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F. W. Farnam Steam Fire Engine company No. 5 was organized July 17, 1871, from the members of La Fayette Engine company No. 10. L. Button & Son of Waterford built the first steamer for the com- pany in that year, and in 1885 manufactured a new one for its use. The engine house on the south side of Congress street was erected in 1876.
Charles Eddy Steam Fire Engine company No. 4 was organized No- Vember 26, 1866, its members being taken from the J. C. Taylor Hose company No. 3 and the Rough and Ready Hose company No. 4. The steamer was received from the Amoskeag Manufacturing company May 22, 1867, and cost $1,250. The engine house was built in 1866 at the northeast corner of River and North streets and was first occupied by the company in May, 1867. The company was reorganized October 6, 1876.
Edmond Stanton Steam Fire Engine company No. 6 was organized Jannary 23, 1873, from the members of Empire State Engine company No. 5. The first engine was made by Clapp & Jones, and the second by the Manchester Locomotive works. The engine house on the south side of Mill street was built in 1827.
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Esek Bussey Fire company was organized as an independent com- pany in 1888 and was admitted to the fire department June 30, 1890. The house is located on Oakwood avenue near Hoosick street.
Beman Park Hose company was organized in 1889 as an independent company and was admitted to the fire department December 29, 1890. The house is located at the corner of Eagle and Fifteenth streets.
WATER DEPARTMENT.
A new system of water works was put in operation in Troy in Febru- ary, 1880, when water was pumped into the lower Oakwood reservoir for the first time from a new station which had been established. The early development of the water supply has been described in another chapter. Up to the year 1855 the water works were not self-sup- porting and consequently were frequently regarded as a failure. To remedy the radically defective system of collecting the water rents, which was the prime cause for the complaint, the Legislature passed an act March 9, 1855, appointing a board of water commissioners for the city, consisting of Harvey Smith, William F. Sage, Thomas Symonds, Joseph M. Warren and Liberty Gilbert, and giving them a general supervisory and controlling power in all matters relating to the preservation and continuance of the water works of the city. The admirable system of the equalization of the water rents now prevailing is due mainly to the efforts of Alexander McCall, the first clerk of the Water Board. The law of 1855 was mainly his work. So carefully was it drawn and with so much foresight did he anticipate the future that at the present time, with very slight alteration or amendment, it uswers in every respect the purposes for which it originally was framed.
The existing main running from the reservoir having been found in- adequate, in 1857-58 a twenty-inch main was laid from the " Fire-dam" reservoir to the Troy & Boston (now the Fitchburg) railroad track, and thence through Eighth street to Hoosick, a distance of over 4,000 feet. Within a short time thereafter the consumption of water was about doubled. It becoming evident that the supply was to be exhausted, the Water Board secured the services of William J. McAlpine, a dis- tinguished hydraulic engineer, who at once saw the possibilities of the little Piscawen kill and assured the commissioners that the stream could be relied upon for an average daily supply of 2,000,000 gallons.
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Acting on his adviee the board, in 1859-60, built a storage reservoir of about 50,000,000 gallons' capacity a few rods east of Oakwood avenue, followed by another of similar size in 1861-62 just below this and immediately east of that avenue. The first one is known as Upper Oakwood reservoir, the other as Lower Oakwood reservoir. In 1861 a large pump was erected at a station near the State dam to supply a part of the city with water from the Hudson river. In 1868 inereased storage was procured by the erection of the Vanderheyden dam on the site of a small pond just below Brunswick lake. This reservoir eovers twenty aeres and its capacity is about 180,000,000 gallons. In 1869 iron fire plugs, with four-inch nozzles, were introduced, and soon superseded all those of the old pattern. In 1870 the dam at Upper Oakwood reservoir was raised and a well-house was erected. In the same year about seventy-five acres of the Gary lands were purchased. On the extreme northeasterly corner of this traet the high service dis- tributing reservoir was built. By the purchase the entire control of the Piseawen kill for a long distance was seeured. In 1867 many new pipes were laid and the twenty-inch main was extended on Eighth street to Federal, and thenee down River and Fourth streets to Ida, where it was carried over to Third and across the stone bridge to Madison, ramifying at this point for the supply of the southern section of the city.
