Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-01-07

Wear 1902 made eighty-eight rus.
1here w"re thirty fires and ffty-eignt
ALARMS.
Ca the records any call answered.
and water is used, is called fire.
Where no water is used the report
shows an alarm" only. There are
sbout twelve volunteer firemen who
make the fire department their head
quarters, and for each fire they at
tend, when water is used, they get
81 each. and if no water is used, only
fifty cents is allowed them. If fire
occurs and the volunteer does not
show up he is fined fifty cents, unless
good excuse can be given. The
money paid to the volunteers for the
year 1902 was Sass.
The greatest number of runs made
in any one month in 1902 was twelve,
in the month of March, and the small
est number occurred in July and Sep
tember, three for each Of those
months.
There are two drivers at station
No. who get $50 per month each in
in scrip; one pipeman who gets $50
in scrip; one minute man who is on
duty only at nights and he receives
SIS in scrip; one man, at No. hose
house who gets $50 in scrip and one
who gets SIS in scrip, making total
expense per month of $271, or for one
year $3.50 for the salaried firemen,
and the amount expended for the vol
unteer service, $456, and it makes a
total of s3,707 paid to the firemen.
Feed for the horses and other ex-
penses amount to about sos per
month or $3.50 year, making total
expense of $4,367 year to maintain
the fire department, not including the
salary of Chief Senyard of 1850
year, which brings the total up to
s53o7
The regular salaried men for 1902
ing, hook and ladder driver; Tony
Briener. driver OF hose wagon: Clyde
Vowell pipeman; James Dowd and r.
w. Eddleman, minute men.
At No 2 hose house-R. w. Schultz.
driver; Henry Webekes, minute man.
The men who served during the
year as volunteer men were: w.
Mara C. w. Jones, w. Jones. J. c.
Hightower, j. A. Dewer f. Dobbns,
w. McCaa, r. Eddleman, w. Mahar,
Chas Campbell, P. Mustachia. Pus
Mustachia, S. Huggard, S. w. Max
son, Oliver Mikesell, c. Laas.
One of the most essential functions
of the city government is the main
tanning, training and care of the fire
department. This department is one
of the most important. yet very little
care or thought is ever given to 1t.
The firemans life has its troubles
and cares just the same as the people
in ether avocations, and some of the
peculiar things that happen in year
are certainly ludricous. Some OF the
most peculiar things that happen are
the calls that are turned in.
A few months ago a lady called her
husband and asked him to bring home
dollars worth of sugar. He thought
his wife said the house was on fire
and he proceeded to turn in an alarm
double quick. The department made
the run, but the woman failed to get
her sugar.
Another woman one evening had
steak that sputtered the grease on
the stove and it famed up. She
turned in an alarm, and when the fire
men arrived they ran breathlessly in
and she met them at the door and
said: Il wish you would please take
that steak off the stove. 1t is smoking
up my house SO badly, and just had
the curtains washed yesterday"
Another time, when the gun club
was having shoot at Jones park,
some one told central that there was
a fire at Jones park and central sent
sa boys out, to see about it.
Some one saw the moon rising one
evening and it looked so red that 1t
appeared like fire and thus another
run was occasioned.
The bark of dog caused another
run. Two men firing guns at each
other caused another run.
The blaze from the stack of the
moulding department of the Dilley
foundry company caused the appear
ance of the fire department at that
place