. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . M. HOTT 5TH AVENUE. The house of Mr. A. M. Hoyt, which was erected by Mr. Hoyt in 1882—1883, is thoroughly fire-proof, built of brick, and with iron beams and parti-tions all through with brick. The style is old Colonial and finished in hardwood. In about the year 1761 provision was made by the authorities to light OUR FIREMEN. the streets by means of oil lamps at the public expense These were usuallyfixed on iron or wooden brackets projecting from the walls. The appearanceof th
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . M. HOTT 5TH AVENUE. The house of Mr. A. M. Hoyt, which was erected by Mr. Hoyt in 1882—1883, is thoroughly fire-proof, built of brick, and with iron beams and parti-tions all through with brick. The style is old Colonial and finished in hardwood. In about the year 1761 provision was made by the authorities to light OUR FIREMEN. the streets by means of oil lamps at the public expense These were usuallyfixed on iron or wooden brackets projecting from the walls. The appearanceof the streets at that day must have been peculiar in the extreme. Thelow-framed dwellings with their overhanging gables, and the more importantbrick structures with the characteristic feature of the Dutch style in theturreted or stepped gables, dimly lighted by the oil-lamps placed few andfar between, forms a striking- contrast with their present condition. In the year \H->» gas was first employed in the city, when the house No. 7Cherry Street, then a fashionable locality, was fitted with it at a cost of *L0. DR. WHITES HOUSE: S. E. CORNER 66TII STREET AND 5TH AVEXUE per 1,000 feet. A few years afterward it became generally employed for streetillumination, and gas mains were laid down in some of the principal steadily progressed, as required by the growth of the cit3, until a specialprovision was made by the Board of Aldermen for lighting the whole of theupper portion of the city up to and including the extensive district toYorkville, Manhattanville, Harlem and Washington Heights. But of recent years the science of electricity has made a very rapid advance,and the electric lights have become to be used m preference to any beautiful clear, white light in all sections of the city is now one of the OUR FIREMEN. 1 ,|*»l most striking sights which meet the eye of ;i stranger entering New York forthe first time. Electric* lights for street illumination in th
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