The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-11
THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.
The Chief Advises the Appointment
of a Fire Inspector.

The Chief Advises the Appointment
of . Fire Inspector.
The meeting of the board of fire commission
ers last night was chiefly devoted to an investi-
CATION of the charges preferred by Edward
Rudd, of engine-house No. 4, against Lieuten-
ant Robert ellis, of the same company charg-
ing him with being absent from the engine
house without permission: that he went to
supper ct o'clock on the evening Of July and
did not return until $50, and was then partly
intoxicated; that he went out again about $40
and did not return until O'Clock next morning.
ellis admitted having drunk two or three
glasses OF beer, but claimed that no returned
few blocks about 1880. but returned about IL
o'clock; that be was not in uniform.
1t was decided to suspend ellis until August
without pay.
Chief Kellogg presented his report for the
month of June a follows: Number Of calls re-
sponded to, eleven. The total loss was 81, us,
representing an aggregate insurance of $4,000.
The amount of insurance paid was $3.50. The
loss on buildings was s2.755, and on the con-
tents 1850. This does not include the loss on
furniture, stock, etc, in the fire at the corner Of
Second and University streets.
The report directed attention to the fact that
on July the Seattle Electric and Motor Com
pany called in the privilege heretofore granted
6remsn of riding on the cars of the company
free of charge. AS many of the men reside at
considerable distance from the engine-houses
the chief recommended that an extra half hour
ut meal times b allowed members of the de-
partment "This," reads the report, "will in,
terfere with the efficiency of the department
but the responsibility will rest where it be-
longs"
Referring to incsndiary fires the report says:
"The frequent fncendiary fires and the great
danger to life, a. well a. surrounding property,
always attending an incendiary fire, calls for
immediate action that will efectually put .
tempts to sell to the insurance companies for .
price two or three times more than they could
obtain from any other source. The evil ID in
creasing, and / would emphasixe the necessity
Of an ordinance creating FIRE inspector, whose
duty 1t shall be to investigate the cause OF all
fires and all facts pertaining thereto"
The clerk was instructed to refer the different
recommendations contained in the report to the
departments to which they belonged.
Commissioners Clark and Kahaley were sp-
pointed . committee to wait ON the manager OF
the Seattle Electric Railway Company with
reference to the rule by which the company re-
fuses to allow members of the department to
ride on its cars.
o. B. Hubbard presented his resignation a.
member OF tho department. The resignation
was accepted.
II. Z. Stumsr, from Fremont, asked that the
commission take some action in regard to sup
plying that section with apparatus. Chief KEEL
logg bore out the statement of Mr.. Stumer that
Fremont needed IRE protection. It was decided
to have the entire commission visit Fremont
and make recommendations to the council
The appointment of Thomas Gilbert, Amos
Sonburg, F. B. Smith and William Cupitt by the
chief as extra men or substitutes was approved.
The board adjourned to meet again next Fri
day evening.