El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-12-09
CONTINUED from third page.
BY districts the alarms were as fol
Total AZ

laid II, $50 feet of hose and raised 1l2O
feet of ladders. The actual workiog
time consumed for all fires was Il
hours.
During the past year, we have added
to our department., l heater for engine,
valued at S44 10, l electric machine,
valued at $4,000, for turning horses
for hose cart, ''PeytOn" and "Bob,
valued at $3.50 90.
We have also had headquarters
overhauled, recalcimined and painted:
also mating for floor of reading room;
engine overhauled and boi er repair d;
Hose Co. No 2, wagon repainted; No
hose cart remodeled and painted. The
salaries of three paid me have been
raised. Drivers of engine and hose
cart, salary raised from $4,000 to $40 .O0
per month. Extra mans salary raised
from $50 to $50 per month, Paid men
furnished with six folding iron beds
and mattresses: also six wardrobes for
clothes, the value of same being
1853 so.
Condemned borse Crank" turned
over to Hook and Ladder Co. during
life; savage horse "Alex' sold. and
money turned over to tNe city;
ly on hose wagon, now doing
service on hook and ladder. The
stalls of stables have been remodeled
and sand floors substituted for plank
floors.
The department now consists of six
paid men and seven horses.
The apparatus and equipment now
on hand consists of the following:
One Silsby steamer No. 2. in good
condition, value $500 90; one Gleason
and Bailey aerial hook and ladder truck
fully equipped, value 100000; one L.
NJ. Ramsey II. & L. truck, value
$50, 100; one new hose wagon, value
5000. 90; one two-horse hose reel, not in
use, $3.50 90; four hand hose reels.
$40O, 90; one racing hose reel, $780, 90;
one coal cart, $500: seven sets of har-
ness and hangers, value $4,000 90; seven
head of horses, value $1,000 90; seven
patent hitch straps, $14 90; one Fair
banks scale, $1,000: electric appa ratns,
including gongs, value, $4,000; 255O
feet good double jacket hose, S125O.5O;
100 feet single jacket hose, 1888. $50;
10 hose MOBILES, $4,000; "a rubber
coats, S72 90; stable and sleeping rooms
at headquarters $4,000; one hose
house and lot on Tsys St. 5000. 90; one
hose house and lot on Mesa avenue,
between Montana and Rio Grande SITS.
500. 90; one hose houss on Mesa ave-
nue.. near San Antonio ST., $4,000; one
bell and tower at headquarters, 84OO.
Total value of apparatus, 81, 229.l |
All of the apparatus in use Is in fret
class condition.
We have donated to the public au-
other year of our service, when called
upon, and it is pleasure to all OF US
to know that not one Of our brother
firemeu, has been seriously injured at
Gus accident was injury recently to |
Comrade w. F. Hempel, while exercis- |
ing the hose team.
The paid men have responded
and the services they |
have rendered. have been credit |
to themselves and the depart
men.. They have taken the very best
are of the apparatus in their charge. |
Words caunot express to you, my fell
hearty support you have given me at |
all times, and for the promptness with |
which you have at all hours o. the day
and night left your families and fire.
sides. to risk your lives if need be, in
the saving of Lives and property of |
o.hels, be they your friends or foes. I
also wish to thank my efficient assist
ants, Messrs Miilspaugh and Lyons,
VINO were always on hand and rendered
good judgment.
During May of this year. we enter
tained the State Fireman's convention,
with credit to ourselves and honor to
FL Paso. Representing your depart
nent as chief. the city of FL Paso was
D IGNORED in selection me to present the
state of Texas at the Information AS
ISOLATION of Fire Engineers, which was
1eld at New Haven, Connecticutt
August, 18th, to 10th, 1897, which meet
ng l attend and there met chiefs from
England, Ireland, Canada and all parts
If the United States. and did my hum
Die part in UNFOLDING the credit of the
volunteer fremen of our great state,
Ind where I learned more about fight
ng fires than l could have done in q
life time as chief of any city in Tex
In conclusion, wish to express my
and appreciation to each
md every member of the, fire depart
nent, also the mayor city council and
citizens in general for the hearty sup
'ort they have given me at all times,
nd the hOnors conferred upon me,
uring the past year, and I assure yOn
hat my first thought and action was ,
Or the good of the department
Herewith attached, find inventory of
II properties belonging to the Ell Paso
re department. I
Respectfully submitted, II
j. j. CONNORS, Chief.
Treasurer Kelly report showed s
alance Of S34S. 65 on hand in the gen.
raj fund, S39.87 in the burial fund. l
1891 in the entertsinment fund and Z
3.08 in the donation fund.
Secretary Payne submitted a full
I'D interesting report. showing that z
here are III active men in the depart =
lent. c
The annual reports of the company v
,cretaries show ed the number of ac-
We members on the rolls of the diff
rent companies; AS follows: Hose MOL, o
active men: Hose No.2, Al men; Hose c
o. 3, SO men; Julian Engine No. ], 20
en-; Hook and Ladder No. l, 81 t,
en-. a
Mr.. Julian made q motion which car n
ed that all the reports be'given to the
,wspapers of the city with request to
lblish. G.
1t was ordered that the secretary and G
report to turned over to q
to be investigated; and it :,
rs also ordered that the request of -
o, Hose cOmDanv for horses he o.