Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-10
FIRE BOARD SPLIT !
OVER TWO WORDS
"Upper'' and Lower" as Des.
ignations of City Sections,
Cause Wrangle. 4
CHOICE OF DEPUTIES FOR
EITHER ALSO LAID OVER
Contemplated Plan Would Give
fo Companies to One, 20
to the Other.

Unable to make a choice between
the two newly appointed deputy
| chiefs, who are to rule over the newly
| drawn upper" and lower sections,
| the Fire Board at its meeting yes
terday afternoon laid over the mat
ter indefinitely. Dissatisfaction was
also expressed over the upper and
"lower" designations, although the
terms mean nothing so far as grade
is concerned.
Under the new plans prepared by
the board Frelinghuysen avenue, AS
tor street. High street, Bloomfield
| avenue and Summer avenue will be
the dividing lines between the two
sections. There will be twenty COM
panies in the upper and nineteen
in the lower" 1t is the plan to have
the deputies take active command of
the two districts and to answer all
alarms and take active charge at the
, fire Until the arrival of Chief Moore.
The new deputies are Matthew p. A.
Dermitt n JOIN j. Towey.
Under the rules adopted each deputy
is required to respond to all alarms
in his respective district and TAX
charge of the fire until the arrival
of chief Engineer Paul j.. Moore.
! They must hold battalion drills two
days a week of a half our duration,
between l and 4 o'clock in the after
noon. and see hat every fireman
understands and obeys promptly
every command.
Battalion Chiefs Responsible.
They are instructed to hold battalion
chiefs responsible for the prompt dis
charge of duty by the commandments
| under them and will make careful
inspection of all quarters. That all
recommendations for meritorious acts
at fires must come through the depu-
ties in the future is another rule.
Receipt of a check for $50 from the
| Charles Cooper Company in recog-
milton of good work done by the fire.
men in preventing the spread OF
flames from an adjoining building to
the Cooper plant on October 8 brought
out an odd coincident. The company,
under the impression that representa-
tives of the city department had So
| IicIted funds for some object left a
| check for $50 on September q as Its
subscription.
The fire board, learning that the
money had been solicited by East Or
ange men for the convention of the
Firemen's Mutual Benevolent Assoc
| citation and without the boards sanc-
tion. ordered 1t returned. The Cooper
| Company, in reply, declared the check
as made out would be held until an
opportunity would present itself to
show appreciation for work by the
firemen.
Firemen Again Prompt.
Two days later fire broke out in the
building adjoining the Cooper works
and the private box of the latter place
was pulled, with the result that the
fremen responded promptly. In ap-
probation the check was once more
sent and accepted as a donation to
the pension fund.
A request from Fireman John
o'Shea, of Engine No. 5, for three
DAYS cave of absence to get mar
ried and go to Washington, d.. c., on
his caused Commissioner
Matthias Stratton to merrily move
that it be granted,
why, just because he is going to
Washington? We haven been Civ
ing the men three days off to get
married." said President Weber. He
got no further. The commissioners
insisted that he get three days.
The Civil Service Commission VIII
be asked to furnish an eligible list,
from which to select foul probation'
airy iremen.