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ANNUAL  EEPOET 


FIRE    DEPARTMENT, 


YEAR    1895 


BOSTON: 

ROCKWELL    AND    CHURCHILL,    CITY    PRINTERS. 

1896. 


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Office  of  the  Fire  Commissioner, 
Bristol  Street,  Boston,  February  27,  1896. 

His  Honor  Josiah  Quincy,  Mayor: 

Sir  :  Respectfully  submitting  the  statistics  of  this  depart- 
ment for  1895,  I  beg  to  call  your  attention  to  the  favorable 
showing  made  by  the  figures  of  losses  and  insurance.  But 
good  fortune  in  the  immediate  past  furnishes  no  ground  for 
hoping  that  the  millennium  has  come  ;  for  as  long  as  we  have 
much  faulty  construction  still  allowed  by  law,  with  large 
floor  areas,  and  the  possibility  of  securing  alarms  only  after 
fires  have  gained  good  headway,  we  may  at  any  time  expect 
a  conflagration  in  spite  of  all  the  earnest  efforts  of  the  depart- 
ment. The  reduced  cost  of  some  materials  and  curtailment 
of  expenses  at  headquarters  have  enabled  us  to  make  such 
repairs  on  engine-houses  as  the  health  and  comfort  of  the 
men  and  protection  of  the  property  absolutely  required ;  and 
now  the  houses  are  in  fair  working  order  with  the  exception 
of  Ladder-House  13,  on  Washington  street,  near  Dover,  and 
Engine-House  30,  on  Mt.  Vernon  street,  West  Roxbury, 
both  of  which  are  not  worth  repairing,  having  been  condemned 
by  the  Building  Commissioner ;  and  I  strongly  recommend 
that  means  be  provided  for  new  houses  for  these  two  (2) 
companies.  Some  years  ago  land  was  bought  at  Grove  Hall 
for  a  ladder  truck,  and  now  lies  unoccupied,  though  the 
necessity  has  not  been  removed ;  and  the  proper  protection 
of  that  locality  strongly  calls  for  the  completion  of  the  plan 
to  furnish  the  people  there  with  adequate  apparatus.  There 
are  thirty-two  thousand  (32,000)  dollars  remaining  from  a 
larger  sum  provided  some  time  since  for  land  and  house  for 
an  engine  company  to  be  placed  at  the  North  End,  and  I 
earnestly  recommend  that  said  $32,000,  with  $18,000  addi- 
tional, be  devoted  to  a  system  of  underground  pipes  to  carry 
salt  water  from  our  harbor  to  the  more  congested  parts  of 


2  City  Document  No.  11. 

the  city  in  accordance  with  the  plan  made  by  the  City  Engi- 
neer, the  adoption  of  which  I  have  already  strongly  recom- 
mended. A  veterinary  hospital  and  training  school  is  much 
needed,  as  at  present  the  quarters  hired  on  Nawn  street, 
lloxbury,  at  $720  per  annum,  for  the  use  of  sick  and  disabled 
horses,  are  entirely  inadequate  and  unfit  for  the  purpose.  At 
one  time  land  was  secured  on  Swett  street,  and  plans  made 
for  a  suitable  hospital,  and  I  beg  to  have  the  matter  taken  up 
and  carried  to  a  successful  solution  in  accordance  with  orig-i- 
nal  plans  calling  for  twelve  thousand  (12,000)  dollars. 

There  are  many  localities  where  the  recent  growth  of 
population  justifies,  in  the  minds  of  the  inhabitants,  an  appeal 
for  increased  fire  protection  ;  but  I  think  the  present  appa- 
ratus adjacent  to  such  localities  sufficient  to  prevent  any 
serious  fire,  and  I  do  not  believe  the  interests  of  the  city  call 
for  any  extended  addition  to  the  present  force ;  but  I  do 
strongly  recommend  such  strengthening  of  the  present  depart- 
ment as  I  have  already  suggested ;  for,  with  these  additions 
and  improvements,  we  will,  I  think,  be  justified  in  hoping' 
for  continued  good  fortune  if  citizens  will  do  their  part  by 
giving  us  promptly  the  first  alarm ;  and  in  my  opinion  the 
interests  of  all  call  for  perfection  of  the  present  force  rather 
than  for  more  extension. 


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City  Document  No.  11. 


Table  No.  2. 


Showing   the   different  Causes  of  Fires  and  Alarms,  from 
February  1,  1895,  to  February  1,  1896. 

Alarms,  accidental,  automatic  . 

"       needless      .         .   . 

"       false  .... 

"       out-of-town 
Ashes,  hot,  in  wooden  receptacle 
Boiling  over  of  tar  or  fat . 
Bonfires,  grass,  rubbish,  etc.    . 
Careless  use  of  lamps,  candles,  etc. 

"         "    "  fire  . 

"         "    "  pipe  or  cigars  . 
Chimneys,  soot  burning  .         .  , 

"  defective 

Clothes  too  near  stove 
Defective  flue 

"  stove-pipe 

"  grate 

"  furnace     . 

Electric  motor  igniting  car 

"       wires 
Explosion  and  igniting  of  chemicals 
Fireworks       .... 
Friction 

Fumigating     .... 
Gas,  explosion  of    . 
"    ignition  of  leaky  pipes 
"    jet  setting  fire 

"     stove,  careless  use  of  and  explosion 
Incendiary       .... 

"        supposed 
Kerosene  lamp,  explosion  or  breaki 
"  "     upsetting 

"        stove,  careless  use  of  and  explosion 
Light  mistaken  for  fire 
Lightning        .... 
Matches  and  rats     . 

"        careless  use  of    . 

"        children  playing  with 
Naphtha,  careless  use  of  and  ignition 
Overheated  stove 

"  steam-pipe  or  boiler 

Bekindling  of  ruins  of  previous  fire 
Slacking:  of  lime 


32 

114 

22 

12 

34 

21 

339 

34 

6 

32 

59 

20 

8 

35 

6 

2 

4 

30 

52 

11 

45 

3 

4 

5 

11 

62 

24 

28 

19 

92 

42 

59 

24 

2 

34 

73 

48 

20 

26 

11 

1 


Fire  Department. 


Smoky  chimney 

"        furnace  or  stove  . 
Sparks  from  another  tire  . 

"         "     furnace  or  stove 

«'  "     chimney 

"  "     locomotive    . 

"  "     forge    . 

Spontaneous  combustion  . 
Steam  escaping 
Unknown 

Water-pipes,  thawing  out 
Wood  in  oven  igniting     . 

Total        . 

Total  number  of  actual  fires 
Confined  to  one  building 
Extended  to  others  . 
Wharves,  vessels,  grass,  etc. 
Out  of  the  city 


29 
21 

6 
16 
34 
24 

7 
68 

6 

241 

39 

4 

2,009 

1,675 
1,285 

39 
339 

12 


Buildings. 


Slightly  damaged     . 
Considerably  damaged 
Totally  destroyed    . 
Not  damaged  . 


736 
70 

27 
560 


Fire  Commissioner  Henry  S.  Russell  was  appointed  Janu- 
ary 21,  1895.  Present  term  expires  May,  1898.  Salary, 
$5,000. 

Benjamin  F.  Underbill,  Jr.,  Clerk,  appointed  by  the  Fire 
Commissioner.     Salary,  $2,400. 


Chief  of  Department. 

Lewis  P.  Webber,  Headquarters,  Bristol  street. 

First  Assistant  Chief,  John  W.  Regan,  Headquarters, 
Engine-house  26,  Mason  street. 

Second  Assistant  Chief  and  Chief  of  District  No.  4,  Wm. 
T.  Cheswell,  Headquarters,  Engine-house  4,  Bulfinch 
street. 

District   Chiefs. 

Peter  F.  McDonough,  Headquarters,  Ladder-house  2. 

C.  H.  W.  Pope,                     "  "9. 

John  F.  Egan,                    '     "  "           8. 

John  F.  Ryan,                        "  Engine-house  2G. 


City  Document  No.  11. 


John  A.  Mullen,           Headquarters, 

Engine-house  1 

Patrick  E.  Keyes,                   " 

3 

John  Grady,                             " 

13 

Edward  H.  Sawyer,               " 

Ladder-house  4 

Williston  A.  Gaylord,           " 

Engine-house  18 

Nathan  L.  Hussey,                 " 

41 

Lewis  P.  Abbott,                    " 

28 

Wm.  E.  Delano,  M 


D. 


Clerks. 

J.  Lafferty,  Geo.   F.   Murphy,  James 

P.  Maloney. 
J.  Quinn,  Messenger. 


Force  and  Pay-Roll  . 


Chief  of  Department 

$3,500  per 

annum 

First  Assistant  Chief     . 

2,400 

a 

Second  Assistant  Chief 

2,200 

a 

11  District  Chiefs  . 

2,000 

a 

Superintendent  of  Repair-shop 

2,000 

n 

Second  Assistant  Superintendent  o] 

Repair-shop       . 

1,300 

a 

Veterinary  Surgeon 

1,800 

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2  Clerks       .                    .          .          . 

1,000 

a 

1  Clerk         .... 

900 

a 

1  Clerk         .... 

600 

a 

1  Messenger          . 

1,000 

i  i 

1  detailed  man  as  Clerk,  Apparatus 

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Repair-shop   . 

1,000 

(« 

51  Captains    .... 

1,600 

cc 

41  Lieutenants 

1,400 

a 

45  Engine-men 

1,300 

a 

305  Permanent  Men 

1,200 

1 1 

50         "             "              . 

1,000  'foo.n 

48         "             "              . 

1,000 

a 

1  Permanent  Man 

.       912.50 

ic 

31  Call  Men  .... 

250 

c  t 

36     "       "     . 

200 

a 

36     "       "     . 

175 

it 

40  Permanent  Substitutes 

900 

a 

15 

720 

a 

3  Call  Captains     . 

325 

it 

1  Hostler      .... 

624 

a 

2  Watchmen 

1,000 

a 

1  Driver  for  Chief  of  Department 

1.95  per 

day. 

12  Drivers  for  District  Chiefs 

1.75 

Fire  Department.  7 

Fire  Districts. 
The  city  is  divided  into  twelve  fire  districts,  as  follows  : 

District  1. 
All  that  part  of  Boston  known  as  East  Boston. 

District  2. 
All  that  part  of  Boston  formerly  known  as  Charlestown. 

District  3. 

The  territory  bounded  on  the  north  and  east  by  the  water 
front,  on  the  south  by  Summer  street,  and  on  the  west  by 
Washington  and  Charlestown  streets. 

District  4. 

The  territory  bounded  on  the  north  by  the  Charles  river, 
on  the  east  by  Charlestown  and  Washington  streets,  on  the 
south  by  Winter,  Park,  and  Beacon  streets,  and  on  the  west 
by  the  Charles  river  and  Berkeley  street. 

District  5. 

The  territory  bounded  on  the  north  by  Beacon,  Park, 
Winter,  and  Summer  streets,  on  the  east  by  Fort  Point 
channel,  on  the  south  and  west  by  Broadway,  Way,  Motte, 
Castle,  Ferdinand  streets,  Columbus  avenue,  and  Berkeley 
street. 

District  6. 

All  that  part  of  Boston  known  as  South  Boston,  and  run- 
ning south  as  far  as  Dorset  and  Locust  streets. 

District  7. 

The  territory  bounded  on  the  north  by  Berkeley  street, 
Columbus  avenue,  Ferdinand,  Castle,  Motte,  and  Way  streets, 
and  Broadway,  on  the  east  by  Fort  Point  channel  and  South 
bay,  on  the  south  by  Massachusetts  avenue,  and  on  the 
west  by  the  Charles  rivet. 

District  8. 

The  territory  bounded  on  the  north  by  the  Charles  river 
and  Massachusetts  avenue,  on  the  east  by  Washington  street, 
on  the  south  by  the  old  boundary  line  between  Roxbury  and 


8  City  Document  No.  11. 

West  Roxbury,  and  on  the  west  by  the  Brookline  line,  Bea- 
con and  Deerfield  streets. 

District  9. 

The  territory  bounded  on  the  north  by  Massachusetts 
avenue,  South  bay,  .Dorset  and  Locust  streets,  on  the  east 
by  Dorchester  ba}T,  on  the  south  by  Freeport,  Hancock, 
Bowdoin,  Olney,  and  Columbia  streets,  and  on  the  west  by 
Blue  Hill  avenue,  Seaver  and  Washington  streets. 

District  10. 

That  part  of  Dorchester  bounded  on  the  north  by  Colum- 
bia, Olney,  Bowdoin,  Hancock,  and  Freeport  streets,  on  the 
east  by  Doi'chester  bay,  on  the  south  by  the  Neponset  river 
and  the  Hyde  Park  line,  and  on  the  west  by  Back  street  and 
Blue  Hill  avenue. 

District  11. 

All  that  part  of  Boston  known  as  Brighton,  and  extending 
east  as  far  as  Deerfield  and  Beacon  streets. 

District  12. 

All  that  part  of  Boston  known  as  West  Roxbury,  bounded 
on  the  north  by  the  old  boundary  line  between  Roxbury  and 
West  Roxbury  and  Seaver  street,  on  the  east  by  Blue  Hill 
avenue  and  Back  street,  on  the  south  by  the  Hyde  Park  and 
Dedham  lines,  and  on  the  west  by  the  Newton  and  Brookline 
lines. 

In  all  cases  where  streets  are  designated  as  boundaries, 
the  centre  of  the  street  will  be  the  dividing  line. 


Fire  Department. 


Assignment  of  Districts. 


Each    district   is  placed   under  the   charge    of  a  District 
Chief,  as  follows : 


Chief  in  Command. 


Peter  F.  McDonough 
C.  H.  W.  Pope    . 
John  F.  Egan  .  . 
Wm.  T.  Cheewell 
John  F.  Ryan  .   . 
John  A.  Mullen  . 
Patrick  E.  Keyes 
John  Grady  .   .   . 
Edward  H.  Sawyer 
Williston  A.  Gaylord 
Nathan  L.Hussey  . 
Lewis  P.  Abbott    . 


Companies  in  District. 


Engines. 


5,    9,  11,  40 

27,  32,  36 

8,    25,31 

*4,  6,  10 

7,  *26,  35 

*1,  2, 15,  38,  39,  43 

*3,  22,  33 

*13,  14,  37 

12,  21,  23,  24 

16, 17,  *18, 19,  20 

29,  34,  *41 

*28,  30,  42,45 


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7 

10 

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10 


City  Document  No.  11. 


The  following   property  is  in  charge  of  the  Fire  Com- 
missioner : 

Engine-Houses  . 


Location. 

No  .'of  feet 
in  lot. 

Remarks. 

No.  1 .   .  . 

5,698 

2  .   .  . 

Cor.  of  0  and  Fourth  streets  . 

4,000 

3.   .   , 

Bristol  st.  and  Harrison  ave.    . 

4,000 

Ladder  No.  3  in  this  building. 

4.   .   . 
5  .   .   . 

6,098 
1,647 

Chemical  Engine  No.  1,  Lancers' 
Armory,  and  water-tower  in 
this  building. 

6.   .   . 

-      2,327 

7  .   .   . 

1,893 

2,568 

8.    .   . 

9.   .    . 

4,000 

Ladder  No.  2  in  this  building. 

10  .    .   . 

1,886 
10,000 

11.   .   . 

Saratoga  and  Byron  streets  .   . 

12  .   .   . 

Dudley  street 

7,161 

13.   .   . 

4,305 

14  .   .   . 

5,627 
2,843 

15  .    .    . 

16  .    .    . 

River  street,  Dorchester  Dist., 

12,736 

Ladder  No.  6  in  this  building. 

17  .   .    . 

Meetinghouse  Hill,  Dorches- 

9,450 
10,225 

18.  .   . 

Harvard  street,  Dor.  Dist.  .   . 

19.   .    . 

Norfolk  street,           "           .  . 

7,683 

20.  .   . 

Walnut  street,           " 

9,000 

21  .   .   . 

Bostou  street,             "           .   . 

9,355 

22.    .   . 

4,463 

23  .    .   . 

3,445 

24.   .   . 

Cor.  Warren  and  Quincy  sts.  . 

4,186 

25.    .   . 

4,175 

Ladder  No.  8  and  Ladder  No.  14 
in  this  building. 

26  .   .    . 

6,385 

27.   .   . 

Elm  street,  Charlestown  Dist., 

2,600 

28.   .   . 

Centre    street,    W.    Roxbury 

10,377 

Ladder  No.  10  in  this  building. 

29.   .    . 

Chestnut  Hill  ave.,  Brighton 

14,356 
16,275 

Ladder  No.  11  in  this  building. 

30.    .   . 

Mt.  Vernon   street,  W.   Rox- 

32.   .   . 

8,000 

33.   .   . 

Cor.   Boylston  and    Hereford 

5,646 

Ladder  No.  15  in  this  building. 

Fire  Department. 
Engine-Houses.  —  Concluded. 


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37  .    . 

38-39 

40  .   . 

41  .   . 

42.  . 

43.  . 

45  .   . 

1.  . 

2.  . 

3.  . 

4.  . 

5.  . 


10. 
11  . 


Western  ave.,  Brighton 
Monument  street .  .  .   . 


Cor.  Longwood  and  Brookline 
avenues    


Congress  street ..... 
Sumner  St.,  East  Boston 


Harvard  ave.,  near  Cambridge 
street,  Brighton  District  .   . 


Washington    street,    between 
Atherton  and  Beethoven  .   . 


Andrew  square 

Poplar  St.,   cor.  Washington, 
W.  Roxbury 

Chemical-Engine  Houses. 

Bulfinch  street 

Church  street    ........ 


Cor.  Longwood  and  Brookline 
avenues . 


Shawmut  avenue  . 


Washington    street,    between 
Atherton  and  Beethoven  .   . 


Harvard  ave.,  near  Cambridge 
street,  Brighton  District  .  . 


Chelsea  street,  East  Boston 

B  street 

Main  street •    .   . 

Eustis  street  ....... 

North  Grove  street .... 


No.  of  feet 
in  lot. 


4,637 
5,668 

5,400 
4,000 
4,010 

6,112 

3,848 
5,225 

14,729 


3,412 


1,346 
1,804 


700 
3,918 


Chem.  Eng.  3  in  this  building. 

Chem.  Eng.  6  in  this  building. 
Chem.  Eng.  5  in  this  building. 

Ladder  No.  16  in  this  building. 
See  Engine-house  4. 

See  Engine-house  37. 

See  Engine  No.  42. 
See  Engine  No.  41. 

See  Ladder-house  9. 


Hose-Houses. 


Location. 

No.  of  feet 
in  lot. 

Remarks. 

No.  3  .  .   . 
7  .   .   . 

5,230 

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City  Document  No.  11. 
Combination-Wagon  Houses. 


No.  of  feet 
in  lot. 


No.  1 

2 


Dorchester  avenue,  Ashmont , 
Fourth  street 


4,875 
3,101 


Hook-and-Ladder  Houses. 


No.  of  feet 
in  lot. 


No.  1 
2 
3 
•4 
5 


Friend  street 

Paris  street,  East  Boston  . 

Harrison  avenue 

Dudley  street 

Fourth  street 

River  street,  Dorchester  , 
Meeting-house  Hill .  .  .  , 
Fort  Hill  square  .  .  .  .  . 
Main  street,  Charlestown  . 
Centre  street,  W.R.    .  .   , 


Chestnut  Hill  ave.,  Brighton 
District 


Culvert  street 

Washington,  near  Dover  street, 

Fort  Hill  square 

Boylston,  cor.  Hereford  street, 

Roslindale 

Harrison  avenue 


1,676 


3,923 

2,469 


2,430 


1,007 


2,250 


See  Engine-house  9. 
See  Engine  3. 


See  Engine-house  16. 
See  Engine  17. 
See  Engine  Co.  25. 
Chemical  9  in  this  huilding. 
See  Engine-house  28. 

See  Engine-house  29. 
On  leased  land. 

See  Engine-house  25. 
Engine  33  in  this  building. 
See  Engine  45. 


Fuel-house,  Salem  street,  417  feet  of  land. 

Fuel-house,  Main  street,  Charlestown,  1,592  feet  of  land. 

Headquarters  Building  and  Repair-shop,  corner  of  Albany 
and  Bristol  streets,  20,547  feet. 

Water  Tower  No.  2  and  wrecking  wagon  are  in  Head- 
quarters Building. 

4,350  feet  of  land  on  Tremont  street  on  which  quarters 
are  now  building  for  Ladder  12  and  Hose  7. 

5,624  feet  of  land  on  Washington  street,  Dorchester,  pur- 
chased as  a  site  for  a  ladder-house. 


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New  Apparatus  purchased  during  the  Year. 

1  third-size  Clapp  &  Jones  engine. 
1  first-class       "  "  " 

1  first-size  La  France  " 

2  double-tank  chemical  engines. 

3  two-horse  hose-wagons. 

2  coal-wagons. 

3  District  Chief's  wagons. 
1  fire-boat. 

1  manure-wagon. 


Hose. 

Amount  of  hose  purchased  and  condemned    during  the 
year : 

Purchased.  Condemned. 

Leading  cotton,  7,000  feet.  10,750  feet. 

"       rubber,  1,500    "  350    " 

Chemical,              2,000    "  650    " 

Suction,                    214    "  120     " 


Totals,         10,714 


11,870    " 


Amount  of  hose  in   use  and  in  storehouse  February  1, 

1896: 

In  Use.  In  Storehouse. 

Cotton,  70,150  feet,  3,350  feet. 

Rubber,  4,650    "  4,200    " 

Chemical,  5,750    "  1,250    " 

Suction,  998     "  164    " 


Totals,        81,548 


8,964 


Horses. 


Purchased  during  the  year     . 

.       63 

Sold  or  exchanged 

.       40 

Died    .          .      '    . 

7 

Killed,  for  cause  . 

4 

Number  in  the  department     . 

.     271 

Water  and  Hydrants. 

The  total  number  of  hydrants  in  the  city  February  1  was 
6,756.  In  addition  to  these  hydrants,  there  are  224  fire 
reservoirs  in  different  sections  of  the  city  that  contain  from 
300  to  500  hogsheads  of  water,  and  can  be  used  in  an  emer- 
gency. 


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City  Document  No.  11. 


The  number  of  hydrants  established  and  abandoned  during 
the  year  is  as  follows  : 


Boston  (City  Proper) 
South  Boston  .... 

East  Boston 

Roxbury 

Dorchester 

"West  Roxbury    .  .   . 

Brighton 

Gallop's  Island   .  .   . 
Charlestown     .   .  .   . 

Totals 


Established. 


Abandoned. 


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3 
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110 
53 
29 
1 
2 


Total  Number  of  Hydrants  in  use  January  31,  1896. 


Boston  (City  Proper) 
South  Boston  .... 
East  Boston     .... 

Roxbury 

Dorchester 

West  Roxbury    .  .   . 

Brighton 

Brookline  ...... 

Chelsea 

Quincy 

Deer  Island  ...... 

Long  Island 

Thompson's  Island  . 
Gallop's  Island  .  .  . 
Rainsford  Island  .  . 
Charlestown     .... 


Totals 


Lowry. 


704 
220 
140 
661 
580 
130 


2,735 


283 
102 
104 
261 
550 
546 
304 


2,259 


Boston 
Lowry, 


58 
23 
24 

77 
226 
183 

64 


Boston 
Y. 


454 

247 

129 

87 

59 

44 

30 

3 

7 


1,499 

593 

397 

1,086 

1,415 

903 

476 

8 

7 


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6,756 


Fire  Department,  21 


FIRE-ALARM   BRANCH. 


The  woodwork  and  other  fittings  for  the  new  office  were 
completed,  and  the  apparatus  placed  in  position,  early  in  the 
year,  and  wiring  for  the  same  was  commenced  on  the  15th 
of  March. 

The  extent  of  this  work,  which  was  done  by  the  contractor, 
and  the  care  required  to  be  exercised  in  carrying  it  out, , 
necessarily  consumed  considerable  time,  and  it  was  not  com- 
pleted until  the  middle  of  May.  More  than  50,000  feet  of 
wire  were  nsed  in  making  the  connections.  The  office  is 
constructed  for  eighty  circuits,  which  are  divided  into  three 
systems :  Fifty  circuits  are  equipped  with  apparatus  for 
receiving  alarms  from  the  boxes,  twenty  for  striking  them 
out  on  the  bells  and  gongs,  and  ten  for  operating  the  box- 
gongs  in  department  houses. 

The  battery-room  is  equipped  with  stands  having  sufficient 
capacity  to  hold  fifty-six  motor-generators,  a  power  service- 
board  so  constructed  that  current  for  driving  the  motors  may 
be  taken  from  four  independent  sources,  and  a  board  which 
provides  for  a  distribution  of  the  generator  currents  in  such 
a  manner  that  any  desired  combination  can  be  made  of  the 
eighty  circuits  at  any  time  without  interference  with  the 
operation  of  the  system. 

On  the  20th  of  Ma}r  the  old  plant  at  the  City  Hall,  which 
had  done  effective  service  for  more  than  thirty  years,  ended 
its  official  existence,  and  the  new  office  was  duly  installed. 

The  transfer  of  the  circuits  was  made  in  three  hours  from 
the  time  the  first  connection  was  made,  careful  preparations 
for  making  the  changes  having  been  made  previously. 

Notwithstanding  the  fact  that  the  new  plant  was  equipped 
with  entirely  new  apparatus,  the  different  construction  and 
operation  of  which  involved  a  complete  change  in  the 
methods  to  be  employed,  no  material  interruption  to  the 
successful  working  of  the  system  was  experienced  at  the  time 
of  its  installation,  and  the  minor  faults  in  construction  which 
developed  later  being  eliminated,  it  was  soon  placet!  on  a 
perfect  working  basis,  and  so  continued  up  to  the  present 
time. 

The  dynamo  service,  which  has  been  referred  to  as  an 
experiment,  in  previous  reports,  has  demonstrated  by  results 
that  a  great  improvement  has  been  made  in  this  respect,  and 


22  City  Document  No.  11. 

the  advantages  gained  by  substituting  it  for  the  old  form  of 
batteries  have  become  more  clearly  apparent  by  its  continued 
use. 

A  new  switch-board,  constructed  for  ninety  circuits,  sup- 
plied with  three  banks  of  connecting  plugs  and  three  sets  of 
transmitters  and  telephones,  has  been  leased  from  the  New 
England  Telephone  Company.  It  is  equipped  with  all  the 
appliances  used  in  modern  exchange  business,  and.  by  its  use 
the  telephone  work  of  the  department  has  been  greatly 
facilitated. 

The  reconstruction  of  overhead  circuits  during  the  year 
has  been  done  chiefly  in  Roxbury  and  West  Roxbury. 

In  these  districts  three  new  bell  circuits  have  been  built, 
'and  box  circuits  7,  8,  13,  and  23  partially  reconstructed. 

Circuit  No.  74,  in  West  Roxbury,  has  been  extended  to 
the  house  of  Engine  No.  30,  and  a  box-gong  of  the  regular 
pattern  placed  in  quarters  and  connected  for  service. 

The  wires  running  along  the  Parkway  in  Jamaica  Plain 
have  been  replaced  by  an  underground  cable  2,977  feet  in 
length,  containing  17,862  feet  of  conductors. 

Circuits  running  to  Charlestown  and  Brighton,  which  were 
rebuilt  in  1894,  have  been  divided,  and  connected  indepen- 
dently in  the  new  office.  By  this  division  a  new  box-gong 
circuit  was  created,  and  the  apparatus  houses  in  Brighton 
connected  therewith. 

The  box-arms'  service  is  now  extended  to  the  entire  de- 
paitment. 

All  the  boxes  in  Brighton  and  Charlestown  ai*e  now  con- 
nected into  circuits  by  themselves,  and  the  bells  and  gongs 
into  new  circuits,  which  are  used  exclusively  for  striking 
alarms. 

A  similar  arrangement  has  been  effected  by  new  construc- 
tion in  South  Boston,  which  completes  the  elimination  of 
the  bells  and  gongs  from  the  box  circuits  throughout  the 
entire  system. 

The  alarm  service  has  been  extended  by  placing  a  bell, 
formerly  used  on  the  Phillips  School-house,  in  a  new  tower 
which  was  constructed  on  the  house  of  Engine  No.  41  at 
Allston,  and  gongs  into  the  office  of  Commissioner  of  Wires, 
house  of  District  Chief  Hussey,  Austin  &  Gove's  office,  East 
Boston,  and  the  pumping-station  on  Wayne  street. 

Sixteen  new  circuits  have  been  created,  and  placed  entirely 
underground.  Three  of  these  are  connected  with  lamp-post 
boxes,  and  the  others  writh  telephones  located  therein  and 
various  department  houses.  One  new  overhead  telephone 
circuit  has  been  built,  and  the  service  extended  by  placing 
telephones  in  the  residence  of  the  Chief  of  Department, 


Fire  Department.  23 

house  of  Engine  25,  Veterinary  Surgeon,  Hook  and  Ladder 
No.  7,  head-room  at  City  Hall,  and  basement  terminal  room 
at  Bristol  street,  Headquarters  Building. 

Stands  and  telephones  have  also  been  placed  on  the  various 
desks  at  headquarters. 

The  rebuilding  of  Chelsea  bridge  has  occasioned  much 
work  for  this  branch  during  the  year,  as  it  has  been  neces- 
sary to  make  temporary  changes  in  the  arrangement  of  the 
wires  from  time  to  time  as  the  work  progressed.  Wires  and 
cables  have  been  placed,  and  submarine  cables  taken  up  and 
relaid  to  meet  the  existing  conditions,  the  final  work  being 
completed  late  in  the  season. 

The  poles  formerly  supporting  the  wires  at  this  point  have 
been  abandoned,  with  the  exception  of  some  iron  posts  on 
the  Boston  end  as  far  as  the  draw,  and  the  circuits  are  now 
carried  on  these  standards  and  along  the  timbers,  under  the 
bridge,  through  a  19-conductor  cable  2,600  feet  in  length. 

Submarine  cables  have  been  taken  up  at  bridges  on  Fed- 
eral, Congress,  and  Tenean  streets  and  Mt.  Washington 
avenue. 

The  cable  on  Federal  street  was  removed  on  account  of 
becoming  defective,  and  the  others  because  routes  of  cir- 
cuits were  changed  in  such  a  manner  that  their  continued 
use  at  those  localities  was  rendered  unnecessary.  The  dam- 
aged cable  at  Federal  street  was  replaced  by  one  of  these, 
and  the  other  two  were  used  at  Chelsea  bridge. 

A  new  cable,  300  feet  in  length,  has  also  been  laid  at 
Meridian-street  bridge. 

A  new  frame  has  been  built  to  support  the  bell  in  the 
tower  on  the  Noble  School-house,  on  Princeton  street,  Fast 
Boston,  and  the  usual  routine  work  has  been  done,  repairing 
circuits  and  making  such  changes  in  their  locations  as  have 
been  made  necessary  by  conditions  which  have  developed 
from  time  to  time  in  various  parts  of  the  city.  Six  new 
boxes  have  been  established  and  connected  with  the  service 
during  the  year. 

Ninety  miles  of  No.  9  wire  and  16,199  feet  of  Clark  and 
Kerite  wire,  1,881  feet  10-conductor,  and  2,668  feet  19-con- 
ductor overhead  cable  have  been  used  in  completing  the 
work  herein  referred  to. 

Two  cables,  with  10  and  19  conductors,  respectively,  have 
been  run  through  the  subway  from  headquarters  to  the  appa- 
ratus repair-shop.  Nine  new  roof  structures  have  been  built, 
19  poles  set,  39  structures  removed,  and  12  poles  taken 
down  since  last  report. 

The  total  amount  of  old  wire  taken  down  during  the  year 
is  589,230  feet :  of  this  amount  195,000  feet  were  removed 


24  City  Document  No.  11. 

from  the  underground  district  for  1895,  204,700  feet  from 
the  1894  district,  and  the  remainder  from  other  parts  of  the 
city. 

Plans  were  made  and  cables  purchased  early  in  the  year 
'for  completing  the  underground  construction  in  the  district 
prescribed  for  1895.  Before  any  part  of  this  work  had  been 
done,  however,  a  notice  was  received  from  the  Commissioner 
of  Wires  that  it  would  be  necessary  to  make  some  changes 
in  the  original  plans  on  account  of  conditions  which  were  not 
considered  at  the  time  of  the  first  arrangement.  In  conse- 
quence of  this  request  the  61-conductor  cable  which  was  laid 
in  1894  was  drawn  out  of  the  ducts  in  Tremont  street,  from 
Compton  to  LaGrange  streets,  through  LaGrange  and  Beach 
streets  to  Harrison  avenue,  amounting  to  3,659  feet. 

The  cable  thus  removed  was  laid  in  other  places  entirely 
outside  of  the  1895  district,  and  a  cable  containing  19  con- 
ductors was  bought  and  run  in  its  place  from  the  starting- 
point  on  Tremont  street  to  a  terminal  box  in  the  house  of 
Police-station  No.  4,  on  LaGrange  street.  In  order  to  con- 
form to  the  new  arrangements  of  the  Wire  Department  it 
also  became  necessary  to  use  smaller  cables  in  some  other 
portions  of  the  proposed  routes  in  the  district ;  consequently 
a  cable  with  37  conductors  was  purchased  and  laid,  leaving 
the  61  conductors  to  be  placed  outside  the  district  in  connec- 
tion with  the  one  which  was  drawn  out  as  before  mentioned. 

The  total  amount  of  cable  of  all  kinds  laid  during  the 
year,  including  the  61  conductor  taken  up  from  Tremont 
street,  is  27,849.5  feet. 

These  cables  vary  in  their  capacity,  containing  from  10  to 
61  conductors,  and  have  been  placed  as  follows  : 

Kerite  and  okonite,  61  conductors,  on  Tremont,  Berkeley, 
Beacon,  Charles,  Mt.  Vernon,  Joy,  Myrtle,  Derne,  Bowdoin, 
Cambridge,  and  Court  streets,  Tremont  row,  Brattle,  Ex- 
change, State,  and  Congress  streets,  —  13,005  feet. 

Kerite,  37  conductors,  on  Harrison  avenue,  Chauncy, 
Arch,  Franklin,  Pearl,  Atlantic  avenue,  and  High  streets,  — 
5,503.5  feet. 

Kerite,  19  conductors,  on  Tremont  and  LaGrange  streets, 

—  3,408  feet. 

Clark,  10  conductors,  on  Winter,  Essex,  Appleton,  and 
Eliot   streets,   including   short  leads   and  side  connections, 

—  2,954.8  feet. 

Safety,  6  conductors,  on  Parkway,  Jamaica  Plain,  — 
2,977  feet. 

