. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . averick, resigned, to Engine Company No. 16. The population of the city in 1810 was over ninety-six thousand; havingadded thirty-six thousand in ten j-eais, and increased nearly threefold in twentyyears. The city had extended with unprecedented rapidity, and, at the timementioned, it covered more than four times the area that it embraced twentyyears before. Broadway had been opened through to the Bowery, and oneither side streets had been laid out as far up as Amity and Great Jo
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . averick, resigned, to Engine Company No. 16. The population of the city in 1810 was over ninety-six thousand; havingadded thirty-six thousand in ten j-eais, and increased nearly threefold in twentyyears. The city had extended with unprecedented rapidity, and, at the timementioned, it covered more than four times the area that it embraced twentyyears before. Broadway had been opened through to the Bowery, and oneither side streets had been laid out as far up as Amity and Great JonesStreets. To the east of the Bowery, the streets running eastward were laidout as high up as North (Houston) Street, which had been fixed as the per-manent boundary of the city: and crossing these, the present streets were laidout as far east as Norfolk Street. The city was again devastated by a terrible conflagration (May 19, 1811),which broke out about nine oclock on Sunday morning, near the northwestcorner of Duane and Chatham Streets. The steeple of the Brick Church, andthe cupola of the jail caught DRAWING OX FIREMANS CERTIFICATE. 70 O U R EI R E .M EN. CHAPTER VI. ADOPTION OF A PLAN FOB THE FUTURE (JITS. 1811-1822. -Two Sailors and a Prisoner Distinguish of the Corner-stone of the CityHall. Extension of Fire Limits.—Enactment of Laws for the More Effectual Prevention of Fires.—Duties of Firemen. The Use of Fire Buckets Superseded by Hose. ONE of the most important evenls of lliis period (1811) was the adoption ofa plan for the future cily. 1 which we owe the parallel streets andbroad avenues of the upper pa it of the island, which contrast so strong]]with the riailoW Streetsand crooked lanes of the down-town locality. Thisplan was due to Simeon Dewitt, Gouverneur Morris, John Rutherford, and , who had been appointed by the legislature in lso], as commissioners tolay out and survey the whole island to Kingsbritige into streets and aven
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