. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . the fire in Pearl Street. By order. David Baker, Foreman. Wm. J. Lewis, Secretary. A CARD.—At a special meeting of Hook and Ladder Company No. 4, held at the truckhouse after the return from the fire in Pearl Street, it was unanimously 252 O U II FI It K M K N. Resolved, Tliat the thanks of the company he tendered to Mr. and Mrs. John Baulchfor the bountiful supply of refreshments furnished us after the above lire. John (okxwell, Chairman. John Slowy. Secretary. On December 14 F
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . the fire in Pearl Street. By order. David Baker, Foreman. Wm. J. Lewis, Secretary. A CARD.—At a special meeting of Hook and Ladder Company No. 4, held at the truckhouse after the return from the fire in Pearl Street, it was unanimously 252 O U II FI It K M K N. Resolved, Tliat the thanks of the company he tendered to Mr. and Mrs. John Baulchfor the bountiful supply of refreshments furnished us after the above lire. John (okxwell, Chairman. John Slowy. Secretary. On December 14 Foreman Chas. F. Meyons and Secretary Martin Wis*published a similar card in reference to Mr. James Kelly. A lire that broke out on December :.<;, :i, in a store in Front Street,spread to the shipping in the docks. Anions the vessels burned was the bi<fship (J rent .Republic (three hundred and twenty-live feet long and four thou-sand live hundred and fifty-live tons burden). The total loss was six hundredthousand dollars. The gallantry of the firemen was conspicuous at the burning of Tripler Hall lb. TRIPLER HALL OR METROPOLITAN HALL, 1854 arge House on Broadway, nearly opposite Bond Street, on June 8, 1854. T. F. Goodwin, fore-man, and Hugh Curry, both of HoseCompany No. 35, particularly dis-tinguished themselves by their cour-age. The fire caught from one ofthe hotel furnaces under the orches-tra box of the concert room, and inone hour the buildings were in Hall was built by Mr. Tripler,and first opened to the public on ihefourteenth of October, 1850, andcould seat four thousand was a concert room in the La-Iarge House. The Lafarge Housecost three hundred thousand dollars,and was leased to Wright, Laniers& Co., for fifty-four thousand dollarsa year. It was elegantly the first of the brilliant stars who occupied the boards of theLafarge House was Jenny Lind, who was hailed as the Gifted Swede,and welcomed as Sweet Warbler, in
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