In 1873 a pump capable of delivering 2,000,000 gallons per day was purchased at Vergennes, Vt., and erected in the Olympus works of Orrs & Co. at the State dam In 1877 it was decided to adopt the Hudson river as the source from which to obtain an additional supply of water, and a point about a quarter of a mile below the Waterford bridge was adopted as the site for the pumping station. The works consisted of two sets of pumping engines, each with a capacity of 6,000,000 gallons per day, with two batteries of boilers and other neces- sary appurtenances. The thirty-inch force main is 16,753 feet long and extends from the pumping station to Lower Oakwood reservoir. Engine No. I started pumping February 18, 1880, and No. 2 was ready for use July 14. During the years 1877 to 1879 over fifteen miles of pipes of various sizes were laid, in readiness for the pumping when it should begin.
March 1, 1880, water was let on the entire new system of distribu- tion. The plan of distribution consisted of three separate systems. The low serviee supplied that part of the city between the river and a
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plane 105 feet above tide. The water for this service was pumped into Lower Oakwood reservoir, where it ran down the channel of the Piscawen kill to the old distributing reservoir, and through the twenty- and twelve-inch distributing mains to the lower part of the city. The middle service inelnded that portion of territory lying between a plane of 105 feet and 279 feet above tide. Its distributing main, twenty inches in diameter, starting at Upper Oakwood reservoir, ran through the lands of William H. Frear to Oakwoad avenue, and along the same and Tenth street to People's avenue, where, being reduced to sixteen inches, it extended through People's Avenue, Ninth, Federal and Eighth streets to Congress, where another reduction to twelve inches was made, which was carried up Congress street to Brunswick avenue. The high service feeds that part of the city lying between a plane of 279 and a plane of 382 feet above tide, and its reservoir is on the Piscawen kill just west of the first highway that runs north from the Hoosick road. The distributing main, also of twenty inches, crosses the fields in a southwesterly direction to the lloosick road, then runs through the entire length of Burdett avenue, then through Tibbits avenue and Brunswick avenue to the stone bridge. There being re- duced to sixteen inches it extends through Pawling avenue to Maple avenue, where a further reduction to twelve inches is made. Branch- ing off at Maple avenue, a twelve-inch main runs through Spring avenue and Campbell highway to the Iron Works distriet. Piscawen kill furnished all the water for the high and middle services.
In 1883 a new distributing reservoir was constructed on the site of the old " fire dam," at an elevation of 202 feet above tide, connecting with the mains supplying the lower portion of the city. The total cost of all the improvements from 1849 to 1885 was $600,000.
The completion, in 1895, of two new boilers at the pumping station at Lansingburgh made it feasible to pump at least 10,000,000 gallons a day to Lower Oakwood. In 1896 there were in nse 748 fire hydrants and 1,204 valves, and the total length of all the pipe laid was fifty-eight miles and 4, 949 feet. The quantity of water metred for the year ending March 1, 1896, was 409, 151,522 gallons. The total consumption for the year was 3, 147, 591, 573 gallons, an average daily consumption of 8, 599, 962 gallons. The total cost of the works from 1833, when they were begun, to 1855, when the present board was organized, as near as can be ascer- tained was $175,000. The work from that time to March 1, 1896, cost $1,093,287.70, making the entire cost up to the latter date $1, 268, 287. 70.
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On the same date the bonded debt of the city on account of its water- works was $303, 500, and the amount of the sinking fund, after charging it with interest and bonds paid to that date, was $13, 406.25.
