Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-11-28
.G|NTER'PARK CITIZENS
WITHDRAW PROTEST
Tempest In Teapot Brews Over Tenn.
porary Removal of lNirc
Engine.
BOARD HAD AMPLE AUTHORITY
City Attorney Holds That Department.
May Transfer Apparatus for Good
OF Service, Carrying Out Spirit of
Annexation Decree.

After being assured by Fire Chief
Joyncr. individually. and by the mem
bers OF the Fire Board separately and
collectively, that the Richmond Fire
Department will at all times and sea-
sons be as Jealous of the welfare OF
Ginter Park as II is OF the city this
sido OF the valley, citizens from that
suburb yesterday withdrew their pro-
/ tests against the action of the fire
Department In temporarily transferring
inc motor engine from the Gintcr Park
/ station to Engine Company No. 4.
inc transfer was ordered by. the Fire
department when an accident on Tues
| day temporarily disabled the motor
engine from No. 4 Station. To re-
! place the apparatus taken from Gin.
| ter Park, Chief Joynes at once placed
i IN service at the tiInter Park Engine
/ House the new motor chemical and
| nose wagon recently Installed at Sta
ton No. 8, In Fulton. The readjus.-
! nleht TO meet this situation was de-
nanded by reason of the fact that
| there is no reserve engine I'm tho de-
! partncnt.
GINTER PARK FILES
VIGOROUS PROTEST.
Immediately upon the transfer, citi-
Iens OF Ginter Park, through the
former chief of It's fire department,
iunter b. Frischkorn. registered n
| vigorous protest against the removal
OF the fire engine from Gintcr Park.
| even Tor temporary purposes. claim
ing that in doing SO the city violated
| the following section Of tho anncxa-
! ton decree:
Tho city of Richmond shall main
tam within tho present corporate limits
OIL the town OF Ginter Park IL firchousc
and fire engine equal in all respects TO
tue hrehouse and engine now owned
and operated by the town OF Gintcr
Park"
Unofficial reports that steps would
be taken by Ginter Park citizens to in
! force literal compliance with this sec
ton by appeal to the courts caused
Vice President Lecky, OF tho Fire
Board, In the absence from the city of
President Jenkins, to appeal to the
a special meeting of the Board OF
Fire Commissioners for yesterday
AFTERNOON to pass upon the question as
10 whether or not the Fire Board in
ordering the transfer. acted within its
powers.
BROAD CHARTER, POWERS
In his opinion, rendered to the Fire
Board yesterday, City Attorney Pollard
directed attention to the broad general
! powers of the Fire Board, cunfcrrihE
upon 1t by the Legislature through
the city charter. advising the board
that II should be controlled. in the
matter under consideration. by the
! spirit rather than by the strict letter
of the section of the annexation de-
cree bearing upon the controversy.
should the accident have happened
to the IRE engine of Gintcr Park said
MIR. Pollard. sit would have Dccn your
duty to provide with all reasonable
dispatch for the restoration of the ef-
| hciency of the Ginter Park Engine
House from the Other FIRE stations In
the city of Richmond. and SO, II the
Ginter Park engine is needed in the
old corporation limits, 1t may be, BY
your order. withdrawn. you making
, adequate arrangements, In your judE-
ment, to carry out the spirit OF the
clause above quoted from the decree
of the court"
the board yesterday By Hunter u.
Frischkorn and Attorney Christopher
=. Garnett. Both were Of the opinion
! from Ginter Park violated the section
, referred to- and impaired the protec-
| tion OF the suburb.
SUBURB FULLY PROTECTfSD
Ri APPARATUS FURNISHED
whether In his opinion Ginter Parit
WAS fully protected against fire. even
esgne as It was OF sne
alton. replied unreservedly that the
suburb was to-day more fully protect
ed than ever. Moreover. he said the
repairs to the battered motor engine
OF No. would be complete sometime
o-day. and as soon as It was In com
mission. the Ginter Park engine would
be sent back to Its own station.
Upon this assurance of an early
restoration of Its estranged engine, At
torney Garnett expressed his prefer
ence for an immediate abandonment of
the controversy, and Mr.. Frischkorn
himself gave evidence OF renewed con-
hdence In the good will OF the Fire
department.
Chief Joynes. however, asked the
departments right to Impress into SER
Vice tho Glnter Park or any other fire
equipment under it's Jurisdiction, for
duty In otlfer parts of the city In emer-
gency cases. The board decided unani-
mously that the Fire Department has
full authority to transfer apparatus from
one station TO The other, having due re-
gard always for the spirit of the an
nexation agreements obliEating> the
city toSfurnish the new territory with
adequate protection.
Jailed for Stealing Automobile.
Grover Rhodes, a Charlottesville boy
was fined $40 and sent to Jail for six
months IN default of bond by Justice
Crutchfteid yesterday morning in loo-