Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1912-08-20
NEED $4,000
FOR FIRE DEPT.
AIdermanic Committee Re-
commend Bond Issue--Im-
provements for Efficiency,
LONG LIST is PRESENTED
Taxpayer Objects to Parade
Appropriatien--0t Other Knocks
Heard--Firemen Defended.

ment came in for kick and several
boosts at the meeting of the Board
of Aldermen last night. Emil Ko-
yen and lver G. Ostergaard objected
to the alleged neglect of firehouse
janitors to properly sprinkle on Elm
and Market streets and the former
maintained the firemen should not re-
ceive an appropriation of $1,000 out
of the taxpayers money for parading.
Mr.. Koyen even went SO far as to
state he gathered from fairly good
authority that the city fathers had
no right to appropriate the taxpay-
ers money for parading that
way Alderman Dalton and
Hornsby publicly aired their sympa-
which they deemed worthy of all it
was receiving.
The committee on fire presented a
recommendation for additional appa-
ratus, addition to firehouses, horses,
etc, amounting to more than $40. 900
and recommended that bonds be is
sued to pay for the same. 1t vas
presented by Chairman Dalton of the
| fire committee, read and referred to
a committee of the whole. The list
included a motor hose and chemical
apparatus or a combination wagon
for Mcclellan Engine Company and
5000 feet of new hose for all the
companies.
Some Of the improvements and All
ditions included in the recommends
tion have already been secured.
Togther with the new ones recon-
mended, exclusive Of new apparatus
for the Mcclellan company, for
new horse for Lincoln Engine Com
pany and for laying concrete size
walk In front of the Liberty fire.
house, the total cost of the improve
ments and additions is $S,675.
In his communication to the Coun-
Gil, Mr.. Dalton set forth that the
improvements and additions in the
list presented were needed III the
department to fully equip it, as the
city will have to work with a volun-
teer department for several years to
come. He maintained the city should
be equipped to meet all emergencies,
and stated that while the city might
be fortunate In having had no dis
astrous fires of late, too much could
not be said for the volunteer depart
ment.
List Of the Improvements.
The list of improvements and ad-
ditions not yet received, as recon-
| mended, follows: Motor hose and
chemical apparatus or combination
wagon for the Mcclellan company;
5000 feet of fire hose, $4,000; three
fire alarm boxes, 1915; two new indi-
Gators, $500; one blowing machine
or new whistle, which may be located
at the Raritan Copper Works, 1915;
for housing and installing same,
$50: two valves for whistles, $50;
water tank on Lincoln, firehouse,
500; three-horse hitch, pole and
chains, $3.50; one soft suction hose,
$50; one set Of harness for Lincoln
Engine Company, $50; two hose
pipes for Garfield Engine Company,
$50; painting and repairing of old
hook and ladder truck, $3.50; IL fire
hats for the Eagle Hose and Chemi-
cal Company, $36; 12 fire hats for
the Washington Hose and Chemical
Company, $36; IL fire coats for the
Washington company, $72. The
items recommended. which have been
secured or ordered, follow: Repairs
to Protection Hook and Ladder Com
pany's house, $1,400; three-horse
hitch for same, $500; two extra truss
ladders for same, SIPS. one Hart
nozzle and hose for aerial truck,
5000; three-horse harness, hangers
and springs, $50; three horse harness
and collars, $3.50; one horse for
Eagles, $500; two Weider collars for
the Eagles, $50; repairing and paint
Ing Eagles apparatus, 5000; change
stalls In Lincoln frehouse, $50; two
siamese connections, $35; one horse
for Lincoln company, concrete side
walk In front of the Liberty fire
house, bitulithic top surface for the
same w a square yard; rubber
coats for Liberty company, S72.
On motion the committee on fire
was authorized to have the old Pro-
lection hook and ladder truck re-
paired and repainted for use by Lib
erty Hook and Ladder Company.
recommendations Of the fire COM
mittee, for placing new fire boxes at
Parker street and the Lehigh Valley
railroad property, and at Grove and
Francis streets, were adpoted.
Report from Lincoln Engine Com
pany, stating that George H. Jost,
Harry Neal, Charles Damgaard, John
Rhodes and w. j. O'Hara had been
elected to membership, was received
and referred to the committee on
fire.
An invitation from the general pa
rade committee to the aldermen to
attend the fire parade in October was
received, and accepted and a motion
passed that the board attend in
body.
Exception to Criticisms.
Alderman Dalton, who is chairman
OF the committee on fire, openly
voiced his exceptions to the criti-
cism heaped upon the fire department
by Emil Koyen and Iver G. Oster-
gard. He termed their statements
concerning the fire department unfair
and added that the city should in
deed be proud of its volunteer fire
department. He maintained that
twelve cents day was little enough
to spend on such a department for
the benefit of its members. Alder
man Hornsby said people must be
pretty thin-skinned' If they object
ed to an appropriation of $500.
Mr.. Koyen complained that he had
experienced much difficulty in get
ting Elm street sprinkled in front Of
his residence between Smith and
Market street. He stated of COM
planning to the street commissioner
and of having Deen told by him that