The New York Journal of Commerce, in speaking of the recent fire in that city makes the following re-
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The New York Journal of Commerce, in speak ing of the recent fire in that city, makes the following re- marks:- ..

 ''The history of this fire shows that however ad- vantageous close iron shutters may be in defending store from fire originating in other buildings they n of danger the of fire orig ina ting in the store itself. Had the store l46 Pearl st. been without shutters, the fire would have made very little progress before was discoyered and so would have. been speedily extingushed As it was the whole store on fire before it was known that there any danger. And before the engines arr rived, (which was not many minutes ) the flames were bursting through the roof like volcano, and had communicated to the adjacent stores. If iron shut ters are used,-which appears to he necessary as protection both against external fires and thieves,- there ought by all means, to be aperture, several inches in diameter, through the middle one of each story. Then, by leaving window open, the pre- sence of fire would immediately make itself known hy the escape of smoke through said apertures into the street, where t would readily be scented by the ol- factories of the wachHcn, other persons who might happen to be near.

 con another point we must make a remark. vast amount of property was saved from destruction at the above fire. by the substantial partition walls rising two or three feet above the roof. Without this latter provision, partition wall however sub stantia, is to be depended on: At the great fire in December, 1885, the flames passed from store to store over partition walls not rising above the roof as rapuy almost as II no such wall had existed. It would have been so on Satgday morning, but for the defence interposed by the brick above the roof This defence too enabled the ircnen to stand upon the roof of the store defcaded, (with the hose drawn through the scuttle from below and beard the lioni his den. Without ihis protection, they could not have endured the torrent of fire and sloke which would have come upon them.

 "One more thing must say. The knowledge possessed by the fremen, that the stores in tie ''burnt district" substantially built encouraged them to encounter the enemy at close quarters; whereas, had't they expected every moment that the walls were to tumble down, they would have been