Show Till TilE NEW CHIEF EP OP OF TIlE THE FIRE DEPARTMENT The Tho new chief is not a n young man He lie was ns twenty years ears ago chief chic of OC the tho fire d department of oc Covington K Ky CovIngton Is a z pleasant little city of or fort two forty two thou thousand nd Inhabitants It didn't didn't have that man many people twenty years cars ago when this man manwaR was waR chief chier there lIe He certainly can riot not have ac acquaintance ac- ac with tho the later and better approved methods of fire fighting or with the devices used lJ by fir firemen men And since sinco he Is at least sixty years ears of or a age t there thero would seem chance to hope that ho he can cnn be bo either as active or as lS Informed o as ho he should be bo for Cor the tho position The matter of or politics was allowed to lo stand inthe In tho the wn way of James Devines Devine's confirmation But this man was a soldier of or the tho confederate arm army Com Com- m meat nt nt would seem to be unnecessary We e dont don't propose to add a 3 whit to tho the difficulty difficult of the new man nor to criticise unnecessarily the acts of or Mayor Bransford who Bransford-who who of or cO course tSe Is la not trying to get men In an any branch of or the service But we dont don't see much to commend In Inthe Inthe inthe the selection of ot a no man past sixty who is millar with Salt Lake who has never ne been connected connected con con- d with any fire department for twenty years year and who even then got hI his training in a I. I country town Or Is this Just one ono O of John S S. Bransford's fords ford's Ideas of a coup Tho The councilmen of or the Kearns party part would not let him keep his promise to put Devine at the head of or tho the department Is he making th them m take talo a n. man doubly as n. 3 objectionable to them theme and for Cor the vcr very reasons which they offered In Jn De Devines Devine's s 's case casc Is the mayor making monkeys of or the majority majority majority ma ma- men In tho the council |