New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-02-09
AT THE WATERFRONT,
NFW-YORK AIDING THERE.
Message Reports Her FreneH
Working Hard IN Baltimore.

cd u-fr
.,acts 10 have from them Until they return AZ
H.2O p. m. Acting chief Kruger received tele-
f-rarn from. Battalion Chief Howe. IN charge o.
-be nzev-Yorl, detachment, which read:
r.. arrived safe and sound. Everything IN
GOOD working order We arc now COMBATING
she Gre on the water front. AZ our hrernen are
sn good condition and working hard
.'They are that" added chief Kruger ~rhey'rs
IN the southeast portion OF the city. with
northwest wind. you can see they're ouckins
81 All rirht wen. they'll show what New-York
arer,en can do. So Ear. from al I've heard IN
ofloiajiv. they've done great work. and not one
OF ems hurt. They're good lads"
rv,e aid from this city consisted OF nine en-
zines and q hook and ladder truck. manned by
1Os of the freulen, who almost fought IN their
earerness to volunteer. They ore picked men.
with almost perfect records. the banner men OF
each engine company. II was the first tine
within the memory Of OLD fremen when the de-
-artrent had been called on TO send the fire
fighters so far outside the city. The promptness
with which arrangements were completed is
pleasing commentary on the efficiency or the
city's force
The first request for assistance came 70 Acting
Chief Kruger at his Great Jones-st. headquar-
ters on Sunday night Mr. Smith, Director Of
Public Safety Of Philadelphia, telephoned that
f3altirnores men were worn out and needed all
the help they could get. Philadelphia was send
ing engines, he said: couldn't New-York help.
loo7
CHIEF Kruger got word 20 the Mayor and the
Navo- the Chief and Fire Commissioner Hayes
uuicldy got IN touch with each other. The
Navor ordered all the engines the city could
spe-e sent. The chief made the telephone wires
30 Jersey City hum. and there the railroads
made I'D a fat car train for the engines, pas
sanger coaches for the men and box cars for the
horses.
Meanwhile Mayor Mcclellan got official
message from Mayor McI.ane OF Baltimore urg-
Ing that aid be sent The Mayor teiephoned TO
Chief Kruger 70 send the companies at once
AT FIRST Il had been determined 10 send only six
companies but later messages so emphasized
The urgent need OF rsinforcements ct Baltimore
that Il was decided to send nine.
Orders were sent to engine companies No. g.
st no. $40 East Fourteenth-st.; No. 4 at No. %
C-harles-st; No. 13, at No. % woOster-st; no.
ae. nj No. 22s East Twenty-ffth-st.; No. 81, at
No l73 Franklin-st-: no. 81. at White and Elm
ets.: No. T. at No 261 William-st.; No. &c. at
40. 220 West Thirty-seventh-st.. and No 81. AZ
Nos. q and "a Great JOnes-st and No. truck.
at no. &c charles-st.
Spare no expense" said the COMMISSIONS.
-snd give the men every facility"
Secretary Downes said 10 each company com
Inander:
This is not an Official order, but the Com
sniseioner wishes every man good luck says he
knows they viii be a credit 20 the department
and TO themselves. ana hopes they may have a
cafe return"
Three cheers for the 'Cornmish' the Chief
and Downesr' was the reply
They were all from double companies" that
Sc. stations In which there are two engines and
Two companies Between the two companies
there is always a generous rivalry. When Il came
90 volunteers for Baltimore this rivalry surged
high and almost overwhelmed diplomatic rela-
lions. Both companies in every house volun-
teered 10 a man. the chiefs had TO pick out
snen-honor men-frOm the two companies
The first six engine companies named went
under command OF Chief Howe. OF the First Bat
TALON. while the last three and Truck No. = were
.n command OF Foreman Behler. OF Engine
S3. untn he should communicate with Battalion
Chief Howe at Baltimore.
Out OF the engine houses dashed the engines
Forgetting that they had been rivals in the fight
90 go. the stay-at-homes calamity cheered the
lucky ones. while the men departing shouted
back messages FOR the wife ana ldddies"
"Oh. Danny" yelled one. tell the wife I've
gone. VIII you, and be sure TO tell her there's no
Danger"
To the nearest ferries they ran. then into the
train yards in Jersey City. There was much de-
lay. Trains weren't ready; derrlcks couldn't be
got 70 hoist the engines; the cars for the horses
weren't IN shape. These difficulties were ad-
srsted, however. The fremen rigCed I'D pianlt
eangways snd showed their engines up them TO
the hatcars.
Engine companies 8. Z. H. 16, q and 81
were sent by special train over the Jersey Cen
trsl Railroad The other companies and Truck
3 were loaded on special train OF the Penn
fylyania road. and departed about 3 a. m
The two detachments OF apparatus expected 10
was said that every effort would be made bv
the two roads 10 land their trains there first
The Two trains would have right Of way over
everything. and thew would run TO the burn
sng city on express train schedule, Il was de-
elared hy the officials.
Acting Chief Kruger at noon ordered Bat
TALON Chief Shea 10 Baltimore. Shea has charge
o. the horses OF the department. and viii have
charge OF the horses taken there. Acting Chief
Kruger said that when ne heard that Phfladel-
that New-NOrk would be called on, and got his
men IN readiness. They We're ready, he said.
several hours before the call came Cor~-rnis-
sioner Hayes and himself. he said. were I'D
nearly all night, making plans for the relief OF
the Baltimore fremen. No fire boat would be
sent The rurnor that one would be sent he
SAID. probably originated in the fact that the
rreboat Havemeyer IS being rebuilt at Camden,
y. J.
i tad hoped that she was finished enough -
go he said. "as II would be an excellent on
portunlty 10 test her with thirty-t1o pun7rs
bGt she could not go. We needed her badly
here this morning. too, at the Joy Line FIRE"
Fire Commissioner HAYES said that he had
decided 10 send his secretary. A 1. volgenau-
70 Baltimore. that he might obtain FIRST hand
impressions and keep the commissioner in touch
with the situation there.