Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-23
Municipal Affairs
FIRE commission PLANS
NEW SYSTEM OF SIGNAL
City Will Have Three Large Dis
triCtS with Alarm Head
quarters in Each

An entire change of the program that
has been arranged for the fire alarm
system is promised by the fire commls~
sion, and no headquarters will be pro-
vided for the fire alarm system in the
new engine building to be erected at
Figueroa and Seventh streets.
Instead, the commission plans di-
vision of the city into three parts, with
a fire alarm headquarters in each.
There are already two headquarters
One is at McCllntock avenue and Jef-
ferson street, where the Cregier signal
system that sounds the alarm for the
University district is installed, and the
other is at the city hall.
1t is the plan of the commission TO
move the headquarters from the city
hall to a building to be erected on the
lot on which the new fire engine house
at Second and Hewitt streets stands
The third is to be at First and Reno
streets, where the city owns lot Tor
an engine house, but 1t probably Will
be some time before the third head
quarters is installed. Lines drawn from
these points, connecting the three head
quarters, form an almost perfect tri-
angle.
CITY WILL SAVE MONEY
1t will require no more money to car
ry these plans into execution than mas
been appropriated. Instead Of building
a three-story fire engine house at FL
gueroa and Seventh streets, an ordln-
ary engine house will be constructed
and the third floor left off. The third
floor was to have been used to house
the general headquarters OF the hre
alarm system. The money saved in
the construction Of the engine house
will be used to build headquarters
building at Second and Hewitt streets
and move the apparatus in the city
hall.
THESE plans were presented to the
fire commission yesterday by Commls-
sioners Hawley and Owen. Both com
missioners had conceived the same idea
and were working along the same
lines. although neither had spoken TO
the other about it until 1t was sug-
gested at the commission meeting.
NEW BOXES FOR DISTRICTS
There are several little changes to be
made in the overhead construction Oh
the Cregier system, and it is expected
the system will be accepted by the
council next Tuesday. Some changes
will also have to be made in the ioca-
ton Of the alarm boxes. Commissioner
owen said yesterday that some OF these
boxes were ridiculously close together'
and some are ridiculously far apart
THE chief was instructed to rearrange
the distribution Of the boxes.
There are thirty-seven GameWell
boxes in the University district, that is
now supplied by the Cregier system,
and these are to be taken out. Thirty
of them are to be placed in the Wiltshire
district, at points to be selected py
Chief Eley. These thirty will be con-
nected with the Cregier headquarters;
N. Banks Cregier, who installed the
Cregier system, has frequently asserted
that employees Of the cltys Iire aIalii
hureau had done everything they could
to interfere with the installation OF ms
system, because they were partial TO
the Gamewell company. The fire com
mission yesterday sent a letter to Mr.
Cregier, urging him to put his charges
in writing and present them to the
board, so that the guilty employees
could he r1lniShed.