The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-10
FIRE ALARM SYSTEM FAULTY
WILDO WORKING TO NAVE "
HtDE UP To DiTE.
Many Things Might Happen That WO1a,I
Leave the City Helpless Hoped 60
PaI q New CcntFe In CeairRI Park
Away From . Possible FIPe Hazard.

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Leave the City Helpless Hoped "a
PAT q New CeaIre In CeairsI PARK
Away From q Possible FIpe Ha yard.
Hanging from the Third avenue elevated
all the way from sixty seventh street 20
I HsnOver square 10 an old cable tied up
NJ places with pieces of twins and set
swinging by passing trains. There ar-
q good many other wires and cables
carried Icy the elevated structure. but
that Is the most important To- the wei.
fare 81 the city 81 New York
I''s the spinal cord 81 the New York
Fire DEPART ments nerve -vstem bslow
Fifty ninth street th" trunk line Tor all
'ho-e little nerve ends represented each
nv q red fireboI.
let an accideni haDpen 20 that cabl,
l-' i break or the high tension wires on
the elevated DESTROY 10 effectiveness and
Manhattan island south 20 Fifty-ninth
street would b. much in the position 10
a man whos. back was broken So far ~
I,s fire protection - concerned
There are about 80 fireboSe-. WORKING
un fifty electric circuits. that make up
Manhattan Islands fire. nerve system
~ these a little over 5OO are south 10
Fifty-ninih street. With the least inter
ruptiOn 10 this ma in nerve channel hang
ing there on the elevated M of the little
red nerve ends on 'he lamp posts 20 ont
of business. leaving the financial. the
chemical. the pr inting and the wholesale
dry goods districts without a fire n.rv.
while the '~nements On the Fast SIDE.
MURRAY Hin and the big hotel and the 1tre
district would hav. only two or three ~
These nerve ends showing any sign ~
liz.
H's a complicated system and pretty
nearly worn out aud Useless in the
opinion Of good many experts
While New Works Fir Department il
cracked zap by it, citizens ~ the l--st in
tho world m. doctors Who have besn
looking over this nerve system have
expressed all sorts ~ fear - . breakdown
90 the patient For this reason Rhine
lander Waldo. the new Conm,--iOnar. has
Just made bold 20 ask the Board ~
Estimate Co allow him to 20 ahead and
sp-nd something like O. OoO oOO on q new
system.
There are narta - New Works. Are
alarm service that have been dong duty
since 1870 or ih-r-abouf When a com
mittss u the New York BOARD ~ Fire
UnderWriter. looked over the syz,sm
five year, ago - Vas pronounced Oh
solete and m. pac" htIt the same old
system has gore IN doing duty aud doing
II pretty we'll too. though no one can
tell Just when IL IL going 90 break
Meanwhile other cities have hesn put
ting in ns~ -y-tsm- one of the latest
il that of th. Newark department The
other dAy Commissioner Waldo and Chief
Croker made a visit there and returned
more convinced than ever that New York
neeClsd a change The system which
Nswark has FSst PIT in H. superior 20
New york; IN many rrspec'- the most
notahl. ~ which p.-rhap- j. the type ~
boxes 10 thry.- ~ four hoNe~ are pulled
here for instance IN different parts ~
rhs city u would - almost impossible. to
tell what boxes they w-r" a. Fir- Head
quarters Their. have hssn times when
-,ich alarms have goD- unr,'corded
let four boxes IT, pull"d In Newark
on the other hand and each b"V Will take
IT. turn in giving - signal az tine central
nffir. That j. "all'.d the non interfering
sy-r-m Ninety J'"r cent ~ the hoN--
herr arr interfering
N Won were to take a map = Man
haitian aud maTs on = the various otrr,utS
- the department. telegraph system
YOU would ~oon hav" 10 booking like a
chine. puzzle One c,rcul'. Tor instance
runs from fIr- H.Adduar'--- a. far north