The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-26
FIRE BOARDS NEEDS
HAS DECIDED TO ASK FOR IN
CREASE OF $s2, 900 IN ANNUAL
APPROPRIATION
ADDITIONS TO EQUIPMENT
Replacing Obsolete Engines, Rails
ing Salaries and New En-
CINE House VIII Require
Amount Asked.


from Chief Jackson and Secretary O'Gor-
man, prepared by request, the board of
hre commissioners has decided that it
Will require, in addition to the regular
q annual appropriation the sum of $50, 00l go.
By the charter the annual apportionment
for the use of the fire department is linn
tied to $2l5G0O, and it is therefore the pur-
pose of the fire board to represent this
condition of affairs to the conference
committee, the city council, and, finally
the charter commission. with a view to
efecting amendment of the city charter
: In such manner as either to entirely
eliminate the limit placed upon the fire
department appropriation or Increase the
amount which may be appropriated.
1t Is the desire of the board to restore
5 the salaries of the members of the de-
partment to the standard of 1895, or, ia
other words, to make them as they Were
before the general reduction of 1896
The report submitted by Secretary
O'Gorman showed that in 1885 there were
in the department 1856 men, and the ag-
gregate pay roll for that year was $751;,
800 So Last year the department num-
bered 207 men, and the aggregate amount
of the pay roll was $174, 339 "a, and there
fore the restoration of salaries would en-
= tail an additional expense of So, &c. or
slightly more, on account of the in
creased number of men, but for the pur-
. poses of the estimate those figures were
used.
The report of Chief Jackson showed
that all of the apparatus in the depart
ment at present is in servieeable condi-
ton, and with reasonable necessary re-
pairs from time to time will do good SerV-
ice, except Engine No. 10, which has been
in use thirty years and is worn out, and
what is known as the reserve engine,
tHrl1i x4yaS in there
fore seen thirty-two years of hard sery-
ice. That also is no longer reliable. Fhe
= chief recommends that those two engines
should be replaced by TWO new machines
of the first grade, which would cost 81, 800
each, or $4,000. He suggests, however,
that the old engines may be traded in
part payment for 5000, and the cost of
the new ones thereby reduced to $780,
Equipment for New Station.
The chief also recommended in his re-
port that the new house at the corner of
Livingston and Fairfield avenues, on the
West side, which now has only home-
made chemical engine, be fully equipped
as an engine house, which, with the sala-
ries of the necessary men and mainte-
nance for one year would cost 1896. He
also recommends that the chemical APP
paratus at Ashland and Dale be removed
to make room for fully equipped engine
company, which with the mems salaries
and maintenance for one year would cost
$14,1S. In place of the old chemical en-
CINE, he would have a one-horse chem cal
machine, with a sixty gallon tank, which
would be housed at either No. or No.
6 engine house, and would entail as extra
expense only the salary of one man and
the keep of the one horse.
Besides the items mentioned the chief
asks for ten moro mon tn he divided he
tween the two new houses in the Mid
way district, and whose salaries would
, aggregate IS, 400 a year. He also men
tions that the present apparatus requires
repairs which, will aggregate $1,000 !
The total expenses of the Improvements
and additions suggested by the chief in
his report was found to amount to $685.
632.
The board, after some discussion, con-
Guided that new engine house was
greatly needed fer service in portions of
the Eighth and Ninth wards, and the
vicinity of Dale street and University
avenue was fixed upon as the most prac-
ticable location. For the purpose of Sc
curing site and building and supply
ing house, including the mems salaries
and maintenance for year, the sum OF
$25, 900 was added to the estimate
Summarized, the estimate of additional
expenditure. which it was decided would
be necessary to place the department in
good serviceable condition, is as fol-
lows:
To restore salaries to former
standard :. ....................... s12, 96s 90
To improve equipment ............ Sc, 632. 90
Salaries of ten additional men at
Midway . S,400. o.
New engine house, Eighth ward %, 600. 90
Total 1872, Oo1. 90
This estimate, with the details given
above, the president was requested to
present before the conference commit
tee.
President Warner has already commu-
nicated with Judge Flandrau, as chair
man of the charter commission, request
ing hearing at as early date as posi-
bic in behalf or the board.