Show CHIEF GRAVES EXPLAINS tells why the fifteen men were at the woolen mills faie to the readers of the standard I 1 in the Standard 1 of the dinst in the report of the city council that a bill of 45 lor fifteen extra men employed at the woolen mills fire was held up for an explanation the report does not state that thosa men are members of the volunteer company stationed at five points As all the readers of the standard knot the paid fire department of ogden city consists of ten men besides myself a force entirely too small to handle the large number of airen in this city in my annual report of january ast 1st I 1 asked the council to allow four more men in the fire department this request was not granted but instead I 1 ordered to call the volunteer co at five points consisting of twenty three men when needed at the woolen emills the entire fire Department of the duty with nothing in town to respond to an alarm for three before the paid fire department returned to the station leaving the fifteen men from five points with one team and the assistant chief from the central te tation to finish extinguishing the fire in the ruins and hi the woodwork surrounding ahe windows were they remained until nearly 0 p m when they also returned to ane station at p m an alarm from box 25 was received at the station and had I 1 not called those men from five points to work at the woolen mills fire there would have been no equipment or men in th city to have answered this call and a disastrous fire might have been the result in justice to myself and ot alia fire department part ment I 1 take this means to fully explain to the reader at the standard and me tax of ogden city respectfully G A GRAVES chief ogden fire department |