Norwich bulletin., 1920-09-16
DANIELSON

Some members Of the fire department. ! much disturbed over recent difficulties n operating the big motor bumper, were ,oing so far on Wednesday, as to say hat they would like an investigation that would clear up the facts of somewhat mysterious nature that surround the case. Twice recently Nie big machine has failed to respond normally when called upon to do so. The first was when a telephone call came in, late in August, for ! the fire at the Kinball farm in the town 1 of Brooklyn That afternoon the machine | would not start at all
 Tuesday night, following suggestion | made at a meeting of the warden and 1 court of burgesses, surprise test call | was pulled in from Box 36. corner of North and North Main streets and the big machine after pulling out of the cen t-al station and lin1ping along part of the distance to the fire call location. stall ed and had to be lowed in. Inspection of the machine immediately after it's return to the fire station show ed among other things that the gas sup ply pipe running from the tank down to the carburetor had been almost entire ly closed by use of the shutdf and that a brush in the magneto was missing.
 There was much discussion during Wednesday as to how these things may have happened to the machine. How Chief A P Woodward feels about the matter was indicated by his statemene that he proposed to arrange immediately for the locking of the apparatus room and furnishing keys thereto only to the motor bumper driver and himself
 Animated discussion of the troubles of the fine new piece of fire apparatus, as good and modern machine as there is in the state, resolves itself into two propositions. First, that the mechani- cle difficulties with the truck are due to careless or incompetent handling; sec ond, that some malicious person or per sons, with 8 motive that cannot be al present determined, is deliberately tam perirg with the truck and using a ] knowledge of motor vehicles and their l working parts that is not possessed by 1 the average person.
 Winthrop E. Short, one of the driver! and an expert automobile mechanic sai6 | Wednesday afternoon that he started tht 1 truck at noon on Tuesday, merely to tes 1 1t out and that it was Wori1iEg splendidly | Late in the evening when the test cal came in the machine would not operatt properly, and no one is supposed to have tempered with it in the meantime
 MT. Short said that his search to 10 cate the trouble revealed that the shut Oil ou tHc gas IeSu plpe HAu been ueaT Iy closed and that a brush from the in ternor of the magneto was missing. T. get at the brush the top of the magnet has to be taken off, MT. Short said l Search in the drip pan, which is closei tight and will hold whatever drops int it from the machine, did not result il the finding of the nagneto brush. whicl has mysteriously disappeared.
 On the. occasion of the kimban barr fire, Mir. Shorts search for trouble wit the truck showed that the wires on tn magneto had been changed and that tn alteration caused the motor to fire ou of the regular firing order.
 All of the drivers of the truck are cor. petent and responsible man. Tha+ generally conceded by everyone fannilia 1 with Darielson and it's people. As..nu.r of the fire department are unit in nra s ing the painstaking care with which t. l drivers look after the big piece of ap paratus, which is always as spic an span in appearance as when 1t cam from the factory.
 That the big machine should develo motor trouble. due 10 such causes as ar herein set forth, is proving. a puzzIin and irritating matter to members of tn fire department as well as to many otl1 CT citizens. all realizing what might har pen in case of an emergency.
 The majority view here seems to b that none of the men authorized to car for the bumper would be so absent-rnint ed or so careless as to shut off the ga and leave it so or % to the trouble t take off the top of the maeneto, take oJ a brush and put I-: top of the magnet back on again, merely for the purpo- of working about tho machine Publ opinion generally seems to be that U trucks troubles are due totampering b some person or persons with a seer,
 motive.
 DnnieIson relatives were at Moosup Q Wednesday to attend the funeral of Mi. Antonia Maynard, held from her home that place with services at All Hallow church Rev J. E. Mccarthy was cell
 brant of the solemn high mass requiem. with Rev. J. c. Mathieu of Wal regan, deacon, and Rev. Joseph H. Con tois. of Moosup, sub deacon, The service were attended by many relatives ar friends. Burial was in Sacred Hea cemetery, at Wauregan. The beare were Joseph Lague, Henry Berthiaum Rene, Henry. Richard and George Ma nard. L. E Kennedy was the tueral q
 rector
 At the annual meeting of the DanieIst ! Development association the following 0
 
 president Alfred L. Reed secretar treasurer. F. F. storer; trustees, F.
 Storer, D. F. Jette, Kent A. Darbie I ". II. Knowles. Charles A. Tillingha: l 4. L. Reed.
 , This association is the one that ma possible. the locating here of t g Paco Manufacturing company, now a g 3 ing concern in it's new factory on F~urna street. The Development association su :, scribed sufficient funds to purchase a ia II tory site and building under an arrans S ment with the Paco company und 4 which that concern will gradually D = back, with interest. the sum invested = the local men.
 The Paco company's financial stateme
 was declared on Wednesday, by an . ficer of the Development company to
 very satisfactory. In addition came | pleasing news that the concern has jl I taken another order for 300,e00 yards ' the marouisettes that the plant is tuz
 ing out and this with orders alrea
 on hand will keep the mill busy i
 weeks In addition to routine business tra,
 acted at the regular netting of the ";
 den and court of burgesses on Tuesd
 evening the officials discussed the ma
 ner in which some persons have gc
 ahead and started the construction
 dwellings and other buildings witht