. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . et and First Avenue, () I \i K 1 K K M K N. 103 hirty-third Street, Fifty-first Street, .Mount Morris, Yorkville, the Post-Iffloe, ami the Tombs. Connected with tin- last-named cupola is a dramatic story, which we haveeferred to in a chapter on fires of the old Department. Alderman (Mark-on Crolius, of the Sixth Ward had long: urged the desirability of a bell-ower on the Tombs prison for fire alarm purposes. At last, in lS4-\ heucceedeil, and in November of that year it was comp
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . et and First Avenue, () I \i K 1 K K M K N. 103 hirty-third Street, Fifty-first Street, .Mount Morris, Yorkville, the Post-Iffloe, ami the Tombs. Connected with tin- last-named cupola is a dramatic story, which we haveeferred to in a chapter on fires of the old Department. Alderman (Mark-on Crolius, of the Sixth Ward had long: urged the desirability of a bell-ower on the Tombs prison for fire alarm purposes. At last, in lS4-\ heucceedeil, and in November of that year it was completed save for a fewHushing touches. The finishing touches, however, were not given, for on theighteenth the cupola and a part of the roof were destroyed by fire, andhe building threatened. The rumor that the fire was started for the purposef rescuing .John (. Colt, who was to have been executed on that day, wasmfounded. Mr. Crolius made a thorough investigation and wrote a to the Common Council. On the previous day the alderman hadnspected the tower. The watchmans room was built of pitch pine, and. BURNING OF THE TOMBS CUPOLA. >vas to have been lined with tin. Alderman Crolius warned the watchmanlot to light a fire till the tin had been put in. But his warning was dis-regarded. The man luade a roaring fire which, in the early hours of the morn-ng of the eighteenth, ignited the woodwork and destroyed the the fire was blazing and the engines rattling outside, Colt, within his:ell, took his own life and cheated the gallows. Colt was a bright young man, well-connected and with numerous profession he was a teacher of bookkeeping. He was born at Hartford,Connecticut, where his father possessed a manufactory of silks and brother was the renowned Samuel Colt, the inventor of the revolver, whohad a checkered career. John got into financial difficulties in this city anillaid to borrow money. One of his creditors was Samuel Adams, who
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