They  have  been  laid  in  ducts  belonging  to  the  New  Eng- 
land Telephone  Company,  with  the  exception  of  3,334  feet, 
which  are  placed  in  ducts  constructed  b}T  this  department. 


Fire  Department.  25 

Twenty-one  boxes  and  13  department  houses  have  been 
connected  with  the  underground   service  in  the  past  year. 

Nine  of  the  boxes  are  located  on  streets,  and  the  others 
are  inside  theatres,  stores,  and  other  buildings. 

Underground  telephone  service  has  been  extended  to  boxes 
42,  56,  57,  61,  72,  and  85,  all  of  which  are  placed  on  lamp- 
posts in  their  respective  locations. 

The  total  length  of  cables  now  underground  is  55,900 
feet. 

Total  length  of  conductors,  2,313,984  feet. 

They  are  laid  in  ducts,  of  which  43,520.8  feet  belong  to 
the  Telephone  Company  and  7,890  feet  to  this  department. 

The  fire-alarm  ducts  are  contained  in  4,015  feet  of  con- 
duits, about  one-half  of  which  were  built  in  the  past  year. 

Notwithstanding  that  the  changes  in  the  original  plans 
above  noted  occasioned  a  large  amount  of  extra  labor  and 
an  increased  expense  in  doing  the  undergound  work,  it  was 
all  completed  within  the  time  required  by  law,  and  all  the 
overhead  wires  and  abandoned  structures  have  been  taken 
down. 

The  benefit  of  this  extra  work  will  be  fully  experienced 
when  the  territory  in  which  it  was  done  shall  be  included  in 
a  district  to  be  designated  by  the  Commissioner  of  Wires  at 
some  future  time. 

The  service  has  been  uniformly  successful  during  the  year, 
no  accidents  to  any  portion  of  the  cables  having  occurred  of 
sufficient  magnitude  to  materially  interfere  with  their  work. 

Neither  have  the  overhead  wires  in  the  outlying  districts 
been  seriously  affected  by  storms  at  any  time,  and,  every- 
thing being  considered,  it  may  be  said  that  the  system  has 
made  a  good  record  for  itself  since  the  last  report. 

The  force  employed  is  as  follows  : 

Superintendent. 
Brown  S.  Flanders. 

Assistant  Superintendent. 
Cyrus  A.  George. 

Operators. 
Charles  M.  Chaplin,  James  L.  Gethins, 

Uzziel  Putnam,  Richard  Donahue, 

James  L.  Crowley,  Jona.  M.  Morris. 

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Assistant  Operators. 
John  B.  Jeffers,  John  Flavell. 


26  City  Document  No.  11. 

Care  of  Dynamos. 
John  Galway. 

Foreman  of  Construction. 
Hiram   W.    Chekrington. 

Repairers. 
G.  J.  H.  Gutermuth,  E.  M.  Illingworth, 

Wm,  H.  Barker,  Jerry  Hurley, 

Granville  S.  Mendell,         Daniel  F.  McCarty, 
Issachar  Wells,  Peter  M.  Kendrick. 

A  constant  watch  is  kept  at  the  headquarters,  Bristol 
street,  night  and  day,  by  the  operators.  Each  set  of  oper- 
ators have  assigned  to  them  certain  hours  of  duty,  during 
which  time  they  are  responsible  for  the  correct  working  of 
the  apparatus  in  giving  alarms,  and  all  testing  of  the  cir- 
cuits and  other  details  pertaining  to  the  service.  No  oper- 
ator is  permitted  to  sleep  during  his  watch,  unless  expressly 
relieved  by  some  one  else,  and  by  consent  of  the  Super- 
intendent. 

Each  operator  is  accountable  to  the  Superintendent  for 
any  mistakes  that  may  occur  at  the  office  during  his  hours  of 
duty. 

An  accurate  account  is  kept  of  the  time  of  giving  each 
alarm,  and  of  the  station  from  which  it  originates,  and  all 
other  necessary  information. 

There  are  572  fire-alarm  boxes  now  in  service. 

The  following  boxes  are  private  property :  38  duplicate, 
115,  149,  152,  227,  228,  244,  271,  279,  281,  283,  299,  422, 
442,  443,  445,  446,  447,  448,  449,  511,  533,  617,  623,  624, 
626,  629,  698,  711,  714,  715,  716,  718,  722,  723,  724,725, 
726,  727,  728,  729,  731,  732,  733,  735,  737,  738,  739,  741, 
742,  744,  745,  746,  766,  778,  779,  789,  791,  792,  794,  795, 
796,  797,  799,  816,  838,  842,  919,  927,  974. 

Stock  and  Fixtures. 

Magnetic  fire-alarm  apparatus,  the  estimated  value  of 
which  is  $171,000.  Working  lines  of  wire,  about  1,000 
miles ;  signal-boxes  in  use,  572 ;  striking-machines,  24 ; 
gongs,  125;  box-gongs,  75;  tappers,  3;  local  registers  in 
department  houses,  50  ;  two  clocks  ;  two  four-dial  repeating- 
machines  for  striking  signals  ;  one  old  three-dial  ditto  ;  relays, 
70;  1  fifty-pen  register ;  1  ten-pen  ditto;  chime-bells,  10; 
other   bells,    21;  telegraph  keys,  70;  main  circuit  annun- 


Fire  Department.  27 

ciators,  70  ;  local  ditto,  70 ;  fuse-boards,  2  ;  telephones  in 
use,  103  ;  2  switch-boards  ;  83  galvanometers  ;  1  voltmeter  ; 
1  mil-ammeter ;  .1  rheostat  and  bridge ;  1  indicator ;  84  bat- 
tery rheostats  ;  27  motor-generators  ;  2  generator  stands  ;  1 
power-service  board  ;  1  distributing  board  ;  1  fire  apparatus 
covering  map  ;  2  portable  rheotropes  ;  1  typewriter  ;  1  copy- 
ing-press ;  1  safe ;  1  chronometer ;  1  set  telegraphic  appara- 
tus in  Superintendent's  house ;  5  sets  telegraphic  apparatus 
in  assistants'  houses;  brackets,  wire,  insulators,  etc.,  office 
furniture,  bedsteads,  bedding,  and  sundry  small  articles. 

Alarm  Bells. 

The  Fire-alarm  Telegraph  is  connected  with  the  following 
bells : 

Adams  School-house,  Sumner  street,  East  Boston,  steel, 
2,995  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Bunker  Hill  School-house,  Charlestown,  2,009  lbs.,  owned 
by  city. 

Chapman  School-house,  Eutaw  street,  East  Boston,  steel, 
3,109£  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

City  Hall,  Charlestown,  composition,  3,600  lbs.,  owned  by 
city. 

Engine-house  No.  16,  Temple  street,  Dorchester,  composi- 
tion, 4,149  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Engine-house  No.  17,  Meeting-House  Hill,  Dorchester,  com- 
position, 4,000  lbs.,owmed  by  city. 

Engine-house  No.  18,  Harvard  street,  Dorchester,  composi- 
tion, 3,184  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Engine-house  No.  19,  Mattapan,  Dorchester,  composition, 
2,927  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Engine-house  Xo  20,  Walnut  street,  Dorchester,  coinposi- 
tion,  3,061  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Engine-house  No.  21,  Boston  street,  Dorchester,  composi- 
tion, 3,026  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Engine-house  No.  28,  West  Roxbury,  composition,  4,000 
lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Engine-house  No.  29,  Brighton',  steel,  1,535  lbs.,  owned  by 
city. 

Engine-house  No.  30,  West  Roxbury,  300  lbs.,  owned  by 
city. 

Engine-house  No.  34,  Brighton,  composition,  1,501  lbs., 
owned  by  city. 

Engine-house  No.  40,  Orleans  street,  East  Boston,  composi- 
tion, 817  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 


28  City  Document  No.  11. 

Engine-house    No.    41,    Allston,    composition,    900   lbs., 

owned  by  city. 
Engine-house  No.   45,   Roslindale,  composition,  1,059  lbs., 

owned  by  city. 
Faneuil  Hall,  steel,  5,816  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 
Lewis  School-house,  Dale  street,  Boston  Highlands,  compo- 
sition, 3,104  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 
Maverick-street  Church,   East   Boston,   composition,    2,000 

lbs. 
Princeton-street  School-house,    East   Boston,    composition, 

2,470  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 
Saratoga-street  M.  E.  Church,  East  Boston, steel,  1,968  lbs., 

owned  by  city. 
Warren  School-house,  Charlestown,  composition,  3,000  lbs., 

owned  by  city. 
Winthrop  School-house,    Charlestown,   composition,    3,000 

lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Bells  owned  by  the  city,  which  have  been    disconnected 
from  service,  are  located  as  follows : 

Fire-alarm  Repair-shop,  bell  formerly  used  on  house  of 
Chemical  Engine  5  ;  one  composition,  400  lbs.,  formerly 
used  on  house  of  Chemical  Engine  No.  4  ;  on  ecomposition, 
400  lbs. ,  formerly  used  on  house  of  Chemical  Engine  No.  6  ; 
and  two  small  bells  from  other  locations. 

Engine-house  No.  1,  Dorchester  street,  South  Boston,  com- 
position, 800  pounds. 

Engine-house  No.  2,  composition,  800  lbs. 

George-street  School-house,  Boston  Highlands,  composition, 
4,160  lbs. 

Hook-and-Ladder  House,  No.  4,  Dudley  street,  Boston  High- 
lands, composition,  3,509  lbs. 

Lawrence  School-house,  B  street,  South  Boston,  steel, 
3,400  lbs. 

Lincoln  School-house,  Broadway,  South  Boston,  composi- 
tion, 3,110  lbs. 

Quincy  School-house,  Tyler, street,  composition,  2,941  lbs. 

Smith-street  School-house,  Highlands,  composition,  4,0c$3 
lbs. 

Ticknor  School-house,  Dorchester  street,  Washington  Vil- 
lage, steel,  2,995  lbs. 

Trinity  Church,  Trenton  street,  East  Boston,  composition, 
1,760  lbs.     Formerly  used  on  Castle-street  Church. 

Van  Nostrand's  Brewery,  Charlestown,  composition,  818 
lbs.     Formerly  used  on  Boylston  School-house. 

Wells  School-house,  Blossom  street,  composition,  1,675  lbs. 


Fire  Department.  29 

Public  Clocks. 

The  following  public  clocks,  forty  in  number,  are  taken 
care  of  by  the  Fire  Department  ; 

City  Proper. 

Arlington-street  Church. 

Charles-street  Church. 

Christ  Church,  Salem  street,  owned  by  city. 

Commercial  Wharf. 

Lynde-street  Church. 

Odd  Fellows  Hall,  Tremont  street,  owned  by  city. 

Old  South  Church,  owned  by  city. 

Old  State-House,  owned  by  city. 

Park-street  Church. 

Suffolk  County  Jail,  owned  by  city. 

St.  Stephen's  Church,  Clark  street,  owned  by  city. 

Shawmut-avenue  Church. 

Tremont  M.  E.  Church,  owned  by  city. 

Young  Men's  Christian  Union,  owned  by  city. 

South  Boston. 

Bigelow  School-house,  owned  by  city. 

Gaston  School-house,  owned  by  city. 

Lincoln  School-house,  owned  by  city. 

Phillips  Church,  owned  by  city. 

St.  Augustine  Church,  Dorchester  street,  owned  by  city. 

Ticknor  School-house,  Washington  Village,  owned  by  city. 

East  Boston. 

Central  Square  Church. 
London-street  Church,  owned  by  city. 
Lyceum  Hall,  owned  by  city. 
Trinity  Church,  owned  by  city. 
Orient  Heights  Church,  owned  by  city. 

Boston  Highlands. 

Winthrop-street  Church,  owned  by  city. 

West  End  stables,  Tremont  street,  owned  by  city. 

Roxbury  High  School,  owned  by  city. 

Dorchester. 
Baker  Memorial  (Upham's  Corner) ,  owned  by  city. 
Neponset  Church. 


30  City  Document  No.  11. 

Tileston  School  (Mattapan),  owned  by  city. 
Unitarian  Church  (Milton  Lower  Mills). 

Charlestown. 

Bunker  Hill  Church. 

City  Hall,  owned  by  city. 

Harvard  Hill  Church. 

High  School-house,  owned  by  city. 

Unitarian  Church. 

West  Roxbury. 

Dr.  Strong's  Church. 
Unitarian  Church. 

Brighton. 

Bennett  School-house,  owned  by  city. 

After  a  year's  experience  here,  I  can  heartily  commend  the 
officers  and  men  of  the  department  for  uniform  energy  and 
intelligence  in  their  work,  and  earnest  endeavor  to  under- 
stand and  carry  out  the  requirements  of  the  Commission. 

Your  obedient  servant, 

Henry  S.  Bussell, 

Commission  er. 


ANNUAL   REPORT 


FIRE    DEPARTMENT 


YEAE    1896-7. 


BOSTON: 

MUNICIPAL     PRINTING     OFFICE, 

1897. 


ANNUAL   REPORT 


FIRE    DEPARTMENT 


FOB    THE 


YEAR    1896-7 


BOSTON: 

MUNICIPAL     PRINTING     OFFICE, 

1897. 


Office  of  the  Fire  Commissioner, 
Bristol  Street,  Boston,  February  15,  1897. 

His  Honor  Josiah  Qunsrcv,  Mayor: 

Sir  :  Again  I  can  with  much  satisfaction  call  your  atten- 
tion to  the  result  of  our  work  during  the  past  year,  as  shown 
by  the  figures  of  losses  sustained,  our  record  being  better 
than  that  of  our  sister  cities,  population  considered  ;  but, 
while  the  conflagration,  which  may  at  any  time  attack  us, 
has  riot  as  yet  assumed  proportions  beyond  our  control,  we 
can  only  hope  that  continued  good  fortune  may  attend  our 
efforts.  As  far  as  our  finances  would  allow,  after  repairing 
and  keeping  the  houses  in  good,  order,  the  department  has 
been  strengthened  by  additional  equipment  and  apparatus  ; 
and,  in  my  opinion,  further  improvement  in  that  direction 
should  be  made  before  the  department  is  enlarged  b}^  addi- 
tional companies,  excepting  the  one  contemplated  at  Grove 
Hall,  where  land  purchased  for  the  purpose  by  the  city  is 
awaiting  occupancy,  and  where  the  neighborhood  needs  pro- 
tection. Much  expert  advice  has  been  received  concerning 
the  fire-alarm  branch,  and  all  but  one  of  the  practical  sug- 
gestions have  been  adopted,  the  one  exception  calling  for 
some  $150,000,  and  relating  to  work  which  will  be  done  by 
degrees  as  the  wires  are  placed  under  ground.  My  opinion, 
formed  during  my  first  year's  experience  concerning  the 
excellence  and  efficiency  of  this  branch,  has  only  been  con- 
firmed by  further  knowledge  of  it ;  for,  while  I  cannot  judge 
of  the  technical  merits  and  faults  of  the  system,  I  do  well 
know  that  in  doing  its  work  of  receiving  and  giving  out 
alarms  the  practical  results  have  been  in  every  way  most 
satisfactory,  all  statements  to  the  contrary  notwithstandi  ng 


2  City  Document  No.  11. 

Besides  the  need  of  a  piece  of  apparatus  (combination  wagon 
or  ladder  truck)  for  the  neighborhood  of  Grove  Hall,  Dor- 
chester, I  beg  leave  to  urge  the  necessity  of  a  new  and 
enlarged  house  in  place  of  that  now  occupied  by  Engine  30 
in  West  Roxbury,  not  only  to  provide  decent  quarters  for 
the  men  and  engine,  but  in  order  to  make  possible  the 
strengthening  of  equipment  much  needed  by  this  growing 
and  widely  scattered  community.  Nothing  has  been  done 
for  Ladder  Company  13,  on  Washington,  near  Dover  Street, 
the  house  of  which  is  not  only  unsafe  but  a  disgrace  to  the 
department  and  the  city,  as  well  as  being  too  small  for  a 
company  properly  equipped  for  the  work  required.  Again 
it  is  my  duty  to  call  your  attention  to  the  crying  want  of  a 
veterinary  hospital,  and  to  ask  that  the  811,400  saved  from 
the  appropriation  for  building  the  new  house  for  Ladder  12 
on  Tremont  Street  be  utilized  for  that  purpose.  But  all  pos- 
sible improvement  in  apparatus  and  equipment  may  in  some 
cases  be  of  little  avail  without  the  enforcement  of  more 
stringent  building  laws,  in  the  past  opposed  bjr  the  very 
citizens  who  ought  to  be  the  first  to  insist  upon  the  best. 


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Table  No.  2. 

Showing  the    different   Causes   of   Fires    and    Alarms,  from 
February  1,  1896,  to  February  1,  1897. 

Alarms,  accidental,  automatic  . 

"       needless       .  .    ■      . 

"       false    .... 

"       out-of-town 
Ashes,  hot,  in  wooden  receptacle 
Boiling  over  of  tar  or  fat  . 
Bonfires,  grass,  rubbish,  etc. 
Careless  use  of  lamps,  candles,  etc. 

"         "    "    fire  . 

"         "    "   pipe  and  cigars 
Chimneys,  soot  burning    . 

"  defective . 

Clothes  too  near  stove 
Defective  flue  .... 

"  stove-pipe 

"  grate 

"  furnace 

Electric  motor  igniting  car 

"  wires .... 
Explosion  and  igniting  of  chemicals 
Fireworks  .... 
Friction  ..... 
Fumigating  .... 
Gas,  explosion  of     . 

"  ignition  of  leaky  pipes 
"  jet  setting  fire  . 

"  stove,  careless  use  of  and  explosion 
Incendiary        .... 

"         supposed 
Kerosene  lamp,  explosion  or  breaking 
"  "     upsetting . 

"       stove,  careless  use  of  and  explosion 
Light  mistaken  for  fire 
Lightning         .... 
Matches  and  rats 

"         careless  use  of     . 

"        children  playing  with  . 
Naphtha,  careless  use  of  and  ignition 
Overheated  stove  or  furnace 

"  steam-pipe  or  boiler 

"  chimneys 


Fire  Department. 


Overheated  rheostat  or  thermostats    . 

13 

Rekindling  of  ruins  of  previous  fire  . 

3 

Slacking  of  lime        .          .          .                   . 

4 

Smoky  chimney         . 
"       furnace  or  stove     . 

31 
26 

Sparks  from  another  fire    . 

3 

"         "      furnace  or  stove    . 

10 

"         "      chimney 

"         "      locomotive    .         .          .          . 

18 
42 

"         "      forge     . 
Spontaneous  combustion  . 

10 

77 

Steam  escaping         . 

Unknown         ..... 

11 
.       147 

Water-pipes,  thawing  out 
Wood  in  oven  igniting 

42 

2 

Total 

.    2,066 

Total  number  of  actual  fires 

.    1,721 

Confined  to  one  building  .          . 

.    1,320 

Extended  to  others  .... 

48 

Wharves,  vessels,  grass,  etc.      .  -        .  , 

.       353 

Out  of  the  city.        . 

14 

Buildings. 

Slightly  damaged     .         .         . 
Considerably  damaged      .          .          .          . 
Totally  destroyed     .... 
Not  damaged   ...... 

..       746 

.         .       104 

33 

.       568 

Extinguished  by 

Extinguishers  ...... 

.       472 

Buckets  of  water      . 

.       260 

Chemical  engines 
Hydrant  stream         . 

.       241 
.       186 

Steamers           ...... 

.       303 

Police       ...... 

23 

Citizens   ...... 

.       236 

Total         .         . 

.    1,721 

Organization. 

Fire  Commissioner  Henry  S.  Russell,  appointed  January 
21,  1895;  term  expires  May,  1898. 
Benjamin  F.  Underbill,  Jr.,  secretary. 


City  Document  No.  11. 


Chief  of  Department. 

Lewis  P.  Webber,  Headquarters,  Bristol  street. 

First  Assistant  Chief,  John  W.  Regan,  Headquarters, 
Engine-house  26,  Mason  street. 

Second  Assistant  Chief  and- Chief  of  District  No.  4,  Wm. 
T.  Cheswell,  Headquarters,  Engine-house  4,  Bulfinch  street. 

Brown  S.  Flanders,  Superintendent  of  Fire  Alarms. 

Cyrus  A.  George,  Assistant  Superintendent  of  Fire 
Alarms. 


District   Chiefs. 

Peter  F.  McDonough,  Headquarters, 
C.  H.  W.  Pope, 

John  F.  Egan,  " 

John  F.  Ryan,  " 

John  A.  Mullen,  " 

Patrick  E..  Keyes,  " 

John  Grady,  " 

Edward  H.  Sawyer,  " 

Willis  ton  A.  Gay  lord,  " 

Nathan  L.  Hussey,  " 

Lewis  P.  Abbott,  " 
Henry  M.  Hawkins, 


Ladder-house  2. 
9. 


Engine-house  26. 

1. 

8. 

Ladder-house  12. 

4. 

Engine-house  18. 

41. 

»        28. 

Superintendent  of  Repair  Shop. 


Eugene  M.  Byington,    Asst.  Superintendent  of  Repair  Shop. 


Clerks. 

Wm.  E.   Delano,  M.  J.  Lafferty,   Geo.  F.  Murphy,  James 

P.  Maloney. 

D.  J.  Quinn,  Messenger. 


Force  and  P  ay-Roll. 


Commissioner 

Secretary 

Chief  of  Department 

First  Assistant  Chief 

Second      "  " 

Superintendent  of  Fire  Alarms 

Assistant  Supt.  "     "         "    . 

11  District  Chiefs  . 

Superintendent  of  Repair  Shop 

Assistant  Supt.    "         "         " 

Veterinaiy  Surgeon 


$5,000  per 

annum 

2,400 

it 

3,500 

it 

2,400 

tt 

2,200 

tt 

3,200 

tt 

2,000 

tt 

2,000 

tt 

2,000 

tt 

1,600 

tt 

1,800 

tt 

Fire  Department. 


2  Clerks 

$900  per  annum. 

1  Clerk 

1,000 

1  Clerk          .... 

1,300 

1  Messenger  .... 

1,000 

1  detailed    man    as    Clerk,    Repair 

Shop       .... 

1,300 

51  Captains     .... 

1,600 

57  Lieutenants 

1,400 

43  Engineers  .... 

1,300 

40  Assistant  Engineers    . 

1,200 

431  Permanent  men : 

288  at 

1,200 

42  » 

1,100 

46  « 

1,000 

55  " 

900 

1  Call  Captain 

325 

88  Call  men: 

27  at 

250 

61  " 

200 

1  Driver  for  Chief  of  Department  . 

1.95  per  day. 

2  Drivers  for  Assistant  Chiefs 

1.75       « 

11  Drivers  for  District  Chiefs 

1.75       « 

2  Watchmen 

1,000  per  annum 

2  Hostlers,  average 

2.10  per  clay. 

Fire  Alarm  Fo] 

ICE. 

6  Operators  .... 

•$1,600  per  annum 

2  Assistant  Operators    . 

1,200 

1  Foreman  of  Construction    . 

1,800 

1  Dynamo  Man 

2.00  per  day. 

16  Repairers,  average 

2.81       " 

Repair  Shop  Empi 

,OYEES. 

1  Engineer    .... 

13.00  per  day. 

1  Assistant  Engineer 

900  per  annum 

1  Harness  Maker  . 

4.00  per  day. 

2  Painters  average 

3.12       « 

2  Wheelwrights  average 

3.25 

6  Machinists,  average     . 

3.17       « 

4  Blacksmiths,  average  . 

3.19       » 

2  Blacksmiths  helpers,  average 

2.50 

4.  Laborers     .... 

1.94       " 

805  Total  force. 


8  City  Document  No.  11. 

Fire  Districts. 
The  city  is  divided  into  twelve  fire  districts,  as  follows : 

District  1. 
All  that  part  of  Boston  known  as  East  Boston. 

District  2. 
All  that  part  of  Boston  formerly  known  as  Charlestown. 

District  3. 

The  territory  bounded  on  the  north  and  east  by  the  water 
front,  on  the  south  by  Summer  street,  and  on  the  west  by 
Washington  and  Charlestown  streets. 

District  If. 

The  territory  bounded  on  the  north  by  the  Charles  river, 
on  the  east  by  Charlestown  and  Washington  streets,  on  the 
south  by  Winter,  Park,  and  Beacon  streets,  and  on  the  west 
by  the  Charles  river  and  Berkeley  street. 

District  5. 

The  territory  bounded  on  the  north  by  Beacon,  Park, 
Winter,  and  Summer  streets,  on  the  east  by  Fort  Point 
channel,  on  the  south  and  west  by  Broadway,  Way,  Motte, 
Castle  and  Ferdinand  streets,  Columbus  avenue,  and  Berke- 
ley street. 

District  6. 

All  that  part  of  Boston  known  as  South  Boston,  and  run- 
ning south  as  far  as  Dorset  and  Locust  streets. 

District  7. 

The  territory  bounded  on  the  north  by  Berkeley  street, 
Columbus  avenue,  Ferdinand,  Castle,  Motte,  and  Way  streets, 
and  Broadway,  on  the  east  by  Fort  Point  channel  and  South 
bay,  on  the  south  by  Massachusetts  avenue,  and  on  the  west 
by  the  Charles  river. 

District  8. 

The  territory  bounded  on  the  north  by  the  Charles  river 
and  Massachusetts  avenue,  on  the  east  by  Washington  street, 
on  the  south  by  the  old  boundary  line  between  Roxbury  and 
West  Roxbury,  and  on  the  west  by  the  Brookline  line,  Bea- 
con and  Deerfield  streets. 


Fire  Department.  9 


District  9. 

The  territory  bounded  on  the  north  by  Massachusetts 
avenue,  South  bay,  Dorset  and  Locust  streets,  on  the  east  by 
Dorchester  bay,  on  the  south  by  Freeport,  Hancock,  Bow- 
doin,  Olney,  and  Columbia  streets,  and  on  the  west  by  Blue 
Hill  avenue,  Seaver  and  Washington  streets. 

District  10. 

That  part  of  Dorchester  bounded  on  the  north  by  Colum- 
bia, Olney,  Bowdoin,  Hancock,  and  Freeport  streets,  on  the 
east  by  Dorchester  bay,  on  the  south  by  the  Neponset  river 
and  the  Hyde  Park  line,  and  on  the  west  by  Back  street  and 
Blue  Hill  avenue. 

District  11. 

All  that  part  of  Boston  known  as  Brighton,  and  extending 
east  as  far  as  Deerfield  and  Beacon  streets. 

District  12. 

All  that  part  of  Boston  known  as  West  Roxbury,  bounded 
on  the  north  by  the  old  boundary  line  between  Roxbury  and 
West  Roxbury  and  Seaver  street,  on  the  east  by  Blue  Hill 
avenue  and  Back  street,  on  the  south  by  the  Hyde  Park  and 
Dedham  lines,  and  on  the  west  by  the  Newton  and  Brookline 
lines. 

In  all  cases  where  streets  are  designated  as  boundaries, 
the  centre  of  the  street  will  be  the  dividing  line. 


10 


City  Document  No.  11. 


Assignment  of  Districts. 

Each  district  is  placed  under  the   charge    of  a   District 
Chief,  as  follows  : 


Chief  in  Command. 

Companies  in  Districts. 

District. 

Engines. 

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2 

Peter  F.  McDonough. . . 

5,9,11,40 

27,32,36* 

8,  25,  44 

*4,  6,  10 

7,  *26,  35 

*1,2,  15,38,39,43 

*3,  22,  33 

13,  14,  37 

12,  21,  23,  24 

16,  17,  *18, 19,  20. 

29,  34,  *41 

*28.  30,  42,  45 

7 
9 

1,  11 
2 
8 
4 

3,12 
10 

6 

5 

#2 

*9 

*8, 14 

1 

17 

5 

3, 13,  15 

*12 

*4 

6,7 

11 

10,16 

3 

2 
1 

3 

4 

5 

Wm.  T.  Cheswell 

1 

6 

7 

8 

2 

9 

10 

11 

12 

Williston  A.  Gaylord.... 
Lewis  P.  Abbott 

*  Headquarters  of  District  Chief. 


Fire  Department. 


11 


The  following  property  is  in  charge  of   the   Fire  Com- 
missioner : 

Engine-Houses  . 


No.  1 

2 

3 

4 


Dorchester  street 

Cor.  of  O  and  Fourth  streets 
Bristol  st.  and  Harrison  ave. 
Bulrineh  street 


Marion  street,  E.B 

Leverett  street 

East  street 

Salem  street 

Paris  street,  E.B 

River  street 

Saratoga  and  Byron  streets  . 

Dudley  street 

Cabot  street 

Centre  street 

Dorchester  avenue 

River  st.,  Dorchester  Dist.. 

Meetinghouse  Hill,  Dorches- 
ter Dist 


Harvard  street,  Dor.  Dist 

Norfolk  street,         "         — 
Walnut  street,  "        — 

Boston  street,  "        — 

Dartmouth  street 

Northampton  street 

Cor.  Warren  and  Quincy  sts 
Fort  Hill  square 


Mason  street 

Elm  St.,  Charlestown  Dist.  . 


Centre  street,  W.  Roxbury 
Disti'ict 


No.  of  feet 
in  lot. 


Chestnut  Hill  ave.,  Brighton 
District 


Mt.  Vernon  street,  W.  Rox- 
bury District 


Bunker  Hill  street. 


Cor.  Boylston  and  Hereford 
streets 


5,«98 
4,000 
4,000. 
6,098 

1,647 
2,269 
1,893 
2,568 
4,000 
1,886 

10,000 
7,320 
4,832 
5,713 
2,843 

12,736 

9,450 
10,225 
7,683 
9,000 
9,355 
4,463 
3,445 
4,186 
4,175 

5,623 
2,600 

10,377 

14,358 

16,275 


Ladder  No.  3  in  the  building. 

Chemical  Engine  No.  1,  Lan- 
cers' Armory,  and  water- 
tower  in  this  building. 


Ladder  No.  2  in  this  building. 


Ladder  No.  6  in  this  building. 
Ladder-house  No.  7  on  this  lot. 


Ladder  No.  8  and  Ladder  No. 
14  in  this  building. 


Engine  No.  35  in  this  building. 


Ladder  No.  10  in  this  building. 
Ladder  No.  11  in  this  building. 


Ladder  No.  15  in  this  buildin  s- 


12 


City  Document  No.  11. 
Engine-Houses  .  —  Concluded. 


No.  of  feet 
in  lot. 


Remarks. 


No. 33... 
34... 
35... 

36-37 
38... 

39... 

40... 

41... 
42... 

1... 

2. . . 
3... 

4... 
5... 

6..  . 

7... 

8... 

9... 
10.. 
11... 
12... 


Western  ave.,  Brighton . 
Monument  street 


Cor.  Longwood   and  Brook 
line  avenues 


Congress  street 

Sumner  St.,  East  Boston 

Harvard    ave.,    near    Cam- 
bridge St.,  Brighton  Dist. . . 

Washington  street,  between 
Atherton  and  Beethoven. . . 


Andrew  square. 


Poplar  St.,  cor.  Washington, 
W.  Roxbury 


Chemical-Engine  Houses. 

Bulftnch  street  

Church  street 


Cor.  Longwood  and  Brook- 
line  avenues 


Shawinut  avenue. 


Washington  street,  between 
Atherton  and  Beethoven. . . 

Harvard   ave.,     near    Cam- 
bridge St.,  Brighton  Dist.. . 

Chelsea  street,  East  Boston.. 

B  street 

Main  street 

Eustis  street 

North  Grove  street 

Tremont  street 


4,637 
5,668 

5,400 
4,000 
4,010 

6,112 

3,848 
5,133 


3,412 


1,346 
1,804 


1,754 
3,918 


Chem.  Eng.  3  in  this  building. 


Cheni.  Eng.  6  in  this  building. 
Chem.  Eng.  5  in  this  building. 


Ladder  No.  16  in  this  building. 


See  Engine-house  4. 


See  Engine-house  37. 


See  Engine  No.  42. 
See  Engine  No.  41. 


See  Ladder-house  9. 


See  Ladder-house  Vf. 


Hose-House. 


No.  of  feet 
in  lot. 


Winthrop  street . 


3,000 


Fire  Department. 


Combination-Wagon  Houses. 


No.  1. 
2. 


Dorchester  avenue,  Ashmont. 
Fourth  street 


No.  of 
feet  in  lot. 


4,875 
3,101 


Hook-and-Ladder  Houses. 


No.  of 
feet  in  lot. 


No.  1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6. 
7. 
8. 
9. 
10, 
11. 

12, 
13, 
14, 
15, 
16 
17, 


Friend  street 

Paris  street,  East  Boston . 

Harrison  avenue 

Dudley  street 

Fourth  street 

River  street,  Dorchester. . 

Meeting-house  Hill 

Fort  Hill  square 

Main  street,  Charlestown . 
Centre  street,  W.R 


Chestnut  Hill  avenue,  Brigh- 
ton District 


Tremont  street 

Washington,  near  Dover  st. 

Fort  Hill  square 

Boylston,  cor.  Hereford  St. . 

Koslindale 

Harrison  avenue 


1,676 


3,923 
2,469 


4,290 


4,350 
1,007 


See  Engine-house  9. 
See  Engine  3. 


See  Engine-house  16. 
See  Engine  17. 
See  Engine  Co.  25. 
Chemical  9  in  this  building. 
See  Engine-house  28. 

See  Engine-house  29. 
Chemical  12  in  this  building. 

See  Engine-house  25. 
Engine  33  in  this  building. 
See  Engine  45. 


'  Fuel-house,  Salem  street,  417  feet  of  land. 

Fuel-house,  Main  street,  Charlestown,  2,430  feet  of  land. 

Headquarters  Building  and  Repair-shop,  corner  of  Albany 
and  Bristol  streets,  23,663  feet. 

Water  Tower  No.  2  and  Wrecking  Wagon  are  in  Head- 
quarters Building. 

6,624  feet  of  land  on  Washington  street,  Dorchester,  pur- 
chased as  a  site  for  a  ladder-house. 


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New  Apparatus  purchased  during  the  Year. 

2  second  size  Manchester  Locomotive  Works  engines. 
1  first         "  "  "  "         engine. 

1  one-horse  chemical  engine. 

2  two-horse  hose  wagons. 
2  District  Chiefs' 


Hose. 

Amount  of   hose  purchased  and  condemned  during   the 
year: 

Purchased.  Condemned. 

Leading  cotton,  26,620  feet.  9,100  feet. 

"       rubber,          ....    "  700    " 

Chemical,              1,000   "  300    » 

Suction,                    184   »  137    « 


Totals,         27,804   « 


10,237    » 


Amount  of  hose  in  use  and  in  storehouse  February  1,  1897  : 


In  Use. 

In  Storehouse. 

Leading  cotton, 

81,000  feet. 

10,500  feet. 

