NEW YORK FIRE GOSSIP.

NEW YORK FIRE GOSSIP.

如何提供引擎公司61年statione呢d at Morris Park, during the fall racing season, is a problem whose solution seems to lie in the building of a wooden shed next to the old house in West Chester.— The annual parade of the fire department is no longer a possibility.—Fireman Frederick W. Gooderson of engine company 34, has been appointed as acting chief of the Thirteenth battalion in the place of Chief William Rowe, resigned.—Assistant Foreman Gustav Nagle, of engine company 50, has been retired on a pension of $900 a year.—Plans for the new engine house to be built in Forty-third street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues,have been received.—Chief Bonner looks upon the high hoardings used by the bill posting contractors as dangerous from a fire department point of view.—The recent apparently trivial blaze in the office of Assistant Corporation Counsel Olendorf in the Staats Zeitung building destroyed maps, data, and testimony taken in the matter of the property condemned for the new Third avenue bridge. Fort Washington park, and St. Nicholas park. Quite a pile of valuable memoranda that will be hard to duplicate was also burned. The maps can be replaced. Deputy Fire-Marshal Sullivan made an investigation as to the couse of the blaze, and he is of the opinion that careless cleaners were to blame.— Schoenholz, the “firebug mechanic,” now serving a fortyeight years’ sentence in Sing Sing prison, will be a witness against Isaac Zucker, who is out on $15,000 bail under indictment for the crime of setting fire with Schoenholz, to the apartments' at 264 Division street, on January 4, 1894, another fire being set, also by Schoenholz. at 262 in the same street—Max Blum’s—on the same night. Schoenholz has just admitted that he spilled oil on the floor of Zucker’s house, on a part of the floor next to the partition separating the two houses, and then set a burning candle on the oil. The firebug made the confession voluntarily in the office of the district attorney, and had no promise (whatever hope he may entertain) of a remission of his sentence for so doing held out to him. —Chief Cashman has been thirty years in the fire department. The event will be duly celebrated this evening by the members of the battalion and his friends. — The chief addition to the estimate for next year’s appropriation to the fire department was $50,000 fcr a fireboat on the Ilarlem. This Chief Bonner, together with President Sheffield, of the board of fire commissioners, in vain urged before the mayor and board of apportionment at the City hall.—The Bennett and Stevenson medals will .be presented to the selected firemen at headquarters-as there will be neither parade nor exhibitions of life-saving drill this year. Mayor Strong dispensing with both, nominally on account of the lateness of the season and the political excitement. In any case the fire commissioners have decided to dispense with exhibitions by the life-saving corps of the department on the occasion of visits of prominent persons to the city. At an exhibition at headquarters a year ago one of the firemen jumped from a third story window and broke his back. The commissioners have decided that these exhibitions are dangerous and should be attempted only when the saving of life is in order.—The officers of the Retired Firemen’s Association for the ensuing year are as follows:—President, James F. Taylor, formerly engineer of engine No. 13; vice-president, Charles Chambers, formerly foreman of engine No 49; treasurer, John W. Miller, ex-chief of the Fourth battalion; secretary, Charles Hopper, formerly lieutenant of engine No. 32; and sergeant-at-arms, Peter Gallagher, formerly of engine No. 60.

A fire started by a mischievous small boy’s throwing lighted matches down the airshaft of the apartment house 340 West Fifty-ninth street into a pot of grease looked so threatening as to cause Battalion Chief Gicquel to send in a second alarm. The blaze, which was a stubborn one and cost $4,000, gave two of the firemen an opportunity for keeping up the credit of the department for bravery. Lieutenant Beggan, Chief Bonner's aide (belonging to hook and ladder company 16) at headquarters, lives on the same street and near the scene of the fire. He was on his vacation, but on seeing the fire and that Mr. and Mrs. Mueller were cut of! by the flames and in danger of death, ran through the building next door to the fourth floor, got out of the window and stood on the lintel with Captain Cartwright, of hook and ladder company 4, by his side. Beggan reached over to where Mr. and Mrs. Mueller stood at their fourth-story window and handed them one after the other to Cartwright,who in his turn carried them to a place of safety. Several other women were rescued, including some actresses. The upper stories in the rear of the house were badlv wrecked.