The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-25
THE CITYS FIRE SERVICE
THE PLAN FOR REoRGANIzING THE
FIRE DEPARTMENT.


FIRE DEPARTMENT.
The Councils Investigation and the
Report of the Investigating Com
mittee-A Paid Department with In
creased Equipment recommended
The Estimated Cost of Maintenance
Under the Proposed New Order of
Things-Other Matters Before COun-
Gil
The city council spent two hours in eau
Gus and a little more than an hour in open
session last might.
Alderman Cam presented a report of the
Special committee on investigation of the
condition of the fire department. The com
mittee recommended the purchase of one
extension or aerial truck, one chemical en-
CINE, 900 feet Of rubber-lned cotton hose,
and the changing Of the patrol wagon, now
at headquarters" into a hose wagon. The
expense of these items, the committee estl-
mated. viii be within IS, 800.
The COMMITTEES suggested that such rules
be promulgated by the fire committee as
will give fremeu authority and make them
responsible for the care Of their engine
houses, and for the driving and control Of
their apparatus until turned over to the
chief at fires.
The foreman at headquarters, the commit
tee rec 0mmend, be designated as assistant
chief, at 5000 rer annum.
The purchase Of fire hats was recon-
mended, and rules requiring them to be
used at every fire.
WANT PAID DEPARTMENT.
The committee recommended putting the
department on full paid basis, giving q
force Of one chief, five foremen, eleven
drivers, twenty-five men and one superin-
tendent Of fire alarm apparatus, and that
the chief fireman be given absolute control
of the men employed in the department and
the power of appointment and removal to
be vested in him, the present call men, who
may have shown themselves competent, to
be given the preference; the chief to select
such competent mechanics as he may find
fitted to do the ordinary repair and other
work incident to the department, these men
TO be relieved from routine work when en-
ployed III making repairs, but not to be re-
ieved from fire duty.
In the working of the truck the commit
tee recommended that there shall be
no specially designated tillerman, but that
each man tached to the truck be drilled
in handling the tiller so that either Of them
may be able to manage it at any time.
THE COST OF THE DEPARTMENT.
In conclusion the committee estimated
the annual expense of maintaining the de-
partment under its recommendations at
net to exceed $40, 900, divided as follows:
Salaries, Chief 800 90
Engineers. 81, 600 each .............. 4,n00 90
Foremen, S720 each. ............ 5000 10
II Drivers. 5000 each.................. 6,6O0 90
25 Firemen, $500 each ................. Is 900 90
] Superintendent Fire Alarm. ......... 900 90
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Total .................2 81, 800 co
The report, after it had been discussed by
Aldermen Cam, Bailey, Myers and Haines,
was referred to the committee Of the whole,
Alderman Bailey stating that the object
was to get the force in good running or
der by Jan. ! next Alderman Haines
objected to the purchase of ] 600 feet of
hose, but Alderman Bailey replied that if
the patrol wagon is to be converted into a
hose wagon, as recommended by the com
Inittee, the hose will be needed.
Alderman Bailey was asked by Alderman
Haines if the heaters had been ordered, and
his reply was that five had been ordered,
and are now under process Of construction.
A petition, signed by a half dozen or so,
asking that ex-Chief Fernandez be elected
chief Of the fire department didn't meet
with much favor, and was received as in
formation, on motion Of Alderman haines.
THE LIBERTY STREET PAVEMENT.
The petition of the Liberty street prop
erty holders west of Tattnall street, asking
for a reimbursement of the Assessments for
asphalt paying, was granted by an unanl-
NOUS vote.
A resolution by Alderman Falligant was
adopted providing for a typographical sur
vey of three proposed lines for house drain
age, from which typographical maps are to
be made TO be submitted to Engineer Rudolf
Herring as guide to report he will prepare
for council, recommending a point of dis
charge and general plan of house drainage.
A resolution by Alderman Bailey, that
the widows of the dead firemen, John +.
Wiehrs and Henry B. Goodson, be paid the
salaries of their late husbands for the bal
ance of the year, was referred to the finance
committee.
A resolution by Alderman Haines disap-
proving the charter which the Enterprise
Street Railway Company is seeking to have
granted by the legislature aud instructing
the clerk OF council to forward a copy of
the resolutions to the senator and repre-
sentativeS from this county.
A NEW ELECTION LAW.
On motion of Alderman Cam, Corpora
ton Attorney Adams was instructed to
publish notice to the effect that the legis-
AoAdAc " III 10 tAoAtu " cAdCO u Bill lbl IGtIAS-
tricLing the city, and to provide for regis
tratiOn of voters and elections.
petition from property holders ON Hall
street was referred TO the committee on
streets and lanes. The petitioners ask that
Hall street. from Whitaker to jackson, be
paved with oyster shells, the city to furnish
all the labor, and the property holders to
pay for the curbing, for the brick entering
INTO the construction of cesspools and for
the oyster shells.
The committee on fire recommended that
$50 be paid Mr.. Dill, injured at the fire of
April 6 by the breaking Of his ankle, which
was adopted.
The petition of Mary A. Ryan, for dam.
age from overflow Of her lots, was adversely
reported upon by the street and lane com
mittee, which recommended that she grade
her lot to conform to the established grade
OF tbs street. which report was adopted
Bills were passed by council amounting
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