. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . e willing to support them, and it was attended by a general[vetting by the water which gushes out of the seams. The foreman of thesengines petitioned the Common Council for an assignment of ten men to eachcompany, and their petition was acceded to in March, 1 UK). A project was conceived ahout the year 1789 for converting the FreshWater Pond, and the grounds adjacent, to the embellishment of the city. Acompany was formed with that view, and a plan drawn, laying out a park,embrac
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . e willing to support them, and it was attended by a general[vetting by the water which gushes out of the seams. The foreman of thesengines petitioned the Common Council for an assignment of ten men to eachcompany, and their petition was acceded to in March, 1 UK). A project was conceived ahout the year 1789 for converting the FreshWater Pond, and the grounds adjacent, to the embellishment of the city. Acompany was formed with that view, and a plan drawn, laying out a park,embracing the great and lesser Collect, and extending from the north side ofReade Streel t<. the present site of Grand Street, so as to include the eminencerailed Bunkers Bill. The Little Collect commenced at the foot of thehill, on the north side of Reade Street, and was divided from the principalpom] by a mound or knoll, through which Pearl Street was carried. Ontins knoll stood the Old Powder House.** from which the street leadingto it from Broadway, now part of Pearl Street, derived its name of METHOD OF CARRYING FIRE BUCKETS. The plan for the conversion of the Collect, as stated, fell through, principallybecause the supposition of the citys ever extending so far out upon the islandwas thought by capitalists too visionary to be acted on. Another project, ofa more utilitarian character, was subsequently entertained, namely, to connectthe Collect with both rivers, thus converting it into a dock, with wharves andwarehouses surrounding its margin. But such were the limited viewsgenerally prevalent at that day in regard to the probable increase of the chyin size, business, wealth, and population, it was believed the dock would neverbe wanted. Between 1787 and 1790 the streets leading from Broadway to HudsonRiver, from Cortlandt Street upward to the hospital, were regulated, andsome of them paved. On the west side, Broadway was paved as far out asWarren Street, and
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