lo aay that II waa a abama to hav ao uoble an animal aa thiiwlth record fur duty done enough for la horaea, toll on to the Inevitable eni Harry, a Park horae almoet ai famona In hla day a Pug, and aa band-aome band-aome and knowing, never wrnl to the uct'onrer h jx li. Not that lb city aaved blm. around aa though he aaked why he had been expected to do that. The other two horaea hung over tha ralla, iiapended In the harnfHa. One waa Injured hy Ihe broken rallltiga md died. The children In tlie atreit aire aafe. Bo only the pair are left. No otter horae la the Klre Department ever took auch a leap aa Hahy did, and the com-pany com-pany la proud of It. None of Ita nwn-here nwn-here needa nunli urging to tell it atory uf that rldi-. Juat nine the city did penxlon a H-e horae. He wa old .llni of Ki Ritic 3,. Fourteen yeara he had apent tn the depat'ttiu-ni. when he was ondemiia l. After all yesra' police duty he died "rentlenian drath" In hla own atall, with hla maatrr bcalde him. Spinal pienlryllit corrlrd him oil before the time cair.e for tha city to waab It handa of hi to and leave him to Ihe lender len-der mrrclfa of ft eham-e pttrcbaaer. With Pollcrrran Haldwln en Ma back t-e wnn the blue ribbon ti ne and again aa tl'.e h't trained and beat ridden police home at the annual ahow. Then he did trl ka. too. He luvtd to p'ay policeman. When Ma rW'er dlamoui.ted he took that aa 1 .a cue to patrol the brat, and another police-nan appeared would playfully finch htm off the road with lila nnae, Jitat aa If he were Indignant fl.kt Ml ferrllnev Ita.l l,M..n lnfrlf.tfa.1 "Harry." upon. With the Are hoi ace It la the tame atory only, eomehow. lliey, living under tha aame roof with their human fdlow workcra, liecon a 1 mont human them aelvea, and therefore their fate la the harder. It la ao hard that the firemen have bit upon a little arhetre tn postpone tUe evil day aa long aa poaalbl by grading the tnka to aull the old tltorra. Very dllTerent they look, the a old fire vcteroria In the laat day of their crvlce, from the youngatera In their prime In Ihe department. If you atep downlown a mile or ao and look In en Engine 74, In Seventy eevent'i atroet, It la a very different eight. Down there In the newest and tioct elaborate fire itnllon In the city. Cant. Crawley haa thu handiinmeat team of graya now In fie department mid the moat knowing. He eaya ao. and he utdaini-d them himself and ought to know. The grnya are young yet ami l long way fn m the auction room, but In the aame room la a pair of hamlauae blaclta I'.mt are oi ler and have a record of their own. They were danhlng down tn Ittveralile Prlve on their way to ft fire, and rlKht at fie turning a throng of children bnrred the way. It waa downhill, and to atop waa tuipoRHtMe. ' Driver Joe III mere let h'a trira go etrnlrht at th- will acroaa the atreet. I Hahy, the leader, took II at a bound and leaped clear of hla harneee ally feel, down onto the ratlrcad tracke heneith. Than ha itoiiLed, unhurt, aud lookaii "Baby." and every til ienlilrt In It knew Inm. The wholt. ile"art:nent roue in rebellion ngairiet aclllng the "Jim In:." Korome tl.ric waa marly mutiny In New York'a beat-dla. Ipliucd force. The ea'.e order waa rrcnlled ai' l "Jim hona" wna transferred to Cnglna ti, tip In I!!vcn1:-le. He I'vrd t' ere tn tk, ef Ma il-ih. No nil" ever thought nf ini.clt m hlti wit'- halter. In the day time ha wandet-et nbont the lam it nil l-.liui-. thi grati, and In tlie eve-ilu;; hu did ulcl,i for the Hi f ii. One i';i t'-i-y fo'oid Mm l:i n h -a(i, rtrleUen with nrnlsld. only a fecr a;drt f : r.ni i;i:u tei s. To help l.li.i una linpcfciilide, Ho a lll.rv.h Eoilety man b .ot Mm. lie v :M III" only ntllttial of Ihe . It hundred who ever lived to a green old ki,e, tiiiiioiildc! l- ti ll In hlu lust it; . New York Sun. |