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They had the power to levy fines of three guilders on householders for chimneys that were deemed unsafe, and the proceeds served to finance another part of Stuyvesant's fire strategy, the purchase "DISCREET, of hooks, ladders, and buckets. SOBER MEN" Still, the unruly city did not respond in the manner the director general demanded. Stuyvesant was a battle-scarred veteran of the New World's wars of conquest who had lost a leg in battle and whose peg leg 18 bore witness to his bravery and sense of duty.
In keeping with the new nation's spirit of democracy and republicanism, New York fire companies elected their own foremen, rather than allow the council to appoint them. This led to the creation of what Lowell W Limpus, a historian of the Fire Department, called a "miniature republic" within the ranks of the city's firemen. The phrase is only a slight exaggeration. As the Department grew, it would come to regard itself as a force separate and apart not only from the everyday citizenry but also from the city's political leaders.
On matters of fire prevention and public safety, Stuyvesant made it clear that the values of marketplace and property rights alone would not rule this intensely mercantile city. Stuyvesant was under no illusions that the hard-drinking, hard-living, slothful population would improve their habits simply because they were requested to do so. So in 1648 he appointed four "firemasters" who were empowered to make sure the laws were being followed. In a bow to the city's diverse population—at least by seventeenth-century standards—two of the firemasters were Dutch, representing New Amsterdam's founding population, and two were English, part of the colony's more recent influx.
