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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-10
DOWN THE BAY ON THE NEW-YORKER.

Imagine a bleak November afternoon. With
the thick. gray clouds driving across the skies
before half gale of wind An alarm comes Of
bark afire off Sandy Hook In three seconds
the New Yorker. lying always ready. with 40
pounds of steam in her boilers, has left her
post at the Battery. and with her siren calling
for right of way is steaming for the Narrows.
Before she has poked her nose into the Lower
Bay her decks are a glaze of ice, and her rails
coated six inches thick She meets a rolling,
tumbling sea that picks her up and losses her
about like chip on mountain torrent. Half
way down the bay she makes out the bark.
beating into the harbor under double reefed fore
and main sails A cloud OF smoke Is driving
away from her that makes her look like liner
under forced draft.
1t seems impossible that anything could be
done to helm the vessel in the that is run
ming The only thing that be done. appar-
emily. is to take off the crew and leave the bark
to her fate. Not for the New Yorker In sea
that threatens every minute TO swamp her she
swings under the bark's lee, runs line of hose
aboard and fights the fire while she lows the
bark to shallow water II you Sai put sile nrs
out, run her ashore and MI her up; she can
always be pumped out and hoated, is the rule of
the fire patrols But If a vessel IS sunk IN deep
water to save the hull. it takes pontoons. der
ricks. wrecking tugs and Dig Dill 10 get her up
again.
day to meet n ship fire, and followed her
all the way I'D to her dock In Brooklyn. with the
captain of the vessel refusing 10 let the hremen
come aboard while they coulu see pla'., M, eelore
When The shin was locked ii was learned that
the crew was burning oily waste around the
matches To melt the ice so that the cargo could
be lifted out -
The Hewitt is one of the Brooklyn boats.
over there they fight more river front fires than
bIazas aaoat The fire patrols. besides guarding
IN sbirnin,1 ,vatch over the wharVes and bulk
heads and the river front for block back from
the shore Up around NeW VT ,y Creek the
ara -. "a acrns of oil and aphtha tanks
Then there come the cordage plants. cooperages
and block on block OF sugar fehheries And In
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-10
MARRIAGES EVERY IS MINUTES.

Cupid travels fast and furious in Newly ork
for he causes marriage every thirteen MINI
utes and. perchance. because OF MS Speeu' my
the reckless automobilist, the tender boy son
suffers many an upset. One wedding in every
forty that he brings about leads later 10 d III
vorce Every eight and half hours some i'iah
and wife are parted permanently lnasmuch DIS
MANY NEWCOMERS when seeking divorce go
ont of the state TO procure 1t, Dan Cupid suHers
far more reverses than he is perchance. aware
Of. Indeed It is estimated that one out or
twenty marriages contracted in this city is
legally broken here elsewhere. For every
wedding. however three children are BORN
Yet faster than Cupid and faster, even, than
the storks are the barges of Ellis Island. Every
forty seconds an immigrant enters this city
The aliens come twenty times faster than the
children Of all those who come from Europe
one in every four settles In this city or one
every two and two-thirds minutes. This shows
that New-York City is growing nearly three
times faster from immigration than from births.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-10
NewYork Is Particularly Well Equipped for This I'm
portont, but Dangerous. Work.

