The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-09-21
Annual Meeting of the Fire
Denartment

ton Fire Department was held in tn
house of Union Fire Company Frida,
evening. Despite the extreme hea
: there was large crowd present ant
. every company was well represented
Robert S. Gaskill, president, called tn,
meeting to order and said that when tn,
annual meeting was held last year hi
was out of town. The members re
elected him to the office of presiden,
and he appreciated the act, especially
because he was absent and no advantage
was taken of that fact. This was the
first chance he has had to express his
thanks.
The organization for the ensuing year
was then completed by the election OF
the following officers: President, Robert
S. Gaskill; secretary, S. Earl Assay;
treasurer, Albert G. Mayer. The report
of Lorenzo L. Sapp, retiring chief
engineer, was read. He reeited the
condition of the fire department, which
consists of two steam engines, two motor
chemical engines, three hose carriages
and hook and ladder truck. One of the
chemical engines is combined engine
and hose carriage. The department is
well equipped with hose. A number of
alarms of fire had been responded to
during the last year, l3 of which were
out of town, at the latter of which the
chemical engines were able to get to the
scene quickly and to do good work The
chief made neutrality-suspicious. that were
acted on later.
1t was stated that at the fire at the
Royle-Pilkington mill the chemical
engine of Relief Fire Company, of
Moorestown, voluntarily came to Mount
Holly to render aid. A vote of thanks
from the Northampton Fire Department
was sent to the Moorestown company
A letter was received from Harold
Hornor in which he expressed his graf
itude to the fire department for the
prompt manner in which it responded to
his request for aid at the time one of his
buildings was on fire. In addition to his
thanks Mr.. Hornor enclosed check for
$50 to be used by the department and it
was turned into the treasury.
In his report Chief Sapp referred to
the fact that there did not seem to be
any system in answering alarms of fire
from out OF town. He thought that
there should be an amendment to the
bylaws providing that no company
should go out of town without first get
ting the permission from the chief and
in the event OF not being able to reach
him then one Of the assistants should be
called. This created some discussion, it
being held that much valuable time
might be lost in telephoning around to
get the required permission. With two
engines running on auto power it was
thought the fire could be reached in a
short time while it would require several
to get the permission of the
chief or his assistants to leave the house
The amendment was adopted, however,
with few votes against it.
Another proposition was that there b |
o day set aside as memorial day.
when services could be held in some |
church or public hall in honor of men, |
bers who had died during the year. Mr..
Sapp alluded to the fact that such ser
vices were held in Burlington last year,
with quite a lengthy programme and
with talks by prominent speakers. This
department went to the Mount Holly
Baptist church and the first memorial
services were then held. Rev. Mr. Terry
an appropriate sermon. 1t was
thought this should be an annual event.
A motion was adopted that COM
mittee of five be appointed to arrange for
the day, place and programme for
memorial day., the committee to con-
sist of the president of the department
and one member from each company.
The president named Joseph c. King
Ion, Relief; Edward B. Jones, America;
Charles LaTour, Good Intent; Harvey
E. Rossell, Union.
A rising vote of thanks was rendered
5he retiring chief, l.. L. Sapp, for his
efficient service and the courtesy he had
shown the members of the department
Election of chief engineer and assis-
ANTS was next in order and the follow
ng were elected without opposition:
Chief engineer, George w. A. French;
irst assistant, George G.. Dennis; second
assistant, Harry H. Matlack; third assis-
tant, Herbert j. Shaedle. Mr.. French
thanks and said his efforts
would be devoted to keeping the depart
ment up to its present high standard.
To do this he must have the aid of the
members of the several companies and
ne was well satisfied that they all had
she good of the department at heart and
he did not feel that there would be any
hing happen that would cause going
backwards. The assistants also returned
heir thanks.
Then it was president Gaskill's turn.
He said he felt highly complimented on
being again elected president. He
thought this would be his twentieth
year of service and he felt that he could |
point with pride to the fact that the
members of the department were salts
fed with his past administration to the
extent of re-electing him each year. He
assured them that no act of his would |
bring reproach upon the department.
After agreeing to the distribution of
the township appropriations as recon-
mended by the joint committees the
adjourned
School supplies, L. S. Boyce, Sta