St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-17
THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Fire Record for the Year, With Losses and
Insurance
Losses Greatly Reduced by Depart
ment Efficiency.
The Houses Erected and Apparatus
Purchased.

The pride of Minneapolis is her fire de-
partment. Efficient. disciplined and ably
differed, with unusual water facilities Ghe
direct pressure system), and excellent ap-
paratus, but few serious CONGREGATIONS have
reduced to ashes combustible property dur
ing the past year. The heaviest loss was
suffered on Christmas day. When the
thermometer registered some 200 below
zero the Academy of Music building was
totally destroyed, or so nearly so that the
tOttering walls were from necessity RACED,
and since has given place to the elegant
and absolutely fire proof building, the Tenn
pie Court. The loss was 1925, 1000. The
next heaviest and most disastrous fire oc-
CURED on the 29th of September, when the
large double block in course of erection by
the Gates brothers. and the Mill tenement
row were burned near Central park, aggre-
eating loss of about $45, 600. In May the
Island Power company suffered a heavy
loss, but otherwise the city has been blessed
by a lack of heavy fires.
THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.
The department is differed as follows:
Chief Engineer-Frank L. Stetson.
First Assistant Chief Englneer-August n.
Runge.
Second Assistant Chief Engineer-Peter J.
Kenney.
Fire Department Committee of the City
Councll-Henry G. Morse, Emerson Cole.
George W. Cooley, Fred c. Barrows and David
Clough.
1t is full paid department. composed Of
113 men, of which eight have been added
during the year, to fill the new hose house
III the Second ward.
APPARATUS AND MATERIALS.
During the year apparatus and materials
have been purchased as follows:
A first-class Ahrens engine. ST. 62S
Ten uhe usand feet of hose............. $500
Patent Hayes truck ................ $500
A two-wheel chemical engine. 1,21S
A nose CARRIAGE ..-....-............ io4
Thirty-three fire-alarm boxes. ......... 6,750
A ten-circuit, automatic repeater...... 1900
Four horse gongs ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $50
Twenty-one horses. Observation-Disclosures. 5000
Total. $50, $50
Sixty-nine horses are in the department,
and an inventory shows that the city has
steam fire engines, 10 hose carriages, 2
hook and ladder trucks. chemical engines,
l supply wagon, 1 sulkv hose reel and 1
hand-hOse supply reel, and by Feb. 1 next
a new company will have been organized
and a hose truck placed in the new Oak
Lake hose house. the materials and supplies
for which have already been ordered.
Since Jan. the entire expense of the de-
partment, which includes salaries of men,
purchase of apparatus, materials, horses,
feed, supplies, repairs, etc., has aggregated
1926. 1866.
-.-. HOSE HOUSES.
During the year hose house has been
built in the Second ward on Seventh ave-
nue. southeast and Eighth street at cost of
IS, 900, hose house in Oak Lake on Holden
street at cost of Sc, 700. Additions have
been made to the Cataract engine house for
the purpose of accommodating the chemical
company and to Station A headquarters.
The cost of the former was $1,000.
LOSS AND INSURANCE.
Following is a summary of loss and in
surance by months;