The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-10-29
Sellers Bureau Submits List
of Requirements to Place
Richmond in Insurance
Class No. 2.
CALLS FOR CONDUITs
Report Demands Removal of
Wires From COngested
Districts and Frequent In
spectiOns by Firemen.

Richmond has received another list
Of qualifications 1t must fill to receive
a better fire insurance rating.
The following requirements were
completed by E. NJ. Sellers of the In
diana Inspection Bureau at Indianapo-
lis:
I'VE are submitting a list of require
ments for the advancement of the city
Of Richmond from its present class OF
grade three to that Of grade two:
1-Provide either seventy-five or
eighty-five foot motor driven aerial
truck to replace the present SER
vice truck which is to be held in
reserve. New truck must be
manned by six men, four to be ta-
ken from your present service
truck and two additional provided.
Provide More Men.
2-Provide three additional fire
men, one to be placed on No. I
hose wagon and the other two on
No. hose wagon.
eEnact an ordinance requir-
ing all overhead wires except troll
10y wires in the congested district
to be placed underground, the
work to begin within six months
from the date Of the passing Of
the ordinance and to be completed
within two years after it's passage.
+Enact q proper ordinance
governing the storage Of expIo-
sives and volatile oils.
5-Enact an ordinance requir-
ing flremen to make frequent and
,lA. IS As,SI
6-Enact an ordinance requir-
ing policemen to render assistance
at fires.
IN the event the foregoing recon-
mendations are properly followed. the
following approximate reductions will
be made in the present insurance esti-
mates where no changes have taken
place in the construction, occupancy.
protection and exposure of buildings
since they were last rated:
Outlines Reduction.
Estimates on brick mercantile
buildings. 13 per cent.
"On contents Of brick mercantile
buildings (average) per cent.
Frame mercantile buildings and
contents, 8 per cent.
Kindly bear in mind that the con-
ditions and agreement as herein spec
ified on the part of this bureau are
void at the expiration of one year from
date unless extended by special en-
dorsement."
The copies of the ordinance which
the bureau asked the city to adopt
have been placed in the hands of Sec
retary Jordan of the Commercial club
He will turn them over to Mayor Rob-
bins as soon as the city is ready to
take them up.
The fire truck is now the only re-
quirement which stands between the
city and lower fire insurance rates.
which cannot be met Immediately. Tho
city is in a position to pass all ordi-
ditional firemen, officials say. Under
the terms in the last paragraph of the
letter, the city had a year to purchase
the new truck.
Conduit System Costly.
An important and costly change
will be that of placing all wires under
ground Conduit systems will be laid
along Main streets and through alleys,
thus enabling the city to cause the re-
moval of all poles in the business dis
trict except the iron trolley poles on
Main and Eighth streets. Tho city.
telephone company. Light Heat and
Power company. interurban company
and telegraph companies will be af-
fected by this order.
Building inspection by firemen is
another requirement which is new to
the city. The requirement OF an ordi-
nance compelling police to assist at
Ares will be new. although the police
now give assistance without an ordi-
nance in the city statutes.