. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . re was passed An act for the more effectualprevention of tires in the city of New York. This extended the fire limitsfrom a line, beginning at the North River, at a place called Dekleynes Ferry. SCENE AT A a Firemans Certificate. 76 O U K F 1 R K .M K N. a little to the northward of the state prison to the road commonly called theSandy Hill Road, to the northward of the Potters Field and the house ofWilliam Neilson, to the Bowery, to a street commonly called Stuyvesant
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . re was passed An act for the more effectualprevention of tires in the city of New York. This extended the fire limitsfrom a line, beginning at the North River, at a place called Dekleynes Ferry. SCENE AT A a Firemans Certificate. 76 O U K F 1 R K .M K N. a little to the northward of the state prison to the road commonly called theSandy Hill Road, to the northward of the Potters Field and the house ofWilliam Neilson, to the Bowery, to a street commonly called StuyvesantStreet, to the East River. The Common Council adopted a resolution (March 25, 181G), on the petitionof a number of carpenters and others, suspending the duties of the fire warden*under the ordinance prohibiting t he storing and seasoning of lumber on premiseswithin the fire limits, the enforcement of which, it was alleged, would inure tothe loss and inconvenience of those tradesmen. But a fire occurred in Novem-ber in Water Street, which was much intensified and caused much damage by reason of 1 he burning of a. i i lAT^-*—_ £fa60ea/e e/i/U/ed Qd/i- artamviAfy/, ftttoilegee M<: —C/brwum/ytyie^ifyY11-^ /ufad tA* /Xts&rd /S/C Z~/m quantity of lumber, storedin the immediate vicinity,which caught fire. TheCommon Council soonafter repealed the resolu-tion of the twenty-fifth ofMarch. The Fire Department(Act. April 12, 1810,) wascontinued as a body cor-porate and politic, in factand in name, until the firstday of May, 1838, withall the rights, powers, andprivileges, and subject toall the provisions, restric-tions, limitations, and con-ditions mentioned and con-tained in the act entitled An act to incorporate theFiremen of the city of NewYork. The fire engine com-panies kept importuningthe corporation for an in-crease in their membership,and it was, in consequence,found necessary in August, 1816, to make a regulation that all companieshaving engines of six and one-half inch ca
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