St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1909-11-27
TIRE DEPARTMENT NOTES.


phone is answered. This will
necessitate placing all fire
phones on one line SO that each
Will receive the signal when the
alarm is turned ir at the main
station IN Ice Factory.
1T the tet given Pump No.
z ct Poo1e'c livery stable, on
New Hampshire street last
Wednesday, alterations IN the
pump resulted in great improve
ment in the force of the stream.
Notwithstanding there were
fewer men at the pump water
was thrown over the Poole
building from the front proba-
bly, sixty feet high. This i'm
proVement is the result of prac-
tlce drills, which enable the
men to detect defects in machin-
e,y and rOte whore improve
ment is needed.
On the first nege of the new
telephone directory, which is
being printed by W. H. Kentzel,
there will be published a list of
the fire districts with the num-
Ter Of the alarm of each. The
{ h eff requests that in turning
in alarms the people be careful
to give the correct number and
situation of the fire. Some of
the districts are quite large,
and where fires have gained
little Roadway there is no indi-
cation Of where the fire is, be-
sides the number turned in. In
districts like Claiborne, No. Al,
the fire might be off in Mallle-
vile. Therefore it would be
well to have scme one stationed
on the hill t Claiborne to d.
rect ttt f~euen. The same
condition prevails at Mile
Branch, Nc. q.
hct:,ity n the 6tcartment roints
- tEe Ie-S tn - olrntee- hremen
al >oT'Hgto5. - I2',ng ilVeiy inter-
est IL .cF1ec, ny her various COM
Panle5 ard a. 1&rlng to give the
very p"st sel'!@t hat can pc given
WIZ the meaT-.- Hoad. IL must De
recooH &C tEc r. -.d1cement TO this
actlF-,T W o. ''l1 whenever IL ap-
lars ina IL ,---. progress IS baked
; iacf q lI.,'teYed .-a1hlnery or
-. +" 12htN 20 mere is no
542 Fig -. g ~ X and keep
= -. '-.s- big 49, mere Is no
possibly - a.. az 'asao without
spending :''H@5- lnla VIII be al
Mlttec' H. 4097t.5n rp" comes as
70 no" Fu- "'heY ca o. ral3ec
no" nucH IN '' Fcn2hI5 ana prop
erVy owners VII - Wing 10 put up
IN C:.cHahge 1or ro@Scl-So4y gooo pro-
C1cClon from hre' we ADMIT that inc
LOWE Shouio rroV1d2 Tor the hre de-
partment' out as there IS no money IN
CAe Town treasury @no Is not hKely 10
re any aVallaole TINS year, what are
we gong TO 90 IN the mean time!
lnls cuestlon Is s.ggeaeo because
here Is some Ca'h OF buying case
line hre engine, one that VIII supply
two lines OF nose and can be moved
either by hand or horse power. Thl7
cnglne' with hVc hundred Ieet OF hose,
Eli cost $3.50 and Is recommended by
Chlef O,Connor OF the lew Orleans
FIRE department.
Chlef Ostendort has ahoWn dlsPo
sltlon to accomplish something In th2
Improvement OF ou- fire service and
any efort n this direction should
meet with encouragement. While it
IS not proposed to Saddle upon the
community greater 5urden than /.
can bear, 1t IS due to the department
that the people should help them as
Ia as 1t IS possible TO DO so. II it S
-ound that the engine in question is
suitable and desirable, means might
re devised by which it could be paid
tor in lnstallments without oVer-tax-
lAg the pockets of the property hold
as, who will be protected.
we publish below letter to Chief
Cstendorf from M. O'Connor.
New Orleans, La, NOV. %, 1862.
Henry }. Ostendorf, ESQ, Chief En-
glneer Fire Department.