. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . oned by them on account of its great weight, ^un-organized with one hundred and fifty names on their roll, including at leastsev en ex-assistant engineers, any number of ex-foremen, and one ex-fire com-missioner. On the ninth of February, 1855, the Exempts had a trial in theCity Hall Park between their old Engine and a new steamengine built in Cincinnati. The Park was thronged with spectators allinterested hi the exhibition. The-engines took suction from a cistern,
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . oned by them on account of its great weight, ^un-organized with one hundred and fifty names on their roll, including at leastsev en ex-assistant engineers, any number of ex-foremen, and one ex-fire com-missioner. On the ninth of February, 1855, the Exempts had a trial in theCity Hall Park between their old Engine and a new steamengine built in Cincinnati. The Park was thronged with spectators allinterested hi the exhibition. The-engines took suction from a cistern, and eachplayed through four lengths of hose (two hundred feet). On the first trial,playing horizontally, the steamer threw a stream over one hundred andeighty-two feet, while the exempts reached one hundred and eighty-ninefeet. The second trial on the same conditions had the same result. Prepara-tions were made for a third trial, this time perpendicularly, and when thestreams were directed to the figure of Justice on the cupola of the City Hall,Zophar Mills and John W. Garside, assistant foreman of the Exempts,. 632 OCR K I KK M K N ascended to the roof to watch the progress of ihe playing. The Baywagons *stream was the highest, but after the men had dropped exhausted from 11?brakes, the steamers si ream kepi steadily on. John, said Mr. Mills, thai si ream stays there. Yes, it does, said Mr. Garside. Well, that settles Mr. Mills, and both these old firemen thenfell conyineed that. 1 lie steamer was 1 lie engine of the fill m e. Zophar Mills followed .lames L. Miller as foreman of the company, andheld the office several years. In 1859 this company was given charge of twosteam lire engines which were stalioned in the Park, the hand engine beingstill housed at 202 Centre Street. One of the steamers was the large self-pro-peller, a very powerful engine, I>n1 hard to get to and from fires, its liabilityto break down of its own great weigh 1 causing considerable trouble. O
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