The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-12-08
DOINGS AMONG COPS
 AND FIRE LADDIES
Policemen

Officer Clements declined the offer Of Chief Bodeker to make him. call man or the evening .shift, preferrinS to remain in upper Second avenue. Officer McAl- lister. who has been on Third avenue, has been given the post.
 Officers, Moser and Bagley, former call men of the day and evening shifts re- spectively, who were made motorcycle scouts. are closely watching peddlers and auto speeders.
 Officer farrell of Police Beat G. morn- ing shift, is taking his five days vaca- ton. Supernumeraries are filling his place alternatively.
 Officer Richeson of Precinct No. 4, West End, who has been suspended for scme time has been put back to work on his old beat.
 Officer Martin is working Third ave- nue on the evening shift. succeeding Of ficer McAllister, transferred to office as call man.
 Warden Puckett of the city jail has about lost his voice on account of a severe cold.
 Mrs. J. A. Ellard wife of Officer El- lard Precinct No. 3, Woodlawn, is seri- ously ill at local infirmary. | A gas stove has been installed in the detectives office, and Detective Carl Ray has reserved the position as operator until the novelty wears off. He says | that Detective Burge can and must have it then.
 Bremen | the fire department is former Captain A. | Brown of No. ?, who resigned December | l, to take up another line of buisness.
 He left Birmingham for Tulsa, Okla, where he will make his home. l Fireman Crosset, formerly of Chemi- | cal No. 1, has been transferred to Hose company No. 1 to fill the vacancy caused | by the death of the late John M. Massey. | Fireman Crossett's place on the chemical wagon has not yet been filled. | Fireman B. A. Slaughter of No. 2, one of the men who came through the death
 hole" in the Bragg building the morning | Fireman Massey was killed. has resigned | from the department and will go to | farming in southeast Alabama. t4s Fireman Barnett of Truck No. is | off on a two days hunting trip. His place is being filled by Sub-Fireman | Winn.
 | There is an intense rivalry to cut ex- penses between the different stations | where auto apparatus Is worked. The | recent report on the costs of operation | Of the motor apparatus has excited great | enthusiasm among the firemen and all
 are working with Chief Bennett to cut | expenses.
 Fireman Walter Downs of Hose com
 pany No. is suffering from a bad hand l which was painfully cut in the Chamber | of Commerce fire yesterday morning. | While it is giving him some trouble he is still on duty.
 Yesterday, December ', was sadly re-
 membered by the firemen as being the day on which their comrade the martyred John M. Massey, was to have been mar ried to Miss Anna Fuqua of Birming- | ham. The young lady has been seriously i'll since the death of her fiance and at
 times her life has been despaired of Fireman Kadle of No. has resigned
 from the department and has accepted
 the pastorate of Methodist circuit in | Madison county
 Driver Reeder of Engine No. 1 and
 Fireman Joe Downs of Hose company No. ] are some myfstified over the l mysterious purchase of pink fascna.
 tor' by Seek Albertson last night
 They have alleged that Seek had on his meeting clothes. too.