The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1875-06-18

Fridays, at p. n.
OFFIcE HoURs-From 80 A.. NJ. to r. NJ
Money order Office hours, from A. N. 70 ". n.
p. n. RAYMOND. p. n.
THE FIRE QUESTION Atits meet
ing last week petition was presented
to the City Council asking for an ap-
preparation of money sufficient to pur-
chase the necessary apparatus for fit
ting out hook and ladder company.
The question was discussed at some
length, but no definite conclusion ar
rived at, and it was laid on the table
until the next regular meeting. The
Councilmen are all alive to the neces-
sIty Of doing something to increase
the usefulness of the fire department.
but are at loss to know whether to
get the outfit for the hook and ladder
company, or to raise larger amount
of money and purchase a steamer. The
latter proposition we deem unwise in
several particulars, but we are not a
veteran in the department and may be
wrong. A good steamer, together with
the hose and implements and fixtures
necessary to put a company in running
order could not be set down in Albany
for much less figure than $1,000.
There il no money in the city treasury
and our charter will only allow us to
20 $1,000 in debt. This leaves balance
Of $4,000 to be made up by private sub
scription, which is next to impossible
during these hard times. Now for the
hook and ladder question: Nine hum
dred dollars will give us the best outfit
in the State, and house or shed can
be put up by the side of the engine
house at a trifiing cost--it can be built
by subscription. If our readers will
take the trouble to look back over the
list Of the fires which have occurred in
this city, they will find at nearly half
of them greater damage was done by
water than by fire. Nowif we had had
a hook and ladder ercompany well drilled
and equipped, few buckets OF water
could have been put in the right place,
and without any material damage to
the property the fire could have been
put out. Alsoin many cases the hose
men of our engine company find 1t
difficult to get within reach of the
fire for want of ladders, as was the
case when our Office was on fire; then
the assistance rendered would be in
valuable. 1t is true that our city needs
asteam fire engine, and the best way to
get it Is to sell the hand engine, and
apply the money realized by that sale
upon the purchase of it. 1t could then
be given to the old company and there
would be no hard feelings between the
two, as there might be If one should
be purchased now and given to the
new company. Our city is growing
very fast and our facilities for check
ing a conhagration should be increased,
andof course will be, as the Council
men have expressed themselves in fa-
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douht v,i,I urove accentable to the citi-
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bouts Of tlis young lady, and evidence
seemed positive that she was not witt
her friends IN Fox Prairie, as supposed
The mystery then was, where conlt
she be? Another lot Of road worker
were known to be near, under anotheI
Supervisor; so the clothing was takeI
over there. hoping to have some ex
.ulauatlon; also, there were suspicioni
,of a man In that crowd, and when th'
men arrived, told the story and shove,
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