154 REPORT OF THE 



April 26th, 1900. Number of acres burned, 200; value of standing timber destroyed, 

 $100; all second growth. Value of fences burned, $50 or more. Cause of fire, railroad 

 locomotive. Extinguished fire by using shovels, hoes, carrying water, and whipping the 

 ground fires with brush and wet rags fastened to sticks. This was a big fire, and a hard 

 one to fight. The wind blew a hurricane, but we got the fire under control. Just at 

 night the railroad company sent up their Italians to help fight it. 



May 8th, 1900. Number of acres burned, 200; value of timber destroyed, $75. Some 

 fences also were burned. This fire ran through some underbrush and small second- 

 growth timber, pasture land, etc.; but the most of it was on the land of the man where 

 the fire started. I put out a great many such fires this spring. Some of them got such a 

 start before I saw them that I could not check them until the next day; but when I saw 

 one in time I could stop it without much trouble. All the fires have been land fires so 

 far. It is raining now and I hope they will cease. 



Mr. George A. Eller, firewarden for the town of Delaware, Sullivan county, 

 N. Y., reports : 



April 19th, 1900. About 225 acres of forest land burned; value of standing timber 

 destroyed, estimated at about $2 per acre. Started from an engine on the Erie Railroad. 

 The section gangs belonging to the railroad put out the fire and were at work before I 

 got there. 



Mr. Hugh Donihue, firewarden for the town of Olive, Ulster county, N. Y., 

 reports : 



May i6th,i9oo. About fifty acres on the Catskill Range, town of Olive, were burned 

 over; all brush and mountain timber land. Value of timber destroyed, estimated at $50. 

 The only cause that I can assign for this fire is that the New York boarders are passing 

 through the place all the time and smoking. As it is very dry a cigar stub or lighted 

 match thrown by the wayside will start a fire quickly. I would have reported this fire 

 before, but had no blanks until Mr. Emmons, the Chief Firewarden, called on me and 

 left some. 



Mr. Albert Vandover, firewarden for the town of Denning, Ulster county, N. Y. : 



October 31st, 1900. Mr. Vandover writes to Chief Firewarden Emmons as follows : 

 I would report that I cannot learn that any fires have occurred in the town of Denning on 

 either State lands or lands of nou-residents during the past year. I have no bills for 

 fighting fire against the town or State, and I think the danger is past for the present year. 

 I appointed as district firewardens the four men recommended in your first letter; also 

 another one who is living in the northeast corner of the town, for the protection of the 

 State lands in that vicinity, and the forests on the Peekamoose range. I felt as if all was 

 not safe in that locality for some time. 



