New York Subway Work Endangered by Fire The New York City fire department was called upon to fight three ugly fires on the night of April 10. Two were of a very serious character, and of these one for a time threatened to set fire to the new subway work. The second blaze took place in the six-story building in the rear of 17 John street and the Chatham and Phenix building at 192 Broadway. It was a hard fire to get at, as that part of John street was tom up from Broadway to Nassau street for pipe-laying purposes. T he firemen, thereiore, had to carry their hose lines down a short blind alley in order to reach the burning building. T he flames thus had time to gain a dangerous headway. It was all the easier for them to spread because the fire was in an old-fashioned loft…
