. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . erring In the lighting proclivities of some of theBremen of those days, Chief Decker said : •• 1 never courted a fight and never shrank from one. Each and every member of the company, In;added, felt about as 1 did. and we wore hard men to down. While ChiefEngineer. Mr. Decker had to contend with the Draft Riots of 1863. Earlyin the month of July in that year he and his command wore summonedto the corner of Forty-sixth Street and Third Avenue to quench the llames thatwore devouri
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . erring In the lighting proclivities of some of theBremen of those days, Chief Decker said : •• 1 never courted a fight and never shrank from one. Each and every member of the company, In;added, felt about as 1 did. and we wore hard men to down. While ChiefEngineer. Mr. Decker had to contend with the Draft Riots of 1863. Earlyin the month of July in that year he and his command wore summonedto the corner of Forty-sixth Street and Third Avenue to quench the llames thatwore devouring the Provost Marshals building. The rioters had begun theiroperations hero, supposing that it was the source from which all their troublesemanated. Ipon the arrival of Chief Decker his passage was blocked by therioters, who refused to lot him or his men approach the burning appealed to the frenzied moh—told them to consider the consequences toinnocent parties if the flames were permitted to spread to adjoining the force of the argument, the mob gave way and allowed the Chief. DISCHARGE CERTIFICATE, CHIEF JOHN DECK Ill. and his gallant boys to come forward with their apparatus, and thus valuableproperty was saved from destruction. The mob, as if repenting of theirleniency, proceeded to Lexington Avenue and Forty-fourth Street and tired abuilding there. Hero again they wore met by the intrepid tire laddies. The mobwas led by a man named Hunter, who incited them to all kinds of here also, they next tired the Arlington House, and followed this upby burning down the Colored Orphan Asylum. Meanwhile the VolunteerFire Department, in fighting the flames that the rioters had left in their path,had worked around to the Colored Orphan Asylum. They found the mobassailing the doors with axes, forcing an entry. 408 OUR FIR E M E X. The chief did liis l>esl to stop the fiendish wreckers. Holdly thrusting him-self among them, lie snatche
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