"          rubber, 

2,700    « 

5,400    " 

Chemical, 

5,950    « 

1,300    « 

Suction, 

996    " 

233    " 

Totals,         90,646 


17,433    « 


Horses. 


Purchased  during  the  year    . 

.       47 

Sold  or  exchanged 

23 

Died 

4 

Killed,  for  cause  . 

4 

Number  in  the  department    . 

.     287 

20  City  Document  No.  11. 


FIRE-ALARM   BRANCH. 


Work  of  new  construction,  renewal  and  extension  for  the 
maintenance  of  the  efficiency  of  the  overhead  wires  of  the 
Fire- Alarm  service  has  been  carried  on  as  usual  during  the 
year. 

The  new  construction  has  been  confined  chiefly  to  Rox- 
bury  and  West  Roxbury,  the  other  work  being  done  in  such 
portions  of  the  city  as  conditions  required. 

About  forty-five  miles  of  new  wire  have  been  used  and 
514,639  feet  of  old  wire  taken  down. 

The  underground  district  for  1896,  as  prescribed  by  the 
Commissioner  of  Wires,  lies  within  the  lines  of  the  follow- 
ing streets  : 

Beginning  at  the  water,  along  Broad  street  to  Franklin, 
Washington,  Bro infield,  Tremont,  Court,  Hanover,  Washing- 
ton to  Charlestown  street,  to  the  water. 

All  work  in  this  district  was  completed  within  the  time 
required  by  law,  with  the  exception  of  a  small  number  of 
abandoned  poles  and  roof  fixtures  that  are  to  be  removed  in 
a  short  time. 

Some  underground  work  has  also  been  done  outside  the 
district. 

Cables  with  capacities  varying  from  10  to  61  conductors 
were  used  and  laid  in  subways  belonging  to  the  New 
England  Telephone  Company,  with  the  exception  of  2,467 
feet,  which  were  constructed  by  this  department.  Five 
man-holes  have  been  built  and  55  service  connections  made 
therewith. 


Total  length  of  cables  laid  in  district . 
Laid  outside  district  .... 
Total  length  conductors  in  district 
Conductors  outside  district 
Total  length  cables  now  underground 
Total  length  conductors 


20,143  feet. 

5,190 

509,671 

91,976 

81,233 

2,915,631 


The  underground  service  has  been  extended  to  31  boxes 
and  3  department  houses  and  20  new  boxes  have  been  estab- 
lished during  the  year. 

There  are  583  fire-alarm  boxes  now  in  service. 


Fire  Department.  21 

The  following'  boxes  are  private  property  :  38  duplicate, 

115,  119,  149,  152,  161,  227,  228,  244,  271,  279,  281,  283, 

299,  358,  422,  442,  443,  445,  446,  447,  448,  449,  511,  533, 

617,  619,  623,  624,  626,  629,  698,  711,  714,  715,  716,  718, 

722,'724,  725,  726,  727,  728,  729,  731,  733,  735,  737,  738, 

739,  741,  742,  744,  745,  746,  766,  769,  778,  779,  789,  791, 

792,  793,  794,  795,  796,  797,  799,  816,  838,  842,  919,  927, 
967,  971,  974. 

Alarm   Bells. 

The  Fire-alarm  Telegraph  is  connected  with  the  following 
bells  : 

Adams  Schoobhouse,  Sumner  street,  East  Boston,  steel, 
2,995  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Bunker  Hill  School-house,  Charlestown,  2009  lbs.,  owned 
by  city. 

Chapman  School-house,  Eutaw  street,  East  Boston,  steel, 
3,109^-  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

City  Hall,  Charlestown,  composition,  3,600  lbs.,  owned  by 
city. 

Engine-house  No.  16,  Temple  street,  Dorchester,  composi- 
tion, 4,149  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Engine-house  No.  17,  Meeting-House  Hill,  Dorchester,  com- 
position, 4,000  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Engine-house  No.  18,  Harvard  street,  Dorchester,  composi- 
tion, 3,184  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Engine-house  No.  19,  Mattapan,  Dorchester,  composition, 
2,927  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Engine-house  No.  20,  Walnut  street,  Dorchester,  composi- 
tion, 3,061  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Engine-house  No.  21,  Boston  street,  Dorchester,  composi- 
tion, 3,026,  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Engine-house  No.  28,  West  Roxbury,  composition,  4,000 
lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Engine-house  No.  29,  Brighton,  steel,  1,535  lbs.,  owned  by 
city. 

Engine-house  No.  30,  West  Roxbury,  300  lbs.,  owned  by 
city. 

Engine-house  No.  34,  Brighton,  composition,  1,501  lbs., 
owned  by  city. 

Engine-house  No.  40,  Orleans  street,  East  Boston,  composi- 
tion, 817  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Engine-house  No.  41,  Allston,  composition,  900  lbs.,  owned 
by  city. 


22  City  Document  No.  11. 

Engine-house   No.   45,    Roslindale,   composition,  1,059  lbs., 

owned  by  city. 
Faneuil  Hall,  steel,  5,816  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 
Lewis  School-house,  Dale  street,  Boston  Highlands,  composi- 
tion, 3,104  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 
Maverick-street    Church,    East  Boston,    composition,  2,000 

lbs. 
Princeton-street    School-house,     East    Boston,    composition, 

2,470  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 
Saratoga-street  M.  E.  Church,  East  Boston,  steel,  1,968  lbs., 

owned  by  city. 
Warren  School-house,  Charlestown,  composition,  3,000  lbs., 

owned  by  city. 
Winthrop    School-house,    Charlestown,    composition,    3,000 

lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Bells  owned  by  the  city,  which  have  been  disconnected 
from  service,  are  located  as  follows : 

Fire-alarm  repair  shop,  bell  formerly  used  on  house  of 
Chemical  Engine  5  ;  one  composition,  400  lbs.,  formerly 
used  on  house  of  Chemical  Engine  No.  4  ;  one  composition, 
400  lbs.,  formerly  used  on  house  of  Chemical  Engine  No. 
6 ;  and  two  small  bells  from  other  locations. 

Engine-house  No.  1,  Dorchester  street,  South  Boston,  com- 
position, 800  lbs. 

Engine-house  No.  2,  composition,  800  lbs. 

George-street  School-house,  Boston  Highlands,  composition, 
4,160  lbs. 

Hook-and-Ladder  House,  No.  4,  Dudley  street,  Boston  High- 
lands, composition,  3,509  lbs. 

Lawrence  School-house,  B  street,  South  Boston,  steel  3,400 
lbs. 

Lincoln  School-house,  Broadway,  South  Boston,  composition, 
3,110  lbs. 

Quincy  School-house,  Tyler  street,  composition,  2,941  lbs. 

Smith-street  School-house,  Highlands,  composition,  4,083 
lbs. 

Ticknor  School-house,  Dorchester  street,  Washington  Vil- 
lage, steel,  2,995  lbs. 

Trinity  Church,  Trenton  street,  East  Boston,  composition, 
1,760  lbs.     Formerly  used  on  Castle-street  Church. 

Van  Nostrand's  Brewery,  Charlestown,  composition,  818  lbs. 
Formerly  used  on  Boylston  School-house. 

Wells  School-house,  Blossom  street,  composition,  1,675  lbs. 


Fire  Department.  23 


Public  Clocks. 

The  following  public  clocks,  forty  in  number,  are  taken 
care  of  by  the  Fire  Department : 

City  Proper. 

Arlington-street  Church. 

Charles-street  Church. 

Christ  Church,  Salem  street,  owned  by  city. 

Commercial  Wharf. 

Odd  Fellows  Hall,  Tremont  street,  owned  by  city. 

Old  South  Church,  owned  by  city. 

Old  State-House,  owned  by  city. 

Park-street  Church. 

Suffolk  County  Jail,  owned  by  city. 

St.  Stephen's  Church,  Clark  street,  owned  by  city. 

Shawmut-avenue  Church. 

Tremont  M.  E.  Church,  owned  by  city. 

Young  Men's  Christian  Union,  owned  by  city. 

South  Boston. 

Bigelow  School-house,  owned  by  city. 

Gaston  School-house,  owned  by  city. 

Lincoln  School-house,  owned  by  city. 

Phillips  Church,  owned  by  city. 

St.  Augustine  Church,  Dorchester  street,  owned  by  city. 

Ticknor  School-house,  Washington  Village,  owned  by  city. 

East  Boston. 

Central  Square  Church. 
London-street  Church,  owned  by  city. 
Lyceum  Hall,  owned  by  city. 
Trinity  Church,  owned  by  city. 
Orient  Heights  Church,  owned  by  city. 

Boston  Highlands. 

Winthrop-street  Church,  owned  by  city. 

West  End  stables,  Tremont  street,  owned  by  city. 

Roxbury  High  School,  owned  by  city. 

Dorchester. 

Baker  Memorial  (Upham's  Corner),  owned  by  city. 
Neponset  Church. 


24  City  Document  No.  11. 

Tileston  School  (Mattapan),  owned  by  city. 
Unitarian  Church  (Milton  Lower  Mills). 

Charlesbown. 

Bunker  Hill  Church. 

City  Hall,  owned  by  city. 

Harvard  Hill  Church. 

High  School-house,  owned  by  city. 

Unitarian  Church. 

West  Roxbury. 

Dr.  Strong's  Church. 

Unitarian  Church. 

Congregational  Church  (Rosliudale),  owned  by  city. 

Brighton. 
Bennett  School-house,  owned  by  city. 

To  the  officers  and  men  of  the  department  I  can  heartily 
express  my  entire  satisfaction  with  the  spirit  and  manner  of 
their  work,  and  thank  them  for  their  successful  efforts 
to  sustain  our  good  name  and  reputation ;  and  I  cannot  too 
strongly  express  to  yourself  my  gratitude  for  the  uniformly 
generous  support  and  confidence  with  which  you  have 
favored  me. 

Your  very  obedient  servant, 

Henky  S.  Russell, 

Commissioner. 


ANNUAL  REPORT 


FIRE     DEPARTMENT 


YEAR    1897-98 


BOSTON: 

MUNICIPAL    PRINTING    OFFICE. 

1898: 


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ANNUAL   REPORT 


FIRE     DEPARTMENT 


YEAR    1897-98. 


BOSTON: 
MUNICIPAL    PRINTING     OFFICE. 

1898: 


Office  of  the  Fire  Commissioner, 
Bristol  Street,  Boston,  February  17,  1898.    , 

His  Honok  Josiah  Quincy,  Mayor : 

Sir  :  Good  fortune  during  the  past  year  has  enabled  this 
department  to  again  present  a  satisfactory  showing ;  and  for 
how  many  years  such  fortune  should  have  all  credit  for 
small  fire  losses  I  do  not  pretend  to  judge  ;  but  there  must 
be  a  point  at  which  eternal  vigilance  and  activity,  good  gen- 
eralship, zealous  leaders  and  anxious  followers  and  an  ex- 
cellent and  entirely  successful  system  for  receiving  and 
transmitting  alarms,  together  with  thorough  equipment  and 
appliance  for  fire  duty  may  claim  at  least  a  small  share  of 
credit  for  favorable  results.  But  with  all  the  vigilance,  dis- 
cipline and  equipment  possible,  we  cannot  hope  to  long  retain 
our  present  record  when  citizens  keep  hot  ashes  in  wooden 
barrels,  or  delay  in  giving  us  alarms  until  after  they  have  let 
a  small  blaze  grow  to  an  incipient  conflagration  through  their 
vain  efforts  to  perform  their  own  fire  fighting ;  or  while  real 
estate  owners  can  legally  build  tinder  boxes  in  the  shape  of 
tenement  houses,  or  leave  old  wooden  fire-traps  standing  in 
the  midst  of  large  and  valuable  buildings  ;  for  some  day,  with 
bad  luck  and  weather,  we  are  sure  to  find  ourselves  burdened 
with  heavy  fire  loss,  unless  our  law-makers  eradicate  the 
existing  evils,  which  may,  at  any  time,  postpone  to  the  far 
future  that  millennium  for  underwriters  which  every  fire  de- 
partment should  strive  to  establish.  The  wooden  camps 
pitched  in  some  of  our  outskirts,  as  well  as  much  of  South 
Boston,  offer  a  tempting  harvest  for  fire,  and  cannot  fail  to  be 
gathered  as  soon  as  the  conditions  of  wind  and  weather  are 
favorable,  in  spite  of  all  possible  firemen  and  fire  apparatus. 

The  so-called  fire-limit  should,  I  think,  be  speedily  drawn 
far  beyond  its  present  line  in  order  to  bring  within  the 
restriction  of  the  building  law  that  territory  which  at  present 


2  City  Document  No.  13. 

is  treated  as  a  country  district,  and  in  reality  is  fast  becoming 
a  terror  to  all  firemen. 

Nothing  has  knowingly  been  left  undone  which  could  in- 
crease the  efficiency  of  this  department  or  make  the  houses 
more  healthy,  serviceable  and  comfortable  for  the  men ;  and 
now  a  veterinary  hospital  is  our  only  crying  want,  the  old 
barn  at  present  used  for  that  purpose  being  the  one'  spot  in 
our  whole  outfit  not  suitable  for  the  important  work  required 
of  it ;  and  I  strongly  recommend  an  additional  ladder-truck 
for  that  part  of  our  territory  now  covered  by  Engines  38,  39, 
on  Congress  street,  for  the  reason  that  many  large  buildings 
have  been  erected  in  that  vicinity,  which,  in  case  of  need, 
would  require  nearer  ladder  service  than  at  present  afforded. 

The  fire-boat  (Engine  31)  has  not  yet  been  accepted,  be- 
cause she  requires,  in  my  opinion,  some  change  in  her  engines 
to  enable  her  to  successfully  cope  with  that  class  of  fires 
which  requires  speed  and  quick  handling  ;  and,  therefore,  the 
time  for  her  completion  has  been  extended  to  May. 

The  underground  12-inch  pipe  for  the  salt  water  sys- 
tem has  been  laid  for  3,800  feet  through  Congress  street, 
Post  Office  square  and  Central  street,  still  requiring  some 
300  feet  at  a  cost  of  about  $7,500  to  connect  it  at  each  end 
with  the  water  where  the  fire-boats  are  expected  to  provide 
the  power  necessary  to  force  water  through  the  various  hy- 
drants to  a  height  equal  to  or  beyond  that  attained  by  a 
street  engine. 

Our  two  (2)  horseless  propellers  have  given  very  satisfac- 
tory proof  of  their  ability  to  move  speedily  and  handily 
through  all  conditions  of  streets,  as  well  as  of  their  power  to 
throw  extraordinary  streams  of  water  after  reaching  the 
scene  of  action. 

No  fire-alarm  box  has  failed  to  properly  send  in  the  alarm 
to  these  headquarters ;  and,  while  six  million  five  hundred 
thousand  (6,500,000)  blows  have  been  struck  on  the  various 
bells  and  gongs  in  transmitting  alarms  from  these  head- 
quarters to  the  different  companies,  the  mechanical  and 
electrical  system  has  worked  with  such  exact  precision  that 
no  engine  or  ladder  has  been  at  any  time  seriously  at  fault  in 
responding. 


Fire  Department.  3 

I  know  of  no  case  where  the  officers  and  men  have  not 
done  excellent  work  when  called  upon,  and  trust  Your 
Honor  shares  my  confidence  that,  barring  accidents  and  mak- 
ing allowance  for  the  fallibility  of  man,  our  department  will 
continue  to  deserve  the  good-will  of  our  fellow-citizens, 
which,  during  the  past  week,  has  been  made  so  apparent 
through  the  sympathy  and  help  extended  by  them  to  the 
families  of  our  six  men  who  lost  their  lives  while  on  duty  at 
the  recent  fire  in  Merrimac  street. 

Organization. 

Commissioner,  Henry  S.  Russell,  appointed  January 
21,  1895  ;  term  expires  May,  1898. 

Secretary,  Benjamin  F.  Underhill,  Jr. 

Chief  of  Department,  Lewis  P.  Webber,  Headquarters, 
Bristol  street. 

Assistant  Chief,  William  T.  Cheswell,  Headquarters, 
Engine-house  26,  Mason  street. 

Second  Assistant  Chief  and  Chief  of  District  No.  6,  John 
A.  Mullen,  Headquarters,  Engine-house  1,  Dorchester 
street. 

Superintendent  of  Fire  Alarms,  Brown  S.  Flanders. 

Assistant  Superintendent  of  Fire  Alarms,  Cyrus  A. 
George 

Consulting  Electrician,  Henry  F.  Cottle. 

Superintendent  of  Repair  Shop,  Henby  M.  Hawkins. 

Assistant  Superintendent  of  Repair  Shop,  Eugene  M. 
Byington. 

Veterinary  Surgeon,  George  W.  Stimpson. 

Medical  Examiner,  Rue  us  W.  Sprague. 

Purchasing  Officer,  Charles  A.  Straw. 

Storekeeper,  Geobue  R.  Knight. 

Clerks. 

Wm.  E.  Delano,  M.  J.  Lafferty,  Geo.  F.  Murphy,  James  P. 

Maloney. 

D.  J.  Quinn,  Messenger. 

District    Chiefs. 

John  F.  Ryan,  Headquarters,  Ladder-house  2. 

C  H.  W.  Pope,  "  "9. 


City  Document  No.  13. 


Joseph  M.  Garrity,  Headquarters, 

Peter  F.  McDonough,  " 

Nathan  L.  Hussey,  " 

Patrick  E.  Keyes,  " 

John  Grady,  " 

Edward  H.  Sawyer,  " 

Williston  A.  Gaylord,  " 

George  F.  Griffin,  "■ 

Lewis  P.  Abbott,  " 


Ladder-house    8. 

Engine-house    4. 

26. 

3. 

Ladder-house  12. 

4. 

Engine-house  18. 

41. 

28. 


Force  and  Pay-Roll. 


Commissioner 
Secretary    . 
Chief  of  Department 
First  Assistant  Chief 
Second     "  "     . 

Superintendent  of  Fire  Alarms 
Assistant  Supt.  "      "  " 

Consulting  Electrician 
Superintendent  of  Repair  Shop 
Assistant  Supt.  "       "         " 
Veterinary  Surgeon 
Medical  Examiner 
Purchasing  Officer 
Storekeeper 
2  Clerks 
1  Clerk. 
1  Clerk. 
1  Messenger  . 

11   District  Chiefs 

54  Captains 

62  Lieutenants 

43  Engineers    . 

46  Assistant  Engineers 

454  Permanent  men 
297  at 

39    " 

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37    « 

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Driver  for  Chief  of  Department 


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44 

1,000 

44 

900 

44 

720 

44 

325 

44 

250 

44 

200 

44 

1.95  per 

day. 

Fire  Department. 


2  Drivers  for  Assistant  Chiefs 

10  Drivers  for  District  Chiefs   . 

2  Watchmen .         .         .         . 

2  Hostlers,  average 

Fire  Alarm  Force. 

6  Operators    . 

2  Assistant- Operators     . 

1  Foreman  of  Construction 

1  Dynamo  man 

18  Repairers,  average 


1.75  per  clay. 
1.75 
1,000  per  annum. 
2.10  per  clay. 


£1,600  per  annum. 
1,200 
1,800 
2.00  per  day. 

2.83 


Repair  Shop  Employees. 


1  Engineer 

1  Assistant  Engineer 

1  Harness-maker     . 

2  Painters,  average 
2  Wheelwrights,  average 
6  Machinists,  average 
4  Blacksmiths,  average  . 
2  Blacksmiths'  helpers,  average 
4  Laborers      .... 


$3.00  per  day. 
9.00  per  annum. 
4.00  per  day. 
3.12 
3.25 
3.17 
3.19 
2.50 
1.94 


849  Total  force. 

Fire  Districts. 

The  city  is  divided  into  twelve  fire  districts,  as  follows  : 

District  1. 
All  that  part  of  Boston  known  as  East  Boston. 

District  2. 
All  that  part  of  Boston  formerly  known  as  Charlestown. 

District  3. 

The  territory  bounded  on  the  north  and  east  by  the  water 
front,  on  the  south  by  Summer  street,  and  on  the  west  by 
Washington  and  Charlestown  streets. 

District  If. 

The  territory  bounded  on  the  north  by  the  Charles  river, 
on  the  east  by  Charlestown  and  Washington  streets,  on  the 
south  by  Winter,  Park  and  Beacon  streets,  and  on  the  west 
by  the  Charles  river  and  Berkeley  street. 


City  Document  No.  13. 


District  5. 


The  territory  bounded  on  the  north  by  Beacon,  Park, 
Winter  and  Summer  streets,  on  the  east  by  Fort  Point 
channel,  on  the  south  and  west  by  Broadway,  Way,  Motte, 
Castle  and  Ferdinand  streets,  Columbus  avenue  and  Berke- 
ley street. 

District  6. 

All  that  part  of  Boston  known  as  South  Boston,  and  run- 
ning south  as  far  as  Dorset  and  Locust  streets. 

District  7. 

The  territory  bounded  on  the  north  by  Berkeley  street, 
Columbus  avenue,  Ferdinand,  Castle,  Motte  and  Way 
streets,  and  Broadway,  on  the  east  by  Fort  Point  channel 
and  South  bay,  on  the  south  by  Massachusetts  avenue,  and 
on  the  west  by  the  Charles  river. 

District  8. 

The  territory  bounded  on  the  north  by  the  Charles  river 
and  Massachusetts  avenue,  on  the  east  by  Washington  street, 
on  the  south  by  Atherton  and  Mozart  streets,  Chestnut 
avenue,  Sheridan  and  Centre  streets,  Hyde  square,  Perkins, 
Catalpa  and  Castleton  streets,  across  Jamaicaway  to  the 
Brookline  line,  and  on  the  west  by  the  Brookline  line, 
Beacon  and  Deerfield  streets. 

District  9. 

The  territory  bounded  on  the  north  by  Massachusetts 
avenue,  South  bay,  Dorset  and  Locust  streets,  on  the  east 
by  Dorchester  bay,  on  the  south  by  Freeport,  Hancock, 
Bowdoin,  and  Quincy  streets,  Columbia  road,  and  on  the 
west  by  Seaver  street,  Columbus  avenue  and  Washington 
street. 

District  10. 

That  part  of  Dorchester  bounded  on  the  north  by  Seaver 
street,  Columbia  road,  Quincy,  Bowdoin,  Hancock,  and 
Freeport  streets,  on  the  east  by  Dorchester  bay,  on  the 
south  by  the  Neponset  river  ami  the  Hyde  Park  line,  and  on 
the  west  by  Harvard  street  and  Blue  Hill  avenue. 

District  11. 
All  that  part  of  Boston  known  as  Brighton,  and  extending 
east  as  far  as  Deerfield  and  Beacon  streets. 


Fire  Department.  7 

District  12. 

All  that  part  of  Boston  known  as  West  Roxbury,  bounded 
on  the  north  by  a  line  from  the  Brookline  line  across  Jamaica- 
way  to  Castleton  street,  through  Castleton,  Catalpa  and  Per- 
kins streets,  Hyde  square,  Centre  and  Sheridan  streets, 
Chestnut  avenue,  Mozart  and  Atherton  streets,  Columbus 
avenue  and  Seaver  street,  on  the  east  by  Blue  Hill  avenue 
and  Harvard  street,  on  the  south  by  the  Hyde  Park  and 
Dedham  lines,  and  on  the  west  by  the  Newton  and  Brookline 
lines. 

In  all  cases  where  streets  are  designated  as  boundaries, 
the  centre  of  the  street  will  be  the  dividing  line. 

Assignment  of  Districts. 
Each  district  is   placed   under  the  charge  of    a  District 
Chief,  as  follows : 


Chief  in  Command. 

Companies  in  Districts. 

District. 

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Joseph  M.  Garrity 

Peter  F.  McDonough  . 

Patrick  E.  Keyes 

1 
2 

9 

10 

11 

12 

Edward  H.  Sawyer 

Williston  A.  Gaylord.. 
George  F.  Griffin 

*  Headquarters  of  District  Chief. 

The  following-named  members  have  received  medals  from 
the  Massachusetts  Humane  Society  for  saving  life  at  fires 
during  the  year : 

Captain  John  I.  Quigley,  Engine  Company  4. 

Hoseman  John  Hogan,  Engine  Company  4. 

Ladderman  James  F.  Bailey,  Ladder  Company  17. 


8  City  Document  No.  13. 

The  following   property  is    in    charge  of   the  Fire  Com- 
missioner: 

Houses. 


Location. 

No.  of  feet 
in  lot. 

Occupied  by. 

5,698 
4,000 

1. 

Corner  of  O  and  Fourth  streets 

Engine 

2. 

Bristol  street  and  Harrison  avenue  . . 

4,000 

Engine 

3  and  Ladder  3. 

6,098 

Engine 

1,647 

Engine 

5. 

2,269 
1,893 
2,568 

Engine 

6. 

7. 

Engine 

8. 

4,720 
1,886 

Engine 
Engine 

10. 

10,000 
7.320 

12. 

4,832 

13. 

5,713 
2,843 
12,736 

Engine 
Engine 
Engine 

14. 

15. 

River  street,  Dorchester  District. .   . . 

16  and  Ladder  6. 

Meeting-house  Hill,  Dorchester  Dist.. 

9,450 

Engine  17  and  Ladder-house  7  on 
this  lot. 

Harvard  street,  Dorchester  District. . 

10,225 

Engine 

18. 

Norfolk  street,                   " 

7,683 

Engine 

19. 

Walnut  street,                   " 

9,000 

Engine 

20. 

Boston  street,                    " 

9,355 

Engine 

21. 

4,463 

Engine 

22. 

3,445 

4,186 

23. 

Corner  Warren  and  Quincy  streets.. 

Engine 

24. 

4,175 
5,623 
2,600 

Elm  street,  Charlestown  District 

Engine 

27. 

Centre  street,  West  Roxbury  District, 

10,377 

Engine 

2S  and  Ladder  10. 

Chestnut  Hill  ave.,  Brighton  District, 

14,358 

Engine 

29  and  Ladder  11. 

Mt.  Vernon  St.,  W.  Roxbury  District, 

16,275 

Engine 

30. 

Bunker  Hill  street - 

8,188 

32. 

Corner  Boylston  and  Hereford  sts 

5,646 

Engine 

33  and  Ladder  15. 

4,637 

34. 

5,668 

Engine 

36  and  Combination  5. 

Fire  Department. 
Houses. —  Concluded. 


So.  of  feet 
in  lot. 


Occiipied  by. 


Cor.  Longwood  and  Brookline  aves. . 

Congress  street 

Sumner  street,  East  Boston 

Harvard  avenue,  near  Cambridge  st., 
Brighton  District 

Washington  street, between  Atherton 
and  Beethoven 

Andrew  square 

Poplar  street,  cor.  Washington,  West 
Roxbury 

Church  street 

Shawmut  avenue 

Chelsea  street,  East  Boston 

B  street 

Eustis  street 

North  Grove  street 

Winthrop  street 

Friend  street 

Dudley  street 

Fourth  street 

Main  street,  Charlestown 

Tremont  street 

Washington,  near  Dover  street. . . . 

Harrison  avenue 

Dorchester  avenue,  Ashmont 

Fourth  street 


5,400 
4,000 
4,010 

6,112 

3,848 
5,133 

14,729 
3,412 
889 
1,346 
1,804 
1,754 
3,918 
3,000 
1,676 
3,923 
2,469 
4,290 
4,350 
1,007 
2,134 
4,S75 
3,101 


Engine  37  and  Chemical  3. 
Engine  38  and  Engine  39. 
Engine  40. 

Engine  41  and  Chemical  6. 

Engine  42  and  Chemical  5. 
Engine  43  and  Combination  3. 

Engine  45  and  Ladder  16. 
Chemical  Engine  2. 
Chemical  Engine  4. 
Chemical  Engine  7. 
Chemical  Engine  8.    . 
Chemical  Engine  10. 
Chemical  Engine  11. 
Hose  3. 
Ladder  1. 
Ladder  4. 
Ladder  5. 

Ladder  9  and  Chemical  9. 
Ladder  12  and  Chemical  12. 
Ladder  13. 
Ladder  17. 
Combination  1. 
Combination  2. 


Fuel-house,  Dorchester  street,  1,610  feet  of  land. 

Fuel-house,  Salem  street,  417  feet  of  land. 

Fuel-house,  Main  street,  Charlestown,  2,430  feet  of  land. 

Headquarters  Building  and  Repair-shop,  corner  of  Albany 
and  Bristol  streets,  23,663  feet. 

Water  Tower  No.  2  and  Wrecking  Wagon  are  in  Head- 
quarters Building. 

6,874  feet  of  land  on  Washington  street,  Dorchester,  pur- 
chased as  a  site  for  a  ladder-house,  which  is  now  in  process 
of  construction. 

12,251  feet  of  land  on  Centre  street,  West  Roxbury,  pur- 
chased as  a  site  for  Engine-House  30,  which  is  now  in  pro- 
cess of  construction. 


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New  Apparatus  Purchased  duping  the  Year. 

2  double-extra  first-size  self-propelling  steam  fire-engines. 

3  large  sized  hose-wagons. 

2  traverse-runner  pungs. 

3  combination  chemical  and  ladder  trucks. 
1  fire-alarm  wagon. 

1  platform  gear-wagon. 


Hose. 

Amount   of   hose  purchased  and  condemned  during    tht 
year : 

Purchased.  Condemned. 

Leading  cotton,  10,400  feet.  12,000  feet. 

rubber,    4,800     "  1,200     " 

Chemical,                     —     "  400   ■■" 

Suction,                      68    "  141     " 


Totals,         15,268    " 


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1898: 


In  Use. 

Leading  cotton,  77,400  feet. 

"       rubber,    6,450     " 

Chemical,               6,750    " 

.  Suction,                     948     " 

In  Storehouse. 

12,250  feet 
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Horses. 

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19 


Causes  of  Fires   and  Alarms,  from   Feb 

fuary 

1,  1897,  to 

February  1,  1898. 

Alarms,  accidental,  automatic   ...                              41 

"        false 

24 

"        out-of-town 

21 

Ashes,  hot,  in  wooden  receptacle 

26 

Back  draft        ..... 

1 

Boiling  over  of  tar  or  fat  . 

30 

Bonfires,  grass,  rubbish,  etc. 

.       278 

Careless  use  of  lamps,  candles,  etc.    . 

51 

"         "     "  pipe  and  cigars 

36 

Chimneys,  soot  burning     . 

70 

"           defective 

27 

Clothes  too  near  stove 

16 

Defective  flue  ..... 

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"          grate          .... 

3 

"          furnace     .          .         . 

2 

"          sprinkler  . 

1 

Electric  motor  igniting  car 

25 

"       wires  .          .          .          .          . 

78 

Explosion  and  ignition  of  chemicals  . 

16 

Fireworks         ..... 

35 

Friction  ...... 

4 

Fumigating      ..... 

3 

Gas,  explosion  of 

5 

"    ignition  of  leaky  pipes 

8 

"   jet  setting  fire  .... 

44 

'"   stove,  careless  use  of  and  explosion 

14 

Incendiary        ..... 

38 

"         supposed 

18 

Kerosene  lamp,  explosion  or  breaking 

91 

"            "      upsetting 

37 

"        stove,  careless  use  of,  and  explo 

sion 

59 

Light  mistaken  for  fire 

20 

Lightning         ..... 

1 

Matches,  and  rats     ..... 

26 

"        careless  use  of    .         .         .         . 

94 

"        children  playing  with  . 

51 

Naphtha,  careless  use  of  and  ignition 

12 

Overheated  stove  or  furnace 

64 

"           steam-pipe  or  boiler 

15 

"           chimneys 

6 

Use  of  kerosene  to  light  fire 

5 

Drying  plastering     ..... 

12 

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City  Document  No.  13. 


Rekindling  of  ruins  of  previous  fire  . 

4 

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Smoky  chimney         .         .          .          .          . 
"      furnace  or  stove    .          .          .          . 

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Sparks  from  another  fire   . 

2 

"          "       furnace  or  stove    . 

11 

"          "      chimney 

"          "      locomotive     .          .          .          . 

26 
33 

"         "      forge     .         .         .         .         . 

8 

Spontaneous  combustion  . 

40 

Steam  escaping          .          .          .          .         . 
Unknown         ...... 

8 
219 

Water-pipes,  thawing  out 
Plumbers'  stove  upsetting 

.        .        17 

7 

Total         .          . 

.    1,877 

Total  number  of  actual  fires 

.    1,577 

Confined  to  one  building  . 

.    1,270 

Extended  to  others  .... 

29 

Wharves,  vessels,  grass,  etc. 

.       278 

Out  of  the  city         .... 

.         .         21 

Buildings. 

Slightly  damaged      .... 
Considerably  damaged 
Totally  destroyed      .... 
Not  damaged    ..... 

.       717 

72 

20 

.       530 

Extinguished  by 

Extinguishers  ..... 
Buckets  of  water      .          .    * 

.       355 

.       260 

Chemical  engines      .... 

.       237 

Hydrant  stream         .... 
Steamers .          . 

.       165 

.       278 

Police       ...... 

7 

Citizens    ...... 

.       275 

Total 


1,577 


Fieb  Department.  21 


FIRE-ALARM   BRANCH. 


The  efficiency  of  the  overhead  service  has  heen  improved 
during  the  past  year  by  the  construction  of  a  new  circuit  in 
West  Roxbury,  with  which  a  portion  of  the  boxes  in  that 
district  have  been  connected.  There  were  used  for  this  work, 
including  some  renewals  and  extensions  in  other  parts  of  the 
city,  129,360  feet  of  wire.  Old  wire  taken  down  in  1897, 
underground  district,  67,380  feet ;  outside  district,  93,050 
feet. 

The  underground  district  for  1897,  as  prescribed  by  the 
Commissioner  of  Wires,  lies  within  the  lines  of  the  follow- 
ing streets  : 

Beginning  at  Warren  bridge,  along  Charlestown  street  to 
Washington,  Hanover,  Court,  Tremont,  Park,  Beacon,  Joy 
and  Cambridge  streets  to  Charles  river. 

All  work  within  this  district  was  practically  completed  in 
the  time  designated,  and  in  addition  to  this  nearly  as  much 
cable  has  been  laid  outside,  chiefly  on  Tremont  street,  south 
of  Dover  street,  and  in  some  streets  on  the  Back  Bay. 

The  cables  used  have  been  from  ten  to  thirty-seven  con- 
ductors, and  are  laid  in  ducts  belonging  to  the  New  England 
TelejDhone  Company,  with  the  exception  of  4,911  feet,  which 
are  owned  by  this  department. 

"Total  length  of  cables  laid  in  district          .  13,016.4  feet. 

