Indiana daily times. [volume], December 01, 1920, Last Home Edition, Page 5, Image 5

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CITY OVERBOUGHT
FIRE EQUIPMENT
(Continued From Page One.)
ment differs from that edbtemplated by
the board of safety. The city board has
t planned to hare 239 men on duty day
and night when the two-platoon system
Is pvt Into effect. The national board,
basing its riew on the experience of
cities OTer the country, suggests it
would be better to hare 214 men on duty
days and 294 nights.
POINTS OCT
POBBIBLE SAVING.
\ln his letter of Nov. 11. accompanying
the ds.tailed recr.emendations, Mr. Sell
ers points out tl at by purchasing motor
equipment according to the underwriters'
outline the city could bare saved the ex
pense of eight combined pump, chemi
cal and hose wagons, one sixty-fiv. -foot
aerial truck and three service wagons.
Roughly estimated this would figure an
unnecessary expenditure by the board
on motor equipment of around $75,000
The most astonishing fact brought out
by the underwriters is that the city will
not receive any credit in its rating as tc
protection from fire because of this ex
tra equipment, but may actually lose
credit.
In the rating of cities the National
Board of Fire Underwriters uses a poinl
system, adding to the points when the
city has some undesirable feature and
deducting therefrom when the undesir
able feature is eliminated or a desirable
/eature added.
Indianapolis at present bas a rating
of 1,573. This puts the city iu the fourth
class, which includes all municipalities
with a rating of between 1,500 and 2.000.
Despite this fourth class rating, the city
several years ago obtained a reduction
of basic insurance rates to those in force
for cities of the third class on premises
to make certain improvements in the fire
fighting system. Some of these promises
have been fulfilled, but most have not,
as the lengthy list of recommendations
given by Mr. Sellers indicates.
POINTS WAY TO
MOKE CREDITS.
Mr. Sellers stated that if the city will
make all the changes recommended, $67
demerits may be turned into credits and
the city’s rating as to lack of protection
reduced to 711. This would put Imli
enapolis in the second class for insur
ance rates. There are only two munici
palities in the country in this class at
present, Mr. Townsend stated. These are
two small cities in Massachusetts, which
enjoy their rating chiefly because their
fire "fighting system is necessarily so
simple there can not be much wrong
■with It.
The 867 demerits which would be lost
by improvements would be divided as
follows:
Water supply, 114; fire department.
504 ; fire alarm system. 147; building
laws, 54' explosives and Inflammables 48.
The general views of the underwriters
regarding the Indianapolis situation are
outlined by Mr. Seilers in his Nov. 11
letter to the board as follows:
LETTER OUTLINES
PROTECTION BASIS.
, In compliance with your request, the
-'protection has been graded according to
Improvements contemplated comprising
the purchase of eighteen 600-gallon and
seven 750-gallon combined pump, chem
ical and hose wagons: ten service trucks:
one eight-five-foot and two sixty-flve
foot aerial trucks: two tractors for
steamers: one supply and fuel wagon,
all automobile; powerful stream appli
ances; minor equipment and hose; the
erection and equipping of two additional
fire stations and repair shop : by lnrreas
ing the number of company members (to
operate under the double platoon sys
tem! so that there will be a minimum
on duty of 239 firemen each shift (includ
ing the proposed two engine and one
ladder company) and by arranging the
response to alarms so as to meet stand
ard requirements, which result is a
credit of 242 points and reduces the total
number of deficiency points to 1.338. or
a erade of protection of the third class.
Satisfactory protection for the city's
present needs wouid not require the pur
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STATE LIFE BUILDING '
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chase of the full amount of apparatus as
noted above. By purchasing apparatus
in accordance with recommendations on
page 5, summarized on page •>, there
would be a saving in the contemplated
; equipment of a combined pump, chemical
' and hose wagon (on automobile com
| binatlon hose wagon to be purchased,
however, to replace automobile plain
hose wagon with engine 131 one sixty
tive-foot aerial truck and three service
trucks, and by assigning to the appa
ratus (both old and n w as recommend
ed i the standard number of men for the
required service there would be needed
a minimum on day duty of 214 compared
! with a eout aiplted tire force of 239, or
a saving of twenty-five men in the day
service.
