The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-06-04
.FIREMEN FINED FOR NOT FEEDING
 CALL OF BELL
Men Were at Breakfast and
 Kept on Eating
THORME SEEKS 4 PENSION
Chief Mooney Authorized to Ap- point Assistant Hydrant
 Inspector

The fire commission, at it's meeting
 last night, fined several department | members for infractions of the rules
 of the department. Bremen Aaron
 Hughes of No. engine company, Thomas Weller of No. truck com
 pany, John Kelly of No. engine, Will liam McGrath of No truck, Joseph Monohan of No. chemical engine, and Ambrose Mackalowski of No. truck
 company were each fined $2 for failure to respond to box 34, on May 28 This was an alarm from the plant of the Bridgeport Patent Leather Go. in Can non street, at o'clock in the morn ing. The men were at breakfast. Chief Mooney reported that there is growing habit among the permanent men to fail to respond to alarms of fire to which their companies do not respond The members of the board did not see why permanent man should have more privileges than a callman who has to respond to any alarm, whether his company goes to the fire or not. All delinquents in the future will be fined g.
 One of the commissioners said, last night, eff the permanent men do not respond at all times the service will not be as sure as the old call system. We were bound to get men then even if they were late. If permanent men stay away we have no substitutes to take their places. Under the call sys- there were always substitutes to take the places of the men who missed.''
 Driver Lewis Chatfield, No. 1 chem ical engine, was fined $5 for running his apparatus to, box 128 instead of box 127 on the night of Saturday, May IA, when there was a narrow escape from a collision between the auto chemical and the chiefs car. Driver Chatf1eld told the commissioners last night that he simply mistook the num- Der of the box and went straight up Fairfield avenue to West avenue to box 12S at State street and West ave- nue instead of 127 at State and War ren street.
 Callrnan Richard Moore of No 6 | engine company was reported by Chief Mooney as having missed ten alarms during the past month. He will be asked to appear before the next meet 1 irfg.
 Aaron H. Hughes of No. engine company was fined g for being ab- l sen tiwthout leave.
 Upon the recommendation of the chief Blacksmith Wallace Hall will be l given Mondays off in the future in | stead of four days per month. The | rule was made to apply also in the | case of Hydrant Inspector Noonan, l upon request or the inspector. LII CHo | case of the blacksmith this charge | will be a saving to the city as the | department had to hire an outside blacksmith to shoe the horses dur ing the four days the department l Blacksmith was away. The chief was | authorized to name a man to assist | the hydrant inspector at certain times. |
 William Thorme, stoker with No. 4 | engine company, who is a nervous | wreck after 21 years in the department 1 asked the commissioners to pension | him. Thorme has been ill for nearly | a year. The commissioners have also | the petition of Ellison $. Buckminister, | the veteran engineer of No. 1 engine l company for a pension. The latter | has given the best years of his life l to fire duty and is still answering | alarms The indications are that | Thorme will never be able to do fire | duty again.
 Fireman Arthur Chambers, who was absent eight days, searching for his | missing son. who was found drowned, was voted his pay for this time.
 The board ordered 9 new hydrants last night from R. D. Wood and valves for the same from Coulter & McKen- zie.
 It was voted to install a fire alarm box in the lace factory of A. and E. HenkePs in Connecticut avenue.