Greater New York Fire News.

For the first time the new high-pressure hose trucks were in use at a fire in an Elizabeth street rag and paper stock warehouse. In coming through Prince street the wagon, which had replaced an engine, was brought to a dead stop by a horse car. There was not room for the big wagon, which weighs six tons, to pass between the car and the curb. A number of men seized the car, and it was carried bodily to one side, when the wagon went on. The fire was attacked front and rear, the pressure at the nozzle being 80 lb. Three lines of hose were attached to the portable standpipe in front, and several lengths of hose to the high-pressure hydrants in the rear. The turret nozzle or standpipe at the back of the driver’s seat was operated in exactly the same manner as the deck-pipe on a water tower. Water for it can lie taken through one or more lines of hose, either direct from the high-pressure service or from steam engines, when the high-pressure system is not in use.

Firemen made short work of an early morning fire which caused a loss of $2,000 to the two upper floors of the old 4-story building at No. 366 Water street. Manhattan, used by dealers in paper stock, and a ramshackle affair. The upper floors were occupied by two dealers in such inflammable stock. The flames were confined by the firemen under Deoutv Chief Guerin to the place of origin. An equally ramshackle building next door—a tenement house—escaped, but its inmates were in a very panickv state while the blaze lasted.

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