. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . t Aldermen for their concurrence, by whom it was shelved, and it neveragain saw the light of day. By an act of the legislature, passed July 18, 1853, the salaries of the firewardens were fixed at live hundred dollars per annum, instead of two hundredand fifty dollars, which they were in receipt of theretofore. In December, 1853, the sum of twenty-four thousand eight hundred andeleven dollars was appropriated for a new building for the use of the FireDepartment, to be called Fire
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . t Aldermen for their concurrence, by whom it was shelved, and it neveragain saw the light of day. By an act of the legislature, passed July 18, 1853, the salaries of the firewardens were fixed at live hundred dollars per annum, instead of two hundredand fifty dollars, which they were in receipt of theretofore. In December, 1853, the sum of twenty-four thousand eight hundred andeleven dollars was appropriated for a new building for the use of the FireDepartment, to be called Firemens Hall, located in Mercer Street, betweenPrince and Houston St reels, of which more is said elsewhere. The following table shows the population of New York City for a numberof years: Year. Populatiou. Year. Population. Year. Population. 1674, 3,000 1746, 11,717 1820, 123,706 1678, 3,430 1756, 13,040 1825, Ki(i,000 1703, 4,43G 1771, 21,863 1830, :.o:;,007 1712, 5,840 1786, 23,614 1835, 270,089 1723, 7,243 1790, 33,131 1840, 312,710 1731, 8,623 1800, 60,489 1845, 371,223 1737, 10,664 1810, 95,519 1850, 515,394. ANCIENT METHOD OF FIRE EXTINGUISHING.[From Firemans Certificate, 1789.] O 1 K F 1 II K -M K N. ;» CHAITKi: X. K THK \< M .INTKKKS. i854—1865 Creation of the Board of Fire Department Commissioners.—Peter Coopers Plan.—HowAbuses had crept in. Charges in the held.—Location of of the Cupola of the City Hall. Exit the Old Volunteers. T X 1S54 the Fire Department of New York was composed of nearly fourJ thousand citizens, who devoted their time and exertions to the public servicewithout any reward except the satisfaction derived from the faithful dis-charge of their duty as citizens. It was conceded that that branch of the Civilservice possessed the capacity for .government in itself at least equal to that ofthe citizen soldiery who were left in the free and full management and control oftheir own inte
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