Length  of  conductors        ....  365,621.5 

Cables  laid  outside  district         .         .         .  12,876.1 

Length  of  conductors        ....  246,736.4 

Total  length  cables  now  underground         .  107,125.5 

Total  length  conductors   ....  3,527,988.9 

The  underground  service  has  been  extended  to  thirty-eight 
boxes,  twenty  of  which  are  placed  on  lamp-posts,  two  depart- 
ment houses,  two  police  stations,  and  an  emergency  station 
of  the  Boston  Elevated  Railway  Company,  on  Portland  street. 
Eight  testing  stations  have  been  established,  four  manholes 
built  and  forty-one  service  connections  made,  twenty-two  of 
the  latter  being  done  outside  the  district. 

All  the  fire-alarm  boxes  north  of  Dover  and  Berkeley 
streets  are  now  connected  with  the  underground  service,  with 
the  exception  of  boxes  95  and  766.     There  have  been  966 


22  City  Document  No.  13. 

bell  alarms  given  during  the  j^ear  which  required  6,506,684 
blows  to  be  struck  by  the  various  apparatus  of  the  system. 
Nineteen  new  boxes  have  been  established,  making  a  total  of 
601  boxes  now  in  service. 

The  following  boxes  are  private  property :  38  duplicate, 
115,  119,  149,  152,  161,  165,  227,  228,  244,  271,  279,  281, 
283,  299,  358,  422,  442,  443,  445,  446,  447,  448,  449,  511, 
533,  617,  619,  623,  624,  626,  629,  698,  711,  714,  715,  716, 
718,  722,  724,  725,  726,  727,  728,  729,  733,  735,  737,  738, 
739,  741,  742,  744,  745,  746,  766,  769,  778,  779,  789,  791, 
792,  793,  794,  797,  799,  816,  836,  838,  842,  864,  865,  919, 
927,  967,  971,  974. 

Alarm  Bells. 

The  Fire-alarm  Telegraph  is  connected  with  the  following 
bells: 

Adams  School-house,  Sumner  street,  East  Boston,  steel, 
2,995  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Bunker  Hill  School-house,  Charlestown,  2,009  lbs.,  owned  by 
city. 

Chapman  School-house,  Eutaw  street,  East  Boston,  steel, 
3,109^  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

City  Hall,  Charlestown,  composition,  3,600  lbs.,  owned  by 
city. 

Engine-house  No.  16,  Temple  street,  Dorchester,  composi- 
tion, 4,149  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Engine-house  No.  17,  Meeting-House  Hill,  Dorchester,  com- 
position, 4,000  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Engine-house  No.  18,  Harvard  street,  Dorchester,  composi- 
tion, 3,184  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Engine-house  No.  19,  Mattapan,  Dorchester,  composition, 
2,927  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Engine-house  No.  20,  Walnut  street,  Dorchester,  composi- 
tion, 3,061  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Engine-house  No.  21,  Boston  street,  Dorchester,  composi- 
tion, 3,026  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Engine-house  No.  28,  West  Roxbury,  composition.  4,000 
lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Engine-house  No.  29,  Brighton,  steel,  1,535  lbs.,  owned  by 
city. 

Engine-house  No.  30,  West  Roxbury,  300  lbs.,  owned  by 
city. 

Engine-house  No.  34,  Brighton,  composition,  1,501  lbs., 
owned  by  city. 

Engine-house  No.  40,  Orleans  street,  East  Boston,  composi- 
tion, 817  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 


Fere  Department.  23 

Engine-house  No.  41,  Allston,  composition,  900  lbs.,  owned 

by  city.  _  - 

Engine-house   No.  45,  Roslindale,    composition,    1,059  lbs., 

owned  by  city. 
Faneuil  Hall,  steel,  5,816  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 
Lewis  School-house,  Dale  street,    Boston   Highlands,   com- 
position, 3,104  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 
Maverick-street  Church,  East  Boston,  composition,  2,000  lbs. 
Princeton-street    School-house,    East    Boston,     composition, 

2,470  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 
Saratoga-street  M.  E.  Church,  East  Boston,  steel,  1,968  lbs., 

owned  by  city. 
Warren  School-house,  Charlestown,  composition,  3,000  lbs., 

owned  by  city. 
Winthrop  School-house,  Charlestown,  composition,  3,000  lbs., 

owned  by  city. 

Bells   owned  by  the   city,  which  have  been  disconnected 
from  service,  are  located  as  follows : 

Fire-alarm  repair  shop,  bell  formerly  used  on  house  of 
Chemical  Engine  5  ;  one  composition,  400  lbs.,  formerly 
used  on  house  of  Chemical  Engine  No.  4  ;  one  composi- 
tion, 400  lbs.,  formerly  used  on  house  of  Chemical  Engine 
No.  6  ;  and  two  small  bells  from  other  locations. 

Engine-house  No.  1,  Dorchester  street,  South  Boston,  com- 
position, 800  lbs. 

Engine-house  No.  2,  composition,  800  lbs. 

George-street  School-house,  Boston  Highlands,  composition, 
4,160  lbs. 

Hook-and-Ladder-House,  No.  4,  Dudley  street,  Boston  High- 
lands, composition,  3,509  lbs. 

Lawrence  School-house,  B  street,  South  Boston,  steel, 
3,400  lbs. 

Lincoln  School-house,  Broadway,  South  Boston,  composi- 
tion, 3,110  lbs. 

Quincy  School-house,  Tyler  street,  composition,  2,941  lbs. 

^Smith-street  School-house,  Highlands,  composition,  4,083  lbs. 

Ticknor  School-house,  Dorchester  street,  Washington  Vil- 
lage, steel,  2,995  lbs. 

Trinity  Church,  Trenton  street,  East  Boston,  composition, 
1,760  lbs.     Formerly  used  on  Castle-street  Church. 

Van  Nostrand's  Brewery,  Charlestown,  composition,  818  lbs. 
Formerly  used  on  Boylston  School-house. 

Wells  School-house,  Blossom  street,  composition,  1,675  lbs. 


24  City  Document  No.  13. 


Public  Clocks. 

The  following  public  clocks,  thirty-nine    in   number,   are 
taken  care  of  by  the  Fire  Department : 

City  Proper. 

Arlington-street  Church. 

Charles-street  Church. 

Christ  Church,  Salem  street,  owned  by  city. 

Commercial  Wharf. 

Odd  Fellows  Hall,  Tremont  street,  owned  by  city. 

Old  South  Church,  owned  by  city. 

Old  State-House,  owned  by  city. 

Park-street  Church. 

Suffolk  County  Jail,  owned  by  city. 

St.  Stephen's    Church,  corner   Hanover  and   Clark  streets, 

owned  by  city. 
Shawmut-avenue  Church. 
Tremont  M.  E.  Church,  owned  by  city. 
Young  Men's  Christian  Union,  owned  by  city. 

South  Boston. 

Bigelow  School-house,  owned  by  city. 

Gaston  School-house,  owned  by  city. 

Lincoln  School-house,  owned  by  city. 

Phillips  Church,  owned  by  city. 

St.  Augustine  Church,  Dorchester  street,  owned  by  city. 

Ticknor  School-house,  Washington  Village,  owned  by  city. 

East  Boston. 

Central  Square  Church. 
London-street  Church,  owned  by  city. 
Lyceum  Hall,  owned  by  city. 
Trinity  Church,  owned  by  city. 
Orient  Heights  Church,  owned  by  city. 

Roxbury. 

Winthrop-street  Church,  owned  by  city. 

West  End  stables,  Tremont  street,  owned  by  city. 

Dorchester. 

Baker  Memorial  (Upham's  Corner),  owned  by  city. 
Neponset  Church. 


Fire  Department..  25 

Tileston  School  (Mattapan),  owned  by  city. 
Unitarian  Church  (Milton  Lower  Mills). 

Charlestown. 

Bunker  HiU  Church. 

City  Hall,  owned  by  city. 

Harvard  Hill  Church. 

High  School-house,  owned  by  city. 

Unitarian  Church. 

West  Roxbury. 

Dr.  Strong's  Church. 

Unitarian  Church. 

Congregational  Church  (Roslindale),  owned  by  city. 

Brighton. 
Bennett  School-house,  owned  by  city. 

Your  obedient  servant, 

Henry  S.  Russell, 

Commissioner. 


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Headquarters  Fire  Department, 
Bristol  Street,  Boston,  February  8,  1S99. 

His  Honor  Josiah  Qulncy,  Mayor: 

Sir, — While,  by  the  good  fortune  which  has  favored  this 
department  during  recent  years,  we  are  again  able  to  show  a 
fair  result  of  last  year's  work,  I  regret  to  point  to  the  dangers 
referred  to  in  my  last  report  as  in  no  degree  lessened,  and 
can  only  hope  that  by  continued  vigilance  and  promptness, 
.we  may,  at  least,  postpone  that  conflagration  at  all  times 
threatening  through  the  presence  of  fire-traps  and  tinder- 
boxes  in  many  parts  of  the  territory  supposed  to  be  pro- 
tected by  this  department. 

The  salt-water  service  from  Atlantic  avenue  through 
Congress  street,  Post  Office  square  and  Central  street,  to 
Central  Wharf  has  been  perfected,  with  hydrants,  electrical 
connections,  etc.,  complete,  to  be  used  by  the  two  fire-boats 
when  needed  to  prevent  conflagrations,  if  possible,  in  the 
district  covered,  but  not  for  ordinary  fire  duty,  and  if  it  is 
deemed  advisable  to  extend  such  service  which,  on  trial,  has 
proved  eminently  successful  in  throwing  some  3,000  gallons 
per  minute  to  the  height  of  a  ten  (10)  story  building,  I 
would  recommend  that  a  16-inch  pipe  be  laid  from  Central 
Wharf  through  Atlantic  avenue,  India  and  Franklin  to  Con- 
gress street,  from  Congress  street  through  Atlantic  avenue, 
Summer,  Bedford,  Chauncy,  Summer,  Hawley  and  Milk 
streets  to  Congress  street  to  cover  a  thickly-congested  terri- 
tory to  which,  at  any  time,  we  may  be  called  to  fight  a  con- 
flagration. 

The  new  house  for  Engine  30  on  Centre  street,  West 
Roxbury,  John  A.  Fox,  architect,  was  occupied  on  June  1, 
to  the  satisfaction  of  all  concerned,  and  on  November  8,  the 
company  for  Combination  6  was  organized  and  established 
in  new  quarters  at  Grove  Hall,  Dorchester,  Perkins  &Betton, 
architects,  much  to  the  relief  of  a  long-expectant  neighbor- 
hood. 


2  City  Document  No.  13. 

The  second  fire-boat,  Engine  31,  after  many  trials,  is  now 
in  service,  and  owing  to  her  small  draft  of  some  four  feet 
is  able  to  protect  the  shallow  portions  of  our  water  front 
beyond  the  reach  of  the  deeper  boat. 

I  would  strongly  urge  that  our  wires  of  the  Fire-alarm 
branch  be  placed  under  ground  from  Dover  street  bridge  to 
Tremont  street,  up  Tremont  to  Roxbury,  from  Roxbury 
to  Washington,  down  Washington  to  Eustis,  from  Eustis  to 
Harrison  avenue,  down  Harrison  avenue  to  Northampton, 
through  Northampton  to  Albany,  down  Albany  to  the  point 
of  starting.  And  also  in  Charlestown  from  Warren  bridge 
through  City  square  to  Park  street,  through  Park  to  Henley, 
through  Henley  to  Chelsea,  through  Chelsea  street  to  Chelsea 
bridge,  inasmuch  as  the  storms  of  the  past  year  have  clearly 
demonstrated  the  advantage  of  such  action,  both  for  economy 
and  for  the  efficiency  of  this  very  important  branch  of  the 
department. 

But  little  new  construction  work  has  been  done  by  this 
branch  in  the  past  year,  owing  to  the  fact  that  nearly  the 
whole  of  the  underground  work  called  for  in  the  district  for 
1898,  as  prescribed  by  the  Commissioner  of  Wires,  was  com- 
pleted during  the  season  of  1897,  bounded  as  follows  :  Be- 
ginning at  Charles  river,  by  Cambridge,  Joy,  Beacon  and 
Charles  streets,  Park  square,  Columbus  avenue,  Ferdinand 
street,  Castle  square,  Tremont  and  Berkeley  streets  back  to 
the  river. 

This  completes  the  underground  district  as  originally  pre- 
scribed by  act  of  the  Legislature,  passed  in  1894. 

The  electrical  service  established  in  connection  with  the 
salt-water  pipe-line  system  consists  of  a  circuit  contained  in 
a  five  conductor  cable,  drawn  through  ducts  that  were  laid  hi 
the  same  trench  as  the  water-pipes  and  at  the  same  time  ;  the 
circuit  thus  constructed  is  connected  with  a  break  key  en- 
closed at  each  post  hydrant,  also  with  a  device  by  which  tele- 
graphic instruments  can  be  placed  in  circuit  at  any  time  ;  so, 
by  making  use  of  the  first  the  prescribed  signal  code  can  be 
transmitted  to  the  fire-boat  station  by  any  one,  and,  by  the 
other,  messages  of  any  character  may  be  sent  by  men 
trained  for  the  purpose. 


Fire  Department.  3 

The  circuit  is  also  extended  to  the  fire-alarm  headquarters 
by  which  communication  is  established  between  headquarters, 
the  boat-station  and  any  hydrant  that  may  be  connected  at 
the  time. 

Two  thousand,  five  hundred  and  sixty  feet  of  cable,  con- 
taining 27,800  feet  of  conductors,  were  used  in  this  con- 
struction. 

Much  extra  work  was  caused  by  the  two  heavy  storms  of 
the  year ;  that  of  January  31  was  especially  disastrous  to 
the  overhead  service,  as  the  wires,  poles  and  fixtures  erected 
for  their  support  were  broken,  torn  down,  and  otherwise 
demoralized  to  a  greater  extent  than  ever  occurred  on  any 
previous  occasion  since  the  fire-alarm  system  was  established. 

The  damage  resulting  from  the  November  storm  was  much 
less  in  extent,  but  a  great  amount  of  emergency  work  was 
made  necessary  by  it  before  the  circuits  were  restored  to 
their  normal  condition. 

The  whole  fire-alarm  system  has  continued  to  show  its 
excellence  through  alarm-boxes  and  transmitters,  the  former 
never  failing  to  properly  send  in  the  alarms,  while  the  latter, 
in  sending  them  out,  has  struck  7,300,000  blows  without 
serious  mistakes  in  directing  the  engines  and  other  apparatus. 

Referring  to  my  report  of  last  year,  I  would  again  recom- 
mend that  an  additional  ladder  company  be  placed  in  the 
territory  adjacent  to  Engines  38-39,  on  Congress  street,  to 
provide  necessary  ladder  service  for  the  many  large  buildings 
in  that  neighborhood. 

Several  of  the  outlying  districts  have  received  increased 
protection  through  additional  horses  and  chemicals  in  the 
companies  at  present  protecting  them,  and  I  cannot  see  the 
necessity  of  providing  new  companies  for  such  districts, 
although  I  well  know  that  every  new  hamlet  prefers  to  de- 
pend on  the  protection  of  the  Fire  Department,  rather  than  on 
that  of  insurance  companies,  and  after  pitching  their  wooden 
camps  expect  the  city  to  provide  adjacent  engines  and  other 
fire  apparatus. 

Of  the  officers  and  men  throughout  the  department,  I 
can  speak  only  in  terms  of  praise  for  the  vigilance  and 
zeal  shown  on  all  occasions,  as  well  as  for  their  interest  in 


4  City  Document  No.  13. 

maintaining  a  high  standard  of  discipline    and  conduct  as 
firemen  and  citizens. 

Organization. 

Commissioner,   Henry    S.   Russell  ;  term  expires  May, 
1901. 

Secretary,  Benjamin  F.  Underhill,  Jr. 

Chief  of  Department,  Lewis  P.  Webber. 

Assistant  Chief,  William  T.  Cheswell. 

Second  Assistant  Chief  and  Chief  of  District  No.  6,  John 
A.  Mullen. 

Superintendent  of  Fire-alarms,  Brown  S.  Flanders. 

Assistant     Superintendent    of     Fire-alarms,    Cyrus     A. 
George. 

Consulting  Electrician,  Henry  F.  Cottle. 

Superintendent  of  Repair-shop,  Henry  M.  Hawkins. 

Assistant    Superintendent   of    Repair-shop,    Eugene    M. 
Byington. 

Hydraulic  Engineer,  Greely  S.  Curtis. 

Veterinary  Surgeon,  George  W.  Stimpson. 

Medical  Examiner,  Rupus  W.  Sprague. 

Purchasing  Officer,  Charles  A.  Straw. 

Storekeeper,  George  R.  Knight. 

Foreman    of    Hose    and     Harness    Shop,    Patrick    B. 
Hannon. 

Clerks. 

Wm.  E.  Delano,  M.  J.  Lafferty,  Geo.  F.  Murphy,  James  P. 
Maloney,  D.  J.  Quinn. 

District  Chiefs. 

John  F.  Ryan,            Headquarters,  Ladder-house    2. 

C.  H.  W.  Pope,                    «  «             9. 

Joseph  M.  Garrity,              "  "8. 

Peter  F.  McDonough,         "  Engine-house    4. 

Nathan  L.  Hussey,              "  "           26. 

Patrick  E.  Keyes,                "  "              3. 

John  Grady,                          "  Ladder-house  12. 

Edward  H.  Sawyer,             "  "             4. 

Williston  A.  Gaylord,         "  Engine-house  18. 

George  F.  Griffin,               "  "           41. 

Lewis  P.  Abbott,                 "  "           28. 


Force  and  Pay-roll. 


Commissioner 

Secretary 

Chief  of  Department 

First  Assistant  Chief 

Second         "  " 


$5,000  per  annum,  (less  7i  per  cent.) 
2,400  "  "  " 

3,500     • 
2,400 
2,200  " 


Fire  Department. 


Superintendent  of  Fire-alarms 
Assistant  Superintendent  of  Fire 

alarms     .... 
Consulting  Electrician  . 
Superintendent  of  Repair-shop 
Assistant  Superintendent  of  Re 

pair-shop 
Hydraulic  Engineer 
Veterinary  Surgeon 
Medical  Examiner 
Purchasing  Officer 
Foreman  of   Hose  and    Harness 

shop 
Storekeeper 

1  Clerk 

2  Clerks 
1  Clerk 
1       " 

11  District  Chiefs 
54  Captains 
63  Lieutenants     . 
43  Engineers 
43  Assistant  Engineers 
2 

441  Permanent  men. 

308  at  . 

51  at  . 

42  at  . 

40  at  . 

88  Call  men. 
1  at    . 
20  at    . 
67  at    . 

1  Driver  for  Chief  of  Departs 

ment     .... 

2  Drivers  for  Assistant  Chiefs 
11  Drivers  for  District  Chiefs 

2  Watchmen 

2  Hostlers,  average   . 


$3,200  per  annum. 


2,000 

800 

2,000 

1,600 
1,400 
2,000 
600 
1,600 

1,400 
1,400 
1,000 
1,100 
1,200 
1,500 
2,000 
1,600 
1,400 
1,300 
1,200 
900 

1,200 

1,100 

1,000 

900 

325 
250 

200 


1.95  per  day. 
1.75 
1.75 

1,000  per  annum. 
1.98  per  day. 


(less  7^  per  cent.) 


Fire-alarm  Force. 


6  Operators 

2  Assistant  Operators 

1  Foreman  of  Construction 

1  Dynamo  man 

17  Repairers,  average 


[?1,600  per  annum. 
1,200 
1,800 

2.75  per  day. 
2.93 


Repair-shop  Employees. 

i  per  day. 
per  annum 
per  day. 


1  Engineer 

.       $3.00 

1  Assistant  Engineei 

900 

1  Painter    . 

3.75 

1  Painter    . 

2.50 

2  Wheelwrights 

3.25 

4  Machinists 

3.25 

2 

3.00 

2  Blacksmiths    . 

3.50 

1  Blacksmith     . 

3.25 

1 

2.50 

2  Blacksmith's  helpe 

>rs     .         .         2.50 

4  Laborers,  average 

2.05 

833  Total  force. 

(less  5    per  cent.) 
(less  7^  per  cent. ) 

(less  5    per  cent. ) 
(less  7i  per  cent.) 

(less  5    per  cent.) 
(less  H  per  cent.) 

(less  5    per  cent.) 


6  City  Document  No.  13. 

Fire  Districts. 
The  city  is  divided  into  twelve  fire  districts,  as  follows : 

District  1. 
All  that  part  of  Boston  known  as  East  Boston. 

District  2. 
All  that  part  of  Boston  formerly  known  as  Charlestown. 

District  3. 

The  territory  bounded  on  the  north  and  east  by  the  water 
front,  on  the  south  by  Summer  street,  and  on  the  west  by 
Washington  and  Charlestown  streets. 

District  If.. 

The  territory  bounded  on  the  north  by  the  Charles  river, 
on  the  east  by  Charlestown  and  Washington  streets,  on  the 
south  by  winter,  Park  and-  Beacon  streets,  and  on  the  west 
by  the  Charles  river  and  Berkeley  street. 

District  5. 

The  territory  bounded  on  the  north  by  Beacon,  Park, 
Winter  and  Summer  streets,  on  the  east  by  Fort  Point 
channel,  on  the  south  and  west  by  Broadway,  Way,  Motte, 
Castle  and  Ferdinand  streets,  Columbus  avenue  and  Berke- 
ley street. 

District  6. 

All  that  part  of  Boston  known  as  South  Boston,  and  run- 
ning south  as  far  as  Dorset  and  Locust  streets. 

District  7. 

The  territory  bounded  on  the  north  by  Berkeley  street, 
Columbus  avenue,  Ferdinand,  Castle,  Motte  and  Way 
streets  and  Broadway,  on  the  east  by  Fort  Point  channel 
and  South  bay,  on  the  south  by  Massachusetts  avenue,  and 
on  the  west  by  the  Charles  river. 


Fire  Department. 


District  8. 


The  territory  bounded  on  the  north  by  the  Charles  river 
and  Massachusetts  avenue,  on  the  east  by  Washington  street, 
on  the  south  by  Atherton  and  Mozart  streets,  Chestnut 
avenue,  Sheridan  and  Centre  streets,  Hyde  square,  Perkins, 
Catalpa  and  Castleton  streets,  across  Jamaicaway  to  the 
Brookline  line,  and  on  the  west  by  the  Brookline  line, 
Beacon  and  Deerfield  streets. 


District  9. 

The  territory  bounded  on  the  north  by  Massachusetts 
avenue,  South  bay,  Dorset  and  Locust  streets,  on  the  east 
by  Dorchester  bay,  on  the  south  by  Freeport,  Hancock, 
Bowcloin,  and  Quincy  streets,  Columbia  road,  and  on  the 
west  by  Seaver  street,  Columbus  avenue  and  Washington 
street. 

District  10. 

That  part  of  Dorchester  bounded  on  the  north  by  Seaver 
street,  Columbia  road,  Quincy,  Bowcloin,  Hancock,  and 
Freeport  streets,  on  the  east  by  Dorchester  bay,  on  the 
south  by  the  Neponset  river  and  the  Hyde  Park  line,  and  on 
the  west  by  Harvard  street  and  Blue  Hill  avenue. 


District  11. 

All  that  part  of  Boston  known  as  Brighton,  and  extending 
east  as  far  as  Deerfield  and  Beacon  streets. 


District  12. 

All  that  part  of  Boston  known  as  West  Roxbury,  bounded 
on  the  north  by  a  line  from  the  Brookline  line  across  Jamaica- 
way  to  Castleton  street,  through  Castleton,  Catalpa  and  Per- 
kins streets,  Hyde  square,  Centre  and  Sheridan  streets, 
Chestnut  avenue,  Mozart  and  Atherton  streets,  Columbus 
avenue  and  Seaver  street,  on  the  east  by  Blue  Hill  avenue 
and  Harvard  street,  on  the  south  by  the  Hyde  Park  and 
Dedham  lines,  and  on  the  west  by  the  Newton  and  Brookline 
lines. 

In  all  cases  where  streets  are  designated  as  boundaries, 
the  centre  of  the  street  will  be  the  dividing  line. 


City  Document  No.  13. 


Assignment  of  Districts. 


Each  district  is  placed  under  the    charge    of    a    District 
Chief,  as  follows : 


Chief  in  Command. 

Companies  in  Districts.  • 

District. 

Engines. 

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a  a 

A 

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MS 

OH 
O 

CS    £ 

a  o 
oO 
O 

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a>  o 

1 

John  V.  Kyan 

C.  H.W.Pope 

Joseph  M.  Garrity. . . 
Peter  P.  McDonough, 
Nathan  L.  Hussej- . . . 

John  A.  Mullen 

Patrick  E.  Keyes 

5,9,11,40 

27,  32,  36 

S,  25,  31,  44 

*4,  6,  10 

7,  *  26,  35 

*  1,  2,  15,  38,  39,  43 

*  3,  22,  33 

13, 14,  3.7 

12,21,23,24 

16, 17,  *  18, 19,20 

29,  34,  *  41 

*28,  30,42,  45 

9 

1,  11 
2 
8 
4 

3,  12 
10 

6 

5 

*2 

*9 

*8,  14 

1 

17 

5 

3,  13,  15 

*12 

*4 

6,7 

11 

10,  16 

4 
5,7 

2,3 

6 

1 

2 

3 ... 

4 

1 

5  

6 

2 

8 

9 

Edward  H.  Sawyer.. 
Williston  A.Gaylord, 
George  F.  Griffin .... 
Lewis  P.  Abbott 

10 

11... 

12 

*  Headquarters  of  District  Chief. 

The    following    property  is    in  charge  of    the  Fire  Com- 
missioner : 

Houses. 


Location. 

No.  of  feet 
in  lot. 

Occupied  by. 

5,698 
4,000 
4,000 
6,098 
1,647 
2,269 
1,893 
2,568 
4,720 

Engine  1. 

Engine  2. 

Engine  3  and  Ladder  3. 

Engine  4,  Chemical  1  and  Tower  1. 

Engine  5. 

Bristol  street  and  Harrison  avenue. . . 
Marion  street,  East  Boston 

Engine  7. 
Engine  8. 

Fire  Department. 
Houses.  —  Continued. 


No.  of  feet 
in  lot. 


Occupied  by. 


River  street. 


Saratoga    and    Byron    streets,    East 
Boston 


Dudley  street 

Cabot  street 

Centre  street 

Dorchester  avenue 

River  street,  Dorchester  District 

Meeting  House  Hill,  Dorchester  Dist. 

Harvard  street,  Dorchester  District.. 
Norfolk  street,  " 

Walnut  street,  " 

Columbia  road,  " 

Dartmouth  street 

Northampton  street 

Corner  Warren  and  Quincy  streets. .. 

Fort  Hill  square 

Mason  street 

Elm  street,  Charlestown  District 

Centre  street,  West  Roxbury  District, 
Chestnut  Hill  ave.,  Brighton  District. 
Centre  street,  West  Roxbury  District. 
Bunker  Hill  St.,  Charlestown  District, 

Corner  Boylston  and  Hereford  sts 

Western  avenue,  Brighton 

Monument  st.,  Charlestown  District. 
Cor.  Longwood  and  Brookline  aves.. 

Congress  street 

Sumner  street,  East  Boston 


Harvard  avenue,  near  Cambridge  st. 
Brighton  District 


Washington  street,  between  Atherton 
and  Beethoven 


Andrew  square. 


Poplar,  cor.  Washington  street,  West 
Roxbury 


Church  street 

Shawmut  avenue. 


1,886 

10,000 
7,320 
4,832 
5,713 
2,843 

12,736 
9,450 

10,225 
7,683 
9,000 
9,355 
4,463 
3,445 
4,186 
4,175 
5,623 
2,600 
10,377 
14,358 
12,251 
8,188 
5,646 
4,637 
5,668 
5,400 
4,000 
4,010 

6,112 

3,848 
5,133 

14,729 
3,412 


Engine  10. 

Engine  11  and  Combination  4. 

Engine  12. 

Engine  13. 

Engine  14. 

Engine  15. 

Engine  16  and  Ladder  6. 

Engine  17  and  Ladder-house  7  on 
this  lot. 

Engine  18. 

Engine  19. 

Engine  20. 

Engine  21. 

Engine  22. 

Engine  23. 

Engine  24. 

Engine  25,  Ladder  8  and  Ladder  14. 

Engine  26  and  Engine  35. 

Engine  27. 

Engine  28  and  Ladder  10. 

Engine  29  and  Ladder  11. 

Engine  30. 

Engine  32. 

Engine  33  and  Ladder  15. 

Engine  34. 

Engine  36  and  Combination  5. 

Engine  37  and  Chemical  3. 

Engine  38  and  Engine  39. 

Engine  40. 

Engine  41  and  Chemical  6. 

Engine  42  and  Chemical  5. 
Engine  43  and  Combination  3. 

Engine  45  and  Ladder  16. 
Chemical  Engine  2. 
Chemical  Engine  4. 


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City  Document  No.  13. 


Houses.  —  Concluded. 


Location. 

No.  of  feet 
in  lot. 

Occupied  by. 

1,346 
1,804 
1,754 
3,918 
1,676 
3,923 
2,469 
4,290" 
4,350 
1,007 
2,134 
4,875 
3,101 
6,874 
3,000 

Chemical  Engine  7. 
Chemical  Engine  8. 

Chemical  Engine  11. 

Washington,  near  Dover  street 

Ladder  13. 

Combination  1. 
Combination  2. 

Washington  street,  Dorchester 

Combination  6. 
Combination  7. 

Fuel-house,  Dorchester  street,  1,610  feet  of  laud 

Fuel-house,  Salem  street,  417  feet  of  land. 

Fuel-house,  Main  street,  Charlestown,  2,430  feet  of  land. 

Headquarters  building  and  repair-shop,  corner  of  Albany 
and  Bristol  streets,  23,663  feet. 

Water  Tower  No.  2  and  Wrecking  Wagon  are  in  Head- 
quarters building. 

Old  house  of  Engine  30,  on  Mt.  Vernon  street,  West 
Roxbury,  16,275  feet  of  land. 


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New  Apparatus  Purchased  During  the  Year. 

2  combination  chemical  and  ladder  trucks. 
4  pairs  35-gallon  chemical  tanks. 

1  combination  steel  Babcock  chemical  and  hose-wagon. 

2  large  sized  hose-wagons. 

Hose. 

Amount  of  hose  purchased  and  condemned  during  the  year : 


Purchased 

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7,750  feet 

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9,304     " 

Amount  of  hose  in  use  and  in  storehouse,  February  1,  1899  : 


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11,600  feet. 

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Totals, 

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15,544     " 

Horses. 


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19 


Causes   of   Fires   and  Alarms   from    February  1,    1898,  to 
February  1,  1899. 

Alarms,  accidental,  automatic          .          .          .          .  73 

"        false 2*6 

"       out-of-city          .          .          .                    .          .          .  10 

Ashes,  hot,  in  wooden  receptacle     .          .          .          .          .  27 

Back  draft      ..." 2 

Boiling  over  of  fat  or  tar         ......  33 

Bonfires,  grass,  rubbish,  etc.  ......  179 

Careless  use  of  lamps,  candles,  etc.          ....  35 

"         "     "  pipes  and  cigars  in  smoking     ...  47 

Chimneys,  soot  burning            .          .          .          .          .          .  95 

"         defective        .......  17 

"         overheated     .......  4 

"         collapse  of     .          .          .          .          .          .          .  1 

Clothes  too  near  stove     .          .          .          .          .          .          .  11 

Collapse  of  buildings      .......  1 

Defective  flue          .         .         .         .         .         .         .         .  11 

"       stove-pipe        .......  3 

"       grate  or  fire-place     ......  8 

"       furnace    ........  2 

' '       sprinkler           ...          .          .          .          .  3 

Electric  motor  igniting  car       .          .          .          .          .          .  17 

"       wires          ........  65 

Explosion  and  ignition  of  chemicals          ....  9 

Fireworks       ..:......  37 

Friction          .........  1 

Fumigating    .........  4 

Gas,  explosion  of  .......          .  9 

"  ignition  of  leaky  pipes     .          .          .          .          .          .  9 

"  jet  setting  fire           .......  59 

Ignition  of  dust  in  blower       ......  4 

Incendiary      .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .  26 

"              supposed    .          .          .          .          .          .          .  18 

Lamp,  explosion     .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .  67 

"     upsetting  and  breaking  .  .  .         '.  .  .104 

Light  mistaken  for  fire    .  .  .  .  .  .  .15 

Lightning     .             ........  2 

Matches  and  rats    .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .  30 

"          "     children 78 

"     careless  use  of               .          .         .          .          .          .  107 

Monkey  throwing  sawdust  in  lamp  .          .          .          .          .  1 

Naphtha,  careless  use  of,  and  ignition     .          .          .          .  24 

Oil  stove           "        "     "     "  explosion    ....  72 

Gas  stove         "       "     "     "           "          .          .          .          .  3 

Plastering,  drying  ........  6 

Overheated  boiler  or  steam-pipe       .          .          .          .          .  16 


20 


City  Document  No.  13. 


Overheated  oven    ... 

5 

"           stove  or  furnace    . 

55 

Railroad  whistle  blowing  for  flag  raising 

1 

Rekindling  of  ruins  of  previous  fire 

2 

Plumber's  stove  upsetting 

9 

Slacking  of  lime 

5 

Smoky  chimneys    . 

34 

"       stove  or  furnace  . 

53 

Sparks  from  another  fire 

1 

u 

'      furnace  or  stove  . 

12 

cc 

'      chimney 

27 

u 

forge  . 

10 

u 

'      a  gun 

1 

a 

'      engine  or  locomotive 

25 

Spontaneous  combustion       -    . 

39 

Steam  escaping 

13 

Street  fight     .... 

2 

Testing-box   .... 

1 

Test-alarm     .... 

1 

Team  striking  and  breaking  box 

1 

Unknown        .... 

274 

Use  of  kerosene  to  light  fire     . 

4 

Water-pipes,  thawing  out 

33 

"          "       busting  of 

1 

Total       .... 

1,980 

Total  number  of  actual  fires     . 

1,699 

Confined  to  one  building 

1,409 

Extended  to  others 

39 

Wharves,  vessels,  grass,  etc.  . 

241 

Out  of  the  city 

10 

Buildings. 

Slightly  damaged    .          .          .          .          .          .          .          .797 

Considerably  damaged    .          .          .          .          .          .          .103 

Totally  destroyed 24 

Not  damaged           ........       564 

^^— 

Extinguished  by 

Extinguishers 425 

Buckets  of  water    ....... 

253 

Chemical  engines    ....... 

282 

Hydrant  stream       ....... 

141 

Steamers        ........ 

294 

Miscellaneous,  brooms,  stamping  out  and  smothering 

58 

Citizens           ........ 

236 

Total      .         .         .         . 

