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St. Paul daily globe., 1895-12-24
REHABILITATION.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
What the Report Says of This
Branch.

| brUucHs
This departm ment is managed by a
| board composed of five members, ap-
pointed by the mayor, who serve with
who receives salary of $1,000 per year.
| The department has for its use tWen-
ty buildings, erected by the city, which
| contain the following fire apparatus
| and stock:
| In Service--Twelve steam fire en-
gines, 6 chemical engines. 1 water tow
| er, 2 aerial trucks, 6 ordinary trucks.
| 9 hose wagons, hose carriages, l
two-wheel hose cart, 20 supply wag-
ons, 13 hose sleighs, hook and lad
! sleighs, 2 fire alarm wagons, 2 fire
alarm sleighs, $4,000 feet hose, 174 fire
alarm boxes, liz horses.
In Reserve-One steam fire engine,
| chemical engines.
| The department is also fully equipped
with the tools and implements re-
quired for a complete outfitting of the
kind.
The value of the buildings and equip
ment of the department, as estimated
| by the board, is as follows:
BullqlnsS .....'...............'.. .Sdi6, 5SU w
Lands ........................ 20O, 100 w
apparatus ....................... LIZ, 4oO OO
Flrntae nd .,;,iie. 1916 s1S ~ ~
Total .s55s, OF 27
The plant Of the fire alarm telegraph
| includes 1875 miles of wire, strung on
| 1850 poles.
The force of the department is Or
ganized as follows:
| Steam engine companies ..............12
| Hook and ladder companies ..........
Chemical engine companies ..........
supply nose ;...'............. .............
! Independent nose companies .......... l
Fire alarm and telegraph corps $3.50. l
-J5cls
50yTotal OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
| The force comprises 1874 men, in ad-
| dition to the secretary of the board,
! classified, and receiving salaries as fol-
lows:
Board Officers Per Year.
T secretary ................ ........Sl,OOO
general Staff
4ehief engineer .....;................ $500
l first assistant engineer .......... 1000
4 second assistant engineer ........ 500
master mechanic .................1 /, 500
superintendent fire alarm ........ 300
1 veterinary surgeon (contracD.... 490
Company Force
18 captains, each Observation-Disclosures. 1,0H
% lieutenantS, each :. ............. 924
RJengineers of steamers, each -. 1,045
hJtW Per Month
429ptpemen, each. S45 to $72
12 stokerS, each ............. Y
81 drivers, each .................. 81 to 70
36 truckmen, each .............. As to Y
Fire Alarm Telegraph
2 linemen ................... rs
operators ............... 90 to 67
MECHANICS.
One blacksmith, $40 per month.
The total expense of this department
is limited by the charter to $215, 900 per
year. For the year 1894 the expenses
were as follows:
Salaries ........ 49,. ........ .S11 $3.50 5s
Feed ....... .......... ...... 12,58S II
Fuel .... ..... .......... 6,659 80
Hose ...... ....... 2,640 05
Tc-.res ..... ........... 1,34S 36
kHparatus repairs ..., :... 2,Gf2 SO
Eneine house repairs. .... 1850 60
Fire alarm supplies ........ 1869 SO
lEGeneral expenses .......... 1852 "A
Total .. 500, 1902 ~
The separate cost Of blacksmithiny,
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-12-24

Total. $500. ...... ......u 1854, Al gI
The items of work and Improvement
covered by the So assessments consid-
cred distribute themselves as follows:
Contract work. 1881. $50
Condemnations ........ 1864
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-12-24

necessary surveys for parks and boule-
wards, and plans for the same; topo~
graphical maps of the parks, and plans
of park bridges and water supply sys-
TENS. For the law department 1t fur
nishes all maps and plans necessary
for law suits; investigates and reports
upon casualties happening upon the
public streets, and photographs the To-
calities where the same occurred:
For the plat commissioner 1t checks
up and surveys all plats presented,
and sees to the proper and legal dedi-
cation of proposed streets.
AS part of the work of maintaining
the streets, 1t locates and furnishes to
property owners street and alley lines.
For the year 1894 the total cost OF
the engineering service. proper. was
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-12-24

Engineering and inspection were: For
construction, "A per cent of the cost
of work and materials, and for main
tenance slightly above per cent.
From 1887 to 1894, inclusive, the en-
gineer's annual pay roll was as fol-
lows: 1887, S47, ,031 SO; 1883, $53, 1851; /;
1889, 59,255.77; 1890, S53 80 =, 1891, S40,-
319,OS; 1892, $35, 1876; 1898, $29, ,90367 1884,
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-12-24

