. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . tt Rose were appointed to goe round the towne and view each fireplaceand chimney, that they be sufficient and clean swept, with the penalty ofthree shillings and sixpence to each inhabitant for each defect. Chief among the substantial indications of progress was the completion in1G93 of the Garden Street Church. It was built in the midst of a beautifulgarden, a great distance up town, fronting a narrow lane called GardenAlley, which afterwards became Garden Street, and is now Ex
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . tt Rose were appointed to goe round the towne and view each fireplaceand chimney, that they be sufficient and clean swept, with the penalty ofthree shillings and sixpence to each inhabitant for each defect. Chief among the substantial indications of progress was the completion in1G93 of the Garden Street Church. It was built in the midst of a beautifulgarden, a great distance up town, fronting a narrow lane called GardenAlley, which afterwards became Garden Street, and is now Exchange year Wall Street was first paved to the width of ten feet, in front ofthe houses facing the wall. A fire occurred in that part of the town called the Fly in February,1692, at which several buckets were lost. Complaints reached the mayor thatpeople of thievish propensities had appropriated them, whereupon His Honorissued an order directing the crier to give notice round the city that the stolenbuckets be taken to the mayor immediately so that they might be restored to () U li Fl \i F M F X. 1!). their owners. 11 it * i - appli-ances besides buckets hadbeen thought l. Two yearsbefore (lie lire in (be - Fly,five ••brant masters (firewardens) bad been appointedon .January 4,10JO. Tbese firewardens were: Peter van der Brincke, Derekten Eyk, Jacob Borlen, andTobeyas Stoutenburi:li, andit had been ordered that fiveladders be made and pro-vided for service at fires, withsufficient books therefor. In 1G93, it was ordered• that every inhabitant in thest reetshereinafter menl ioned,shall, before the first of Au-gust next, cause to be paved,with pebble stones, so muchof said street as shall fronttheir respective follows the designa-tion of the streets to be pa in number. The crudecondition of the city in respectto its streets may also be in-ferred from an order made inthis year, that the poison-ous and stinking weeds beforeevery
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