Identifier: newyorkbysunligh00mcca_1 (find matches)
Title: New York by sunlight and gaslight : a work descriptive of the great American metropolis ; its high and low life; its splendors and miseries; its virtu
Year: 1882 (1880s)
Authors: McCabe, James D., 1842-1883.
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Publisher: New York : Union Publishing House
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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sistance at such times, rescue stations have beenestablished at various points along the docks, and ineach ferry house. Ladders of a sufficient length toreach from the pier to the water at low tide, boat hooksattached to long poles, life preservers, floats and coilsof rope, are placed at these stations, together with aprinted code of rules for their use, and instructionsfor the treatment of persons rescued from drowning.Each station is under the charge of the policemanstationed on the beat in which it is located, and in theabsence of a superior officer it is his duty to takecharge of all attempts at rescue and to render all theassistance in his power on such occasions. In case ofaccident, any one may use the materials of the station,but interfering with or removing them at other timesis punishable by law. These stations have been of thegreatest service since their establishment. One of the most efficient forces engaged in the workof saving life along the water front of the city is the
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NAN, THE LIFE-SAVER. 367 Volunteer Life Saving Corps, consisting of threeboys, headed by WilHam ONeill, better known asNan, the Newsboy, or Nan, the Life Saver; theother two are named Gilbert Long and Edward Kelly.These three young heroes began their good work inthe summer of 1878. At that time Nan was twentyyears old, and Long and Kelly about eighteen. Havingheard a great deal of the many lives lost by falling orjumping off the wharves, they resolved to start a lifesaving corps, and quietly went to work. They fittedthemselves out with the necessary apparatus, rude, itis true, but effective, and after their labors of the daywere over, devoted themselves to patrolling the Eastand North River fronts, from Grand street on the EastRiver to Pier 28 on the North River, taking in seventy-one piers in all. They went on duty at seven oclock,and continued their rounds until half-past ten or eleven.They received no public encouragement, no assistance*,of any kind from any quarter, but within six

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