Evening star., 1901-11-09

the market houses There were at this time
the Union in the first ward at the West
| market; the Patriotic in the second, with
the. Center market engine; the Columbia
in the third at the Hill market; the Ana
costa in the fourth at the Branch market.
1t seems that the navy yard company was
| not provided for in the appropriations.
The Intellgencer of July calls a meeting
of the Union fire company at the Frank
lin House, signed by James Handy, secre-
tary, and similar notice appears in the is
sues of July I and 8, as also call for the
company to meet at the engine house at g
o'clock on the 18th to try the new engines.
Committees appointed by several COM
panies to consider the subject of night sig
nails for fires were called to meet at Davis
Hotel at 6 o'clock August II.
The Patriotic fire company was called to
meet at the council chamber at Z O'Clock
on September 1, and the Union at the
Franklin House September 4. The Column
bia met at the Congress Hall Hotel Sep
tember and the navy yard company at
Kealey's Tavern September 8. The latter
company elected Robert WeXtrom, John
Hammond and Charles Morgan members.
At the meeting of the Columbia fire COM
pany at Congress Hall Hotel the officers
were directed to wear badges on their hats
at the meetings. The laddermen were au-
thorzed to procure a set of wheels for the
conveyance of the ladders and fire hooks
to and from fires. This is believed to be the
first mention of anything like hook and
ladder truck, and thus this addition to the
apparatus was the first of that description
in the District.
At this meeting in addition of the presi-
dent and vice presidents Benjamin Barch,
Nicholas L. Queen and Henry Tins were
appointed to wait on the President of the
United States for the purpose of obtaining
charge of the engine purchaseu under tn3
act of March 3, 1919, to be located near
the Capitol and to solicit the influence OF
Col Lane, the commissioner of public
buildings, in the matter. Nicholas l..
Queen, James Mccormick, James d. Barry,
George Beale and Cornelius Morgan were
elected members.
Purchase Authorized.
The councils by an act published Novem-
ber s. 1S19 authorized the purchase of
first-class engine for the first ward, sup
ply pump hose carriage for the second
ward and conditionally one for the first
ward. 1t would appear from this that the
new engine which the Union company was
called to try on July 10 preceding was not
accepted.
The Intelligencer of November 8. 1919,
notes that on October 30 two frame tene-
ments near the navy yard, occupied by
Messrs. Wheeler and Lock, caught fire and
were consumed, and by the eXertionS of
the mayor and citizens the adjoining prop
erty, though in imminent danger, was pre-
served The mayor at that time was
Samuel N. Smallwood and he lived on
Virginia avenue near Sd street southeast
1t would seem from the notice of Mr..
ward, that the law requiring the house
holders to keep fire buckets on their prem
ises was not complied with for on Decem-
Der 3, 1919. he published a notice that the
law will be rigidy enforced
new company came into existence in
the lower part of the third ward then ex-
tending from I'd street west to 4th street
east, and from the Boundary to the river
the Eastern branch). in the latter part of
1919. The Intelligencer of December "a has
the following:
Phoenix Company Formed.
At a meeting held the 22d of Decem-
| ber, 1919, at Mattingly's tavern in the third
| ward, for the purpose of forming a fire
company, it was resolved that the organ
ization should be known as the Phoenix
fire company. The officers chosen were
as follows: John A. Chalmers, PRESIDENT
Thomas Howard vice president; Edward
Mattingly treasurer; G. w. Dawson, sec
| retary; John A. Chalmers, w. H. Barnes,
Henry Kurtz and Benjamin Beane, engin-
eers; Joseph Follansbee, Henry johnson,
Gustavus Howard, Thomas Nevitt, AK men;