St. Paul daily globe., 1889-01-19
SALTWATER NEWS.
Report of the Chief Of the Fire
DeDapt

The report of T. F. JOY, chief of the
fire department, shows that during the
year ending Dec. 81, 1888, the total
number OF runs made where loss Oc-
Cured was seventeen. and where there
was 10 loss, seven. The causes of fire
were defective flue. 5; carelessness, z;
unknown, 5: hot box, 2; burning
rubbish, 2; sparks, l; false alarms, Z.
The total number of runs made were
81; insurance involved, S1U7,S50 loss,
S17,S45.S7; insurance paid, $11.29l.21.
During the year 1900 feet of hose
was laid out and used: the department
worked twenty hours at fires, and made
runs, including one trip. Dec. 2l, to the
Wisconsin shore, aggregating twenty
five miles. The cost of sustaining thede-
partment was: Paid firemen, s4,614.s0:
insurance, $3.50; telephone, $72; horse
hire, while department teams were at
pasture" $3.50; horseshoeing and sun
DRIES, SS4O.7l: coal, S23S.95; repairs,
$3.50: horse feed, S512.21: fire alarm
system. $1,t00; heater for steamer,
SlS6.D5; horse, $405: water rents,
S7,35U.65. Total, Sl5,399.47. From this
is deducted water rents, S1.350.65; horse
and heater, S59l Los; use of team on
streets, $50; Il. c. Kitty, account hose,
So. 10. Total. IS, ,42S.S0, leaving a net ex-
pense of S6,97061. Chief JOY counsels
the extension of the water mains to that
considerable residence portion of the
city now without fire protection. but
whose citizens pay their share toward
water rents and the sustaining OF the
department. Should the council coll
slider such extension too expensive at
present, he advises the adoption of a
cistern system. The report also urges
Al Nt.sf
opening hydrants for sewer flushing
purposes during the period from Oct.
/ to April |, without first notifying the
water works superintendent or the per-
son in charge at the pump house, SO
that the hydrants may be attended to
and properly closed.
Great activity and unremitting work
is the order of the day at the Office of A.
e. HoSpeS, surveyor general of logs.
During last season the log scale amount
ed to 360, COG. 900 feet. or 60,000.000 in eX-
cess CT any previous season in the his
tory of the office. Besides that fact,
scaling continued until the unusually
late date of Nov. 20, until which time
posting of the books could not be begun.
Lumbermen are now clamoreus for
their official scale bills OF the season.
showing all logs sealed and the dispoSi-
LlDll OF SUCH lOSS. Iodiu MI. f1USp6S yes
terday: I'VE are all busy here trying
to catch mp. make ready the scale bills
for the merchant lumbermen and put
everything in shape for the advent of
our successor"
1he semi-annual promotions from one
grade to another in the public schools
were made yesterday. and the pupils
thus promoted will enter on their new
stations Monday.
Irof j. w. Dickinson, of Minneapo-
lis. eiocutionist and public reader, will
give an entertainment this evening at
the high school auditorium. The pro-
gramme. which will be varied with mu-
sic 10y the high school glee club, consists
of readings. including the grave diggers'
dialogue from Hamlet The proceeds
go toward purchasing apparatus for the
school gymnasium.
Mrs. Abner Rrotherton, of this city,
suffered a fracture of one of her arms
by fall at one of L. j. Wheeler e. Co.'S
Eau Claire lakes camps. where her huS-
band is employed. She arrived home
Yesterday.
The condition of DIR. j. G. Rhodes is
again reported as alarming.
Mrs. w. e. Easton, wife OF the Junior
publisher of the Gazette, is quite i'll.
Doodle. dirt and regenge." said a
prominent politician yesterday. after
returning from the senatorial fight, us
the combination thatedoWned Sabin."
The entire Saltwater heart is cast down
and Disguised at the result.