. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . pathies or interest in a shoutor an exclamation, if they did not take a hand in the results of a collision after awar of words? Few citizens but had a tie or an interest of some sort in someengine, hose, or hook and ladder company. Many were impelled to vexation,and so on to exasperation, when their ox was gored, that is to sa,y, when,often for trivial cause, such as a chimney fire or a false alarm, the streets inthe neighborhood of their houses or counting rooms were invaded by
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . pathies or interest in a shoutor an exclamation, if they did not take a hand in the results of a collision after awar of words? Few citizens but had a tie or an interest of some sort in someengine, hose, or hook and ladder company. Many were impelled to vexation,and so on to exasperation, when their ox was gored, that is to sa,y, when,often for trivial cause, such as a chimney fire or a false alarm, the streets inthe neighborhood of their houses or counting rooms were invaded by appara-tusses and crowds of excited, wrangling men and the hangers on at theircompany quarters, and business and traffic stopped until excited passionswere calmed and temper improved. Storekeepers grinned, shouted and lostthemselves in excitement in the business avenues until an apparatus clearedthe sidewalk, as the malicious practical jokers who followed the regularsupset the goods displa^-ed in front of stores and made havoc of them,if they did not plunder. It is to be doubted if the enemies of the Volunteer. SEAL : METROPOLITAN FIRE 7b4 OUR FIREMEN. firemen proper, the active members of companies, were legion, becausemen of all ranks belonged to it, and persons of all walks in life did duty asbunkers.* borne sleepers and Exempts. Hut those who had deal-ings with the insurance companies, whose rates were high, were financiallyinterested in any scheme which would put the Fire Department on anyfooting which would make if independent of those who were beginning toturn il into a political factor, and enable it to squelch the hangers-on orrunners, who were mainly an undesirable class, from tin; boys to depre-dators who waited for a lire alarm to run with the apparatus for no goodpurpose. In this and other ways the Volunteers had a bad name with 1 lie[aid Police Department, whose members lost, no opportunity of exaggeratingwrangles or brawls, and making insinuations or flat charge
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