Show FIRE OFFICIALS SUSPENDED donovan and sullivan get notice I 1 DEVINE PREFERS CHARGES reports to tho the board that tho the assistant chief of tho the Dep department artmen t Is incompetent and should bo be removed sullivan Sulli vart charged with violating rules in his hia management of engine house no 2 tho the consultation between chief devine of the fire department and the board of fire and police commissioners on monday evening last bore fruit yesterday when tile the chief suspended assistant chief I 1 ai A HI donovan and captain P X J sullivan both stationed at the west side department assistant chief donovan was si suspended IS shortly after 10 in the morning lie ila was in tho the ollice office of his superior at the time when chief devine handed him a copy of the charges donovan glanced at the charges care les le isly ay and asked Is that all yes that Is all chief devine an shered aller after which donovan left the chiefs presence drove to house no 2 where vilere lie he divested himself of ills uniform arid and came back up town an hour later captain P J sullivan va was treated to a similar surprise when chief appeared at house no 2 accompanied by AV IL II bywater informed sullivan that lie he had been suspended arid and placed bywater temporal lly in charge of the house CHARGES AGAINST DONOVAN the corn communication mu n leation which chief dovine addle addre wed med to the fire and police hoard board with ie ference to donovans donovant Don su llull ion was a as follows in compliance with rulo 1 ID page 28 rules governing the chief engineer r E beg leave to report that BL 1 I 1 donovan conoran Do noran Assi assistant chief of the depart department meM I 1 Is incompetent to fill hie a position lie ho now nov holds in ili said fald fire department in fil that lie he li ignorant of 0 how low to place men to man the apparatus this disqualification Is specified in rule 3 page 69 under tinder offenses and penalties rules governing the department charge a 2 he thas lias violated rule 4 chapter 1 page 15 rules governing assistant s engineer in that lie he has failed to 10 see that good order and proper discipline among tile the members of the dopart department part ment are maintained charge 3 1 charge that lie he has violated rule IG page 65 chapter r 10 of rules governing the 1 tills this lule as well as the preceding one lie he lias hail violated on oil several occasions but more particularly during the month of june of 0 tile the present year charge 4 1 further charge that for the good of tile the service said M al donovan should be retired front from the department JAMES DEVINE chief Engi engineer nr in addition to tills this communication to the lioard board donovan was fut dished w with I 1 ill a copy ot of t the I 1 le c charges 11 ar 9 e 29 and a notice of suspension AS TO sur rivah captain sullivan was also furnished with a notice of suspension and a copy of tile charges tiled filed avith the board the notice of reads salt lake city cily july 12 1895 I 1 P J sullivan captain engine no 2 salt lake city fire department sir you are arc this day suspended from duty in this department without pay limmi ul n tile the charges appended hereto ler etu a copy colly of which lias has been tiled in fit tile tho office of tho ilia board of fire aall police commissioners tun will turn over to the secretary of the department all city property h jn your YOU possession and take for the same JAMES chief Cli lct engineer the alio charges to which are adlesic adle sid 4 to the board are ajo as follows gentlemen 1 I beg to lo report doport that I 1 have liann thia day from duty in the fire r P J sullivan of engine house no 2 or on the following charges to lo wit 1 while acting in the capacity of captain of oc engine house no 2 lie violated rule IS 18 on page 49 chapter 3 rules rulea the duties of captain 1 I also charge that he has violated rule 2 on page 61 under lead head ot of regular absence the particular violation Is specified as aa follows that on or about may arid and 1835 1895 the said PJ P J sullivan while in charge of 0 said house as captain and rc responsible for tile the whereabouts of his men permitted the two pieces of apparatus then stationed in said house to be left with only two men during meal hours 9 2 I 1 further charge that the goob of 0 the service demands ills his removal from the fire nt JAMES DEVINE chief engineer Ung ineer WHAT THE rules 13 15 arid and 16 which donovan Is charged with violating are as follows rule kule 13 15 NL not ot use obscene immoral disrespectful impudent or other improper language hut but always be re respectful and gentlemanly to superiors sul erious equals and citizens and courte courteous ou a to subordinates rule 16 not neglect refuse or evade any ally duty or fall fail to take notice of any infraction of the rules oro arof or o any conduct or action of any member of the department which he is in a position to see or of any lafaunge lana lan which lie he may hear arid and which may lie be prejudicial to tile the good order welfare vel fare or reputation ot of the department and lie he shall ascertain the true facts arid and conditions in every case to which N ills his attention may lie be called fur for the purpose of acting as a wIt witness icille IS which Kiil liv in is charged irith violating aulds n ads aa always hac in ill or of single company and with company compall 5 not lot less than ons one of liCer engineer Ineer or ae assistant 1 1 stant engineer of steam engines one 1 river driver 1 one arid and a sufficient cum clent number of other men mal to properly per perform forin any ordinarily required duties |