FIRE FIGHTING IN NEW YORK DURING 1898.
FIRE COMMISSIONER SCANNELL has caused to be published the report of the “operations and actions” of the fire department of the Greater New York during the year 1898. Since consolidation alterations have taken place in the administrative part of the department, but radical changes in the management of the force have been avoided. In the borough of Richmond and many parte of that of Queens the volunteer forces are still maintained under the supervision of the chief of the department. The management of the force in Brooklyn. being under the immediate supervision of a deputy commissioner, 1ms been brought into line with the management of the force in the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx, and the whole machinery of the fire-extinguishing force has been running without any apparent; friction. The report notices that the year 1898 was remarkably free from disastrous fires.
No great conflagration visited the American metropolis during that year, no great calamities, as will happen in spiteof the skill, watchfulness, and ordinary foresight of men, have startled this community in that period. The possibilities of danger always exist. The number of immensely high buildings increasing in this city, the fire department is trying to solve the problem of finding physical means to insure their safety.
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