DISCIPLINE IN THE EIRE DEPARTMENT AND HOW TO MAINTAIN IT.

DISCIPLINE IN THE EIRE DEPARTMENT AND HOW TO MAINTAIN IT.

In a recent address delivered in Boston before the Massachusetts Chiefs’ club, Capt. Brophy gave an historical retrospect of the origin of fire societies or companies in the country and described their methods, showing that discipline in these days was conspicuously absent; nor was it present when the suction engine displaced the bucket brigade, or even when volunteer fire organisations, with steam fire engines, were first established in the larger cities and towns. The introduction of the steamer, however, by causing a reduction in the number of helpers needed at fires, was the beginning of the establishment of paid departments, although not by any means doing away with volunteer departments. The question, therefore, arises as to how discipline shall be maintained in the fire department of today, and of what sort shall it be. It certainly cannot be that of the army and navy, since the members of the volunteer departments are subject to the orders of their superiors only from the time that the fire alarm bell rings till the time that the roll is called on their return to their station.

即使在严格milita永久的男人ry discipline in certain details is impossible, such, for instance, as standing up or at attention and saluting their superior officers whenever the latter enter the station or are met by their men. The discipline that should be maintained in fire departments is that which is kept up in large mercantile and manufacturing establishments.