FIRE NEWS OF THE WEEK
Special correspondence of FIRE AND WATER ENGINEERING
The new firetug at Milwaukee, Wis., will be called the Manitowoc.
The mayor of Baltimore favors increasing the pay of the city’s firemen.
James Hargan succeeds J. A. Zerck as chief of the Madison, Ind., fire department.
The Oak Park volunteer fire company of Sacramento, Cal., has C. A. Fical as its chief.
纽约州马黑德的前酋长爱德华·迈尔斯（Village Clerk Edward Myers）最近在那里被杀。
A dropped match caused a fire at Penn’s Manor, Pa., which destroyed all the outbuildings of the Robbins’ farm.
The fire department of Aberdeen, Wash., whose chief is C. Koehler, has just celebrated its fifteenth anniversary.
After an interval of six years, the firemen of Ida Grove, Idaho, gave a benefit dance on the night of November 23.
At Watervliet, N. Y., the politics of a fire department driver are in higher esteem than his qualifications as a fireman.
Along all the lines of the Missouri Pacific Railway company fire brigades are being established bv the corporation.
A fire on Lookout Mountain near Chattanooga, Tenn., destroyed four dwellings. The Lookout Inn barely escaped destruction.
M. Jung, the new fire chief of Random Lake, Wis., is determined there shall be no random work in his department, if he can help it.
The central fire station at Oneonta, N. Y., being of wood is condemned as a probable source of danger to the fire protection of the town.
Nearly thirty years ago the Hershey hose company, ot Muscatine, la., was organised. It was recently merged in the city’s fire department.
焚化厂几乎烧毁了整个洛杉矶伍德本镇。损失为30,000美元。没有火器来抗击火焰。
G. A. Stroman是宾夕法尼亚州约克劳雷尔消防公司（Laurel Fire Company）的最古老的成员。谎言年龄七十七岁，刚刚庆祝了他的金婚礼。
At Joaquin, Tex., where there is no fire protection, a fire of unknown origin destroyed the chief business block in the town. The loss was very heavy.
死亡是在俄亥俄州的代顿宣布的，前酋长威廉·加顿（William Gatton）在爆发时爆发了内战，辞去了联邦军队的入伍。
Children playing with matches caused the burning of the dairy farm buildings of Charles Parker, in Ewing N. J., and a loss of $10,000. There was no fire protection.
The newly organised Wabash shop fire brigade at Peru, Ind., is equipped with a hand hose reel and 500 feet of hose. Its chief is General Foreman J. N. Robertson.
At Rocky Ford, Colo., where is no fire protection, a fire in the American Beet Sugar company’s plant caused a loss of from $300,000 to $400,000. The cause was spontaneous combustion.
Some sacks stuffed between the wall and the chimney of a house at Oakland, Cal., naturally smouldered for some time and then burst into flames. The house was burned down.
霍华德·托尔（Howard Towar）是新泽西州帕萨克（Passaic）的消防部门司机，在着火的途中，由于其中一匹引擎马掉落而被拉出座位。他受伤。
从1月1日至9月30日的九个月中，纽约布鲁克林的火灾警报显示了69个，同期的损失比1904年的损失少于398,584美元。
The next dormitory built at the Norman Institute at Norman Park, near Moultrie, Ga„ should be of stone, brick or concrete. Wood is an unsafe material to employ in the case of an educational institute..
George Rang succeeds A. Schoeberlein as chief of the fire department of Aurora Ill. He has been a fireman for twenty-seven years and obtained a percentage of ninety-eight at his civil service examination.
While one of the employes of the Chicago and Alton Railway company was lighting the lamps in the station at Marshall, Mo., he dropped a lighted match. The fire which resulted caused the burning down of the station.
工人在午餐时，在密苏里州莫兰镇（Moland Township）开始了一场大草原大火。该乡镇的两个部分和一个流动的区域被火焰摧毁，1000吨干草被烧毁了。
At St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 14, the explosion of the gasolene tank of Coriwin H. Spencer’s automobile in his garage in the rear of his home on Washington street, set the garage afire and damaged a touring car $2,000.
The leather trust has not been able to absorb the tannery of the Michigan Leatner company, which was on the point of being sold to that corporation. The building and plant were burned up, with a fully insured loss of $67,000.
A lack of sufficient water presttre prevented the fire department of Athol, Mass., from saving two tenement houses that were on fire. In that part of the city property below the bridge has not adequate fire protection.
Although there was a large crate mill plant at Lake Helen, Fla., the proprietors and the town took no thought as to its fire protection. The result was the owners, E. W. Bond company, suffered a loss of over $50,000.
Mrs. August Scalise was burned to death and her husband severely injured in a fire at their home at North Clarendon, a suburb of Warren, Fa. In starting the kitchen fire she used kerosene oil and it exploded, setting the house afire.
显示可能的燃烧的危险candescent electric bulbs, it may be noticed that recently an Ohio printer dried his rain-wet coat by folding it about an incandescent lamp and, on removing it, a piece, corresponding in outline to the bulb, dropped out of its back.
A firebug has set five fires in the business part of Sarnia, Out., three within three blocks and two within 100 yards of a fire house. Besides these the works of the Durant Dort Carriage company and the Sarnia Hub and Spoke Works were set on fire. The flames in these cases, however, did but little damage.
