老志愿者。
ISTRICTING THE ClTY—ENGINE Co. No. 18.
Until 1830 there was no such thing as Fire Districts, the Department doing duty all over the lower portion of the island, Fourteenth street being then clean out of town. The first districts set apart in the above year were as follows, the first four lying north of Murray and Frankfort streets, and running to Twenty-first street, and the Fifth District lying south of this line. The fire bells rung the alarm by giving the number of the district, except the Fifth, for which they rang continuously. Subsequently the city was redistricted into eight districts—the Seventh and the Eighth being located below Leonard street. But the “volunteers ” were equal to all emergencies. They did not mind the extent of their territory, Many stories are told of “big runs," Chief Engineer Riker used to say that he “didn’t mind a run or two around the island on a fine bracing morning.
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