The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-09-22
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FIRE DEPARTMENT.-The following memorial was pro
S W t'e 0ec"n' h'""ch o The City Council yesterday
To the Honorable the Mayor and city Council of J,,,n,o,e
The undersigned, member Of the Commission recent,
appointed upon the reorganization Of the Fire Department
othis city begS your indulgence in again teSpa sing mon
tine attention of your honorable body. He fes however
that he might be deemed to the trust confded o
m ana uhmindfnl "i sentiments entertained by mum
bcr of his fellow citizens did he neglect respectfully
demonstrate against the assumptions forth in the Re
port recently made you by the Joint Committee upon
Fire Companies Before taking up those assumptions pe
ccally, and in explanation Of the decisive in
which the Committee upon Fire Companies that they
cannot give the minority plan any favor in said Re
port it will only be necessary for your honorable body to
remember that said minority Report referred to the
Committee upon Fire Companies. four out of the sir gentle
men composing which 1oere mcmbrS IF the Fire Commits
si0M and signed is majority report.
The first assertion against Paid System propo
sed in the Report of the minority that the number Of
Companies proposed by the minority is too limited has
been abundantly disproved the experience only
OF other active hremen in this City but also that ofhe
writer Report himself that were the undersigned
addressing assembage Active Firemen refutaon
would be entirely unnecessary. In order however that
your honorable body may be convinced that your
raliSt is dealing in vague assertion respectfully
begs to assure that it is matter Of the correct
ness Of cich beyoRd smiSe that for gears past the
enhrc d"y Of erttn jSiRg fires 'rtin the City of Bat
more has been performed by average of hand
Companies using for the part small Suction Engines
and no horses and moreover that the average attendance
with these seven Companies wherein all the rork has 10
be done Gy hand does not exceed hded If the
OF the committee Fire Companies doubt
ths your memoriast pledges himself to produce the
proof For these reasons your memoralist thinks that
any person of ordinary intelligence would find little diff
Guilty i'll properly locating the number Companies pro
posed for Il Paid Department, in which Steam
and Horses shall take the place of the means of
operating now in The assumption, the under
signed bess to say with all due courtesy, is based upon
ignorance of the construction of the improved Steam Fire
Engines now building The report says the Committee oh
Jects to paid steam system because of the mpossblity
of dispensing with hand engines in large portion of
city There large portions our city where water
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lone man being engaged the engine one as fireman
one IN charge of the horses and three with the hose
pipes, but five would be left pump water
"ergine" This duty the committee SAYS five men carra
perform Against this assumption, if your honoril,c
body Will kindly permit your memoriaist testify
| follows
1st His personal experience convnces him that much
water can he had from any given pump for the of 4
steam fire engine as for any hand engine whatever
I'd Having during long service fireman perform
ons he can safely assure honorable body that there
Is no single pump in this city which has ordinary well
attached thereto, which five able bodied land
other should be emplOyedD cannot pump entirely dry
! without the least injury to themselves.
The closing argument of the Report alluded to- averring
that because one hundred dollars per will not
make a "dsordery character gentleman" therefore
the services of men of intelligence and jugdment cannot
be procured for like sum- is to your memoriais tho
roughly incomprehensibe, and is therefore
BILE Why the Committee upon Fire Companies should be
anxious provide the Paid system with men of more
Intelligence and discretion than the system which
they propose, is rather complimentary than expli
cit and how "disorderlv character can be converted
into gentlemann with facility, and less
under the operation of than the other, mys
terry which may be the interest of your honorable body
as custodians of the public welfare to unravel possible
Without further dctaining your honorable body, your
memoriat respectfully asks your attention the follow
ing estimates in which he has provided additional
py anu proposes more men, more horses and more pay,
than he did in the Report which he had the honor
before YOU In so doing he begs to say that does not
proceed from want of confidence in the number proposed
IN the Report alluded but simply show that
sum than it will cost to establish Volunteer Department,
and Tor very little more in the annual expenses sys
TEN can be inaugurated whose effective force will exceed
that of any other Paid System and the pay whose
eaons be much greater than that of the Department
| St Louis or Cincinnati
Estimated cost Of Establishing Paid Steam Fire De
pGrtmeHt
First Glass Steam Machines $500 each.... $4,000
Hose Reels, 5000 each Observation-Disclosures. I4OO
1000 feet Hose, 81 per erfoot.............., 1000
Hook and Ladder Trucks, $500 each ......... 1000
II Horses for Engines 5000 each -. ..... $500
| II ." for Trucks and Reels, $50 each... 1850
Harness for % Horses, $374 each. 937 80
Fitting up City property for Fire Companies 7l2 sc
Total ..........-.................. S5O,OOO
Estimated ANIMAL er7ense Of J'aid Fire Department.
