SUCCESSFUL TEST OF NEW YORK'S NEW HIGH-PRESSURE FIRE SERVICE. The first test of the new high-pressure fire service in New York city demonstrated completely the success sidered not only as marking an important epoch in the fire protection of the city of New York but as a turning point in the methods of fire-fighting in Ameri can cities. In recent years New York has presented to insurance unde r writers a grave problem and de spite the excellent fire department its exposure to the dangers of a gen eral conflagration have been fully rea lized. Indeed it has been consider ed that in view of t h e
SUCCESSFUL TEST OF NEW YORK'S NEW HIGH-PRESSURE FIRE SERVICE. The first test of the new high-pressure fire service in New York city demonstrated completely the success sidered not only as marking an important epoch in the fire protection of the city of New York but as a turning point in the methods of fire-fighting in Ameri can cities. In recent years New York has presented to insurance unde r writers a grave problem and de spite the excellent fire department its exposure to the dangers of a gen eral conflagration have been fully rea lized. Indeed it has been consider ed that in view of t h e concentration of industrial estab lishments and tene ments the lower part of New York city possesses the most congested risks known in all Insurance engineer ing while it is only comparatively recently that ade quate building reg ulations have de manded sufficient fireproof construc tion. The result is that there are to be found many buildings and ware houses filled with goods of practical ly inconceivable value and located on streets narrow a n d ill-arranged. proof or fire-resisting structures are scattered vast numbers of old and easily combustible buildings which are not only dangerous in themselves but are a great peril to the more or less fireproof buildings in their neighborhood. Added to this until recently there was an inadequate supply of water distributed through a system of mains long overtaxed and out of date and at a pressure insufficient for satisfactory service. To remedy the inadequate water supply and distri bution system there has been installed a high-pressure Independent fire main service along the general lines of a system in succepsful use in Philadelphia since 1904 but on a far more extensive scale and with many improvements. The new system has been designed to protect the most congested and most hazardous part of Manhattan Isl and the 'Dry Goods District' which extends from the City Hall to 25th Street and from the North River to Second Avenue and East
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