Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 144
ire at the Mallory pier—saved a mans life andmade the roll of honor by it. We 11 never getthe story from him, but the other boys will tellus. If ever fire-boats proved their value, it wasthis night in May, 1900, when Pier 19, EastRiver, caught fire, with all its length of inflam- ICJOI. CAREERS OF… … • INTO THIS STREET OF FIRE, BETWEEN THE TWO PIERS, STEAMED THE BIG FIRE-BOAT, STRAIGHT IN, WITH FOUR STREAMSPLAYING TO PORT AND FOUR TO STARBOARD, ALL DOING THEIR PRETTIEST. (SEE NEXT PAGE.) east was driving the flames toward land. Be- moored there, and to a large steamship of a fore the engines…
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