The expenses of the st. Paul depart
menIt for the year 1895 have been sub
Stantially the same as those for 1894.
Prices of fuel and supplies furnished
the department appepar to have betn
close or quite down to the market.
In the year 1894 there were 722 alarms
in the entire city, averaging per day.
The statistics of value of buildings
on fire, and their contents, and loss
on buildings and contents for the
year were as follows:
Value of buildings. 81 OPS, $40. 90
Value of contents. ........ All, ,973.76
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-12-24

The average cost of grain and forage
for the twelve months was, therefore,
$71.46 per horse.
During the year the members of COM
panies did extra work, outside the line
Of their duties, to a total amount esti-
mat-d by the chief, at rates ranging
from $1.5O to 81 per day, at s2,615.SO.
The entire cost of operating the fire
department, per men employed in each
of six cities below named. for the
fol1
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-12-24

IOlal ...--...- ...... .'''''''' - '''' 'ToVI
Produce grown on the poor farm was
sold in the year 1894 to the value OF
$477.34
The statistics of operation for that
year are as follows:
Total number of paupers cared for
during year ................'. .'''. 1Ss
Number discharged ............. s
Nnmher died ....... Il
Average number inmates per day. 81
Average number of employees, in
cluding superintendent ......:..... Il
Average cost per week of each In
mate, based on gross eXpendi- =,
tuTc 80 "a
Average cost per week of each in
mate, less receipts. insurance and
rarnairS 81 81
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-12-24
OUT-DOOR RELIEF

Applicants for aid of this sort are all
examined for worthiness by an agent
of the associated charities of this city.
This business-iike regulation forms a
good protection against imposition. Fol
the service the board pays S6VV pei
year
The things distributed in this work
are provisions, wood, coal, shoes. trans
portation orders, and orders for burials
The numbers of the different classes
of relief orders issued We're as follows
in the year 1894:
Wood .,............1,7 /, rs
Coal ... 1S2
Shoes ...... ......... .........s.s..'''... u
TranSportatio ......-. ..-.-.....-.... ~ M
Burials --........ ......... ...''''''''' I'D
3 ans
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-12-24

The amounts expended for work and
materials under these heads for the
same year were $2S4, 555.S2; so that rhe
cost of engineering and inspection was
a little more than 81 per cent of cost
for work and materials
The city engineer has furnished the
committee with a tabulated statement
of the business of his department for
the first eight months of the present
year, showing the distribution of en-
gineering and inspection expenses for
that period. From this the following
facts appear:
Total cost of work and materials,
S4S2, ,912 IA; of engineering, $40, 1.0l; OF
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-12-24

1Oldl. .S0OS,UfI ~
The plant Of the fire alarm telegraph
includes 1876 miles of wire, strung on
1850 poles.
The force of the department is Or
ganiZed as follows:
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-12-24
MECHANICS.

MECHANICS.
One blacksmith, $40 per month.
The total expense of this department
is limited by the charter to $215, 900 per
year. For the year 1894 the expenses
were as followS:
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-12-24


these modified conditions might be
wise. The plan of entrusting the man.
agement of important departments, to
public-spirited citizens, willing to
serve for a small salary, has usually
worked we'll in st. Paul. The water
department, fire departments, chari-
ties and corrections and park board
have been administered in this way,
with results in the main cammendable.
All administrative boards of the city
should, and doubtless will, secure the
cheerful service Of citizens having so
much at stake in the welfare of the
city, as to be willing to give it the
benefit of their skill and intelligence,
without regard to the salary attached
to the place. It cannot be doubted
that the board Of public works, if re-
tanned, will form no exception to the
rule. 1t will not be requisite to en-
ploy the entire time Of four men,
at a considerable salary each, to Sc
cure a wise and economical manage
ment Of our public works. Your COM
mittee thinks it unwise to attach to
membership Of any administra-
tive salary large enough to
make the place attractive, for
attractive for salary alone. Should the
board of public works be retained in
the modified form suggested, the
standing clerical force should be much
reduced. A single regular clerk and
secretary, if competent and diligent,
could, in your committees belief, do
all the regular clerical work of the
board. The salary attached to the
place should not exceed $1O0 per month.
Lists of property owners, for the use Of
the board, can readily be obtained from
the public abstract office. Should the
present laws allow to abstract officers
more han a. fail compensation for
such service, the legislature can easily
reduce the price to it's just leSsl. An
average saving by these changes could
be estimated at $1,000 per year.
q The city engineers Office should
be brought much near the line of ex-
listing conditions. Large and commend
able reductions have already been
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-12-24

