The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-03-11
AFFAIRS OF THE DISTRICT
Report Of the Work of the Fire De,
partment for February.

Potn! Losses for the Month &9.555,
With $3.50 Insurance-Fifty Addi-
tiOnnI AInrn Boxes 10 Be Erected
in Various Sections of the City.
Joseph Paris, Chief Engineer Of the
Fire Department has submitted to the
Commissioners his report OF the opera
tons of his department for the month of
February He states that there were g.
alarms OF fire. being an increase of 10
as compared with the previous month.
and an increase of % as compared with
the same month OF the preceding year
He informs the Commissioners that II
OF the alarms were false.
Chief Paris states further that there
We're - local or silent alarms, for which
no bells We're sounded. which We're an
swered by the department, one of them
being false
Accompanying the report of the Chief
Engineer is that of the Fire Marshal.
who tells the Commissioners that he in
Yestigated and reported upon 81 alarms
Of FIRE struck upon the gongs of the
department during the month of Febru-
AIRY. The loss, he says. was SS.665, with
an insurance of $3.50, The losses incur
red III the local. still alarms was $3.50,
with an insurance of $50, making the
total losses for the month 1855, with an
insurance of $3.50.
Walter c. Allen. the Electrical Engin-
Ger. has submitted TO the Commissioners
for their approval a list OF fifty fire-alarm
boxes for which provision has been made
in the Appropriation bill for the fiscal
year 1892 The purpose of the depart
naent Is 10 place an order for the fire
l. L. - aasF
ton after July l, Of the present year
The Electrical Engineer asks that he be
authorized 10 purchase the fifty boxes
from the GameWeH Fire Alarm Telegraph
Company and that they be erected in the
following locations:
Brookland and vicinity-Eigi1th and
HeOkuk Streets. Twelfth and Quincy
Streets, Fifteenth and Milwaukee Streets
and Twelfth and EmpOria Streets
TcnleytOwn and yicinity-N iSconSin AV-
enue near Erie Street Wisconsin Avenue
and Belt Road, Grant Road and South
Street. and Wisconsin Avenue and Pierce
Mil Road.
Cleveland Park-Thirty-thir and New
ark Streets.
Anacostia-Nichols Avenue and Sheri-
dan Avenue.
eeoTgetown-Tw enty-ninth ard
Streets, Thirty-fifth and . Streets, Thir-
JY-hfth and NJ Streets.
Washington Heights-Eig hteenth Street
and Columbia Road. Eighteenth Street
and Wyoming Avenue
Columbia HeightS-FOurteenth Street
ana EGt4lu Pace 1aEh ana IIDE streets
BrightwOOd and vicinity-BrightWOOd
Avenue and Tmatilla Street. Brightwo0d
Avenue and District line. Brightwood Az
enue and Rock Creek Church Road
Notwithstanding Road and Nine
5eenth Street. Lincoln Avenue and T
Street Seventh and Streets, Twelfth ana
Maryland Avenue. Fifth and Z Streets,
Second and r Streets, North Capitol and
y Streets North Capitol and Streets
Southeast-ThiTd and G Streets. First
and : Streets, South Capitol and
southwest-Water and 0 Streets, First
and h Streets, Four-and-a-half ard
Streets Tenth and Water Streets.
Northwest-First and Streets Second
and T Streets, Eighth and Grant Streets.
Fourth and K Streets, Third and .
Streets, Tenth and " Streets. Eighteenth
and I Streets. Thirteenth and 7 Streets
Fifteenth and Streets. First and "
Streets. Fifteenth and y Streets, Eighth
and y Streets. Fourth and Z Streets
Twelfth and . Streets, Twenty second
and . Streets.
These locations says Mr. Allen.
have been selected from list Of over
100 places where boxes are req~+rei, and
represent as near as can be those most
urgently needed Congress was asked L,
appropriate for 100 boxes. but only fifty
were granted \ number OF very import
ant locations viii therefore not be pro-
yided with boxes this year. but = IS con
hdenIlY expected that the other fifty will
be authorized in the next approx Ration
act
The city was originally laid off into
IRE alarm districts corresponding some
what 10 the police precincts, and the
numbers of the boxes ARA nged 10 cor
respond Ia adding boxes during the last
Few years. however. this plan WIS not
closely followed. with the result that TWO
consecutive numbers indicated Itcations
widely separated. For instance, box SIS
Is at First Street and Maryland Avenue
northeast practically the Congressional
Iibrary). while box SO is in BroOkIard.
an airline distance OF over two miles.
To prevent further confusion and to rem
edy the more glaring defects in The pres
ent numbering, ! would recommend that
the following changes be made III the
numbers Of certain boxes: