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Title: The Exempt firemen of San Francisco; their unique and gallant record
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Exempt Fire Company, San Francisco
Subjects: San Francisco (Calif.). Fire Dept
Publisher: (San Francisco : Commercial Publishing Co.)
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: San Francisco Public Library

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mable nature of its building mate-rial are considered, it was truly a won-derful achievement to have kept theangry flames, that shot forth with suchawful fury from the colossal woodenstructure, from spreading to and devour-ing the whole block, most of the build-ings of which were of wooden material. It is only a few years since a brigadeof firemen from the Kansas City FireDepartment visited Europe, and in sev-eral public competitions open to fire-men of the whole world, easily defeatedall comers in their several contests. I40 SAN FRANCISCO FIREMEN Their workmanship and extraordinaryspeed in executing orders were quite arevelation to all the crack companies ofEurope, and their smartness, intelligenceand general bearing won for them thehighest enconiums from the Trans-Atlan- Fire Department did was nothing morethan could have been accomplished byalmost any other fire department in thechief cities of the United States. Amongst all those superb bodies offiremen who form such a conspicuous
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D. T. SULLIVAN CHIEF ENGINEER OF SAN FRANCISCO FIRE DEPARTMENT. tic press, and the authorities of the for-eign fire departments. They gave con-vincing proof of the immeasurable super-iority of Yankee methods over thoseof the principal European centers, inmodern equipment and effectiveness of afire department. What the Kansas City ornament, and a protection to theirrespective cities none more worthilyupholds the honor of their city, or canshow a more laudable record than thefiremen of San Francisco, in every par-ticular the fire department of this city isconstantly maintained at the highest SAN FRANCISCO FIREMEN 141 point of efficiency, and no efforts arespared to increase its public usefulnessas the occasion arises. A fire depart-ment is like an army, it depends upon itscommander-in-chief for its highest re-sults. The San Francisco Deparment isfortunate in having as its chief engineera sturdy, active and capable man whohas been a firemen for over a quarter ofa century, and has fought

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