(Note: The recommendations an page
5 suggest that two hose, one engine and
two ladder companies remain horse
drawn and ultimately be replaced with
automobile apparatus. If these oom-
I anies are motorized under the general
motorizing scheme, the points credits
will be same as noted below.)
WAY TO GET
14 NEW CREDITS.
With this arrangement (reduced apa
rntus and men) 14 additional points
credit would be in order, or a total or
254 points. This condition is brought
about by the fact that the number of
pieces of apparatus, occur, ling to the
contemplated scheme, exceeds the stand
ard require meats and the n imber of men
assigned to each piece of it pa rat us is
less than t lie standard requirements;
hence a deficiency charge; hut if the
I number cf pieces of apparatus is re
dined to meet the standard requirements
’ and the promised number of firemen are
1 distributed in such a manner as to have
the standard minimum company streng.h
for each piece of apparatus (total 21D
I for day duty, that deficiency is re
i moved. .
If the minimum number of firemen
I (289) on night shift of the proposed
! double platoon system is increased to
■ _’!M a further credit of forty points will
ibe aval aide. This would m.un thirty
firemen In addition to that contemplated.
; as the total standard day and night serv
; ice is 508 firemen, and that contemplated
I is two shifts of 239 each, or a total of
178 firemen. When the fire department
| changes to the double platoon system of
i operation, ordinances should be enacted
requiring the men to attend drills and
inspect build ngs for a certain numbe.
of hours each week on t' elr .ff sQ’ft.
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Mandrake and dandelion —antl-blllous
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Wintergreen and bitter orange peel
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Juniper berries, uva ursl and rP
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ABDOMINAL BELTS
ELASTIC HOSIERY
BRACES, ETC.
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Truss Dept, under management of
the Akron Truaa Cos.
i. e., men who are on duty at nights
should be required to devote one or two
afternoons each week to the above duties.
This arrangement has been made in
several cities with much benefit to the
departments and no particular hardship
o (he men. Furthermore, proper ar
rangements should lie made so tuat the
men on off shifts may be read lv called
or serious fires, especially at night, and
they should be held strictly accountable
for prompt attendance at such fires.
•.VII AT LAST
>IR)EI SLOWED,
You are aware that when the city was
last surveyed by engineers of the Na
tional Board of Fire Underwriters, the
..railing showed 1,578 points of deficiency,
this placing it in class four (N. B. F. U.
classification) although the present fire
insurance ratings are based on a third
class city. It will be noted from the fore
going that with the Improvements made,
which are now contemplated by you, the
city will be advanced to class three, the
grading which it now enjoys
At the conference Mr. Townsend laid
stress on several improvements which he
said the underwriters believe should be
put into effect immediately Chief among
these was the absolute divorce of the
fire department from politics, even though
this means the repeal of the statute pro
viding that an equal numbe - of Repub
licans and Democrats shall be appointed
to it; the establishment of a central re
pair shop; the appointment of a com
petent master mechanic to hare charge of
appartus repair work; a school of in
struction for drivers and operators of
motor appartus; Inc;ease of the number
of battalion chiefs to eight instead of the
present four, so there will be four on
duty night and day; a department train
ing school, a fire tower for use In the
training courses, and a competent drill
master to give drills to the different com
panies which will rotate so that someone
is getting Instruction every day.
SUGGESTION ON
POLITICAL PHASE.
