新英格兰消防笔记。

新英格兰消防笔记。

Correspondence of FIRE & WATER ENGINEERING.

消防队长俱乐部每月在波士顿的塞西尔酒店举行了每月的会议，主席福尔里弗的首席W. C. Davoll。交易不多。一个项目是任命一个委员会起草有关职位任期的法案，供立法机关介绍。该法案受到酋长Davoll，Harry L. Marston（Brockton），F。L. Wadden（Marblehead），前酋长Y. C. Fiske（Ashland）（Ashland），弗雷德专员的青睐。切尼（Haverhill）。据说新立法机关的许多成员都宣布自己是酋长保护立法的青睐，因此有一种法案可能通过的想法。首席F. L. Wadden。马布尔黑德（Marblehead）和皮博迪（Peabody）的杰西·巴雷特（Jesse F.T码头在一栋三层楼的木制建筑中，有必要从大西洋大道（Atlantic Avenue）铺设450英尺的软管。消防船投掷了强大的溪流，并完成了大部分工作。-波特兰的阿格斯。 Me., is ready to bet that Fire Commissioner Wells will not be deposed.—At the annual meeting of the Call Firemen’s association of Somerville. Sewall M. Rich was elected president; Melvin F. Underwood, vicepresident; William Stearns, treasurer; and James L. Butler, secretary. John B. Rufer, the retiring president, in his address alluded to the intimate and cordial relations that existed between the association and the city fire department due to the “cordial and efficient action” of Chief J. R. Hopkins, a former president of the association, who (as one speaker pointed out) “has continued his active service in the most energetic and faithful manner from the date of the first organisation of the city’s government up to the present day. Chief Hopkins (it was added) has been always active, always faithful, always in the exercise of sound judgment in circumstances where quick and decisive efforts are required. He is no less efficient today than he was thirty-five years ago, while he has won and holds the confidence and respect of all.”—The death of Benjamin Hadley, the oldest veteran fireman of Somerville, is recorded. He was ninety years old and the last survivor of Mystic engine company No. 6, formerly of Charlestown.— John D. Milne has been unanimously elected as chief of the Norwalk, Conn., fire department. He was a member of the Rockville fire department for twenty years and has been eight years a member of the Norwalk department as one of the Pioneer hook and ladder company and then of that city’s fire police, of which he was captain for two years.—Plainville, Conn., fire company has re-elected M. A. Norton chief.—Walter H. Pierce has been chosen chief engineer of the Arlington, Mass., fire dapartment. He is a prominent business man of the city and thoroughly interested in everything connected with the fireservice and firemen.—During 1907, Danbury, Conn., had 114 alarms of fire.—The permanent firemen of Cambridge, Mass., are now allowed one day off in every six—a real boon.—Chief Bunker, of Cambridge, in order to make the fire department independent of politics, suggests that its control be taken away from the city gov eminent and placed in the hands of the chief or the chief and mayor. lie also asks for an increase in the number of the permanent men and a decrease in that of the call men.—Pittsfield, Mass, had the worst fire-loss in 1907 in several years.—On Christmas Day the permanent firemen of the Concord, N. H., presented Chief Greene with a handsome pair of fur gloves. The chief has just completed thirteen years as head of the local fire department.—A new hose cart has been ordered and will soon be installed in the Central station on or before February 1.— The permanent firemen of the Melrose, Mass., will now have one day off in every eight instead of in every ten.