. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . iscovery ofthe island by Henry Hudson in 1609, the Indians who were then the inhabi-tants occupied what may be looked upon as the first houses upon it. Itwas the habit of these Indians to live in villages containing up to several hun-dred inhabitants. Frequently their houses would be as much as five hundredfeet long, varying to shorter lengths according to the number of separate OUR K I R E M E N. lull families it was intended they should accommodate. The breadth >>( the b
. Our firemen. A history of the New York fire departments, volunteer and paid ... 650 engravings; 350 biographies. . iscovery ofthe island by Henry Hudson in 1609, the Indians who were then the inhabi-tants occupied what may be looked upon as the first houses upon it. Itwas the habit of these Indians to live in villages containing up to several hun-dred inhabitants. Frequently their houses would be as much as five hundredfeet long, varying to shorter lengths according to the number of separate OUR K I R E M E N. lull families it was intended they should accommodate. The breadth >>( the build-ings was always uniform, being-about twenty reet, and were constructed by :taeries of framing formed by placing saplings at intervals, and bending themto meel al the I. The exterior of the dwelling was completed by a covering1of the boughs of trees, while the interior was carefully covered with was no description of Hours to these buildings, nor any chimney, thesmoUe from the fires escaping through a bole in the roof. Henry Hudson, who, although an Englishman, was in the employ of the. POST OFFICE. Dutch Government, sailed back to Holland with great news of his discovery,and not long afterward settlers began to arrive in small numbers. Ir. 1624there were about \!00 persons on Manhattan Island. In 1626 was constructed what really formed the first permanent structureupon the island, consisting of a block house of some considerable extent. Thedwellings of the greater part of the inhabitants were at this tune not, as manyimagine, log cabins. As a fact, most uf them were even mure simple, andconsisted of what really formed little better than mere cellars, cumprisingsimple excavations in the ground rooted in, and forming a very rude descrip- 101, OCR FIR E M E X. llonoT habitation. Other dwellings were small building* of two rooms on afloor with a thatched roof. During the years 1 (;:>:{-:!.> we have records showing of considerable workbeing done in building. Va
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