Reminiscences of the old fire laddies and volunteer fire departments of New York and Brooklyn. . There was a large crowd in attendance as early as eight , the chief of the battalion, and a very daring, reckless man,who never seemed to have thought of danger, had, by way of aprevious informal experiment, already raised the ladder at six oclock in the morning, and as-cended to the top. Whenthe hour for holding this lit-tle exhibition arrived, thesquare bounded by CanalStreet, East Broadway, andRutgers Street was uncom-fortably crowded. Amongthe more prominent spec-tators was Mrs. Uda
Reminiscences of the old fire laddies and volunteer fire departments of New York and Brooklyn. . There was a large crowd in attendance as early as eight , the chief of the battalion, and a very daring, reckless man,who never seemed to have thought of danger, had, by way of aprevious informal experiment, already raised the ladder at six oclock in the morning, and as-cended to the top. Whenthe hour for holding this lit-tle exhibition arrived, thesquare bounded by CanalStreet, East Broadway, andRutgers Street was uncom-fortably crowded. Amongthe more prominent spec-tators was Mrs. Uda herselfand the Secretary of theFire Department, who littlethought that they were towitness the death of threehuman beings by meanswhich they had kindly pro-vided for the city, and afterhaving made a comfortablesum of money out of therire uepanmeni. operation. When the ladder was put together and raised to a height of ninety-eight feet, PoliceCaptain McElwaine noticed that it would fall upon the spectators incase of an accident, and therefore ordered his men to push the crowdback, removing th
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