The system of street railways in Troy developed to great proportions during the last decade of the nineteenth century. The Troy & Cohoes Street Railway company was chartered February 11, 1862, soon after which a horse railway was constructed from Troy to Cohoes, by way of Lansingburgh, crossing the Hudson by way of the Cohoes bridge. The Troy & Lansingburgh Street Railway company was chartered at the same time. It used the tracks of the Troy & Cohoes line as far as they extended in Lansingburgh; thence the road continued northerly through Lansingburgh to the Waterford bridge. Ultimately tracks were laid across Waterford bridge. The Troy & Cohoes railroad was leased to the Troy & Lansingburgh Railway company October 28, 1867; and the Troy & Lansingburgh Railway company was leased to the Troy City Railway company November 2, 1892. The Troy City Railway company was chartered January 31, 1866, as the Troy & Albia Horse Railroad company. By an order of the Supreme Court its name was changed to Troy City Railway company July 27, 1891. In 1889 and 1890 the work of converting all the lines controlled by the Troy City Railway company into electric trolley lines was begun. At the close of the year 1895 there was not astreet car in the city drawn by horses, all being operated by electricity.
The Watervliet Turnpike and Railroad company was incorporated as the Watervliet Turnpike company in 1828 and constructed a turnpike from Albany to the Upper Ferry opposite Troy. April 15, 1862, the company's name was changed to the present one and it was authorized to build a street railroad over its road continuing it to Cohoes, which it did. Upon the construction of the Troy and West Troy bridge the company extended its line into Troy up Congress street as far as Second.
The Troy Telephone Dispatch company was organized February 28, 1878. It was succeeded December 30, 1879, by the Commercial Tele- phone company of Troy, which in the following spring rented quarters in the Boardman building on the northeast corner of Fulton and River streets. November 25, 1890, the company was reorganized as the Troy Telephone and Telegraph company with George P. Ide as president.
The Troy Citizens' Gas Light company was incorporated May 19, 1875. October 11, 1889, it and the Troy Fuel Gas company, incorporated
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in 1885, and the Troy Gas Light company were consolidated under the name of the Troy Gas company, having a capital stock of $1, 000, 000. The first officers were: President, Edward Murphy, jr. ; vice-president, William Kemp; treasurer, Derick Lane; secretary, Nelson Davenport.
Rensselaer Lodge, I. O. O. F., is the oldest organization of Odd Fellows in Troy, It was organized June 1, 1841, with eight charter members.
Rensselaer degree lodge was organized November 4, 1842, with twenty eight charter members.
Augusta Rebekah lodge was organized April 6, 1872, with twenty- five charter members.
Trojan lodge was organized November 18, --- , with thirteen char. ter members.
Rhein lodge was organized September 9, 1820, with thirty-five char- ter members.
Troy Union Rebekah Degrec lodge was organized February 25, 1864, with fifty-eight charter members.
Athenian lodge was organized January 19, 1846, with thirty charter members.
John W. Nesbitt encampment was organized November 16, Isss, with fifteen charter members.
Troy encampment was organized October 25, -- , with thirty char- ter members.
Canton Leo, Patriarchs Militant, was organized June 24, 1885, with seventeen charter members.
Ladies' Patriarch Militant elub was organized March 8, 1892, with eight charter members, and made auxiliary to Canton 1.co.
Troy council, Catholic Benevolent Legion, was organized March 5, 1884, with seventeen charter members.
Laval council, C. B. L., was organized May 1, 1887, with fourteen charter members.
Mount Olympus council, C. B. L., was organized June 9, ISS?, with fourteen charter members.
Iron Works council, C. B. L., was organized June 6, 1887, with eighteen charter members.
Mount Ida council, C. B. L., was organized November 14, 1887, with ten charter members.
St. Laurence council, C. B. L., was organized February 2, 18ss, with twelve charter members.
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Byron council, C. B. L., was organized April 1, 1888, with seventeen charter members.
Of the Grand Army of the Republic posts, A. D. McConihe post was organized in 1867 with fifty-six members, and was reorganized Febru- ary 26, 1885, with twenty-eight members.
George L. Willard post was organized May 19, 1869, with ten mem- bers.
William B. Tibbits post was organized January 14, 1880, with ten members.
John A. Griswold post was organized May 30, 1883, with fifteen members.
