The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-09-01
CITY INCREASES
SALARIES FOR
FIRE CAPTAINS
Council Includes Raise in
| S173.OOO. Budget, After Re
/ fusing to Purchase New
Aerial Lauder Truck.
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.


crease. ~,,o
Passed budget ai)propr1atlns $I'o'-
900 to run city in IS 10.
Increased nay of five fire captains
and assistant chief So a montn.
Passed on first reading an-ordinance
creating the office of street inspector
and providing for thesmalntenance OF
streets and alleys.
Appropriated $1,000 for crematory
enlargement. Aerial ladder 0rucK re-
fused fire department..
Took up question Of keeping cnlch-
ems penned.
Discussed garbage disposal.
Determined to hold extra meetings
to pass condensed ordinances covering
old city ordinances discovered IN cool-
flying work.
The budget ordinance was lett
standing practically as was introduced
into council after motion at last
nights meeting to appropriate LOT an
aerial fire truck and drop the crema-
tory was killed by vote or nine 10
three. The tax rate was fixed at Sl.O9.
A Joint discussion Of the needs OF
an aerial ladder truck and tine necess-
ity for additional crematory capacity
was held in which every councilman
who occupied the floor declared hlm-
self in favor of sliding the crematory
until next year and using $hooo ap-
propriated towards a fund to BUY
fire truck.
Mayor Robbinsland President Bavis
of the board Of works had the In
fIuence to swing the vote and when
an official expression was taken, only
three members of council voted for
councilman O'NeiPs motion for a
transfer of the crematOry appropr1a-
ton.
Asks Crematory Delay.
O'Neil stated that he had examined
the crematory and foundit in no worse
condition than six years ago. He de-
clared the city would be better off If
the crematory were dropped until next
year He proposed the building OF
crematory then which would cremate
garbage by substituting for coal as
fuel the refuse of the alleys to burn
the garbage.
Councilman Williams seconded him
and said he had watched the present
ladder wagon in a snakelike trail down
Main street in which the life of every
fireman was endangered. He said he
favors the use exclusively of auto
trucks and spoke of the insanitary
conditions of sleeping quarters where
horses are kept.
After other councilmen had spoken
in favor of the aerial truck, Mayor
Robbins informed the body that the
orders of the county health officer
relative to dumping garbage outside
the city limits are supreme. Only one
half the garbage collected can be con
sumed at the crematory. Presiden
Bavis of the board of works backed VI
the statements of the mayor and de
nit for ~,
tanning a nuisance is now pending.
The element of reduced insurance
rates was considered. Mayor Robbins
advised council as a member of thu
Commercial club insurance committe,
that an aerial fire truck would affec
the rate on a few business building
on Main street but not in the residenc,
district.
Votes Down Truck.
The city attorney declared council
men were counting violations of tn
law by asking farmers to come in an,
gather garbage. A discrepancy in tn
new garbage ordinance was discovere
when it was found that the city i
collecting money for licenses permit
ting farmers to do this. The garbag
ordinance was passed last year. Thi
law is not being enforced, Counclma
ueCldleu as mugs are hepl ]
the limits of Fairview and in othe
parts of the city.
After Chief Miller said he coul
patch up the truck for another year
council voted down the motion whic
would have transferred the cremator
appropriation.
The possibility of Richmond secu
ing additional police protection wa
made small when council refused t
appropriate additional salary none,
Councilman Williams said a dnIerer
element is gradually invading Ricl
mond and the city is harder to patro
Only twenty men are in the depar
ment now whereas thirty-one may b
retained
Raise Firemen's Pay.
Fire Chief Miller's request that s
month be added to the salaries
five captains and the assistant fir
chief was granted after he told cou1
Gil the difficulty to make captains 7
tain their jobs. The salaries will no
be: pipemen $40, captains SIS, assis
ant chief $50.
A report of the codifying of til
city ordinances was made by the CT,
attorney. He asked that council no
extra meetings to take up ordinance
which he will introduce condenser
OAA CITY ordinances lOuuu III lu6 COG
fication work. Council agreed.
Mr. Bond then presented to the orc
nance committee condensed orc
nance to prevent animals from beir
on the streets of the city without ow
erS.
Councilman Waidele. speaking in b
half of seventy-five or one hundre
fancy chicken breeders of the CT
then asked that some provision
made to prevent chickens from ru
ming at large. He declared that tt
common property ruling of fe
years ago should be placed in fore
He also informed council that he h;
two of his neighbors chickens pennt
up waiting for them to become b
enough to fry.
To Revise Measure.
The committee on ordinances w
revise the revised ordinance the CT
attorney handed it and include Il
keeping of chickens. This ordinan,
provides the impounding of ANNA
found in the streets and their sale
public auction after five days.
The ordinance introduced by Cou
Gilman Williams, chairman of the col