. The sanitation of cities. detail as to the influence of all theseand other municipal departments on the sanita-tion of cities; but the effect of each is obvious—a full accounting of the progress made in the de-velopment of all of the various agencies of citywelfare would be most interesting. For illustra-tion on this point we may take the single featureof fire protection—a most important and inter-esting subject in itself—affording a rather strik-ing picture of municipal progress. Not manyyears ago our fathers were satisfied with bucketbrigade fire protection, and each solid citizen ofthe la
. The sanitation of cities. detail as to the influence of all theseand other municipal departments on the sanita-tion of cities; but the effect of each is obvious—a full accounting of the progress made in the de-velopment of all of the various agencies of citywelfare would be most interesting. For illustra-tion on this point we may take the single featureof fire protection—a most important and inter-esting subject in itself—affording a rather strik-ing picture of municipal progress. Not manyyears ago our fathers were satisfied with bucketbrigade fire protection, and each solid citizen ofthe last century had his half-dozen leathern buck-ets, marked with his initials and the words Forfire only, hanging in his hall at a convenientplace, ready for the emergency when the fire bellall of the volunteer fire well-known fire engine, still withus; and in the fullness of time came the high pres-sure service, with its powerful pumps, typifyingmodern practice of protecting the congested busi- 13. -1 -1^ & rt &j} c; u CQ :§ Z UJ QJ f^ i. a UJ-ri i C JJ ^• CQ ?^ r! ~ UJ o =i .; h- —^ ^ i: o f >-^ o ~ ; UJ Z ^ (i; o n OjO 4 1bU}b prcesurc jfirc Service ness districts of our greater cities by means ofhigh pressure fire service is now so well establishedthat we can scarcely realize the feelings of busi-ness men in the past, before the adoption of thissystem, who, on leaving their offices and ware-houses at night, were always haunted by the dan-ger of destructive conflagration before experiences of Chicago, Boston, and Balti-more are still fresh in the public memory; but withthe new high pressure protection the danger haslargely vanished. A few pictures of some of thesestations are included as an indispensable featureof this study. Greater New York was the firstcity to install such a fire protection service. Thefirst high pressure stations were constructed in theBorough of Brooklyn
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