Fighting Fires Five Hundred Feet in the Air
An excerpt by Fire Commissioner Joseph Johnson discusses the challenges of fighting fires in skyscrapers five hundred feet above street level. It notes six Manhattan buildings with roofs at five to twelve hundred feet and describes the staffing and equipment realities in upper floors, including concerns about smoke and wake, and the use of standpipes with floor-level couplings.
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New York City
Manhattan Island
Bankers’ Trust
Wall Street
Singer
Fire fighting tall New York skyscrapers by high pressure and standpipes
In-depth look at how New York skyscrapers would be fought from five to seven hundred feet high. Standpipes, six inch hoses, roof tanks, and gravity-fed water supply replace reliance on fire engines for upper floors. Sprinklers, automatic alarms, and lifelines aid rescue as engineers predict safer buildings and reduced urban blazes by 1930.
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Cremen
New York City
Woolworth
Metropolitan Life
Forty First Etory
Metropolitan Life Building
Twenty-third Street
Madison Arteriue
City Investing
No. 163
Broadway
Drankers’ ‘East
Singer
New Municpal
New York
Rssh
Kish
Engine Company No
Lafayette Street
Spring Street
Franklin Street
Hudson Street
Twelfth Street
Manhattan Island
Manhattan Bridge
Bridge Road
Brooklyn
Manhattan
East River
Williamsburg Bridge
Tom
Exquisite Diner Embraces Wine Variety of Dinners
The piece recalls two to four bottle men of old and contrasts them with the modern refined diner who demands a varied wine list. It notes changes in wine service from single wine dominance to structured courses, from cocktails at private dinners to carefully timed whites and reds, and highlights champagne's lasting popularity and aging complexity. It cites a restaurateur on evolving tastes and national champagne imports.
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Praveller
Roosevelt
Adinter
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