Reminiscences of the old fire laddies and volunteer fire departments of New York and Brooklyn. . n T. Reeve, David Wilson, JosephChapman, Wm. Drew, S. P. Swaysland, Bennett Hendrickson, , G. Storey, Frank Irish, Charles H. Lawlor, Thomas Smith,James Spates, Asher Williams, Wm. Thomas, Charles Robedee,Thomas and Patrick Mulrane. A Short History of Putnam Engine No. 21.—This famouscompany, from its organization in 1855 to i860, occupied the oldframe building on Third Avenue and Twenty-fifth Street. It sub-sequently removed to a two-story brick building on Fourth Avenue,near Nineteenth S
Reminiscences of the old fire laddies and volunteer fire departments of New York and Brooklyn. . n T. Reeve, David Wilson, JosephChapman, Wm. Drew, S. P. Swaysland, Bennett Hendrickson, , G. Storey, Frank Irish, Charles H. Lawlor, Thomas Smith,James Spates, Asher Williams, Wm. Thomas, Charles Robedee,Thomas and Patrick Mulrane. A Short History of Putnam Engine No. 21.—This famouscompany, from its organization in 1855 to i860, occupied the oldframe building on Third Avenue and Twenty-fifth Street. It sub-sequently removed to a two-story brick building on Fourth Avenue,near Nineteenth Street. The company, previous to the removal tonew quarters, did duty with any old tub the city saw fit to furnishthem with. Finally the authorities appropriated a small sum topurchase an engine for this company, but through the generosity ofindividual members, and such friends as the Brooklyn City Railroad,Samuel R. Engs, Wm. M. Brashir, Henry A. Kent, John L. Spader,and others, the company was able to procure a first-class crane-neck engine from Wm. Jeffers, of Pawtucket, R. I. One of the. stipulations in the purchase was that the engine must throw a solidstream over Lairds Fifth Ward Pole, better known as RileysPole, situated on the corner of West Broadway and Franklin Street,New York City. The engine arrived in New York on the Wednesday previous toThanksgiving-day, in 1863, and was placed in the house of EngineCompany No. 30. On Thursday (Thanksgiving) morning the com-pany, numbering sixty-five men, under control of Mr. John Mc-Intyre, foreman, and Edward Holton, assistant foreman, and headedby Robertsons band, and accompanied by Chief Engineer JohnCunningham and Assistants Robert Barr, Wm. Taylor, CharlesWetherell, and David Simpson, marched to the famous trial place,and there tested the engines capacity. The result was not onlysatisfactory but surprising, the engine throwing a solid streamtwenty-five feet over the top of the pole, which was one hundredand ninety feet hig
Size: 1314px × 1902px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1880, bookidldpd63166850, bookyear1885
