Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-07-12 | Page 32 | Fire Department is Plagued by Meddler

FIRE 0EPM1EIII IS PLAGUED HI HMEI False Alarm and Boys Make the "Laddies" Work Overtime. Over-time. Boys with burning- matches caused threes grass fires Saturday and compelled the lire department to travel' eight or tun miles unnecessarily. The false alarm fiend was also In evidence. The false alarm came In at 10:03 o'clock Saturday night and purported to be over Independent telephone No. 1-145, which Is Installed In the residence of Sirs. 'E. L. Gray, 3C0 East Third South street. Headquarters Head-quarters and Acting Chief Ayland responded re-sponded to the alarm, which satd that there was a lire on Third South street, between Third and Fourth East streets. There was no evidence of a lire and Acting Act-ing Chief -Ayland traced the alarm from the telephone number given to tho Gray residence, but Sirs. Gray declares that If an alarm of lire was sent In over her lelephone she knew nothing of it. Several false alarms have come In recently re-cently and the department Is thoroughly aroused. It is believed that an enemy of the department, hoping lo find It elisor- I ganlzed v Urn removal of Charles T-Vail T-Vail and Byron R. Crosby as chief and 1 assistant ehlcf. is turning in the alarms. If the offender is caught the maximum penalty. 100 days' imprisonment and a fine or ?100 will be meted out to him. The penalty for the second offense Is a line of $500. A real fire occurred at 1:50 this morning. morn-ing. Three small outhouses in the roar of T. J. Jones's residence, 114 G West First South street, caught on fire from an unknown cause and were damaged to the extent of $G5.