The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-08-03

The city of Kenosha went the hmi'
10 provide fire protection for its grea
factories and the homes of its people
IN Monday evening when at thu
special meeting of the Common Council
5he aldermen voted unanimously for ;
greater and more efficient fire depart
nent. Here is what the council did
Appropriated $4,000 for the i'm
mediate purchase of a triple com
bination pumping chemical hose
wagon with all equipment of
modern department to be installed
if possible, at the Central Engine
House within the next sixty days.
Ordered the immediate purchase
of a Jeffrey "booster" pump for
the fire department, the pump to
have a capacity of $50 gallons.
This to be installed and in service
within the next ten days at a
cost of $4,000.
Ordered the committee to pro-
coed at once to the purchase of
1000 feet Of fire hose.
Ordered the committee to pro-
coed at once to the completion of
the West Grand avenue fire sta
ton with the idea of having it
opened and ready for use within
a week if possible.
Passed a motion providing for
the CUNT system in the employ
ing of men for the police and fire
departments. This action gives the
Police and Fire Commission the
right to put one man on the fire
department and one on the police
department for each one thousand
of population in the city. The
provision is made that increases in
the two departments may be made
by the commission without further
action on the part of the council
and it insures the growth of the
two departments with the growth of
the city at all times in the future.
Councils Most Important Meeting.
From many standpoints the meetini
was the most important ever held b,
the Common Council and it was a BIZ
jump forward in the movement for tn
lpbuilding of the greater Kenosha. I
was a meeting at which harmony rule,
supreme and every action taken by tn
council was without division. Tn
members of the council recognized tn
demand of the city for greater fir
and a more efficient pro
lection of the property of the cit,
and acted as one man,
The movement to bring the fire de
partment up to the demands of the cit,
was started at a meeting Of the Fir
and Police Commission on last Frida,
evening. On Saturday morning tn
met with the member
IF the fire department. committee o
The council and presented their view
and asked that these views be submit
ted at once to the council. In the alb
3ence of Mayor Pfennig from the cit,
Alderman Sullivan, the president o
5he council, called a special meetin,
ate Monday afternoon.
Nearly all of the prominent manu-
facturers of the city and many promin
ant citizens were present at the meet
ng to urge the building up of prop
srly equipped fire department. Form
sr President z. g. Simmons of the com
addressed the council AM
spoke of the certain growth of the cit1
ind the demand for more modern
equipment of the fire department. H,
poke of the need of suction pump ant
declared that such a pump would be f;
necessity even after the new waite
olant was completed and ready for use
he spoke of the need Of better fire pro
lection on the west side of the city
md urged the immediate opening o,
he Grand avenue fire station.
His suggestions brought with then
consideration Of the coming o.
Charles w. Nash, the new executive
lead of the Nash Motors Company
which recently purchased the Jeffery
liant. Mr.. Simmons paid high tribute
o Mr.. Nash as a man and as a manu-
'acturer and declared that his coming
@ Kenosha was one Of the big features
# a new and greater Kenosha. He
declared that it was the duty of Keno
ha as municipality to keep pace with
he upbuilding of the great industries
which have made the city famous. He
Urged that right now Kenosha prepare
o be real part of this great
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