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VOL. LXIX.

Electric Fire-pumps for the Fire-department.-The wider
Distribution of fixed Fire-apparatus. Bids for completing
the New York Hall of Records returned unopened.-Further
Delay for the New York Soldiers' Monument. - An illegally
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HE Electrical Review suggests an advance, now easy to make, toward providing Manhattan Island with more efficient protection against fire. It points out how easily, now that the electric-power cables for surface and elevated cars are installed, these could be furnished with public junctions to which the fire-department could instantly connect the electric fire-pumps with which the department could be equipped in place of the heavy and dangerous fire-engines that have now to be drawn through our streets at a gallop, endangering the lives of those upon the street and the abutting property, in peril in the summer time from the boiler-sparks that may fall upon the window awnings, to say nothing of the risk to the firemen themselves, who are often hurt through the overturning of their top-heavy machines. Powerful electric-pumps capable of throwing several streams could, being lighter, be drawn through the streets more safely and at greater speed than the present cumbrous steam apparatus, and more of those precious "first moments" could be saved. The suggestion seems to us so sensible that we hope not only the New York fire-department will act on it, but other departments wherever electric-power cables are accessible. But the idea, good as it is, does not go far enough. The ubiquity, so to speak, of electric force nowadays suggests the possibility of putting the art of fire extinction on a more modern and scientific footing. The rush through crowded streets of ponderous fire-apparatus is uncivilized, and though it is exciting and picturesque it is not worth while to perpetuate the practice simply because of these attributes. It will be small compensation to the pedestrian to know that he has been maimed by the passing lighter electric-pump apparatus going at higher speed, and not by the heavier steam apparatus travelling at a somewhat slower rate. The citizen who succeeds in banishing these Juggernaut cars from our streets in all but exceptional cases will deserve well of his fellow-men. The powerful portable apparatus will probably always be needed to meet the exceptional circumstances and to cope with unusual conditions: but for most conditions it seems as if, now that electric power is so widely distributed, small stationary electric fire-pumps might take the place of the present apparatus to great advantage both to life and property.

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the establishment of auxiliary fixed fire-apparatus subject to the control of the policeman on post and the fireman on patrol duty, and that electricity can be called on to provide the needful power where hydrant-pressure is inadequate. To equip each of the four streets that bound a square with a serviceable length of light hose and a single electric-pump for each block would, of course, call for an enormous outlay, but at the same time the protection afforded would be commensurate, and very possibly building owners who now furnish their own buildings with fire-hose upon each floor would be willing to provide at their own expense the light hose we speak of for service from the street, and there is no building where the needed small space for the tunnel or tube needed to receive in unbroken lengths four or five hundred feet of light hose could not be provided without inconveniences, along the whole length, say, of a party-wall. A policeman or a fireman on patrol with such an apparatus, supplemented by extra hose on a hand-reel kept at a convenient place in the block, could extinguish many a fire before the distant department apparatus could reach the spot, and besides preventing destruction by fire, would avoid the great damage that is usually caused by the use of the large engine streams.

R. J. R. THOMAS, architect of the new Hall of Records in New York, is not having an easy time in getting that structure into the condition where it can be occupied as intended, and we fear that he may be equally hampered in collecting payment on account of his professional services, as the present financial watch-dog of that city is a person of a very stern virtue. Our readers will recall that just a year ago Mr. Thomas was informed by the Mayor and his advisers that his scheme for treatment of the interior of the building was altogether too elaborate and costly for them to approve, and he was instructed to go over his plans and drawings again and effect a saving of at least a million dollars on his own estimate of their cost, two-and-one-half millions. We infer from the time that has elapsed that the unfortunate architect has found his task a very complicated and tedious one, and we can conceive the relief with which he knew that the day for opening the bids had come at last; but we shrink from imagining his feelings when he found that they were not to be opened, after all, because certain contractors entered complaint that through the obstructiveness of the architect they had not been allowed time and opportunity to examine the drawings, while certain favored contractors had been allowed to "take the drawings home." This last complaint we fancy was made by an oldfashioned contractor who supposed that all figuring had to be done upon a single set of drawings - the original ones -as used to be the case in the days before the introduction of the blue-print and manifolding typewriter. As New York officialdom has selected the Hall of Records as the public proof of its great virtue, no matter how much the unfortunate architect might suffer, it probably welcomed another chance of exhibiting its Spartan virtue, and it was voted that none of the four bids received should be opened, but that the contract should be readvertised. The fact that this ruling lays the city open to suit by the four bidders who have complied with the original invitation is a matter that causes the officials no distress: perhaps, even it may be a move to enable these bidders, if they happen to be political hangers-on of the dominant party, to get fat judgments against the city treasury because of breach of

contract.

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R. THOMAS has companions in his misery, for the architects of the City Prison and the designers of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument have been treated quite as shabbily, on one pretext and another. The latter gentlemen doubtless felt that the recent dismissal of the injunction against placing the monument on its selected site on Riverside Drive removed the last bar to the orderly progress of their work, and were preparing to award the contract to a satisfactory bidder, when the award was delayed because of the protest of one of the unsuccessful bidders. This party alleged that the successful bid was informal and must be thrown out-probably to his own advantage- because a sample of the marble to be used had not been submitted with the bid. One would think that such an objection as this could be disallowed or admitted in five minutes by the architects or the Commissioners, who must have