NEW YORK FIRE GOSSIP.

NEW YORK FIRE GOSSIP.

WHAT with Christmas tree and other small fires, the end of 1895 and the beginning of 1896 saw New York’s firemen kept constantly on the jump. One at No. 21 Monroe street was apparently incendiary, and had been started in the hall letterboxes. It was soon extinguished. An ash barrel at No. 15 Park avenue, a defective flue in a tenement house at No. 119 Third avenue, and an unknown cause at the two-story brick factory of Morris I.ichtman, No. 134 Norfolk street, were responsible for small fires, while $2,000 worth of damage was done to the 5-story building, No. 22 I’ark Place, occupied by Hock & Co., tobacconists, and A. If. Green & Co., wooden boxes, by a brisk early morning fire. The most serious fire between midnight on Jannary I, and the same hour on January 2, was that at Robitzek .Brothers, on One Hundred and Thirty-sixth street and Rider avenue, where the damage amounted to $5,000. The other fires during that time were as follows:

No. 467 E. Houston street—3100; Fulton and West streets—$50; 221 East Thirty-fourth street—Borden Milk Company—no damage; 170 Mont'oe street—Benjamin Cohen —damage slight; 441 West Fifty-seventh street—John Keller —tenement, $75; 736 Madison avenue—Samuel Regenberg— flat, $100; 58 Cannon street—Abraham Walterman—tenement —damage trifling; 208 West Seventeenth street—Joseph Fefter—damage trifling; 227 least One Hundred and Fifteenth street—John Martin—$50; — No. 361 West Fiftyfirst street—Hyman Orgs, flat—no damage.