ILLUSTRATIONS.
 

Riley's Pole, and the old Fifth Ward Hotel,

{Frontispiece.

Fire-engine, 1730-32..................5-6

St. Paul's Church...........   .........   10

" Honey-Bee" 5.................'.....   12

" Rooster "29........................   23

Firemen's Monument at Greenwood. ...   25

Old Post-office.......................  33

The Five Points of olden times......... 40

Walton House, Pearl Street............  41

Washington Hotel, Bowling Green..... 42

Washington's   Headquarters,  Pearl   and

Broad streets, at lime of evacuation by

the British, Nov. 3, 1783............  43

Old relics............................  44

Old Post-office bell-tower.............. 46

Old Government House, Bowling Green,

erected 1790, etc., etc., etc........... 48

City Hospital.........................  49

Hall of Records, formerly Jail..........   52

Old relics............................   66

An old print of Gulick's campaign......  6g

Giving succor to the victims of a fire. ...   75

A piano engine.......................   77

Old "39" at work....................  87

Ringing the alarm....................  88

Harry Venn as foreman of old 14.......  91

Fire Department banner as presented by

the city of New York...............   95

Reeling off the hose  .................100

Niagara Engine No. 4.................102

Reel of Hudson Hose No. 21..........113

" Let her go ! ".......................116

An old-time race.....................122

- House and engine of Americus 6.......126
 

Leaving the bunk....................128

Parlor in one of the old engine-houses.. , 130
Scene at old Firemen's Hall during an
election............................137

The gallant rescue....................141

Saved!..............................143

" Guardian" Engine 29...............144

Departure    of    Ellsworth    Zouaves    for

Washington   in 1861................146

The Zouaves saving Willard's Hotel. ... 150

Oceana Hose Co. ■^^..................163

Steam fire-engines used in oldDepartment. 173
" Knickerbocker" 12 going into action. . 187

Destruction of Academy of Music   ......19O'

"         " Barnum's Museum.......197

The   "Happy   Family"   at    Barnum's

burning...........................201

Old " Black Joke " No. 33............206-

Destruction of Barnum's Museum, 1868. ,209-

Old brick Presbyterian Church.........219-

The Tombs..........................221

Burning of Crystal Palace.............224.

The Elm Street fire...................226-

A Bunk-room in Old Department......229^

Burning of the Latting Observatory.....232.

Burning of the Steamship John P. Kifig.2.T,$.

Miss Farren's terrible fate.............238^

Fire in Spruce Street.................240

Burning of St. Patrick's Cathedral......244

Burning of St. George's Church........248

Firemen's Hall, Mercer Street.........261

Some of the early steam fire-engines.... 270

" Undine"  No.  52...................274

" Protector " No. 22..................280

" Lady Washington " No. 40.........   283