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 Fire
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
Joyner. individually. and by the mem
bers OF the Fire Board separately and
collectively, that the Richmond Fire
Department VIII a. all times and sea
sons De as Jealous of the welfare OF
Ginter Park as It is OF the city this
slde OF the valley, citizens from that
suburb Yesterday withdrew their pro-
. rests against the action of the Fire
the motor engine from the Gimtcr Park
| station to Engine Company No. 4.
inc transfer was ordered by. the Fire
department when an accident on Tues
gay temporarily disabled the motor
engine from No. Station. To re-
Yer Park, Chief Joynes at once placed
! In service at the Ciinter Park Engine
iiouse the new motor chemical and
nose wagon recently Installed at Sta
tlon No. 8, In Fulton. The rcad1ust-
! ment to meet this situation vas de-
| manded by reason OF the fact tina,
there is no reserve engine in tho do
partnent.
GINTER Park Files
VIGOROUS PROTEST.
Immediately upon the transfer, citi-
Iens OF Ginter Park, through the
former chief of its fire department.
Hunter b. Frischkorn. registered n
vigorous protest against the removal
| OF the fire engine from Gintcr Park.
even for temporary purposes, claim
ING that In doing SO the city violated
the following section OF the anncxa-
tion decree:
The city OF Richmond shall main
tam within the present corporate limits
OF the town. OF Ginter Park IL tirchousc
and fire engine equal i'm all respects 10
the hrehouse and engine now owned
and operated by the town Of liiutcr
Park"
Unofhcial reports that steps would
oe taken by Gintcr Park citizens TO in
force literal compliance with this sec
ton by appeal to the courts caused
Vice PRESIDENT Lccky, OF the Fire
board. in the absence from the city of
President Jenkins. to appeal to the
city Attorney for advice and to call
Il u, special meeting of the Board OF
Firc Commissioners for yesterday
afternoon TO pass upon the question as
10 whether or not the Fire Board. I'm
ordering the transfer. acted within its
powers.
FIRE BOARD HAS
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, confcrrihE
upon 1t by the Legislature through
the city charter, advising the board
that 1t should be controlled, in the
matter under consideration, by the
spirit rather than by the strict letter
of the section of the annexation de-
N h..r
should the accident have happened
to the IRE engine OF Ciintcr Park" said
Mr.. Pollard. 1T would have been your
DUTY to provide with all rcasona BILE
dispatch for the restoration of the ef-
tlciency 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 judy
ment, to carry out the spirit OF the
clause above quoted from the decree
of the court"
Ginter Parks case was presented TO
the the board yesterday by Hunter D.
Rriss arne,r and ,Attorney Christopner
that the removal of the motor engine
from Ginter Park violated the section
referred to, and Impaired the protec-
ton of the suburb.
SUBURB FULLY PROTECTED
BY APPARATUS FURNISHED
Chief Joynes. asked by the hoard
whether. In his opinion GAnter Park
was fully protected against fire even
with the temporary removal OF the
motor engine as 1t was before annex
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 1t was In COM
mission, the Ginter Park engine would
BIO sent back to Its own station.
Upon this assurance of all early
restoration of Its estranged engine, At
torney Garnett expressed his prefer
the controversy. and Mr.. Frischkorn
yndence In the good will of the Fire
Department.
Chief Joynes, however, asked the
board to decide once for ali upon the
departments right to Impress into SER
vice the Glnter Park or any other fire
equipment under its Jurisdiction, for
duty In otifer 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 obliGating> the
city to*furnish the new territory with
adequate protection.
Jailed for Stealing Automobile.
Grover Rhodes, n Charlottesville boy
was 6uoQ $40 and sent to jail for siy