Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-11-25
PAID FIRE DEPT.
TAKES CONTROL NEXT
WEDNESDAY NIGHT
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Directors OF the Department OF Pub
lie Safety win meet this afternoon and
confer with representatives Of sew
cral OF the volunteer companies rela-
tive to taking over their properties
land equipment. The plan is to have
the companies deliver the deeds to
their real estate to some trust COM
lpany to be held in escrew until the
city is prepared to pay for them with
the money to be derived from the
bond issue just authorized by City
Council. All of the companies have
agreed to this plan. City Solicitor
Reuben Satterthwaite, Jr, will be al
the meeting today and 1t is very
probable that formal transfer of
che deeds will then be made The
city has already acquired and Is In
possession of one of the fire houses
and that Is the Friendship Company's
former home. II is the desire OF the
directors to get possession of all OF
them now so they can prepare the
Iquarters for the new firemen who will
1--we there and who will move In next
"Wednesday evening. (.
The assignment of the individual
linen 10 the several companies will be
made by Fire Chief William j. Lutz,
lassisted by his deputy and assistants.
There will be twelve men To COM
pany with captain and a lieutenant.
I'm command. The apparatus also win
b. divided hy the fire chief and as
sistants who will assign IL to the diff
ferent fire houses. These assignments
will not be permanent as the fire
chief may order one crew from one
house to another at any time he sees
NJ. The complete list of all the COM
pant will he ready within day or
two.
Tac safety directors yesterday ar-
pointed % lieuten1nts. II chauffeurs
and 81 additional fremen. There re-
main l2 engineers TO he selected and
ihout ten or fifteen fremen. The di-
rsctors are not just sure as yet how
many men will be needed and rather
than over step the mark in theN ap-
pointments they have allowed them
selves some lee way and win make
any selections found necessary after
he company assignments have beer
: completed.
The mon sci 'Ctcd as licutenants viii
serve probationary period of 60 days
At the expiration of that time tn,
safety directors viii endeavor to picl
from their number twelve men whom
, hoy believe TO he qualified for th'
office of captain. The other twelve vii
A continue as licuten1nts. The engineers
, may bc named today n the board re
Ceives the recommendations Of the in
structors who have been training tn
candidates for this place during thi
, week.
i Following is the list of officers an,
. men whose appointment has Just bee
announced:
lieutenants.
n &. g.. Cannon, !. NJ. Townsend. !
4 \. liammerer. 4. NJ. Lowe, II. 7
- Ilanlcy. q. w. McContgle, J. II
10 Doyle. J. i. McGowan, j. T.. Nc
q Gowan, VIM. Neeson. ID. ]. Byrn,
y Alexander McGowan. r. Feeley, W
o. =. Riddings, G. r. Morgan, j.
s McGinlcy. @. NJ. Johnson. II. l
n llsmmerer. +. Sweeney, j.. j
'- Thomas. Jr. R. l.. Chadwick, ID. I
.c Bovis, Jr., L. @. Townsend, Charlie
r. barnes.
- Chauffcurs.
:, W s. Hamilton. James John
Il w. J. Quillivan. II. Maxwell. A. :
- Gilbert, +. Glasco. j. Barr. J. Hale,
=, J W. McComas. y. Hayes, +. Ma
!. guire. g. J. Wallace. w. Counor. v
T. Il. Denncy, II. u. Gibason. g. NJ. Co
n lison, II. u. Lux.
Firemen.
' e. r. Snyder, J. \. Hammere
y J. w. Marine. T. Hamilton, Ir..
~ w Fox, J. J. Brown, ]. Spath, il
" j. \. Lenhof, F. y. Phelan. T. NJ,
-. kelvey, ID Foster. y. l.. Houc
: H. l.. Russell. ID. +. O'Donnell. ].
MCGOWAN. V. II. Ainsworth. II. y
DeCray. T. 7. White. A. McGowa
- J. Macklin. +. Plummer. II. Clar
- J. a. Fuhrman, +. Toner. d.
- Bevis. Jr.. T.. II. Rambo, ]. T. Hind
ley. Wisnowsld. L. r. weatherb
y. l.. Ray. W. J. Barcus, r. II. Gri
ham, NJ. J. kirlin, J. a. Amyx.
|. NJ Cunningham, +. +. LaPort
James Burns. ]. J. Burns,
nv Sweeney, II. G. Campbell. w.
Ray. +. Hopkins. II. Mellor, c.
or Cannon. T.. \. Feaster. II. ]. Fiscl
= er. T. NJ. Lowe. J. Meaney. A.
a rolmic, ThoWas Fecley. r. ]. Co
il. nor. l.. X. Baker. F. ]. c. sche
r. u. j. Wallace. r. /. Jacobs. j
sc lledley. T. II. Barcus. w. T.. Harl
or ins. J II. King. c. G. Clegg, +.
~ Windsor. J. A. Fallers, J. w. G.
rd lespie. ] J. Cassidy. J, NJ. Tow
rk send. W. J. Montgomery. r. l.. Cha
+. wick.