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...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...
...foot and 15 pounds lighter than the old Varsity shell. It is rigged in the manner of Washington shells, according to the specifications of Head Coach Tom Bolles., who is obviously pleased with the result. En route from Seattle the boat occupied a whole express car, being slung from the ceiling to prevent jarring...
...twelve other men were working up underneath the completed centre span of the new San Francisco-Marin County bridge.* Like wrinkled grey granite, 220 ft. below them ran the swift tidal currents of the Golden Gate. Most of the men were standing on a heavy wooden platform, slung below the rail-girders on steel beams. They were yanking away the boards from beneath the hardened concrete floor of the 4,200-ft. span. Two men were below them picking fallen boards out of the stout hempen safety net that stretched the whole length of the span...
...privilege of breaking the first window at a blaze. For twelve years these fraternities added to the excitement of a city where it was noted that "a man cannot walk home of an evening without his head being round all quarters at once, on the lookout for a slung shot." In 1862 San Francisco acquired its first paid fire department. The next year a retired sea captain named William Holdredge started Fireman's Fund Insurance...
...morning Lieut. Commander Wil liam McDade and 80 officers and men of Patrol Plane Squadron VP6 climbed into twelve huge low-slung flying boats in San Diego Harbor, roared off without cere mony in trim formation toward Pearl Har bor, 2,553 mi. away. Next morning, 21 hr. 48 min. later, Patrol Squadron VP6 completed its routine task without mishap at Pearl Harbor...