The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1892-03-11
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
The Regular Monthly : Getting OF
the Board Of Representatives
asst Evening.


the Honolulu Fire Department held
it's regular monthly meeting last
evening at the Bell Tower, it being
the first one under the new bylaw
which requires the regular meet
ings to be held on the first Thurs
day succeeding the first Monday of
each month.
The Chief Engineer, Julius Asch,
presided, supported by Messrs. J.
H. Hunt and D. L. Kalawaia, First
and Second Assistant Engineers,
respectively. About thirteen other
members answered to their names,
several of the representatives hav-
ing to stay away on account OF the
arrival of the two steamers last
night.
A communication was received
from Company No. l, informing
the Board of certain amendments
made to the bylaws Of the Com
pany, to the effect that members
becoming in arrears, either for dues
or fines, may be suspended or other
wise dealt with; and also that
members may be fined fifty cents
for an absence either from drill,
fire or meeting.
Another communication was re-
ceiyed from the Hook and Ladder
Company ALSO informing the Board
of changes made in its bylaws at
the last regular meeting of that
Company. Both communications
were received and ordered on file.
The usual quarterly bills were
read, footing up nearly 5000, and
recommended to be paid by the
Chief Engineer out of the Depart
ment. 1t was remarked by the
Chairman that this amount would
about wipe out the balance of the
appropriation.
The bill of expenses $50 for
photographing the ex-chief engin-
GERS of the department was refer
red to the secretary for examina-
ton and report.
Satisfactory reasons being given
Foreman Boyd and Delegate Alex.
Smith both of Company No. 4 were
exempted from fines for non-at-
tendance at the last regular meet
ing of the board.
A proposition was made and
adopted that there be a committee
of three consisting of the chief
engineer, the foreman of Company
No. 4 and the Fire Police captain
to wait on His Excellency the
Minister of the Interior with res
pect to recommending the con-
struction of a temporary building,
to cost say $4,000 on the Mossman
lot, in lieu of having to wait an in
definite time for the building of
the new central station proposed to
be put up for the department, and
for which an item was inserted in
the last appropriation bill by the
Legislature. Foreman Boyd was
mover of the proposition, remarking
that it was about time that his
company was provided with a
better house, that his company was
merely tenant at will and could
be ousted from the old rookery at
any time with its costly machine
and belongings. He urged on the
chief engineer not to repair the old
building any longer, it would be
money wasted on what is not the
eompany's own. 1t was suggested
that when the new building was
nut up, it would not only accom-
mo late the members of Company
No d ,,ud their apparatus, but also
the mem s,ers of the Fire Police
Company.
A resolution was passed thank
ing the Chief Engineer for his gift
of a membership certificate ISSUED
to His late Majesty the King IN
December, 1872, by Chief Engineer
John A. Hassinger and Secretary
Charles T. Gulick. The certificate
or chart was handsomely framed
bv the Pacific Hardware Company,
and the whole was exhibited TO
the members at the meeting. The
frame was gift by the said Hard
ware Company.
The Secretary and Messrs. Hunt
and Boyd were appointed com
mittee to convey a letter of con-
dolence to the household members
of the late ex-Chief Engineer Geo.
Lucas. The letter to be suitably
engrossed.
The Chief Engineer and his
Assistants were authorized to get
up new design Of diplomas and
certificates to be issued to the
members of the department, and
to submit the same for approval Of
the Board.
The matter of Frank Mays rein
statement as a member of Com
pany No 2 was referred to the
sound discretion of that company
No further business being pre-.
scented, the meeting adjourned.