The Women's Relief Corps of MeConihe post was formed February 17, 1886, with fifteen members.
The corps auxiliary to Willard post was formed May 3, 1890, with twenty-three members.
Tibbits Veteran corps was organized in March, 1876, and incorpo- rated November 26, 1884, with 104 charter members.
Ancient Order of llibernians Division No. I was organized in March, 1852, with fifty charter members. Division No. ? was organized in 1871 with 175 charter members. Division No 5 was organized Septem- ber 20, 1878, with fifteen charter members. Division No. 7 was or- ganized in 1888 with seventeen charter members.
Premier lodge, Knights of Pythias, was chartered October 10, 1870, with fifteen members.
Guttenberg lodge, K. of P., was chartered October 17, 1843, with twenty-five members.
Erastus Corning lodge, Ancient Order of United Workmen, was char- tered February 6, 1882, with thirty-two members.
General John E. Wool lodge, A. O. U. W., was chartered in January, 1881, with twenty members.
The Select Knights' legion, uniformed rank of the A. O. U. W., was chartered April 28, 1887, with twenty-four members.
The organization of the other secret societies in Troy was as follows : Marathon lodge, Knights of Honor, March 17, 1892; thirty-two char- ter members. Mistletoe grove No. 11, December 11, 1845; fourteen charter members. Troy lodge, Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, October 20, 1889; thirty-nine charter members. Wah Ta Wah tribe of Red Men, January 18, 1893; twenty-five charter members. Pioneer council, United Friends, September, 1881; thirty charter members.
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Troy City lodge, Independent Order of Good Templars, April 19, 1892; thirty-three charter members. Griswold council, O. U. A. M., Novem- ber 14, 1887; thirty seven charter members. General George Il. Thomas commandery, L. L. O. U. A. M., December 13, 1892; twenty charter members. Troy City lodge, Independent Order, Free Sons of Israel, April 15, 1877; twenty-one charter members. Joshua lodge, K. S. R., April, 1872; twenty-eight charter members. King David lodge, I. O. S. B., July 11, 1880; eighty-four charter members. Jere- miah lodge, 1. O. B. B., October, 1886; thirty charter members. Alex- ander lodge, O. B. A., May 11, 1884; fifty-five charter members. Brit- annia lodge, Order of the Sons of St. George, 1882. George Washing- ton Loyal Orange lodge, November, 1867; thirty-two charter members. Mount Horeb District Loyal Orange lodge, March, 1880; composed of all lodges under its jurisdiction. Troy True Blue Loyal Orange lodge, October 19, 1871; forty five charter members. Golgotha Royal Black Preceptory, May, 1875; twenty charter members. Abraham Lincoln Loyal Orange lodge, Angust, 1829; eighteen charter members. Daugh- ters of America, Ladies' Loyal Orange lodge, June, 1889; twenty-six charter members. Rensselaer council, R. T. of T., January, 1882; twenty charter members. Tibbits union, E. A. U., June 18, 1889; thirty charter members. Trojan council, R. T. of T., October 15, 1880; fifteen charter members. Trojan council, Royal Arcanum, May 10, 1878; ten charter members. Rensselaer council, Royal Arcanum, December 5, 1889; twenty-nine eharter members. E. B. A., Branch 3, August 15, 1875; sixteen charter members. James A. Garfield con- cil, R. T. of T., 1881; twenty-five charter members.
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The leading local organizations which have not been more fully de- seribed in preceding pages are the following :
Troy and West Troy Bridge company, incorporated April 23, 1872. Pafraets Dael club, organized December 11, 1885. Laureate Boat elub, June 19, 1866. Troy Yacht club, May 15, 1889. William S. Earl Boat club, February 12, 1890. Troy Bieyele club, November 4, 1881. Ionie elub, August 27, 1853. Bachelor's club, February 8, 1884. Re- publican club of Troy, October 5, 1880. Trojan Wheelmen, January 22, 1886. Robert Emmet association, January 1, 1868. Troy Turn Verein, August 8, 1852. Troy Scientific association, October, 1870, Pioneer Building Loan association, March 7, 1889. Troy Saengerbund, May 19, 1880.
