BOSTON PROTECTIVE DEPARTMENT.

BOSTON PROTECTIVE DEPARTMENT.

In writing up matters connected with fire service, it is too much the custom to devote the whole attention of the reader to the fire departments themselves, without taking any notice, or giving at best the briefest notice to the protective departments, which form a conspicuous feature in so many of our large cities such as New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston, Worcester and others. Yet these departments play a very important part in salving property, often in extinguishing incipient tires and saving life. As, however, the same glamor, does not attach to their work, they have too often to take a lower place in the eyes of the multitude, which neglects to take into consideration the fact that, while even in great cities, except on extraordinary occasions, only a comparatively small number of the firemen are called out to fires, the members of the fire patrol, being much fewer in number and located in much fewer and more scattered districts, are much more frequently called out to work and have to cover a much greater space than their brethren of the fire departments. Of these protective departments Boston has one under the command of Samuel Abbott, jr., that will fairly take rank with any other in the country, and it has quite its share of work to do, too, as the following report of what it did during last March will show. The alarms it answered were as follows: Bell alarms, 132; still alarms, thirty-five; automatic alarms, twelve; extinguished by occupants — total alarms, 199; sprinkler calls, three; marine, two. It performed duty in March as follows; hours for duty, 151.51; hours watch duty, 205.17; extra duty, 8.02; covers spread, 159; extra covers; roof covers, twentyeight; extinguishers, eight. The following tells of insurance and loss: Insurance on buildings, $1,016,303.44; loss on buildings, $39,602.96; loss on buildings not insured, $1,801.37; insurance on. contents, $472,817.26; loss on contents, $40,349.22; loss on contents not insured, $2,582.08—total insurance, $1,489,120.70: total loss, $84,535.63; insurance on rents, $2,500; loss on rents, $92; sprinkler insurance, none; sprinkler loss, none; marine insurance, unknown; marine insurance, loss unsettled. Comparison of losses on buildings and contents for the month of March: Buildings—

Motion for a new trial filed by Charles * adigan, plaintiff, vs. the City of Newark, Ohio, and others, in which the Circuit court sustained the judgment of the Common Pleas court in dissolving the injunction restraining the sale of the $350,000 waterworks bonds.