在俄亥俄州的马丁渡轮上，清晨大火彻底摧毁了河滨桥梁Compa’w's Nlant的所有据称防火的铁和钢结构。引起火的原因是腐烂的。“防火”本来应该在除了提供的任何防火外需要进行AWAV。
The “‘bole of the business section of Trumansburg, N. Y., was nearly sacrificed to the spirit of false economy which has not furnished the village with anv means of fighting fire. An early morning blaze broke out in the Opera House block and caused loss enough to have equipped several fire departments and provide a waterworks plant besides.
Muskogee, I. T.. will be reduced to buying a fire alarm system, instead of keening up its primitive, not to sav crude system of firing off revolvers to arni.se the firemen. The mayor of the town thinks it hi”b time that the custom should cease, since a bullet from one of the revolvers came through the side of a citizen’s house and was stopped by his bed.
At Pittsburg, Pa., the explosion of a moving centre machine in a small show’ room at 1302 Pennsylvania avenue resulted in the injury of about thirty people. The explosion w’as caused by F’e celluloid films in the rotating cylinder igniting from the powerful light close to them. The fire (illicitly communicated to the draperies and ertains, and in a few minutes the room was a hi-ze. The fire itself was extinguished with
the buggy of Battalion Fire Chief Michael Lriel. of Brooklyn, New York while hastening to a small, arly morning fire, collided with a baker’s wagon. He was thrown out and received injuries which may prove fatal. It is said his skull, a leg and an arm were fractured, and that he was seriously injured internally. His driver was also thrown out and dragged bv the frightened horse the full length of a block. He was badly hurt, small loss.
约翰·W·普里斯利（John W.普里斯利（Priestly）以前是日耳曼敦（Germantown）的商人，其工厂被大火摧毁，从那以后，他从公司收集了其他财产的损失，总计约有20万美元。他还从事故公司收取赔偿金，旅行者获得了向他支付的索赔退款，该公司指控欺诈。
At Boston, Mass., through the presence of mind of one of their number, more than 100 persons employed in the Sudbury building, a six-story business structure at Sudbury, Hawkins and Alden street escaped death and got out of the building, though with the greatest difficulty, after the exits bad been cut off by fire and smoke. 1 he firemen also made a number of daring rescues. The damage to the building was heavy. . .
阿拉巴马州伯明翰的一场午夜大火糟糕，该大火摧毁了联邦大楼对面的一家仓库，并毗邻路易曼（Loueman）的百货公司约瑟夫·勒布（Joseph＆Loeb）的百货公司。它威胁要摧毁整个半街区，并确实摧毁了阿拉巴马州便士储蓄银行和人民电话交换的三层楼建筑。消防部门的良好工作挽救了局势；但是损失是肯定的。
At Knoxville, Tenn., an early morning fire destroyed the four-story clothing manufactory of Suttle & Beeler, on Commerce avenue, between Gay and State streets, the five-story building occupied by Broyles, McClelan & Lackey, wholesale agricultural implement, vehicle and seed house, and the International Harvester Co.’s fivestory wholsesale implement and vehicle store. Slight water damage was suffered by several other wholesale drygoods and clothing houses.
在哥伦布,Ga。超过2000的黑尔斯棉花were destroyed, about 1,000 bales badly scorched and several hundred bales damaged by fire which started in property used jointly by Central of Georgia Railway and the Atlantic Compress Co. today. The fire started from a spark from a switch engine about 12:30 p. m. and was under control at 7 o’clock the same evening. The total loss is placed at $150,000; fully insured. The cotton was in an open space near the roundhouse of the Central Railway of Georgia, and the fire, which started from some dried grass set by a locomotive spark, quickly spread to the cotton. A stiff gale of wind made the work of the fire department especially difficult; hut the department succeeded in preventing the spread of the fire to between 16,000 and 17,ocx) bales which were on the ground nearby.
At Bonesteel, S. Dak., two children lost their lives, and many square miles of farm land have been ravaged as a result of a prairie fire raging for two days, threatening for a time to attack Aberdeen, S. Dak., and the newly opened Rosebud Indian reservation lands. Many cattle perished, and a score of farm buildings were burned, in spite of 300 farmers, who kept fighting the flames night and day. A number of schoolhouses are reported burned. John L. Britting’s farm was devastated, and his young daughters were lost. They were at school when the fire swept the region, and were never seen again. Railroad graders at Forbes to the number of 250 fought the fire all night, hut could not hold it. Eighteen men saved Aberdeen by ploughing a fire break four miles long north of the town.
在波士顿。马萨诸塞州，这是一座大型五层砖建筑，用于华盛顿街1285号的大陆储存仓库公司。南端，被夜火毁了。该建筑占据了华盛顿街和沃尔瑟姆街附近的Shawmut Avenue之间的空间。一个宽阔的电梯充当烟道，在大火开始后的几分钟之内，整个建筑物都在火焰中。火花的阵雨危及温德森特的拥挤的房屋区，十几家家庭不得不放弃公寓。四个警报召集了城市各个部分的消防员，并且。尽管由于仓库缺乏入口，该部门受到了残障的困扰，但消防员能够防止火焰对其他建筑物造成巨大破坏。人们认为建筑物的总损失非常重。在被毁灭的建筑物中存储的东西外，还有许多属于演员劳伦斯·巴雷特（Lawrence Barrett）庄园的绘画。 These paintings, it is understood, were to he sold at auction at once and it was estimated that they would bring at least $10,000.