$50 per month, 10 per cent reduction be-
low present rates.
The saving from adoption of the
above suggestion would amount to S16,-
$40 per year.
St. Paul daily globe., 1895-12-24

OF the total expense of maintaining
the aims house and poor farm for the
year 1894, $S,556 was for pay rolls OF
employees.
The roll for October, 1895, was fairly
representative of year, and was as
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-21
CHILD S|CKLY?
Strength Is Not Enough Tor Proper
Growth.
The Young Body Fails to Get
Well NOuriShed.
Needs Richer Bone and Tissue
= Forming Food.
Body Cannot Grow Without
Pure, Sturdy Blood.
Uncqualled Value of Paine's Gel.
cry Compound.

From birth till past the age of 30
there is growth; some of the bones do
not completely knit till 35.
All this time in addition there is the
steady waste of the tissues that must
berepaired The demand upon the vital
ity and upon the powers of assimla-
ton Is thus enormous during these
years. Without plenty of rich, nour-
ishing blood growth must be defective
and tardy. But when it courses
through all the arteries I'm full, Wig
orous stream, growth goes on steadily
and perfectly.
What countless numbers Of frail
youngsters physicians see whose pitt
ably thin wrists and bloodless faces
cry out for better nourishment. All
this does not escape the vigilant in
sight of parents. In thousands of homes
it is well known that the boys and
girls are somehow badly nourished.
The weak stomachs and organs of as
similation cannot extract the food for
growing nerves and brain in sufficient
quantities from the ordinary diet. A
special nerve compound is what they
need. Paine's celery compound is Pro-
fessor Edward f.. Phelps great prepara-
tiOn for nourishing these little frames
and making them grow into strong,
active men and women. DR.. Phelps,
upon whom colleges conferred their
highest honors for his invaluable in
Vestigations in medicine, knew from
ripe experience the exact needs of these
little sufferers.
A chorus of gratitude has gone up all
over the country, from mothers of
children once weakly and pale. without
promise of ever growing into robust
men and women, who have outgrown
weakness and lack of vitality by the
use of Paine's celefy compound, taken
with the regularity that physicians ad-
here to when prescribing this wonder
full nerve and blood restorative.
1t is 'aluable il all wasting diseases
in cleansing the blood of rheumatism
neuralgia, scrofula, and supplying new
and healthy vital fluid-its value can
neither be weighed nor measured.
AS the great modern nerve and brain
strengthener and restorer Paine's Gel
cry compound is pronounced invalua-
BILE by all progressive physicians. Give
this grand invigOrator fair trial, and
ha copvipcp1
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-21
BUSINESS CHANGES.
Three Wen Known Wyoming Ayenue
Firms Will Increase Their Store Room

Three Well Known Wyoming Avenue
Firms Will Increase Their store Room.
Several important business changes
Will occur on Wyoming avenue about
April /. The well-known shoe dealers,
Lewis, Reilly & Davies, at IA Wyom-
ing avenue, have found 1t necessary to
enlarge their store room on account of
increased trade, and will include the
store next door. now occupied by
Weichel & Millar, china merchants. in
their establishment. which will give
them a handsome double store.
Weichel & Millar will remove to the
commodious apartments at 13i Wyom-
Ing avenue, now occupied by ]. Law
renee Stelle, which win enable them to
display to better advantage their large
stock Of goods, which is crowded in
their present store room.
Music dealer j. Lawrence Stelle will
occupy handsome quarters in the Jew
ell building, at 303 Spruce street. where
ne Will, as usual keep n full line of
pianos and organs from factories of
well-known and reliable makers, as
well as other musical goods
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-21
BEWARE Of COUNIERFHIS
THE GENUINE POPULAR
Punch Cigars
HAVE THE INITIALS
G. 3. g. co.
IMPRINTED on EACH CIGAR.
Carney, Brown & Co. Mfrs
Court House Square.
PERSONAL.

W. NJ. Foster. of Honesdale, was here
yesterday.
Ezra II. Connell Is home from Yale to
spend Washngton's birthday.
Mrs. Levi Carter. of Olean, who has
been the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. George =.
Carter for several days past, will leave
for the east this morning.
Mrs. George b. Carter will leave for
New York city this morning to be present
at the opening of the German opera sea-
son, which takes place Feb. %.
W. L. Degraff. of Topeka. Kan, super
intendent of the Rocky Mountain dis
trict of the American Sunday School
union, has been for several days in this
city in the interest of the union.
The many friends of Miss Lillian Guth-
rte, the soprano of Elm Park church, will
regret to learn of her signing a contract
for next year with a leading church of
New Jersey. Miss Guthrie's splendid
voice and musical ability and her uni
form courtesy toward the other singers
OF the quartette, have endeared her to
the quartette and people. Miss Guthrie $
year at Elm Park closes May |.
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BARNES NEW MEN.
Those lie Has Signed to play in the Scran.
ton Team.


