Show tho the firs fire EDITOR JOURNAL tempora tempera et ct nos tur in n illis the changes in the city fire department pa part ment will be and are am welcomed 03 by a mafoi majority ity of the taxpayers as without TI phout materially increasing the expenditure a much greater degree of efficiency will be obtained in the past last twenty or thirty men in tile the apartment department have been used to pull the apparatus to fires these are arc now dispensed with and the labor will hereafter be performed by horses the proposed addition to the engine anrine 0 house will provide ample room for the team and appliances ances and will Q save much value able time in starting to fires it now becomes absolutely ab sol necessary to employ a man mail to care fur for abill and drive the team and to clean repair when practicable and keep the engines in perfect readiness for immediate service tho the question appointing a man as city jailor and requiring him to feed groom and bitch up till the team and attend to not receive a moments moment consideration 0 i some of the many duties would necessarily be slighted and none of them will admit of negligence the jailors jailers jai lors first duty is to attend to prisoners the foremans firemans fi remans is to attend to the fire fighting ca 0 equipments the duties are sure to clash and the ali slightest 0 irli teat ne neglect 9 elect lect to either would be dangerous that there is economy in uniting tile the two employments is is I 1 a gratis dictum the cay and county mav may unite on one jailor as they have hake in the past in that event the expense would be jer year for jailor and a reasonable compensation for a fireman say WO or 4 asoo in all on the other hand should they unite them a competent r nan man will require at least GOO and as he will avill have do time to train or even exercise the team a driver must be appointed and if chosen from the department there must be a man to fill his hie place there is as it is small enough now should ix men of the new department fail to respond to I 1 an alarm alarin the remaining C six eix could hardly work the apparatus A driver will as a matter of fou course arse e expect to be paid for driving in and trained tra training iniD 0 the team every ever day as it should be is a fair and not unreasonable compensation for it a as it will require at least two hours of his time lime each lay day tile the idea that any one will do this and do it properly without pay is frivolous fm frix olous this would require an all expenditure of saso I 1 SO with an impaired efficiency in both places as a against 0 dinst tile the same amount with nn an a all 11 around and more especially y in the fire where the I 1 or the lea least 8 t delay will at some time came greatly increased loss of property and per pei hapa of life avon 1 1 ven though the lie expense were 0 greater it would li a mistake to more than over ba balance 12 nee tile the good done in adding a team and ii at building 0 to the department by b hampering its usefulness for want ra tit of a i ann ilia n to attend to it an AD M |