. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . n aristocratic gentleman from whom it took its name. Finally itwas turned into a boarding house. Adjoining the Walton House was theFranklin Square Hotel, which shared the fate of its neighbor. Next to thishotel was the extensive bakery of ex-Alderman James Kelly, No. 330 PearlStreet. For a long time it was feared this w ould go with the rest, but being an old favorite of the Fire Department, and an ex-memberhimself, every nerve was strained to save his dwelling. Wet bla
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . n aristocratic gentleman from whom it took its name. Finally itwas turned into a boarding house. Adjoining the Walton House was theFranklin Square Hotel, which shared the fate of its neighbor. Next to thishotel was the extensive bakery of ex-Alderman James Kelly, No. 330 PearlStreet. For a long time it was feared this w ould go with the rest, but being an old favorite of the Fire Department, and an ex-memberhimself, every nerve was strained to save his dwelling. Wet blankets werehung out of the windows, and his roof was kept well-flooded. A hole wasburned through his roof, but the house sustained very little other injury. Asevening advanced the fire had a terrific beauty of its own. Harpers wasone mass of rubbish, comprising six houses on Cliff Street, running throughto Pearl and taking in the same number of houses on that street. Onthe opposite side of Cliff Street the buildings Nos. 81 and 83, also occupiedby Harpers, were much scorched. Adjoining Harpers buildings, next to. OTJB F 1 R E M E N. 251 Ferry Street, was the large publishing bouse f George K. Coolidge &Brother, which also fell before the fiery blast. The Are w;is slopped ontlie side toward Ferry Street at No. 319, the drug store of W. W. Thayer,which was somewhat damaged by water. On the other side the lire wasarrested at a new building which the Harpers were erecting, in additionto three other buildings. There the flames mel with nothing but a shell of a house of stone, and had it not I n for ilns the work of destruction would probably have extended much farther. In all sixteen buildings were burned,and tour or live more or less injured. The energy of the firemen on t his occasion was said to be very not a long time before there had not been so large a turnout of the Depart-ment. Almost every engine m the City was on the ground, and even the Har-lem engine was on ha
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