The Maspeth Fire Company covered itself with honor and glory yesterday in the big fire at Laurel Hill. If a fire had occurred in Maspeth a year ago the citizens of that place would have been obliged to wait until the Wandowenocks of Newtown village arrived with their hand engine.

But James Fairbrother and others seeing the necessity for a fire company began to agitate the subject, and now Maspeth has the best fire company on Long Island outside of Brooklyn. It has a steam engine, and yesterday when the eagle eye of the energetic foreman of the company, Mr. James Fairbrother, discovered the big blaze in Laurel Hill he at once summoned his men – all volunteers — and they hastily repaired to the scene of destruction. They remained there until 3 o’clock in the afternoon, and not only saved two vessels on the creek, and the wharf near by, but saved the village from a disastrous conflagration. All over the town of Newtown the people are talking of the great work done by the Maspeth fire laddies, and In all future parades the modest members of the fire company will receive an ovation which will assure them that their efforts have been appreciated.