CITY & VICINITY
PROPOSED CHANGE IN THE FIRE ALARM SYSTEM.
The fire commissioners are considering plans submitted by Superintendent Smith of the fire telegraph bureau for the sending of alarms from headquarters to districts. At present, when one alarm is rung it is repeated in every engine and truck house from the Battery to Fordham. President Van Cott stated that eighteen fires had occurred in the forty-eight hours previous to 8 A. M. Monday, and several of the fires were large enough to make extra alarms necessary. He said:
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