Cables and Girders branded 550 fire horses in service

550 fire horses in service in New York's fire department in 1911

with runaway speed

000 wild horses spread over 10 states

tourism has collapsed

This new book substantially expands on that work

Cables and Girders branded 550 fire horses in service"A cordon of police reserves was posted in and near Times Square to protect the spectators of a giant feat," The Times wrote in 1926. "A modern Hercules, steam in his nostrils and steel in his muscles, was lifting an unprecedented height and an unprecedented weight, so far as building operations go. A truss 144 tons heavy was being hosted with groans and snots to its place over the auditorium of the new Paramount Building at Forty third Street and