The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-05

Kelly of Waterbury was approved and ordered paid.
 It was voted not to allow the claim of Captain Johnson of New Haven and the applicant was given leave to withdraw.
 The claim of J. H. Fountain of Mid dletown was explained by Chief Pitt. A vote to allow the claim was lost by a vote of seven to two.
 The claim of William F. Peck of New Haven was defeated by vote of five to four.
 A vote to pay Mrs. Annie Smith the sum of three hundred dollars from the special fund was defeated by vote of five to one.
 Messrs. Gotsel, Goodwin. and Jones were appointed a committee to ask the legislature for change in the wording of the statute which appropriates the money to the association.
 During the year ending May i. 1903, drew 172 orders on the state eomptrol- Ter for benefits, amounting to $7,S2s.1S: Leaving in the hands of the comptroller the sum of $1,766.13, which is the amount available from the annual ap- propriation of ten thousand dollars for the state fiscal year ending September 30, 1903. Fearing that the amount we would need before October 1, 19O3 will exceed the seventeen hundred and odd dollars, I have requested the president to allow me to draw the quarterly payment for the orphans, due on July 1, 1903, from +bo iaJ iy,I < it1raa aS
 ceed the amount of the appropriation the good state of Connecticut will pass healing act, and repay the same. In addition to the above have also, in compliance with the vote of the con- yention of 1902, drawn an order upon the special fund for the sum of $550 in favor of Mrs. J, O. Brainard of Anso- ! mia, making the grand total paid for. I benefits during the year $S,37813. regret to announce that the death of | ex-President Andrew J. Kennedy of New Haven occurred on November 27, 1902. and would suggest that a memo
 rial page to his memory be set apart in the printed proceedings. { Amount received for member A l ship and dues. s......,...........$1,5S .$1, ,5S5 50
 Amount paid Treasurer Snagg.. 1,430 % | Leaving in my hands. ......:..$ l05.50 At nearly every convention of this as
 sociation for the past dozen or more
 years the subject of paid or volunteer l firemen has been discussed more or less
 land at times considerable feeling has | been shown, which in my humble opin- l ion is all wrong, for we are all firemen, and that fills the bill, without prefacing
 our title with either paid or volunteer. have often been asked to which of I the branches designated has the most
 money been paid, and in response to
 that query have looked the matter up for the year just closed.
 Many of the hearers, of course, have
 been in the habit of placing all the city l departments in the paid list, while the
 country companies are classed volun-
 teers. This, however, is very unjust, as
 to my knowledge Connecticut has but one paid fire department, that of New ! Haven, which has none but paid fire
 men, while every other city has three I times as many volunteers as they have I paid firemen.
 For the sake or argument, however, let us place in the list of paid depart ments the cities of New Haven, Hart ford, Bridgeport, Meriden, Stamford
 and Waterbury. The sum total paid in | benefits to these departments amounted I to :. .... ... O2S DO | Other departments .,......... 1862 co