NEW YORK FIRE GOSSIP.

NEW YORK FIRE GOSSIP.

The firemen of the borough of Brooklyn are being put through a course of training as life-savers, under the guidance of Henry W. McAdams, chief instructor of this city’s fire department. Crowds assemble daily to witness the scaling ladder and other drill. So far the Brooklyn men, some 800 in all, have done very well. Any, however, that are likely to prove chronically nervous will never be put to that, but to other work. After Brooklyn comes the First ward of the borough of Queens, the old Long Island City, whose firemen will be subjected to the same course.—Fire Commissioner Scannell has just made the following three promotions of men in the department of the borough of Manhattan, who had won them by bravery at fires by such methods as have been described: Assistant Fireman Mattnew Hicks of engine company No. 41 was made fireman of engine company N0.29 in Chambers street; Assistant Fireman Joseph O’Grady, of company No. 49, was advanced to fireman of company No. 36 in Park avenue, and Samuel E Poling, of company ND. 51, was made assistant fireman of engine company No. 32.—John Delmar, of the borough of Brooklyn, a man well known in Democratic political circles, and a member of the Volunteer Fire Veterans of Brooklyn,died of blood poisoning.—Other promotions by Fire Commissioner Scannell are as follows: Lieutenant Thomas F. Skelly, of hook and ladder No. 7, to the captaincy of hook and ladder No. 4, located at Forty-eighth street and Eighth avenue, and John D. Conlin, fireman of engine company No. 21. to a lieutenancy in engine company No. 1.—Probably few even of the residents in Amsterdam avenue, or even West End avenue, in the borough of Manhattan, know of the existence of a village of eight dilapidated shanties hidden behind a tall fence all covered with posters between Sixty-first and Sixty-second street,on the west side of the Boulevard,and tracing back to the days when that was the road leading to the village of Bloomingdale The entrance to it is hard to find, and the place is called the

太阳在村子里了。”这是一个陌生人到所有这些模式rn improvements as gas or water mains and, to guard against a fire (which no insurance office will insure against), pails of water are kept handy in the "principal streets,” and the villagers form a bucket brigade. Their preparaiions were tested the other night, when the shanty of a butcher and his family took fire. The cause of the blaze was a "harmless necessary cat” which had jumped on the table, and purringly rubbed herself against a kerosene lamp. In her demonstrative warmth she knocked the lamp over soon after midnight and set fire to the furniture. The blaze was discovered by a neighbor and. on the alarm being given, the bucket brigade was up and doing. It had the fire out before the fire department arrived, with a loss of but $10.