Reminiscences of the old fire laddies and volunteer fire departments of New York and Brooklyn. . naturally. For these and many other reasons the desire for a changegrew day by day, and it was not long before the change itself wasdemanded. New York city is always quick to take advantage ofany improvement. The benefits resulting from the establishment of ment, which keeps water in the boilers at a degree of heat whichgenerates steam in three minutes from the time an alarm is given anda match applied to the furnace — enables the companies to pourstreams upon a fire so quickly that every advantage
Reminiscences of the old fire laddies and volunteer fire departments of New York and Brooklyn. . naturally. For these and many other reasons the desire for a changegrew day by day, and it was not long before the change itself wasdemanded. New York city is always quick to take advantage ofany improvement. The benefits resulting from the establishment of ment, which keeps water in the boilers at a degree of heat whichgenerates steam in three minutes from the time an alarm is given anda match applied to the furnace — enables the companies to pourstreams upon a fire so quickly that every advantage required in thisrespect is attained. It is very evident that the Metropolitan Fire Department, onbeing appointed to the duty of inaugurating an entirely new systemfor the city, had a task before it, at which even a Hercules might havehesitated. The present Department was organized on the 2d day ofMay, 1865, pursuant to a law passed in March of the same law was first declared unconstitutional in the lower courts,but their decision was reversed in the final tribunal of the Court of. Taking the Alan the paid system havebeen practically demon-strated. It appears tohave won the favor of allunprejudiced men, andbecome,, in its main feat-ures, a fixed fact withthe public—just as theCroton water, the greatpark, and the public in-stitutions. According tothe observation of onespeaking on the subject,the general use of steamfire-engines — the intro-duction of horse-powerfor celerity of movement,and the arrangement ofa heating apparatus pe-culiar to the Depart-
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