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Show SEA WATER FOR FIRES Plan to Place Reservoirs on Brooklyn Bridge for Better Protection. NW YORK, March 28. Brooklyn bridge will be called on to help New York fight fires, if .plans now under consideration con-sideration by the fire department are found to be practicable. It is proposed to build on the top of the bridge towers great reservoirs for the storage of salt water for' fire-fighting purposes. This, It is held, can be-done at comparatively com-paratively small expense, and a pressure pres-sure can thus be, secured which will give protection to the highest buildings In the lower part of both Manhattan and Brooklyn. Engineers of the de"' partment are already making an investigation in-vestigation of the matter. |