Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-12-23
STATE fIREMEN'S
ASSOCIATION ACTIVE
SECRETARY n. L. READE EN-.
THUSlASTlc OVER WORK
OF YEAR.
Mr.. Reade in Interview Favors Motor
Driven Apparatus. is in Sympathy
With Work Of Fire Prevrnters.

H. l.. Reade, secretary of the North
Dakota Firemen's association, is now
busily engaged in sending out notices
OF dues to the various fire companies
and allied organizations throughout
the state.
TINS organization comprises at pres
ent ITS cities and 235 organizations or
companies. This tremendous organ
'lzation has grown up during the last
Is years under the efficient manage
ment of Secretary Reade. who has
had nearly all of the work connected
with the building lit up.
Some of the statistics connected
with the association is that when Mr..
Reade took the secretarys office there
were Is towns and IS companies. The
amount of tax paid last year direct
to firemen was $21,470. Twenty five
new cities of North Dakota have been
added since June 1, 1911-in fact the
greatest growth in for the same length
OF time in the history of the state
The most notable growth is in the
southwestern part Of the state, where
new towns and cities are making ef-
forts to have the latest and best fire
protection.
The next annual tournament will
be held at WIlistol, June 2, and the
firemen of the entire state are prom
Used the grandest and best time in
their lives. Also the exhibit at that
place will exceed anything ever be-
fore shown within the boundaries of
North Dakota.
This organization while known gen.
orally is not thoroughly understood
as it should be by the masses, and Mr..
Reade in speaking of tine matter said
in part:
IL have been one of the members
of the North Dakota Firemen's asso-
ciation almost from the beginning, in
fact from the beginning, and have all
ways been a member Of the Pioneer
company OF Bismarck.
my every effort has been to make
the associating as effective as possi-
bic and render the fire losses within
the state of North Dakota as low as
possible and to this end I have given
largely of my time and attention"
The value of Mr.. Reade's study
along these lines has been SO much
appreciated by the Fire Underwriters
association and fire insurance compa-
MES that they take his word as an
authority on facts and figures regard
ing conditions and fire losses and sal.
wage In this state. He has served
the state along this line so efficiently
that when any new question: arises
pertaining to the installation of new
apparatus the matter is referred to
him. The figures and instructions he
issues on this subject are used as the
final data in the case and have proven
correct in nearly every instance.
He has several times been elected
to the national association and has
been the representative for seven
years to the conventions of the Inter-
national Fire Engineers conventions
at Duluth, Washington, Dallas, Co.
lumbus, O., Grand Rapids, Mich, Syr-
acuse and Milwaukee.
Also he has represented the state
as state vice president in the national
conventions and has delivered several
papers before the board of National
Fire Underwriters, which has been
of great benefit to the associatios,
and he has been called upon many
times to give figures to the directo-
rate of these associations in regard
to things pertaining to North Dakota"
Motor Apparatus.
Motor apparatus" said Mr.. Reade,
lis the most economical and the gen.
eral cost of maintenasce is figurar
lively very low. have the data for
a town or city the size of Bismarck
and it purchased and put in operation
q motor truck. During 10 months