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...Orleans, George Kernan, 16, clouted a softball, sadly watched it drop on the tender of a passing locomotive. Next day when the locomotive rumbled past the sandlot on its return run, Fireman John Primaut tossed Batter Kernan a brand new ball...
Early one morning last week in the gashouse district on Manhattan's lower East Side, a neat, grey-haired watchman named George Preston, 47, was caught setting fire to a rubbish heap under the stairs of a tenement house whose occupants lay sleeping. Watchman Preston, once a probationary fireman at Lynn, Mass., tearfully told police he took a few drinks every time he got a headache, set fires for excitement every time he took a few drinks. When he accompanied them to The Bronx, pointed out nine buildings he had previously fired, police believed they had cleared...
...boss to chafe him. His first boss was a tailor who apprenticed him at the age of 12. Batista now brags that before he quit a year later he could make a suit of clothes himself. Afterward he worked in a grocery store and bar, as a railroad fireman, engineer, conductor. Once he studied to be a barber. In the sugar boom of 1920, Cuba's Dance of the Millions, he was administrator of an Oriente cane plantation and likes to recall how he spurned his chances then to enrich himself dishonestly. Next year he entered the army...
...Hill Top Engine Company of Pocantico Hills, N. Y. elected John Davison Rockefeller Jr, a volunteer fireman, entitling him to use the firehouse player piano, ride on the firetruck. No vamp, Mr. Rockefeller recently underwrote his town's new fire house...
...Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. was organized in 1863, its first office being in the Montgomery Block, built in 1853 and still standing, being one of the very few pioneer buildings in San Francisco which have survived the march of time. We have a record of 16 brave firemen killed in the line of duty during the period of the Volunteer Fire Department. They evidently did more than breaking windows and throwing slung shots. ALBERT EDWARD CONLON Vice President Historical Society of the San Francisco Fire Dept. San Francisco, Calif...