The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-02
flembers of the Commission Take
a Stand.
a STATEMENT ADDRESSED TO
THE CITY COUNCIL.
To Procure a Medal For Brave Mike
Donovan-Routine Matters Con-
sidered by the Board Last Night.


ment- Before this important reform is
thrust upon the city council, a sched-
ule showing the present rate and the
proposed increase will have been pre-
pared for the inspection of the COM
mission at subsequent meeting. The
commissioners in attendance upon last
evenings session concurred on the need
of such a move
WANT MORE MEN.
The other necessity from which re-
dress will be asked from the council
was framed in the expression that the
aerial fire ladder viii never go out to
another blaze unless that apparatus
be manned by a full crew of ten men,
all new members Of the department.
FROM DEvINE.
This suggestion is brought to the
consideration of the council by the
submission of a report from Chief De-
vine, in which he says, addressing the
commission:
L would again warn you of the ne
cessity of urging the city council to
increase the working force of this de-
partment. It is useless to send out
apparatus without sufficient men to
handle it and if the city will not see
the force of this suggestion, then we
had better properly man such pieces of
apparatus as our force will cover and
abandon the rest. do not propose to
be held responsible for not doing that
which no living. man can do with the
force at my command. The department
should be increased at least ten men"
THE BOARDS VIEW.
Commissioner Dininny did not think
that the chief had put it strongly
pT1nrrurb Naffhnr Scfr
Cohn and Noble. so Dininny drafted an
addendum which will accompany the
foregoing. 1t goes on to say:
Your attention is called to the ac-
company communication of the
chief of the fire department. The re-
cent ott-Auerbach fire has fully
demonstrated the necessity of more
men to man the apparatus. and ten
more men is a very small number to
ask We say to your honorable body
that unless these men are allowed the
department we shall be obliged to di-
rect that the aerial truck be kept in
the house and not taken out to fires,
as there are not men enough in the de-
partment to man the other apparatus
and that also.
ITO man the aerial truck and make it
effective. at least ten men are abso-
lutely necessary. In other cities there
is detailed for an aerial truck a crew
of from ten to Is men, and all that we
have to send out is a driver and tiller
man"
Before the proposal to increase the
department had gone as far as the
above recommendations, Devine had
asked for only five men. Commissioner
Dininny scorned the idea of five men,
He thought that by this time the
people in the joint building must have
gotten IL through their hair that more
men We're needed badly" He favored
asking for not less than ten men. Put
it to them cold" he urged. IF We
have not enough men to man il, why
leave ii in the house"
Both &c the other members agreed.
BRAVE MIKE DONOVAN.
The commission was heartily in favor
of awarding a gold medal to Assistant !
Chief Donoval for gallant conduct at /
1.-The" fire. Chairman Noble appointed /
Commissioners Cohn and Dininny as
a committee to select design and or
der a medal that would not cost more /
than $50. 1t was suggested that the de-
sign be so executed as to enable the /
to use it for all similar
exigencies.
Right on the heels of this action
something occurred that fell like a
damper on the preceding business. The
bills of Assistant Chief Donovan for
medical attendance since his accident
we're presented among ether accounts.
Besides the fees of private physicians.
those of the hospital were included
These were allowed but the commission
stopped at a bill from the Cullen hotel
for $2S and a hack bill of 81. All on
account of Donovan's transportation
from St Marks hospital and his board
at the hotel since he left the former
Mr.. Dininny thought
such accounts so long as the full salary
Of the disabled fireman had been going
On. The last bill was laid aside for
This circumstance aroused
some talk of a department physician
and Mr.. COhn gave notice that he
would agitate the appointment of one
before very long.
EXAMINATIONS.
Mr.. Cohn then reminded, his asso>
GATES that the time for the regular
of candidates for firemen
was approaching and asked that adj
fertisements to that effect be inserted
n the daily' papers The suggestion
was carried out
A PENSION FUND.
Report of receipts from the sale OF
I'D hose for the past year showed the
mount realized to have been $331.75 ,
IN l.,
making a total of s52S-95. Expenses in {
.urred were s47.25, leaving balance
If S43l. 20. There was a balance due
VI the same account of S123.20 from {
James Griffin; S666O from the Big Cot 5
onwood Power company and $3.50
rom the Salt Lake water works. 1t {
vas suggested by Mr.. Dininny that {
teps be taken at once TO collect the I
and Mr.. Cohn asked that I
he fund created by those sales be set l
lside as a pension fund. Mr.. Dininny I
lid not know where they would get c
to set the precedent. The re- 7
,ort however, was adopted and the !
,ension vision vanished Other routine I
accounts were audited and ordered
aid
Distress in the police ranks brought
ONE criticism. It had been shown by
he police reports that only six patrol
nen were doing duty on one shift, ow-
ng 20 sickness and other causes. The l
oard thought that substitutes should !
e secuVsd and the force kept at its 7
Gil quota. The matter viii be brought 7
o the attention of Acting Chief Es- 4
niger. The police expense list OF T
:. 1881 exclusive Of $3.50 for prison ex- A
enses, was approved and after Mr..
ohm was named as acting chairman,
uring the absence of Mr. Noble, who =
saVes the city tonight, the commits T
ion adjourned. 3
A Tale by Dixey. Y
Henry E. Dixey says that his funni- !.
st stage experience occurred one night