The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-10-11
HOTEL GOSSIP.

Fire Marshal Towe Of the San Fran
cisco fire department was at the Knuts-
ford yesterday. He has just returned
from a trip to New York and Boston
where he has been looking into the lat
est things in fire fighting apparatus
and intends to introduce them into the
San Francisco department when they
adopt the metropolitan system ON the
LIST of January next, He said: 1.-The
! San Francisco fire department consists
of IS engines in regular service.
trucks, chemical engines, water tow
ers, insurance patrols, 2 batteries and
l fire boat; in addition we have Is re-
lief engines to be used in case of me-
cessity or hFeak-downs. Heretofore we
| have been behind the time in having
the call system, that is, we only had
| three regular men on duty at each en-
CINE house, an engineer, a stokeP and
a driver, whose salaries are $40. $50
and $50 respectively. In the chemical
/ engine houses we have four mon on
duty, a captain at a salary of SIPS a
month, and the other three at $50 each.
In the truck houses we have two men
on duty, a driver and q tiIlerman, each
at a salary of $50 a month The rest of
the truck and engine men are what is
known as call men, that is, they pur-
sue their usual vOcations during the
day and report to the fire department
at IL O'Clock at night; each of these
men gets a salary of S35 month.
1.-THE battery is an innovation, and is
San Francisco invention. 1t is a sort
OF water tower with a three-fnch nOz-
zle affixed to a small carriage that can
be run into buildings, and the stream
from it directed to play at any. angle.
As a usual thing six engines. are at
tached TO it, and the force of water
from it is sufficient to knock down
any frame building irn the town 1t is
an improvement on the water tower.
because 1t can be operated inside of
building, and thus fight the fire at it's
source. The New York fire department.
has been investigating it and will like
ly adopt it,
Our fireman has to pass a rigorous
examination by the fire department
physician before he is admitted to the
force. Then he is placed in a company
and drilled in climbing. handling of
tools, horses, and all the different things
that firemen have to use in their work.
He is taught how to tie b0wlines.
double bowlines and other knots that
won't jamb when subjected to a pres
sure, and that can be as readily united
in the dark as in the light
The building laws of San Francisco
prohibit absolutely the use of gasoline
stoves in buildings. The insurance COM
panles support two companies. whose
business it is to protect the goods i'm
building from unnecessary damage;
they attend all the fires and protect
the goods, whether they are insured or
not. The fighting of fires has got to be
quite a science. The chief engineer
knows the interior of every building in
the town, and it is his duty to map out
beforehand the plan of operation that
he would pursue i'm case it caught fire.
The men are taught to put out a fire
with bucket of water where it can
be done, and not let a S. fire be the
cause that effects $1,000 loss"
81 was going up to Bingham In the train
the other day said James Campbell
at the Cullen yesterday land near the
canyon we passed q couple of r0okerfes /
that had been painted a brilliant red
There was an inquisitive chap In front of
me who wanted to know what kind of
blamed tool it was who would bother TO I
paint a building away out in that wilder t
ness. / told him that either the owner /
was the kind of Il fool he had just chris /
tened him. or else he had some reason for /
". Probably it WIS to attract attention. {
Then told him a story about d similar /
thing that happened a. good many years 1
ago, when l was living on the line of the I
New York q Erie railroad. p. T. BaFmum /
had bought big farm In Jersey that laid 4
close ia a place that the trains passed. /
and one day ne shipped one of mis- ele-
phants out with Instructions to- keep him 1
until Barnum himself arrived at the
scene Two days later out he came with a /
complete set of Snow white harness of !
huge dimensions, and as soon as he |
reached the SPOT he ordered the elephant /
brought forth. He then harnesSed the eEe-
pnantt hitched hlTn to plough, and Kept
him there all the summer pl0ughing and +
narrowing the fields. Nothing was ever