1,689 

Fike  Department.'  21 

The  following  Fire-alarm  boxes  are  private  property:  115, 

119,  149,  152,  161, 165,  212,  227,  228,  244,  271,  279,  281, 

283,  299,  358,  422,  442,  443,  445,  446,  447,  448,  449,  511, 

533,  617,  619,  623,  624,  626,  629,  698,  711,  714,  715,  716, 

718,  722,  724,  725,  726,  727,  728,  729,  731,  732,  733,  735, 

737,  738,  739,  741,  742,  744,  745,  746,  766,  767,  769,  773, 

778,  779,  789,  791,  792,  793,  794,  795,  797,  799,  816,  828, 
838,  842,  864,  865,  919,  927,  967,  971,  974. 

Alakm   Bells. 

The  Fire-alarm  Telegraph  is  connected  with  the  following 
bells : 

Adams  School-house,  Sumner  street,  East  Boston,  steel, 
2,995  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Bunker  Hill  School-house,  Charlestown,  composition,  2,009 
lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Chapman  School-house,  Eutaw  street,  East  Boston,  steel, 
3,1 09^  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

City  Hall,  Charlestown,  composition,  3,600  lbs.,  owned  by 
city. 

Engine-house  No.  16,  Temple  street,  Dorchester,  composi- 
tion, 4,149  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Engine-house  No.  17,  Meeting  House  Hill,  Dorchester,  com- 
position, 4,000  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Engine-house  No.  18,  Harvard  street,  Dorchester,  composi- 
tion, 3,184  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Engine-house  No.  19,  Mattapan,  Dorchester,  composition, 
2,927  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Engine-house  No.  20,  Walnut  street,  Dorchester,  composi- 
tion, 3,061  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Engine-house  No.  21,  Boston  street,  Dorchester,  composi- 
tion, 3,026  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Engine-house  No.  28,  West  Roxbury,  composition,  4,000 
lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Engine-house  No.  29,  Brighton,  steel,  1,535  lbs.,  owned  by 
city. 

Engine-house,  Mt. Vernon  street,  West  Roxbury,  steel,  1,000 
lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Engine-house  No.  34,  Brighton,  composition,  1,501  lbs., 
owned  by  city. 

Engine-house  No.  40,  Orleans  street,  East  Boston,  composi- 
tion, 817  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Engine-house  No.  41,  Allston,  composition,  900  lbs.,  owned 
by  city. 


22  City  Document  No.  13. 

Engine-house   No.  45,  Roslindale,    composition,  1,059    lbs., 

owned  by  city. 
Lewis  School-bouse,  Dale  street,  Boston  Highlands,  composi- 
tion, 3,104  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 
Maverick-street   Church,    East   Boston,    composition,  2,000 

lbs. 
Princeton-street    School-house,    East    Boston,    composition, 

2,470  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 
Saratoga-street  M.  E.  Church,  East  Boston,  steel,  1,968  lbs., 

owned  by  city. 
Warren  School-house,  Charlestown,  composition,   3,000  lbs., 

owned  by  city. 
Winthrop  School-house,  Charlestown,  composition,  3,000  lbs., 

owned  by  city. 

Bells  owned  by  the  city,  which  have   been  disconnected 
from  service,  are  located  as  follows  : 

Fire-alarm  repair-shop,  bell  formerly  used  on  house  of 
Chemical  Engine  5  ;  one  composition,  400  lbs.,  formerly 
used  on  house  of  Chemical  Engine  No.  4 ;  one  composi- 
tion, 400  lbs.,  formerly  used  on  house  of  Chemical  Engine 
No.  6,  and  two  small  bells  from  other  locations. 

Engine-house  No.  1,  Dorchester  street,  South  Boston,  com- 
position, 2,911  lbs. 

Engine-house  No.  2,  composition,  800  lbs. 

Faneuil  Hall,  steel,  5,816  lbs.,  owned  by  city,  taken  down 
and  stored  by  Public  Buildings  Department. 

George-street  School-house,  Boston  Highlands,  composition, 
4,160  lbs. 

Hook-and-Ladcler  House  No.  4,  Dudley  street,  Boston  High- 
lands, composition,  3,509  lbs. 

Lawrence  School-house,  B  street,  South  Boston,  steel,  3,400 
lbs. 

Lincoln  School-house,  Broadway,  South  Boston,  composition, 
3,110  lbs. 

Quincy  School-house,  Tyler  street,  composition,  2,941  lbs. 

Smith-street  School-house,  Highlands,  composition,  4,083 
lbs. 

Ticknor  School-house,  Dorchester  street,  Washington  Vil- 
lage, steel,  2,995  lbs. 

Trinity  Church,  Trenton  street,  East  Boston,  composition, 
1,760  lbs.     Formerly  used  on  Castle-street  Church. 

Van  Nostrand's  Brewery,  Charlestown,  composition,  818  lbs. 
Formerly  used  on  Boylston  School-house. 

Wells  School-house,  Blossom  street,  composition,  1,675  lbs.. 


Fire  Department.  23 


Public  Clocks. 

The  following  public   clocks,  thirty-nine  in  number,  are 
taken  care  of  by  the  Fire  Department: 

City  Proper. 

Arlington-street  Church. 

Charles-street  Church. 

Christ  Church,  Salem  street,  owned  by  city. 

Commercial  Wharf. 

Odd  Fellows  Hall,  Tremont  street,  owned  by  city. 

Old  South  Church,  owned  by  city. 

Old  State  House,  owned  by  city. 

Park-street  Church. 

Suffolk  County  Jail,  owned  by  city. 

St.  Stephen's  Church,  Clark  street,  owned  by  city. 

Shawmut-A venue  Church. 

Tremont  M.  E.  Church,  owned  by  city. 

Young  Men's  Christian  Union,  owned  by  city. 

South  Boston. 

JBigelow.  School-house,  owned  by  city. 

Gaston  School-house,  owned  by  city. 

Lincoln  School-house,  owned  by  city. 

Phillips  Church,  owned  by  city. 

St.  Augustine  Church,  Dorchester  street,  owned  by  city. 

Ticknor  School-housf,  Washington  Village,  owned  by  city. 

East  Boston. 

Central-square  Church. 
London-street  Church,  owned  by  city. 
Lyceum  Hall,  owned  by  city. 
Trinity  Church,  owned  by  city. 
Orient  Heights  Church,  owned  by  city. 

Boston  Highlands. 

Winthrop-street  Church,  owned  by  city. 

West  End  stables,  Tremont  street,  owned  by  city. 

Dorchester. 

Baker  Memorial  (Upham's  Corner),  owned  by  city. 
Neponset  Church. 


24  City  Document  No.  13. 

Tileston  School  (Mattapan),  owned  by  city. 
Unitarian  Church  (Milton  Lower  Mills). 

Charlestown. 
Bunker  Hill  Church. 
City  Hall,  owned  by  city. 
Harvard  Hill  Church. 
High  School-house,  owned  by  city. 
Unitarian  Church. 

West  Roxbury. 
Dr.  Strong's  Church. 
Unitarian  Church. 
Congregational  Church  (Roslindale),  owned  by  city. 

Brighton. 
Bennett  School-house,  owned  by  city. 

Your  obedient  servant, 

Henry  S.  Russell, 

Commissione?-. 


ANNUAL  REPORT 


FIEE  DEPAKTMENT 


YEAR  1899-1900 


BOSTON 

MUNICIPAL    PKINTING    OFFICE 

1900 


j!)    ANNUAL   REPORT 


FIEE  DEPARTMENT 


YEAR  1899-1900 


BOSTON 

MUNICIPAL    PRINTING    OFFICE 

1900 


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Headquarters  Fire  Department, 
Bristol  Street,  Boston,  February  14,  1900. 

His  Honor  Thomas  N.  Hart,  Mayor: 

Sir,  —  While  the  losses  by  fire  for  last  year  exceed  those 
of  several  years  passed,  we  can  derive  some  satisfaction  from 
the  fact  that  there  were  2,444  alarms,  with  an  attendant  loss 
of  $1,630,149,  averaging  $677.27;  while  in  1898,  1,980 
alarms  with  a  loss  of  $1,441,261  averaged  -$727.90.  In 
sending  out  these  alarms  from  headquarters  9,792,000 
electric  blows  have  been  necessary,  while  for  the  previous 
year  7,355,000  blows  did  the  work ;  and  it  is  unnecessary 
for  me  to  say  that  the  successful  work  done  by  the  depart- 
ment in  handling  this  number  of  fires,  increased  in  magnitude 
as  well  as  in  number,  has  strengthened  my  confidence  in  the 
hope  that  the  dreaded  conflagration  against  which  we  are 
daily  preparing  may  still  be  delayed  through  the  activity  and 
zeal  of  our  officers  and  men  and  the  increased  strength  of  our 
apparatus. 

The  fire-alarm  branch  of  the  department  deserves  much 
praise  for  its  successful  work  in  receiving  and  transmitting 
this  unusual  number  of  alarms  during  the  past  year ;  there 
having  been  no  important  failure  in  any  part  of  the  intricate 
system  established  and  maintained  by  it.  There  are  624  fire- 
alarm  boxes  in  service  from  which  all  information  of  fires  is 
received,  and  in  which  there  has  been  only  one  failure  during 
the  year ;  the  total  length  of  wire  conductors  now  under- 
ground is  761  miles  with  some  800  miles  of  wire  stretched 


2  City  Document  No.  15. 

on  poles,  and  I  hope  that  during  all  future  years  we  may  be 
able  to  place  an  additional  amount  below  ground  until  the 
whole  system  is  so  covered. 

I  cannot  too  often  or  too  strongly  impress  on  our  fellow- 
citizens  the  necessity  of  outside  standpipes  on  high  buildings, 
for  adequate  fire-escapes  and  for  a  change  in  the  so-called 
fire  limit  for  preventing  the  erection  of  wooden  buildings, 
which  now  in  our  country  districts  offer  tempting  food  for 
conflagration  and  disaster. 

In  my  opinion  the  principle  on  which  the  department  has 
been  conducted  during  the  last  five  years  has,  by  its  results, 
proved  itself  a  good  one,  our  efforts  having  been  devoted  to 
strengthening  the  force  within  its  present  limits,  rather  than 
enlarging  it  by  additional  houses  and  companies  at  necessarily 
a  great  expenditure  of  money ;  and  to-day  I  cannot  recom- 
mend any  additional  houses,  other  than  one  for  a  ladder  truck 
to  be  located  near  the  present  engine-house  of  companies 
38-39  on  Congress  street,  South  Boston,  for  the  protec- 
tion of  the  many  large  buildings  lately  placed  in  that 
vicinity. 

While  I  appreciate  the  possible  advantage  of  the  salt-water 
system  already  extending  from  Central  Wharf  up  Central 
street  through  Post  Office  Square  and  Congress  street  to 
Atlantic  avenue,  I  feel  that  property-owners  should  equip 
their  buildings  with  outside  standpipes,  made  available  to  the 
apparatus  of  this  department,  before  the  city  should  be 
called  on  to  lay  out  much  money  on  the  further  adoption  of 
that  system. 

Organization. 

Commissioner,  Henry  S.  Russell  ;  term  expires  May, 
1901. 

Secretary,  Benjamin  F.  Underhill. 

Chief  of  Department,  Lewis  P.  Webber. 

Assistant  Chief,  William  T.  Cheswell. 

Second  Assistant  Chief  and  Chief  of  District  No.  6,  John 
A.  Mullen. 

Superintendent  of  Fire-alarms,  Brown  S.  Flanders. 

Assistant  Superintendent  of  Fire-alarms,  Cyrus  A. 
George. 

Consulting  Electrician,  Henry  F.  Cottle. 

Superintendent  of  Repair-shop,  Henry  M.  Hawkins. 

Assistant  Superintendent  of  Repair-shop,  Eugene  M. 
Byington. 

Hydraulic  Engineer,  Greely  S.  Curtis. 

Veterinary  Surgeon,  George  W.   Stimpson. 


Fere  Department.  3 

Medical  Examiner,  Rufus  W.  Sprague. 
Purchasing  Officer,  Charles  A.  Straw. 
Storekeeper,  George  R.  Knight. 

Foreman    of     Hose    and     Harness-shop,     Patrick     B. 
Hannon. 

Clerks. 

William   E.   Delano,  M.  J.    Lafferty,   George    F.    Murphy, 
James  P.  Maloney,  D.  J.  Quinn. 


John  F.  Ryan, 
C.  H.  W.  Pope, 
Joseph  M.  Garrity, 
Peter  F.  McDonough, 
Nathan  L.  Hussey, 
Patrick  E.  Keyes, 
John  Grady, 
Edward  H.  Sawyer, 
Williston  A.  Gaylord, 
George  F.  Griffin, 
Lewis  P.  Abbott, 


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Force  and  Pay-roll. 

Commissioner 

Secretary        . 

Chief  of  Department 

First  Assistant  Chief 

Second       "  " 

Superintendent  of  Fire-alarms 

Assistant  Superintendent  of  Fire-alarms 

Superintendent  of  Repair-shop 

Asst.      "  "  " 

Hydraulic  Engineer 

Veterinary  Surgeon 

Medical  Examiner 

Purchasing  Officer 

Foreman  of  Hose  and  Harness  Shop 

Storekeeper 

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City  Document  No.  15. 


11  District  Chiefs 

.  $2,000  per 

annum. 

53  Captains           . 

.     1,600    " 

65  Lieutenants     . 

.     1,400    " 

44  Engineers        .         ... 

.     1,300    " 

43  Assistant  Engineers 

.     1,200    " 

3         "                " 

.     1,000    " 

459  Permanent  men. 

341  at 

.     1,200    " 

42  at 

.     1,100    " 

39  at 

.     1,000    " 

28  at 

900    "        " 

9  at 

720    "        " 

86  Call-men. 

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325    « 

18  at 

250    "        " 

67  at 

200    "        " 

2  Drivers  for  Assistant  Chiefs 

1  75  per  day. 

11  Drivers  for  District  Chiefs 

.      1  75       » 

2  Watchmen 

.     1,000  per  annum 

3  Hostlers  (average)  . 

1   95  per  day. 

1  Horse-shoer     . 

.      3  00       « 

Fire-alarm  I 

'ORCE. 

6  Operators 

.  $1,600  per  annum 

2  Assistant  Operators 

.     1,200    » 

1  Assistant  Operator  . 

2  75  per  day. 

1  Foreman  of  Construction 

1,800  per  annum 

17  Repairers  (average) 

.      2  93  per  day. 

Repair-shop  Em 

PLOYEES. 

1  Sanitary  Engineer    . 

.  $1,300  per  annum 

1  Engineer 

.      3  00  per  day. 

1  Assistant  Engineer 

.      2  50       ' 

1  Painter   .... 

.      3  75       ' 

1       "...         . 

.      2  50       ' 

2  Wheelwrights 

.      3  25       ' 

4  Machinists 

.      3  25       ' 

2                         ... 

.      3  00       ' 

2  Blacksmiths    . 

.      3  50       ' 

1  Blacksmith 

.      3  25       ' 

1                            ... 

.      2  50       ' 

2  B  lacks  mith's-helpers 

.      2  50       ' 

1  Hose  and  harness-repairer 

.      1  50       < 

4  Laborers,  (average) 

.      2  10       ' 

854  Total  force. 

/ 

Fire  Department.  5 

Fire  Districts. 

The  city  is  divided  into  twelve  fire  districts,  as  follows  : 

District  1. 
All  that  part  of  Boston  known  as  East  Boston. 

District  2. 
All  that  part  of  Boston  formerly  known  as  Charles  town. 

District  3. 
The  territory  bounded  on  the  north  and  east  by  the  water 
front,  on  the  south  by  Summer  street,  and  on  the  west  by 
Washington  and  Charlestown  streets. 

District  Jj.. 
The  territory  bounded  on  the  north  by  the  Charles  river, 
on  the  east  by  Charlestown  and  Washington  streets,  on  the 
south  by  Winter,  Park  and  Beacon  streets,  and  on  the  west 
by  the  Charles  river  and  Berkeley  street. 

District  5. 
The  territory  bounded  on  the  north  by  Beacon,  Park, 
Winter  and  Summer  streets,  on  the  east  by  Fort  Point 
channel,  on  the  south  and  west  by  Broadway,  Way,  Motte, 
Castle  and  Ferdinand  streets,  Columbus  avenue  and  Berke- 
ley street. 

District  6. 
All  that  part  of  Boston  known  as  South  Boston,  and  run- 
ning south  as  far  as  Dorset  and  Locust  streets. 

District  7. 
The  territory  bounded  on  the  north  by  Berkeley  street, 
Columbus  avenue,  Ferdinand,  Castle,  Motte  and  Way 
streets  and  Broadway,  on  the  east  by  Fort  Point  channel 
and  South  bay,  on  the  south  by  Massachusetts  avenue,  and 
on  the  west  by  the  Charles  river. 

District  8. 
The  territory  bounded  on  the  north  by  the  Charles  river 
and  Massachusetts  avenue,  on  the  east  by  Washington  street, 
on  the  south  by  Atherton  and  Mozart  streets,  Chestnut 
avenue,  Sheridan  and  Centre  streets,  Hyde  square,  Perkins, 
Catalpa  and  Castleton  streets,  across  Jamaicaway  to  the 
Brookline  line,  and  on  the  west  by  the  Brookline  line, 
Beacon  and  Deerfield  streets. 


6  City  Document  No.  15. 

District  9. 

The  territory  bounded  on  the  north  by  Massachusetts 
avenue,  South  bay,  Dorset  and  Locust  streets,  on  the  east 
by  Dorchester  bay,  on  the  south  by  Freeport,  Hancock, 
Bowdoin,  and  Quincy  streets,  Columbia  road,  and  on  .the 
west  by  Seaver  street,  Columbus  avenue  and  Washington 
street. 

District   10. 

That  part  of  Dorchester  bounded  on  the  north  by  Seaver 
street,  Columbia  road,  Quincy,  Bowdoin,  Hancock,  and 
Freeport  streets,  on  the  east  by  Dorchester  bay,  on  -the  south 
by  the  Neponset  river  and  the  Hyde  Park  line,  and  on  the 
west  by  Harvard  street  and  Blue  Hill  avenue. 

District   11. 
All  that  part  of  Boston  known  as  Brighton  and  extending 
east  as  far,  as  Deerfield  and  Beacon  streets. 

District   12. 

All  that  part  of  Boston  known  as  West  Roxbury,  bounded 
on  the  north  by  a  line  from  the  Brookline  line  across  Jamaica- 
way  to.Castleton  street,  through  Castleton,  Catalpaand  Per- 
kins streets,  Hyde  square,  Centre  and  Sheridan  streets, 
Chestnut  avenue,  Mozart  and  Atherton  streets,  Columbus 
avenue  and  Seaver  street,  on  the  east  by  Blue  Hill  avenue 
and  Harvard  street,  on  the  south  by  the  Hyde  Park  and 
Dedham  lines,  and  on  the  west  by  the  Newton  and  Brookline 
lines. 

In  all  cases  where  streets  are  designated  as .  boundaries, 
the  centre  of  the  street  will  be  the  dividing  line. 


Fire  Department. 


Assignment  of  Districts. 


Each   district  is  placed   under   the   charge  of  a  District 
Chief,  as  follows  : 


Chief  of  Command. 

Companies  in  Districts. 

District. 

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Joseph  M.  Garrity. . . 
Peter  F.  McDonough, 
Nathan  L.  Hussey. .. 

John  A.  Mullen 

Patrick  E.  Keyes  — 

5,  9,  11,  40 

27,  32,  36 

8,  25,  31,  44 

*4,  6,  10 

7,*  26,  35 

*  1,  2,  15,  38,  39,  43 

*  3,  22,33 

13,  14,  37 

12,  21,  23,  24 

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29,  34,  *  41 

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Edward  H.  Sawyer.. 
WillistonA.  Gay  lord, 
George  F.  Griffin  . .  . 
Lewis  P.  Abbott 

10 

11 

12 

*  Headquarters  of  District  Chief. 

The  following   property   is   in  charge  of   the    Fire  Com- 
missioner : 

Houses. 


Location. 

No.  of 

feet  in 

lot. 

Assessed 
Valuation. 

Occupied  by 

5,698 
4,000 
4,000 
6,098 

1,647 
2,269 
1,893 
2,568 
4,720 
1,886 

$25,800 
16,400 
30,000 
90,000 

9,000 
35,000 
35,400 
18,300 
28,600 
19,600 

Engine  1. 
Engine  2. 
Engine  3  and  Ladder  3. 

Bristol  street  and  Harrison  avenue  . . 

Tower  1. 
Engine  5. 

Engine  8. 

City  Document  No.  15. 


Houses.  —  Continued. 


No.  of 

feet  in 

lot. 


Assessed 
Valuation, 


Occupied  by 


Saratoga    and    Byron    streets,    East 
Boston 

Dudley  street 

Cabot  street 

Centre  street  

Dorchester  avenue 

River  street,  Dorchester  District 

Meeting  House  Hill,  Dorchester  Dist., 

Harvard  street,  Dorchester  District. . 
Norfolk  street  "  "        .. 

Walnut  street  "  " 

Columbia  road  "  " 

Northampton  street 

Corner  Warren  and  Quincy  streets  .. 
Fort  Hill  square 

Mason  street 

Elm  street,  Charlestown  District 

Centre  street,  West  Roxbury  District, 
Chestnut  Hill  ave.,  Brighton  District, 
Centre  street,  West  Roxbury  District, 
Bunker  Hill  st.,  Charlestown  District, 
Corner  Boylston  and  Hereford  sts. . . 

Western  avenue,  Brighton 

Monument  St.,  Charlestown  District.. 

Cor.  Longwood  and  Brookline  aves.. 

Congress  street 

Sumner  street,  East  Boston 

Harvard  avenue,  near  Cambridge  St., 
Brighton  District 

Washington  street,  between  Atherton 
and  Beethoven 

Andrew  square 

Poplar,    corner  Washington    street, 
West  Roxbury 

Church  street 

Shawmut  avenue 

Chelsea  street,  East  Boston 


10,000 

7,320 
4,832 
5,713 
2,813 
12,736 
9,450 

9,440 
7,683 
9,000 
12,661 
3,445 
4,186 
4,175 

5,623 
2,600 
10,377 
14,358 
12,251 
8,188 
5,646 
4,637 
5,668 

5,400 
4,000 
4,010 

6,112 


$37,500 

24,900 
16,000 
14,600 
18,700 
18,500 
17,300 

17,800 
14,200 
9,200 
18,300 
13,200 
18,100 
77,700 

113,000 
18,000 
28,300 
37,200 
24,700 
26,200 
66,000 
17,800 
21,000 

12,600 
34,000 
18,000 

25,500 


3,848 

22,900 

5,133 

20,100 

14,729 

18,700 

3,412 

23,600 

8S9 

5,700 

1,346 

10,400 

Engine  11  and  Combina- 
tion 4. 

Engine  12. 

Engine  13. 

Engine  14. 

Engine  15. 

Engine  16  and  Ladder  6. 

Engine    17  and  Ladder- 
house  7  on  this  lot. 

Engine  18. 

Engine  19. 

Engine  20. 

Engine  21. 

Engine  23. 

Engine  24. 

Engine  25,  Ladder  8  and 
Ladder  14. 

Engine  26  and  Engine  35. 

Engine  27. 

Engine  28  and  Ladder  10. 

Engine  29  and  Ladder  11. 

Engine  30. 

Engine  32. 

Engine  33  and  Ladder  15. 

Engine  34. 

Engine  36  and   Combina- 
tion 5. 

Engine  37  and  Chemical 3. 

Engine  38  and  Engine  39. 

Engine  40. 

Engine  41  and  Chemical  6. 

Engine  42  and  Chemical  5. 

Engine  43  and  Combina- 
tion 3. 

Engine  45  and  Ladder  16. 
Chemical  Engine  2. 
Chemical  Engine  4. 
Chemical  Engine  7. 


Flee  Department. 


Houses.  —  Concluded. 


No.  of 

feet  iu 

lot. 

Assessed 
Valuation. 

1,804 

$7,800 

1,754 

7,600 

1,676 

32,400 

3,923 

25,900 

2,469 

See  Engine 
1. 

4,290 

18,000 

4,350 

25,700 

1,007 

13,100 

2,134 

25,500 

4,875 

22,400 

3,101 

11,000 

6,874 

21,400 

3,000 

13,200 

3,918 

18,000 

Occupied  by 


B  street 

Eustis  street    

Friend  street 

Dudley  street 

Fourth  street 

Main  street,  Charlestown 

Tremont  street 

Washington,  near  Dover  street 

Harrison  avenue 

Dorchester  avenue,  Ashmont  . . 

Fourth  street 

Washington  street,  Dorchester 

Winthrop  street 

North  Grove  street 


Chemical  Engine  8. 
Chemical  Engine  10. 
Ladder  1. 
Ladder  4. 
Ladder  5. 

Ladder  9  and  Chemical  9. 

Ladder  12  and  Chemical 
12. 

Ladder  13. 

Ladder  17. 

Combination  1. 

Combination  2. 

Combination  6. 

Combination  7. 

Combination  8. 


Assessed  Valuation. 

Fuel-house,    Dorchester   street,  1,610  feet  of 

land $3,300  00 

Fuel-house,  Salem  street,  417  feet  of  land        .  3,200  00 

Fuel-house,  Main  street,  Charlestown,  2,430 

feet  of  land 7,000  00 

Headquarters  building  and  repair-shop,  corner 

of  Albany  and  Bristol  streets,  23,663  feet  .      185,000  00 

Engine  No.  22,  Water  Tower  No.  2  and 
Wrecking  Wagon  are  in  Headquarters 
building     ....... 

Old  house  of  Engine  30,  on  Mt.  Vernon  street, 

West  Roxbury,  16,275  feet  of  land     .         .  5,400  00 

Veterinary  Hospital,  Atkinson  street,  64,442 

feet  of  land    "    .         .         .         .         .         .        39,110  00 

7,500  feet  of  land  on  Warren  avenue,  pur- 
chased as  a  site  for  new  house  for  Engine  22,        18,600  00 


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2  pairs  35-gallon  chemical  tanks  for  ladder-trucks. 

1  large-sized  hose-wagon. 

1  combination  ladder  and  chemical  engine. 

Amount  of  hose  purchased  and   condemned    during  the 
year: 

Purchased.  Condemned. 

Leading  cotton,  4,250  feet  8,050  feet. 

rubber,  2,100    »  2,350    « 

Chemical,             2,000    «  850    « 

Suction,                    76    "  58    " 


Totals, 


8,426 


11,308    " 


Amount  of  hose  in  use  and  in  store  February  1,  1900. 


In  use. 

In  store. 

Leading  cotton,   78,050  feet. 

7,200  feet 

"          rubber,     8,450    " 

2,600    « 

Chemical,                8,950    " 

1,200    " 

Suction,                     946     " 

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Totals, 


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11,152    « 


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Purchased  during  the  year 
Sold  or  exchanged 
Died    .         ... 
Killed  for  cause   . 
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Causes  of  Fires  and  Alarms  from  February  1,  1899, 
to  February  1,  1900. 


Alarms,  accidental,  automatic    .... 

81 

"        false    .          .     •    .          .         .                   . 

23 

"        out-of-city    ...... 

24 

Accidental  breaking  of  box        .         ."         .         . 

2 

Ashes,  hot,  in  wooden  receptacle        ... 

28 

Back  draft        ....... 

1 

Boys  setting  off  cannon  crackers 

1 

Boiling  over  of  fat  or  tar  ..... 

34 

Bonfires,  grass,  rubbish,  etc.,  set  by  boys  . 

283 

Careless  use  of  lamps,  candles,  etc.    . 

58 

"           "     "  pipes  and  cigars  in  smoking 

34 

"           "     "  fire    .          .          .          .          . 

3 

"           "     "  blow-pipe  ..... 

1 

Chimneys,  soot  burning     ..... 

97 

"          defective  ...... 

32 

"          overheated         ..... 

6 

Chinaman  being  robbed 

1 

Clothes  too  near  stove       ..... 

10 

Defective  flue  .         .         .          .         . 

6 

"         stove-pipe           .         . 

3 

"         grate  or  fireplace        .... 

6 

"         furnace     ...... 

2 

"         sprinkler  .         .         .         .         . 

2 

Electric  motor  igniting  car         .... 

20 

"        wires  .          .  -        .          .          . 

37 

Explosion  and  ignition  of  chemicals  . 

9 

Fireworks         ....... 

61 

Friction   ........ 

7 

Fumigating       ....... 

2 

Gas,  explosion  of      .....         . 

2 

"    ignition  of  leaky  pipes        .... 

3 

"    jet  setting  fire  ...... 

58 

Incendiary         ....... 

43 

"           supposed          ..... 

18 

Lamp  explosion         ...... 

69 

"      upsetting  and  breaking    .... 

116 

Light  mistaken  for  fire      .         .         .         ... 

16 

Lightning 

1 

Matches  and  rats       ...... 

29 

"            "    children 

87 

"         careless  use  of 

138 

Meat  burning  on  stove      ..... 

3 

Naphtha,  careless  use  of,  and  ignition 

11 

20 


City  Document  No.  15. 


Oil  stove,  careless  use  of,  and  explosion     . 

67 

Gas  stove,      "          "    "     "           " 

10 

Overflow  of  sewer-pipe      .... 

1 

Plastering,  drying     ..... 
Overheated  boiler  or  steam-pipe 

5 
11 

"           coke        ..... 

2 

"           motor      ..... 

1 

"           oven        ..... 

5 

"           stove  or  furnace 

67 

Rekindling  of  ruins  of  previous  fire  .         .    ' 
Plumber's  stove  upsetting 
Slacking  of  lime        ..... 
Smoky  chimneys  .     . 

"       stove  or  furnace    .... 

4 

6 

3 

42 

47 

Sparks  from  another  fire   . 

24 

"          "     furnace  or  stove     . 

26 

"          "     chimney         .... 
"          "     forge     ..... 
"          "     a  flash-light  .... 
"           "     engine  or  locomotive 

34 

6 
1 

76 

Spontaneous  combustion   .... 

57 

Steam  escaping          ..... 

Street  fight       ...... 

"  Stop  thief,"  mistaken  for  call  of  "fire  "  . 

5 
1 
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Testing-box       ...... 

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Trench  caving  in       ....         . 
Unknown           ...... 

1 

.       439 

Upsetting  of  stove    ..... 
Use  of  kerosene  to  light  fire 

2 
2 

Water-pipes,  thawing  out .... 
Wood  drying  in  oven        .... 

26 

2 

Total         .         .         .                   . 

.    2,443 

Total  number  of  actual  fires      .         . 

.    2,130 

Confined  to  one  building  .... 

.    1,673 

Extended  to  others  ..... 

52 

Wharves,  vessels,  grass,  etc. 

.       405 

Out  of  the  city          ..... 

24 

Buildings. 
Slightly  damaged      ...... 

Considerably  damaged       .... 

Totally  destroyed      ..... 

Not  damaged    ....... 

.       965 

.       139 

37 

.       684 

Fire  Department.  21 

Extinguished  by 
Extinguishers  .         .         .         •         •         •         •         .469 

Buckets  of  water      .......  252 

Chemical  engines      .......  407 

Hydrant  stream        .......  222 

Steamers  .........  386 

Miscellaneous,  brooms,  stamping  out  and  smothering,  118 

Citizens 273 

Sprinklers         ........  3 


Total 2,130 

Alarm  Bells. 

The  Fire-alarm  Telegraph  is  connected  with  the  following 
bells  : 

Adams  School-house,  Sumner  street,  East  Boston,  steel, 
2,995  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Bunker  Hill  School-house,  Charlestown,  composition,  2,009 
lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

City  Hall,  Charlestown,  composition,  3,600  lbs.,  owned  by 
city. 

Engine-house  No.  16,  Temple  street,  Dorchester,  composi- 
tion, 4,149  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Engine-house  No.  17,  Meeting  House  Hill,  Dorchester,  com- 
position, 4,000  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Engine-house  No.  19,  Mattapan,  Dorchester,  composition, 
2,927  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Engine-house  No.  20,  Walnut  street,  Dorchester,  composi- 
tion, 3,061  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Engine-house  No.  28,  West  Roxbury,  composition,  4,000 
lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Engine-house  No.  29,  Brighton,  steel,  1,535  lbs.,  owned  by 
city. 

Engine-house,  Mt.  Vernon  street,  West  Roxbury,  steel,  1,000 
lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Engine-house  No.  34,  Brighton,  composition,  1,501  lbs., 
owned  by  city. 

Engine-house  No.  40,  Orleans  street,  East  Boston,  composi- 
tion, 817  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Engine-house  No.  41,  Allston,  composition,  900  lbs.,  owned 
by  city. 

Engine-house  No.  45,  Roslindale,  composition,  1,059  lbs., 
owned  by  city. 

Lewis  School-house,  Dale  street,  Boston  Highlands,  composi- 
tion, 3,104  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 


22  City  Document  No.  15. 

Maverick-street    Church,    East   Boston,    composition,   2,000 

lbs. 
Princeton-street    School-house,    East    Boston,    composition, 

2,470  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 
Saratoga-street  M.  E.  Church,  East  Boston,  steel,  1,968  lbs., 

owned  by  city. 
Warren  School-house,  Charlestown,  composition,  3,000  lbs., 

owned  by  city. 
Winthrop  School-house,  Charlestown,  composition,  3,000  lbs., 

owned  by  city. 

Bells  owned  by  the  city,  which  have  been  disconnected 
from  service,  are  located  as  follows : 

Berkeley  Temple,  composition,  2,941  lbs.  Formerly  used  on 
Quincy  School-house. 

Chapman  School-house,  steel,  3,109£  lbs.,  taken  down  and 
stored  by  Public  Buildings  Department. 

Engine-house  No.  1,  Dorchester  street,  South  Boston,  com- 
position, 2,911  lbs. 

Engine-house  No.  2,  composition,  800  lbs. 

Engine-house  No.  18,  Harvard  street,  Dorchester,  composi- 
tion, 3,184  lbs. 

Engine-house  No.  21,  Boston  street,  Dorchester,  composition, 
3,026  lbs. 

Faneuil  Hall,  steel,  5,816  lbs. 

Hook-and-ladder  House  No.  4,  Dudley  street,  Boston  High- 
lands, composition,  3,509  lbs. 

Lawrence  School-house,  B  street,  South  Boston,  steel,  3,400 
lbs. 

Lincoln  School-house,  Broadway,  South  Boston,  composition, 
3,110  lbs. 

Smith-street  School-house,  Highlands,  composition,  4,083 
lbs. 

Ticknor  School-house,  Dorchester  street,  Washington  Vil- 
lage, steel,  2,995  lbs. 

