MISSOURI STATE FIREMEN’S ASSOCIATION.
The secretary’s report of the Missouri State Firemen's Association states that the receipts for the past year, with a balance of $59.88 carried forward from the year preceding, amounted to $680.28, and the expenditures to precisely the same amount. Four fire departments, those of St. Charles, Moberly, Chilllcothe, and Hamilton, and one veteran association, that of Clinton, Mo., had joined the association. One city of the third class, Clinton, has provided a small but adequate pension fund for its firemen. Others should follow its example, and all the more now, since, during the past year quite a numberof changes have been made in the southwestern part of the state. The volunteer system has been abolished and small departments composed entirely of paid men have been established, who are in almost every instance poorly and inadequately paid. These will require some provision in their old age, and now is the time to begin to make preparations for doing so. Wherefore, the association, instead of being ready to disband, is more than ever a necessity. Before ten years, there will be fifty fire departments in Missouri that will need a fund for disabled firemen.
The secretary’s report of the Missouri State Firemen's Association states that the receipts for the past year, with a balance of $59.88 carried forward from the year preceding, amounted to $680.28, and the expenditures to precisely the same amount. Four fire departments, those of St. Charles, Moberly, Chilllcothe, and Hamilton, and one veteran association, that of Clinton, Mo., had joined the association. One city of the third class, Clinton, has provided a small but adequate pension fund for its firemen. Others should follow its example, and all the more now, since, during the past year quite a numberof changes have been made in the southwestern part of the state. The volunteer system has been abolished and small departments composed entirely of paid men have been established, who are in almost every instance poorly and inadequately paid. These will require some provision in their old age, and now is the time to begin to make preparations for doing so. Wherefore, the association, instead of being ready to disband, is more than ever a necessity. Before ten years, there will be fifty fire departments in Missouri that will need a fund for disabled firemen.
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