The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-06-11
FAIR HHTEN.

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 The improvements at the house of
 steamer and Hook and Ladder com pany on East Pearl street are com pleted and no fire company in the city
 has finer quarters. On the first floor 1t was deemed best to remove the stair case from the rear end and build a smaller stairway from the mems sitting room. Where the old staircase was taken out a marble wash basin and oth- CT conveniences have been placed. On the second floor the plaster on walls and ceilings, which was in poor condition, has been removed and wood ceililg sub- stituted. A new floor of maple and finely polished has been laid. Hereto fore there have been too few clothes closets, and more have been provided, so that each man has his own. Two rooms are partitioned off on the front and fitted up for the officers of each company. The woodwork onl both floors has been handsmely painted. All the Improvements have been made by the men of the fire department and the re- suit is very creditable. On the first floor an automatic electrical device, the invention of William c. Smith, superin- tendent of the fire alarm telegraph, has been put in. When an alarm Is sounded this mechanism works a system that opens the doors of the stable and by the time the men get to the apparatus they find the horses there ready to be attach ed to the trucks. It also removes the hatchways protecting the openings in the floor and the sliding poles, and in the night when the gas lights are burn ing low 1t turns on the flow of gas, so the rooms are brilliantly lighted. This is a very valuable mechanism for fire engine houses. One more sliding pole has been put in, making three In all. Some new furniture is to be added. The . fourteen men at this engine house un- II doubtedly have as fine quarters as are . furnished amy flremen in the country . The schooner Golden Rule, which brought cargo of fire brick for Will liam A. Warner Ss Brother, has sailed. When the vessel was lowed up the river she grounded on the tank at the edge of the channel, straining the hull so that 1t nearly broke in two. The Gold len Rule is an old vessel. The hull is livery rotten and having been hung up lon mud bank 1t nearly made wreck of her Captain Thomas Anderson blames the tugboat captain for leaving the vessel aground.
 The directors of the Fair Haven Y M 1 C. A. have voted to disband and the| rooms in the annex are closed. The association at one time was in flour ishing condition. but the attendance gradually fell off and the expenses in .Preased. Some believe if the headquar- ters had been established on the west side of the river the association would lave been more generously supported NThe running expenses have grown to nearly $1,S00 per annum and there is a
 Considerable debt The recent concert leld in the Hyperion for the benefit of he association incurred another charge bf over $100. Pledges have been made
 md the entire debt will be liquidated f rhe association has accomplished a Eood work, conducting a gymnasium
 nd classes and sustaining a reading l oom and religious meetings regularly
 Columbia castle, K. c. E., No. 9, will l
 ave work in the second degree this | I vening. Officers will also be nominat- | < b for the ensuing term and business elating to the annual excursion will
 e transacted