its meaning also, after they have been for days
watching ever increasing volume of smoke
pouring from the ships ventilators while half
the steam from the boilers is turned into the
lower hold Probably more welcome sight
ever met their eyes than the New Yorker htr-
rying down the bay at twelve knot gait To meet
them off Sandy Hook.
How is she. captain?"
Beyond control
Stand by to take a line. Drop that fender
over for'rd Steady! Make fast for'rd.- Make
fast aft
Half a dozen lines of hose carried aboard
the steamer and the streams turned down the
ventilators in endeavor to smother the flames
before the matches lifted Then with the
lines of hose ready, the forward hatch is ripped
off and the water turned in before the flames
can leap through the opening.
There are stairways 10 go down here. i
narrow ladder one side of the hatchway, per
haps, but that is all. and frequently not even
that. Into the black hole the firemen drop
standing long as they can the fumes and
smoke and gases rising around them. No one
is allowed stay down long at a time, though
The danger is known too we'll If man has not
been seen heard from in three minutes, down
goes another to look for him. Sometimes a man
Is working furiously one minute and drops
like a shot the next, suddenly overcome by
some strong gas from the lower hold. He is
lifted on deck and his comrades work on.
Every bit of the cargo has to be overhauled
and dragged out, with the hose constantly
ready to be turned the flames the instant
they appear The overhauling of the cargo
makes a chimney from the lower hold to the
upper deck. and this constitutes the great
danger OF fighting fire a At what instant
the flames Will find that chimney and come
roaring through the hatchway. fastening on
everything in sight and beyond hope of control
no man tell. For this reason. If the fire can
be located, and il cannot be fought without
getting out the rest of the cargo, the compart-
ment in which it is will be closed and flooded
ra Their than any attempt made to fight it at
And this is also why the fire patrol often goes
down to meet a vessel in distress and follows
her back UP the bay and to her dock before =
line of hose is put aboard. But once the steamer
Is locked the fireboat lies alongside n dozen
lines of hose are stretched and the CAPTAIN of
the patrol has all his plans laid for fighting
the blaze before hatch is raised Then off
come the matches, the derricks and longshora-
men get to work the cargo, and in a minute
one will see the roustabouts hustling the ca roo
while alongside of them the firemen fight frn
so hot that the paint on the ships plating 10
blistered.
\ few weeks ago the Mcclellan handled a a
on ti,f Kansas City in that way. The fire ,waa
in the lower hold. among a lot of hides and th
Mcclellan herself could not stay alongside he
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-10
RAPIDITY OF BUILDING.

Signs of building every side of the Cit
izen of the metropolis. and yet. as rule, he
little realizes at what tremendous pace the
new structures are going up. AS matter of
fact house is built every fifty-one minutes.
In the whole city last year 1922 buildings of
various descriptions were erected of which 1.402
were built in Manhattan. 1871 in The Bronx,
5.793 in Brooklyn. 919 in Queens. and 337 in
Staten Island. Yet although Manhattan fell
behind The Bronx and Brooklyn in the number
all the other boroughs put together. The peo-
pie of all New-Yor1 spend 81 65 a second for
new buildings. and Of this sum 81 40 comes out
of the pockets of Manhattanites. In the last
year in Manhattan the bill for buildings
amounted to s74932 900, while that for The
Bronx S23.144,500; Brooklyn s39 S72 740;
Queens $7.9S3.437, and Staten Island, 1896 PAL.
As much money Is spent in buildings in five
days in Manhattan Staten Island in all
the year.
Should the expense of building be equally dis
each would have to contribute 10 cents day
The expense to New-Yorkers of simply trying
TO take care Of their city costs two-thirds as
much as their new buildings. Every second
they pay SO 10 to Tammany to maintain the
municipal government, the cost of which for
the year now amounts to more than 500 600 900.
Just how each citizen makes this tribute he
may not know, but, nevertheless it is made He
either contributes to the city directly in taxes
or indirectly in rents or in food and clothing,
the cost of which is influenced by taxes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-10
81 heST CRIME IN PARIS.

mere is nothing Western OF even American ahou,
'iie ho'd-up industry In has been cultivated as
sluuously even in brilliant. gay Paris and 4, q.
a'e interesting to note the many siuailarities be-
rssna, 'e situation In the French capital in tina,
greft ~, Gnu 1ne present state of things in ths
1ns ny ny OF western America. In Paris the hold
are aPusSSpockets and street criminals generaIIv
Mia nheu Apaches-a clever journalist havtns q -
ne ae designation to them. and the public hay
tulteu lt-and the Apache a..
the nj,SS q good deal of the attention OF the noca
s'tha hoS tatners and the press The boulayarS.
10 no out OF Faris. are no longer what they nsaS
Apaches" wing 10 the ubiquity and holiness OF thss
most fan,o ws are told and the merchants or ma
, 70 the Council asking for more et";sn.s pSt-
'S'0A-VChicago Record Herald S0aSS
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-10

