The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-02-02
HOW MUCH FIRE
PROTECTION TO
Be GIVEN AWAY?
Commissioners See Need Of
Drawing Line Somewhere
With STAFFORD and Fairfield

The fire commission is trying to
determine where Bridgeport should
draw the line in being neighborly to
Stratrord In the way OF furnishing fire
protection to the town with the slunl-
bering firemen. At meeting of the
board last night President Wheeler
was instructed to confer with City
Attorney Thomas M. Cullinan to get
an opinion as to whether or not the
city mad accepted any responsibility
when 1t located fire boxes at the
Stratford barns of the Connecticut Co.
and at the plant of the e. H. H.
smith Silver Co., just over the town
line.
A letter was received last night
from Vice. President Kockersperger
or the railroad stating that the rail-
road appreciated the protection given
is barns and that the company was
willing to pay the city for the protec-
lion at the same rate that the people
OF bridgeport paid for fire protection.
President Wheeler said this morn
,ng- we want to know If the loca-
ION of the fire boxes in Stratford was
N any way binding upon the city
dave we any legal right to agree to
give fire protection to the property
an adjoining town? If we have
uch right We want to get the mat
Ter upon an equitable business basis
o that the city will collect in the
anne proportion for a million dollar
)lant as from small plant. When
BUR fire apparatus is in Stratford it
$ not protecting Bridgeport property.
'everal years ago when the alarm
9oxes were located across the line it
vas because the city wanted to be
friendly to companies which were
Considered closely related to the city
ecause many of their employees re-
ided in Bridgeport. Goods made in
Made in Bridgeport But the Baird
fachine Co. which is about to locate
yer the line will want fire protec-
ion and where we started to be
riendly with two concerns there is
possibility that in few years there
viii be ten or a dozen concerns who
will want fire alarm boxes. We have
got to settle the question very SOON"
The location of the new fire engine
house in the Ninth district will be
in Putnam street between Kossuth
street and East Main street. The
er and the price paid, $1,000. The
lot has a frontage of 100 #. and
depth Of 1875 It.
A petition was received from John
w. Miller, temporary driver at No. 2
engine company, asking to be made
James Copley, attached to No. 1
chemical engine company made re-
quest to be transferred to some other
company.
Chief Mooney recommended that
Hosemen Copley and Laubscher be
transferred from No. 1 chemical en-
CINE in pursuance with the desire of
the commissioners that there be fire.
quent transfers from the chemical
company. The chief recommended
that Firemen Hopkins and Killeen Of
No. truck company be detailed to
No. / Chemical cOmpanv
Driver Louis Chatffeld made ap-
plication to be permitted to take his
four days off in February at one time.
instead of day at time as pre-
ishment for an infraction OF the
rules.
The fire department does not pay
its members when ill from natural
causes. In some instances of late1
some men when i'll from natural
sick days apply as their regular days
off and in this way they did not lose
any Of their money. Several mem
bers of the department were unable
to make the same arrangement and
have complained to the commission
ers that they were not being used
like the other members. In order to
remedy the condition Commissioner
Cogill was made q committee of one
to draft rule to prohibit any MEM
OCI VI lII0 department IdkluS his Gays
off while sick. The purpose of the
rule is to require the firemen to take
their days off on the regularly al
lotted time and go without their pay
when i'll from natural causes.
The commissioners figure that this
will be using all the men alike and
that there will be no complaints of
real or imaginary favoritism.
Applications for membership in the
department were received from Will
liam G. Doolan, H. D. Sunderland,
James H. O'Rourke and James J..
Hackett.
President Dwight C. Wheeler ap-
pointed committees for the ensuing
year as follows: On horses, harness,
light wagons and house repairs, Com
Wheeler aid Hartigan.
On hose, condition of apparatus
and repairs, and to have supervision
Of the fire alarm system, Commits |
sioner Cogill.
On the purchase of miscellaneous
supplies and all supplies not covered |
by other committees, Wallace G. |
Taylor.
A letter was received from Schwarz
Bros. thanking the department for
the able manner in which the fire in |
their factory was handled by Chief |
Mooney and the men under him.