Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-02-02
FIRE DEPARTMENT.

interesting Quarterly Meeting List sight
The fire department met last night
at $50 O'clock, 1t being their regular
quarterly meeting, Nice-President
Stanley TomiinsOn OF the Protection
Company in the chair.
The committee on constitution ana
by-aws made report and the reading
oi the report was deferred until next
meeting
A verbal report of the finance COM
n,ittee vas received. 1t stated that NO
settlement had "a yet been made with
Mr.. Donohue, the former treasurer,
who owed the department the sum OF
s32. The committee WAS granted FUR
ther time.
Mr.. r. II. Barnes made motion
which was adopted, TO appoint CONF
mittee To investigate and report the
amount Of money which the depart
ment owes. Mr.. Jas. Swayne, Geo.
Muikey and r. II. Barnes were APP
pointed
A motion was made that
| the department incur no mere
debts unless the treasury have money
to pay them. Laid upon the table
until next meeting.
The resignation of Mr.. George
Mulkey as chief engineer OF the fire
department was then received and ac-
cepted. = =, Gum.
ME as second assistant chief engineer
of the Fort Worth fire department. was
then received and accepted.
Mr. Mulkey then made II few re-
marks which were greeted with ap-
plause, stating that the cause of his res
| ignation was that he considered that
there should be some man elected
chief who had, as he had, the good of
the department at heart, and
! who could until the regular
election next May get the
department well in hand and who
should be elected with the idea of con
tinuiug him in Office next year, so he
would thoroughly understand the de-
partment and the department. under
stand him when the state convention
meets here next June. MIR, Mulkey
said that he did not mean TO have i
inferred that his resignation "a chle
would cause his severancefrom the de
partment rs Il fireman. When Their
was fire in the future he would b'
found, and although he was somewha
crippled with rheumatism he still in
tended as far as possible
To do his duty. He thought he hat
reason to congratulate himself at tn
immense strides the fire department
had made in improvements since hi
incumbency rs chief. That the cit
! had fine water works, that the dt
partment had new hose of the hes
kind, fire alarm system OF TN
inost approved pattern, and tina
hnI
: and ladder truck would soon be here
and he hoped that when they were n
J ceivsd, good use would be made Z
y them, and the department give goo
l account of themselves i'm the future II
they had done formerly. That !
parting from the department AS the
chief he would state that there wei
many things he knew which he shOul
Q have done, which he had not dom
but on the whole he considered thu
ne had always acted for the best in e'
q erything connected with the depar
l. ment while chief.
Il II was ordered that the resignatio
:, of Mr.. Mulkey, rs chief, and Mr.. Gil
d lespie, as second assistant chief, be fO
e warded to the city council with the r
II quest that the mayor, in complain,
is with city ordinance No. 90, order Il
u department to meet to hold speci
l. election for chief engineer and Sc
k ond assistant chief engine
n of the fire department mat
80 necessary by the resignati'
n OF Mr.. Mulkey and Mr.. Gillespie.
10 committee consisting Of Mr.. II.
a. Barnes, Mr.. Keller, Mr.. Matkins, al
al Mr.. Cause was appointed 10 wait up,
m the city council 70 urge the purcha
d of horses and harness to haul the mt
& apparatus when necessary.
\. The meeting then adjourned.