Trinity  Church,  Trenton  street,  East  Boston,  composition, 
1,760  lbs.     Formerly  used  on  Castle-street  Church. 

Van  Nostrand's  Brewery,  Charlestown,  composition,  818  lbs. 
Formerly  used  on  Boylston  School-house. 

Wells  School-house,  Blossom  street,  composition,  1,675  lbs. 


Fibe  Department.  23 


Public  Clocks. 

The  following  public  clocks,  thirty-eight  in  number,  are 
taken  care  of  by  the  Fire  Department : 

City  Proper. 

Arlington-street  Church. 

Charles-street  Church. 

Christ  Church,  Salem  street,  owned  by  city. 

Commercial  Wharf. 

Odd  Fellows'  Hall,  Tremont  street,  owned  by  city. 

Old  South  Church,  owned  by  city. 

Old  State  House,  owned  by  city. 

Park-street  Church. 

Suffolk  County  Jail,  owned  by  city. 

St.  Stephen's  Church,  Clark  street,  owned  by  city. 

Shawmut-avenue  Church. 

Tremont  M.  E.  Church,  owned  by  city. 

Young  Men's  Christian  Union,  owned  by  city. 

South,  Boston. 

Gaston  School-house,  owned  by  city. 

Lincoln  School-house,  owned  by  city. 

Phillips  Church,  owned  by  city. 

St.  Augustine  Church,  Dorchester  street,  owned  by  city. 

Ticknor  School- house,  Washington  Village,  owned  by  city. 

East  Boston. 

Central-square  Church. 
London-street  Church,  owned  by  city. 
Lyceum  Hall,  owned  by  city. 
Trinity  Church,  owned  by  city. 
Orient  Heights  Church,  owned  by  city. 

Boston  Highlands. 

Winthrop-street  Church,  owned  by  city. 

West  End  stables,  Tremont  street,  owned  by  city. 

Dorchester. 

Baker  Memorial  (Upham's  Corner),  owned  by  city. 
Neponset  Church. 

Tileston  School  (Mattapan),  owned  by  city. 
Unitarian  Church  (Milton  Lower  Mills). 


24  City  Document  No.  15. 

Charlestown. 
Bunker  Hill  Church. 
City  Hall,  owned  by  city. 
Harvard  Hill  Church. 
High  School-house,  owned  by  city. 
Unitarian  Church. 

West  Roxbury. 
Dr.  Strong's  Church. 
Unitarian  Church. 
Congregational  Church  (Roslindale),  owned  by  city. 

Brighton. 
Bennett  School-house,  owned  by  city. 

The  following  Fire-alarm  boxes  are  private  property :  115, 

149,  152,  161,  163,  164,  165,  212,  227,  228,  244,  271,  279, 

281,  283,  299,  342,  358,  422,  442,  443,  445,  446,  447,  448, 

449,  495,  511,  533,  617,  619,  623,  624,  629,  698,  711,  714, 

715,  716,  718,  722,  724,  725,  726,  727,  728,  729,  731,  732, 

733,  735,  737,  738,  739,  741,  742,  744,  745,  746,  755,  758, 

759,  762,  766,  767,  769,  773,  778,  779,  789,  791,  792,  793, 

794,  795,  797,  799,  816,  828,  838,  842,  864,  865,  919,  927, 
967,  969,  971,  974.    ' 

Your  obedient  servant, 

Hekry  S.  Russell, 

Commissioner. 


ANNUAL  REPORT 


FIEE  DEPAKTMEOT 


YEAR    1900-1901 


BOSTON 

MUNICIPAL    PRINTING    OFFICE 

1901 


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ANNUAL   REPORT 


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YEAR    1900-1901 


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MUNICIPAL    PRINTING    OFFICE 

1901 


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Fire  Commissioner, 
Bristol  Street,  Boston,  February  20,  1901. 

His  Honor  Thomas  N.  Hart,  Mayor: 

Sir,  —  No  radical  change  has  been  made  in  this  Depart- 
ment during  the  last  year ;  the  practice  of  strengthening,  as 
far  as  possible,  the  present  locations  by  equipment,  rather 
than  by  the  building  of  new  houses  for  new  companies,  has 
been  followed ;  and,  in  my  opinion,  should  be  adhered  to  for 
some  years  to  come,  inasmuch  as  the  present  Department  is 
sufficient  to  provide  reasonable  protection  in  the  various 
districts ;  and  it  does  not  seem  fair  to  expect  the  City  to 
furnish  engine  and  ladder  companies  for  the  purpose  of  pro- 
viding the  outlying  districts  with  that  protection  which  is 
necessary  to  prevent  conflagrations  in  the  business  quarters. 
While  the  losses  on  buildings  during  the  year  have  been  some 
$170,000  less  than  those  of  1899,  the  losses  on  contents  have 
exceeded  those  of  1899  by  some  $240,000;  which  figures 
may  show  the  effect  of  large  streams  of  water,  without  which 
a  conflagration  has  the  advantage.  It  is  a  source  of  con- 
gratulation that  no  fire  has  "  got  away  "  from  the  Department, 
although  we  are  well  aware  that  the  dreaded  conflagration 
may  at  any  time  assume  proportions  not  reached  of  late. 


2  City  Document  No.  15. 

Our  Roll  of  Merit  contains  the  names  of : 

N.  L.  Hussey -  Engine  23. 

E.  H.  Sawyer Ladder  4. 

E.  H.  Sawyer "        4. 

J.  F.  Bailey Ladder  17. 

Eugene  Rogers "        1. 

Captain  Peter  Callahan    .     .  Engine  4. 

Lieut.  J.  A.  Kelley      .     .     .  Chemical  1. 

T.   J.  Heffron Engine  4. 

J.  E.  Downey "       6. 

F.  F.  Leary Ladder  12. 

Florence  Donoghue     .     .     .  Combination  8. 

Captain  J.  J.  O'Connor    .     .  Engine  7. 

Lieut.  J.  F.  McMahon     .     .  Combination  8. 

M.  A.  Kenealy Engine  7. 

D.  Driscoll "       7. 

W.  H.  Magner Ladder  8. 

All  of  whom  have  distinguished  themselves  by  exception- 
ally good  work  on  occasion ;  but  the  success  in  putting  out 
fires,  which  the  Department  has  attained,  has  been  owing  to 
the  perpetual  vigilance  and  uniform  zeal  of  all  the  officers 
and  men  without  distinction.  Hoseman  Herbert  Pierce  of 
Engine  42  and  Hoseman  Patrick  J.  McCarthy  of  Engine  8 
have  died  during  the  year  from  injuries  received  while  on 
active  duty. 

Ninety-six  (96)  members  were  injured,  and  were  off  duty 
a  total  of  2,973  days,  an  average  of  31  days  each. 

The  Fire-Alarm  Branch  of  the  Department  has  continued 
its  good  work  during  the  last  year,  having  successfully 
struck  9,260,476  blows  in  performing  its  .duty ;  and  no  fire- 
alarm  box  has  failed  in  its  work  of  properly  transmitting 
alarms  from  the  street  to  headquarters. 

The  new  Veterinary  Hospital  has  answered  all  require- 
ments, nd-  horse,  among  the  358  empkyed,  having  died  of 
disease  during  the  year. 

The  large  self-propelling  engines  have  continued  their  good 
service,  and  certainly  are  a  marked  success  in  dealing  with 
fire  through  their  large  streams,  while  their  motive  power  has 
proved  very  effective. 

The  electric  signal,  by  means  of  wire  inserted  through  the 
hose  giving  direct  communication  with  the  engine,  has  proved 
of  much  service  in  preventing  the  delay  necessarjr  when 
water  has  to  be  called  for  by  messenger,  it  having  been 
adopted  for  10  engines  in  the  City  proper. 


Fire  Department.  3 

The  adoption  of  rubber  tires  has  greatly  increased  the  ease 
of  travel  of  apparatus,  as  well  as  saved  much  wear  and  tear, 
and  their  further  adoption  will  be  continued  as  fast  as 
practicable. 

The  adoption  of  outside  standpipes  on  high  buildings  does 
not  progress  as  fast  as  the  interests  of  property  would  seem 
to  demand ;  while  fire-escapes,  where  built,  are  often  of  a 
character  to  insure  disaster  to  those  citizens  of  ordinary  voca- 
tions who  may  be  required  to  use  them  ;  in  my  opinion,  the 
best  outside  escape  is  that  at  present  attached  to  the  Franklin 
School  on  Waltham  street. 

Besides  the  danger  from  the  many  well  known  fire-traps 
throughout  the  city,  the  large  buildings  of  iron  construction, 
when  used  for  the  storage  of  wool  and  other  combustible 
material,  add,  in  my  opinion,  to  the  gravity  of  the  situation 
by  their  readiness  to  twist  and  fall  when  subjected  to  severe 
heat,  and  thus  become  a  menace  to  a  fire  department. 

The  wooden  villages  springing  up  in  the  country  districts 
continue  to  offer  ready  fuel  for  the  flames ;  but  as  long  as 
owners  prefer  to  oppose  all  attempts  to  extend  the  lines  on 
which  brick  buildings  must  be  built,  the  Fire  Department  and 
insurance  companies  must  stand  in  the  gap  as  best  they  can. 

Organization. 

Commissioner,  Henry  S.  Russell;  term  expires  May, 
1901. 

Secretary,  Benjamin  F.  Underhill. 

Chief  of  Department,  Lewis  P.  Webber. 

Assistant  Chief,  William  T.  Cheswell. 

Second  Assistant  Chief  and  Chief  of  District  No.  6,  John 
A.  Mullen. 

Superintendent  of  Fire-alarms,  Brown  S.  Flanders. 

Assistant  Superintendent  of  Fire-alarms,  Cyrus  A. 
George. 

Superintendent  of  Repair-shop,  Henry  M.  Hawkins. 

Assistant  Superintendent  of  Repair-shop,  Eugene  M. 
Byington. 

Hydraulic  Engineer,  Greely  S.  Curtis. 

Veterinary  Surgeon,  George  W.  Stimpson. 

Medical  Examiner,  Rupus  W.  Sprague. 

Purchasing  Officer,  Charles  A.  Straw. 

Storekeeper,  George  R.  Knight. 

Foreman  of  Hose  '  and  Harness-shop,  Patrick  B. 
Hannon. 

Consulting  Electrician,  Henry  F.  Cottle  [absent]. 

Master  Carpenter,  Thomas  C.  Haney. 


City  Document  No.  15. 


Clerks. 


William    E.    Delano,    M.    J.  Lafferty,    George   F.  Murphy, 
James  P.  Maloney,  D.  J.  Quinn. 


District  Chiefs. 

John  F.  Ryan, 

Headquarters, 

Ladder-house     2 

C.  H.  W.  Pope, 

t 

9 

Joseph  M.  Garrity, 

' 

8 

Peter  F.  McDonough, 

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Engine-house 

Nathan  L.  Hussey, 

' 

26 

Patrick  E.  Keyes, 

I 

22 

John  Grady, 

; 

Ladder-house  12 

Edward  H.  Sawyer, 

' 

4 

Williston  A.  Gay  lord, 

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Engine-house  18 

Hiram  D.  Smith, 

' 

41 

Lewis  P.  Abbott, 

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28 

Force  and  Pay-roli 

j,  February  1,  1901. 

Commissioner 

•*5,000  ] 

;>er  annum. 

Secretary 

2,500 

u                ( 

Chief  of  Department 

3,500 

"        ' 

First  Assistant  Chief 

2,400 

"        ' 

Second      "            " 

2,200 

"        ' 

Superintendent  of  Fii 

e-alarms 

3,200 

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Assistant  Superintendent  of  F 

ire-alarms, 

2,000 

C£               b 

Superintendent  of  Repair-shop 

2,000 

"         ' 

Asst.  Superintendent 

of  Repair 

-shop 

1,800 

"           ' 

Hydraulic  Engineer 

1,600 

"        ' 

Veterinary  Surgeon 

2,000 

u              i 

Medical  Examiner 

900 

k'              ' 

Purchasing  Officer 

1,600 

"              ' 

Foreman  of  Hose  and  Harness 

Shop 

1,400 

"              ' 

Storekeeper    . 

1,400 

ct            ; 

Master  Carpenter    . 

1,300 

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Bookkeeper    . 

1,650 

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3  Clerks      . 

1,400 

"        ' 

1  Clerk 

1,100 

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11  District  Chiefs 

2,000 

a             i 

53  Captains 

1,600 

a             ( 

66  Lieutenants 

1,400 

"             ' 

47  Engineers 

1,300 

a             < 

40  Assistant  Engineers 

.     1,200 

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1,100 

"             ' 

Fire  Department. 


470  Permanent  men. 


356  at    ......         .     1,200  per  annum 

37  at    . 1,100    " 

30  at 1,000    " 

27  at 900    « 

20  at 720    " 

83  Call-men. 

1  at 325    " 

14  at 250    " 

68  at 200    « 

11  Chiefs'  Drivers         ....             1  75  per  day 

2  Watchmen       .....     1,000  per  annum 

3  Hostlers  (average)  .         .          .         .-            195  per  day. 

1  Horseshoer 3  00       " 

Fire-alarm  Force. 

6  Operators $1,600  per  annum. 

3  Assistant  Operators           .         .         .     1,200    "         " 

1  Foreman  of  Construction  .         .         .     1,800    "         " 

17  Repairers  (average)           ...             2  94  per  day. 

Repair-shop  Employees. 

1  Sanitary  Engineer    .         .         .         .  $1,300  per  annum. 

1  Engineer 3   00  per  day. 

1  Assistant  Engineer  .         .         .         .             2  50       ' 

1  Painter    ......             3  75       ' 

1                   2  50       ' 

•  2  Wheelwrights 3  25 

4  Machinists 3  25 

1  Machinist 3  00 

2  Blacksmiths      .          .          .          .         ..             3  50       ' 

1  Blacksmith       .                                                   3  25 

3  Blacksmiths'  helpers          .         .         .            2  50       ' 

1  Hose  and  harness-repairer          .          .             1   50       ' 

5  Laborers  (average)  .         .         .         .             2  04       ' 

863  Total  force. 

Force  and  Pay-roll,  February  1,  1900. 

Commissioner $5,000  per  annum. 

Secretary         ......     2,400    "         " 

Chief  of  Department       .          .          .          .      3,500    "         " 

First  Assistant  Chief       ....     2,400    "         « 

Second      "           "           ....     2,200    « 

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6 


City  Document  No.  15. 


Superintendent  of  Fire-alarms 
Assistant  Superintendent  of  Fire-alarms, 
Superintendent  of  Repair-shop 
Asst.  Superintendent  of  Repair-shop 
Hydraulic  Engineer 
Veterinary  Surgeon 
Medical  Examiner  . 
Purchasing  Officer. 
Foreman  of  Hose  and  Harness  Shop 
Storekeeper 
1  Clerk 

1  » 

2  " 
1       " 

11  District  Chiefs 
53  Captains 
65  Lieutenants 
44  Engineers 
43  Assistant  Engineers 
3 

459  Permanent  men. 

341  at    . 

42  at    . 

39  at    . 

28  at    . 

9  at    . 

86  Call-men. 

1  at  . 
18  at  . 
67  at    . 

2  Drivers  for  Assistant  Chiefs 
11  Drivers  for  District  Chiefs 

2  Watchmen 

3  Hostlers  (average)  . 

1  Horseshoer 

Fire-alarm   Force 
6  Operators 

2  Assistant  Operators 
1  Assistant  Operator  . 
1  Foreman  of  Construction 

17  Repairers  (average) 


Repair-shop  Employees 


1  Sanitary  Engineer 
1  Eno-ineer 


3,200  per  annum 

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2,000    « 

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1,600    » 

c. 

1,400    « 

u 

2,000    » 

ti 

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1,600    « 

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1,400    « 

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1,500    « 

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1,200    « 

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it 

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a 

250    - 

a 

200    " 

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1   75  per  day 

1  75 

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1,000  per  annum 

1   95  per  day 

3  00 

a 

$1,600  per  annum. 

1,200    » 

a 

2  75pei 

day. 

1,800  per  annum. 

2  93  pei 

•day. 

as. 

$1,300  per  annum. 

3   00  per  day. 

Fire  Department. 


2 

50  pei 

3 

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2 

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3 

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3 

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3 

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3 

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3 

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2 

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2 

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2 

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1  Assistant  Engineer  ....  2  50perday. 

1  Painter    . 
1 

2  Wheelwrights 
4  Machinists 
2         " 
2  Blacksmiths 

1  Blacksmith 
1 

2  Blacksmiths'  helpers 
1  Hose  and  Harness-repairer 
4  Laborers  (average)  . 

854  Total  force. 

Fire  Districts. 

The  city  is  divided  into  twelve  fire  districts,  as  follows  : 

District  1. 
All  that  part  of  Boston  known  as  East  Boston. 

District  2. 
All  that  part  of  Boston  formerly  known  as  Charlestown. 

District  3. 

The  territory  bounded  on  the  north  and  east  by  the  water 
front,  on  the  south  by  Summer  street,  and  on  the  west  by 
Washington  and  Charlestown  streets. 

District  4' 

The  territory  bounded  on  the  north  by  the  Charles  river, 
on  the  east  by  Charlestown  and  Washington  streets,  on  the 
south  by  Winter,  Park,  and  Beacon  streets,  and  on  the  west 
by  the  Charles  river  and  Berkeley  street. 

District  5. 

The  territory  bounded  on  the  north  by  Beacon,  Park, 
Winter  and  Summer  streets,  on  the  east  by  Fort  Point 
channel,  on  the  south  and  west  by  Broadway,  Way,  Motte, 
Castle,  and  Ferdinand  streets,  Columbus  avenue  and  Berke- 
ley street. 

District  G. 

All  that  part  of  Boston  known  as  South  Boston,  and  run- 
ning south  as  far  as  Dorset  and  Locust  streets. 


City  Document  No.  15. 


District  7. 


The  territory  bounded  on  the  north  by  Berkeley  street, 
Columbus  avenue,  Ferdinand,  Castle,  Motte,  and  Way 
streets  and  Broadway,  on  the  east  by  Fort  Point  channel 
and  South  bay,  on  the  south  by  Massachusetts  avenue,  and 
on  the  west  by  the  Charles  river. 

District  8. 

The  territory  bounded  on  the  north  by  the  Charles  river 
and  Massachusetts  avenue,  on  the  east  by  Washington  street, 
on  the  south  by  Atherton  and  Mozart  streets,  Chestnut 
avenue,  Sheridan  and  Centre  streets,  Hyde  square,  Perkins, 
Catalpa  and  Castleton  streets,  across  Jamaicaway  to  the 
Brookline  line,  and  on  the  west  by  the  Brookline  line, 
Beacon  and  Deerfield  streets. 

District  9. 

The  territory  bounded  on  the  north  by  Massachusetts 
avenue,  South  bay,  Dorset  and  Locust  streets,  on  the  east 
by  Dorchester  bay,  on  the  south  by  Freeport,  Hancock, 
Bowdoin,  and  Quincy  streets,  Columbia  road,  and  on  the 
west  by  Seaver  street,  Columbus  avenue  and  Washington 
street. 

District  10. 

That  part  of  Dorchester  bounded  on  the  north  by  Seaver 
street,  Columbia  road,  Quincy,  Bowdoin,  Hancock,  and 
Freeport  streets,  on  the  east  by  Dorchester  bay,  on  the  south 
by  the  Neponset  river  and  the  Hyde  Park  line,  and  on  the 
west  by  Harvard  street  and  Blue  Hill  avenue. 

District  11. 

All  that  part  of  Boston  known  as  Brighton  and  extending 
east  as  far  as  Deerfield  and  Beacon  streets. 

District  12. 

All  that  part  of  Boston  known  as  West  Roxbury,  bounded 
on  the  north  by  a  line  from  the  Brookline  line  across 
Jamaicaway  to  Castleton  street,  through  Castleton,  Catalpa, 
and  Perkins  streets,  Hyde  square,  Centre  and  Sheridan 
streets,  Chestnut  avenue,  Mozart,  and  Atherton  streets, 
Columbus  avenue  and  Seaver  street,  on  the  east  by  Blue 
Hill  avenue  and  Harvard  street,  on  the  south  by  the  Hyde 
Park  and  Dedham  lines,  and  on  the  west  by  the  Newton  and 
Brookline  lines. 


Fire  Department. 


9 


In  all  cases  where  streets  are  designated  as  boundaries, 
the  centre  of  the  street  will  be  the  dividing  line. 

Assignment  of  Districts. 

Each  district  is   placed    under  the   charge  of   a   District 
Chief,  as  follows : 


Chief  in  Command. 

Companies  in  Districts. 

District. 

Engines. 

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John  F.  Ryan 

C.H.  W.  Pope 

Joseph  M.  Garrity. .. 
Peter  F.  McDonough 
Nathan  L.  Hussey  . .. 

Patrick  E.  Keyes 

5,  9,  11,  40 

27,  32,  36 

8,  25,  31,  44 

*4,  6,  10 

7,*  26,  35 

*  1,  2, 15,  38,  39,  43 

3,  *22,  33 

13,  14,  37 

12,21,23,24 

16,  17,  *  18,  19,  20 

29,  34,  *  41 

*28,  30,  42,  45 

9 

1 
2 

8 

4 

3,12 

10 

6 

5 

*2 

*9 

*8,  14 

1 

17 

5 

3,  13,  15 

*12 

*4 

6,7 

11 

10,  16 

4 
5,  7 

8 

2,3 

6 
1 

9 

0 

3 

4 

1 

5 

6 

8 

9 

Edward  H.  Sawyer  . . 
Williston  A.  Gaylord 

10 

11 

12 

*  Headquarters  of  District  Chief. 

The  following  property  is  in  charge  of  the  Fire  Commis- 
sioner : 

Houses. 


Location. 

No.  of 

feet  in 

lot. 

Assessed 
Valuation. 

Occupied  by 

5,698 
4,000 
4,000 
6,098 

1,647 
2,269 
1,893 
2,568 

$25,800 
16,400 
30,000 
90,000 

9,000 
35,000 
35,400 
18,300 

Engine  1. 

Bristol  street  and  Harrison  ave 

Engine  3  and  Ladder  3. 

Engine  4,  Chemical  1  and 
Tower  1. 

Engine  5. 

Engine  6. 

10 


City  Document  No.  15. 


Houses. —  Continued. 


No.  of 

feet  in 

lot. 


Assessed 
Valuation, 


Occupied  by 


Paris  St.,  East  Boston 

River  st 

Saratoga  and  Byron  sts.,  East  Boston, 


Dudley  st 

Cabot  st 

Centre  st 

Dorchester  ave 

River  St.,  Dorchester  District 


Meeting  House  Hill,  Dorchester  Dis- 
trict   


Harvard  St.,  Dorchester  District. 
Norfolk  St.,  "  " 

Walnut  St.,  "  " 

Columbia  road,      "  " 

Northampton  st 

Corner  Warren  and  Quiney  sts. . . 
Fort  Hill  sq 


Mason  st 

Elm  St.,  Charlestown  District 

Centre  st.,  Jamaica  Plain 

Chestnut  Hill  ave.,  Brighton  District 
Centre  st.,  West  Roxbury  District  — 

Bunker  Hill  st.,  Charlestown  District, 
Corner  Boylston  and  Hereford  sts.  . . 

Western  ave.,  Brighton  

Monument  st.,  Charlestown  District. . 

Cor.  Longwood  and  Brookline  aves. . . 

Congress  st 

Sumner  St.,  East  Boston 


Harvard  ave.,  near  Cambridge  St., 
Brighton  District 


Washington,  between  Atherton  and 
Beethoven  sts 


Andrew  sq. 


Washington,     corner     Poplar      st., 
Roslindale 


Church  st 

Shawmut  ave. 


4,720 
1,886 
10,000 

7,320 
4,832 
5,713 
2,843 
12,736 

9,450 

9,440 
7,683 
9,000 
12,661 
3,445 
4,186 
4,175 

5,623 
2,600 
10,377 
14,358 
12,251 

8,188 
5,646 
4,637 
5,668 

5,400 
4,000 
4,010 

6,112 

3,848 
5,133 

14,729 

3,412 

889 


28,600 
19,600 
37,500 

24,900 
16,000 
14,600 
18,700 
18,500 

17,300 

17,800 
14,200 
9,200 
18,300 
13,200 
18,100 
77,700 

113,000 
18,000 
28,300 
37,200 
24,700 

26,200 
66,000 
17,800 
21,000 

12,600 
34,000 
18,000 

25,500 

22,900 
20,100 

18,700 

23,600 

5,700 


Engine  9  and  Ladder  2. 

Engine  10. 

Engine  11  and  Combina- 
tion 4. 

Engine  12. 

Engine  13. 

Engine  14. 

Engine  15. 

Engine  16  and  Ladder  6. 

Engine    17   and  Ladder- 
house  7  on  this  lot. 

Engine  18. 

Engine  19. 

Engine  20. 

Engine  21. 

Engine  23. 

Engine  24. 

Engine  25,  Ladder  8  and 
Ladder  14. 

Engine  26  and  Engine  35. 

Engine  27. 

Engine  2S  and  Ladder  10. 

Engine  29  and  Ladder  11. 

Engine  30  and  Combina- 
tion 9. 

Engine  32. 

Engine  33  and  Ladder  15. 

Engine  34. 

Engine  36  and  Combina- 
tion  5. 

Engine  37  and  Chemical  3. 

Engine  3S  and  Engine  39. 

Engine  40. 

Engine  41  and  Chemical  6. 

Engine  42  and  Chemical  5. 

Engine  43  and  Combina- 
tion 3. 

Engine  45  and  Ladder  16. 

Chemical  Engine  2. 

Chemical  Engine  4. 


Fire  Department. 


11 


Houses. —  Concluded. 


No.  of 

leet  in 

lot. 


Assessed 
Valuation. 


Occupied  by 


Chelsea  St.,  East  Boston  — 

Bst 

Eustis  st 

Friend  st 

Dudley  st 

Fourth  st 

Main  st.,  Charlestown 

Tremont  st 

Washington,  near  Dover  st. 

Harrison  ave 

Dorchester  ave.,  Ashmont. . 

Fourth  st 

Washington  gt.,  Dorchester 

Winthrop  st 

North  Gi-ove  st 


1,346 
1,804 
1,754 
1,676 
3,923 
2,469 

4,290 
4,350 

1,007 
2,134 
4,S75 
3,101 
6,874 
3,000 
3,918 


10,400 

7,800 

7,600 

32,400 

25,900 

See  Engine 
1. 

18,000 

25,700 

13,100 
25,500 
22,400 
11,000 
21,400 
13,200 
18,000 


Chemical  Engine  7. 
Chemical  Engine  8. 
Chemical  Engine  10. 
Ladder  1. 
Ladder  4. 
Ladder  5. 

Ladder  9  and  Chemical  9. 

Ladder  12  and  Chemical 
12. 

Ladder  13. 

Ladder  17. 

Combination  1. 

Combination  2. 

Combination  6. 

Combination  7. 

Combination  8. 


Assessed  Valuation. 

Fuel-house,  Dorchester  street,  1,610    feet    of 

land $3,300   00 

Fuel-house,  Salem  street,  417  feet  of  land       .  3,200  00 

Fuel-house,  Main    street,  Charlestown,   2,430 

feet  of  land 7,000  00 

Headquarters  building  and  repair-shop,  corner 

of  Albany  and  Bristol  streets,  23,663  feet  .       185,000  00 
Engine    No.    22,    Water    Tower   No.  2    and 

Wrecking     Wagon     are     in    Headquarters 

building. 
Veterinary  Hospital,  Atkinson  street,  64,442 

feet  of  land 39,110  00 

7,500  feet  of  land  on  Warren  avenue      .  .        18,600  00 

Partially  erected  house  for  Engine  22,  cost  to 

date  . 24,388  22 


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1  large-sized  hose-wagon. 

1   combination  ladder  and  chemical  engine. 


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Leading  cotton,  16,000  feet.                     6,500  feet. 

rubber,  1,350     » 

Chemical,  1,000     «                           450     " 

Suction,  205     "                             56     " 


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rubber,  7,300     " 

Chemical,  9,550     " 

Suction,  946     " 


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Fire  Department. 


21 


Causes  of  Fires  and  Alarms 
to  February 


from  February  1,  1900, 
1,  1901. 


Alarms,  accidental  automatic 
"  false    .... 

"  out-of-city    . 

Accidental  breaking  of  box 
Ashes,  hot,  in  wooden  receptacle 
Boiling  over  of  fat  or  tar 
Bonfires,  grass,  rubbish,  etc.,  set  by  boys 
Careless  use  of  lamps,  candles,  etc. 


cigars 


chemicals 


"     "  pipes  and 
Chimneys,  soot  burning 
"  defective 

"  falling 

Hot  iron  igniting  woodwoi 
Clothes  too  near  stove 
Defective  flue  . 

"        stove-pipe 
"        gas-pipe 
"         gas-meter  . 
"        gas-jet 
Electric  motor  igniting  car 

"        wires  . 
Explosion  and  ignition  of 
Fireworks 
Friction    . 
Fumigating 
Gas,  explosion  of 
"    ignition  of  leaky  pipes 
"    jet  setting  fire 
Incendiary 

'*         supposed 
Lamp  explosion 

"      upsetting  and  breaking 
"      thrown  at  a  person 
Light  mistaken  for  fire 
Lightning 
Matches  and  rats 
"         "     children 
"        careless  use  of 
Meat  burning  on  stove 
Naphtha,  careless  use  of,  and  ig 
Explosion  of  tank 

"  "    boiler   . 

"  "    gunpowder 


in  smoking 


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98 

33 

17 

1 

32 

31 

232 

58 

52 

86 

30 

1 

5 

19 

11 

5 

3 

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11 

51 

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2 

5 

7 

56 

35 

18 

58 

68 

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8 
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City  Document  No.  15. 


Explosion  of  can  of  milk  . 

"         "   hot  water  heater    . 
Oil-  stove,  careless  use  of,  and  explosion 
Gas  stove,      "         "     "     "  " 

Plastering,  drying     . 
Overheated  boiler  or  steam-pipe 
"  coke 

"  oven 

"  stove  or  furnace 

Rekindling  of  ruins  of  previous  fire 
Plumber's  stove  upsetting 
Slacking  of  lime 
Smoky  chimneys 

"      stove  or  furnace     . 
Sparks  from  another  fire   . 

"         "      furnace  or  stove     . 

"         "      chimney 

"         "      forge 

"         "      engine  or  locomotive 
Spontaneous  combustion   . 
Steam  escaping 

Street  fight       .... 
"  Police,"  mistaken  for  call  of  "  fire 
Thawing  out  beer-pipes 
Unknown  .... 

Upsetting  of  stove    . 
Water-pipes,  thawing  out 
Wood  drying  in  oven 

Total         .... 


1 

1 

70 

18 

6 

22 

1 

5 

43 

4 

5 

3 

35 

64 

13 

14 

37 

11 

34 

51 

11 

2 

3 

1 

531 

3 

28 

2 


2,411 


Extinguished  by 


Extinguishers  . 

390 

Buckets  of  water 

251 

Chemical  engines 

. 

453 

Hydrant  stream 

208 

Steamers  . 

375 

Miscellaneous,  brooms, 

stamping  out  and  j 

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108 

Citizens    . 

287 

Sprinklers 

• 

2 

Fire  Department.  23 


Alarm  Bells. 

The  Fire-alarm  Telegraph  is  connected  with  the  following 

bells : 

Adams    School-house,    Sumner   street,    East    Boston,   steel, 

"   2,995  lbs.,  owned  by  City. 

Bunker  Hill  School-house,  Chaiiestown,  composition,  2,009 
lbs.,  owned  by  City. 

City  Hall,  Charlestown,  composition,  3,600  lbs.,  owned  by 
City. 

Engine-house  No.  16,  Temple  street,  Dorchester,  composi- 
tion, 4,149  lbs.,  owned  by  City. 

Engine-house  No.  17,  Meeting  House  Hill,  Dorchester,  com- 
position, 4,000  lbs.,  owned  by  City. 

Engine-house  No.  19,  Mattapan,  Dorchester,  composition, 
2,927  lbs.,  owned  by  City. 

Engine-house  No.  20,  Walnut  street,  Dorchester,  composi- 
tion', 3,061  lbs.,  owned  by  City. 

Engine-house  No.  28,  West  Roxbury,  composition,  4,000 
lbs.,  owned  by  City. 

Engine-house  No.  29,  Brighton,  steel,  1,535  lbs.,  owned  by 
City. 

Engine-house,  Mt.  Vernon  street,  West  Roxbury,  steel,  1,000 
lbs.,  owned  by  City. 

Engine-house  No.  34,  Brighton,  composition,  1,501  lbs., 
owned  by  City. 

Engine-house  No.  41,  Allston,  composition,  900  lbs.,  owned 
by  City. 

Engine-house  No.  45,  Roslindale,  composition,  1,059  lbs., 
owned  by  City. 

Lewis  School-house,  Dale  street,  Roxbury,  composition, 
3,104  lbs.,  owned  by  City. 

Maverick-street  Church,  East  Boston,  composition,  2,000  lbs. 

Princeton-street  School-house,  East  Boston,  composition, 
2,470  lbs.,  owned  by  City. 

Saratoga  street  M.  E.  Church,  East  Boston,  steel,  1,968  lbs., 
owned  by  City. 

Warren  School-house,  Charlestown,  composition,  3,000  lbs., 
owned  by  City. 

Winthrop  School-house,  Charlestown,  composition,  3,000  lbs., 
owned  by  City. 


24  City  Document  No.  15. 

Bells  owned  by  the  City,  which  have  been  disconnected 
from  service,  are  located  as  follows  : 

Berkeley  Temple,  composition,  2,941  lbs.  Formerly  used  on 
Quincy  School-house. 

Chapman  School-house,  steel,  3,109i  lbs.,  taken  down  and 
stored  by  Public  Buildings  Department. 

Engine-house  No.  1,  Dorchester  street,  South  Boston,  com- 
position, 2,911  lbs. 

Engine-house  No.  2,  composition,  800  lbs. 

Engine-house  No.  18,  Harvard  street,  Dorchester,  composi- 
tion, 3,184  lbs. 

Engine-house  No.  21,  Columbia  road,  Dorchester,  composi- 
tion, 3,026  lbs. 

I^aneuil  Hall,  steel,  5,816  lbs. 

Fire  Alarm  Shop,  bell  formerly  used  on  house  of  Enghie  No. 
40,  composition,  817  lbs. 

Ladder  House  No.  4,  Dudley  street,  Roxbury,  composition, 
3,509  lbs. 

Lawrence  School-house,  B  street,  South  Boston,  steel,  3,400 
lbs. 

Lincoln  School-house,  Broadway,  South  Boston,  composition, 
3,110  lbs. 

