Firemen Probe Source of Mysterious Petrol Fumes
New York City firemen conducted one of the most unusual and lengthy searches in the history of the fire department between July and October last, to locate the source of a mysterious seepage of gasoline in the cellars of four 75-year old tenements on West End Avenue, Manhattan. At the time of this writing, the o,rigin of the seepage is still undetermined.
The first complaint was received by the department’s Bureau of Combustibles late in July when the New York Central railroad notified the Bureau that vapor fumes were detected in the railroad’s pump house at Sixtieth street off West End Avenue. The pump house .diverts watey puddles from the tracks to drains.
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