A thriving musical organization existed in Troy as early as 1839. It
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was called the Troy Musical association and contained about 250 mem- bers, with a "juvenile class" of 175. G. W. Lucas was its director and its meeting place was Morris place on Congress street opposite Rand's hall.
The East Side club owes its inception to an informal meeting of resi- dents of Pawling avenue and vicinity held April 7, 1890, at the residence of L. S. Crandall. The project for a new social club was warmly greeted at that meeting and within two weeks the pledged membership exceeded fifty. The Collins residence on Pawling avenue was first used as a club house, but in the summer of 1890 a lot on Pawling avenue was purchased for $3,200 and in the following December the work of erecting a club house was begin under the direction of Henry W. Smith, Frederick W. Swett and James C. Hawley, the building committee. The building was completed and opened to the public in the summer of 1891, its total cost, exclusive of the furnishings, being about $8,000. The first officers were: President, Henry B. Thomas; vice-president, Irving Hayner; secretary, Leigh R. Hunt; treasurer, Louis S. Crandall; trustees, Frank S. Black, Joseph Knight, Samuel P. McClellan, Frederick W. Swett, William R. Bridges, Irving Hay- ner, George A. Mosher, Henry W. Smith, Louis S. Crandall, Leigh R. Hunt, Ilenry A. King and Henry B. Thomas.
The Troy Choral club was organized in the fall of 1890 and gave its first regular concert November 18, 1891. The first officers of the club were: President, John Clatworthy; vice president, A. W. Harrington, jr ; secretary and treasurer, George F. Green; musical director, Charles A. White. Mr. Green was taken sick at the first concert and died. Dr. Charles P. Stimpson was then elected to the office of secretary and has filled the office continuously since. The club gives four concerts each season, and the music embraces that of the best American and foreign composers.
The Troy Vocal society for years has been recognized as one of the finest musical organizations in the country. It is composed entirely of male voices and is under the musical direction of Professor Connolly.
The Rensselaer County Homeopathic Medical society was once a prosperous organization with its headquarters in Troy. All of the prominent homeopathic practitioners in the county were members. No meeting of the society has taken place since 1890, and it has prac . tically become obsolete. The society contained some brilliant lights in the homeopathic profession in this section and was productive of much
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good. The last president was Dr. Arba R. Green. Within the past fifteen years the society has lost by death such members as Drs. Wood- ruff, Carpenter, Clark, Vincent, Campbell, Fuller and Pitts.
For the third time in its history Troy was honored, August 26, 1896, with the nomination of one of its citizens, Hon. Frank S. Black, for the office of governor of the Empire State by the Republican State convention at Saratoga Springs. Hon. William L. Marey and Hon John A. Griswold were Mr. Black's predecessors, Mr. Marcy being elected and Mr. Griswold defeated. Upon his return from the conven- tion Wednesday evening, August 26, Mr. Black was greeted by thousands of citizens of Troy, many of whom escorted him to his home, headed by a band, amid a profuse display of fireworks.
PRESIDENTS OF THE VILLAGE OF TROY.
John McCoun from 1798 to 1799
Edward Tylee from 1805 to 1508
Benjamin Gorton .. 1799 - 1800
Abraham Ten Eyck .. .. 1805 - 1×10 Ephraim Morgan .. 1500 - 1801 Edward Tylee. .. 1910 9 18!1
John MeCoun .. 1801 - 1502 Abraham Ten Eyck .. 1811 - 1813 Albert Pawling 1802 ° 1903
Timothy Hutton 1813 - 1814 Edward Tylee 1803 - 1804
Derick Lane 1814 - 1815
Albert Pawling .. 1804 - 1805
Albert Pawling .. 1815 - 1816
MAYORS OF TROY.
Albert Pawling, from 1816 to 1820.
Thomas Turner, appointed July 3, 1819, declined to serve. Esaias Warren, from 1820 to 1998.
