FIRE AND WATER

FIRE AND WATER

FIRE AND WATER wishes all its many friends and patrons a happy New Year, with the added hope that 1897 may bring them increased prosperity not only in their business affairs, but also in their homes. As to the future of this journal, its conductors can safely promise that there shall be no going back in their determination to keep up its present high reputation, and to raise that reputation to a still higher plane of excellence. Year by year FIRE AND WATER has shown itself to be in every sense of the word an up-to-date and progressive publication, and 1897 shall prove to be no exception to the rule,

EANWHILE the citizens of New York would lik-e to know whether or not the fire alarm box was defective in the case of the fatal Goldsmith fire'at 514 East Fifty-eighth street.