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Show Brooklyn's WaterSupply Is Menaced by Fire in the Bogs New York. Oct 2n. A gentle rain that beg;m falling early this morning and held fitfully on and olY brought the hopo today that many small aad meadow lires that have been Hpringing up everywhere In this vicinity and have clouded the harbor in white smoke as heavy as fog might be quenched within the next twenty-four hours. No rain worthy of mention has fn lien li-en hereabouts for nearly sixty days, the city water supply has grwn foul-tasting foul-tasting und III smelling and many smaller neighboring towns and villages vil-lages have suffered severely from the drought. On Sunday, fire broke out on the Ramapo mountain)?, in the forests of j the huge Harrlman estate at Arden. I and spread until today lou workmen were set to fighting it. j Slxlv-two sr;r.are miles of New- Jer- sey forests are afire In dozens of I spots. The Hackensack swamps h- hind Jersey City, bancd dry by the i sun, are burning and the bugs and forests on the Passaic river In two counties are on fire. On lng Island, the Brooklyn water wat-er sii ply is menaced Fire Is advancing advanc-ing slowly for a depth of three feet through the pealy bogs of Free-port, menacing the wooden supports on I which ihe water mains are carried The heat Is so intense that even at i some distance from the line of lire ! the firemen had to make puddles before be-fore they could stand on tho ground. |