, 1865-06-25

- fU01 NC NEW lVlk AlA11e3 A%1at
Yesterday morning the Court Of Appesls Of
1ioralsty Of the Law Of the last session Of tie
Legislature, creating Paid Fire Department
for the City Of New Turk. aud lemoying the
entire control aud direction thereof into the
haDds ofa beard Of commissioners.
This decision IS final, and the Volunteer
thing Of the past .-n7
YVES organized. according to -the usual H.
counts, in 1888; alth 7ugh flre engines wsse
need in the city In 1731- Before that tiue,
fire buckets Msfs +; sSa 9sa having made their
From 179s TO the present time. the history
Of our Fire Department, Ike that Of all hu-
man Institutions, has been mixturc ofgood
aud evil. Its record Of heroic daring, perse-
duty, Il very glorious In the course ofyears
various abuses have gradually grown up
around 1t, and from their operation and from
the natural owners In changing which be-
longs to go large body, It had GRADUALLY come
into = condition not adequate to tha de-
rial estate at the city as well IS tho Fre
Departments OF other cities did theirs. In
1858, Fire Insurance In New York cost much
more than In Cincinnati, almost twics AZ
much IS in Boston, and quadEuple the Log
don rates. The experiences Of ihese cities,
moreover, aud that Of others also, proved
that this economy In Insurance was to be ST.
tr'buted to the use OF steam ffre-engtnes By
Il paid department..
n Besides this financial aspect Of the 4uea-
mai ,rity Of the volunteer fremen we're mn
quest1onably Jcung men Of Industrious. and
hi horrible character, considerable number
Of idle and vicious persons had fastened upon
the department, and under the sling name
OF * bumuers,' got q living out of the de-
7,ovAt7anf In \ fav ha
II was authoritatlyc1y repcrtedsthat out Of q
whole number Of 5 800 dremeu, more than
1000 lird in the engine houses, 8 practice
which St least e1poaed them to imminent
evils that could bese. lmpulalye youth aloat
in crcat city without The protection Of
family home.
Every citizen knows that fights and dis
tnrbauces Of more Or less impol tance ffom
time to time took place between members OF
stood, 1t was not In human nature that it
should be otherwise. 1t has even been as
se7ted that tisemen we're concerned In start
Ing the numerous riots Of the summer Of 1861.
But, this assertion has never bseu proved to
the satisfaction Of the public, and II 1t should
be 80 proved. Of course the criminals would
be shown to belong to the class OF rowdy
hangers-on, and not to that class which re-
presented the better and real spirit Of the
Department
- AA3 ucEu C40tEEA k4A* k4t t0lUUlEEE
Fire DEPARTMENT has hten made an ef1cleut
political machine? Afany Of the campauses
were certainly named after city and other
Dsmoc,atic politicians. One Of them WIS
named after George B. Mcclellan, and cor
e1bs , asc,hT ys Spss sSpb ba a3qsa S
au Absahan lincoln and other Republican
companies, 1t vas not altogether probable
that dehting and disturbance would eusre9
1t was further considered that the expend-
ltures Of the Volunteer Fire Department
| were becoming excessive. It was not easy
to get satisfactory information what the
amonnt was. but 1t was supposed to be not
less than 500, 900 year, and 1t was believed
that greater security against dre could be at
tatucd at less expense, by u paid depart
nent.
Under the influence Of such views Is 70 the
tendency of the Volunteer Fire Department
10 become Inc f1acient. q source of fdlcnesa
and disturbance and vice, political machine
AID cause Of wastefnl civic expense, the
undertaking was begun to obtain
TIE rA1p FIRE DEPARTMENT.
This may be considered second Instance
fully embodied in the Metropolitan Police
! bill. The bill for this purpose Was introduced
into the State senate on the 18th Of list JAM
ua1y. 1t bus already been printed IN full IN
our columns, aud no repetition Of it Is me-
csssa1y here, except merely to say that It
places At the head Of the Department
-ttlr Commissioners, to be appointed by
4 the Governor and confirmed by the SEM
atc, gives them entire control OF the Depart
| ment, and provides that the hrrmeu under tha
new arrangement shall be selected from tha
best Of the volunteer dremen. This bill was
vigorously fought from the start By the whole
influence Of the volunteer Fire Department.
TnIs VAS to be expected. No paid Fire De-
| partment has been introduced In any city
without earnest opposition. very much of tho
same kind. The Senate Committee however,
reported in It's favor, Feb, Is, and the bill
finally passed, March 81, much indignation
beng expended by some Of Its opponents
against those Democrats who voted for It.
The new Board, as appointed BY Gov. Ftu~
ton, consists of Charles C. Pfuckney, Prcai
dent Philip ". Euga, James ". Booth, Mar-
tin B. Brown and Charles E, E,Glldersieeve, Sec-
TctarS.
fhs.s gentlemen are ~e.:: known and r..
-rsc,au4e .4..zens Of New York, have ali ex-
patience us 1:emen, and are every way suita-
bic for the place.
:. The present state Of affairs is entirely Quiet
and sh.tsfncto4y, ard the gentlemen Of the
BOARD anticipate no difficulty or troubie
wlateFcr 10 nanguratIng the new order of
thsnSs. 80 many companies have already
reposttd to the new board that ample prf,-
vision Is already made against fire. Aud if
any company sh ould be 50 foolish as to at
tempt to make trouble, which nobody ex-
pecis, 1t Will be disbanded and ita apparatus
ahd house locked up.
1 The Meth odtAt Bishops lnvIte a Gene
crnl Union Of their Deuona1u uf1on.
| At the annual busfness ,neetIup+ of the
Bishops Of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
held At Ef1f, Pa last week, the following