NEW YORK NEEDS MORE FIRE APPARATUS.

NEW YORK NEEDS MORE FIRE APPARATUS.

消防专员尼古拉斯·海斯（Nicholas J. Hayes）已向麦克莱伦市长和估计和分配委员会提交了计划，他要求拨款2,000,000美元，以建立许多新的引擎以及钩子和梯子和梯子。专员在他的申请中说，如果可能的话，应在一年内开始工作。首席克罗克（Croker）想要18家新的发动机公司以及18个新的钩子和梯子公司。酋长说，只有另外一辆发动机干燥一辆卡车。他说，在由前消防专员斯特吉斯（Sturgis）证明之前，他每年都组织了四到五家新公司，在整个Sturgis政权中，只有一家新公司，并且一家Fireboat Company已经组织了一家。新城市政府发现了两艘消防队，塞思·洛（Seth Low）和大卫·布迪（David A.对于塞思·洛（Seth Low）的维修费用，已经拨款了20,000美元，大卫·A·布迪（David A.在低级政府下购买的四个发动机已经被订购了。他们几乎总是在维修店里，他们所属的类型已经过时了。营酋长和队长很多。 The former were constantly crossing each other on their way to fires, and there were not enough of companies to go round for the captains. By redistricting the city, the surplus battalion chiefs are utilised as reliefs, and the captains have been doubled up temporarily till the absolutely and immediately needed additional fire protection is secured and the new fire houses built, with the requisite apparatus procured to be installed in them—ail of which will take at least a year. Ten new engine companies and twelve hook and ladder companies are needed for Manhattan and the Bronx, and eight engine companies and five hook and ladder companies for the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. Brooklyn also needs two new fireboats. The East Side of Manhattan and the Bronx abounds in tenement and apartment houses; the West in thickly settled apartment houses and institutions. On the East Side there is not a hook and ladder company between Twentyeighth street and Third avenue and Fiftieth street and Lexington avenue. There are no hook and ladder companies between Sixty-seventh street and Eighty-fifth streets or between Eighty-fifth and One Hundred and Twenty-fifth streets. There is not an engine company between Fortieth and Fiftieth streets or between Fiftieth and Sixty-seventh streets. On the West Side there are no hook and ladder companies between forty-eighth and Seventy-seventh streets, Seventy-seventh and Ninety-eighth streets, or Ninety-eighth and One Hundred and Fortieth streets. North of One Hundred and Fortieth street there is not another on this side of Spuyten Duyvil. There are no engines on the West Side between Fortyseventh and Fifty-eighth streets, Fifty-eighth and Sixty-eighth streets. F.ighty-fifth and One Hundred and Thirteenth streets. One Hundred and Thirteenth and One Hundred and Twenty-sixth streets, or One Hundred and Twenty-sixth and One Hundred and Fifty-fifth Streets. Between One Hundred and Twenty-sixth and One Hundred and Fifty-fifth streets is the steep Amsterdam avenue hill. Often apparatus has to get a lift to reach the top, taking a tow from the trolley cars. All the gaps mentioned are much too wide to be safe. In the Bronx conditions are even worse.

At Topeka. Kan., the Edison Electric Light company proposes to install at its own expense a pumping station, with a capacity of 1,000 gallons per minute— about 1,500,000 gallons a day—attach it to the city mains and furnish water’ in emergency cases in return for the privilege of laying a water main from a pumping station it proposes to establish at the foot of Van Buren street.