Salt Lake Times | 1891-02-16 | Page 8 | Fires in New York

Fire In New York. That tho growth of the work which New York firemen are called on to do demands the best apparatus which can be mado, and that every valuable improvement im-provement must be adopted will be ap-j ap-j parent from even a casual inspection of the statistics of fires and consequent losses. In 1800, tho year after the paid department took the places of the volunteers, volun-teers, there were 76 tires in the city. In 1888 there were 3,217. In 1866 there was 1 fire to every 80 buildings, and in 1889 1 to 85. In 1866 there were 1 fires to every man on tho force, in 1888 3 1-7 fires to each man. That the efficiency of the force has more than kept pace with the growth in fires, however, is plain from the fact that the average loss per fire in 1866 was 1375.38, and in 1888 but $1,705.29. John R. Spears in Scribner's.