The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-10-10
THE SALARIES OF FIREMEN
NEW SCHEDULE ADOPTED BYTHH
 COUNCILMEN LAST NIGHT.

NEW SCHEDULE ADOPTED BYTHH C0UNCILMEN LAST NIGHT.
 Crushcd Stone Pavement Ordered on
 shelton and Edgewood Avenues-Or- l der for Placing the Flag Polo in the
 Band stand Adhered to-Conourreni I Action on Bicycle Firemen's RcsoIu. tion-PetitiOn for q Brick Pavement on Congress Avenue.
 The board of councilmen last evening voted to adopt the following schedule
 Of salaries for members of the fire de- partment:
 Superintendent, S2,500; fire marshal,
 $17OO; superintendent fire alarm tele-
 graph. $1,700; assistant superintendent
 of department, $1,5O0; clerk, $1, ,25O; cap- tain, first year, SLIGO; captain, second year, $1,150; captain, third year, $1,200; lieutenants, first year, s950; lieutenants, second year, $1,000; master mechanic,
 $1,350; engineers, first year, $1,050 en-
 gineers, second year, s1,100; engineers.
 third year, $1,150; engineers. fourth
 year. $1.200; assistant engineers, first
 year, $950 assistant engineers, second
 year, $1,0O0; stokers, first year, $950;
 stokers, second year, $1,000; drivers.
 first year, $950; drivers, second year.
 $l,O00; hosemen and laddermen, first
 year, $500: hosemen and laddermen,
 second year, $S50: hosemen and ladder
 men, third year, $500; linemen, first year, $S50; linemen, second year. $9C0;
 linemen, third year, s95O; linemen, fourth year, $1,O0O.
 After Clerk Martin had read the schedule as recommended by the conn mittee on fire department, which has
 been previously published, Councilman filling moved as an amendment that the schedule petitioned for by the f1re- men be adopted. Councilman Keane moved as an amendment to the amend ment the adoption of the schedule pulp lished above and his amendment was adopted.
 Councilman Walsh spoke at length in favor of the amended schedule intro- duced by MT. Keane. Councilmen Keane and Conlin also spoke in favor of it. The vote on its adoption was as follows: Ayes-Messrs Mead, Chase, Bone, Gallagher, O'Meara, Harris, Keane, Erff, Magoohan, Cartier. Ma roney Maley, Burton, Conlin, Brown, Tyner Rowland, Rice, filling, Johnson, Walsh. Holiday, Cronan, Casey. Null doon-26.
 Nays-Messrs. Beecher, Rice of the First ward, Dawson, Greenf1eld-4.
 There is now non-current action in the matter, the aldermen having voted to adopt the schedule reported by the committee with some slight amend ments. It is probable that special meeting of the board of aldermen will be called for the latter part of this week to act upon the matter Council man Gallagher of the committee on fire department stated after the meeting last night that he favored the schedule reported by the committee, believing 1t to be fairer salary list.
 A communication was received from Mayor Driscoll stating that citizens had contributed an amount sufficient to
 
 green and that the donors requested that the pole be erected in the Grand Army plot south of the bandstand in- stead of in the location of the old pole in the center of the handstand. / The mayor recommended that the common councils order for placing the pole in the bandstand be rescinded and that the director of public works be in- structed to have the pole put up in the Grand Army plot The board on mo- tion of Councilman Rowland voted to adhere to it's previous action in order ing that the pole be placed in tha bandstand
 The board also concurred with the al- dermen in ordering that the money to pay for flagpole be taken from the account. Concurrent action was taken in ordering a special election to be held in the Second ward on. Mo- vember 3 to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Alderman Gruener.
 petition offered by Councilman O'Meara for a vitrifled brick pave- ment on Congress avenue was referred to the committee on streets as were also the petitions for the hardening of Ferry street and for the opening of a new street between Central avenue and Alden street
 The committee reports on the petition for vitrified brick pavements on Edge wood avenue and Shelton avenue came up for action. The committee recommended that the petitioners be given leave to withdraw, and that pe- tition for crushed stone pavement on Edgewood avenue be granted and ex- pressed the opinion that a crushed stone pavement would be the proper pavement on Shelton avenue. The al- dermen at their last meeting voted to order vitrified brick pavements laid on both avenues, disregarding the com- nittee's recommendation. When the matter was before the committee the aying of vitrified brick pavemente was strongly opposed by the Fair Haven and Westville Railroad company. but was favored by nearly all the property owners and residents along both ave- 1ues, the members of the common council from the Ninth and Tenth wards being especially insistent that 1itrified brick should be laid. When the committee report on Edgewood avenue vas read last night Councilman Walsh ! )f the Tenth ward moved that it be adopted and crushed stone pavement ordered. Councilman filling of the Ninth ward amended to provide for