. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . ose days, and they were called overseers. The mayor and aldermen tookcharge at tires, the public at large being compelled to do fire duty. No oneover twenty-one years of age was exempt, and for a refusal to do duty theywere liable to a fine of one pound or five dollars. When the two engines were received by the city from London, they were a]great curiosity, the people being fully as much interested as in the days whensilver coinages were brought out. Peter Rutger, a brewer and a
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . ose days, and they were called overseers. The mayor and aldermen tookcharge at tires, the public at large being compelled to do fire duty. No oneover twenty-one years of age was exempt, and for a refusal to do duty theywere liable to a fine of one pound or five dollars. When the two engines were received by the city from London, they were a]great curiosity, the people being fully as much interested as in the days whensilver coinages were brought out. Peter Rutger, a brewer and an assistant alderman of the North Ward, wasthe first man that ever had charge of a fire engine on Manhattan Island, andJohn Roosevelt, a merchant, was the second. In 16T7 the city contained three hundred and sixty-eight houses: in 1G93 thenumber was five hundred and ninety-four: in 1696 it was put down at sevenhundred and fifty: and when the two fire engines arrived from London, thepopulation of the city was eight thousand six hundred and twenty-eight, andthe number of houses was about one thousand two
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