FIRE MASTER PORDAGE, EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND.

FIRE MASTER PORDAGE, EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND.

刚刚被任命为​​苏格兰爱丁堡的消防大师的亚瑟·帕达奇（Arthur Pordage）先生与美国城市消防部门负责人的职位相同，虽然是英国消防员，但实际上是苏格兰人，是苏格兰人，出生于邓巴（Dunbar）是哈丁顿郡海岸的一个浇水场所和渔村，在历史悠久的哈斯岩（Hass Rock）旁边，距沃尔特·斯科特爵士（Walter Scott）在他的“马尔米恩（Marmion）的诗歌”中闻名，距道格拉斯（Douglases）的世袭座位坦塔兰（Tantallan）城堡（Tantallan Castle）不远。透明埃罗姆（Erom）他最早的童年时代的福塔奇先生渴望进入伦敦消防队。但是，由于该部门的规则禁止除水手之外的任何人加入它，因此他决心成为水手资格，因此在海上服oo，并在成为一名能力的海员后，进入大都会大都会，作为消防员。当他被任命为汉斯朴次茅斯消防局的校长时，他在伦敦的十到十二个站点，在晋升方面很好英国。在爱丁堡的1-ire大师威尔金斯大师退休后，他被任命为许多有力当地兴趣支持他们的候选人的空缺。1他的办公室是消防部门中最令人垂涎​​的职位之一，因为虽然其要求并不是过于艰苦或严格，但它是相当有偿的，并且由于与爱丁堡市有关的协会而受到赞誉。1 he seventh chief officer in succession to James Braidwood, Mr. Fordage takes back to Scotland, where he first saw the light of day, a variety of experience gained in the London fire department, which it is Braidwood’s glory to have founded, and the reputation of having commanded one of the smartest and best brigades in the South of England.

l*ire Master Fordage began his career at the Bowditch station, which is one of the largest in London, and ended it (so far as the metropolis was concerned) at Watling street where he was assistant officer. He attended in all 5,731 fires, including those at White ley’s, the Alhambra, the large timber fire at Haggerston. the Wood street fire (the largest in London since 1861), and the large oil fire in the Isle of Dogs; at the mexorabie ice-bound blaze in Queen street in December, 1860, he was in charge of the first engine on the spot. In 1884 he met with his only serious accident, a tumble from third floor to basement, at a sugar refinery in Bow, which might easily have resulted more seriously than it did. Mr. Pordage’s services were frequently in requisition when distinguished foreigners inspected the working of the department, as he is an excellent linguist, and he was publicly thanked for them on the occasion of a visit of Belgian Burgomasters in 1888. Mr. Fordage received the appointment of superintendent of the Portsmouth fire brigade in the summer of 1891, and devoted himself with energy and ability to the work of placing the department in that important seaport upon a satisfactory basis. He has left it in a condition which reflects credit, not only upon himself, but upon the watch committee and the chief constable, who have at all times supported Mr. Fordage in obtaining from the corporation every necessary' improvement.