. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . CHRIS HOELL. 878 OLi; V I K K M K .V. During the month, Water Tower No. 1 was placed on test service in thequarters of Engine Company No. 7. In Marcli the District Messenger Com -panies were required to eouiiect t heir ollices wifli Fire Headquarters, as sev-eral serious fires, and the death of at least one person, were found to be dueto a popular belief that the companies had direct communication with the FireI >epa rtment. January 3d, Chief of Battalion Hugh Bonner was made
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . CHRIS HOELL. 878 OLi; V I K K M K .V. During the month, Water Tower No. 1 was placed on test service in thequarters of Engine Company No. 7. In Marcli the District Messenger Com -panies were required to eouiiect t heir ollices wifli Fire Headquarters, as sev-eral serious fires, and the death of at least one person, were found to be dueto a popular belief that the companies had direct communication with the FireI >epa rtment. January 3d, Chief of Battalion Hugh Bonner was made Second AssistantChief of the Department, and on the 11th Foreman Thomas Gooderson, ofEngine Company No. 35, was promoted to the rank of Chief of peril to the city in the event of the destruction of the telegraph apparatusat Headquarters had been considered for several years, and CommissionerPurroys suggestion that a duplicate set of apparatus be made and put in afire-proof building is about to be carried STEAMBOAT ZOPHAR MILLS. The new fire-boat, the Zophar Mills, was at this time the subject of muchcomment and the object of much attention, as it was intended to be the mostpowerful and useful fire extinguishing auxiliary in the world and worthy ofthe name of the veteran and famous fireman which had been given it. Theboat was known as Engine No. 51, and the tests of her pumps, which weremade by the Clapp & Jones Manufacturing Company, of Hudson, N. Y., weremade at Pier No. 52, East River, on the 27th of March, 1883. Of it the Fire-mans Journal said: She was taken to the dock at the foot of Montgomery street and subjected to an eightlioui s test, throwing water in a variety of ways. The first test was with eight 11-2 inch streams,then the lines were Siamesed into four larger streams, and in every way the most satis-factory results were obtained. With a 3 1-4 inch hose and a 2 1-2 inch nozzle, a stream wasthrown some 280 feet, and but for a cross wind a much g
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