. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . rticles over the signatures of • The WidowRogers and ••Walton for the old Sunday Atlas. He was first marshalunder Mayor A. Oakey Hall, and for five years a school trustee in and for theThirteenth Ward, where he was born, becoming the chairman of the was a member of the copper firm of Jones, Tooker & Co., ,44South Street. agents of the RevereCompany of Boston, the silentcompany being1 the celebratedcomedian. W. J. Florence, abrother-in-law of the Tooker was
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . rticles over the signatures of • The WidowRogers and ••Walton for the old Sunday Atlas. He was first marshalunder Mayor A. Oakey Hall, and for five years a school trustee in and for theThirteenth Ward, where he was born, becoming the chairman of the was a member of the copper firm of Jones, Tooker & Co., ,44South Street. agents of the RevereCompany of Boston, the silentcompany being1 the celebratedcomedian. W. J. Florence, abrother-in-law of the Tooker was managing- manfor Col. James Fisk, Jr., at theGrand Opera House, EighthAvenue and Twenty-third Street,and also for Baker & Cole andAugustin Daly, when they wereLessees of the thealer. He waswith Mr. Daly at the Fifth AvenueTheater, Twenty-fourth Street,next adjoining the Fifth AvenueHotel, and at the later FifthAvenue Theater. Broadway, op-posite the New York Hotel, whichwas leased after the destructionby tire of the Twenty-fourth Streetbuilding. He afterwards was MrBroadway, near Thirtieth Street. .loSKCU 11. Dalys business man at Dalys Theater,He has been in the interest of WallacksTheater, and managed the Bijou Opera House during the lesseeship ofHarry M. Pitt. He was for one season of the management of NiblosGarden, Edward G. Gilmore, lessee. His most prominent theat rical career,however, was his five years service as business manager of Booths Theater,under the lesseeship of Jarrett & Palmer, and for one season subsequentlyduring that of Henry E. Abbey. For the three or four years last past hehas been president of the Metropolitan Job Printing Company, of No. 38 VeseyStreet, which was formerly the New York Herald job office, theatrical served his time at the case in the office of the Literary American, corner ofAnn Street and Nassau. Mr. Tooker, in his Times reminiscences, frequentlyrefers to his career as a Volunteer fireman, and is apparently p
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