Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-11
AMONG THE FIREMEN.

Timely Notes Picked Up Among the Vol
unteer and Paid Departments.
RIDLEY PARK Is to organize f1re depart
ment.
PITTsToN is testing new fire alarm
whistle.
NEWTON FALLS. O.. is to organize fire de-
partment.
PHILADELPHIA will ask for $4,000 to build
new fire stations with.
The Plymouth Firemen's Fair has closed
with handsome financial profit.
MEDIA is organizing fire department. W.
E. Rowland has been elected chief.
NEW YORK CITY fire commissioners want
S2.4l4, III to run their department next year.
DICKSON CITY has asked its City Council to
purchase hose reel, hose and full department.
outfit.
HoBoKEN, n. j.. is to erect a freman's mon
ument, which will be dedicated next Decora-
tion Day.
PHILADELPHIA will lease no more buildings
for fire stations, they will build themselves
hereafter.
BROOKLYN, N. Y, had 20 fires in September.
with loss Of s42, $50 on buildings and sl24,S75
on contents.
ERIE will erect a 81. 300 fire station on Twenty
sixth street, corner Peach. They have also
ordered four hose wagons.
THE Citizens Engine Company of Dubois
have a new engine, which was tested last
Wednesday and made an excellent showing.
THE totol loss by fire in the United States
from January i to September 26 was S63 506 00O,
making an average loss of S236,O per day.
The station of the Logan Hose Company of
Altoona is SO dilapidated that the company
has been compelled to remove their personal
efects therefrom to preserve them from ruin.
The fire companies of Connellsville have re-
organized for the ensuing year, and recently
appeared before the CITY Council asking for
many needed Improvements and additional
privileges which the Council are 10th to grant.
FIRE COMMISSIONERS r. F. ToBIN, of Bos
ton, who is also senior Vice Commander of the
National G. A. R., lies dangerously sick at his
home. His recovery is considered almost i'm
possible. as be has complication or heart and
kidney diseases.
EX-GOVERNOR PATTIsoN Is an honorary
member of the Exempt FiEemen's Association
of Bradford, and that association recently at
tended one of his political meetings and gave
him warm reception, not as political candi-
date, but as a fellow member.
WELLsBoRo desire to sell its hand fire en-
gine. which 1t has ourgrown. 1t Is an excellent
engine. and for many of the small towns in this
State with no fire protection whatever, it will be
of as much value as though it were new, as
hand engines never wear out, as they are not
used enough.
CAPTAIN DoRY MOSES, of Engine A, Cincin-
natl, while working a stepladder at that
company's station recently, was percipitated
to the floor by the breaking of the ladder and
his hip bone broke in two places, as well as
otherwise injured. He will probably be Grip
pied for life. He is very popular fireman.
ALLEGHENY CITY is to have 1000 feet of
Akron rubber hose. The principal fire depart
ments throughout the country are now buying
rubber hose almost exclusively. New York
and Chicago have been buying it extensively
of late, and it Is not improbable that in a few
years 1t will be the reigning hose. Fabric hose
has seen its best days, and like its predecessor,
leather, is now fast going out of use.
THERE will be grand fremen's tournament
at Montgomery. Ala, November Z. held on the
Southern Exhibition grounds under the
auspices of the Montgomery Fire Department
There will be 81, 500 prizes for firemen's con-
tests and races of all kinds Henry F. Irwin
is Chairman, and ]. b. Sampson, Secretary of
the committee having the matter in charge.
This will undoubtedly be one of the largest
fremen's gatherings ever held in the South.
THERE was held at Poughkeepsie, N. Y,
last week one of the greatest tiremen's tourna-
ments in the annals of that States fire service.
1t lasted two days. The first dav was devoted
to a street parade in which 33 fire companies
and torchllght procession in the
evening. The second day was given to contests
of apparatus and races which were witnessed
by some 10, 600 people and resulted as follows:
Tue Macowomac Company, of Athens. won
first prize In the hand engine contest. throwing
186 feet through 250 feet of hose: Pocahontas,
of Rhinebeck, second. with Isl feet inch
Excelsior Hook and Ladder Company, of Mid
captured the first prize for the best
company The hook and ladder
company from Lansingburg was awarded the
prize for the best drilled company.
THE veteran fremens tournament at Paw
tucket, r. l., on Thusday of last week was one
of the most successful events of its kind ever
held in New England. The great event of the
day was the old-time hand engine trials, which
resulted as follows:
Feet. Inch.