Stand by to take a line aboard. lieutenant.
Turn your nozzles on the quarterback and keep
those bits clear Lay alongside now. pilot.
All right Mr. Rivers"
The fireboat Zophar Mills was off Communi-
paw overhauling the cotton laden steamer
British Queen. abaze from stem to stern and
cut adrift from the blazing Hoboken docks.
With the flames leaping from her matches ana
her decks a cant of 40 degrees, she mao
drifted down the North River, helped by wind
and tide until three tugs had got line to her
and were trying to tow her into shoal water
and the Zophar Mills came around the Battery
to help save what she could of the steamer and
the docks.
Now. Rivers"
The nose of the Mills ground against the red
hot plates of the British Queen and Lieutenant
Rivers sprang aboard of her and threw the moose
of a hawser over the port after bits. Before
the crew of the Mills could make fast, sheet
of flame drove the decks of the queen
and sent Lieutenant Rivers flying forward for
his life the cable burned and snapped like cot
ton thread and the towline Of the tugs went,
TOO. Across the bay, a flying pillar of fire. the
Queen swept, with Lieutenant Rivers clinging
20 her lee rail and driven constantly forward
by the flames which ate down upon him and
scorched his hands and face. Every now and
then tiny blaze would show his coat, TO be
beaten out by hands already blistered by the
woodwork and the metal. The decks warped
beneath his feet, the flames roared through the
forward matches and seemed every instant about
to cut him off from everything except the sea-
where lay certain death from the fire.
Behind the tugs and the Mills chased impo-
tently. wind and tide being more than steam.
and Rivers crept ever forward, until at last
the Queen drove ashore at 39th-st, Brooklyn.
and the lieutenant dropped over her bows 10 be
picked UP by the Mills.
That is the kind of thing fighting fire on the
water means. What left of the British
Queen is tank barge, with Standard Oil
number her, and Lieutenant Rivers is first
officer the freboat Abram S Hewitt If
you ask him about his experience the Queen.
"A close thing? Yes" he says, but it's all in the
days work
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-10
ALARMING NUMBER OF FIRES.

Fires in this city occur with such frequency
that one breaks out on an average every forty
eight minutes. The loss by fire is at the rate
of S25 minute or S13. DOC, 900 year BY a COM
parison with the number and value of the
buildings erected in year it is seen that fires
occur little more frequently than buildings
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-10

In the month of July. Which ioi me-
past has been the hottest moh'h Vi -.
S., 80 ,os hosn a suicide only once in every
sixteen hours. lilo,
Murder In New-York strikes down Nlctih
once every two days. and every eight hours al
attemnt Is made to kill. Once every two weeks
there is a murder which battles soluuoh anu
which would seem to belle the old adase ina |
murder will out.
A New-Yorker is buried in Potters flelu
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-10

are erected. and that out of every eleven
new buildings is complete loss from flames
Should New Workers try to drink all the
water that they In one way or another they
would each and all have to swallow six pfnts
every minute. If all this water shouiu De
turned into Madison Square Garden IL "ouid
fill that building 20 the roof In twenty minutes
If Broadway from the City Hall to the battery
was walled UP high as the ST PAU bull S
Ing. NETWORKS supply of water wouid HIN n
it overflow at the end of two and nan Gays.
At the present time Manhattan and Inc Bronx
consumes 33c.000,000 gallons a day Broohiyi,'
100000. 900; Queens 100000. ana Rlc1iiohu'
s TOT of n0n 000
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-10

