ENGINE 221 BROOKLYN ORGANIZED AS ENGINE 21, BROOKLYN FIRE DEPT
ORG.	163 S. 2nd St.		(Jun. 16, 1885)
CHANGE	To Engine 21, FDNY	(Jan. 28, 1898)
CHANGE	To Engine 121		(Oct.  1, 1899)
CHANGE	To Engine 221		(Jan.  1, 1913)
RELOC. 712 Driggs Ave.FQ CHEM-1 (Dec. 15, 1913)
NQTRS.	163 S. 2nd St.	W/ L-104(Oct. 29, 1932)

In a list of big fires at which this company have performed many hours of hard labor are the Havemeyer sugar house, Dick & Meyer's sugar house, the Commercial Street sugar house, Pratt's oil works (three times), Kingsland Avenue oil works (three times), Knickerbocker ice stables, Herseman's bakery, Church's soda works, Pahmer's cooperage, (twice), Heckler Iron Works, (twice), Nostrand Avenue flat-houses, Harbeck stores, Watson's stores, Ovington Brothers' crockery store, Hamburg Avenue flat-houses, the Delmonico Place dwellings, color works on Tenth and Eleventh Streets, Hubert's glass house, Wallabout Market (twice), Waterbury rope-walk, Wall's rope-walk, Kalbfleisch's chemical works, Reubert's moulding mill, Solon's moulding mill, Remsen's carriage factory, Warner Institute, also St. John's Home, and the Home of the Little Sisters of the Poor.

ENGINE COMPANY NO. 2 I.

Engine Company No. 21 was organized on June 16, 1885. Its home is in South Second Street near Bedford Avenue, and a very comfortable place it is. There are three equine members of the company, and their names are " Tip," " Bill " and " George," and they furnish the power for transporting the engine and two-wheeled tender to and from fires. There is also a feline member whose name is " Jumbo," but so far as the size of the animal is concerned there is nothing to warrant the name. The district covered by this company on a first-alarm is bounded by Bushwick Creek, Union Avenue, Broadway and the East River. In it there are severity-seven boxes, and the company responds to calls from ninety-nine additional boxes on a second-alarm. Important portent buildings in the district are the large sugar houses along Kent Avenue extending back to the river-front, Palmer's cooperage, Pratt's oil works, Hinds and Ketcham's electrotyping establishment, Central Stamping Company, Electric Light Works, Industrial School, Public Schools Nos. 37, 17, 19; Primary School No. 2, and the branch of No. 19, Homceopathic Hospital, Eastern District Hospital, Eye and Ear Infirmary, the Novelty, Grand, Bedford, Amphion and Lee Avenue theatres, Christ Episcopal church, St. Paul's Episcopal church, St. Mark's Episcopal church, St. Peter's and Paul's Roman Catholic church, Bedford Avenue M. E. church, African M. E. church, Dr. Well's Presbyterian church, and two Lutheran churches.

Assistant Foreman JOHN A. TRAVIS was born in Brooklyn on July 15, 1853, was made a fireman on March 2, 1885, and advanced to the rank of Assistant Foreman July 1, 1891.

Engineer GEORGE M. WILLETS was born in Brooklyn in 1854, and became a member of the uniformed force on Jan. 24, 1887.

Driver THOMAS F. MAIN was born in New York on Oct. 4, 1858 ; he became a fireman Jan. 12, 1882, and was promoted to driver on June 16, 1885.

WTLLIAM THOMAS SYLVESTER CANNING was born in Brooklyn on New Year s Day, 1661, and he has been a member of the Brooklyn Department since April 2, 1885.

FRANCIS SMITH JOSEPH O'Brien was born in Brooklyn on Oct. 30, 1849, and he has been a fireman since Sept. 15, 1876

JOHN SYLVESTER CARNEY is a native of Brooklyn, and was born Feb. 10, 1854. He was appointed Jan. 30, 1882.

CHRISTOPHER S. LEAVY was born in New York on Sept. 7, 1843, and his connection with the Fire Department began on May 4, 1871.

DAVID J. RYAN is a Brooklynite, and he was born on Dec. 25, 1862. He has been a member of Engine No. 21 since he was appointed on Dec. 14, 1885.

JAMES THOMAS GEATONS was born on Feb. 9, 1866, in Brooklyn, and has been a fireman since Aug. 1, 1889.

RICHARD HAROLD BROWN was also born in Brooklyn, Nov. 20, 1867. He is comparatively a new man in the business, having been appointed on Aug. 11, 1891.

JOHN STRIFFLER is also a new man in the service. He was born in New York City on Oct. 9, 1865, and was appointed to the force on March 23, 1891.

NAPOLEON DUCHARME hails from West Troy, N. Y., in which town he was born. He has been a member of this company since he was appointed to the uniformed force, on March 12, 1892.

Following are a few of the fires to which the company have been summoned on first, second and third alarms, and where they have done credit to themselves as well as the Department: Pratt's oil works, the Commercial Street sugar house, the North Seventh Street sugar house, Pahmer's cooperage, the Nostrand Avenue and Park Avenue flat-house fires, Hover's glass house, Church's soda works, the Bushwick glass works, Young's bagging factory, Furman Street stores, the Agricultural Works, and Contractor Clark's stables, where one hundred mules were roasted alive.