The Fire-Engineer, the Architect, and the Underwriter, Their Relations to Each Other: An Address Delivered to the Convention of the Chief Engineers of the Fire-Department of the United States, Sept. 14, 1880 (Classic Reprint)
The Fire-Engineer, the Architect, and the Underwriter, Their Relations to Each Other: An Address Delivered to the Convention of the Chief Engineers of the Fire-Department of the United States, Sept. 14, 1880 (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from The Fire-Engineer, the Architect, and the Underwriter, Their Relations to Each Other: An Address Delivered to the Convention of the Chief Engineers of the Fire-Department of the United States, Sept. 14, 1880 I may safely assume that the record of my early vigor has followed down the line, and to that I may owe the distinguished honor of being called upon to address you to-day. Since that time I have not been in active service until now. You will doubtless admit that so ancient and varied an experience as I ...
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Excerpt from The Fire-Engineer, the Architect, and the Underwriter, Their Relations to Each Other: An Address Delivered to the Convention of the Chief Engineers of the Fire-Department of the United States, Sept. 14, 1880 I may safely assume that the record of my early vigor has followed down the line, and to that I may owe the distinguished honor of being called upon to address you to-day. Since that time I have not been in active service until now. You will doubtless admit that so ancient and varied an experience as I must have had in the arduous service to which I have referred, would not have failed to give me many memo ries with which I might occupy the hour that you have assigned to me; but I do not understand that reminiscences are the order of the day, and we will therefore Skip the last forty years, and come down to the art of extinguishing fires at the present time. That this is one of the high arts, no one will deny and it is every day becoming higher as story is added to story, and the ladders grow longer. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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