新的你K DEPARTMENT REPORT.

新的你K DEPARTMENT REPORT.

WE announced some time since that the annual report of the New York Fire Commissioners had been forwarded to the Mayor, and at that time gave a very brief abstract of some of its most salient features. It has since been printed in the City Record, and makes a most admirable showing for the department. The work of preparing this admirable compilation falls mainly upon the shoulders of Colonel Carl Jusscn, the able secretary of the board, whose familiarity with the details of the department and whose taste for statistics render him especially fitted for it. The following abstract of the report, which we find in The Commercial Bulletin, covers the essential features so completely that we give it entire:

“ During 1883 the department responded to 2364 alarms, of which 2169 were for actual fires. Of these 2169 fires, 1353 were extinguished in their inception by buckets of water, etc., 476 by the stream from one engine, 245 by two or three engines, and 95 required the service of more than three engines. The seven largest fires of the year were the following: Inman Steamship pier, loss, $391 000, on February 1 ; May 29, cotton storage store, Nos. 12 and 14 Desbrosses street, loss, $106,000; July 22, printing establishment, Nos. 17 to 27 Vandewater street, etc., loss, $76,800; September 18, mercantile establishment, Nos. 537 and 539 Broadway, loss, $435,721 ; November .29, Windsor Theatre, Bowery and Chrystie street, loss, $119,609; December 1, Masonic Temple, Twenty-third street, loss, $79,700 ; December 14, Standard Theatre, Nos. 1283 and 1285 Broadway, loss, $50,800. Respecting the fire on the Inman pier, the report says that the rapid destruction of the shed proved that its faulty construction gave the firemen no chance to stay the progress of the fire. This experience led the authorized parties to require that all such structures on the piers should be covered with wire netting and plastered on the inside, or be filled in with terra-cotta or equally good fireproofing material, and that similar precautions should be applied to ceilings and partitions.