FIRE INTERRUPTS ANNUAL PARADE.
Chief James Ross, of New Rochelle, had a lively experience with his department the other evening when a $20,000 blaze interrupted the annual parade, so that it lasted beyond midnight, when the program provided that it should end several hours earlier. The men and apparatus were in readiness for the turn-out when an alarm brought the department to Grand street, where a frame building, containing a quantity of gasolene, was stored. An explosion followed, which demolished the structure and set fire to the houses adjoining, four of which were completely wiped out at a loss of $20,000. In two hours after the fire the parade started, and. as stated above, was not concluded until after midnight. The uniforms of the men and handsome decorations of the apparatus suffered somewhat from the active work at the fire; hut, nothing daunted, the long line was formed, and one of the most creditable displays made by the New Rochelle department was carried out to the letter.
纽约论坛报最近表明，在布鲁斯特（Brewster），在克罗顿（Croton）流域，水处于令人恶心的污染状态，而滋扰者抱怨，包括在纽约市的水中洗涤和涂抹污垢的底衣服，都承诺not on private property, but “on the city’s own land by men who are doing work for the city!” The Tribune commenting editorially on the subject and the proposed installation of a filtration plant at Scarsdale, says: “Judging by what is going on at Brewster and elsewhere, we have no hesitation in saying it is needed—unless there can be a radical filtration, cleansing, purification and Pasteurisation of the office of the commissioner of water supply.”
