New Britain herald., 1916-03-04
RINGING THE FIRE DEPART
 MENT UP TO DATE.

BRINGING THE FIRE DEPART M NI11NT UP TO DATE.
 @ New Britain is no longer a town;
 x has reached mans estate-a full 2 I ged city. No better evidence of 8 nses required to promote it's va
 M bus activities for the fiscal year. @le board of finance and taxation is #w busily engaged in considering 8 csc items, is attempting to trim off #e rough edges, to do away with the Unnecessary, to let remain only the Sod And in this work there has
 A Aen# submitted to the board a plan KIT putting the fire department of Mew Britain on permanent basis, to Fling it up to that level of efficiency \ nanded by a city of nearly sixty
 #ousand population, to break away &om antiquated methods and join the &st number of municipalities #roughout the nation that have #ready attained somewhere near per #ction To do this will be no difficult Ssk for New Britain, because the #.e department here has been grad #it a little attention and the desired Msults will be easily accomplished. It S@ a y1oattar of ayno6ieu ii yoaopc ae doing today of something which Nould not be put off until tomorrow M the cry of economy is raised be- M use of the largest budget of ex- Ssnses the city has been asked to con- 8Cler, the fire department should not 8 made suffer. It should have the &ght of way over many other insti- M lions because it means a protection N life and property. There are her available places where the \ 8,uning knife can be applied with &oper dexterity and the rate of taxa Non materially and judiciously les Nned.
 M In yesterdays Herald there ap- #eared q masterful array of facts and Mgures showing how the fire depart Bent could be thoroughly motorized
 End put on a permanent basis through Mle expenditure of comparatively N Nsignificant sum. It can be accom- @ished by the spending of less than Mn thousand dollars over and above M1e expenses required to run the de-
 Martment last year, As this work will
 Naye to be done sooner or later, and KS it can be accomplished with less Expense this year than next, or the Mvs- after, it would seem good policy 8 install the necessary apparatus and
 Flake way for the additional men tc
 #f the horse-drawn vehicle is rapidly Massing, except for cases of emer- Scncy, as is the time when a city vii Slffer the inconvenience and unsatis 3actory methods attendant upon the Scal-r1an system" The old volun Meer fire departments were supplantec hen the horses were pressed into @ervice and trained to the exigencie: @f alarm The horses must go by tht Boards as cities grow and expand and Meca use of the fewer men necessary
 Np do duty with the motor apparatus She call men must be eventually abol #shed as relics of a by-gone day. | # to be hoped that the board O &nance and taxation will ponder Ions M nd earnestly over the data that ha: Been presented by the safety board il @egard to this question, that th' Mnmerous advantages of this newe. 8nethod of conducting the fire depart #nent will commend themselves to tn 8alembers of the board and that the. #silI see fit to sanction the appropriso @ion asked. The one salient fac 8about the whole thing is, when moto Angines are standing in the station b<ScY-~d not eat; horses do.
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