| Show PLACE LACE FIRE HYDRANTS throughout TOWN the decrease in insurance rates will more than pay the expense to io the residents of installing from the instructions given the local a agents ants in bountiful by tire fire insurance underwriters to reduce the insurance rate where the fire hose will reach it seems that the efficiency of our little bunch of volunteer fire fighters has bas caused some of tho the companies to place great confidence in them there are a number of places in the more thickly populated districts of bountiful city where a stand pipe with a regulation coupling like that provided at the stoker school could be in stalled yet at present the city administration is not financially able to have it done there would be no objection however on the part of the city council to the resi residents dentt in the different parts of town where these pipes could be attached to the mains clubbing to together 1 ether and putting iu in one for their protection indeed from the standpoint of economy it would be to their great advantage 0 la in most cases the homes are am amply p ay covered by insurance and with a hydrant within feet of a home the rate of that insurance would be lessened a less amount of in aurance could be earned carried and last bait budnot E least t fh the art protection ee tio n that it would be to the surrounding property is of great value there is more or less worry of fire on nn the minds of all resi residence cence owners Mrie ns more especially those who aie renting 1 thern hem to ien ints often there are pictures pic turo s keep keel sakes and I 1 pers apers of ab r L value in aur ou r homes aich m insurance cannot cover 3 et with the possibility or of saving as it is by a fire hydrant near it makes the coat rf of putting one in a mere inere t title some ridiculous hi have ave remarked that a residence off ff main alain street would burn down before the hose cart arrived those very persons seem to forget that their wagon if they own one could legally be confiscated by the fire chief and from the back of it two firemen could pull the cart as fast as the horse or horses might run then too the ampara and the livery barn are practically under the same root roof so that there is no ground for objection there the cost of tho the stand pipe would amount to in the neighborhood of A number of the councilmen have expressed thenis themselves elves as being willing to have bave the city water department attach any such hydrant to the mains at the cites expense in a number of cases from lour to ten homes could be reached from one hydrant dy drant for instance it if one were installed at the corner south of J J holbrooks residence ten or twelve houses could be covered from it the cost for each party therefore would run from fifty cents to in III a great many cases the reduction in the insurance rate would more than install the stand pipe these could be in a box below ground and the covers locked with the same kind of lock the key of which would be in the hose cart box the public ought to think seriously of this thing and neigh jabors ebors get together together and protect themselves against a possible burnout burn out |
