Abstract

The Week

The article presents information related to several issues. One of the immediate effects of the Boston fire has been a sudden exhibition of energy in the fire departments all over the country. The department of this city immediately announced that civil-service reform had been adopted, and that politics should not in future be considered as a test of efficiency. Some of engines at the same time turned out to experiment on the Mansard roofs. The experiment was a complete failure, the water reaching the tops of the high buildings only in the form of spray. The murder of Anthony F. O'Neil, a detective, by James C. King, on Monday last, was one of the most deliberate assassinations which has ever taken place even in New York. O'Neil had been testifying in a divorce suit pending between King and his wife at the office of Judge Sutherland, referee in the suit.