. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . pose of selecting from tlie ranks suitable persons to tillvacancies for offices now existing in the different Commissioner Myers offered the following as a substitute : Kcsvltrtl, That the district engineers be directed to report to the chief engineer, for com-petitive examination, the names of two men from each company possessing, in their opinion,the best qualifications for promotion as assistant foremen. That in making such selectionconsideration to be given to me
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . pose of selecting from tlie ranks suitable persons to tillvacancies for offices now existing in the different Commissioner Myers offered the following as a substitute : Kcsvltrtl, That the district engineers be directed to report to the chief engineer, for com-petitive examination, the names of two men from each company possessing, in their opinion,the best qualifications for promotion as assistant foremen. That in making such selectionconsideration to be given to meritorious conduct in the performance of duty and such char-LCtorifitics as will command the respect of their subordinates, and without favoritism orpersonal preference, but solely with a view to the benefit of the department. The Bureau of Combustibles was organized June 22, 1867, under ChapterST3 of the Laws of 1866, with Commissioner Wilson at its head. Its personnelwere: John H. Wilson, clerk, at one thousand live hundred dollars a year;and the following- inspectors at five hundred dollars per annum, John FIRE-BOAT WILLIAM F. HAVEMEYKR. Cregier, Surveyor Mercantile Fire Insurance Company; A. P. Moore,Surveyor Manhattan Fire Insurance Company ; Theodore Keeler, Surveyorof the Lorillard Fire Insurance Company ; and John H. Forman, Surveyorof the International Fire Insurance Company. Operations against personswho illegally stored dangerously inflammable articles and explosives werebegun immediately. A step toward grading the force was made in themiddle of July, when Commissioners Myers and Shaler, in reporting to theircolleagues on the estimates for 18GS, the increase in expenditures and thenecessity of economy, presented the following resolution : Resolved, That the appointment of firemen hereafter made shall be of acting firemen, ata rate of compensation not exceeding seven hundred dollars per annum, such active firemento lie in the line of promotion, and to have preceden
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