MILESTONES: October 19, birthdays for Lil Durk, Jose Bautista, Evander Holyfield
ON THIS DAY IN 1877, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “One of Chester’s Patent Fire Alarm Telegraph instruments has been placed in the office of the Eagle establishment. It is the first one of the kind put up in this city, and it works admirably. The simplicity of its construction makes danger of disorder very small. In a few weeks the Fire Commissioners expect to have these instruments throughout Brooklyn. Should any one of our neighbors desire to send out an alarm, they can do so, either day or night, from the Eagle office.”
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ON THIS DAY IN 1894, the Eagle reported, “Ex-Mayor Samuel Booth died this morning at his home on South Portland Avenue. The end came peacefully after a long illness. The sturdy figure and strong English face of ex-Mayor Samuel Booth has not been as familiar about the city recently as it formerly was, but the news of his death will cause a shock among a wide circle of citizens who knew him as a friend and a yet wider circle of men who respected and honored him as an upright official of a sort which has passed away with the growth of Brooklyn into a great cosmopolitan city.”