Reminiscences of the old fire laddies and volunteer fire departments of New York and Brooklyn. . f distinct fire companies in Germany, having their officers, dance of books printed, in German and French, on the fire service,one of the most prolific writers being Mr. C. D. Magirus, chiefof the Ulm Department. He is also an inventor, and has producedsome valuable fire apparatus. His specialty is the constructionof ladders, and his books are profusely illustrated with cuts of hisinventions. Some of these are not only exceedingly ingenious, butpractical and useful—a combination of qualities but se
Reminiscences of the old fire laddies and volunteer fire departments of New York and Brooklyn. . f distinct fire companies in Germany, having their officers, dance of books printed, in German and French, on the fire service,one of the most prolific writers being Mr. C. D. Magirus, chiefof the Ulm Department. He is also an inventor, and has producedsome valuable fire apparatus. His specialty is the constructionof ladders, and his books are profusely illustrated with cuts of hisinventions. Some of these are not only exceedingly ingenious, butpractical and useful—a combination of qualities but seldom found inapparatus of this kind. While I have no desire to present to you a catalogue ofEuropean publications relating to the fire service, I cannot in fairnessomit mention of the works of Mr. Braidwood, the organizer and chiefof first the Edinburgh and subsequently of the London Fire Depart-ment, who lost his life while at the post of duty, June 22, 1861. Hewas educated to be a surveyor and civil engineer, but soon turnedhis attention to fire matters. At the age of twenty-three he was. William Guischard. drill, rules and regulations,etc. No doubt, however, theGerman system of organ-ization was largely based onthe French, full accounts ofwhich had been publishedin book form at variousperiods. The most notableof these works is TheComplete Manual of theFireman of Paris, whichhas run through severaleditions. It is illustratedwith plates, showing thedrill of the men, and theirvarious positions at the past fifty yearsthere has been an abun- Mr. Braidwoods Book. placed at the head of the Edinburgh Department, then consisting ofa few parish hand-engines, dilapidated and forlorn machines of littlecapacity, which were manned at fires by such volunteers as could bepersuaded to lend a hand. Mr. Braidwood went to work withenergy, introduced new and better machines, organized the volun-teers on a working basis, and in a few years had created a depart-ment that served as a
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