The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-06-25
CHIEF fEBBER'S REPORT
Interesting Statistics About the Fire
Department.
FEWER FIRES THAN LAST YEAR
Tho Aggregate Loss Was Grcntcr-Fivc
Human Beings We're Burned TO
Death Tho Department Is In
First.Cins Condition.

Chief Engineer II, f. Ferber, of the
fire department. has presented his re-
port to Mayor Connell for the year end
ing March 81. 1895. 1t contains some
very interesting Information 10 the tax.
payers,
There were during the year liG box
ana IL still. a total OF l51 alarms. d de
crease from last year OF 80, The total
loss FOR the year was S26g. 29l,57 an av-
erage of 81 1l523 for each alarm. The
total loss last year was SlOS,6i9.SS. The
total Insurance was S647O3 an average
OF 81 III 26 FOR each alarm. the total in
sunance last year was Si6S 900.
The present membership of the de-
partment is 4SO men. 29 paid and 45l
volunteers The number of horses In
the department and owned by the city
Is %. The apparatus of the department
consists OF one ariel hook and ladder
truck. one chemical engine. five steam
fire engines, six hose carriages. eight
horse hose reels and one horse carriage
In reserve
The department is equipped with 9,70O
feet of hose. as follows: 1850 feet in
good condition. $50 feet fair. $50 feet
f'0'' ''' ~ W. ~ ''o "
texture anu -''"o iee' oi o'o h"Se given
10 the street commissioners
Improvements During the Year.
During the year there We're - hy-
drants erected in new locations. and II
set in the place of old ones. There
Were new alarm boxes purchased and
erected, the location OF them being:
crown avenue and Beech street, REM
ington avenue and Cherry street. AL
bright avenue ana Marion street, Wyo-
ming avenue ana OliVe street. quincy
avenue ana Linden street, Corbett ave-
nue. and Archibald street. and Meridian
and Seventh itseets.
department was In actual service 100
houis anu nhihules' anu the NUMBER
o' TINS between H. III. anu p. Ill.
was os; between p H. ana H. M, ~
iIe iites oS u'sarie.S are as Io'lo"s'
- o. oecoia' 'o' ii,l.o' No. roui'i''
81, il'h' y oiN'h' - ihere "as one
sun sun a'"'n' ou'S'ue the CITY i''i''ts' III
Dui'iii0'e'
me ti'eiii'eat engine pu'chaseu pS
ne ci'S uu'i'ls lne year mas oeei VI great
i'iip'oN ei'eh' u ''.e uepa' .''en. SET
vice 1t mas respoiIueu u - poA aiaf'''S
anu SUI! aiai ms anu mas peeii Ill ser
we 10 ''il'es' II mas Deei III "1.ua'
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sa'1oHs Vi the''''S"'S.
''olt 10 ii'aue ot u'ie 'ei ''io'h-
ing liie ot Api'i ~ 1881. "'e'' tie ies'-
ueice Vi r"ii'p Se'iiieiuei' o'' -ieauo"
avenue sou'h sue was ues'loseu anu
MS three Youngest chiiureI' years.
til anu IN IHOllIlS Olu, "Cit Clt-
mated. inc young ones were asleep III
'ie ioit "Hei '"e H'T o'on' ou' "'.u
the nooher was engaged at chores IN
.he rear Vi ''ie io'' heio'oe s'ie eouau
uo any 'h'hs " save he' Heip'eSS oh
spins '"e D"'i"'"s was '''aSS Vi
iaH'es'
That south Side Fire.
Reference Is also made OF the burning
up Oh Antonio ana Maftln Apate AT
a. m. on Nov ~, IN the mouse OF thetr
prother' Gaspar Abate. near the corner
ol stone avenue ana FIG street. SCUM
side. Inc men came INTO uhe mouse
some time AFTER midnight ana went 10
sleep IN small room IN the rear OF the
mousse q story anu a-hail frame stfuc-
ture. Inc nfe broke out ana a1.er II
was eXpihsulsheu tile charreu Doales OF
the Two men were found
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Deaths pnrine the rear.
One page OF the report ~ taken up
with inscriptions In memoriam OF the
the department; ex-Mayor Robert il.
McKune, OF the crystals, VINO died OCT.
IL, 1894: ex-Cmef OF the Fire Depart
ment Harry Madison, or the Crystals,
who died bn July 20, 1884; and william
Davis. Of the Franklins, who died June
8, 1894.
The expenses for the year were $3i,-
4l3,3S. Information as 1oiioWs con-
CerninR the fire companies Is gwen Dy |