The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-06-23
WANT NEW AERIAL TRUCK
FIRE COMMISSIONERS ASK FOR
 S5,OOO.

show Finance Board How Money Can
 be Had-Adyise Use of No. 9's House
 SIOney-Great Need for New Truck
 City Court Employees Bills Again
 Held Up-Eighfh Ward Bell Tower
 Matter Again Brought Up.
 At the regular weekly meeting of the board of finance held in city hall yes terday afternoon Corporation Counsel Daggstt stated that in his opinion the bill of Miss Hattie A. Ely for SS2 for services as stenographer of the city court was correct and should be paid. The board signed the bill. In reference to the bills of the former city court employees which have. i5een held up pending a decision from the supreme court the. corporation counsel stated that on account of business in the courts he had been unable as yet to prepare his decision, but will have it ready for the, next regular meeting. Former City Attorney Webb is making claim for his pay, and when inter viewed last evening he stated that he intended to have the claim stand until the corporation counsel had at least rendered his opinion in the matter. The payment of these bills was again held up for action until after the cor poration counsePs opinion was receiv- ed at the next meeting.
 President Joseph Cunningham of the board of fire commissioners and Fire Chief Fancher appeared before the board and stated that there was an ur- gent need for a new aerial truck at No. 2is house, the present one being unfit for the demands which might be made upon it Some time ago the sum of $500 was appropriated by the board of finance for an aerial truck for the new Ninth ward house and thsse gentlemen thought it would be more advisable to let this money go for new truck for No. 2's house and make preparation for the new house later. as it will not be finished until about the first of next year. The rep resentatives of the fire department also asked a transfer of $500 from the cen- tral engine house fund and $500 from the No. 12's house fund to rolling stock and repair, as in the opinion of these gentlemen this sum could be saved from the two new fire buildings which are at present in courseof erection and which are not to cost exactly as much as was expected. The new truck which the fire commissioners wish to pur- chase will cost about $5,000 and will have seventy-five foot extension lad ders, which could be raised in six or seven seconds, instead of about the same number of minutes, which is now required for the present truck at No. 2's house. Owing to the absence of Mayor Studley and MT. Frederick from the finance board this matter was ta- bled for one week. v s MT. Homan asked his fellow rnem- bers of the board what had become of the order which had been passed bN the board of alderman for the erection of a bell tower in the Eighth ward. He stated that Alderman Loos of that ward had asked him to make the in quiry. Controller Rowe informed him that nothing had been done about the matter by the board of finance, be- cause there was no money to be used for that purpose at the time. MT. Rowe, however, advised MT. Homan to have the order pass another similar order this year, and it seemed from the expressions of the members of the board that if this was done, when next years estimates were made out a suf- ficient sum for this purpose would be laid aside. and MT. Holman then said that the matter would be brought to the attention of the board of aldermen. '