THE FIRE DEPARTMENTS.
The city council of Pittsburgh, Pa., has passed the ordinance providing for a fire boat, water tower, additional men and apparatus for the fire bureau, and the order providing for a chief engineer and four assistants instead of a superintendent and assistants. Another forward move. At latest accounts no one had been appointed to succeed Chief Evans, who recently resigned, as superintendent of the bureau of fire, and the salary doesn’t seem to tempt the men who have been named as most likely to have the place offered to them. It is to be hoped that whoever it may be he will be someone who can take in and appreciate the lessons in fire fighting of the past quarter of a century.
Philadelphia’s fire loss for the first six months of 1891 is as great as for the whole preceding year. The loss in 1890 reached $1,442,943, while for the six months of 1891 ending June 30 the tabulated loss was $1,395,837. As in 1890 the fires of the first half year were little more than one-third of the whole, the prospects for 1891 are a trifle gloomy.
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