Download or read book The New York Board of Fire Underwriters 1867 1967 written by New York Board of Fire Underwriters and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Unheralded Triumph written by Jon C. Teaford and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1984. In 1888 the British observer James Bryce declared "the government of cities" to be "the one conspicuous failure of the United States." During the following two decades, urban reformers would repeat Bryce's words with ritualistic regularity; nearly a century later, his comment continues to set the tone for most assessments of nineteenth-century city government. Yet by the end of the century, as Jon Teaford argues in this important reappraisal, American cities boasted the most abundant water supplies, brightest street lights, grandest parks, largest public libraries, and most efficient systems of transportation in the world. Far from being a "conspicuous failure," municipal governments of the late nineteenth century had successfully met challenges of an unprecedented magnitude and complexity. The Unheralded Triumph draws together the histories of the most important cities of the Gilded Age—especially New York, Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Baltimore—to chart the expansion of services and the improvement of urban environments between 1870 and 1900. It examines the ways in which cities were transformed, in a period of rapid population growth and increased social unrest, into places suitable for living. Teaford demonstrates how, during the last decades of the nineteenth century, municipal governments adapted to societal change with the aid of generally compliant state legislatures. These were the years that saw the professionalization of city government and the political accommodation of the diverse ethnic, economic, and social elements that compose America's heterogeneous urban society. Teaford acknowledges that the expansion of urban services dangerously strained city budgets and that graft, embezzlement, overcharging, and payroll-padding presented serious problems throughout the period. The dissatisfaction with city governments arose, however, not so much from any failure to achieve concrete results as from the conflicts between those hostile groups accommodated within the newly created system: "For persons of principle and gentlemen who prized honor, it seemed a failure yet American municipal government left as a legacy such achievements as Central Park, the new Croton Aqueduct, and the Brooklyn Bridge, monuments of public enterprise that offered new pleasures and conveniences for millions of urban citizens."
Download or read book Charter and By laws of the New York Board of Fire Underwriters written by New York Board of Fire Underwriters and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of the National Board of Fire Underwriters written by Harry Chase Brearley and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Committee on Fire Patrol to the New York Board of Fire Underwriters written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Building Code Recommended by the National Board of Fire Underwriters New York written by National Board of Fire Underwriters and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Abbott s Digest of All the New York Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Annual Report of the Committee on Fire Patrol written by New York Board of Fire Underwriters and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Notes Municipal Reference and Research Center written by Municipal Reference and Research Center (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Digest of New York Statutes and Reports written by Austin Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Eating Smoke written by Mark Tebeau and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the period of America's swiftest industrialization and urban growth, fire struck fear in the hearts of city dwellers as did no other calamity. Before the Civil War, sweeping blazes destroyed more than $200 million in property in the nation's largest cities. Between 1871 and 1906, conflagrations left Chicago, Boston, Baltimore, and San Francisco in ruins. Into the twentieth century, this dynamic hazard intensified as cities grew taller and more populous, confounding those who battled it. Firefighters' death-defying feats captured the popular imagination but too often failed to provide more than symbolic protection. Hundreds of fire insurance companies went bankrupt because they could not adequately deal with the effects of even smaller blazes. Firefighters and fire insurers created a physical and cultural infrastructure whose legacy—in the form of heroic firefighters, insurance policies, building standards, and fire hydrants—lives on in the urban built environment. In Eating Smoke, Mark Tebeau shows how the changing practices of firefighters and fire insurers shaped the built landscape of American cities, the growth of municipal institutions, and the experience of urban life. Drawing on a wealth of fire department and insurance company archives, he contrasts the invention of a heroic culture of firefighters with the rational organizational strategies by fire underwriters. Recognizing the complexity of shifting urban environments and constantly experimenting with tools and tactics, firefighters fought fire ever more aggressively—"eating smoke" when they ventured deep into burning buildings or when they scaled ladders to perform harrowing rescues. In sharp contrast to the manly valor of firefighters, insurers argued that the risk was quantifiable, measurable, and predictable. Underwriters managed hazard with statistics, maps, and trade associations, and they eventually agitated for building codes and other reforms, which cities throughout the nation implemented in the twentieth century. Although they remained icons of heroism, firefighters' cultural and institutional authority slowly diminished. Americans had begun to imagine fire risk as an economic abstraction. By comparing the simple skills employed by firefighters—climbing ladders and manipulating hoses—with the mundane technologies—maps and accounting charts—of insurers, the author demonstrates that the daily routines of both groups were instrumental in making intense urban and industrial expansion a less precarious endeavor.
Download or read book New York Fire Patrol written by Timothy E. Regan and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006-03 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Operated by the New York Board of Fire Underwriters, the New York Fire Patrol was organized in 1839 to patrol lower Manhattan. Their job was twofold: to discover fires and to prevent losses to insured properties. The New York Fire Patrol evolved, and in 1867, a state charter was granted to legally extinguish fires and conduct salvage operations throughout New York City. The New York Fire Patrol is the oldest paid fire service in the United States, and it also remains the last insurance-funded fire salvage corps in the country. Today, the fire patrol continues to serve the city of New York, responding to over 10,000 alarms each year alongside the Fire Department of New York.
Download or read book Digest of the Reports and Statutes of the State of New York from Jan 1 1890 to Jan 1 1897 written by Willard Smith Gibbons and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 2088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Addresses as President of the National Board of Fire Underwriters of the United States written by Henry Augustus Oakley and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The history of the National Board of Fire Underwriters written by Harry Chase Brearley and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
