Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-09
THIRTEEN FIREMEN
ARE PROMOTED
Five Are Advanced to Captain
cies and Eight Become
=. Lieutenants.

Thirteen new appointments, five t.
flank of lieutenant were made yester-
day by the Fire Board, to take effect
captancies and eight others to the
on Saturday. BY the appointments the
present vacancies caused by the re-
tirement of three captains on the
first of this month will be filed, and
twill also be possible to open Engine
Companies Nos. % and "a. as sched-
uled on Saturday. The retirement OF
lieutenant George Leffingweu of No.
- Engine Company, created another
vacancy, which was filed.
The new appointees are: Captains,
Ernest Ludwig, Frederick Manger,
William J. Saupe Oscar Kaelberer
AID Joseph ]. McCree, and lieuten-
ants. Charles w Van Pelt, John F.
Fox. Edward J. MCGEE, John ].
Schooner, Joseph j. Owens, John NJ.
Mckiernan, William J. Edwards and
Oscar ]. Brown.
AT his own request Lieutenant
George w Lefflngwell. of Engine
Company No. 2, was retired. to take
effect on Friday He has served in
the department for thirty-f1ve years
and seven months and leaves IL now
only because of disability to prop
erly perform his duties.
+For absenting himself from quar-
tiers without leave, Leopold Mohr,
of Engine Company No. 10. was fined
tan days pay and warned that his
temperance before the board on
any infringement of rules would be
Equivalent to dismissal. Captain
James A. Johnston was the COM
plainant and charged that Mohr left
the company quarters at 7:3O in the
evening on September 16 and had
failed to return at l o'clock the next
afternoon. at which time he was sus-
pended. He pleaded that he had be-
come i'll and had taken several drinks
of brandy which he claimed affected
him peculiarly.
Approval was given by the board
TO the assignment by the defunct
Webb Fire Engine Company of Allen
town. Pa. to James Boyd & Brother
of Philadelphia of the two contracts
Tor a motor driven aerial truck and
a motor driven engine. The former
Will cost $4,000 and the latter $4,000.
Contracts with the new concern will
be executed this week.
These prices in each case are lower
by $500 than the bids for ather APP
sJaratus. a difference of $1,000. The
truck has the couple-gear equipment,
which is approved and used general
" in the United States army. The
transfer of this assignment was the
only approved by the Federal courts.
An appropriation of $50 was made
TO defray the expenses of Captain
c. Albert Gasser, of the Bureau of
Combustibles and Fire Risks. to the
annual National Fire Prevention con-
Y@ntion at Philadelphia October 10
to 49,
A request that the board officially
approve and allow the name of the
department to be used in connection
with the exhibition of motion pic
tafes taken during the recent con-
vention of the International Assocla-
ton of Fire Engineers at New York,
ad1d other special features, was re-
fused. The firm having the exhibit
ton in hand offered to turn half of
the proceeds over to the department
pension fund In return for the favor
asked.
While having no opposition to the
display of the pictures. which include
views of the Equitable building fire,
the Bayonne oil tank fire and also a
gfoup of Mayor Jacob Haussling and
paratus and local delegation in the
fsarade. the board refused to allow
ANY solicitation in the name of the
BY this decision the pension fund
will probably not receive any share
of the receipts if the pictures are eX-
flibited here. 1t is claimed, however,
that the departments share would
have been a meagre amount in any
event.