The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1880-08-03
THE NEW TRUCK coMPAxY-BUTLDISG PER-
MfTS.

MfTs.
Mr.. King. from the Committee OF Fir,
Department, presented the following re-
port:
RICHMOND, July 10, 1880.
TO the Honorable the Council Of the City o.
Richmond:
Gentlemen. The Committee on the Fire
Department beg leave respectfully to re-
port that they have organized, and from
their number selected the Undersigned
chairman.
Your committee would respectfully rep
resent that at recent meeting OF the Coun-
Gil an order was passed for the purchase
and equipment Of an additional hook.and-
ladder truck. This order has been carried
out, and IL now becomes necessary for the
Council to confer upon the committee ali-
thority 10 organize n company TO operate
this truck, and to carry out this suggestion
the following resolution Is presented:
Resolved (the Board OF Aldermen concur
ring), That the Committee on the Fire De-
partment be, and they are hereby, authorized
aud directed TO organize an additional Hook
and-Ladder-Truck Company. to be known
on the rolls Of the Fire Department as
Hook-and.L Ladder-Truck Company No. 2,
and to be located as the committee may d.
rect.
Resoiued (the Board Of Aldermen concur
ring), That permission be, and is hereby.
granted the following persons to erect
framed buildings in the city, in accordance
with their respective petitions: John Wal
lace. dwelling on Seventh street north OF
Preston street; James l.. Taiaferro, re-
build stable on alley between Broad and
Grace and Twenty-nintb streets-also. addi-
tion TO wing OF dwelling Nos. 2903 and 290j,
on Broad street between Twenfy-ninh and
Thirtieth streets; Albert Ross, addition to
house near corner ST. james and Coutts
stress; ID. W. Green, dwelling on rear Of
his lot on Eighteenth street between Vena-
bic and Clay streets; Joseph Tyree,
to pull down and rebuild house on
st. Peter street between Baker and
Duval streets; Mrs. ID. Francisco, to
repair and raise her house, corner Seven
teenth and Grace streets; Eli Saunders,
dwelling and out-buldlngs on Twenty
eighth street between VI and Leigh streets !;
]. Z. Michel, shed al sos west Clay street !;
q. Wigger, addition Of one story TO his
house, No. 400, corner Broad and Monroe
streets +. Sitterdlng, coal and wood
house on First street between Leigh and
Jackson streets; Peter II. II. Jones, dwell.
ing on Lot No. Chafiin street, Sidney;
Rev. Alexander W. WeddeIl, "robing-
room" IN rear OF st. Johns church; Bev-
erly Il. Woodbridge, dwelling. &c, at No.
! Chaffin street; Nathaniel j. Young, dwell
Ing corner Baker and Tyler streets; Daniel
| DAILY, dwelling m LOundes street between
Seventeenth and Eighteenth streets; VIII
! liam X. Jennings, shed for six cows on Clay
street nearly opposite Richmond College;
| William l.. Griffin, wood and coal house
| at No. 202 east Marshall street; j. II. Ware,
building at No. 400 north Twenty-seventh
street; John A. llei>lers, kitchen and sta
bic at No. 1909 Twenty fifth street, between
j and Venable streets; ;. Johnson, for
Nanuie f. Holmes. dwelling at No. jl2
Monroe street, corner OF Catherine; Ann
Mckinley. addition TO stable in rear Of lot
corner OF Eighteenth and Marshall streets !;
&. NJ. Bolton, manager, two sheds and to
make IN addition TO back>mth-shop, y by
| IS, on lot between Adams street and Brook
avenue and Leigh end Pulliam streets; !;
John . heefe, stable on alley between
Jackson and Leigh streets james Fulton,
open she'd corner Broad and Gilmer streets !;
&. II. Thompson, porch two stories high,
to be enclosed, &C., situated III rear OF {. C..
Baughman's, on Second street between Main
and Franklin streets; Fuller Brothers,
kitchen at No. 1912 seventeenth street; H..
b. Whitlock, shed in rear OF premises on
Marshall street between Fifth and Sixth
streets; Robert Jones. addition TO his
house, No. 6 Canal street, between First
and Foushee streets; John j. King, dwell
ing on Cherry street near Hollywood; An
CELIA LOhman, addition TO house No. 739
Fourth street.
The resolution TO organize the proposed
new truck company was land on the table,
and the resolution for building permits was
agreed 10.
NEW STEAMER FOR THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Mr.. King, from the Committee on the
Fire Department, also presented the follow
ing:
| HEADQ'Rs RICHMOND FIRE DEPARTMENT,
RICHMOND, July y, 1880.
| TO the President ard Members Of the Coun-
| Gil:
| Gentlemen Committee on the Fire
| Department are reluctantly constrained 10
invoke your kindly aid in necessary addi'
tions TO The apparatus Of the department
and repairs TO some OF the machinery al
ready in service for more than twenty years.
The proper officers OF the department re-
ported TO this committee three months ago
wheels at once, or il would be absolutely ne
cessary to put the engine ont OF service.
These wheels cost at the factory not less
than two hundred dollars.
Steamer No ., which was bought second
hand by the city about seven years ago in
philadelphia. had then been in service
nearly sixteen years. its condition now /,
such that il is positively hazardous to life
TO work il at a lire, and, at almost every
fire, very soon after being put TO work,
such is the condition OF its boiler and flues
that the fire in the flre-b0x Is put ont by
escaping steam or water and the engine rem
dered useless. This occurred twice in May
We have repeatedly paid for minor repairs
10 this steamer until il has become waste
full expenditure Of money. Before reach
inc this conclusion, however, we wrote
letter to Messrs. Mcfarland, Wade, anC
O'Brien, master machinists OF the Chesa'
peake and Ohio, Richmond and Danville
and Richmond and Petersburg railroads
and requested them TO select time, and
as a personal favor TO this committee, 10
examine the engine and report in writing lis
true condition, and their opinion as to wheth
or il would be more economical TO rebuild tbt
steamer or buy new one. These gentle
men cheerfuly carried out the wish OF tht
committee, and, with the engineman, thor
oughly examined the apparatus. Tney
have sent to the committee their report
giving figures showing that 1t would D'
more economical TO purchase a new ant
lighter engine, and put such necessary re
pairs upon the old one as will make u nj iol
service few years longer. II thi: he done
we could keep the repaired engine IN re
serve, without 4 complement OF men, 10 b'
used only when necessary at serious nre