Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1908-07-31

any man or set OF men who we're recently
connected with the fire company of Mil
fOsd and we know that in the future
there will be just as Jealous frefghters as
there ever was in the history Of the town,
and they did not ask or expect the town
to pay them anything for their services.
We have no objection to paying them for
their work-provided the work is done I;
but in the past, the fire company has
failed to properly care for the apparatus,
either in fact or by failure to report such
inattenton Oh the part of others, and this
was what brought them into trouble.
There is no abuse OF the fire company /;
on the contrary-we are voicing the feel
ing of the taxpayers, when we state, that
the gratuitous labor of the iremen has
been appreciated and such appreciation
has heen expressed by the people many
times, by their subscription for the sup
port of the company, and by attending
performances which they supposed to be
tor the benefit of the fire company; but
which in realty was for the benefit of the
Cornet Band. The fremen of Milford
have received Acknowledgement at the
hand of the people on every occasion
but, the organization has failed in its
trust so far as the keeping of the property
in proper condition is concerned, and
criticism has struck home on a tender
spot.
The Town of Milford is certainly capa-
BILE of managing its own affairs so far as
the care of the frehose and other prop
erty is concerned, as the former fire COM
pany members, and the Light and Water
Board has certainly done all that the
conditions made necessary to maintain a
good fire company in Milford the only
failure was on the part OF the fremen
themselves, in thst they did not report
the true condition of affairs to the Light
and Water Commission.
As to the personally of the Town
Council the writer has but little to say
the members are nominated and chosen
by the citizens in open convention and
one member of the former fire company,
Mr.. Latchum, is a member Of Council.
But this one thing we will state as a fact,
that it is, or should be, fact that the
taxpayers OF Milford certainly would not
care to place the control of its financial
affairs in the hands of the men who have
so signally failed in the management ola
little organization for fighting fire, in
stead Of the men who now compose Town
Council.
The above communication is not signed
by any individual, or set of individuals
but in an indefinite way as " Milford
Fire Company" so the public has no
means of knowing where to place conf
ience in it !; and, further, it promises to
10 things when the old fogies are RELOCATED
% the past in town affairs. That is a full
lalf year in the future, and in the mean
ime the people will organize a fire COM
'any and go right ahead with its bust
less without waiting for other men to
ret over being called to account for their
allure to attend to business.
Should there be a fire in Milford to-
light, the citizens will fight it as zeal
usly as they ever did, regardless Of the
Id organization thereFis nothing com ,
licated about using fire apparatus, and !
he people would not even permit prop
rty owned or occupied by the ex-fremen !
D be destroyed for lack of willing hands q
D hold the hose. !
We have no quarrel with the old fire. ,
Zen they are all right citizens-but we
ave a right to object to the condition in a
hitch the fire apparatus of Milford was
AIRED for, and we most emphatically do. :