Smith-street  School-house,  Roxbury,  composition,  4,083  lbs. 

Ticknor  School-house,  Dorchester  street,  Washington  Vil- 
lage, steel,  2,995  lbs. 

Trinity  Church,  Trenton  street,  East  Boston,  composition, 
1,760  lbs.     Formerly  \ised  on  Castle-street  Church. 

Van  Nostrand's  Brewery,  Charlestown,  composition,  818  lbs. 
Formerly  used  on  Boylston  School-house. 

Wells  School-house,  Blossom  street,  composition,  1,675  lbs. 

Public  Clocks. 

The  following  public  clocks,  thirty-eight   in    number,  are 
taken  care  of  by  the  Fire  Department : 

City  Proper. 

Arlington-street  Church. 

Charles-street  Church. 

Christ  Church,  Salem  street,  owned  by  City. 

Commercial  Wharf. 

Odd  Fellows'  Hall,  Tremont  street,  owned  by  City. 

Old  South  Church,  owned  by  City. 

Old  State  House,  owned  by  City. 

Park-street  Church. 


Fire  Department.  25 

Suffolk  County  Jail,  owned  by  City. 

St.  Stephen's  Church,  Clark  street,  owned  by  City. 

Shawmut-avenue  Church. 

Tremont  M.  E.  Church,  owned  by  City. 

Young  Men's  Christian  Union,  owned  by  City. 

South  Boston. 

Gaston  School-house,  owned  by  City. 

Lincoln  School-house,  owned  by  City. 

Phillips  Church,  owned  by  City. 

St.  Augustine  Church,  Dorchester  street,  owned  by  City. 

Ticknor  School-bouse,  Washington  Village,  owned  by  City. 

East  Boston. 
Central-square  Church. 
London-street  Church,  owned  by  City. 
Lyceum  Hall,  owned  by  City. 
Trinity  Church,  owned  by  City. 
Orient  Heights  Church,  owned  by  City. 

Roxbury. 

Winthrop-street  Church,  owned  by  City. 

West  End  stables,  Tremont  street,  owned  by  City. 

Dorchester. 

Baker  Memorial  (Upham's  Corner),  owned  by  City. 
Neponset  Church. 

Tileston  School  (Mattapan),  owned  by  City. 
Unitarian  Church  (Milton  Lower  Mills). 

Charlestown. 
Bunker  Hill  Church. 
City  Hall,  owned  by  City. 
Harvard  Hill  Church. 
High  School-house,  owned  by  City. 
Unitarian  Church. 

West  Roxbury. 

Dr.  Strong's  Church. 

Unitarian  Church. 

Congregational  Church  (Roslindale),  owned  by  City. 

Brighton. 
Bennett  School-house,  owned  by  City. 


26  City  Document  No.  15. 

The  following  Fire-alarm  boxes  are  private  property:  113, 
115,  119,  149,  152, 161,  163,  164,  165,  212,  227,  228,  244, 
271,  279,  281,  283,  299,  342,  358,  422,  442,  443,  445,  446, 
447,  448,  449,  466,  469,  495,  511,  533,  617,  619,  623,  624, 
629,  698,  711,  714,  715,  716,  718,  722,  724,  725,  726,  727, 
728,  729,  731,  732,  733,  734,  735,  737,  738,  739,  741,  742, 
744,  745,  746,  755,  758,  759,  762,  766,  767,  769,  773,  778, 
779,  789,  791,  792,793,  794,  795,  797,  799,  816,  828,  838, 
842,  864,  865,  919,  927,  967,  969,  971,  974. 

Pray  accept  for  yourself  my  full  appreciation  of  the  uni- 
form support  with  which  you  have  favored  me. 

Your  obedient  servant, 

Henry  S.  Russell, 

Commissioner. 


ANNUAL  REPORT 


FIRE  DEPARTMENT 


YEAR    1901-1902 


BOSTON 

MUNICIPAL   PEINTING   OFFICE 

1902 


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ANNUAL   REPORT 


FIRE  DEPARTMENT 


YEAR    1901-1902 


BOSTON 

MUNICIPAL    PRINTING    OFFICE 

1  902 


Pfo  V  - 


Fire  Commissioner, 
Bristol  Street,  Boston,  February  26,   1902. 

His  Honor  Patrick  A.  Collins,  Mayor : 

Sir,  —  By  good  fortune,  constant  vigilance  and  powerful 
apparatus  we  have  been  able  to  pass  through  the  year  with- 
out a  conflagration,  in  spite  of  the  many  old  fire  traps 
scattered  throughout  the  city,  to  say  nothing  of  the  new 
buildings,  of  faulty  construction,  which  our  present  laws 
allow  to  be  erected  within  the  city  limits.  As  long  as  real 
estate  owners  pursue  the  narrow  policy  of  opposing  all  laws 
which  look  to  the  preservation  of  life  and  property,  the  Fire 
Department  will  be  handicapped  in  its  duty.  The  department 
has  done  satisfactory  work  during  the  year,  and  I  see  no  rea- 
son to  change  my  opinion  that,  by  strengthening  the  compa- 
nies already  established,  we  have  attained  an  efficiency  which 
can  provide  all  reasonable  protection  to  the  different  sections 
of  the  city,  without  taxing  our  fellow-citizens  for  new  houses, 
apparatus  and  men,  not  necessary  for  a  satisfactory  perform- 
ance of  our  duty. 

Our  Roll  of  Merit  contains  the  names  of : 

Nathan  L.  Hussey     ....     Engine  23. 
Edward  H.  Sawyer    ....     Ladder  4. 
Edward  H.  Sawyer    ....  "4. 


City  Document  No.  16. 


James  F.  Bailey    . 
Eugene  Rogers 
Peter  Callahan 
Joseph  A.  Kelley 
Timothy  J.  Heffron 
James  E.  Downey 
Frederick  F.  Leary 
Florence  Donoghue 
James  J.  O'Connor 
James  F.  McMahon 
Martin  A.  Kenealy 
Denis  Driscoll 
William  H.  Magner 
Thomas  J.  Muldoon 
Dennis  McGee 
Joseph  P.  Hanton 
Michael  J.  Teehan 


Ladder  17. 

"       1. 
Engine  4. 
Chemical  1. 
Engine  4. 

»       6.  • 
Ladder  12.     ■ 
Combination  8. 
Engine  7. 
Combination  8. 
Engine  7. 

«      7. 
Ladder  8. 
Chemical  8. 
Combination  5. 
Ladder  17. 

"      17. 


All  of  whom  have  distinguished  themselves  by  exception- 
ally good  work  on  occasion ;  but  the  success  in  putting  out 
fires,  which  the  department  has  attained,  has  been  owing  to 
the  perpetual  vigilance  and  uniform  zeal  of  all  the  officers 
and  men  without  distinction. 


Organization. 

Commissioner,  Henry  S.  Russell;  term  expires  May, 
1904. 

Secretary,  Benjamin  F.  Underhill. 

Chief  of  Department,  William  T.  Cheswell. 

Assistant  Chief,  John  A.  Mullen. 

Second  Assistant  Chief  and  Chief  of  District  No.  5, 
Nathan  L.  Hussey. 

Superintendent  of  Fire-alarms,  Brown  S.  Flanders. 

Assistant  Superintendent  of  Fire-alarms,  Cyrus  A. 
George. 

Superintendent  of  Repair-shop,  Henry  M.  Hawkins. 

Assistant  Superintendent  of  Repair-shop,  Eugene  M. 
Byington. 

Hydraulic  Engineer,  Greely  S.  Curtis. 

Veterinary  Surgeon,  George  W.  Stimpson. 

Medical  Examiner,  Rufus  W.  Sprague. 

Purchasing  Officer,  Charles  A.  Straw. 

Storekeeper,  George  R.  Williams  (detailed). 


Fire  Department.  3 

Foreman     of     Hose     and     Harness-shop,     Patrick     B. 
Hannon. 

Consulting  Electrician,  Henry  F.  Cottle  (absent). 
Master  Carpenter,  Thomas  C.  Haney. 

Clerks. 

George  F.  Murphy,  Daniel  J.  Quinn,  Michael  J.  Lafferty, 
James  P.  Maloney. 


District  Chiefs. 

Patrick  E.  Keyes, 

Headquarters, 

Ladder-house    2 

C.  H.  W.  Pope, 

tt 

tt 

9 

Joseph  M.  Garrity, 

tt 

tt 

8 

Peter  F.  McDonough, 

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Engine-house    4 

Edwin  A.  Perkins, 

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tt 

1 

John  Grady, 

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22 

Hiram  D.  Smith, 

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Ladder-house  12 

Edward  H.  Sawyer, 

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4 

Williston  A.  Gay  lord, 

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Engine-house  18 

John  F.  Ryan, 

tt 

tt 

41 

Lewis  P.  Abbott, 

tt 

tt 

28 

Force  and  Pay-roll,  February  1,  1902. 

Commissioner 

.             .             . 

$5,000 

jer 

annum. 

Secretary 

.     2,500 

K 

u 

Chief  of  Department 

3,500 

u 

u 

Assistant  Chief 

.     2,400 

tt 

u 

Second  Assistant  Chief 

2,200 

tt 

u 

Superintendent  of  Fire 

-alarms 

3,200 

tt 

u 

Assistant  Superintendent  of  Fire-alarms 

,     2,000 

tt 

(( 

Superintendent  of  Repair-shop 

2,000 

a 

u 

Assistant  Superintendent  of  Repair-shop 

1,800 

u 

u 

Hydraulic  Engineer 

1,600 

u 

a 

Veterinary  Surgeon 

2,000 

u 

u 

Medical  Examiner 

900 

u 

u 

Purchasing  Officer 

1,600 

u 

a 

Foreman  of  Hose  and  Harness  Shop 

1,400 

u 

t( 

Storekeeper    . 

1,200 

u 

u 

Master  Carpenter  . 

1,300 

u 

tt 

Bookkeeper    . 

1,650 

a 

tt 

3  Clerks     . 

1,400 

it 

tt 

11  District  Chiefs 

2,000 

u 

tt 

52  Captains 

1,600 

u 

tt 

68  Lieutenants 

1,400 

u 

tt 

City  Document  No.  16. 


46  Engineers 

.  11,300 

per 

annum 

41  Assistant  Engineers 

.     1,200 

(C 

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1  Assistant  Engineer 

.     1,100 

t( 

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.     1,000 

u 

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u                         u 

900 

u 

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476  Permanent  men. 

366  at 

.     1,200 

u 

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26  at 

.     1,100 

ic 

u 

32  at 

.     1,000 

u 

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27  at 

900 

l( 

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25  at 

720 

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83  Call-men. 

1  at 

325 

u 

It 

14  at 

250 

ti 

u 

68  at 

200 

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12  Chiefs'  Drivers 

1 

75 

per  day. 

1       "         '   "               .         . 

2 

25 

tt 

2  Watchmen 

.     1,000 

per 

annum 

3  Hostlers  (average)   . 

1 

95 

per  day 

1  Horseshoer                . 

3 

00 

tt 

Fire-alarm   Force. 


6  Operators 
3  Assistant  Operators 
1  Foreman  of  Construction 
17  Repairers  (average) 


Repair-shop  Employees. 


Sanitary  Engineer 
Engineer 
Assistant  Engineer 
Painter    . 


1 

1 

1 

1 

1 

2  Wheelwrights 

4  Machinists 

1  Machinist 
1 

2  Blacksmiths 
1  Blacksmith 
8  Blacksmiths'  helpers 
1  Hose  and  harness-repairer 
4  Laborers  (average)  . 


1,600 

per 

annum 

1,200 

u 

C( 

1,800 

(i 

tc 

2 

94  per  day 

3. 

1,300 

per 

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3 

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aer  day 

2 

50 

u 

3 

75 

u 

2 

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3 

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(I 

3 

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2 

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3 

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870  total  force. 


Fire  Department. 


Force  and  Pay-roll,  February  1,  1901. 


Commissioner          . 

.  $5,000 

per 

annum. 

Secretary       ..... 

.     2,500 

tt 

it 

Chief  of  Department 

.     3,500 

tc 

u 

Assistant  Chief      . 

.     2,400 

tt 

a 

Second  Assistant  Chief 

.     2,200 

tt 

tc 

Superintendent  of  Fire-alarms 

.     3,200 

tc 

tt 

Assistant  Superintendent  of  Fire-al 

arms,     2,000 

It 

tt 

Superintendent  of  Repair-shop 

.     2,000 

tt 

tt 

Assistant  Superintendent  of  Repair- 

shop,     1,800 

it 

tt 

Hydraulic  Engineer 

.     1,600 

tt 

tt 

Veterinary  Surgeon 

.     2,000 

tt 

tt 

Medical  Examiner 

900 

a 

tt 

Purchasing  Officer 

.     1,600 

tt 

tt 

Foreman  of  Hose  and  Harness  Shop 

.     1,400 

tt 

tt 

Storekeeper    ..... 

.     1,400 

tt 

tt 

Master  Carpenter   .         .         .         . 

.     1,300 

tt 

tt 

Bookkeeper  .         .         .               -   . 

.     1,650 

u 

tt 

3  Clerks 

.     1,400 

u 

tt 

1  Clerk 

.     1,100 

'tt 

tt 

11  District  Chiefs 

.     2,000 

tt 

tt 

53  Captains 

.     1,600 

tt 

tt 

66  Lieutenants     .... 

.     1,400 

tt 

tt 

47  Engineers        .... 

.     1,300 

tt 

tt 

40  Assistant  Engineers 

.     1,200 

tt 

tt 

zj.           ' "                " 

.     1,100 

a 

tt 

470  Permanent  men. 

356  at 

.     1,200 

tt 

tt 

37  at 

.     1,100 

tt 

tt 

30  at  .         .         . 

.     1,000 

tc 

tt 

27  at 

900 

tc 

tt 

20  at 

720 

tt 

tt 

83  Call-men. 

1  at 

325 

tt 

tt 

14  at 

250 

tt 

t< 

68  at 

200 

cc 

tt 

11  Chiefs'  Drivers 

1 

75 

Der  day. 

2  Watchmen       .         .         .    ,      . 

.     1,000 

per 

annum. 

3  Hostlers  (average)  . 

1 

95 

per  day. 

1  Horseshoer      .... 

3 

00 

tt 

Fire-alarm  F 

ORCE. 

6  Operators         . 

.  $1,600 

per 

annum. 

3  Assistant  Operators 

.     1,200 

tt 

tt 

1  Foreman  of  Construction 

.     1,800 

a 

tt 

17  Repairers  (average) 

2 

94 

per  day. 

City  Document  No.  16. 


Repair-shop  Employees. 


1  Sanitary  Engineer    . 
1  Engineer 

1  Assistant  Engineer 
1  Painter   . 

1         "... 

2  Wheelwrights  • 
4  Machinists 

1  Machinist 

2  Blacksmiths     . 

1  Blacksmith 

3  Blacksmiths'  Helpers 

1  Hose  and  harness-repairer 

5  Laborers  (average) 

863  total  force. 

,300  per 

annum. 

3  00 

Der  day 

2  50 

u 

3  75 

u 

2  50 

t( 

3  25 

a 

3  25 

u 

3  00 

It 

3  50 

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3  25 

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2  50 

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1  50 

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2  04 

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Fire  Districts. 
The  city  is  divided  into  twelve  fire  districts,  as  follows  : 

District  1. 
All  that  part  of  Boston  known  as  East  Boston. 

District  2. 
All  that  part  of  Boston  formerly  known  as  Charlestown. 

District  3. 

The  territory  hounded  on  the  north  and  east  by  the  water 
front,  on  the  south  by  Summer  street,  and  on  the  west  by 
Washington  and  Charlestown  streets. 

District  Jf. 

The  territory  bounded  on  the  north  by  the  Charles  river, 
on  the  east  by  Charlestown  and  Washington  streets,  on  the 
south  by  Winter,  Park,  and  Beacon  streets,  and  on  the  west 
by  the  Charles  river  and  Berkeley  street. 

District  5. 

The  territory  bounded  on  the  north  by  Beacon,  Park, 
Winter  and  Summer  streets,  on  the  east  by  Fort  Point 
channel,  on  the  south  and  west  by  Broadway,  Way,  Motte, 
Castle,  and  Ferdinand  streets,  Columbus  avenue  and  Berke- 
ley street. 


Fire  Department. 


District  6. 


All  that  part  of  Boston  known  as  South  Boston,  and  run- 
ning south  as  far  as  Dorset  and  Locust  streets. 

District  7. 

The  territory  bounded  on  the  north  by  Berkeley  street, 
Columbus  avenue,  Ferdinand,  Castle,  Motte,  and  Way 
streets  and  Broadway,  on  the  east  by  Fort  Point  channel 
and  South  bay,  on  the  south  by  Massachusetts  avenue,  and 
on  the  west  by  the  Charles  river. 

District  8. 

The  territory  bounded  on  the  north  by  the  Charles  river 
and  Massachusetts  avenue,  on  the  east  by  Washington  street, 
on  the  south  by  Atherton  and  Mozart  streets,  Chestnut 
avenue,  Sheridan  and  Centre  streets,  Hyde  square,  Perkins, 
Catalpa  and  Castleton  streets,  across  Jamaicaway  to  the 
Brookline  line,  and  on,  the  west  by  the  Brookline  line, 
Beacon  and  Deerfield  streets. 

District  9. 

The  territory  bounded  on  the  north  by  Massachusetts 
avenue,  South  bay,  Dorset  and  Locust  streets,  on  the  east 
by  Dorchester  bay,  on  the  south  by  Freeport,  Hancock, 
Bowdoin  and  Quincy  streets,  Columbia  road,  and  on  the 
west  by  Seaver  street,  Columbus  avenue  and  Washington 
street. 

District  10. 

That  part  of  Dorchester  bounded  on  the  north  by  Seaver 
street,  Columbia  road,  Quincy,  Bowdoin,  Hancock,  and 
Freeport  streets,  on  the  east  by  Dorchester  bay,  on  the  south 
by  the  Neponset  river  and  the  Hyde  Park  line,  and  on  the 
west  by  Harvard  street  and  Blue  Hill  avenue. 

District  11. 

All  that  part  of  Boston  known  as  Brighton  and  extending 
east  as  far  as  Deerfield  and  Beacon  streets. 

District  12. 

All  that  part  of  Boston  known  as  West  Roxbury,  bounded 
on  the  north  by  a  line  from  the  Brookline  line  across 
Jamaicaway  to  Castleton  street,  through  Castleton,  Catalpa, 


8  City  Document  No.  16. 

and  Perkins  streets,  Hyde  square,  Centre  and  Sheridan 
streets,  Chestnut  avenue,  Mozart,  and  Atherton  streets, 
Columbus  avenue  and  Seaver  street,  on  the  east  by  Blue 
Hill  avenue  and  Harvard  street,  on  the  south  by  the  Hyde 
Park  and  Dedham  lines,  and  on  the  west  by  the  Newton  and 
Brookline  lines. 

Assignment  of  Districts. 

Each  district  is  placed  under   the   charge    of   a  District 
Chief,  as  follows: 


Chief  in  Command. 

Companies  in  Districts. 

District. 

Engines. 

o 

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Patrick  E.  Keyes.  .. 

C.  H.  W.Pope 

Joseph  M.  Garrity. .. 
Peter  F.  McDonough, 
Nathan  L.  Hussey. .. 
Edwin  A.  Perkins... 

5,  9, 11,  40 

27,  32,  36 

8,  25,  31,  44 

*  4,  6,  10 

7,*  26,  35 

*1,  2,  15,38,39,43 

3,  *22,  33 

13,  14,  37 

12,  21,  23,  24 

16,  17,  *  18, 19,  20 

29,  34,  *  41 

*28,  30,  42,  45 

9 

1 

2 
8 
4 
12 
10 

6 
5 

*2 

*9 

*8,  14 

1 

17 

5 

3,  13, 15 

*12 

*4 

6,7 

11 

10,  16 

4 

5,7 

8 

2,3 

10 

6 

1,11 

9 

2 

3 

4 

l 

6 

7 

2 

8 

Edward  H.  Sawyer.. 
Williston  A.  Gaylord, 
John  F.  Ryan 

9 

10 

11 

12 

*  Headquarters  of  District  Chief. 

The  following  property  is  in  charge  of  the  Fire  Commis- 
sioner : 

Houses. 


Location. 

No.  of 

feet  in 

lot. 

Assessed 
Valuation. 

Occupied  by 

Dorchester  and  Fourth  sts 

8,169 

4,000 
4,000 
6,098 

$25,800 

16,400 
30,000 
96,000 

Engine    1   and    Ladder- 
house  5  on  this  lot. 

Engine  3  and  Ladder  3. 
Engine  4,  Chemical  1  and 

Bulfinch  st 

Tower  1. 

Fire  Department. 


Houses.  —  Continued. 


No.  of 

feet  in 

lot. 


Occupied  by 


Marion  at.,  East  Boston 

Leverett  st 

East  st.  

Salem  st 

Paris  st.,  East  Boston 

River  st 

Saratoga  and  Byron  sts.,  East  Boston, 

Dudley  st ■ 

Cabot  st 

Centre  st 

Dorchester  ave 

Kiver  st.,  Dorchester  District 

Meeting  House  Hill,  Dorchester  Dis 
trict  

Harvard  st.,  Dorchester  District 

Norfolk  st.,  "  "        

Walnut  St.,  *'  "        

Columbia  road,      "  "        

Warren  ave 

Northampton  st 

Corner  Warren  and  Quincy  sts 

Fort  Hill  sq 

Mason  st 

Elm  st.,  Charlestown  District 

Centre  st.,  Jamaica  Plain 

Chestnut  Hill  ave.,  Brighton  District, 
Centre  St.,  West  Roxbury  District. 

Bunker  Hill  St.,  Charlestown  District, 
Corner  Boylston  and  Hereford  sts.  . . 

Western  ave.,  Brighton 

Monument  St.,  Charlestown  District, 

Corner    Longwood    and    Brookline 
aves 

Congress  st 

Sumner  st.,  East  Boston 


7,320 
4.S32 
5,713 
2,803 
12,736 

9,450 

9,440 
7,683 
9,000 

10,341 
7,500 
3,445 

4,186 
4,175 

5,623 
2,600 
10,377 
14,358 
12,251 

8,188 
5,646 
4,637 
5,668 

5,231 

4,000 
4,010 


9,000 
35,000 
35,400 
20,300 
29,200 
20,000 
38,500 

24,900 
16,000 
14,600 
18,700 
19,200 

17,300 

18,300 
14,200 
9,800 

17,100 
67,000 
13,200 
18,100 
81,800 

113,000 
18,000 
28,300 
37,200 
25,000 

26,200 
66,000 
17.S00 
21,000 

13,200 

37,000 
18,000 


Engine  5. 

Engine  6. 

Engine  7. 

Engine  8. 

Engine  9  and  Ladder  2. 

Engine  10. 

Engine  11  and  Combina- 
tion 4. 

Engine  12. 

Engine  13. 

Engine  14. 

Engine  15. 

Engine  16  and  Ladder  6. 

Engine   17   and    Ladder- 
house  7  on  this  lot. 

Engine  18. 

Engine  19. 

Engine  20  and  Combina- 
tion 11. 

Engine  21. 

Engine  22  and  Ladder  13. 

Engine  23. 

Engine  24. 

Engine  25,  Ladder  8  and 
Ladder  14. 

Engine  26  and  Engine  35. 

Engine  27. 

Engine  2S  and  Ladder  10. 

Engine  29  and  Ladder  11. 

Engine  30  and  Combina- 
tion 9. 

Engine  32. 

Engine  33  and  Ladder  15. 

Engine  34. 

Engine  36  and  Combina- 
tion 5. 


Engine  37  and  Combina- 
tion 10. 


Engine  38  and  Engine  i 
Engine  40. 


10 


City  Document  No.  16. 


Houses.  —  Concluded. 


Location. 


No.  of 

feet  in 

lot. 


Occupied  by 


Harvard  ave.,  near  Cambridge  St., 
Brighton  District 

Washington,  between  Atherton  and 
Beethoven  sts 

Andrew  sq 

Washington,     corner     Poplar      St., 
Koslindale 

Church  st 

Shawmut  ave 

Chelsea  St.,  East  Boston 

Bst 

Eustis  st 

Friend  st 

Dudley  st 

Main  st.,  Charlestown 

Tremont  et 

Harrison  ave 

Dorchester  ave.,  Ashmont  

Fourth  st 

Washington  st.,  Dorchester 

Winthrop  st 

North  Grove  st 


,133 

,729 

,-112 


754 
,676 


290 
,311 


2,134 
4,875 
3,101 
6,874 
3,000 
3,918 


25,500 

22,900 
20,100 

22,400 
23,600 
5,700 
10,400 
7,800 
7,600 
32,400 
25,900 
18,000 
25,700 

25,500 
22,900 
11,000 
21,400 
13,200 
18,000 


Engine  41  and  Chemical  6. 

Engine 42  and  Chemicals. 

Engine  43  and  Combina- 
tion 3. 

Engine  45  and  Ladder  16. 

Chemical  Engine  2. 

Chemical  Engine  4. 

Chemical  Engine  7. 

Chemical  Engine  8. 

Chemical  Engine  10. 

Ladder  1. 

Ladder  4. 

Ladder  9  and  Chemical  9. 

Ladder  12  and  Chemical 
12. 

Ladder  17. 

Combination  1. 

Combination  2. 

Combination  6. 

Combination  7. 

Combination  8. 


Assessed  Valuation . 

Fuel-house,  Dorchester  street,  1,610  feet  of  land,        $3,300  00 
Fuel-house,  Salem  street,  417  feet  of  land        .  3,200   00 

Fuel-house,   Main    street,   Charlestown,   2,430 

feet  of  land 7,800  00 

Headquarters  building  and  repair-shop,  corner 

of  Albany  and  Bristol  streets,  23,679  feet    .      185,000  00 
Water  Tower  No.  2  and  Wrecking  Wagon  are 

in  Headquarters  building. 
Veterinary  Hospital,  Atkinson  street,  64,442 

feet  of  land 36,100  00 

Fuel-house,  Washington,  near   Dover    street,  -^ 

1,007  feet  of  land 13,100  00 

9,300  feet  of  land  on  Saratoga  street        .         .  4,200  00 

Partially  erected  house  for  Chemical  7,  cost  to 

date 12,931  70 

11,363  feet  of  land  on  Pittsburgh  street         .        17,000  00 
Partially  erected  house  for  Ladder  18,  cost  to 

date 13,705140 


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City  Document  No.  16. 


New  Apparatus  Purchased  during  the  Year. 

1  second-size  Amoskeag  engine. 

3  district  chiefs'  wagons,  with  rubber  tires. 

1  extra  first-size  Amoskeag  engine. 

2  hose-wagons. 

2  combination  ladder  and  chemical  trucks. 


Amount  of   hose  purchased  and   condemned   during   the 
year: 

Purchased.  Condemned. 

Leading  cotton,  13,000  feet.  6,350  feet. 

rubber,        500     "  2,300     " 

Chemical,  2,000     "  1,500     « 

Suction,  62     "  198     « 


Totals, 


15,562 


10,348 


Amount  of  hose  in  use  and  in  store  February  1,  1902  : 


In  Use. 

Leading  cotton,   86,300  feet. 

"        rubber,     5,550     " 
Chemical,  10,250     « 

Suction,  905     " 


Totals, 


103,005 


In  Store. 

15,700  feet. 
1,400     " 
1,400     « 
106     " 


18,606 


Horses. 


Purchased  during  the 

year 

75 

Sold  or  exchanged    . 

39 

Died 

9 

Killed  for  cause 

8 

Killed  in  service 

3 

Number  in  the  department 

.       374 

Fibe  Department. 


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City  Document  No.  16. 


Causes  of  Fiees  and  Alarms  from  February  1,  1901, 
to  February  1,  1902. 

Alarms,  accidental  automatic 
"        false    .... 
"        out  of  city    . 
Ashes,  hot,  in  wooden  receptacle 
Boiling  over  of  fat  or  tar 
Bonfires,  grass,  rubbish,  etc.,  set  by  boys 
Careless  use  of  lamps,  candles,  etc 

"  "    "  pipes  and  cigars  in  smoking 

Chimneys,  soot  burning     . 

"  defective 

Clothes  too  near  stove- 
Defective  flue  . 

"        stove-pipe 

"        gas-pipe     . 
Electric  motor  igniting  car 

"        wires  . 
Explosion  and  ignition  of  chemicals 

"         of  bottle  of  whiskey  in  oven 
Fireworks 
Friction    . 
Fumigating 
Gas,  explosion  of 
"     jet  setting  fire 
"     stove,  careless  use  of,  and  expl 
Hot  iron  igniting  woodwork 
Incendiary 

"  supposed 

Kerosene  used  to  light  fire 
Lamp  explosion 

"      upsetting  and  breaking 
Light  mistaken  for  fire 
Lightning 
Matches  and  rats 

"  "     children 

"       careless  use  of 
Meat  burning  on  stove 
Naphtha,  careless  use  of,  and  ignition 
Oil  stove,  careless  use  of,  and  explos 
Overheated  boiler  or  steam-pipe 

"  stove  or  furnace 

Plastering,  drying     .  .         . 

Plumber's  stove  upsetting 
Rekindling  of  ruins  of  previous  fire 


Fire  Department. 


21 


Slacking  of  lime 
Smoky  chimneys 

"      stove  or  furnace     . 

2 
47 

73 

Sparks  from  another  fire    . 

4 

"          "     chimney 

"         "     engine  or  locomotive 

44 

29 

"          "     forge 

8 

"         "     furnace  or  stove     . 

11 

"         "     open  grate 
"          "     trolley  wire    . 
Spontaneous  combustion    . 

3 

1 

44 

Steam  escaping 

Street  fight       .... 

Unknown           .          .          ... 

10 

1 
526 

Water-pipes,  thawing  out 

24 

Wood  drying  in  oven 

4 

Total         .         .         .         .  •  .■   . 

2,225 

Extinguished  by 

Extinguishers  .         .          .          .         .         .          .          .403 

Buckets  of  water      .         .                   ....       244 

Chemical  engines      .......       399 

Hydrant  stream          .          .                    .          .          .          .        172 

Steamers  ........'.       340 

Miscellaneous,  brooms,  stamping  out  and  smothering,         88 
Citizens    ......                            .248 

Sprinklers          .... 

4 

The  following  is  a  memorandum  of  construction,  extension 
and  renewal  work  done  for  the  maintenance  and  operation  of 
the  Fire-alarm  branch  of  the  department  for  the  year: 

feet. 


Overhead  wire  run 

182,160 

"           "    taken  down  . 

204,600 

"        cable  put  up 

18,521 

Conductors  in  same     . 

125,545 

Overhead  cable  taken  down 

11,547 

Conductors  in  same 

80,579 

Underground  cable  laid  in  N. 

E.  tele- 

t  phone  ducts    . 

15,317.7 

Underground  ducts  put  in  by  this  de- 

partment 

3,599.8 

Total  ducts  owned  by  city  . 

13,280.8 

Total  underground  cable  laid 

28,650 

Conductors  in  same     . 

521,920 

22  City  Document  No.  16. 

Total  cable  under  ground  February  1, 

1902 174,170.5  feet. 

Conductors  in  same     ....  4,734,843.9    " 

Service  connections  made    .....  23 

Boxes  built  over          ......  115 

New  boxes  added  to  service,  including  3  auxiliary,  6 

Boxes  equipped  with  keyless  doors      ...  92 
Boxes  placed  on  lamp-posts  and  connected  under 

ground  ........  9 

Lamp-post  boxes  used  in  resetting  broken  posts    .  4 

Boxes  in  service  February  1,  1902       .          .         .  632 

Cross-arms  used .         .         .         .         .         .         .  402 

Poles  transferred  to  N.  E.  Telephone  Company    .  459 
Bell-alarms  struck  from  January  1, 1901,  to  Janu- 
ary 1,1902     .          .         .   '      .         .          .         .  1,349 

Blows  struck  on  bells,  gongs  and  tappers     .          .  9,244,766 

Alarm  Bells. 

The  Fire-alarm  Telegraph  is  connected  with  the  following 
bells : 

Adams  school-house,  Sumner  street,  East  Boston,  steel, 
2,995  lbs.,  owned  by  City. 

Bunker  Hill  School-house,  Charlestown,  composition,  2,009 
lbs.,  owned  by  City. 

City  Hall, Charlestown, composition,  3,600  lbs.,  owned  by  City. 

Engine-house  No.  16,  Temple  street,  Dorchester,  composi- 
tion, 4,149  lbs.,  owned  by  City. 

Engine-house  No.  17,  Meeting  House  Hill,  Dorchester,  com- 
position, 4,000  lbs.,  owned  by  City. 

Engine-house  No.  19,  Mattapan,  Dorchester,  composition, 
2,927  lbs.,  owned  by  City. 

Engine-house  No.  20,  Walnut  street,  Dorchester,  composi- 
tion, 3,061  lbs.,  owned  by  City. 

Engine-house  No.  28,  West  Roxbury,  composition,  4,000 
lbs.,  owned  by  City. 

Engine-house  No.  29,  Brighton,  steel,  1,535  lbs.,  owned  by 
City. 

Engine-house,  Mt.  Vernon  street,  West  Roxbury,  steel,  1,000 
lbs.,  owned  by  City. 

Engine-house  No.  34,  Brighton,  composition,  1,501  lbs,, 
owned  by  City. 

Engine-house  No.  41,  Allston,  composition,  900  lbs.,  owned 
by  City. 

Engine-house  No.  45,  Roslindale,  composition,  1,059  lbs., 
owned  by  City. 


Fire  Department.  23 

Lewis    School-house,    Dale    street,    Roxbury,    composition, 

3,104  lbs.,  owned  by  City. 
Maverick-street  Church,  East  Boston,  composition,  2,000  lbs. 
Princeton-street    School-house,    East    Boston,    composition, 

2,470  lbs.,  owned  by  City. 
Saratoga-street  M.  E.  Church,  East  Boston,  steel,  1,968  lbs., 

owned  by  City. 
Warren  School-house,  Charlestown,  composition,  3,000  lbs., 

owned  by  City. 

Bells  owned  by  the  City,  which  have  been  disconnected 
from  service,  are  located  as  follows  : 

Berkeley  Temple,  composition,  2,941  lbs.  Formerly  used  on 
Quincy  School-house. 

Chapman  School-house,  steel,  3,10  9£  lbs.,  taken  down  and 
stored  by  Public  Buildings  Department. 

Engine-house  No.  1,  Dorchester  street,  South  Boston,  com- 
position, 2,911  lbs. 

Engine-house  No.  2,  composition,  800  lbs. 

Engine-house  No.  18,  Harvard  street,  Dorchester,  composi- 
tion, 3,184  lbs. 

