. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . tics in the ChicagoDepartment; the chief has full control, there being no commissioners tohamper him. His assistant passes on fires, and reports to him. There areten chiefs of battalion. There are thirty-eight engines in commission, elevenhook and ladder trucks, eight chemical engines, and five hundred and elevenmen. The department has been a paid one since 1858. In the year 1885there were over one thousand seven hundred and seventy calls, and the lossesamounted to two million s
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . tics in the ChicagoDepartment; the chief has full control, there being no commissioners tohamper him. His assistant passes on fires, and reports to him. There areten chiefs of battalion. There are thirty-eight engines in commission, elevenhook and ladder trucks, eight chemical engines, and five hundred and elevenmen. The department has been a paid one since 1858. In the year 1885there were over one thousand seven hundred and seventy calls, and the lossesamounted to two million seven hundred thousand dollars. There is now anample water supply m Chicago, and its system of fire boxes is far ahead ofanything of the kind elsewhere. A fire box is put into the house of anycitizen who asks for it, and a record kept of it. Through this, the police, thefire patrol, aud so on, can be called, according to the emergency. No finerdepartment can be found anywhere than that which Chicago possesses underits zealous chief, D. J. Swenie. Thomas L. YVorthley, president of the National Association of Fire. 1078 OUR FIR E M E \ Engineers, was the first fireman of Long Brand), N. J. He organize thatdepartment in Is; .. He lias attended every out1 of the National Associationconventions since 1879. He left his home in Little Silver, Monmouth County,N. J., when he was sixteen years of age, to earn his own living. For eightyears he was a carman. Twenty years ago Worthlev left New York forLong Branch, where he established a sale and exchange stable, and soon hada nourishing business. Several limes lie held the ofliceof street commissioner,and from foreman became chief of the Long Branch Fire Department. ley was born in 1837. Major Horace N. Rimskv is Chief of the Department at Seneca Falls,N. Y. In the Empire State there are now few chief engineers more wideljflknown than Chief Rumsey of Seneca Falls. During the past year Chief TomScott, of Little Falls; Chief Edder, of
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