El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-13
OFFICERS ELECTED
By the Fire Department For
the tnsuing Year.
SPLENDID lion
OF the Department as Shown by the
Reports. MANY Alarms aud
Small LNss.-EffsCtlve Work
Old Officers HOnored BY ReslsC-
tjOn.

Il
fire department gathered early at fire.
mems hall last night where the annual
election was to be held. The attend
ance was unusually large there being
about seventy-five present.
Officers to serve during the ensuing
year were chosen as follows:
President. John Julian.
Chief. Frank Powers.
Vice presidents, e. w. S. Neff w. H.
Watts A. A. Howard and J. B. Badger.
First assistant chief. Charles Krause.
Second assistant, w. J. Ten Eyck.
Secretary. w. T. HiXson.
Treasurer, Dan Kelly.
The Proceedings.
President Julian called the assem-
blage to order at o'clock and Secre-
tary HixSon called the roll. The min
uteS of the directors meeting of No
vember IA, were read and approved.
President Julian stated that it was
not compulsory upon any man to pay
the 81 contribution to the burial fund
ton could be made by the city council
only. He urged all, however, to pay
a dollar each to the fund.
Chief PowerS'S monthly report was
read and approved.
The bills for the month were pre-
scented and ordered sent to the city
council for payment. They amounted
to $154.37. The total of the pay roll
was s645. The bills follow:
]. B. Watson, S12.30; electric light,
Sill; water company, $3.50: Shelton
Payne Arms Co., S7.15; Henry Breiten,
$14; T. H. Springer, So; futile Paint
and Glass Co.. $3.50; Campbell and
Grayson, $4.45; Fassett & Kelly, 1857;
fri
Momsen & Thorne, $1.S5; o. G. Section,
1906; Payne-Badger Coal Co., $3.50.
The bid of o. G.. Section for horse
feed was accepted by the chief and ap-
proved by the meeting.
Under the head of communications a
letter from the council association was
handed in by the chief and read by the
secretary 1t was an invitation to par
ticipate in the big street parade.
Chief Powers said he favored turn
ing out. but it would cost money, as
every volunteer member ought to come
out in uniform. He moved that the
invitation be accepted. His motion
was seconded by Chas. Kiefer, but be-
fore it was put to the house Give-a-
dam Jones arose to say that there were
many members of the department who
could not turn out, as they belonged
to other organizations that had al
ready agreed to parade.
The motion was adopted.
The chairman announced that the
moment had arrived for the election
of officers. During the interval the
reports of the retiring officials for the
preceding were read.
Many members came forward and
contributed 81 each to the burial fund
and when treasurer Kelly footed up
hi 6a hot hn hnd
on hand.
Some time was consumed in the
reading of the reports of the various
officers. By motion it was ordered that
copy of the chiefs report be fur
nished to the newspapers of the city
and to the council.
The Chiefs Report.
Ell Paso, Tex. Dec. IL, 1900.
To the Officers and Members of the Ell
Paso Fire Department:
Gentlemen-Complyin with the es-
tablished custom of this department,
l have the honor to submit to your
body, for your information and con-
sideration, my annual report of the
workings of our department to date,
for the fiscal year ending December
81. 1900.
l have embodied herein reports of
all fires and the cause thereof as near
as could be ascertained; also the
amounts of losses by fire and the
amount of insurance paid, the number
of miles travelled by the department
apparatus in responding to the diff
ferent alarms, the number of feet of
hose handled and the number of feet
of ladders raised.
The number of fire alarms for the
in the history of our department. We
have responded to sixty-eight alarms
during the past year. By months
they run as follows:
January-SiX alarms; causes, two
defective flues, two lamps, two I'M
known.
February-Five alarms; causes.
three unknown, one lamp, a defective
stove.
March-Six alarms; causes, one
sparks. one gasoline stove, two I'M
known, one hot grease, one false
alarm.
April-Nine alarms; causes, two hot
ashes. two rubbish, two defective
fiues, one lamp, two unknown.
May-Eight alarms; causes, two
gasoline stoves, one matches, two
false alarms, one defective fiue, two
rubbish.
June-Seven alarms; causes, three
unknown. two defective flueS, one
electric wire, one rubbish.
July-One alarm; cause, unknown.
August-SiX alarms; causes, three
unknown, one matches, one defective
flue, one spark.
September-Five alarms; causes,
three unknown. two lamps.
October-Eleven alarms; causes.
one ash box, one gasoline stove, one
coal oil stove, one lamp, one rubbish,
three unknown, three false alarms.