Engine-house  No.  21,  Columbia  road,  Dorchester,  composi- 
tion, 3,026  lbs. 

Faneuil  Hall,  steel,  5,816  lbs. 

Ladder  House  No.  4,  Dudley  street,  Roxbury,  composition, 
3,509  lbs; 

Lawrence  School-house,  B  street,  South  Boston,  steel,  3,400  lbs. 

Lincoln  School-house,  Broadway,  South  Boston,  composition, 
3,110  lbs. 

Smith-street  School-house,  Roxbury,  composition,  4,083  lbs. 

Ticknor  School-house,  Dorchester  street,  Washington  Vil- 
lage, steel,  2,995  lbs. 

Trinity  Church,  Trenton  street,  East  Boston,  composition, 
1,760  lbs.     Formerly  used  on  Castle-street  Church. 

Van  Nostrand's  Brewery,  Charlestown,  composition,  818  lbs. 
Formerly  used  on  Boylston  School-house. 

Wells  School-house,  Blossom  street,  composition,  1,675  lbs. 

Public  Clocks. 

The  following  public  clocks,  thirty-eight  in  number,  are 
taken  care  of  by  the  Fire  Department : 

City   Proper. 

Arlington-street  Church. 
Charles-street  Church. 


24  City  Document  No.  16. 

Christ  Church,  Salem  street,  owned  by  City. 

Commercial  Wharf. 

Odd  Fellows'  Hall,  Tremont  street,  owned  by  City. 

Old  South  Church,  owned  by  City. 

Old  State  House,  owned  by  City. 

Park-street  Church. 

Suffolk  County  Jail,  owned  by  City. 

St.  Stephen's  Church,  Clark  street,  owned  by  City. 

Shawmut-avenue  Church. 

Tremont  M.  E.  Church,  owned  by  City. 

Young  Men's  Christian  Union,  owned  by  City. 

South  Boston. 

Gaston  School-house,  owned  by  City. 

Lincoln  School-house,  owned  by  City. 

Phillips  Church,  owned  by  City. 

St.  Augustine  Church,  Dorchester  street,  owned  by  City. 

Ticknor  School-house,  Washington  Village,  owned  by  City. 

East  Boston. 

Central-square  Church. 
London-street  Church,  owned  by  City. 
Lyceum  Hall,  owned  by  City. 
Trinity  Church,  owned  by  City. 
Orient  Heights  Church,  owned  by  City. 

Roxbury. 

Winthrop-street  Church,  owned  by  City. 

West  End  stables,  Tremont  street,  owned  by  City. 

Dorchester. 

Baker  Memorial  (Upham's  Corner),  owned  by  City. 
Neponset  Church. 

Tileston  school  (Mattapan),  owned  by  City. 
Unitarian  Church  (Milton  Lower  Mills). 

Charlestown. 

Bunker  Hill  Church. 

City  Hall,  owned  by  City. 

Harvard  Hill  Church. 

High  School-house,  owned  by  City. 

Unitarian  Church. 


Fire  Department.  25 

West  Roxbury. 

Dr.  Strong's  Church  (South  Evangelical),  owned  by  City. 

Unitarian  Church. 

Congregational  Church  (Roslindale),  owned  by  City. 

Brighton. 
Bennett  School-house,  owned  by  City. 

The  following  Fire-alarm  boxes  are  private  property  :  113, 
115,  117,  119,  149,  15-2,  161,  163,  164,  212,  227,  228,  244, 
271,  275,  281,  283,  299,  342,  422,  442,  443,  445,  446,  447, 
448,  449,  466,  495,  511,  533,  617,  619,  623,  624,  629,  698, 
711,  714,  715,  716,  718,  722,  724,  725,  727,  728,  729,  731, 
732,  733,  734,  735,  737,  739,  741,  742,  744,  745,  746,  755, 
758,  759,  762,  766,  767,  773,  778,  779,  789,  791,  792,  793, 
794,  795,  797,  799,  816,  828,  838,  842,  864,  865,  919,  927, 
967,  969,  971,  974. 

Your  obedient  servant, 

Henry  S.  Russell, 

Commissioner. 


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ANNUAL   REPORT 


FIEE  DEPAETME1STT 


YEAR  1902-1903 


BOSTON 

MUNICIPAL  PRINTING  OFFICE 

1903 


ANNUAL    REPORT 


FIRE  DEPARTMENT 


YEAR  1902-1903 


BOSTON 

MUNICIPAL   PRINTING   OFFICE 

1903 


1  ti<w-MK  .  "Taw^     Uju^a^7v^4**r 


FlBE    COMMISSIONEB, 

Bbistol  Stbeet,  Boston,  February  17,  1903. 

His  Honor  Patrick  A.  Collins, 

Mayor  of  the  City  of  Boston  : 

Sir,  —  The  dreaded  conflagration  has  not  overtaken  us 
yet ;  and,  while  good  fortune  has  played  a  part  in  the  satis- 
factory result  attained,  the  activity  and  ability  with  which 
the  members  of  this  department  have  handled  the  strength- 
ened apparatus  are,  in  my  opinion,  the  main  cause  of  our 
success ;  but  it  is  a  little  discouraging  to  see  how  year 
after  year  the  old  conditions  continue  by  the  building  of 
wooden  structures  close  together  in  those  parts  of  the  city 
which  offer  tempting  bait  for  conflagrations,  not  to  mention 
the  tinder-boxes  in  the  heart  of  the  city. 

The  different  branches  of  the  department  continue  to  give 
entire  satisfaction,  the  Fire-alarm  branch  having  struck 
10,734,947  blows  during  the  year  in  its  manipulation  of  our 
electrical  plant,  while  the  active  fighting  force  has  shown 
every  disposition  to  deserve  the  high -praise  already  accorded 
it  by  its  fellow-citizens.  Of  the  384  horses  in  the  service, 
only  one  has  died  of  disease.  f 

The  fire  losses  during  the  year  are  $68,100  less  than  those 
of  1901,  although  we  have  had  391  more  alarms  than  in  that 
year. 


2  City  Document  No.  16. 

I  beg  leave  to  express  to  your  good  self  my  grateful 
appreciation  of  the  uniform  encouragement  and  support  with 
which  I  have  been  favored. 

Our  Roll  of  Merit  contains  the  names  of: 


Nathan  L.  Hussey 
Edward  H.  Sawyer 
Edward  H.  Sawyer 
James  F.  Bailey 
Eugene  Rogers 
Peter  Callahan 
Joseph  A.  Kelley 
Timothy  J.  Heffron 
James  E.  Downey 
Frederick  F.  Leary 
Florence  Donoghue 
James  J.  O'Connor 
James  F.  McMahon 
Martin  A.  Kenealy 
Denis  Driscoll 
William  H.  Magner 
Thomas  J.  Muldoon 
Dennis  McGee 
Joseph  P.  Hanton 
Michael  J.  Teehan 


Engine  23. 
Ladder  4. 
4. 
Ladder  17. 

1. 
Engine  4. 
Chemical  1. 
Engine  4. 
6. 
Ladder  12. 
Combination 
Engine  7. 
Combination 
Engine  7. 

"       7. 
Ladder  8. 
Chemical  8. 
Combination 
Ladder  17. 

»       17. 


All  of  whom  have  distinguished  themselves  by  exception- 
ally good  work  on  occasion  ;  but  the  success  in  putting  out 
fires,  which  the  department  has  attained,  has  been  owing  to 
the  perpetual  vigilance  and  uniform  zeal  of  all  the  officers 
and  men  without  distinction. 


Organization. 

Commissioner,  Henry  S.  Russell;  term  expires  May, 
1904. 

Secretary,  Benjamin  F.  Underhill. 

Chief  of  Department,  William  T.  Cheswell. 

Assistant  Chief,  John  A.  Mullen. 

Second  Assistant  Chief  and  Chief  of  District  No.  5, 
Nathan  L.  Hussey. 

Superintendent  of  Fire-alarms,  Brown  S.  Flanders. 


Fire  Department.  3 

Assistant  Superintendent  of  Fire-alarms,  Cyrus  A. 
George. 

Superintendent  of  Repair-shop,  Henry  M.  Hawkins. 

Assistant  Superintendent  of  Repair-shop,  Eugene  M. 
Eying  ton. 

Hydraulic  Engineer,  Greely  S.  Curtis. 

Veterinary  Surgeon,  George  W.  Stimpson. 

Medical  Examiner,  Rufus  W.  Sprague. 

Purchasing  Officer,  Charles  A.  Straw. 

Storekeeper,  George  R.  Williams. 

Foreman  of  Hose  and  Harness-shop,  Patrick  B. 
Hannon. 

Master  Carpenter,  Thomas  C.  Haney. 

Master  Painter,  David  J.  Fitzgerald. 

Clerks. 

George  F.  Murphy,  Daniel  J.  Quinn,  Michael  J.  Lafferty, 
James  P.  Maloney. 


Patrick  E.  Keyes, 
€.  H.  W.  Pope, 
Joseph  M.  Garrity, 
Peter  F.  McDonough, 
Edwin  A.  Perkins, 
John  Grady, 
Hiram  D.  Smith, 
Edward  H.  Sawyer, 
Williston  A.  Gaylord, 
John  F.  Ryan, 
Lewis  P.  Abbott 


District   Chiefs. 
Headquarters,  Ladder-house 


2 

9 

8 

Engine-house    4 

"  .  1 

22 

Ladder-house  12 

4 

Engine-house  18 

41 

28 


Force  and  Pay-roll,  February  1,  1903. 

Commissioner     .....  $5,000  per  i 

Secretary    .  .  .  .  .  2,500 

Chief  of  Department  .  3,500 

Assistant  Chief  .  2,400 

Second  Assistant  Chief       .         .         .  2,200 

Superintendent  of  Fire-alarms     .         .  3,200 

Assistant  Superintendent  of  Fire-alarms,  2,000 

Superintendent  of  Repair-shop    .         .  2,000 

Assistant  Superintendent  of  Repair-shop,  1,800 

Hydraulic  Engineer   ....  1,600 


City  Document  No.  16. 


Veterinary  Surgeon 
Medical  Examiner 
Purchasing  Officer 
Foreman  of  Hose  and 
Storekeeper 
Master  Carpenter 
Master  Painter  . 
Bookkeeper 
3  Clerks 

11  District  Chiefs 
51  Captains 
69  Lieutenants 
46  Engineers    . 
38  Assistant  Engineers 

1  Assistant  Engineer 

2  Assistant  Engineers 
493  Permanent  men. 
371  at 

33  at 
24  at 
41  at 
24  at        . 
'81  Call-men. 

1  at        . 

12  at 
68  at 
11  Chiefs'  Drivers 

2  "  " 

2  Watchmen 

3  Hostlers  (average) 
1  Horseshoer 


Harness  Shop 


2,000 
900 

per  annum 

u 

1,600 
1,400 

1,200 
1,300 

1,300 
1,650 

1,400 

u 

2,000 
1,600 
1,400 
1,300 
1,200 
1,100 
1,000 

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1 

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FlRE-ALARM    FORCE. 

6  Operators    .....       $1,600  per  annum. 
3  Assistant  Operators      .  .  .         1,200       " 

1  Foreman  of  Construction     .         .         1,800       " 
17  Telegraphers  and  Linemen  (average),  2  94  per  day. 


Repair-shop  Employees. 


1  Sanitary  Engineer 

1  Engineer 

1  Assistant  Engineer 

1  Painter 

1  .         . 


L,300  per  annum. 
3  00  per  day. 

2  50       « 

3  75       » 
2  50       " 


Fire  Department. 


2  Wheelwrights 

3  25 

per  day 

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3  25 

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3  00 

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3  total  force. 

Fire  Districts. 
The  city  is  divided  into  twelve  fire  districts,  as  follows  : 

District   1. 
All  that  part  of  Boston  known  as  East  Boston. 

District   2. 
All  that  part  of  Boston  formerly  known  as  Charlestown. 

District   3. 

The  territory  bounded  on  the  north  and  east  by  the  water 
front,  on  the  south  by  Summer  street,  and  on  the  west  by 
Washington  and  Charlestown  streets. 

District  4- 

The  territory  bounded  on  the  north  by  the  Charles  river, 
on  the  east  by  Charlestown  and  Washington  streets,  on  the 
south  by  Winter,  Park  and  Beacon  streets,  and  on  the  west 
by  the  Charles  river  and  Berkeley  street. 

District   5. 

The  territory  bounded  on  the  north  by  Beacon,  Park,  Win- 
ter and  Summer  streets,  on  the  east  by  Fort  Point  channel, 
on  the  south  and  west  by  Broadway,  Way,  Motte,  Castle  and 
Ferdinand  streets,  Columbus  avenue  and  Berkeley  street. 


District  6. 

All  that  part  of  Boston  known  as  South  Boston,  and  run- 
ning south  as  far  as  Dorset  and  Locust  streets. 


City  Document  No.  16. 


District   7. 


The  territory  bounded  on  the  north  by  Berkeley  streetr 
Columbus  avenue,  Ferdinand,  Castle,  Motte  and  Way 
streets  and  Broadway,  on  the  east  by  Fort  Point  channel  and 
South  bay,  on  the  south  by  Massachusetts  avenue,  and  onthe- 
west  by  the  Charles  river. 

District   8. 

The  territory  bounded  on  the  north  by  the  Charles  river 
and  Massachusetts  avenue,  on  the  east  by  Washington  street, 
on  the  south  by  Atherton  and  Mozart  streets,  Chestnut  ave- 
nue, Sheridan  and  Centre  streets,  Hyde  square,  Perkins,. 
Catalpa  and  Castleton  streets,  across  Jamaicaway  to  the 
Brookline  line,  and  on  the  west  by  the  Brookline  line,  Beacon 
and  Deerfield  streets. 

District   9. 

The  territory  bounded  on  the  north  by  Massachusetts  ave- 
nue, South  bay,  Dorset  and  Locust  streets,,  on  the  east  by 
Dorchester  bay,  on  the  south  by  Freeport,  Hancock,  Bowdoin 
and  Quincy  streets,  Columbia  road,  and  on  the  west  by  Seaver 
street,  Columbus  avenue  and  Washington  street. 

District  10. 

That  part  of  Dorchester  bounded  on  the  north  by  Seaver 
street,  Columbia  road,  Quincy,  Bowdoin,  Hancock  and  Free- 
port  streets,  on  the  east  by  Dorchester  bay,  on  the  south  by 
the  Neponset  river  and  the  Rjde  Park  line,  and  on  the  west 
by  Harvard  street  and  Blue  Hill  avenue. 

District  11. 

All  that  part  of  Boston  known  as  Brighton,  and  extending 
east  as  far  as  Deerfield  and  Beacon  streets. 

District  12. 

All  that  part  of  Boston  known  as  West  Rdxbury,  bounded 
on  the  north  by  a  line  from  the  Brookline  line  across  Jamaica- 
way  to  Castleton  street,  through  Castleton,  Catalpa  and 
Perkins  streets,  Hyde  square,  Centre  and  Sheridan  streets, 
Chestnut  avenue,  Mozart  and  Atherton  streets,  Columbus 
avenue  and  Seaver  street,  on  the  east  by  Blue  Hill  avenue 


Fire  Department.  7 

and  Harvard  street,  on  the  south  by  the  Hyde  Park  and 
Dedham  lines,  and  on  the  west  by  the  Newton  and  Brookline 
lines. 

In  all  cases  where  streets  are  designated  as  boundaries,  the 
centre  of  the  street  will  be  the  dividing  line. 

Assignment  op  Districts. 

Each  district  is  placed  under  the  charge  of  a   District 
Chief,  as  follows  : 


Chief  in  Command. 

Companies  in  Districts. 

District. 

Engines. 

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Patrick  E .  Keyes  — 

C  H.  W.Pope 

Joseph  M.  Garrity... 
Peter  F.McDonough , 

Nathan  L.  Hussey 

Edwin  A.  Perkins 

5,  9,  11,  40 

27,  32,  86 

8,  25,  31,  44 

*  4,  6,  10 

7,  *  26,  35 

*  1,  2, 15,  38,  39,  43 

3,  *  22,  33  - 

13,  14,  37 

12,  21,  23,  24 

16,  17,  *  18,  19,  20 

29,  34, *  41 

*  28,  30,  42,  45 

7 
9 

1 

2 
8 
4 
12 
10 

6 
5 

*2 

*9 

*8,  14 

1 

17 

5,18 

3, 13, 15 

*12 

*4 

6,7 

11 

10,  16 

4 

5,7 

8 

2,3 

10 

6 

1,11 

9 

2...   

3 

4 

1 

5 

6 

3 

2 

8 

Edward  H.  Sawyer.. 
Williston  A.Gaylord, 

John  F.  Ryan  

Lewis  P.  Abbott 

9 

10 

11 

12 

*  Headquarters  of  District  Chief. 

The  following  property  is  in  charge  of  the  Fire  Commis- 
sioner : 


Houses. 


Location. 

Number 
of  feet 
in  lot. 

Assessed 
Valuation. 

Occupied  by 

8,169 

4,000 
4,000 

$25,800 

16,400 
30,000 

Engine    1    and    Ladder- 
house  5  on  this  lot. 

Engine  2. 

Engine  3  and  Ladder  3. 

City  Document  No.  16. 

Houses.  —  Continued. 


Location. 


Number 
of  feet 
in  lot. 


Assessed 
Valuation, 


Occupied  by 


Bulfinch  st 

Marion  St.,  East  Boston 

Leverett  st 

East  st 

Salem  st 

Paris  St.,  East  Boston 

River  st 

Saratoga  and  Byron  sts., East  Boston, 

Dudley  st 

Cabot  st 

Centre  st 

Dorchester  ave 

Corner  River  and  Temple  sts 

Meeting  House  Hill,  Dorchester  Dis- 
trict   

Harvard  St.,  Dorchester  District 

Norfolk  st.,  "  "        

Walnut  St.,  "  "        

Columbia  road     "  "        

Warren  ave 

Northampton  st 

Corner  Warren  and  Quincy  sts 

Fort  Hill  sq 

Mason  st 

Elm  St.,  Charlestown  District 

Centre  St.,  Jamaica  Plain 

Chestnut  Hill  ave.,  Brighton  District, 
Centre  st.,  West  Roxbury  District 

Bunker  Hill  st. .Charlestown  District, 

Corner  Boylston  and  Hereford  sts.. . . 

Western  ave.,  Brighton 

Monument  St.,  Chariestown  District, 

Corner    Longwood    and    Brookline 
aves 


6,098 

1,647 

2,269 
1,893 
2,568 
4,720 
1,886 
10,000 

7,320 
4,832 
5,713 
2,803 
12,736 

9,450 

9,440 
7,683 
9,000 

10,341 
7,500 
3,445 

4,186 
4,175 

5,623 
2,600 
10,377 
14,358 
12,251 

8,188 
5,646 
4,637 
5,668 

5,231 


96,000 

9,000 
35,000 
35,400 
22,800 
29,200 
20,000 
38,500 

25,000 
16,000 
14,600 
20,000 
19,200 

17,300 

18,300 
14,200 
16,800 

17,100 
62,500 
13,200 
18,100 
88,100 

113,000 
18,000 
28,300 
37,200 
25,000 

26,200 
66,000 
17,800 
21,000 

13,200 


Engine  4,  Chemical  1  and 
Tower  1. 

Engine  5. 

Engine  6. 

Engine  7. 

Engine  8. 

Engine  9  and  Ladder  2. 

Engine  10. 

Engine  11  and  Combina- 
tion 4. 

Engine  12. 

Engine  13. 

Engine  14. 

Engine  15. 

Engine  16  and  Ladder  6. 

Engine  17   and  Ladder, 
house  7  on  this  lot. 

Engine  18. 

Engine  19. 

Engine  20  and  Combina- 
tion 11. 

Engine  21. 

Engine  22  and  Ladder  13. 

Engine  23. 

Engine  24. 

Engine  25,  Ladder  8  and 
Ladder  14. 

Engine  26  and  Engine  35. 

Engine  27. 

Engine  28  and  Ladder  10. 

Engine  29  and  Ladder  11. 

Engine  30  and  Combina- 
tion 9. 

Engine  32. 

Engine  33  and  Ladder  15. 

Engine  34. 

Engine  36  and  Combina- 
tion 5. 

Engine  37  and  Combina- 
tion 10. 


Fire  Department. 
Houses.  —  Concluded. 


Number 
of  feet 
in  lot. 


Assessed 
Valuation 


Occupied  by 


Congress  st 

Sumner  st.,  East  Boston 

Harvard  ave.,  near  Cambridge  St., 
Brighton  District 

Washington,  between  Atherton  and 
Beethoven  sts 

Andrew  sq 

Washington,  corner  Poplar  st.,  Ros- 
lindale 

Church  st 

Shawmut  ave 

Saratoga  st.,  East  Boston 

B  st 

Eustis  st 

Friend  st 

Dudley  st 

Main  st.,  Charlestown 

Tremont  st 

Harrison  ave 

Pittsburgh  St.,  South  Boston 

Dorchester  ave.,  Ashmont 

Fourth  st 

Washington  st.,  Dorchester 

Winthrop  st 

North  Grove  st 


4,000 
4,010 

6,112 

3,848 
5,133 

14,729 
3,412 
889 
9,300 
1,804 
1,754 
1,676 
3,923 
4,290 
4,311 

2,134 
11,363 
4,875 
3,101 
6,874 
3,000 
3,918 


37,000 
18,000 


22,900 
20,100 

22,400 
23,600 
5,700 
25,600 
7,800 
7,500 
34,000 
26,000 
17,700 
25,700 

24,100 
29,400 
22,900 
11,000 
21,400 
13,200 
18,000 


Engine  38  and  Engine  39. 
Engine  40. 

Engine  41  and  Chemical  6. 

Engine  42  and  Chemical  5. 

Engine  43  and  Combina 
tion  3. 

Engine  45  and  Ladder  16.. 

Chemical  Engine  2. 

Chemical  Engine  4. 

Chemical  Engine  7. 

Chemical  Engine  8. 

Chemical  Engine  10. 

Ladder  1. 

Ladder  4. 

Ladder  9  and  Chemical  9. 

Ladder  12  and  Chemical 
12. 

Ladder  17. 

Ladder  18. 

Combination  1. 

Combination  2. 

Combination  6. 

Combination  7. 

Combination  8. 


Fuel-house,  Dorchester  street,  1,610  feetof  land, 
Fuel-house,  Salem  street,  417  feet  of  land 
Fuel-house,   Main  street,   Charlestown,   2,430 

feet  of  land         ...... 

Headquarters  building  and  repair-shop,  corner 

of  Albany  and  Bristol  streets,  23,679  feet    . 
Water  Tower  No.  2  and  Wrecking  Wagon  are 

in  Headquarters  building. 
Veterinary  Hospital,  Atkinson  street,  64,442 

feet  of  land         ...... 

Fuel-house,    Washington,    near  Dover  street, 

1,007  feet  of  land 


Assessed  Valuation. 


$3,300. 
3,400. 

7,200. 

185,000. 


36,300. 
13,500. 


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1  extra  first-size  Amoskeag  engine  (second-hand). 

4  first-size  hose  wagons  with  rubber  tires. 

1  aerial  truck. 

1  combination  truck. 


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Purchased.  Condemned. 

Leading  cotton,  10,500  feet.  6,100  feet. 

rubber,    1,300     "  1,800     " 

Chemical,  1,000     «  1,100     « 

Suction,  198     "  105     » 


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Expenditures  for  the  Year. 

Salaries 

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"    hose 
Repairs  of  hose 
Fuel      . 

Electric  and  gas-lighting 
Printing  and  stationery 
Furniture  and  bedding 
Small  supplies 

Horses  —  purchase  and  exchange 
Horse-hire  and  keeping 
Hay,  grain  and  straw 
Washing 
Shoeing 

Harnesses  and  repairs 
Oils,  chemicals,  etc. 
Hats,  badges  and  button 
Ladders  and  repairs 
Tools  for  repair-shop  and  mechanics 
Extra  service 
Reservoirs  and  hydrants 
Contingencies 
Pensions 

Rent  for  buildings,  telephones,  etc 
Construction  and  material,   fire-alarm  brand: 
Underground  construction 
Salt  water  fire-service 


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Old  material  ..... 

Licenses  for  the  sale  of  fireworks  and  gun- 
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Causes  of  Fires  and  Alarms  from  -February  1,  1902, 
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14 

Electric  motor  igniting  car          .... 

4 

"        wires   .......      v 

32 

Explosion  and  ignition  of   chemicals 

8 

Fireworks         ....... 

30 

Friction    ........ 

4 

Fumigating       ....... 

6 

Gas,  explosion  of       .....         . 

3 

"     jet  setting  fire  ...... 

39 

"     stove,  careless  use  of,  and  explosion  . 

16 

Hot  iron  igniting  woodwork       .... 

3 

Incendiary         ....... 

47 

"           supposed           ..... 

21 

Kerosene  used  to  light  fire         .... 

1 

Lamp  explosion         ...... 

53 

"       upsetting  and  breaking  .... 

71 

Light  mistaken  for  fire      .          .          .          .          . 

16 

Lightning          ....... 

3 

Matches  and  rats      ...... 

24 

"          "     children         ..... 

82 

"        careless  use  of     . 

163 

Meat  burning  on  stove       ..... 

6 

Naphtha,  careless  use  of,  and  ignition 

29 

Oil  stove,  careless  use  of,  and  explosion     . 

92 

Fire  Department. 


21 


Overheated  boiler  or  steam-pipe 

"  stove  or  furnace 

Plastering,  drying     . 
Plumber's  stove  upsetting 
Set  by  boys      .... 
Slacking  of  lime 
Smoky  chimneys 

"       stove  or  furnace    . 
Sparks  from  another  fire    . 

"  "     boiler  . 

"  "     chimney 

"  "     engine  or  locomotive 

"  "     forge     . 

"  "     furnace  or  stove    . 

"  "     open  grate    . 

"  "     trolley  wire  . 

Spontaneous  combustion   . 
Steam  escaping 

Train  wreck     .... 
Unknown  .  .  .  . 

Water-pipes,  thawing  out . 
Water-back  bursting 

Total         .... 


19 
41 

6 

6 

87 

1 

48 

68 

3 

6 

41 

29 

10 

22 

2 

1 

58 

9 

1 

465 

19 


2,616 


Extinguished  by 

Extinguishers   ..... 

Buckets  of  water      .... 

Chemical  engines       .... 

Hydrant  stream  .... 

Steamers  ...... 

Miscellaneous,  brooms,  stamping  out  and  smothering, 

Citizens   . 

Sprinklers  ..... 

Summary  of  construction,  extension,  renewal  and 
work  done  for  the  maintenance  and  operation   of  the 
alarm  branch  for  the  year  ending  January  31,  1903  : 

Overhead  wire  used,  chiefly  for  rebuild- 
ing  the    lines   in    Charlestown    and 

East  Boston 366,960 

Old  wire  taken  down  ....  385,440 

Cable  run  overhead     ....  9,070 

Conductors  in  same     ....  54,521 

Overhead  cable  taken  down          .         .  4,295 


420 
276 
450 
198 
381 
171 
301 
6 

repair 

Fire- 


feet. 


13,524.9 

3,257 
16,537.8 
19,471 
493,375 

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193,461.5 

5,228,218.9 

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22  City  Document  No.  16. 

Conductors  in  same     ....  24,376      feet. 

Underground  cable  laid  in  N.  E.  tele- 
phone ducts     ..... 

Ducts  put  in  by  this  department  . 

Total  ducts  owned  by  city    . 

Total  underground  cable  laid 

Conductors  in  same     .... 

Total  cable  under  ground  February  1, 
1903 

Conductors  in  same 

Service  connections 

Boxes  rebuilt 

Cross-arms  used 

New   boxes   added  to  service,  including  15   with 
auxiliary  attachment 

Boxes  changed  to  keyless  door 

Boxes  changed  to  lamp-posts 

New  lamp-posts  set 

Lamp-posts  set  to  replace  posts  broken  by  accident,  6 

Boxes  in  service  ......  647 

Bell  alarms  struck  in  year  ending   December  31, 

1902 *      .         .  1,566 

Blows  struck  on  bells,  gongs  and  tappers      .  10,734,147 


Alarm    Bells. 
The  Fire-alarm  Telegraph  is  connected  with  the  following 

bells : 

Adams  School-house,    Sumner   street,    East    Boston,    steel, 
2,995  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Bunker  Hill  School-house,  Charlestown,  composition,   2,009 
lbs.,   owned  by  city. 

City  Hall,  Charlestown,  composition,  3,600  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Engine-house  No.  16,    Temple    street,  Dorchester,  composi- 
tion, 4,149  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Engine-house  No.  17,  Meeting  House  Hill,  Dorchester,  com- 
position, 4,000  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Engine-house  No.   19,   Mattapan,   Dorchester,    composition, 
2,927  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Engine-house  No.  20,  Walnut  street,  Dorchester,  composi- 
tion, 3,061  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 

Engine-house  No  28,  West  Roxbury,  composition,  4,000  lbs., 
owned  by  city. 

Engine-house  No.  29,  Brighton,  steel,  1,535  lbs.,  owned  by 
city. 


Fire  Department.  23 

Engine-house,  Mt.  Vernon  street,  West  Roxbury,  steel,  1,000 

lbs.,  owned  by  city. 
Engine-house  No.    34,    Brighton,    composition,   1,501    lbs., 

owned  by  city. 
Engine-house  No.  41,  Allston,  composition,  900  lbs.,  owned 

by  city. 
Engine-house  No.    45,    Roslindale,  composition,   1,059   lbs., 

owned  by  city. 
Lewis    School-house,     Dale    street,    Roxbury,     composition, 

3,104  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 
Maverick-street  Church,  East  Boston,  composition,  2,000  lbs. 
Princeton-street    School-house,    East    Boston,    composition, 

2,470  lbs.,  owned  by  city. 
Saratoga-street  M.  E.  Church,  East  Boston,  steel,  1,968  lbs., 

owned  by  city. 
Warren  School-house,  Charles  town,  composition,  3,000  lbs., 

owned  by  city. 

Bells    owned   by  the  city,  which  have  been  disconnected 
from  service,  are  located  as  follows : 

Berkeley  Temple,  composition,  2,941  lbs.  Formerly  used  on 
Quincy  School-house. 

Chapman  School-house,  steel,  3,109^'  lbs.,  taken  down  and 
stored  by  Public  Buildings  Department. 

Engine-house  No.  1,  Dorchester  street,  South  Boston,  com- 
position, 2,911  lbs. 

Engine-house  No.  2,  composition,  800  lbs. 

Engine-house  No.  18,  Harvard  street,  Dorchester,  composi- 
tion, 3,184  lbs. 

Engine-house,  No.  21,  Columbia  road,  Dorchester,  composi- 
tion, 3,026  lbs. 

Faneuil  Hall,  steel,  5,816  lbs. 

Ladder-house  No.  4,  Dudley  street,  Roxbury,  composition, 
3,509  lbs. 

Lawrence  School-house,  B  street,South  Boston,  steel,  3,400  lbs. 

Lincoln  School-house,  Broadway,  South  Boston,  composition, 
3,110  lbs. 

Smith-street  School-house,  Roxbury,  composition,  4,083  lbs. 

Ticknor  School-house,  Dorchester  street,  Washington  Village, 
steel,  2,995  lbs. 

Trinity  Church,  Trenton  street,  East  Boston,  composition, 
1,760  lbs.     Formerly  used  on  Castle-street  Church. 

Van  Nostrand's  Brewery,  Charlestown,  composition,  818  lbs. 
Formerly  used  on  Boylston  School-house. 

Wells  School-house,  Blossom  street,  composition,  1,675  lbs. 

Winthrop  School-house,  Charlestown,  composition,  3,000  lbs. 


24  City  Document  No.  16. 


Public    Clocks. 

The  following  public  clocks,  thirty-eight  in  number,  are 
taken  care  of  by  the  Fire  Department: 

City   Proper. 

Arlington-street  Church. 

Charles-street  Church. 

Christ  Church,  Salem  street,  owned  by  city. 

Commercial  Wharf. 

Odd  Fellows'  Hall,  Tremont  street,  owned  by  city. 

Old  South  Church,  owned  by  city. 

Old  State  House,  owned  by  city. 

Park-street  Church. 

Suffolk  County  Jail,  owned  by  city. 

St.  Stephen's  Church,  Clark  street,  owned  by  city. 

Shawmut-avenue  Church. 

Tremont  M.  E.  Church,  owned  by  city. 

Young  Men's  Christian  Union,  owned  by  city. 

South  Boston. 

Gaston  School-house,  owned  by  city. 

Lincoln  School-house,  owned  by  city. 

Phillips  Church,  owned  by  city. 

St.  Augustine  Church,  Dorchester  street,  owned  by  city. 

Ticknor  School-house,  Washington  Village,  owned  by  city. 

East    Boston. 

Central-square  Church. 
London-street  Church,  owned  by  city. 
Lyceum  Hall,  owned  by  city. 
Trinity  Church,  owned  by  city. 
Orient  Heights  Church,  owned  by  city. 

Roxbury. 

Winthrop-street,  Church,  owned  by  city. 

Boston  Elevated  Railway  Car-house,  Columbus  avenue. 

Dorchester. 

Baker  Memorial  (Upham's  Corner),  owned  by  city. 
Neponset  Church. 

Tiles  ton  school  (Mattapan),  owned  by  city. 
Unitarian  Church  (Milton  Lower  Mills). 


Fire  Department.  25 

Charlestown. 

Bunker  Hill  Church. 

City  Hall,  owned  by  city. 

Harvard  Hill  Church. 

High  School-house,  owned  by  city. 

Unitarian  Church. 

West  Roxbury. 

Dr.  Strong's  Church,  (South  Evangelical),  owned  by  city. 
Unitarian  Church,  Jamaica  Plain,  owned  by  city. 
Congregational  Church  (Roslindale),  owned  by  city. 

Brighton. 

Bennett  School-house,  owned  by  city. 

The  following  Fire-alarm  boxes  are  private  property  :  113, 
117,  119,  149/152,  161,  163,  164,  166,  212,  223,  227,  228, 

244,  271,  281,  283,  297,  299,  342,  422,  434,  442,  443,  445, 

446,  447,  448,  449,  466,  467,  468,  495,  511,  533,  617,  619, 

624,  629,  698,  711,  714,  715,  716,  718,  722,  724,  725,  727, 

728,  729,  731,  732,  733,  734,  735,  736,  737,  739,  741,  742, 

744,  745,  746,  755,  758,  759,  762,  766,  767,  773,  778,  779, 

789,  791,  792,  793,  794,  795,  796,  797,  799,  816,  828,  838, 
842,  864,  865,  919,  927,  967,  969,  971,  974. 

Your  obedient  servant, 

Henry  S.  Russell, 

Commissioner. 


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