Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-07
QUARTERS IN SERVICE
Crew Grey Of Firefighter Comfort
: ably Housed.
NEW BUILDINGS FITTINGS
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Furnished With ALI Modern Conven-
fences.
OFFICIALLY DESIGNATED No. 10
Structure is Handsomely Finished,
Both Within and Without-De-
scription of Equipment.

The home OF fire company No 10 of the
fire department of the District of Columbia
Is now In service, the fire alarm apparatus
having been installed yesterday afternoon
ana the men taking up their quarters in the
new building,
No. 10 house stands on the river front, on
Water street between NJ and N southwest,
and Is the official headquarters of the fire.
nghting marines of the District who man
the new fireboat, which has her berth at the
wharf In the rear of the new building It
is an ornamental building thirty-eight feet
front and running back about fifty-seven
ieet, and adds greatly to the appearance
OF the river front section of the city. En-
tering the building from Water street the
visitor finds himself in a roomy vestibule
with terraZzo floor of white, black and
Drown chips of marble. and through a
double swinging door he enters directly into
wat is known as the sitting room. This
room Is y feet by Is feet inches in size
ana is llghted by big windows on two sides
10 the lett of the entrance in the sitting
room is what is known to the firemen as the
Joker room This room is Is feet 4 inches
by IL feet 8 inches and here are set up the
instruments on which an alarm is received
ana sent out, and at these Instruments one
man Is cons family stationed, night and day
a wide double door from the sitting room
leads INTO the reception nall. room SO
feet by 1872 feet. This room viii be used
by the men as lounging room and here
they VIII have their reading matter games
and other alnusements
"A Wide hail runs from the reception room
to the door leading out upon the wharf
tArough which the firemen will have to
tumble in order to reach the boat when an
alarm calling them out is sounded. On
each SIDE or this hall are rooms, to the left
being the captains office. a work shop and
the ground floor entrance to the hose tower
and Oh the right is large cloak room,
toilet and bath room and a room in which
paints and oils will be kept These rooms
are all comfortably large for the purposes
FOR which they are designed.
The Sleeping Quarters.
From this hall an easy stairway leads up
to the second floor. The dormitory in which
the men will sleep is the front room on
this floor and contains seventeen neat iron
beds. 1t IS 81 feet wide by II feet & inches
long, and is the most bright and airy room
III the building. Large windows light it on
three SIDES, and 1t has high ceiling giving
plenty of air space. From this room a
brass sliding pole goes down into the re-
ccption room on the ground floor below for
use of the men their hasty exits from
the building in case of fire. In the rear of
the dormltOry, on the left hand side the
hall. is the room that will be used by the
captain of the company as his sleeping
quarters. This room is 80 feet by II feet,
and is lighted by two large windows On
the same side of the hall, in the rear of
the captains room, is the drying room,
where the clothing of the men will be dried
after a fire, and the hose tower. On the
right side of the hall, adjoining the dormi-
tory, Is the locker room. Each man assign
ed to duty with the fireboat has a locker in
which to keep his clothing and personal be-
longings, and these lockers are roomy
closets.
In the rear of the locker room is a large
bath room and toilet. A linen room fills the
rear end of the building on the right side
of the hall All the floors in the building
are of Georgia pine except those in the hose
tower and bath and toilet rooms, which are
of terrazZo on concrete base. The ceilings
are all of metal in neat designs. and the
woodwork about doors, windows and stair
ways is hard@oil finished. All doors in the
building so constructed that they will
swing either way, in order not to impede
progress of the men while rushing to the
boat when an alarm sounds.
Light and Heat
The building is lighted throughout with
electricity and gas, ornamental fixtures, in
which both illuminants are used, having
been installed. and is heated by large
stoves, each room having it's own stove
Hot water is supplied the bath rooms and
stationary washstands by a special heating
stove with water back This stove will
heat water rapidly so that the men will be
able to obtain all the hot water they wish.
The hose tower in the rear of the building
ranged with racks from which hose can
be suspended to dry, and has room to &C
commodate several hundred feet of pipe at
one time. The hose will be drawn up into
position by pulleys that will reduce lab Dor
to minimum The hose tower is finished in
hard wood, oil finished, and is surmounted
by a lookout tower in which a man will be
stationed TO keep lookout for any sign
of fire about the river front.
The exterior of the building is finished in
pebble dash, with galvanized iron cornces
and slate roof. a flag pole rises above the
top of the center of the building and from
it the American flag Will fly from sunrise
to sunset daily. The building cost the Dis
trict S11 900, the contractor being William
f. Mooney of this city. While the build
ing was in process of construction Mr..
Charles F.. Clark was the inspector in
charge for the building Inspectors office.
The men slept in the new building Tor the
first time last night and are well pleased
with the change from their rather uncom-
Portable quarters aboard the ireboat. The
floors of the downstairs rooms, the sitting
reception and joke rooms, are covered with
a red and white striped fiber mating, and
the halls are covered with linoletim in a
brown tile pattern The rooms are fur
nished with plenty of large chairs, and on
one side of the reception room is a bookcase
which is yet to be filled with reading mat
ter.
In the reception room is located the big
alarm gong on which the fire calls are
sounded, and into this room the men will
land on a big rubber mat when they slide
down the pole from their sleeping quarters
above
Calls for Fireboat.
As stated. the station is now in service,
and Capt Brown; the fire department officer
in charge has his men ready to respond to
any alarm that might call them out Under
orders from the headquarters of the fire de-
partment the fireboat will respond to all
alarms coming from box 40, at Washington
barracks; 49, at 7th and K streets south
west: 416, at 18th and Water streets south
west: 42S at the harbor precinct office; 429,
Water and streets southwest; 439, 10th
and Water streets southwest, 452, and
1872 streets southwest; 454 Norfolk and
Washington Steamboat Company pier: 455,
engine company ID: 459. fireboat house. and
42S, the navy yard. and on second alarms
the fireboat will respond to calls from boxes
12l and 122 at goth and x streets and Water