Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-04-16
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of a help, and proved their assertions
with records, seemed very much sur
prised, as they were informed to the
contrary by the A. d. T. officials
Under the new plan advocated by
the committee and the fire commits
sioners, a direct telephone line will
connect the A. d. r. office with the
cIty's fire station. In this manner
notice will be given the fire depart
ment. This line will be used by no
one but the A. d. 7. to send alarms,
and is to be installed and maintained
by the latter, with no responsibility
on the commissioners.
Heretofore when one of the com
pany's subscribers sent in an alarm
it was flashed to the Clinton street
office, and thence, after verification,
sent via telegraph wire from there
t. fire headquarters. There 1t
was received in code form
which required translating by
the department operators before
they could send out an alarm
Under the proposed scheme the alarm
will be telephoned to headquarters
over private wire, thus doing away
with the extra work and loss of time
required in. learning the location of
the blaze by reading a code and then
! looking up the nearest alarm box to
sound.
The commissioners and the COM
mittee of business men also discussed
the annoyance caused by idle curio-
sity seekers in calling fire headquart-
ers to establish the location of fire.
The commissioners stated that those
seeking such Information should call
police headquarters SO as to allow the
| board at fire headquarters free for
| fire signals only.
| Commissioner Stratton caused a
great surprise when he informed the
committee that the board of fire I'M
derwriters of this city would not
sign the petition to reinstate he old
system of the A. d. T. The men
acting as a committee stated that
| this was the first time they had re-
ceived such information and serious
/ ly considered the weight of it.
Instructions on Department Cards.
Remember gentlemen" said Com
/ missioner Burke, that you can tele-
phone from your own places Of BUSH
ness direct to fire headquarters and
receive immediate attention. Our
cards which you have in your offices
or factories contain instructions to
that effect. Good plan too, don't you
think, regardless of the A. d. 7. sys-
TEN or anything else outside of our
own fire alarm boxes"
1t was asked if the commissioners
could not go ahead with arrange
ments without consulting the city
law department.
mo, indeed" replied Mr.. Burke,
this question is too stupenduous and
too many intricate points are in
volved. 1t would be presumptuous on
our part to ignore the law depart
ment. We couldn't think of such a
thing. The A. ID. T. has an abundant
supply of lawyers looking after their
interests, so why shouldn't the city
look after our interests which OF
course, are the city's interests?
81 will call your attention to the
case of a fire in Strauss Broad
street store last night" said Com
missioner Stratton. 1.-THE alarm was
sent in from box seventeen across
the street from the store and was re-
ceived one minute before the A. d. L
telephoned an alarm for the same
fire. Yet a newspaper gave credit to
the A. d. 7. as being first on the
job. Now what are we to expectT'
Question OF Responsibility.
The fire commissioners will not ac-
cept responsibility for the operation
of the A. ID. Il. system by the tele-
phone route if that plan be finally
agreed upon any more than 1t die
under the discarded indirect tele.
graph connection device, as they will
have no control over 1t.
Fire calls by telephone from any
part of the city are now received a.
the central office in the City Hall ovel
telephone number 1926 Newark, an6
acted upon promptly, but no respon
sibility for mistakes is assumed b,
the department. This same under