New-York tribune., 1908-03-29
GOSSIP OF THE BOROUGH
Fire Department To Be Ready Soon
for High Pressure SerJice.

v,-.,.i, . r,ontb,s time Brooklyn will he in
position TO begin the practical use OF heT slecal
high pressure fire service As was explained on
this mage few weeks ago. the Department OF
Water SUNNY Gas and Electricity has been ready
for some time furnish water at the hyorah'S
throushout the downtown business section OF tile
CITY at pressure of between two hunored anu
three hundred pounds to the square lnch. 1he
Fire Department has now secured 1'.Wo feet OF
l,ose that will withstand the great pressure, and
hy the first part of May 1t will have 3o@" feet or
more Several city officials recently paid WISH 10
I,buase1phia and now have determined 10 adopt
the device used for holding the nozzies Oh te
hose in position when the high pressure service
system is in use In Of the necessity of using
water towers, plan has been devised for attach-
ing the spparatus the neighbornS bulIolhSs With
ropes to prevent il from topping over-as one oio
in Cleveland some time Deputy Fire Com
missioner Wise has asked that new fireboat
eapabie of delivering 12eo gallons of water min
ute be stationed al the foot of Main street
The West End and Fourth Avenue Baptist
churches which are preparing consolidate. have
about completed plans for purchasing a site for
their new building. The site under CONSIDERATION
IS q plot one hundred feet square at Sixth avenue
and SD street The project is being futhered by
,be Bsnrist Church Extension Society The Fourth
Avenue Church. Fourth avenue and SD street, is
losing ground, owing 10 the growth OF the SWedlsh
and Finnish colonies in the neighborhood- Inc
West End Church. at 47th street and Ihlrd ave
mn has Oltgrown Its quarters anu iiHSl iih4d :"
new home 10 care for its parishioners. One OF the
old churches will be sold TO the Firms. II is be-
stved and negotiations under way to dispose OF
the Sunday school rooms of the West End Church
for the use of a gymnasium. The proposed site
for the new building the Baptists believe, is the
hest that could be chosen the future welfare Of
their organizations
From April 6 TO 1s the exhibit of the American
Museum of Natural History known as ''Congested
Formulation Will be on view at the art gallery in
Montague street The exhibit shows the cond-
tions prevailing Of the worst blocks OF the
East Side Manhattan Brooklyn has nothing TO
compare with the East Side but Brownsville IS
yapidlv approaching East Side conditions num-
her of educational and civic organizations COM
bined to obtain the exhibit for Brooklyn for q
few davs 1t is hoped that ii Will serve as an
object lesson and that il will impress upon the
minds of Brookiynites the necessity of checking
here the development of East Side conditions
Garrett r. Serviss will deliver the second IN MS
course of illustrated lectures at Association Hail.
.y,der the auspices the Brooklyn Institute of
AT. snd Sciences, Saturday afternoon and
.ze,,nr His topic will be Spain Of the Moors
Tho New York Symphony Orchestra VIII give the
lac. If IT'S afternoon concerts at the Baptist Tenn
.,le on Saturday. The programme viii be entlreiy
s-on, Wagner David Names Will be the sololst-
Mrs Huuphry Ward will give a lecture-readlng
nm the evening OF Tuesday, April z, at Assocla-
vim Hall Her topic will be The Peasant IN Lit
ersrrrre and the Novel On the evening OF Thurs
cav April O. the Kneisel String Quartet VIII give
q chamber music concert at Association HAN
wfllem Nileke will be solost.