Chief Engineer, salary 81 600
Assistant Engineers, competent machniss) 1,5Oo
Pt 0itk IN o2O
81, 500
Steam Companies, each
! | Foreman 5000
| knglneInan. Observation-Disclosures. 600
fireman E. ..:.... '........... ............ $50
! Driver and llostler. ler.......-.,........... $50
| Extra Men, $50 each ch...................1,35O $50
| Keeping " Horses. $50
Companies, each: 400 is So 500
| = Hook and Ladder Companies each
Foreman .......................... $500
loSter and Driver. $40
! II Extra Men, $50 each ........... .......2lOO
| hetpnS = Horses. rSeS........................ 300
Companies each. 1850 is $1,000
nearS on apparatus. lSUo
Repairs on Hose, 10 per rccnt................. 700
Oil, Gas, Fuel and Extras. 800
! Total - eto noo
In conclusion and in complete vndicaton of the Paid
System, wherever it has been thoroughly established
and in refutatOn of the charges laid the
of the employees in other cities the undersigned respect
fully asks your candid Report of
Board of Underwriters of st Ouis and the Reports of the
authorities of the five cities Of this country in which has
been introduced and you will find in the language
of the Chief Engineer Of the Cincinnati Department
they have mo false alarms, few fires, trouble"
For the indulgence you have granted your memoralis
6egs to assure your honorable body he will be CRATE
Baltimore, Sept u, 1855
! ACCIDENTAL SHOOTING.-A man named Hutton wa,
shot accidentally yesterday afternoon on William street
in South Baltimore, by Mr. John Welsh, his cousin. who
was at the time passing in carriage, and got out tc
shake hands with Hutton. During the conversation Welsh
| pulled out his revolver in playful manner, and was
handling it when went Off the load taking effect in Hut
tons breast and causing very dangerous wound. lie
was taken to his residence on burst alley and Dr. Bait
zell for arrived shortly afterwards and probed
the wound, hut could not find the ball. late hour
yesterday evening the physician entertained serious
DEcEAsE OF AN AGED AND ESTEEMED Crr1zEv-The
Rev Thomas Bassford local preacher of the Methodist
Episcopal church. died yesterday morning at his residence
COurand street at the advanced age of seventy five
years. Some forty since the denomination to which
he attached, established male school in this
city which has been to this time, supported by it. and
OF which the deceased has been the Principal during the
whole period Of its existence lie highly esteemed
both as citizen and teacher His funeral sermon will be
preached this morning at 10 o'clock, at the Light street
church.
RAILROAD AccIDENr.-An accident occurred on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, at Sandy Hook, yesterday
morning by which man named Thomas Pcray cafoe
near losing his life. He in the act of stepping the
engine while it was in notion when lie lost his hold and
fell to the ground his feet lying the track. Before
the engineer could stop the engine the tender
both feet crushing them horribly Itsexpccted that bo
his legs will have to be amputated to save his life.
CRY RAILwATs-In the First Branch of the City Coun
Gil yesterday afternoon, ordinance reported to
power VIM Robertson, Coleman Bailey and Jas. Nit
che to Law down city railway ON Baltimore street from
the Eastern to the Western of the city: Light
street from Baltimore street to the Ferry Bar and out
Charles street from Baltimore the Northern limits
thecity 1t was read and laid upon the table
PERsoNAL-Hs excelency the President of the United
States accompanied by his niece, Miss Lane arrived
this city by the o'clock train to-day the Northern
Central Railway. Zenos Barnum, Esq, met him at the
Bolton Depot from whence they proceeded to Barnum
City Hotel.
Admitted TO PRAcrrcE.-J. Douglas HambletOn, ESQ.,
Monday last admitted practice in the
| Superior Court of Baltimore city.
ApporSrMENr-Mss Olivia King, was yesterday ap.
pointed assistant teacher in the Female Primary School
No. H. by the Board of School Commissioners.
| FIRES
The alarm at O'Clock yesterday morning caused
by the burning of dwelling and store occupied by Mr..
Joseph Clarke situated the Eager and EnsOr
streets. Mr.. Clarke and family made escape
with their lives, by getting down adjoining build
| ing. The building we learn is insured and the loss
trifing
la W NTELLIGENCE.
CRIMINAL CouRr-Hon Henry Stump Judge. Milton
Whitney Esq, States Attorney prosecuting The follow
! ing cases occupied the Court yesterday:
The witnesses summoned in the of William Clam.
pitt charged with manslaughter discharged till fur
ther notice.