Knoxville Fire Department (1900)

INTRODUCTORY

"With clanging bell and clattering wheel,
With pantings fierce of enginery,
With furnace flame and trailing smoke.
With steel-shod hoofs' far ringing stroke."

In the performance of their duties firemen and policeman are often called upon to face as great dangers as confront the sailor in the gale-maddened waves of the sea, or the soldier as he marches on to the field of battle. That their line of work is cast in less heroic lines is all the more to their credit since the test of courage is just as great, the devotion to duty none the less exciting; yet they can never hope to write above the stars the history of their matchless deeds in letters that fade not. The satisfaction which comes from duty done is their sole reward.

The Knoxville Fire and Police Departments are as perfect organizations of the kind as are in existence anywhere to day. That they can be bettered will become apparent only when new ideas bud and blossom into the fullness of perfect fruition, and it is safe to say that the local departments are ever ready to accept any practical advance in methods or machinery.

In this book will be found a brief history of the Old Volunteer Fire and Police Departments, and great pains have been taken to secure correct data.

Knoxville, Tenn., June 1, 1900.

CROCKET & CONKLIN,
PUBLISHERS

PRESS OF
BEAN, WARTERS & CO.

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