Reminiscences of the old fire laddies and volunteer fire departments of New York and Brooklyn. . yoo Reminiscences of the Old Fire Laddies. on the broadest part of his pantaloons, and poked it into Drews featherfactory on Fulton Street, just below Middagh, crawled out, and thenlooked out to see the fun. It came. Soon Brooklyn was in that time Brooklyn was so small that one could throw a stoneacross it (as compared with Brooklyn of to-day), but it was thicklysettled, and many families were unhoused. Nineteen out of twenty. Explosion at Polleys Distillery, Williamsburgh. men met with wi
Reminiscences of the old fire laddies and volunteer fire departments of New York and Brooklyn. . yoo Reminiscences of the Old Fire Laddies. on the broadest part of his pantaloons, and poked it into Drews featherfactory on Fulton Street, just below Middagh, crawled out, and thenlooked out to see the fun. It came. Soon Brooklyn was in that time Brooklyn was so small that one could throw a stoneacross it (as compared with Brooklyn of to-day), but it was thicklysettled, and many families were unhoused. Nineteen out of twenty. Explosion at Polleys Distillery, Williamsburgh. men met with will tell a different story about this fire, and even theold deacons now with us who sit in the amen pews will indulge inmore lies about it than would start a soap factory. Some say it wasso hot that they ran to it in their shirt-sleeves ; others say there wassnow two feet deep ; still others that it was in the early spring; while
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