South Brooklyn there are the great cotton ware
houses, the terminal wharveS and roSin yards.
A few years ago the Body fought fire in
cotton warehouse of the Bush Stores for twenty
eight days. The crew was divided into night
and day shifts. and kept the pumps going con-
stantly for four weeks. In cotton fire every
bale has to be dragged out. torn open and wet
down. There is no telling where a cotton fire
will break out afresh. In this case the third
alarm was turned IN after the fire had been
burning for two weeks
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-10

cause the ships outer plating so hot. Fire
man after fireman dropped, overcome by the
fumes and the stencil from the burning hides
Two minutes was the utmost limit a man
could remain below. And all the time the
rest of the cargo was being lifted out and the
firemen estimated that the vessel got off with
not more than $500 damage from a fire. which,
had it not been for modern appliances in fight
ing it, probably would have destroyed the ship
But with sailing vessels and the o1dtime
steamers which not divided into compart-
ments, water tight and almost air tight, which
be shut off and flooded. it is different. Fire
on them has to be fought when found, and
there is no time to he lost. With them there
can be no thought of battening down the matches
and running for the dock. Then comes the try
ing and perilous time for the crew of the fire
nntrOl
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-10
CHURCHES TURNED INTO INNS.

At Great Easton. three miles from Rockingham
Station. there is a Wesleyan chapel which is now
an inn. When built store placed over the
entrance with the words inscribed: ITO the Glory
of Cod and the inscription still remains over the
portal of the licensed premises. At Newcastle
under-Lyme. chapel built IN 1919 in the time
of the Wesleyan reform movement, which after a
time became too small and a larger building some
distance away was bought from the Wesleyans. the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-10

2 New-Yorkers generally accused of being a
little too rapid Their health and their manners
are both said to suffer from the habit Of always
hurrying But it is hardly any wonder that her
citizens acquire this habit, for things happen
rapidly in New-York
Every six minutes, for example, a child Is
born and every seven there is a funeral. In the
course of last year. according to the statistics
of the New-York City Health Department, 81
555 babies opened their eyes on this busy, rest
less town, and in the same length of time ISp60
human beings weary of its din, found the rest of
the grave. Should New-York, therefore be re-
earded as one great family. it could not be &C
cused of race suicide. Every forty-two minutes.
the births exceed the deaths by one, that If 1t
should close its doors ali the rest OF the world
there would still be thrty-fve inhabitants
every morning.
The fearful ravages of consumption among the
people of this city little realized, until it is
understood that on average throughout the
year one New Yorker succumbs to this disease
every twenty-eight minutes. Indeed, every
fourth person that is buried in this city is a
victim of tuberculosis of the lungs. In some
months however. pneumonia kills still more. In
March, as rule. deaths from pneumonia are
nearly twice as many from tuberculosis, and
in the early spring people are wont TO die here
from this disease at the rate of every fifteen
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-10
A HAY BARGE MAKES A HOT BLAZE

That is the characteristic attitude Of all the
men. AS the captain Of the Mcclellan put It.
IF you stopped 10 think about these things you
might take a trolley the other way"
The Mcclellan lies at Gansevoort-st. and the
North River. A good part Of her work is in
connection with the hay and lime barges that
ply up and down the river at night fire on
hay barge is quick thing and a hot one
One would go far to find a fercer blaze than a
barge load of hay makes.
suppose you lie off first and wet her down
with your standpipes?' the reporter remarked.
Now. the captain of the Mcclellan is q free
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-10

and easy man, offhand and genial, whom it is
a pleasure to meet. He might come from the
north of Ireland, if he did not. come from the
centre the south. But he is modest. too. and
he said to the writer of this:
You are welcome TO anything l say, young
fellow, but if you put my name in your boomin'
story the next time you come around here I'll
throw you overheard. See'
So names will be mentioned But in reply
10 the suggestion about lying off and using the
standpipes the captain put his feet on the rail
of the Mcclellan. leaned we'll back in his chair
and with a careless wave of the hand said:
"Oh. You go right in and shake hands.
But you make your visit short See!'
The Mcclellan bears the scars of many hot
encounters. A carelessiy dropped match by q
barge captain lighting his pipe, perhaps and the
freboat is steaming at full speed up the river
toward pillar of flame that lights up both shores
and mile of the water Right in to her
and lash the fireboat to the barge. Then the
pumps begin to throw their twelve thousand
gallons a minute. while the fremen handle the
nozzles with the bales of blazing hay rolling
the decks among them. A short visit. indeed, or
there would be little left of fremen and freboat
We're not salamanders." the captain
marked, in explaining how it done.
But that seems doubtful. The David A Body
was lying at her pier at North Sth-st.. Brooklyn
evening, when a call came from the Stand
ard Oil Works at Newtown Creek. When the
Body arrived the scene. ten minutes later
two tugs had towed blazing barge out into the
river. Captain Marcus Fitzgerald dashed his
boat to the barge and the two went up the East
River toward the Sound together. with the fire
SO hot that the men had to lie behind the rail to
work their hose Yet they did it. and they may
be doing the same thing again tomorrow
Altogether. there are seven of these boats pro-
tecting the waterfront of New-York and the
harbor. three in Brooklyn and four in Manhat-
tan. They from Sandy Hook to Yonkers
and along the Jersey shore we'll Each boat
carries captain and two lieutenants. ten fire.
men. four engineers and two pilots. They throw
from seven thousand gallons OF water minute
on the Zophar Mills to twelve thousand on the
Mcclellan and the New-Yorker Perhaps the
most interesting station is that of the New
Yorker, which lies at the Battery. and gets most
OF the calls from incoming vessels aire
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-10
PATHETIC INCIDENT OF SLOCUM

