NEW YORK FIRE DEPARTMENT.

NEW YORK FIRE DEPARTMENT.

The Work Accomplished by it in Twelve Months.

在1901年，纽约消防局，包括曼哈顿，布朗克斯区和里士满的自治市镇，收到了3,319次火灾警报，比上一年增加了32辆，保险损失少300,000美元。在这些警报中，有1,865个是第一个警报；九十三，第二；三十五，第三；十四，第四；358，仍然；590，口头；八十五，公司特别；八，特殊的保险巡逻；271，用于救护车。 From street boxes there were 1,660 alarms; from private signal boxes, forty-eight; from telephone, 299. Sixty-three additional fire alarm boxes were installed during the year—making a total of 1,293 boxes on thirty-two circuits as follows: Class 1, 801; class 2, 254; class 3, 216; class 4, twenty-two. There are now 932.0296 miles of electrical conductors in operation; 6.9227 miles of wire were used for extensions; 48.4217. for repairs; 4.2239 miles were removed. The department owns and uses 3,418 poles, including 1.336. the property of the department and the New York and New Jersey Telephone company; eighteen poles were removed: and seventy-nine, reset. Of messages 111,126 were received, and 118,361 were transmitted—a total of 229,487. The personnel is divided as follows: At Headquarters—Commissioner; secretary; assistant secretary; bookkeeper; purchasing agent; contract clerk; cashier; draughtsman and mapmaker; assistant stockeeper; engineer; medical officers, three; clerks, three; stokers, three; drivers, two; watchmen, etc., ten—total, thirty-four. Bureau of chief of department—Chief; deputy chiefs, three; chiefs of battalion, sixteen; chief instructor; chief of construction and repairs to apparatus; foremen (captains), 104; assistant foremen (lieutenants), 116; engineers of steamers, 168; firemen, 1464, as follows—first-grade, 632; second-grade, 121; thirdgrade, 132; fourth-grade, 128; probationary, fortyone. Non-uniformed force—Pilots, five; marine engineers, five; stokers, nineteen—total, twenty-nine; electrical force, four. Bureau of combustibles—inspector. etc., nineteen. Bureau of fire marshal—firemarshal, assistants, clerical force, etc., eleven. Fire alarm telegraph branch—chief operator, operators and assistant operators, eleven, clerks and technical workers—total, forty-three. Repair shops, foreman, machinists, etc., seventy-seven—total, seventy-eight Building superintendent’s branch—superintendent and assistant, other employes, eight—total, ten. Hospital and training stables—trainers and drivers, two; other employes, nine—total, eleven. Grand total, 1,716. In Manhattan and the Bronx the force numbers 1,464 officers, engineers, and firemen of all grades, including probationers. The-fire-extinguishing force is as follows: Engine companies, including three fireboats (the New Yorker, the Robert A. Van Wyck—now the W. L. Strong—and the Zophar Mills), seventy-five; hook and ladder companies, twenty-five, eight being double companies. Two companies are also equipped with searchlight engines, and three with water towers. The average number of officers and men in single companies below Fifty-ninth street is fourteen; above that street, twelve; in single companies having water towers the average number is eighteen. The use of solid rubber tires has greatly lightened the wear and tear on the apparatus, and has, besides, added greatly to the comfort of the men. It is hoped every piece of apparatus will be so equipped. During 1901 hook and ladder company No. 23 and engine company No. 74 were organised and equipped with a fire engine and hose wagon and hook and ladder truck respectively. These were stationed in the West Side residential district. In West Thirty-third street, also, a new hook and ladder company was equipped, besides, with an electrical searchlight engine and water tower. On Christmas Day, engine company No. 75 was organised and placed at One Hundred and Eighty-third street and Jerome avenue, borough of the Bronx, and equipped with a steam fire engine, hose wagon, and hook and ladder truck. The following is the list of the equipment of the fire department of Greater New York: