The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-02-14
REDISTRICTED.
Fire Chief Cline Makes Important
Changes Which We're
APPROVED BY THE COMMITTEE
On Fire Department Mt its Meeting
Last Night = Hereafter the Island
Reel Does not Respond to Calls out
ofthc Ward-The City is now Divi.
dcd Into Seven Fire Districts.
Other Council Committees Meet.

dcd Into Seven Fire Districts.
Other Council Committees Meet.
| At the meeting Of the council commit
tee on fire department last night, the
report OF Fire Chief Robert D. Cline, d.
viding the city into seven fire districts.
was confirmed, and the new running
regulations as submitted were approx
cd. Formerly. there were five districts.
By the new regulations, the Island reel
does not answer alarms on the city side
Of the river. The Niagara and Island
come out for fires out Of their districts
when the signal Ill" Is sounded. The
signal go" calls out the entire depart
ment.
The new running regulations and the
boxes as divided into the new districts.
as reported by the chief and approved
by the committee, are as follows:
/. When an alarm OF fire is sounded. the
entire department will hitch up. and. II
not In their district. remain hitched up for
twenty minutes. and then return horses
to the stalls.
. When signals and are sounded, the
entire department shall! promptly respond
TO the scene of the fire.
g. When signals and are sounded, the
Niagara and the Alert Qsland) will re-
spond to the scene OF the fire.
4. Any alarm received while a portion OF
the department Is at work. except repe-
ttion OF the same box. must be answered
promptly by those not engaged.
5. When an alarm OF fire is sounded. the
apparatus In whose district the fire Is
shall proceed with all possible speed 10 the
place of the fire.
The several engines and hose companies
will respond on first alarms as follows:
Figilant--First. Second. Third and Sew
enth districts.
Chemlcal-Flrst. Second. Third and
Fourth districts. except box Is,
Hook and Ladder-Will attend all
alarms.
NIagara-second, Fourth. Fifth and
Sixth districts: also boxes 81. 81 and 3lo
Eighth Ward-Fourth. Fifth and Sixth
districts: also boxes %, q. % and &c
1sland-Will respond for Seventh district
only.
FIRST DISTRICT.
Stop Mill.
12-Main and Third.
l3-Main and Fourth.
H-Main and Fifth.
l5-Eigilant Engine House.
i6-Main and Eighth.
E-Main and Ninth.
R-Market and Tenth.
l9-Chemical Engine House.
ll2-Narket and Pike.
Educational road and Sixth street.
SECOND DISTRICT.
2l-Main street and Steel Bridge.
23-Markct and Twelfth
'2t-Main and Twelfth.
c5-Market and Fourteenth,
c6-South and Fourteenth.
2.-Main and South.
9S-Market and South.
Getty Building.
THIRD DISTRICT.
3-McColloch and Eleventh.
3I-EoT and Thirteenth.
5c--Jacob and Fifteenth.
a-Jacob and Nineteenth.
55-Wood and Sixteenth.
SS-McColoch and Fourteenth.
1-Keymann Brewing Company.
3s-Jacob and Twelfth.
sle-Atlantic Engine House.
3i3-Lind and Eleventh
SH-El!zabcth and Twelfth.
3l5-Wood and Fourteenth.
FOURTH DISTRICT.
4l-Hook and Ladder House.
t2-Market and Twenty-second
43--Chapline and Twentieth
4J-Chaplinc and Twenty-thirJ,
i6-Whitaker Mill.
H-EoH and Twcnty-second.
FIFTH DISTRICT.
5-NiaEara Engine House.
5l-Main and Twenty-six;h.
52-Chapline and Twenty-sIxth.
S3-Eon and Twcnty-eighth.
J-Wood and Twenty-siyth,
6-Wood and Thirty-hrst
5l-McColloch and Thirtieth.
S-Mlrket and Twenty-seventh.
9-Caldwelrs Run.
5lo--Jacob and Twenty-fourth
SMITH DISTRICT.
G-ChaplIne and Thirty-tirs,.
6l-Eofr and Thir,y-third.
h Eo-Firyhth
62-Hobbs' Glass House.
6i-Wood and Foptieth.
65-Jacob and Forty-hfth.
61-Jacob and F0rty-etehth
6l2-Bloch Bros. Tobacco Works.
6l3-Jacob and Thirty-cighth.
SEVENTH DISTRICT.
1ANorth York and Kentucky,
Il-lsland Engine House.
12-Nirgina and Broadway.
I3-South Front and Fink
u-South End OF South Broadway,
I5-North York and Cromwell
I6-E!rEinia and Zane.
Il2-South Huron and Ohio.
Il3-North Wabash and New Jersey.
In the list above. there are sixty
six boxes, and OF these ten are new
ones. and numbered in the hundreds.
The chief was authorized to have print
ed fifty cards OF the regulations. and
1000 fire alarm cards for general dis
tribution. The new arrangement. as
announced by the chief. met with the
unanimous approval of the committee.
The committee appreciates the intelli-
gent efforts of Chief Cline to lift the
standard of Wheelngs already first
class fire department
The committee audited and recon-
mcndcd for payment bills aggregatinr
$500 0S. The bill of an Eighth ward
blacksmith for work done In 1895 was
laid over until further particulars can
be learned
The committee ordered a rubber coat
for the chief.
The chief was Instructed TO have
printed n supply Of horse shooting
blanks.
The committee decided to intrust to
Chief Cline the work of setting llp on
hose wagons of the Niagara, Eighth
ward and Vigilant engine companies
the chemical equipments recently pur-
chased. II has been Intended to place
one OF the new chemicals on the Hook
and Ladder truck. but IL was believed
the load would be too heavy, so the
third chemical goes to the Niagara
This arrangement brings out at least
two chemicals at every fire.
The committee appointed DR.. Leon y.
Refer Official veterinary surgeon to the
department for the ensuing two years,
his salary remaining the same, SIS per
month. The patrol horses were added
to his care.
Two subcommittee were appointed
as follows:
Horse NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Enx