Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-12-06

He thought 1t was the duty of the city
to expsnd reasonable sum each year
on the departm ent and the council
should insist that the department
should have a good head to it. The
firemen should be paid small sum
and each company have, say ten tscalI
men, who will be expected to re-
spond to all fires and be paid for it. .
The old members of the department
could go on the honorary list and sup
ply IA reserve force which could al
ways be called upon in need. The
first thing is to get a good chief one
who will make all hands jump or get
out of the department. s.5}35
.S Mr.. Reade called attention to the
law which requires, in order that a
company shall draw state aid, that
there be Is men on the active roll and
$500 worth of property in Its posses
sion. He emphasized the sense that
the fremen owe a duty to the state.
But what was most wanted at this
time was a man at the head of the
department with executive ability,
and who had the confidence of the
people and the, council as being compe-
tent for, the place He felt. that the
companies could furnish such q. man.
To become exempt from poll tax,
membership in a fire company was not
sufficient as rs percent OF the fires
must be attended before the exemp-
ton can be claimed under the law.
Merchants should be encouraged to
permit their employees to join the fire
companies if best results are to be at
tanned. h, n q $5t. 4, s
Mr.. Couch called attention to the
fact that two paid men can save their
cost to the ely by keeping the appara-
tus i'm repair, besides men constantly
on hand would stop the removal of
things from the frehouse and conse.
quent loss. ~
Someone intimated that the council
was not very kind to the department
/ but Mr.. Richholt said he had
/ known of but few calls for anything
/ and they had been granted instanter
IL the council wanted to know any
thing about the department it had t.
chase up someone to find out as there
never We're any reports from anyone
as TO how 1t was getting along.
Mr.. Reade called attention to til.
law which required the firemen t.
/ select a set of department officers il
May of each year, the nominees to b.
1 appointed by the mayor and confirmet
1 by the council. This had not beel
done for several years and things hal
kind of run behind. 5
a Mr.. Richholt made, good sugges
ton: That a six-numb annunciato
i be placed in the firehouse and arrange
ments made with the telephone pee
+ pie to run a wire to the exchang
and when an alarm came in the opera
/, or could look on the map, see whic
! ward it was in and press a buttor
which would make the right humble
drop at tbs f1rehouse -" -.
/! A number of other suggestions wer
made and fully discussed and finall
the crux Of the meeting came whe
d Mr.. Van Horn moved that the pres
4 dent and chief of$the fire department
be asked by the Council fire commit
4 tee to at once call meeting of tn
trustees of the fire department TO
tbs purpose of nominating a chief an
assistant chief for the department
which motion was unanimously cal
ried. } ~ #fs
Alderman Taylor said the firemel
must get busy and do something i
| they expect the city council to he'll
i them and with this the meeting ad
4. journed. = H.