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最高法院决定，在合并之前，布鲁克林消防员有权被纳入纽约消防部门的成绩，他们在合并时被纳入布鲁克林。大纽约市的当局拒绝授予这一点。决定将导致大量布鲁克林消防员在整合以来，纽约消防员曾经看过纽约消防队，并且将花费城市为未来支付的大笔支付和额外支付.-这座城市的工程师和消防员将在夏季的夏季磨损期间佩戴的磨损与挡土机上的消防员佩戴相同的暗蓝色布帽。The officers’ headdress will be a dark drab felt hat, with a band of drab silk ribbon and the insignia of their rank in front—The offices of the Montauk Multiphase Cable company are now on the nineteenth, instead of the eighteenth floor of the American Surety building, 100 Broadway, N. Y.— Some one was wrong. A judge in the City court has decided that the owners of apartment and tenement houses are not legally hound to keep the halls lighted by gas after 10 o’clock at night. If so, a law should be passed compelling them to do so.—The Appellate division of the Supreme court has unanimously reversed the decision of the special term of the Supreme court awarding to Carl Jussen, a peremptory writ of mandamus directing Fire Commissioner John J. Scannell to re-instate him to his former position as secretary of the fire department. The court took the ground that the position in question was solely a confidential one, and, therefore, within the exception of the Veteran act, prohibiting removals except after a hearing upon charges—The fire department has ordered the owners of buildings nine stories high and over 100 feet in height, to introduce standpipes with connections. About 400 buildings come under the law. If there is an elevator in the building a man must have charge of it day and night. Sundays and holidays. Buildings more than 150 feet high must have one elevator ready for use by the fire department at all times The standpipe required must be four inches in diameter. For buildings 150 feel high a six-inch standpipe and a steam pump must be provided. These standpipes must have three-inch Siamese street, connections and two and one-half-inch outlets, with hose attached on the floors In buildings over nine stories high already provided with a three-inch standpipe no change need be made.
Henderson & Co., of Eleventh and Race streets, Philadelphia, have just furnished the Liberty Centre, Ohio, fire department with thirty-five uniforms, and that of Honey Grove, Tex., with thirty. Philadelphia, N. Y. has also sent an order for twenty suits.
