Report of the Committee on a Paid Fire Department; Made to Common Council, May 5th, 1859 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 Excerpt: ...can be supported at a cost of not over ten thousand dollars per annum more than the old department. The Board of Engineers would return their sincere thanks to the different insurance companies of this city for upholding this department with that liberal and generous spirit that is best known to the citizens of St. Louis. We recommend to your honorable body the passage of an ordinance appropriating $500 for the purchase of hook and ladder apparatus. We suggest a change of the appropriation to put down cisterns, to putting down more fireplugs, and in so doing instruct the Superintendent of Waterworks to put them down at the intersection of every street, and in putting them down, not to attach two plugs within two squares of another on the same pipe, but to attach one plug on the pipe running east and west, and one on the pipe running north and south. An arrangement of this kind will give us a good supply of water for our engines. We would further suggest a change in the openings of the old fire-plugs, from two inches to three inches. All of which is respectfully submitted. Geo. Kyler, P. B. F. E. Henry Almstedt, John Sexton, Davis Moore. Y. Office Of Tire Department, 1 St. Louis, March 1, 1858. /. 'ifSOj The Hon. the City Council of the City of St. Louis: Gentlemen: --In compliance with the 4th section of ordinance No. 3871, establishing and regulating the Fire Department, we beg leave to lay before your honorable body, the following as our report of the condition of the department. The department under the above ordinance should have commenced operations on the 3d Monday in July, 1857, but owing to uncontrolable and unforeseen circumstances, it did not go into operation until the 14th of September, 1857, and then there was but one company ready to come ..