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Title: Reminiscences of the old fire laddies and volunteer fire departments of New York and Brooklyn.
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: Kernan, J. Frank.
Subjects: Fire departments--New York (State)--New York. Fire prevention--New York (State)--New York. Volunteer fire fighters--New York (State)--New York.
Publisher: M. Crane,
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries

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Peter Weir. luxuriate upon a lily-white corn or 58 Reminiscences of the Old Fire Laddies. Many an old fireman remembers the time when he has eatencrullers from a Park Row stand, hot corn from a cedar pail, orrelished a small plate from Holts cellar on Fulton Street, madefamous in bygone times as the place of all places that never closed.If the old jail bell rang for a down-town fire on the east side, toward
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morning, not a fire laddie but was sure-of his coffee and hash in thatrenowned diving-bell. Many a one of its patrons now are ownersand dwellers in a brown-stone house. How ridiculous it would look at this time in an old Vamp,whose age has made his top-knot and beard of the same color, to beseen stooping over a hot-corn pail, looking for a big ear to rub overthe salt he holds in the palm of his hand. While on the subject of aunties, I must not forget an incidentwhich occurred many years ago, when one of these faithful creaturesparticularly distinguished herself. She was a servant in the employof old Benjamin Aymar, and familiarly known as Molly. It washer boast that she was as good a fire laddie as many of the boys whoat that time bragged of being such. Her master belonged to 11engine, and as a natural sequence * Mollys sympathies were with Ex-Mayor Tiemann. 5 that particular machine. It is truthfully related of her, that in1818, while a terrific fire was raging

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