Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-10-20
Visions of a Greater Camden
With Wildwood and Other
Resorts as Suburbs
New Delaware River Bridge Will Start Wonderful Develop
ment for South Jersey

$4.23 last year, Camden's was but $1.O4.
! A fireman had expressed the fear
that if it continued there would be no
use for them, but the chief declared
! that the city would be willing to pay
them for the protection anyhow.
Turning to Mr.. Armstrong, he said in
the time taken to send in an alarm OF
fire in Philadelphia, Camden's firemen
are on the scene for action, so far ad-
vanced is the Camden call system.
Chief Kelly alluded to his talking
before the school children and of its
beneficial effect in cutting down false
alarms greatly in the last year. 1t has
| impressed the youngsters with the
necessity for not bringing firemen into
service just to see the apparatus go by
and better, it has made the youngsters
it's "lieutenants."
He spoke of an impending ordinance
that will give the Fire Chief some
needed powers in connection with fire
prevention. So far as the electrical
chief is concerned he is in position to
give effective service, since where reg
ulations are not in accordance with
the law, he has authority to cut off
electricity, but the Fire Chief, who
seeks to eliminate hazards, has no
power to enforce regulations.
In New York there is law where,
when it is shown hazards have not
been removed after suitable warning,
those responsible must pay for the ex-
pense of extinguishing the blaze. If
it involves other persons properties
the loss must be met by the negligent
one.
Chief Carter, after stating he has
been in the service twenty-five years, |
and has been chief seven of those |
years, said that there is virtually no |
trouble with the large manufacturers; |
that when they are reminded of haz-
ards they are removed and suggestions
are gladly received. 1t is the small
business places where he meets with
most trouble, particularly those who
have a propensity to throw rubbish
down a trap door into cellar, where
it accumulates and is always menace.
Under present circumstances fire haz-
ards are even more pronounced than
ever, since there are the garages with
oil and gasoline and other features
about which the former generation
knew little or nothing. Just what it
means to remove hazards he empha-
sized by recalling the old Market fire
on Federal street on May 13, 1900. :
That obtained its impetus by way of ;
sparks from one burning building fall
ing into a yard where there was a :
large quantity of excelsior which sent
sparks through the neighborhood and
spread the flames. 1t was the same
in the great Atlanta fire, where burn
ing debris scattered all over the city
and made so many fires that the fire.
men were unable to reach them.
Chief Carter sought the cooperation
of the Chamber and of all persons
who have a proper conception of the
constant menace in fires by reason Of
pure carelessness. He and his fellow
firemen were presented to the assem-
blage and they were given a mighty
good hand.
Then the school children sang a fire
song while others recited some appro-
pirate lines, the affair winding up with
song led by Leroy Goodwin, which
was all about Uncle Peter and his
whiskers and the result of their COM
ing in contact with a candle flame at
the charch's Christmas entertainment.
1t was amusing though effective and
everybody enjoyed it.-Camden Post
Telegram.