SOME MASSACHUSETTS FIRE NOTES.

SOME MASSACHUSETTS FIRE NOTES.

[Specially written for FIRE AND WATER.]

c . Hogdon已当选的沃尔瑟姆fire department for the next three years.—The Fall River aldermen still persist in their refusal to raise Chief Davol’s salary $500.—Gardner’s Firemen’s Relief Association has had no calls for help from members this year and has nearly $1,000 in the treasury.—Winchester had twenty-nine alarms of fire last year. The erection of a new central station is recommended. —Naturally enough Chief Macy, of Marblehead, does not think favorably of the board of health's proposition that the dump carts be operated by permanent men of the fire department. Firemen are not scavengers.—Swampscott is moving in the direction of the purchase of a new combination hose and chemical engine.—Methuen would like to be annexed to Lawrence, so as to secure better fire protection.— Peabody engineers hope for an increased appropriation this year.— Danvers asks fora new second-class steamer and improvements in the fire alarm system. — The firemen of Lowell think the city council should not control the fire department.—Holyoke has a new American lure Engine Company’s steamer, which has a capacity of about 700 gallons a minute, is equipped with all modern improvements, and weighs about 7,500 pounds.— Suffield has organized a fire department with two companies of fifteen men each, and two hose carts, each with 600 feet of hose.— Patrick Clarke, John Glynn, and John E. Doyle, of Watertown, have been sent to the Massachusetts reformatory for setting fires. They were call members of the Watertown fire department.—Cambridge will spend $80,000 on its fire department this year.—Five call men have been added to the Newton fire department.—Willimansett may petition the legislature for annexation to Holyoke, with a view to better fire protection.—Lynn asks for equipment for its new fire station,two more permanent men, two new second-class engines, and an appropriation of $100,000 instead of the $79,078 25 of last year.—Rockland had twenty-three alarms last year, of which four were false. The total fire loss was$14,713—$9,437 on buildings, and $5,276 on contents.—Chief Webber,of Boston, has just celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of his wedding.-Fitchburg has recently organized Warren engine company. — There are some old firemen in this State. Assistant Chief Regan,of Boston,has been a member of that city’s department for forty-three years; Nathaniel Bishop.call man on truck company 4,of Lowell,has been a fireman forty-two years,and Chief Hosmer. of Lowell, forty-one years.— Chief Jones, of the Adams fire department,is about to retire He has been sixteen years in tl.e service, and chief for three years. — During 1896 the Salem Firemen’s Reliet Association paid out $1,549—Danvers asks for a new second class steamer, a hose wagon, and improvements in its alarm system.—The mayor of Waltham, on behalf of its citizens, has written a highly complimentary letter to Engineer Davis for his gallantry in securing control of the fire engine horses, while rushing drivetless down the public street with the engine.as told in FIRE AND WATER of February 20. Engineer Davis was terribly injured at the time.