Mbert Pawhing. appointed February 11, 121, dechued to serve. Samuel MeCoun, from 1828 to 1830. George Tibbits, from 1830 to 1836. Richard P. Hart, from 1836 to 1838. Jonas C. Heartt, from 1939 to 18.13. Gurdon Corning, from 1843 to 1847. Francis N. Mann, from 1817 to 1850. Day O. Kellogg, from 1850 to November 1850.
Hanford N. Lockwood, November, 1850, to March, 1851.
Joseph M. Warren, from 1851 to 1852. George Gould, from 1852 to 1853.
Foster Bosworth, from 1853 to Deceni- ber, 1853.
Elias Plumb, from December, 1853, to March, 1551.
Jonathan Ede.als, 1951 to 1855. John A. Griswold, From 1855 to 1856. Hiram Slocum, from 1856 to 1857. Alfred Wotkyns, from 1857 to 1858. Arba Read from 1959 to 1860. Isaac MeConihe, jr., from 1860 to 1861. George R. Warren, jr., from 1861 to 1862. James Thorn, from 1562 to 1863. William L. Van Alstyne, from 1863 to 1564.
James Thorn, from 1861 to 1865. Uri Gilbert, from 1865 to 1866. John L. Flagg, 1866 to 1868. Miles Beach, from 1868 to 1870. Uri Gilbert, from 1870 to. 1871.
FRANK S. BLACK.
FRANCIS J. MOLLOY.
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Thomas B. Carroll, from 1871 to 1878. Edmund Fitzgerald, from 1882 to 1886.
William Kemp, from 1878 to 1875. Dennis J. Whelan, from 1886 to 1894.
Edward Murphy, jr., from March, 1875 to November, 1882.
Francis J. Molloy, from 1894 to -.
RECORDERS OF TROY.
William L. Marcy from 1816 to 1818
llenry W. Strong from 1838 to 1844
Amasa Paine. .. 1818 - 1821 Abram B. Olin 1844 - 1818
William L. Marcy 1821 - 1828 Job S. Olin. .. 1SAS - 1852
Thomas Clowes. 1823 - 1828 Gilbert Robertson, jr .. 18.2 . 1856
Daniel Gardner 1828 - 1833 Clarence Buell .. 1856 - 1860
John P. Cushman 1833 - 1838
John Moran? .. 1860 - 1868
COMPTROLLERS OF TROY.
William II. Van Every, from 1871 to 1872. John P. Albertson, from 1872 to August 17, 1881.
Isaac W. Crissey, from October7, 1881, to March 19, 1883.
John D. Spicer, from March 19, 1883. to December, 1886.
William J. Roche, from December, 1886, to October, 1890. James W. Coffey, from October, 1890 to - -.
CHAMBERLAINS OF TROY.
David Buel, from 1816 to 1822. James Mallary, from 1822 to 1825.
John Thomas, from 1825 to 1845.
George B. Richards, from 1845 to 1846.
Jared S. Weed. from 1846 to 18-19.
John T. Lamport, from 1849 to 1859.
Amos S. Perry, from 1859 to 1863.
James M. Brewer, from 1563 to October, Istii.
Derick Lane, from October, 186; to 1871.
George C. Burdett, from 1871 to 1871. Benjamin HI. Hall, from 1874 to 1877. Ilenry S. Church, from 18% to Febru- ary, 188.1. Benjamin 11. Hall, from February, 1884, to June 1, '1883. John F. Bridgeman, " from June 1, 1885. to June. 1896 David Morey, from June, 1896. to
Chry ATTORNEYS.
Date of Appointment
Date of Appointment Henry Z. Hayner May 17, 1836 Gardner Stow March 11, 1851 John T. Lamport June 15, 1837 Roswell A. Parmenter. March 8, 1853 Charles R. Richards March 18, 1817
Harvey J. King March 14. 1851
1 In 1880 the charter election was changed from March to the time of the general election in November.
2 The office of recorder was abolished by act of the Legislature April 17, 1867, to take effect January 1, 1868.
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