Manager "Billy" Barnie Is in town
not "Billy" because he is undignilied,
but because that is the front name un-
der which he is best known among
leading base ball men throughout the
country. During the last few weeks he
has signed seven players, all good
ones. and has six Others under nego-
tiatiOn or In prospect. Concerning his
and the directors plans for the coming
season Manager Barnie chatted enter
tainingly with Tribune reporter mt
the Wyoming House last evening. lie
Said:
You must not think base bah Is
quiet or that | haven't been hard ut
last few weeks.
Seven men, good ones, have been
signed. | might have got hundred
of the slow quality-but, no, thanks. |
have, though, six men in prospect;
some of these | want and some we may
do without.
AT present we have Rogers, catcher.
who played last year with Scranton;
Johnson, a San Francisco boy, who is
climbing upward and pitched remark
able ball last fail for the Lincoln, Neb,
team; Fox, pitcher, of Pottsville; Clark,
first base, of Ha2lctOn; Peter Sweeney,
of san Francisco, one of the most clever
intelders in a minor league; Brady,
who captained and played left field for
Fail River, and Winkelman, a young
Virginian, comparatively an unknown
to the fraternity at large, but who |
haN hoo f.pt al nd
who can play in any position.
delaney. who pitched for Scranton
in the Eastern league, is II little coy, but
| | think Il Scranton contract for 1895
would suit him. Then we may get Ward,
who played second for Washington
George Tebeau, the Cleveland fielder;
Kinsler, who played part of last season
with New York and was secured by the
Staten Island Athletic club to bring
it's base ball team in winner, and
Whitehead and Johnson, who respect
| lively played third base and center last
| year for Scranton.
Speaking of johnson reminds me
Do you know what they call the Scran-
ton team down in New York? The
| base ball men who know / have one
] JpllliSDl sighted anu dllOlllcI JDlllSpll III
prospect say I'm the manager of the
Too Much Johnson club-the name of
the play, you know. Funny, isn't 1t?
| don't take any stock in that toe
much business, because everyone here
about knows what Johnson the fielder
is, and Johnson the pitcher certainly
proved himself wonder in the west
last season.
Il leave for New York tomorrow and
will return in a few days to stay here
permanently. BY the jth or 9Th of Apri
we will have all the players here and
will start out for about one weeks
practice play in HazletOn, Wikes-Barre
Carbondale and other nearby cities, re-
turning to Scranton for exhibition
games about April Is.
Concerning the present crude and un.
finished grandstand Mr.. Barnie
vouched that all the Objectionable fea'
lures are to be done away with, the
grandstand enlarged and other arrange
ments made to especially encourage
the patronage of women and the bust
| ness element
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-21
SOUTH SIDE NEWS.
Crca-Cascs Heard Before Aldcrma
Donoyan-Ot Notes.

Between II and II o'clock Saturday
night an assault was committed on
James Edwards, of Cedar avenue, by
Contractor Robert McCrea, Of PittstOn
avenue. Mr. Edwards was severely
punished and went yesterday before
Mayor COnnell and swOre out a warrant
for his assalants arrest. Both men
used to be warm friends and this act
Of hostility between them has caused
much gossip. Mr.. Edwards is a most
inoffending citizen and has many
friends. Contractor McCrea Is highly
regarded, and, therefore, on account Of
the standing of both men, the assault
has received much comment. Mr. Ed
wards was passing on his way home
and met McCrea opposite the latters
house on PittstOn avenue There were
n few words, but none to justify the at
tack.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-21
Threatening to Kill.

Alderman c. G. Donovan, of the
Twelfth ward, issued warrant for the
arrest of James j. Rogers, Of Pros
pect avenue, on complaint of Joseph
Hickey, also of Prospect avenue, and
the hearing was held yesterday morn
ing, which resulted in having Rogers
furnish $500 bail to appear at court. The
defendant Is charged with iourshing
revolver and threatening to unload
the contents of the weapon into Hickey's
body. John Schamber, of the Nine
teenth ward, had IA hearing before the
same alderman and was committed to
jail in default Of bail Alderman Dono-
van was aroused from bed at an early
hour yesterday morning by Mrs. Scham-
Der. She swore that her husband was
on the war path and had threatened
to XIII her and then commit suicide.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-21
IN LOCAL THEATERS.

