. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . «>; Fair Street, to Engine Company No. 3, vice CharlesI. Field; William Pulis, butcher, Mott Street, to Engine Company No. 15,vice Walter Whitehead. A patent for a newly-invented fire engine, morepowerful m its operations and less expensive in its construction than the exist-ing engines, was granted to Richard Crosby by the United States in the latterpart of this year; and the Common Council authorized him, in January, 1812,to construct such an engine for the use of the city.
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . «>; Fair Street, to Engine Company No. 3, vice CharlesI. Field; William Pulis, butcher, Mott Street, to Engine Company No. 15,vice Walter Whitehead. A patent for a newly-invented fire engine, morepowerful m its operations and less expensive in its construction than the exist-ing engines, was granted to Richard Crosby by the United States in the latterpart of this year; and the Common Council authorized him, in January, 1812,to construct such an engine for the use of the city. The frequent fires occurring in the fall of 1811 from no cause that could bereasonably ascribed, left no room to doubt that incendiaries were at theirvillainous work, and the mayor of the city again offered a reward of threehundred dollars for the apprehension and conviction of the offenders. The fire wardens in December communicated to the Common Council thatas the use of hose had in a great measure superseded the use of fire buckets,the ordinance requiring owners and occupants of houses to furnish buckets,. OLD FIRE HAT. 72 OUR FIREMEN. should, in their opinion, be repealed, and also an application should be madeto the legislature for an extension of the limits within which wooden building!should not be erected. In the following month the Council committee reported upon that communi-cation that, notwithstanding the advanla^-s arising from the use of leaders,cases might arise in the interior of the City when, by a speedy collection ofbuckets, the tire might be extinguished ere the line by engines and leaders couldbe formed, and consequently it would be imprudent to discontinue the ordinanceas requested. The number of buckets required to be kept, might, however, bereduced by one-third, to lighten the burden on the citizens. The condition of affairs in the city during the summer of 1812, whilst thenational government was prosecuting the war against Great Britain, hadbecome mos
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