Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1899-12-23
UTAH LOAN AND TRUST CO.. OGDEN.

The department has travelled 269A
miles 70 fires answering calls.
They have put In forty-nine hours
and twenty-nlne minutes In actual fire.
fighting.
They have raised 2O4 feet of ladders,
laid IL, 700 feet Of hose and used 43O GAL
Ions OF chemicals for these fires.
The amount Of insurance involved In
fires have been sos, 900, The amount OF
insurance paid in losses s2,ssS.SS. The
amount Of losses not insured, S2,OSh
CAUSES OF THE FIRES.
Nine from defective fiues.
Six from escaping gas.
One from tramps.
One from smoking pipe.
Two from hot ashes.
One from cigarette.
One from smoke from bakery.
-Four from children and matches.
One from sparks from flue.
One from over-heated tar vat.
One from binder lamp,
-Four from burning rubbish,
Two from bonfres.
One from spark from boiler furnace.
one from oyerheated stove pipe.
One from overheated range.
Two from electric wire.
one from burning grease.
One from spark from engine.
One from explosion Of rollers In -four
mill.
one from defective radiator.
Three false alarms.
The apparatus OF the department con-
ssts Of one champion chemical engine,
two hose wagons, one aerial truck. one
LaFrance steam engine, one buggy for
chief, one hand engine, one hose reel,
one Stllman village truck, eight horses
and COO feet Of hose.
During 1899 the department has
bought $500 feet OF 2i5 inch hose, 800 feet
Of chemical hose, two miles Of insulated
copper wire string. The sidewalk In
front Of the building has been paved
with asphaltum.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
The public schools OF Ogden are quiet
ly, hut surely improving from every
standpoint. The curriculum has been
revised from year 10 year until today
the essentials" are being pushed clear
ly and strongly TO the front with the
incidental work grouped under q few
heads The routine Of the school is be-
ing simplihed and the work Of the child
rem Is being improved.
1T is becoming clear" said Superfn-
tendent Allison, that a child needs the
opportunity and training that will give
him pose and skin, and strength. He
cannot get these In a school where he
does little Of everything, and never
does much Of anything. He is TO get In
the schools where he has an opportu-
nifty to settle down TO the deliberate.
continuous and close study Of few
subjects. follow these out In their trib-
utary lines, and In these tributaries get
the training necessary to breadth, Wis
ion and cultivation OF all these pow
ers which We are seeking TO evolve
through the studies which have come
into the schools within the last third OF
a century"
The courses In the high school have
been changed and improved. As the
curriculum now stands II presents a
classical, q scientific. an English, a COM
merclal and an English commercial
course which Is two years course.
Prof. George a. Eaton A. b.. Phi. ID.
tHarvard) succeeds Prof. T. b. Lewis
as principal. In addition 20 this change
In the personnel Of the faculty Mr. Clar-
ence Crandall, r. A. (Stanford) has
charge Of the work In physics and
chemistry. Miss Emile Bannister was
engaged as instructor In German and
Mrs. Belle Salmon Ross, instructor In
elocutlon and physical culture. The peo-
pie OF Ogden enjoy the reputation that
this school has established Its facul-
ty is made up OF graduates from the
best institutions OF learning In the land.
Nearly every year the board Of edu-
cation has been compelled 10 build new
buildings 10 accommodate the increased
attendance. During the past year In
addition TO four rooms was added 10 the