The Baraboo news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1884-1911, 1908-01-15
THE RECORD Of
THE YEARS. FIRES
ACCOUNT OF RUNS MADE AND
ALARMS TURNED iN-LIST
OF MEMBERS.
TEN FIRES IN WHOLE YEAR.
Services Performed During 1907
List of Fires-Nature of Volun-
teer Service.

Chief w. j. Power says that during
the past year ten alarms and fire
runs were made by the Baraboo fire
department. The biggest fire was
that in which the barn and shop of
W.D. Bartlett were destroyed. The
total number of feet of hose LAID dur
ing the year was $3.50 feet. The fire
which required the greatest amount of
hose of all of the fires of the year, was
the burning of the barn of Charles
Lee on the South Side. This was 1850
feet. ~.
Following is the list of fires during
the past year.
Fires in 1907.
Feb. 4-Corner Fourth and East
street. Mrs. Oscar Messengers house.
March Ills East street.
Mar. 16-207 Fourth street, house of
Charles Bender.
May 12-Arthur Lanich's house,
Cor. Fourth avenue and Park.
May 13-Canning factory.
May 18-Miss Raschein's house on
Maple street.
June 15-W. D. Bartlett's barn and
shop on Sixth street.
August 2O-Charles = ee, barn.
Dec. I2-George Wallucks' barn.
Oct. If. M. Stewards house.
The duties of the company have been
we'll performed. Many time the tap
of the bell has called the volunteer
out at dead of night and in cold
weather, when conditions were least
favorable to the pleasure of the men,
berS. Often times the call has necessi-
tated the laying of great many feet
of hose. Hills have been climbed
when the team could hardly make the
grade. Many circumstances have COM
bined to make the time and labor
spent seldom if ever worth the little
monetary allowance for their labor.
These circumstances are not always
appreciated by many who do not
realize that volunteer fire company,
composed of men who are in different
parts of the city, cannct get to the
fires as quickly as city company of
men who are at the building ready to
start at the first tap of the bell. Vol
unteer fremen are making goodspeed
if they make the hose house within
three minutes after the first tap of the
bell. Then, too, there is the difficulty
of getting teams promptly. Men who
have teams on the streets or in the liv
cries naturally hurry them out to get
to the wagons first in order to get the
prize attached to job of hauling the
fire wagons to the fire. When they
are far away large part of the ener-
gies of the horses is used up IN getting
to the city hall, SO that it is difficult to
make fast time. 1t would seem that
man and team stationed at the fire de-
partment, both ready and trained to
start with the hose cart as soon as
enough men had arrived to make a
connection and get water onto the fire,
would save enough in the long run to
pay the expense incurred.
Following are the members of the
Baraboo fire Department.
Chief-W. j. Power
Phoenix Hose Company.
Captain-Dr. Roger Cahoon.
Lieutenant-Homer Jeffries.
Privates-F. r. Settergren, Thomas
Mould, f. E. Morey, /. NJ Adams, III.
]. Doerr, A. T. Johnson, and Bert
Cramer.
Alert Hose Company, No. 2.
Captain-Charles III. Rutland.
Lieutenant-John g. Bum.
Privates-George Ell. Urban, Dennis
Taylor, Adolph andre, Fred Kessler
Charles Zimmerly, George Indermau-
er, and Emil Schudlick.
Hook & Ladder Company.