The matron the Mills had friend going
up on the Socum, and they had arranged that
as the excursion steamer went by the freboat's
perth at 90th-st, they should signal to each
other This arrangement was carried out and
the matron stopped making up the hremen's
beds to wave to her friend beside whom stood
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-10
THE FATHER OF THEM.

Euclid had just completed another great work on
higher mathematics.
Talk about your problem stories"' he said.
Realizing. however. that more serious work was
ahead of him. he turned his desk again and be-
gan figure the percentage his publishers prob
ably would allow him.-(Chcago Tribune.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-10
SHIPS COME IN WITH FIRE ABOARD

1t is surprising how many ships into New
York with fire board Most of them are
steamers from the West Indies laden with fruit
or from some Southern port with cotton and a
mixed cargo. The public hears little of these
fires and is accustomed to think OF wind and
waves the dangers of the deep. but fire is an
ever present menace. and the sailor Is Ia more
keenly alive to IL than TO any gale that ever
snapped a spar. Some of the passengers on
Southern coasting vessels realize something Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-10

smaller one being sold After passing throusnn
various hands the former building - now !cehso"
house and n music hall.-UOndon News
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-10
NOT SAFEST TO STAY AT HOME.

Those who say that * Tlfest to stay at
home do not know much ;.,ut New-York. As
a matter of fact, it is $500 times safer to travel
on railroad train than to move about in the
streets of this city the waters within its
boundaries And 1t is also dangerous simply to
box ones self up in a house. From some acct
dental cause or other, a New-Yorker is killed
every hour and three-quarters Some one is
killed by a streetcar, elevated subway
train either by being over in a collision
every six hours. Some one browns in New-York
every eight hours, and some life is lost in a
burning building every fourteen hours. To show
that life in this city is far more dangerous than
riding in steam railroad train, one need simply
compare the number of passengers killed in all
parts of the United States in a year and the
number of accidental deaths in New-York. Out
of 700.000,000 people who travelled steam
trains in the year 1908. according to the Inter
death or one in 100000. The accidental deaths
IN this city last year amounted to 5,191, or one
for every 500 inhabitants
The sheer dread of living kills a NewYorker
every ten hours. In the last year there were
SIS suicides. Poison was the means used most.
and on average in this city
seeks death in this way once in every twenty
four hours The less painful method of suffoca
ton by gas comes next in popularity, one dying
IN this way every forty hours. while some one
commits suicide by shooting every two and
half days. In April people kill themselves faster
than in any other month On average in that
month some one ends his or her life every eight
hours, whereas in exhilarating winter month
there is hardly a suicide a day. The great in
crease in the number of voluntary deaths in
April is attributed TO the low vitality. which
characterzes most people in the spring and
the depressing effect of alternate bright and
gloomy weather. Contrary to general belief
suicide is also rare in summer and as a rule
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-09-10
Their Is So Rapid That 1t Seems 1nnpos-
sible for Them to Go Slow.
The WhirLgig Of Life IN Gotham !

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