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Show CLAIMS SAVING IS MADE BY THE CITY At the meeting of the board of ji-liv commissioners lart evening T. Samuel Browmng. superintendent of I (public safety. i0ou occasion to communicate com-municate his respects lo the fire and the police departments oi which he lis Ihe head, calling attention to the fewer violations of the law Inst yea: limn the vear before and declaring thai the fire department bad bet n Improve 'i in efficiency Citj Recorder George Seaman repotted re-potted the condition of in department, depart-ment, Stating lliut the e.en-e- ol In- oTfice were nearlv n thousand dollars less than in the preceding year. The I recorder stated tbat onlv one deputy I was emplo'o.l ir, a6 n the work. C A Boyd in a written commun-llcatlon, commun-llcatlon, advised ihe commissioners din be would accept the franchise oflered him for the building and operating op-erating of 3 gas plant in the city The petition of propertv owners for Ihe enlargmcnt of tbe sidewalk pavement pave-ment on Washington avenue, between Twenty-second and Twenty-third streets, was referred to the stincrir. - tendent of streets and the petition for the enlargmenl and improvement or i Ballantyne avenue was also given to the Streets superintendent Arganltha Nooi lander 'petitioned the commissioners for $'-" as damages dam-ages for falHu on the pavement at 541 Twenty-second street, and break. j ing her lelt arm In two places. The applicant stated that the sidewalk at tbat point Is very slippery and that if was no fault of hers that she fell The matter was referred to ihe superintendent of finance and the city attorney The reports submitted bv Commissioner Commis-sioner Browning follow Fire Department. "Gentlemen I have the honor to 'submit the annual report of the con-iditiou con-iditiou of the Ogden Fire department depart-ment "The expense of Hie department for the year 191 2 was only S763.G4 'more than in lftll and of this amount I S'Tii 67 more was paid foi salaries .during 1912 than in 1911, owing to j the men in this department lereivlng their salaries on a graded scale Also, Al-so, the city purchased a N'o l' six-! six-! cylinder comhinJllon fire apparatus i at a cost of :,i".on 00 In If ll the! city bought a ladder truck at a cost i of $4700.00. On this item alone the City paid $900.00 more than last year I We also expended on repairs on the! Central station the sum of $417,421 for paint, cemenl etc 'i find that the department at the present time is In much better con- 1 dition to fight fire than it wa3 at, the commencement of last vear Our j motor driven combination cai was put In service October 1. 1912, and for the last three montliR the e. pense of this apparatus was onlv I Sl'i'ei It would have cost (he cit this amount to keep one horse one month, so We csn see the great sav -inq of the power driven apparatus ;i-com ;i-com pared to the horse drawn. s an Illustration, the depaitmnr was call-I ed to Five Points one night last fall to a fire In a three stoi v brick building build-ing at the corner or Five Points The rmds were muddy and in very bad condition but the department made the run In five and one-half minutes I from the i line the alarm was turne.l In, placing nine men, two additional streams and one cDemicai stream on the building, thus slopping the tire and sa'. itig the building which looked to be doomed. I'nder the same road conditions the horse drawn apparatus appara-tus could not make the trip in less I than twenty-minutes. "A complete and detailed report of will be found in Ihe annual report of every operation of the deportment the chief of the fire department ; w hich is on file In the recorders office. of-fice. There ate a number of recom-' recom-' mendatlonj from fhp chief which will I be taken up In proper Mine vith ai icw io still bettering the condition of our department "1 lake pleasure In extomlinc to the i hief and members Of the fire department depart-ment m thanks ior the faithful and eifjfir-nf service the have iendere.1 at all times, as 1 have found them al-wys al-wys reliable - nd on hand " Pol ce Department. "Gentlemen 1 have the honor to submit my annual report of the condition con-dition of the police department for J the v car 191L: "The department at present on -Msts of one ebief, three sergeants, five plain clothed officers, ten patrol-j patrol-j men one emergency officer, one! I guard to take prisoners out. one guard at station, two de9k sergeants, one jailer who also acts as desk ser-jgeant. ser-jgeant. two merchants patrolmen. "I am pleased to report the harmonious har-monious working of the department and the better conditions as lo the violations of the city ordinances "We had 133 less arrests for drunkenness in 1!ll' than In 1911, and eighty-seven less arrests for dl8- In.,, Ihn i, v 1 rwv We had 77ft lesf. violations of the city ordinances In 1!H- than In 1911. ''The deportment cost $L' 104 09 less to run in 1912 than In 191 1 A complete com-plete and detailed report oi every operation of the department will be found in the annual report of the chief of police, which Is on file In the I recorder's office. "I take pleasure In (banking the chief and every member of the po j 1 ice department for the faithful la-hors la-hors and the excellent results aS I shown by the annual report of the I department " |