The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-02-04
LAPP NAM S HIS MEN.
To Take the Place of the Brave Boys
Who Were Killed.


Who Were Killed.
BUTTE, Feb. 3.-Fire Chief Lapp to-day
completed the list of appointments 10 the
fire department to take the places OF the
brave fellows who were killed in the ex-
plosion, and the names will go to the
council next Wednesday evening for con-
firmation. The list is as follows:
HOSE WAGON.
Mike Maloney, driver; John Porter, as
sistant driver; Gus Hess and Chas Grund,
pipemen; Ed Ogden, hydrant man.
HOOK AND LADDER TRUCK.
E. NJ. Thompson, driver; Ed Phelps,
assistant driver and electrician; Harry
Lesher, ladderman.
CHEMICAL ENGINE.
Harry Kinney, driver; ALT jackson. as
sistant driver and pipeman; Fred Dug
dale and Fritz Reither, p pemen.
1t is possible that there may be one or
two changes before Wednesday night, but
the list will stand substantially as given
above. Dave Magee will of course resume
his old position as driver of the hose
wagon as soon as he RECEIVERS from the in
jurIes sustained at the explosion.
The list given above together with
Chief Lapp and Assistant Chief Jack
Flannery will constitute paid depart
ment OF IA men, an increase of two men
over the old department. As has been
pointed out in the STANDARD several
times, however, these two additional men
have been badly needed and there is no
doubt that the council will approve OF the
CHI els action in selecting full depart
ment. Butte's fire department is very
small at the best, without having any 81
the apparatus short handed, as the hook
and ladder truck and chemical engine
have always been up to the present.
Chief Lapp Is entering upon his new
duties with a firm determination to make
the department model one.
and he will make changes where
ever he considers that they will
prove beneficial to the department. He
will not tolerate any Jealousy AMI expects
all of the men to pull together for the
good of the department.. He is now pre-
pairing a book OF rules for the government
of the department winch will be printed
and distributed among the firemen. He
has also decided to place the firemen on
SIX hour watches instead of two. This ar
ranger ent will give the boys unbroken
sleep and will il is believed be an advant-
ageous change. A visitors record Will also
be kept at both fire stations.
The new chief will be greatly handi-
capped for some time. In addition to
having nearly all new men, new horses
will have to be broken in and the appar-
atus is not in "A satisfactory condition by
any means. 1t will be at least SIX weeks
before the repairs to the hose wagon are
completed and the repairs to the hook
and ladder truck will take some time.
Even when the repairs to the ladders are
completed they will be in crippled con-
dtlon and there is pretty general
opinion that the council would have acted
more wisely in ordering a new set OF
ladders throughout.
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weeks before Butte can boast of as good a
department as the one which was wiped
out through criminal carelessuess. The
record made by Chief Cameron and his
men has been frequently commented on
in the most fiattering terms by the repre-
sentatives of the different insurance COM
panIes who visit Butte at regular inter-
walls, and il constitutes a silent tribute to
the memory of as brave set OF men as
ever responded to the clang of the fire
bell.
When Angus Cameron was appointed
chief of the department on May /, 1893,
there were a few people who said he would
not make a good chief because he was
not strict enough. Subsequent events,
however, gave these assertions most
convincing refutation. The new ohiet
developed ability as leader OF men thar
was hardly expected of him even by his
warmest friends. He quickly showed that
casion demanded 1t, but he made his
men love him through kindness and con-
sideration, and they would have unhesi-
tatingly followed him into the very gates
of hell. He never asked his men to GO
where he would not venture himself and
where the danger was greatest the fear
less chief was always farthest in front.
His men were all enthusiasts in fighting
fire. which accounts to a great de gree for
their remarkable efficiency. They were
as fearless as their gallant chief and fire
had no terrors for them. They all knew
Just exactly what they had to do and they
did il with military precision. There was
not the slightest sign of jealousy and the
department resembled big family with
the chief at it's head. Butte will never
have a better or Drawer set of firemen, oI
more agreeable lot of "boys" than the
heroes who met death in its most terrible
form in the discharge of their perilous
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