Training School for Newark Firemen.

Training School for Newark Firemen.

As president of the Croker National Fire Prevention Company, former Chief Edward F. Croker, of the New York Fire Department, visited Newark last week, with an idea of the company taking charge for three months of the Prospeet street training school. It is planned by the fire board to open the school on or about December 1. President Weber, Commissioner Burke and Secretary Smith, of the board, and Acting Deputy Chief Morgan accompanied Mr. Croker to the Prospect street stable. He inspected the place and made suggestions for the purchase of appliances. The commissioners made tentative arrangements with the former chief to send a representative to Newark. A contract will have to be entered into and executed by the mayor. At the suggestion of Croker, the local fire companies will be rated according to their efficiency in the school of instruction. In this way the men will have an incentive to work hard for first place. Instruction will he given of three "consist in lectures on fire preuse of apparatus. A tower for use of scaling ladders will he erected in the stable yard, and ten ladders will be purchased. Special instruction will be given in righting cellar fires. A gun is also to be purchased for shooting life lines over roofs of tall buildings. "The establishment of such a school is an excellent thing for any department and does not signify that the department is deficient.” said Croker. “It is often found that man will be called upon to use apparatus at a fire when they have never had any experience with it. This is true in all departments, and a training school is to prevent this very situation arising. I consider the Newark department an excellent one, and the training and repair stable in Prospect street is better equipped, as a matter of fact, than the similar institution in New York.”

As president of the Croker National Fire Prevention Company, former Chief Edward F. Croker, of the New York Fire Department, visited Newark last week, with an idea of the company taking charge for three months of the Prospeet street training school. It is planned by the fire board to open the school on or about December 1. President Weber, Commissioner Burke and Secretary Smith, of the board, and Acting Deputy Chief Morgan accompanied Mr. Croker to the Prospect street stable. He inspected the place and made suggestions for the purchase of appliances. The commissioners made tentative arrangements with the former chief to send a representative to Newark. A contract will have to be entered into and executed by the mayor. At the suggestion of Croker, the local fire companies will be rated according to their efficiency in the school of instruction. In this way the men will have an incentive to work hard for first place. Instruction will he given of three "consist in lectures on fire preuse of apparatus. A tower for use of scaling ladders will he erected in the stable yard, and ten ladders will be purchased. Special instruction will be given in righting cellar fires. A gun is also to be purchased for shooting life lines over roofs of tall buildings. "The establishment of such a school is an excellent thing for any department and does not signify that the department is deficient.” said Croker. “It is often found that man will be called upon to use apparatus at a fire when they have never had any experience with it. This is true in all departments, and a training school is to prevent this very situation arising. I consider the Newark department an excellent one, and the training and repair stable in Prospect street is better equipped, as a matter of fact, than the similar institution in New York.”