The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-02-05
NEW. FIRE DISTRICTS
Where the Captains Will
Watch for Explosives
and Dangerous
Buildings.
PREPARED BY CHIEF DENMEAD
Commissioners Believe This Will
Lessen Disastrous Con-
fagrations.

At a recent meeting of the Board OF
Fire Commissioners a resolution was
passed by the Commissioners directing the
captains of all companies to report 10 the
Chief Engineer or, in his absence, 10 AS
slstant Chief Engineer the
erection or removal of any frame pulld-
ing. condition of fire MIGRANTS, and the
storage of combustibles.
The city has been divided into districts
which the captains are to cover. The duty
of performing this work fell to Assistant
Chief Denmead,s as Chief Conway is Ill
at his home.
The districts that will be covered and
thesnames of the different captains are as
follows {
District No. -Covered by Captain Muir
dock. all territory bounded north by cen
tire line of Pavonia avenue, east by the
Hudson River, south centre line of First
street and west by centre line of Grove
street.
District No. 2-AIl territory bounded
north by, centre fine of First street, east
by the Hudson River south by Morris
and Essex streets canal and basin, and
west by the centre line of Warren street.
DlSl1lCt 4NO. o-SoPtoiAA %NAA - =
Truck, all the territory boundedsnorth by
the centre line of First street, east by
the centre line of Warren street, south
by the Morris Canal and west by the CEN
ire line Of Henderson street.
District No. 4Captain Dingler, No. 8
Engine, all territory south of Morris
Canal, east of the centre line of Hender-
son street to First street, west along First
street to Grove street, south along centre
line of Grove street to Newark avenue,
west along entire line of Newark avenue
to Jersey avenue, and south along centre
line of Jersey avenue to Morris Canal.
District No. 1Captain Quackenbush of
| No. 4 Engine, all territory bounded north
! by the centre line of Newark avenue, east
| by the centre line of Jersey avenue, south
by Morris and Essex Canal and west by
| the centre line of Waldo avenue and line
| Of National Docks Railway to Morris
Canal.
District No. 6-Captain Watt, all terri
| tory. und north by the centre line of
| Pavonia avenue, east by the centre line
| of Grove street, south by the centre line
| of Newark avenue and west from line
! opposite Waldo avenue to Pavonia ave
nue..
District No. 7-Captain Harms, all ter
| ritory bounded north by the Hoboken city
line, east by the centre line of Grove
| street, south by the centre line of Pa
vonia avenue, west by the centre line of
Hoboken avenue and Palisade avenue to
PaVonia avenue.
District No. 8-Captain Newly, all ter
ritory bounded on the north by the Ho-
boken city line, east by the Hudson River,
| south by the centre line of Pavonia ave-
nue. and west by the centre line of Grove
| street.
District No. 9-Captain Sloan, all terri
tory bounded by the centre line of Sum-
nit avenue, Secaucus and Paterson Plank
road, Manhattan and Central avenues,
Franklin street and eastern limits of the
city.
territory bounded by the centre line of
Manhattan avenue, Summit avenue. Sc
caucus road and western boundary of the
city.
District No. 11-Captain Martin, all ter
Fitory bounded. commencing at the COR
ner of Central avenue and Franklin
street, through the centre line of Franklin
street to the eastern boundary of the city:
thence along the eastern boundary sof the
city to Hoboken avenue; thence along the
centre line of Hoboken avenue to sum
NIT avenue, along the centre line of Sum
nit avenue to Manhattan avenue, to the
central line of Manhattan avenue, to Cen
trail ayenue; along the centre line ofsCen-
trail avenue to Franklin street, to point
of beginning.
District No. 12-Captains Holmes, all the
territory bounded, commencing at the
centre line of Summit and Hoboken ave-
nues, thence east to the centre line of
Palisade avenue to Newark avenue;
thence to Waldo avenue, to Academy
street, to Summit avenue; thence along
centre line of Summit avenue to point of
beginning.
Distrief-No. 13-Captain Bissell, all ter
ritory bounded by the Hackensack River,
Manhattan avenue, Summit ayenue and
the line of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
District No. 14-Captain Swick, all ter
ritory bounded by the Hackensack River,
Gautier and Jewett avenues, to Bergen
avenue, to Academy street. to Summit
avenue, to Pennsylvania Railroad; thence
along Pennsylvania Railroad to the Hack
ensack River.
District No. 16rCaptain Burch, all the
Territory bounded by the centre line of
Jewett and Paramount venues, Morris
Canal, to fine of National Docks, Railway,
to Academy street, to Bergen avenue, to
Jewett avenue.
District No. 16-Captain Miller, all the
territory bounded By the centre. line Of
-Communipaw avenue, Hackensack River,
Morris Canal. centre fine of Paramount
avenue to Jewett avenue, Gautier avenue,