Will Buy $95,000 Worth of New Fire Apparatus
Mayor Peters, of Boston, Mass., approved contracts for $95,000 worth of new fire motor apparatus recently. The company winning the bid will be awarded all such contracts in the future, a commission of experts created by the Mayor deciding that its apparatus is best suited to Boston's needs. Nine pieces of apparatus will thus be added to the department’s rolling stock, and increase by several degrees its present percentage of 55 in motorization. If Commissioner Murphy’s plan of spending $250,000 annually for motorization is followed, the entire department should be motorized in five years. Little new apparatus has been added since the war, and the $106,984.10 appropriated in last year’s budget remains unspent. With the sum in this year’s budget for the purpose, added to the foregoing, Mr. Murphy will have $230,000 to spend for new apparatus. Recently 114 men were appointed members of the Boston hire Depaitment at $1,100 salary.
Watertown, Mass., has fixed the salary of the chief at $1,875; captain, $1,585 and that of the 20 permanent men at $1,400. The eight call men receive $150 each, yearly. VVatertown has voted to buy a motor triple combination truck instead of trying to repair the 48-year-old steamer.
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