Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-08
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STRENGTH OF THE DEPARTMENT.

LASH received from DullOluR
Sale Of condemned supplies. 1850
STRENGTH OF THE DEPARTMENT.
Department consists of fire marshal,
one assistant and fourteen men regularly
employed for duty at all times and one
orderly in charge of house on West Side,
volunteer members of forty men who an
swer fires only in their district and when
called by special alarm.
HORSES.
Number Of horses, eight on duty at all
times during the year, one horse proved
unfit for service and one horse bought.
The horses are all we'll trained and In
good condition. Extra horses should be
purchased to take the place of those tenn
porarily disabled, as many times green
horses must be hired to do the service,
which occasions loss of time in answering
alarms.
Organization and location of stations:
STATION NO.
Is two story brick building 25xS0 feet,
located on North Market, between First
and Second, built November, 1886, d oc-
Chemical engine, made by Fire Elk. Mfg
Co., of Chicago; double tank, sixty gallons
each; carries two ladders, 200 feet of II
hose, two nozzles, and weighs when
charged for duty 5000 pounds. Drawn by
two horses, and cost s., 500.
ALI. acknowledgements.
Warren McKee-Driver.
AL Clark-Nozzle.
HOSE REEL NO. l
Made by Am. Fire Hose Co., DavSn-
port, Iowa; carries $50 feet of
Pa inch hose, compliment of
wrenches, spanners and MOBILES, weighs
$500 pounds, drawn by two horses, been in
service two years and cost 5000.
R. G. Armstrong-Compa Foreman.
VIM. Shawner-Driver.
Lew Clark-Nozzle.
Ed Littell-Plugman.s
STATION NO. 2
Is two-story brick 25x10O feet, built Octo-
Der 1888, located on South Topeka near
English street, and occupied by two COM
panies, as follows:
Hose Reel No. 2-Made by American
Fire Hose Manufacturing Company, Da-
venport, Iowa; carries $50 feet of hose
complement of wrenches. spanners, noz-
zies, and weighs :, 800 po Hsno been in ser
Joe Mfllis-Company Foreman.
Jack Caldwell-Plugman.
Geo. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.
Fred Bruhn-Assistant Chief and Charge
of Station.
HOOK AND LADDER TRUCK COMPANY.
Truck made by E. B. Preston, of Chi
cago, and is first-class City truck carries
65-foot Bangor extension ladder and
complement of hand ladders, pompier
by two horses and weighs $500 pounds.
Allen Combs-Company foreman.
Thos. Scott-Driver.
Terry Porter-Tillerman.
VIM. Snyder-Ladder.
STATION NO. g.
Located on West Side; is one-story
frame 20x40, and occupied by
carries 75O feet of hose; answers
only to alarms in their district or when
general alarm is sounded. There are
twenty members in this company, II. l..
Davis in charge of station.
STATION NO. 4.
At Burton, North Wichita; recently Or
ganized with membership of twenty. A
building has been ordered by the council
and will soon be built. It will be occupied
by hand hook and ladder truck.
HOSE.
There is in good condition $500 feet of
rubber hose. The cotton hose bought of
American Fire Hose company has proven
very bad. Five hundred feet is now in the
hands of the manufacturers to be re-
placed.
FIRE ALARM SERVICE.
The telephone service Is all that the out
side districts have to depend upon, and it
is very essential that those living in the
resident portions of the city acquaint
themselves with the nearest telephone so
that the alarm can be answered as quick
" as possible. The business portion of the
city Is supplied with an electric service
which has given perfect satisfaction.
FIRES AND LOSSES.
Our city has been very fortunate in the
past year; no large losses have occurred
and the department has been very effect
i've. During the year the department has
were false, making the number of actual
fires seventy-six, sustaining loss of 1885,
O20 ! he causes are as follows:
Carelessness. Defective hearths .....
Gas exclusion ......... Defective iues........
Incendiaries. SPONTANEOUS combstn
Electric light sparks :. Steam pipe bursting.
-herted stove Burning grass
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Total amount OF loss ....-....... f31, Q20.U
Total amount Of Insurance paid sy7. 7o50o
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The above IL quite good showing when |
the preceding year shows but sixty-two |
actual fires with a.
Total Loss sustained Of .......... S59IA0O |
Loss over and above insurance. ioaD0s
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The estimated value Of the building |
done within the jurisdiction of the fire |
per record of permits issued. in |
cl uding public buildings, is 81, 901, $50, of /
which number seventy-five were brick and |
stone. from one to four stories,
and S6l frame Among the number of |
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