The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-02-11
THE LONDON FIRE BRIGADE.
A Cheap md Kneetive pepartment.

A Cheap and Effective Department.
There are now 30 stations of the
brigade in London, and 4 stations are
on tie Thames. where steam floating
engines are moorsd. In connection
with these stations which are all in COM
municatiOn with each other by means
of the electric telegraph, there are So
telegraph lines, and IS miles of tele-
graph, iron-hoatipg barge to carry a
land steam fire engine, 3 large land
steam fire engines, "A small land steam
fire engines, Is 7-inch manual fire en-
gines. Sc 6-inch manual fire engines,
and 396 fremen. There are 105 fire.
escape stations and 125 fre-escapes.
The number of fremen employed on
the several watches kept up during the
day is 90; the number at night is l84,
so that 271 are employed On watch duty
in every twenty-four hours. The num-
ber sick, injured, on leave, or under in
struction, is usually between 40 and 80.
The remaining men arO available for
general work at fires. During 1878 the
calls made on the brigade for a turnout
of engines, were as many as 1, 703. OF
these SO proved TO be false alarms, and
70 were alarms of chimney fires. OF
fires other than chimney fires there were
], ,548, of which leo resulted in serious
damage, /, ,3S2 in slight damage. In 90
of those fires life Was lost, and in "A of
them life was seriously endangered.
The number of lives actually lost was
| 35, of whom u were taken out of the
| burning buildings before death, but
/ subsequently succumed in hospitals or
! elsewhere. The total number of calls
for chimney fires, and in which no alarm
of general fire had been raised, was
! 3, ,602. In these cases there was no at
| tendance of engines, but only of fire.
men with hand pumps. The quantity
of water usel for exsinguishing fires in
the metropolis during the year 1873,
was about 81, 800, 600 gallons, or 101, ,O0C
tons. The working accounts for the
year show the expenditure of the brit
| gade to have been nearly 1870, 900. Ol
this, between $IS0,000 and SiS5, 00C
went in salaries and wages, and nearly
| $40, 900 for mems clothing; something
under 81, 900 for payments TO medical
officers, and about e., 500 In pensions tC
late officers and widows.
Buffers Postal Telegraph Bill.
The postal telegraph bill, introduced
by Mr.. Butler, of Massachusetts,, pro
poses that all telegraphic lines of com
munication shall be made postroAds
and the postmaster general Is author
lied to advertise for the transmission
of all government dispatches in the
same manner as the transmission o
mails are now advertised fer.
Section two provides that all oOmpa
MES shall receive and forward dispatches
from other companies without any extri
charge for designating the point wher'
the same came upon its line, and pro
hibits preference being given TO an.
class of business.
Section three prohibits the seveTa
companies on land and ocean being IN
terested directly or indirectly IN tn
, collection and transmission OF CONNER
cial news.
Section four requires rates for spscia
kilograms to newspapers and conzpsI
cial news associations to be the same
which rates shall be publicly displayed
such rates in no case to exceed tn
! rate charged by the associated press an
other Or, ss associations on the first c
, January, 1875.
3 Section FIVE provides that all tel.
grams shall be privileged communIci
g | tions in law to some extent that scale
Q letters are now, and the contents sha
@ not be divulged by any agent or Otice
q of the company, except for purposes {
/, Justice, by order of court OF comps
a tent Jurisdiction.
Section six makes the tariff unifoYl
e to sll parties for similar services. Go
z ernment dispatches when certified by
( proper officer, to have precedence Wit
y out prepayment, at rates TO be IKE
!. annually by the postmaster-general g
other kilograms to be transmitted in Il
q order received, except those designate
It to go ut night.
d Section seven makes divulging of II
Q contents of any telegram, or willfl
: delay in sending. or injury to telegraE
a lines or apparatus, misdemsanor, pu,
It ishRble by fine and imprisonment.