2. What buildings are situated as follows: Fifth avenue and Forty-first street; Fulton street and East river; One Hundred and Sixteenth street and Amsterdam avenue; Broadway and Leonard street; Twenty-sixth street and East river.

3. What is the title of the Chief Magistrate of the City of New York? Where is his office? Who is the present incumbent? When does his term expire? For how long will his successor hold office?

4. Name five of the highest buildings in New York and give their situations. Name all the museums, galleries, and other places of amusement or instruction open to the public in the City. Give the situations of five bridges connecting Manhattan Island with other land.

5. Give the situations of all the theatres you can remember on Broadway.

EXPERIENCE.

No.

Date, October 26, 1897.

Give full information as to the following:

1. Employment for last five years.

2. Where.

3. How long.

4. By whom.

5. How employed, i. e., what kind of work.

6. Employment on own account.

7. How so employed?

8. How long?

9. Other experience tending to qualify you for the position of Fireman.

PROMOTION TO ASSISTANT FOREMAN, FIRE

DEPARTMENT.

DICTATION.

No.

Date, August 23, 1897.

He inquired of the natives where this gold was procured. They answered him by signs, pointing to the south, where, he understood them, dwelt a king of such wealth that he was served in vessels of wrought gold. He understood, also, that there was land to the south, the southwest, and the northwest; and that the people from the last-mentioned quarter frequently proceed to the southwest in quest of gold and precious stones, making in their way descents upon the islands, and carrying off the inhabitants. Several of the natives showed him scars of wounds received in battles with these invaders. It is evident that a great part of this fancied intelligence was self-delusion on the part of Columbus; for he was under a spell of the imagination, which gave its own shapes and colors to every object.

No.

MEMORY FOR PERSONS AND PLACES.

Date, August 23, 1897.

1. Name, with approximate dates, two of the fires resulting in greatest loss of property within the past five years.

2. When was the Building Department separated from the Fire Department?

3. Give the location, as exactly as possible, of the following engine-houses: 5, 19, 28, 29, 37, 40, 58 H. & L. 5, 11, 16.

4. Name four of the blocks in the City where you think fires would be unusually serious and give the reasons for your answer. 5. Give an account, as full as possible, of the action which was rewarded by the Bennett medal in 1896.

6. Name some notable fires where the fire tower has been of signal service.

LAW.

No.

Date, August 23, 1897.

1. What restriction is placed upon the retail sale of kerosene in New York City?

2. How great a quantity of each of the following articles can be kept or stored in any one undetached building in New York City: (1) Hemp or flax, unbaled; (2) Varnish; (3) Alcohol; (4) Vitriol; (5) Loose Wood Shavings.

3. Give the substance of the law authorizing entrance into buildings for the purpose of examining into the storage of combustibles. 4. State briefly the powers of a fire marshal investigating the origin of a fire.

5. Enumerate the classes of buildings that must be provided. with fire-escapes.

6. What are the principal provisions of the law regarding the constructions of theatres and other places of amusement which are intended to guard against loss of life from fire?

7. What is the Fire Department authorized to do when people are known or believed to be buried under the ruins of fallen

buildings?

8. What is required of owners of buildings pronounced unsafe or dangerous by the Fire Department?

No.

RULES AND REGULATIONS.

Date, August 23, 1897.

1. Give the substance of the principal rules especially affecting assistant foremen.

2. Give the substance of the rule as to soliciting subscriptions, etc., the purchase of tickets to places of amusement, etc., and give your opinion as to the reason of the rule.

3. How many battalions are there? How many engine companies and hook and ladder companies on the other side of the Harlem river?

4. By what title must foremen and assistant foremen be addressed or spoken of?

5. State when a resignation will not be forwarded to headquarters. 6. An old woman is seen leaning out of a fifth story window of a burning apartment-house to get out of the heat and suffocating smoke. There is no access from the street; a similar building is adjacent to the one on fire. What would you do?

7. Suppose you find a violation of the rule requiring buildings supplied with gas or steam heat to have stop-cocks accessible from the street. Draw up a report, addressed to the proper official, assuming such facts as you please, giving the results of your inspection.

Sign this report with your examination NUMBER and not your

name.

No.

MEDICAL INSPECTOR.

Date, August 3, 1897.

TECHNICAL.

1. Discuss the diarrhoeal disease common to tenement-house children in summer, giving its etiology, clinical history, and treatment in detail, including diet and prophylaxis.

2. (a) What are the conditions causing infantile convulsions? (b) Give the physical signs of pleurisy with effusion.

3. (a) Give the differential diagnosis of diphtheria and follicular tonsillitis. (b) State other conditions which may resemble diphtheria. (c) What weight would you attach to a bacteriological examination of the exudate?

4. (a) State periods of incubation and invasion in each of the following diseases: variola; measles; typhus fever; rotheln. Describe fully the exanthem in each.

5. Discuss scarlatina, defining it and giving its etiology, clinical history, differential diagnosis and sequelae.

6. (a) When would you consider a patient convalescent from scarlatina suitable for removing, quarantine and disinfecting premises? When one with diphtheria? One with smallpox? (b) What procedures would you recommend for disinfecting premises in each case? (c) In each of the above diseases does one attack preclude posibility of another?

7. (a) Mention all the diseases you can which may produce purpuric eruptions in the skin. (b) What drugs may produce rashes simulating variola? Scarlatina? Measles? Differentiate in each case.

8. (a) What is the cause of tinea favosa? What of scabies? (b) Describe briefly the skin condition in each. (c) How would you treat scabies?

9. Mention the important complications and sequelae of (a) measles; (b) diphtheria; (c) whooping cough.