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Show CITI FIRE STATION IS BEING VACATED TODAY ' City fire station No. 2: which property prop-erty was transferred to the First National Na-tional bank by the city as pari payment pay-ment for the Glenwood park property, prop-erty, is being vacated today The equipment 'and men will be kept at station No. 1 for the present. It is not known whether a new station will be built by tht city on the bench, bm thp wagon formerly kept at Station No. 2 is to be shipped to the La France Motor company to be remodeled remod-eled as a motor truck. Chief G. A Graves is directing the removal from the bench station, which was built by the city in 1891. iThe chief has just returned from the Atlantic coast, where he went primarily primar-ily to attend the annual convention of the International Association of Fire Department Chiefs. The convention was held at Providence. R. I., and. after i'8 conclusion, Chief Graves visited vis-ited the fire department training schools of New York. Boston and Chicago. Chi-cago. In these large centers of population, be says, the student firemen are kept " on tho tower" two months before being assigned to fire duty. I hey are then- shifted around among the different stations for two more months before being given a permanent perma-nent assignment. This is to ascertain to which department of the work they are best fitted. nn |