Honors for Empire City Firemen.
The rays of the afternoon sun, slanting down from the western sky upon the Riverside drive last Saturday afternoon, shone upon the finest display and the most interesting series of exercises which the New York Fire Department has given to the public for many a long month; and incidentally set a number of brave and deserving men winking and blinking under the visors of their uniform caps.
The occasion was the presentation to the elected men, of the Bennett and Stephenson medals, which are awarded annually, the former to any member or the force for the most conspicuous act of gallantry in saving life, the latter to the foreman whose company is adjudged to have shown the highest standard of discipline and efficiency.
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