Newark Firemen Ask for Raise

Newark Firemen Ask for Raise

A new salary schedule for firemen has been presented to the department of public safety at Newark by a committee made up of representatives from the fire department. Advances of from $100 to $300 a year are requested in the schedule. The increases proposed are as follows: first year men, from $1,800 to $1,900; second year men $1,900 to $2,000; third year, $1,900 to $2,100; fourth year, $2,000 to 2,300. The increase for superior officers is $300, the same as that for the fourth year men. The present salaries of the superior officers are as follows: fire captains, $2,600; battalion chiefs, $3,400; deputy chiefs, $4,400, and chiefs, $5,400. There are, at present, 735 men in the fire department receiving $2,000 a year or more, forty-six $1,900, thirty-one $1,800 and a number of linemen, telegraph operators and others connected with the fire department who will be affected by the proposed salary increase.

Engineer Schwanhausser, Worthington Pump Corp., Honored—William Scluvanhausser. chief engineer of the Worthington Pump & Machinery Corporation, was guest of honor at a dinner given recently by officials of the corporation in honor of his seventieth birthday and to mark the fortieth year of his continuous service with that organization.