Show FiREs FiRE lOSS SMALL FOR YEAR 1904 Chief Bywater and His Men Have Marked Success RECORD ECORD FOR FIFTEEN YEARS GREAT PALLING OFF IN AMOUNT OP OF I Just as tile the old year ear went out and the new year ear came in Chief Chie Bywater of the fire deportment his yearly report which was promptly mailed to the NatIonal BOard or of Fh Fire Underwriters in New York and the Pt Pa chic Board in San Francisco and which is at present nt aU TP ready l for tor the thema thema ma or and the city ity council The year ear j Chief W H Bywater 1904 1901 shows in the report to have hae been the busiest in fifteen years a total of alarms having been rung in Yet notwithstanding this the aggregate loss was only while the year 1903 shows a loss of In the matter of expenditures also the department has saved the city con considerable considerable money there being a decrease of in comparison with the year ear before Under the supervision of Chief B By water vater something which w was s never done before was aCcomplished an exact ne ac Count was kept kep or of the water pressure for each day in the year tabulating I the lowest and highest pressure reo Ac According cording to the insurance companies eighty pounds is amply sufficient at atall atall all times to protect the cit city The re report report port shows that only on two days doys did the pre aure fall faU below this point land the a average was high above It rang ing close to ninety Total Loss Is Small The estimated values or Of the build buildings buildings ings and contents to which the depart mont ment was called is the in insurance inSurance Involved was in insurance Insurance paid 3 actual losses lusses e losses The n number or of miles traveled ht hi go going lug ing to the fires was miles number or of feet of hose stretched U time in service hours and 13 minutes The cost of s laries to the dl depart mont nt was and the other ex expenses amounted to A of the numbers or of alarms and the losses for the last tiC fifteen teen years is as I No o or of Year Alarms Losses 1 50 1191 ll IJ SO 00 imi r 34 moss t fl J isas 0 J u uJ I J a 41 1 ise it 16 1 81 ss S I ls ID i tH I 19 1 35 1 I i 1 3 43 iesi ii iii t V n i JS I Is 46 l 1104 74 1 Total l W til 1 |