The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1893-02-28
FIRE DEPARTMENT MATTERS.
Chief Engineer Guthrie's Report for
the Year.
Commissioners to Erect a Now House
for No. EnGine-Hose Tower. on
the Corporation House.

The regular meeting OF the Fire COM
missioners was held last night, it being
the last meeting OF the fiscal year.
The regular monthly reports of the
several engine companies were read and
filed.
! Several communications were read,
among theln being bid from J. \. Cum
ningham of the Sacramento Boiler and
Iron Works, offering to equip Engine
No. with new boiler for 81 1850.
| The old boiler has been considered UNI
safe Tor some time, and Chief Engineer
! Guthrie communicated with several
manufacturers il regard to procuring a
new one. Mono of the firms written to
had furnished a price, and after discus
sion of the matter it was voted to award
| the contract.Sfor the new boiler to j. A.
| Cunningham, with the understanding
that Il Is to be furnished complete, and be
| an exact duplicate of the old boiler
| The twentieth annual report, and prob
ably the last TO be submitted by the sac
| ramento Board of Fire Commissioners to
| the Board OF Trustees, was read, approved
and signed by the members of the board.
NEW ENGINE HOUSE.
/ 4A4t lAlelbtS4 VI LL1C lJuItudSo VI Il lOL LOT
! Engine House No. again came up for
! discussion. The lot ut present rented for
| the engiue-hOuse has been sold, and had
the department acted IN time several hun
bred dollars could have been saved to the
city by purchasing it.. Now the depart
ment has to look for another lot, and
/ Chairman Howard reported having made
inquiries by which he learned that a suit
able lot could be had for from 81, 600 to
| 81, $50 on Nineteenth or Twentieth streets,
between X and l., or l. and NJ.
Mir. level offered 4 lot SOXSO, on
| Twentieth, between * and l., for 81 80,
stating that he offered it for less than its
actual value to have the new engine
house built in the vicinity.
TWAS decided that the Commissioners
would meet this afternoon and visit the
vicinity to inspect the lots and decide
| upon the location found most desirable.
HOSE TOWER.
At the suggestion of Chief Guthrie,
embodied i'll his report, it was ordered
That hose tower be erected on the Cor
/ poration House for the preseryatio Of
the hose. The Chief was instructed to
/ prepare plan and specifications and ad-
vertise for bids for the construction of a
! ire-prOof tower.
80 MORE RUBBER HOSE.
| The question of a supply Of 500 feet of
new hose came up, and after considerable
/
| ii was voted that Chief Guthrie purchase
800 feet Of cotton hose. No particular
/ make was designated, but he was in
/ structed to purchase what in his opinion
was the best ut the lowest price. 10
more rubber hose was under any cir
/ cumstauces TO be bought.
CHIEF GUTHRIE's REPORT.
/ The annual report OF Chief Engineer
| II. a. Guthrie, for the year ending with
( February, 1888, was submitted.
In his report the Chief recommends the
necessity OF chemical engine. claiming
/ it would be great benefit in the saving
of property.
! He calls attention to the cisterns located
at Third and Is, Fourth and } and Filth
and X streets and recommends that they
receive necessary repairs, as owing To
/ their ieaky condition they are useless.
/ The report also recommends the pur-
| chase of a lot and the erection OF suit
! able two-story building, with hose tower
/ attached, TO be used for Engine No. 3. in
the neighborhoOd OF its present location.
and large enough for the accommodation
of an additional hook and LADDER COM
| pany, the upper story OF the building 10
/ be used for storage OF forage for tho de-
partlnent Owing to the rapid growth oc
| the city the distance the present Hook
and Ladder Company has to travel is con-
sidered unreasonable.
/ The apparatus in use by the depart
| ment is reported in first-class condition.
except Engine No. 2, which needs u new
| boiler.
The department has twelve horses. at
present distributed as follows: Engine
No. l, three horses; Engine Company No.
| >, three; Engine No. 3, three, Hook and
| Ladder Company, two, ana the Chief
] one.
The department has in use 4,5OO feet of
hose, nearly half Of which is in tirst-class
| condition.
The designations during the year were
j. 7. McAlanus, substitute eXtraman OF
| Engine Company No. ,, and j. b. hodg-
ers, Assistant Foreman of Engine Com
pany No. ?.
The discipline in the department dur
ing the year IS reported as being excel
lent.
The usual inventory of the force en-
! ployed, apparatus and the location Of fires
and their causes for the year is given.
The report says in conclusion: IL de
sire, on behalf of The Fire Department, to
thank the Hon. Mayor Comstock, the
| Board Of City Trustees, City Auditor
| y Dung, City Treasurer Gerber, the en-
ployes of the Water Works. the Police
! Department and all others who have
| rendered me aId in the discharge Of my
! duty. Assistant Moutgaillard and l also
wish to thank each individual member
OF the department for the prompt man
ner in which they have executed each
and every order issued by me; to Super
! intendent of the Fire Alarm Richard
| Watkins for the excellent condition in
| which She has maintained the fire alarm
| system; to the Hon. Board of Fire Com
luissioners and the Secretary, II. /. Sey-
mOur, tor the manner in which you have
upheld me in my position as Chief Engi-
neer OF the Sacramento Paid Fire Depart
Inent."
BILLS ALLOWED.
After allowing the following bills the
! board adjourned: Capital Gas Company,
! S4l 40; Newbourg u Co., $40 rs; Sacra-
inento Mills, So 81 John McGillary, s.;
! +. kolliker, SIS 50; Ehman d Co, 81 10;
| +. Mckeever, 50 so; Schaw, Ingram Il
| Co., 80 cents; Crocller q Co., 81 10; Tom
Scott. 80 cents; i. Meister Il Co., S.: L.
l.. Lewis IL Co., % cents; Z. Wiclwire,
81 80; II. A. Guthrie, - 55; Z. =. Figg,
10 cents; Sullivan-Kelly Company, s. %;
4. Mendis, 81; Plaza Cash Store, s. 30 J.
| Griese, 81 40; 0. Z. Washburne, s.; =.
Graf; 50 10; o. d. Baker, 81 co. Sacra-
mento Glass and Crocllery Company, IS
cents; G. IL. krebs IL Co., 81 %; +. W.
! Sheehan, 81; G.. Flohr, 80 cents: Sunset
Telephone Company, S24; c. Nelson,
81 so; w. II. Wood q Co., So 40; NJ. Nc
clancy so; K. J. Murray, s. 50; John
Lodge, 50; WietZel &c Son, S.; George
| Surgeson, So; J. NJ. Nelson, S.; j.
Ahern, So; total, Sl9l As.
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