NEW YORK FIRE GOSSIP.
Another instance of the sufficiency of the Veteran act to keep men in office who are appointed under its provisions is that of Alonzo Brymer, who was removed from the office of fue marshal for the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens by Fire Commissioner Scannell. Mr Brymer has just been declared illegally removed by the Appellate division of the Supreme court. His title to the office is established by the above act, according to the decision of the court, and there is no appeal from it—the entire couit concurring. This declares John M >rr.*sey Gray uncle of Councilman John J. Mi Garry, who succeeded the latter as leader of the Tenth ward and F. gbth Assembly district, Brooklyn, not legally appointed, and he will be obliged to surrender the office to Mr. Ifrymer. Judge Hatch wrote the opinion, and he says:
By an amendment adopted in 1892, this law was amended (Laws of 1892, chapter 445), wherein it was provided that such fire marshal shall rank as a member of the uniformed force of the department of fire,and shall lie entitled to all the privileges and immunities thereof. * * But he was subject to removal oil y after trial and foi cause. Under the Greater New York ch .iter, the members of the uniformed force of the old city of Brooklyn were to be made members of the fire department of the new city, with the same rank as nearly as practicable.
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