The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-01-27
FIRE DEP ARTMENT
WANTS ANOTHER
Motor Engine Like One Now in
Use Urged Before Finance
Committee.
NEW EQUIPMENT NECESSARY
Additional Call Men Required
So as to Keep Service OH
Present High Plane.
NEW EQUIPMENT NECESSARY

y motr HOOK and ladder truck, an
other motor fire engine like the one
at present In use, one motor combi-
nation chemical and hose wagon. and
total cost of $4,000 were asked for
by the FIRE Department In presenting
It's needs before the Council Commit
Charles l.. Taylor, Chief Joyncs and
Secretary Jones presented compre.
hensive statement of the working of
mate of tho cost of its maintenance
and bettermcnt for 1912, the summary
being as follows: Pay rolls. sl62,592:
expenses. $4,000: new motor uppar-
atus. $4,000; fire alarm, $1,000.
The present pay roll OF tho depart
ment is s142,aSi. Captain Taylor ex-
planned the need for the following ad-
ditions: Pay rolls for Il new hook and
ladder company, with complete COM
pany of ten men. S9,6iS, and additional
cost OF making sixteen of the present
iorty-cight call men station men, S10,-
go Zach fire company. Il was cx-
planned, now has so many men cn-
ployed for their full time. who live
at the engine houses. and so many
who arc paid only s@64 per year and
who respond only on an alarm of
fire. Captain Taylcr explained that
at their york. in all sections of tho
city. these call men often reach the
fires too exhausted and too late to
be OF real service Tile board had
men tul-tme men. and so asked for
only onc-third at this tune. proposing
TO increase sixteen men from 1854 to
1924 per anuum, and employ them for
all their time.
New Motor Equipment.
Eut 1t was in regard to the proposed
new motor apparatus that the fro OIL
Gals Ei made their most urgent demands.
in the Third Street engine house was
described AS perfect success. hav-
ing operated moro than ten hours con-
s TN, Ss NJ the binswanser hre, at a
cost Tor EaSolcne and oil of less than
So AZ recent midnight fire at Seven
tcenth and Darlington Streets. the big
motor ran from Third and Broad to
me hre and had stream in opera
tion before horsc-drawn apparatus
having only half the distance to go.
arrived on the scene.
der company in South Richmond.
tn ugh we'll equipped steam fire en-
CINE company is located there in
newly erected engine house. Captain
Taylor suggested that as the streets
over there had not Yet been elly pre-
pared pared ana and improved. that a new motor
service In tho manufacturing district.
be Installed at some point downtown
possibly at Twenty-ilrst and Muin
streets, and that the lighter horse
transferred to South Richmond The
cost of modern hook and ladder ma
G GI1n With full equipment suitable for
life saving work In schools. factories
$1,000 '''"ss' IS estimated at
co GIag Ward Need. Protection
Ward. presented petition OF several
hundred property owners for fire en-
gihe in the house ut Strawberry and
n ,h streets where the, city now has
corps of hremen. hut no engine. The
iSee,ion IS rapidly developing. and will
n oG Dulil up even more rapidly with the
openinS this spr'ng OF enormous sewer
uhde rtaklnGs now approaching com
plction. Chief Joyncs agreed that the
S sre D was to large extent withou,
conId burn down before an engine
could get over newly laid and in many
Eases obstructed streets. either from
and Broad. In each case n run NJ +,
nile or more.
Captain Taylor recommended to meet
a aus sithntion the purchase of another
US installation at Twcnty-nfth and
i,roau streets. where the streets and
.S1nailions are ready for apparatus OF
steamer now located there to the house
at strawberry and Cary street. Two
companies nnnn hnss In in, the department have
equipment. and as the chemical an
paratus has been found most valuable
IN cNtinguishinE small fires without
water damage the department recon-
,ncnds the purchase of a motor com
bination hose wagon and chemical on
slne of light. fast type that can
cover a large area and extingush
many fires before the heavier. clumsy
steamers arrive
Automobiles for Chiefs.
Three automobiles are asked for the
chief and his two assistants. to bc
equipped with chemical extinguishers
ana oxygen tanks, Chief Joynes saying
mat II was OF essential Importance
that an executive officer should get ON
the ground at tho earliest possible mo-
mont to direct operations as other
wise. through lack in Judgment, fire
men might either let some inciplcnt
blaze get away from them, or might
err through caution and do more dam
age with water than was necessary.
superintendent Thompson said that
the needs OF the fire alarm sery ce
were. obvious, the most important be-
ing the extension of underground cable,
and to Install additional fire alarm
boxes in outlying territory.