. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . constructed even with a line of Broadway, but having a blank faceon that street, the entrance being from within the garden. The latter wasapproached from Broadway. The interior of the garden was spacious and 2-1-1 OUR FIREMEN. adorned with shrubbery, and walks lighted up with festoons of lamps. Thisview shows the condition of Niblos before the erection of the theateron Broadway a1 present. Five days afterward the famous Bowery Theater was burned. This unfor-tunate playhou
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . constructed even with a line of Broadway, but having a blank faceon that street, the entrance being from within the garden. The latter wasapproached from Broadway. The interior of the garden was spacious and 2-1-1 OUR FIREMEN. adorned with shrubbery, and walks lighted up with festoons of lamps. Thisview shows the condition of Niblos before the erection of the theateron Broadway a1 present. Five days afterward the famous Bowery Theater was burned. This unfor-tunate playhouse has bad many such experiences. One of the firsi was onNovember JO, 1S2(>, and was in consequence of a Haw in a gas pipe. The 1828lire is already described. The accident of Is J (J occurred about .> v. M. The gasmust have been escaping1 some time, as the momenta lamp was lighted tileflames ran up to the gallery. They bin ned through the gallery in the saloon,but fortunately no great damage was done. The fire was extinguished bybuckets only, without the aid of the engines. On September -. ., is:jo, how-. XEW YORK THEATER, AFTER WARD BOWERY THEATER. (Erected 1836.) ever, it was entirely destroyed. The fire began, singularly enough, about thesame hour, 5 P. M. In a short time, notwithstanding the efforts of the FireDepartment, the edifice was a total loss. Engine Company No. 26 was inde-fatigable amid the falling timbers. One of its members, George Mills, had hisleg crushed by a falling beam, and it was feared that he would lose the T. J. Parsons, in the employ of Messrs. Benedict & Benedict, of Wall Street,was also injured by a beam which fell on his head. An inventive genius ofthe time, Matthew Carej^ (at that date a very old man), had suggested theplan of covering adjacent buildings, while a fire was in progress, with wet car-pets, blankets, a plan which was the forerunner of the present method ofthe Fire Insurance Patrol. His scheme was tested at this fi
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