GREATER NEW YORK FIRE GOSSIP

GREATER NEW YORK FIRE GOSSIP

火灾报警盒speci绿色警察ally for their use at the station houses, so that they may be properly instructed as to how to open them. They are to be taught that a key and not a meat axe is to be used for that purpose. This in answer to Chief Bonner’s request.—The letter box fire fiend is again in evidence—of course, in Harlem.—Chief Bonner has been ordered by the fire board to arrange for the annual parade drill and exhibition in Union square on the twentyseventh instant, on which occasion an alarm will be turned in by Mayor Strong and the firemen will give an exhibition drill. The mayor will also present the Bennett and Stephenson medals and likewise that which he has promised to the fireman who makes one ol tlie best rescues of the year. The department is glad at the lesumption of the parade and drill, which fell through last year.—A drunken Ohio militiaman was fished out of the East liver at the foot of Grand street by Foreman McGuinness, of the tireboat Havcmeyer, assisted by Firemen Lyons and Preston.—Several promotions of firemen to higher grades were made last week, and three assistant firemen, one engineer.and six firemen retired on pension. Of these Assistant Foreman Murphy, who has served twenty-seven years, was retired at his own request indorsed by Chief Bonner.— On Saturday afternoon the closing exercises of the Brooklyn Horse show were diversified by an exhibition given by four engine crews of the borough’s department which showed the command the men had over their horses and their skill in handling the apparatus. The engine companies engagtd were No’s. 13, 26. 40, and 39. which were called upon at a signal from the gong to harness up and drive round the arena within a very limited space bounded by the railing ana two posts outside. Michael Connely the driver ol engine 13 made the quickest lime and the crew ibe best appearance and in con sequence received the first prize of $25. Engine twenty-six took the second prize of $10; and engine forty was third. The horses were all eager to get away, but experienced some difficulty in starting off from their halting peace on the soft tanbark. Especially excited were the animals under the control of the driver of No. 39; so much so, indeed, that they once ran beyond their harness and then got badly tangled up. When they were at last fairly off, however, they showed what mettle they were of. The exhibition called forth rounds of applause from the lookers-on and Fire Commissioner Hyant. who was present, could not but have been proud both of his men and their horses.— The following bids were opened by the fire commissioners for repairs, etc., to the fircboat Zophar Mills; W.&A. F'letcher Company, Hoboken, N.J., $12,995; Heipershausen Bros., $12,975; James Trigothen, $14,939. Those for the new lireboat were in excess of the appropriation. They were two in number, one from John H. Dialogue & Son, Camden, N J.; another from Brown & Miller, Jersey City, $58.490.—If twelve year-old Harry Fields is the firebug who has three times tried to burn the flathouse 623 Amsterdam avenue, he should be treated to a course of breai’ and water, solitary confinement, and periodical whippings for a fixed period. That would rob his escapades of whatever romance he and his companions imagine surrounds them. Failing that, the reformatory till he is of age is the place for him.—Incendiarism evinces a tendency to break out again on the West Side above Fifty-ninth street.

An early morning fire in the cellar of a four-story brick building at North Fourteenth street and the East River, borough of Brooklyn, owned by the Standard Oil Company and occupied as a tin factory, burned so fiercely for some hours as to endanger the big plant of the Pratt Oil works. Four alarms were turned in and the flames were confined to the place of origin. Loss, $30,000.