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On January 6, 1915, an electrical short in a manhole started a fire that filled the subway line under Broadway at West 55th Street with smoke, resulting in chaos for a quarter-million commuters. The New York Times reported that one person, Ella Grady, was killed. We note that photographer George Grantham Bain, like many of us writing checks just after January 1, was a year off in dating this photo. View full size. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. From this source. www.shorpy.com/node/1805

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The parade was for the unveiling of the Fireman's memorial on the site at 100th Street and Riverside Drive, and on Sept. 5, 1913, 10,000 people assembled for the unveiling. Four girls -- Margaret Dow, 10, May Boyne, 12, Florence Walsh, 11, and Mary Connolly, 10 -- took down two large United States flags that covered the monument. All four were daughters of firemen killed in the line of duty.

The unveiling of the memorial was a national event, which attracted delegations of visiting firemen from all over the U.S.

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