New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-25
The News Of Brooklyn
BRAVE DEEDS RECORDED.
ANN1rA1, REPORT OF THE FIRE DEPART
MENT ABOUT READY
SOME OF THE ANNOUNCEMENTS WHICH - "''''
CONVENTIONAL NUMBER OF FIRE ALARMS
A.. nm AMI THE loss

soArT, OF THE ANNOUNCEMENTS WHICH 1T WILL
c,oxrA,S-rorAL NUMBER OF FIRE ALARMS
GIVEN AS 1888. AND THE LOSS
PUT AT sI42ose4.
II 4. probable that the end OF the present
week will witness the Issuing or the annual
port Of Brookyn's Fire Department 'ne ia'' VI
the material for this volume having pee" p'"'eN
In the hands Of the printer by secretary w. ~
Moore The report will be one or the HoS' eo."
prehensive, and. for various reasons one Vi t"e
most interesting ever published In the CITY us
to+o,s which will be the first statistics to be
scanned bv the average reader. give the total
number of fire alarms for the last year as l,S5S.
or these sixty-four were false. but the nfes
caused a loss of 81. 42OS64 over one-half OF TINS
sum, or s72419O on buildings ana VesSei9'
the remainder, s696,674. being on the contents Oh
the buildings The ratio of loss to the insurance
was 1890 per cent and the loss per capita 81 ~
The average loss at the fires was 80" V''
Only two fires reached loss exceeding slooooo;
ono exceeded s125 600 one $4,000 five $4,000. five
$4,000. nine $4,000. and twenty-one $1,000 On
the others the loss was small, IN no instance "a
ceeding $1,000.
The amount OF insurance on vessels ana ouiId-
ings burned was s5SS1.51 The contents were
insured to the extent CT s-oJu,'ol. III ''' 90 WV
al the time of the report We're thrty-seven steam
fire engines two fire boats, forty-three nose
wagons and tenders. two hook and ladder trucks.
eight coal wagons. and lOi portable fire eXtin-
guishers all in good working order. In reserve
were seven engines. three hook and ladder trucks
twenty-one hose wagons and twenty-five portable
ex;ingushers
CONSIDERABLE BUILDING DONE.
In the course of the year as is indicated by the
report. considerable building has been going on
throughout the department. Engine Company
NO has been transferred to new quarters In
Monroe-st.. near Nostrand-ave. No. 81. in Nor
gan-ave near Grattan-st.; No 80. in Norman
ave. near Diamond-st, and No. 80. In Fourth
ave. near sixth-st. The new engine houses are
much superior to the old ones. not only being or
modern construction. but being more commodious
and affording better accommodations 10 hremen
Considerable satisfaction is expressed regard
ing the new water tower which was put into SER
vice on May q. The total credit Of the Fire
mems Insurance Fund Is given as S2li.OSs 80. OF
this $4,000 has been invested in bonds and
mortgage. There is no complete statement in
the report OF the number OF lives lost at fires.
as all OF the statistics in this respect do not
under the attention Of the Fire Department.
many such fatalities taking place under circum-
stances in which no alarm was sent out.
roll Of honor consisting OF the names Of fire
men who have saved lives at the risk OF their
own Is published together with a brief recapt
ulation Of the circumstances attending these in
cidents The list is not brought up 10 date.
however. az the report itself ends too carly fCr
this purpose.
SOME OF THE NAMES
!,
of Foreman Peter Campbell. his assistant. John
iIofarth and Firemcn William Decker and d.
NJ Delamater. Of Hook and Ladder Company 80.
:. These men rescued a Mrs. Nolan and Ler
child from the second floor * burning building
at no. $50 Bushwck-ayc on December H. 1894
on February 5. IT !s said. Fireman John Mul-
lady. a, great personal risk took Mrs. Ella Dunn.
woman elghty-four years old. from the
fourth floor Of 40. I22 Tlatbush-ave.. just Is she
was succumbing TO SMOKE. Four days later, at
Nos 2G2 ana 26l Bushwick-aNc., Assistant Fore
man NaischEc. OF Hook and Ladder Company
No. s. carried Mrs Joseph Keller. whom he found
lying Unconscious on tne third floor % the sec-
ond-named building. 10 a ladder. down which
she was helped by Firemcn Craft and Ferndd.
OF the same COMPANY.
The valOrOus performance II Fireman Henry J.
Kirk at the fire at Arbuckles coffee factory,
John and jay SITS. receives extensive mention
on this occasion Kirk scaled an eighty -iive-foot
der, down which five men on the eighth floor
who previously had been threatened with "A
spt edy and terrible death. clambered In safety
For this and an almost equally hazardous feat
accomplished later. Kirk promoted 10 an
assistant foremanshp in Engine Company NO
rs. by Commissioner William G. Bryant this be-
ing the first time Brooklyn fireman had been
advanced for this reason in accordance with the
act passed by the Legislature in 1893.
The names Of an entire company. Hook and
Ladder No. 4. are printed in conjunction with the
rescue OF six persons from the buildings at No.
437 and 439 Reid-ave on March IL. Following this
old from the third story OF No. 259 McDonough-
St.. by Frank l.. Woods. OF Hook and Ladder
Company No. IL. As a result Of the injuries he
received on this occasion. Woods was obliged TO
spend several months In hospital. from which
he dismissed only recently
SIX PERSONS SAVED
The act Of Foreman Freel. Assistant Foreman
Blxby and Firemen Reilly and Flannery Of Hook
and Ladder Company No. g. in conveying six
persons out Of a burning building at No pol
Monroe-st on May Is Is warmly commended, as
IS also that OF Flremen Pryor and Reilly. Of No.
2S: John Judge. Of No. u: Foreman Cleary and
Fireman Lynch. of Engine No. Is. who saved
four persons fire at Nos "a and 90 Place-st.
on August 26.
other names mentioned In connection with
acts Of especial bravery are those OF Assistant
Foreman Fitzgerald and Firemen GeiZer Calvin.
Madigan and chatwOrth. OF Engine Company
No. 80; Fireman William O'Brien. Of Engine
Company No. 81 Foreman Henry Keighler. AS
sistant Foreman John McKcnna Hook and Lad
der Company No. 4; District Engineer David
kirkpatrick. the members Of Hook and Ladder
Company No. IL. Hook and Ladder Company
No. Z. and Hook and Ladder Company No. IL.
The ladders rescued ten persons at n fire at No.
so Halsey-st. on November %