This occasion, the celebration of the arrival of the Croton water in our city, is happily selected for the presentation of this banner, as it is to be hoped that among the many important benefits to result from that work, not the least will be to relieve your department of a great proportion of its dangerous and arduous duties. The emblems upon this standard are indicative of the foresight and energy of our citizens, and of the services and humanity of the Fire Department. On one side stands the, Q,ueen of Cities, representing the scientific enterprise of our citizens, and pointing to the Croton Dam and Aqueduct, which leads the waters of a distant river to our city, for our protection and

comfort. On the other side is Neptune, the god of the ocean, showing that these waters have arrived among us. Their effect is exhibited by the figure of Victory, which stands upon the prostrate Demon of Fire, while the widow and the orphan children, with their friend, the fireman, show the consummation of the work, and that the charity of your department is all that will now be required of you. Acccept, sir, this Banner, and present it to

your associates as a token of our regard, and an emblem of the services they have rendered."

CROTON ACIUEDUCT. 26S

The Mayor was replied to by Adam Pentz, President of the Fire Department, as follows :

" In behalf of the Fire Department, I thank you cordially for the presentation of this elegant token of the approbation and kind feeling of the Common Council, and for the handsome and complimentary terms in which you have been pleased to convey it. I am sensible that no language of mine, could give any thing like an adequate expression of the