The herald., 1897-10-21
Fire Department Engines
to Be Tested
AND ENGINEERS EXAMINED
BOARD OF EXAMINING ENGIN-
EERS ON THEIR TRAIL
Chief Moore Don't Like the idea
Neither Does the Mayor and
Fire Commission


fire commissioners yesterday morning
was comparatively tame until two let
ters from the board of examining err
gineers and the city boiler inspector sent
the mayor and Chief Moore on the wa. :
path with blood in their eyes.
In themselves the letters were ostens-
IDLY mere formal inquiries as to the full
fillment of the provisions of a city Or
dinance, but behind them evidently lay
Senegambiar, for their reading im-
mediately precipitated trouble. The first
| was as follows:
Office Board of Examining Engineers
ITO the Board of Fire Commissioners
Gentlemen: Kindly arrange matters so the
engineers in your department will be able
to get here and be examined for license
and instruct them accordingly, as any per
son operating steam boiler without q
license is guilty of misdemeanor. Re
| spectfully,
Board of Examining Engineers:
| &C. j. DAHL"
| The second was from c. J. Dahl, in
dividually, as boiler inspector, as fol-
lows:
ITO the Board of Fire Commissioners
Gentlemen: Will you kindly instruct those
| in your department having charge of boil
ers to have them ready for inspection al
| the earliest possible date and have them
| inform me of same. Respectfully,
| &c. j. DAHL, Boiler Inspector"
The reading Of the foregoing evoke
some comment on the part of the board
and the chief himself, who stated that
this sort of thing had been bone of
contention for some years in other cities,
and it was time, he thought, that such
nonsense was stopped here. my de-
partment Is given power" said Chief
Moore, 'to appoint men to attend to the
engines and. their mechanism, and our
| judgment is supposed to be good enough
without subjecting the board to the
criticisms and possible censure of any
outside officials. I don't thirk that it is
necessary for this board to bend the knee
to any boiler inspector or board of en-
| gineers on this subject; If we aren't
competent to handle our own engineers
efficiently, then certainly the boiler in
spector and his associate aren't; and
there is no need to have them make any
sort of an examination simply because
they think they can run this depart
ment."
Certainly not" said the mayor, en-
phatically, and the board having cor-
cided with the chiefs views the letters
were merely ordered filed.
The weekly report of City Electrician
| Francis was read and ordered filed, As
was also the petitions of joins w. Clark
| for appointment as callmar.
The petition Of the Los Angeles Brew
L in for ~ ie,-io 70 =
operate boilers and machinery, burning
crude oil, on East Main between Moul-
ton and Walnut streets, was referred tt
the chief for investigation, with power
to act.
On recomme erdation. of Chief Moore
permission was grarlte to the principa
of the State Normal school to erect a
brick furnace for consumption of rub
bish, on the school grounds at Fifth and
Grand avenue.
The petition of Elder and others for
permission to bore for oil on. those lots
enclosed by Cottage, Curtis, Hawley and
Mann streets, was granted on the rec
omcnendation Of Chief Moore, who
stated that no objection had been
| raised.
The petition of M. S. Kren.tlum for
permission to erect ard operate dye
fouse at 816 East Washington street
was protested by A. H. Quatman, who
owns twenty-one out of the twenty
seven lots in the block and who claims
that such an enterprise would, be the
means of materially decreasing the
value of property for residence purposes
in the vicinity. The matter was de-
ferred for ore week In. order that plat
of the vleighborhood could be prepared
thereby giving the board an opportunity
to understand the nature Of the petition
and protest.
The weekly report of the chief con
tanning an account of the alarms ser
in since october 18th was approved arc
ordered filed
The meeting adjourned after some
discussion amongst the board as to the
localities to be decided on for the cree
tion of new engine houses, etc., ard the
chief was instructed to make an inves-
tigation as to the most desirable ar1d
needed locations, together with an es-
innate of the cost Of purchasing the
sites, buildings and apparatus, and pre-
ser.t the same to the board at it's next
meeting, when the latter will make an
inspection on the chiefs report ard i'm
mediate steps will betaken as to the
issuance of bonds for the same.
City Hall Notes
Thirty eight property owners, repre-
senting 1858 lineal feet fronting on
Broadway, between Seventh and the
jurlction of Main and Broadway, have
filed a protest with the city clerk against
the proposed paving of that street. The
protestants are in the majority.
s. B. Duryea and others have filed a
petition with the city clerk asking that
stonn-water nuisance at Twenty
fourth and Toberman streets be abated
The city treasurer sent $22,290.6S to
New York yesterday to pay the out
fall sewer bonds and interest, due on
November 1st of this year.
Not Identified
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Oct. 20.-The body