The lecture of Rev. II. Dewitt Tai
mage on my Journey Around the
World" which was postponed last week,
will be delivered at the rockingham
this evening. Tickets purchased for
last week will be good. II has been
several years since DR.. Talmage ap-
peared before Scranton audience and
there Is no doubt but he will be well
coined by n crowded house. Tickets for
the lecture are now on sale at the thea
ter box office.
H ll \
1.-THE Derby Winner" the strong COM
edy and racing drama, will be seen
for the first time in Scranton at the
Academy of Music on Friday and Sat
urday evenings. The author OF the play.
Alfred II. Sphinx, Is one of the best
known newspaper men in the west and
In writing "The Derby winner he has
brought to bear his rich experience In
turf lines, and his play in consequence
shows splendid dramatic construc-
tion. 1t Is in four acts and seven scenes.
The play Is alive with strlkngly real
istic situations OF scenes on the race
track. and 1t has line of comedy that
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-21
HE EVADED THE LAW.
Michael GilgaIlon win Have TO Answer
at Onnrtcr Sessions

Michael Gilgallon, of Archibald, met
with an unpleasant surprise in court
yesterday. Some time ago he was prose-
cuted by Peter Estruth for making
threats and was directed to pay the
costs. He evaded the costs by making
an affidavit setting forth that he had
no property and had not disposed of
any for the purpose Of securing the
benefit of the insolvency act.
Yesterday the final hearing in the in
solvency proceedings was held and 1t
appearing that Gilgallon had trans
ferred property to his son about the
time he declared himself an insolvent,
the court directed that he be held to
appear at the next term of quarter ses-
sions court to answer the offense, which
is covered by a special act of the legls-
lature. There are many others who
have evaded the payment of costs in a
similar manner.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-21
Award of Arhitrnfnrs.

The award of arbitratOrs in the trespass
case of Daniel S. Beemer against John +.
Roche and j. l.. Roesler was yesterday filed
with Prothonotary Pryor by Arbitrators
William H. Roe, NJ. w. Lowry and G. NJ.
Watson. 1t gives $l35.2j to the plaintiff,
who sued to recover damages for what he
claimed was the unlawful seizure and
sale of his goods for rent by the defend
mt
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-21

Is richly studded with the bright side
of turf life a matinee will be given
on Friday afternoon, Washington's
birthday, at go. Prices, adults, so
cents; children, % cents.
Il 4 h
The white Crook" Big Spectacular
Extravaganza company will open n
three days engagement at the Davis
theater today. with matinee daily. The
white Crook is something entirely
new and up-to-date, and well and
evenly balanced company do great
credit to the extravaganza. The clever
little singing and dancing soubrette,
Miss Emma Rose Lee, and the funny
Dutch and Irish comedians, Sandford
and Lee, head this big company.
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Shorter paragrnp phs.

Mrs. Philip Graf, of South Washing
ton avenue, is recovered from her re-
cent illness.
Miss Louise Mcnamara, of Olyphant.
spent yesterday as the guest of Miss
Emma Dunleavy, of Pittston avenue.
Assistant Street Commissioner Peter
Hiltz, whose leg was broken by his
falling on the ice, is getting around
nicely.
Conductor Henry Mahoney's car
broke down on this side yesterday
evening about supper time and de-
layed travel at time when the street
cars are in demand.
No one should fail to attend the en-
tertainment of the Columbus council,
Young Mems Institute, tonight at DR..
Manley's hall. An elaborate pro-
gramme of musical numbers has been
arranged.
The condition of John Connors, of
Genet street. who was frightfully
burned on Monday in an explosion OF
gas in the Bellevue shaft, Is not i'm
proved, and he may not be strong
enough to recover.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-21

Lieutenants of police yesterday made re-
turns of the telephone and electrical poles
in their precincts to the chief of police.
The total number of poles In the city Is
about 6,O0O. which, at u tax of 80 cents
each. will bring revenue OF $1,000 per an
mum to the city councils.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-21

Thousands are suffering excruciating
misery from that plague of the night
Itching Piles, and say nothing about It
through sense of delicacy. All such will
find an instant relief in the use of Doan's
Ointment. 1t never fails.
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-02-21

Remeber our telephone number Is o242
II you want plumbing work. w. G. Doud
& Co., 600 Lacka. ave. -