The herald., 1897-10-14
HAS RESIGNED
Fireman Does So After
Being Discharged
FIRE HYDRANTS PLUGGED
PUBLIC OFFICIALS TO INSPECT
IMPROVEMENTS
Sanitary Condition Of the East Side
Schools-New Fire Department
Quarters-Tax Collections

The regular session Of the board OF
IRE commissioners yesterday was de-
void of unusual proceedings OF any
kind, the session being taken up in the
consideration of routine matters only.
Before the approval Of the minutes OF
the last meeting Commissioner kuhrts
moved that the vote by which John
Noonan had been dismissed be recoU-
sidered He presented a letter from
Noonan in which the latter expressed
regret at sHch actions as had led to his
dismissal, pointing to the fac. that he
had been in the department for several
years and that this was his hrst
trouble. IN consideration of his former
faithful services he asked that he be
allowed to resigvs insteaG Of being dis
missed so that the dismissal would not
operate against him in his efforts to Sc
cure employment elsewhere. MI
Kuhr.s stated that he believed in giving
the man a chance and asked that his
request be granted. On his motion
Noonan's letter was spread upon the
records, his dismissal reconsidered and
his resignation accepted.
poin tsner.t of the following callmen and
their assignment as indicated, which
was approved by the board: II. H.
Hemb, engine company No. .; Thomas
Ferna odez, engine company NO. ., atsd
George w. Bright, engine company NO
6. In regard to the petition OF Bailey
& Schmidts Bros. for permission to
place storage tank for oil under the
sidewalk on Los Angeles street, Chief
Moore reported that the granting of the
petition was not within the province of
the board, as the street department had
jurisdiction over such matters. The
petition was therefore returned to the
city council with that endorsement.
]. S. Sloan, callman at engine COM
pany No. 4, who was suspen0eG at the
last meeting of the commission pending
agl inquiry as to why he had failed to
respond to four alarms of fire last
month, appeared before the board and
explained that two of the alarms which
he was reported to have missed We're
from different boxes for the same fire,
and he had reached the fire in time to
have been of service if his company had
been called into action. With reference
to one of the others he stated that he
had reported at the engine house within
ffteeu1 minutes to register. but the fore
man had gone out. He admitted having
missed two alarms which he had, not
heard. None of the fires misses were in
the district covered by his company. All
of them were day fires. He has been
in the department for five years and has
never missed a serious fire or one in the
rc;v tnd hy.t he
commission, but warned that the next
time he failed to respond to three
alarms curing a month, his resignation
would be demanded.
An application of Claude Mathewson
for appointment as calinlan was re-
ceived and placed on file.
A petition from M. S. Korn blum for
permission to operate six horse power
boiler to heat water at dying estab-
lishment at SIG East Washington street
was referred TO the chief. The usual
reuuisitiors and demands were ap-
proved.
Ed T. Pierce, secretary Of the normal
school, applied for permission to erect
a brick furnace and smokesuack on the
school grounds for the purpose of burn
ing waste paper and other refuse mate
rial. the furnace to be erected more than
fifty feet from any building. The mat
ter was referred to- the chief.
At the sugges ton of Commissione
Wells, Chief Moore was instructed. to
incorporate in his weekly reports to
the commission the record Of all fires
and alarms in the city during the week
covered by the report, stating the es-
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with any other matter of interest in
connection with the fires. 1t was also
suggested that record be kept by each
of the companies of the time between
the sounding of an alarm and the time.
of first water on the fire. These rec
ords are to be reported 20 the chief ana
by him to the board. The purpose Of
this is to create a rivalry among the
companies in the matter of prompt re-
sponse to an alarm.
At the suggestion of Chief Moore the
commission then visited the quarters Of
the recently established company on
North Main street, to inspect the many
Improvements that have been made.
The work of remodeling the upper floor
of the house has not been completed,
and nearly all the members of the COM
pany were at work on this when this
commission reached the place. The
sleeping quarters of the men were ex-
amined first, and the commissioners re-
turned to the ground floor via the pole
In true f1remen's style. The appara tus
for removing the swinging stalls of the
horses from the floor when an alarm
Is sounded was shown the commission
ers
This apparatus is intended to give this
firemen more room while hooking up -
When an alarm sounds the horses are
released. from the stalls by the electric
chain drop and take their positions I'm.
der the collars. The swapping of this
collars on the forward horses trips 4
trigger attached to a system of weight:
and lines, and the sides of the stall-
which the horses have just left Instant,
and automatically swing up against tn,
wall. leaving a clear floor space for tn,
drivers to drive out of the house. Tht
apparatus IS the only one of the kint
In the country. 1t was designed by AS
sistant Chief Smith. The members o
the board expressed themselves as de
lighted with the improve vementa