Old New York yesterday & today . JV ^ag in tt|E ^ife of a ^irEnTait. 31ump ^er, Jioos, 3lump ^er Half a century has barely passed since New York depended entirely upon volunteer firemen for protection against this great public danger. She was last among the great cities to change from the old system to the new. In these old Currier & Ives lithographs the figures shown in the pictures are portraits of well known members of the various companies, old Harry Howard showing conspicuously among them. This print shows the fire apparatus being drawn past City Hall ^urnmg of IBarratms ^dMuseura,
Old New York yesterday & today . JV ^ag in tt|E ^ife of a ^irEnTait. 31ump ^er, Jioos, 3lump ^er Half a century has barely passed since New York depended entirely upon volunteer firemen for protection against this great public danger. She was last among the great cities to change from the old system to the new. In these old Currier & Ives lithographs the figures shown in the pictures are portraits of well known members of the various companies, old Harry Howard showing conspicuously among them. This print shows the fire apparatus being drawn past City Hall ^urnmg of IBarratms ^dMuseura, corner ^roabfaau ani» Jn ^trcet, in 1865 One of the best remembered incidents in Old New York. Thousands of men still living stood on the corner oppositeholding their fathers hand while the fire was in progress. A huge dead whale from the Museum lay in the streets forseveral days to the great discomfort of the neighborhood before it was removed. This fire also marked the last appear-ance of the Volunteer Firemen, an organization that had existed since the city began.
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