Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-12
If the Director Follows Instructions
he Will Earn His Salary.
MANY NEW ORDERS LAID DOWN.
An Inspection Of the BraveSt and Houses
Must be Made Weekly.
THE MEN CANNOT 60 INTO SALOONS

asks Councils to create. Nhen the VIui-
nance was first presented, an objection was
raised upon the ground that men were
already being paid for attending to these
duties. The Chief is prepared to snow tnem
that this is not true. The duties OF tne
Court Officer have already been presented
in THE DISPATCH, and those Of Fire Dl-
rector are as follows:
He shall always be subject to the au-
thority, control and supervision of the
Chief of the Department of Public Safety;
be shall have the power and command set
forth in the following rules:
Rule IA director of fires shall be as
signed to the Bureau of Fire, who shall
have his Office in such place as the Chief of
the Department of Public Safety may de-
termine and shall be subject to such rules
and regulations as the Chief OF the Depart
ment of Public Safety may at any time pre-
scribe.
TO RAvE ABSOLUTE CONTROL.
Rule 2-The Fire Director shall have abso-
lutte command, control, charge, manage
ment, discipline and supervision of every
officer and employe in the Bureau of Fire,
save only the superintendent thereof. He
shall take cognizance OF any and all neglect
OF duty BY any of said officers OF the bureau
or by any oi the employees thereof.
Rule She shall have absolute COM
mand, control, charge and management OF
every fire in the city of Pittsburg, and the
Assistant Superintendent in the various
districts shall be subject to his command
and control at such fires. At an alarm of
fir: he shall report promptly to the place
frora which the alarm has been sent, and
shall assume control, designate the location
of plugs to which tine various companies
shall be assigned, ascertain the extent, size
and magnitude of the fire, and have author
ity to send in other and additional alarms
calling out such districts in the city as may
in his judgment be required.
ANOTHER NEW WRINKLE.
Rule 4-The Director shall, when other
alarms are sent in, always send messengers
to intercept the coming steamers at some
point designated on the fire chart, to inform
the Captain Of each company what fire plug
has been assigned to them, and impart to
the Captain the nature and extent OF the
fire, SO as to enable them to speedily have q
stream OF water playing on the same, and to
handle his company in an intelligent and
expeditions manner.
Rule 5-He shall have full power and
authority to order any and all of the said
employees OF the Bureau Of Fire to their re-
spective duties and to direct what particular
duties shall from time to time be performed
by the various men in the engine houses in
the city limits.
Rule 6-The Fire Director shall be re-
sponsible for the extinction of any and all
fires within the city and for the best pro-
lection of person and property possible.
TO INSPECT THE HOUSES.
Rule THE Fire Director shall be respon-
sible for the good discipline, good conduct
and efficiency of the force of the Fire
Bureau; he shall see that the men are prop
erly exercised, that each man knows exactly
what his duty il. and intelligently under
stand how to perform it.. that the physical
strength Of the company shall be carefully
looked after and that their welfare and
efficiency shall, by all possible means be
promoted. He shall weekly, and oftener if
necessary, inspect each engine house in the
bureau and shall keep himself fully in
formed concerning the manner in which the
men in each engine house discharge and
perform their various duties, TO the end that he
may at all times know whether or not they
are faithfully and efficiently performing the
same. He shall receive the reports of the
captains and other officers in command of
engine houses at A. NJ. daily, and report In
person at 10 A. NJ. daily to the Chief of the
Department of Public Safety.
MUST KNOW THE LAWS.
Rule S-The Fire Director shall see that
within the city all the laws of the State and
ordinances Of the corporation of the city of
Pittsburg, of which he has cognizance, are
rightly enforced. He shall transmit to the
Chief Of the Department Of Public Safety,
all charges against members of the bureau,
and shall make monthly reports, in writing,
to the Chief of the Department of Public
nf he Of ha Rnr
and the condition of each engine house, to-
gether with such statistics and suggestions
as may be deemed advisable for the good dis
cipline of the Fire Bureau.
Rule 9-The Fire Director shall attend
daily a meeting of the officers ofthe Bureau
of Fire; at which meeting the Chief of the
Department OF Public Safety, Fire Director
and three Assistant Superintendents. shall
be present, and at which time any and all
reports of fire matters shall be made iully
known and explained to the Chief of the
Department ofPublic Safety. On Mondays of
each and every week the said Fire Director
shall attend meeting as aforesaid, at which
he shall have, in addition to the parties
above named, each and every captain of every
engine house in the city, which meeting
shall be held at 10 A. NJ.
Rule 10-The Fire Director shall keep
at his Office such books of record as shall
be prescribed by the Chief OF the Depart
meut Of Public Safety. Among others he
shall have a requisition book, from which
he shall issue orders to the superintendent
of the bureau for any article or thing he
may need for the use of the Fire Bureau.
TO ENFORCE CLEANLINESS.
Rule 1.-THE Fire Director must see that
each engine house and other fire quarters
in the city are clean and neat and always
in good order; that the men are comfortably
provided TOR; that the companv's books are
kent in conformity to the rules and regula-
tions, and that the men are faithful to the
discharge of all their duties; that they are
courteoas and gentlemanly in all their rela-
tions to each other.
Rule 12-The Fire Director will be held
to a strict responsibility for the general good
condition of each engine house, as well as
the good order in the same. And while no
rule is land down for his precise government,
it is expected that the Fire Director will
visit the engine houses within the city at un-
certain hours of the day and night; that he
will diligently inquire into every complaint
made by citizens against the men while on
duty, and or the general good condition of
the officers in and about the engine houses,
report all violations of the rules and regula-
tions in reference to conduct and other mat
tiers to the Chief of the DEPARTMENT. of Pub
lie Safety.
Rule 13-The Fire Director is absolutely
prohibited from indulging in profane or vul-
gar language at any time or under any cir
cumstances while in the discharge of his
duties as Fire Director.
Rule 1.-The Fire Director, together with
the Assistant Superintendents shall consti-
tute board for the investigation of all