1930 DJ 1st YE OLDE FIRE LADDIES New York Fire Department History Herbert Asbury

by Herbert Asbury

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Title: Ye Olde Fire Laddies Author: Herbert Asbury Publisher: Alfred A Knopf (1930) Description: After newspaper writer and author Herbert Asbury wrote The Gangs Of New York his career as an author was set. With that success, Asbury became a full-time author. His New York City follow-up in 1930 was about the history of firefighting in New York City. Ye Olde Fire Laddies is the book and it is a great rollicking read. Book has illustrations. Read below about the book - From the back cover and front flap Here is the saga of the old-time volunteer fireman of New York —the red-shirted brawler who ran with the ‘“‘en-jines” and for more than seventy-five years was a potent political and force in the life of that metropolis. In these lively, picturesque chapters, teeming with incident and action and illustrated with sixty-two gay prints of the period, Mr. Asbury has told a story even more fascinating than The Gangs of New York. Though in no sense a formal history, Mr. Asbury’s account begins with the first recorded fire in New York—the burning of a Dutch trading ship off the Battery in 1613—and traces the progress of fire-fighting from the days of the Worshipful Fire Wardens and the Battle Watch of Stuyvesant’s time to 1865. Much of the book deals with the period preceding the Civil War, when the New York fire-engines were the gaudiest vehicles in Christendom, manned by the foremost men of the city and glorified by such names as Old Turk, Big Six, Hay-Wagon, Shad-Belly, Old Maid, Bla

• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Year: 1930
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good

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