The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-31
FIRE COMMISSIONS BUDGET.
ESTIMATE OF EXPENSES FOR NEXT
YEAR S7,sS2.5O.

The Amount Asked for $4,000 More
Than Allowed This Year-Thirtecn
Thousand Dollars to BE Used ior
Additions and ImprOvements-Ihe
Putting of Fire Alarm Wires IN
derEround Considered in the Esti-
mate.
The budgets of the city departments I'M
der control of the commissions, showing
The estimates Of the cost Of conducting
these departments during the coming year
will all be in the hands Of the mayor to-
dav or tomorrow, the acts providing for
the commissions requiring that these
bodies shall submit their estimates to the
mayor during the month of October of
each year.
The estimate of the fire department was
handed to the clerk of council by Fire
Chief Mcguire yesterday afternoon. The
estimate of the fire commission of the cost
Of conducting the department for the en-
suing year is SS7, So. So This is $l1S2. 30
more than was allowed for the same pur-
pose in this years budget The estimate
is given in detail, though the explanation
of the various items is brief.
summary of the items enumerated is
as follows: Pay roll eighty men, $60,6lO;
printing and stationery, S1GO; feed for
stock, S2976; heater and stove coal, $475;
gas and Illuminating oils, $l05; lubricatinS
oil and waste, SIP; soda and acid, $245; beds
and bedding for men, SIG; painting and
white-washing buildings, 1884; repairs TO
buildings, 500; horse shooting, S6l6; medi-
cine and treatment of stock, $176, bedding
for stock 1854; horses to replace others,
$500, harness and repairs to same, $3.50; en-
CINE coal and wood, $155; repairs and re-
newals to apparatus 1913; fire alarm tele-
graph system, $6S7. so; cleaning tools and
implements, $16S; repairs and renewals en-
CINE heaters, SIS; tools and implements of
the service, 1895; ice for engine houses,
SIPS; surgical attendance injured firemen-
average, $175; due on combination chemical
and hose wagon, Feb. l, $500; repairing
and rebuilding reserve engine $1,1OO; in
cidentals, $500; firemens uniforms, $2,400;
fire hose, 81, 400; fire alarm boxes $,7l5;
placing wires underground. $4,000; supply
wagon, $125; fire alarm key boxes, 800; ad-
ditional hose station, south of Anderson
street, 1850; additional hose station, Rob-
ertsville, $3.50; gong and indicator for No.
8 station, $225; indoor fire alarm boxes, $225.
Total, $S7, $50. 80.
Of this amount $73, 1922 80 represents the
actual amount necessary to operate the de-
partment during the coming year and $751;
$50 the amount desired for additions and
improvements. In the latter is included
the estimate of $1,000 for putting the fire
alarm wires under ground, with the
statement that if the police department
will participate in this move the cost for
putting the wires of both departments I'M
der ground will be practically the same
as for one. The new hose stations are
also included in the new Improvements.
The amount asked for is considerably
ahead of any previous appropriation to
the fire department, the appropriation fol
the present year being $4,000. The pay
roll, which is made out in detail, shows the
salary of the eighty members of
the department to be as follows: Chief,
5000; assistant chief $3.50; superintend-
ent fire alarm, 81, POO; inspector, $720; clerk,
$T20; superintendent horses, $720; superin-
tendent engines and engineer No. g. 81, 100,
4 engineers of steamers, "a, 900; assistant
engineers, $1,000; foremen at SIS per month
$500; assistant foremen at SIS per month,
1920; p firemen, at $720 per annum, SIS, 120,
20 firemen, at salaries ranging from $500
to Sis per annum $13, 700; frst-class cadet
firemen, at $40 per month, s., 800; 4 second
class cadets, at $35 per month, 81 $50. This
makes total of S60610, which is evidently
an increase over the present year. Mos,
of the other items are based upon aver
ages for two or more years.
The third quarterly report Of the chair
man of the commission TO the mayor
shows that out of the $4,000 appropriated
TO the department for the present year.
the expenditures have been as follows:
First quarter, $15,91S.S1; second quarter.
$l6,642.99; third quarter, SIS, 43767, leaving
an uneXpended balance to the credit OF
the department at the end of the third
quarter of $22, 0005S