The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-03-28

T& contract of the Game.
%dE we'll yalt Company %iIS Iba of So" so,.
ough, finished his work before six p. m.
Saturday and at o'clock he met the
members of the FIRE apparatus committee,
Messrs. Coakley, Hopkins and Mcclure,
and other borough officials, to make the
test.
The committee and electrician, accom-
panied by Fire Marshal Frank Lewis went
to all the boxes and sounded an alarm at
each. Members of the fire companies
stood at the indicators in their respective
houses to see that they recorded the signals
properly and Sam Wragg, who was Mr..
| 0ehmers assistant the past week, remained
in the bell tower to watch the movements
of the electrical apparatus that operates the
| hammer.
The first alarm was sounded from box
No. %, at the southeast corner of Main
and Centre streets, the lever being pulled by
Charles, the fve-year-od son Of Council
man Coakley. Instantly the bell in the
tower sounded 80" and six seconds later
| "5." All the same time the figures ''25'
were recorded on all the indicators. The
second alarm was sounded from box No. l6,
at the corner of Bowers and Centre streets.
This alarm was sounded by Edward Will
Jams, son of Division Superintendent John
L. Williams. This alarm was also
satisfactory. The rest of the boxes were
sounded in the following order; "a, 10, 35,
81 a. 43 and "a. All, except the last three,
gave satisfaction. But upon another trial
the exceptional boxes, Az 43 and "a met
the requirements.
Councilmen Devers, Hopkins, Coakley
and Mcclure were then anxious to deter
mine whether or not the system was really
q mountaineering one and selected boxes l6
and 25 for the test. The lever of the first
box was pulled and as the alarm was being
sounded box 25 was operated. The bell
sounded 1.6 four times and then stopped,
showing the pulling of the lever of box
No. 25 in no way interfered with the first
alarm. Lever % was again pulled and the
alarm was sounded correctly.
All the borough officials interviewed ex-
pressed themselves as we'll pleased with
the system and Mr.. Oehmen was compli-
mented upon his work.
1t is understood that Council will hold
special meeting tonight to decide whether
all the requirements of the Gamewell COM
pany's contract have been complied with.
The following list shows the location of
the alarm boxes.
No. 10 corner Coal an Bower streets.
No. l6 corner Coal and Centre streets.
No. "a corner Bridge and Centre streets |
No. 25 corner Main and Centre streets.
No. "a corner Main and Poplar streets.
No. 35 corner M ain and Coal streets.
No. AZ corner Gilbert and Centre streets. |
No 4S corner Gilbert and Cherry streets. |
No 81 corner Chestnut and Coal streets |
To send an alarm open the box, pull |
the hook once and let go. When an alarm
is sent in the fire bell will sound the num-
Der of the box and repeat the alarm four
times.
To locate an alarm pay strict attention to
the taps of the fre bell If the alarm is
sounded from box 10 the fire bell will strike
one, then pause and strike five which will
indicate that the fire is in the vicinity of
No is box. Every alarm is sounded four
times.
One key will be left in the most conven-
lent place nearest each box, the Chief
Burgess, each of the policemen and each of
the fire marshals have been given keys and
the balance of the forty-fve are distributed
among members of the fire companies.
The FIRE bell in the tower can be sounded |
from any box in the town.
All keys are numbered and are charged
to the parties receiving them, and these
parties will be held responsible for their
proper use.
A release key is furnished the fire
marshal and the key that unlocks the
outer door of the box cannot be taken out
until it is released with the marshaps key,
so that there will be no difficulty in tracing
a party who may tamper with the boxes in
that respect.