. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . r every succeeding threeyears. The chief engineer was ordered not toreceive any annual returns from companiesbut such as had conformed to section firstof the ordinance, passed June 22, 1842,relative to the Fire Department, as fol-lows: The Fire Department of the city of New York shall consist of achief engineer, assistant engineers, fire-enginemen, hose men, hook and ladderand hydrant men, who shall be citizens of the United States, of the age oftwenty-one years and upwards; and
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . r every succeeding threeyears. The chief engineer was ordered not toreceive any annual returns from companiesbut such as had conformed to section firstof the ordinance, passed June 22, 1842,relative to the Fire Department, as fol-lows: The Fire Department of the city of New York shall consist of achief engineer, assistant engineers, fire-enginemen, hose men, hook and ladderand hydrant men, who shall be citizens of the United States, of the age oftwenty-one years and upwards; and in future to receive no return of mem-bers to fill the vacancies in companies unless the foreman and secretary hadmade affidavit that such persons were citizens of the United States, andtwenty-one j-ears of age and upwards. The Common Council instructed the mayor to appoint three persons to actas bellringers at each of the different alarm districts, such persons to heselected from among the exempt firemen. The bellringers, so appointed,received as remuneration for their services the sum of five hundred dollars. OLD JEFFERSON MARKET FIRE TOWER. or U K I K K M K N. L27 ih per annum, and were subject to removal by the mayor for misdemeanor , negligence of duty. vs foreshadowed the action of 1 lie Board of Aldermen in thru- al tempi toLniss (!arson,( Ihief Engineer, from office, and notwithstanding thai numerousiititions from fire companies had requested such action, seemingly justifyingthere was yet a dormant feeling of dissatisfaction winch manifested itselfily after tin- inauguration of the new Council in 1854. In February of that?ara committee of representatives of the Fire Department. Carlisle Norwood,MJffiken, and Henry W. Belcher, presented a petition to the new Board,forth that during the preceding three or four years serious and gross ttini onlv its morals had been mses had crept into the Department by which notnpaired, hut its eilieiency and discipline had, en destro
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