The recommendation regarding taking
the department out of politics reads ns
follows:
“That civil service regulations be
adopted; these to include tenure of of-
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flee except after trial on charges and
suitable provisions for appointment and
promotion, including age, weight and
heieht limits- examinations to be given
for each grade, and in the case of engt
neers, assistant engineers and chauffeura
to consist of a thorough examination of
ibni- ibiiity in the maintenance and
operation of apparatus.”
lie discussion ot this, Mr. McWhir
ter and Mr. Dithmer called the attention
of Mr. Townsend oud Mr. Sellers to at
tempts the board of safety has made to
keep the department out of politics. The
underwriters indicated it never can be
kept wholly free of politics until the
lew ran kin- the basis of appointment a
i man's membership iu either the Demo
critic or Republican party Is done away
with. The safety board members said
promotions and demotions are mads
solely on merit and thpy believed they
had been able to instill a very fine
morale In the department because of the
fact very few men have faced charges.
•Mr. Townsend seized this occasion to
inquire whether this low number of
trials might not indicate too great len
iency in the enforcement of the bo-ird’a
rules. The board members did not think
it did.
SAY THEY WIL.I.
COMPLY WITH SOME.
The safety board members said they
have plans under way to comply with
many of the suggestions made, includ
ing the repair shop, the master mechanic,
the school of instruction for drivers, the
increase in the number of battalion chiefs
and to some extent the department train
ing school.
i They disagreed with ths underwriters
, in regard to the lack of necessity for the
two new firehouses and all, except one.
of the three which the underwriters sug
gested be abandoned. One of the new
houses Is needed in the territory between
Thirty-Eighth street and the northern
city limits, comprising a district more
than three miles long without a station,
anil the other in a section of West In
dtanapolls now without adequate pro
tection. the city officials said. Mr. Town-
send promised to give this matter more
consideration.
Among the recommendations made in
addition to those given above are the
following:
That water mains throughout ths city
conform to the underwriters' standards,
a ist of streets In which additional
mains should be laid being given.
That members of the department be
retired fro-m active duty at the age of 62,
unless unusually efficient.
That engine or hose companies 6, 16,
17 and 31 be discontinued. (This would
accompany the abandonment of fire
houses as suggested by the under
writers.)
That reserve equipment be provided to
Include an automobile pumping engine,
present engines Nos. 2 and 6, ladder
trucks Nos. 2, 7 and 11, and three hose
wagons.
That the following horse-drawn ap
paratus be not ibplaced with motor
equipment until some later date: Hose
wagon No. 15, English avenue anil Har
lan street; hose wagon No. 24. Dexter
and Nineteenth streets; engine No 28,
Raymond and Webb streets; ladder truck
No. 6, Morris and Harding streets; ladder
truck No. 12, Shelby street, opposite
Kelly street.
That underwriters’ standards In hose
equipment be followed, particularly as to
the addition of some three-lncii hose to
the equipment of every hose wagon. (The
board of safety plans to follow this In
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GLAZER
444 E. WASHINGTON ST.
Illinois Central Presents Comparative
Costs of Passenger Fares
Americans pay more for nearly everything they buy than do Europeans.
They are able to pay more because their wages are relatively higher. There
is one notable exception, however —passenger transportation charges in this
country are substantially lower. /
Although there has been a recent increase in American passenger fares,
Americans still pay less for traveling accommodations than Europeans.
The following is a comparison between passenger fares charged in the
United States, the points being on the Illinois Central System, and fares
paid by Europeans traveling similar distances:
Railroad Sleeping Total
Distance Faro Car R. R. Faro
FROM TO (Miles) First Clasa Far* and Berth
Jackson, Miss New Orleans, La... 183.1 % 7.13 $ 3.65 $ 10.7S
London, Eng Manchester, Eng... 183.5 11.07 2.43 13.50
Memphis, Tenn Vicksburg, Miss.... 221 8.59 4.05 12.64
Paris, France....... Liege, 8e1gium...... 228 14.51 7.53 22.04
St. Louis, Mo Chicago 294.2 11.24 4.05 15.29
London, Eng Carlisle, Eng 299 19.59 3.65 23.24
Chicago Fort Dodge, lowa.. 374.6 14.89 4.05 18.84
Paris, France Geneva, Switzerland. 375.9 25.68 14.63 40.31
Sioux City, 10wa... Chicago 509.6 20.15 4.88 25.01
Paris, France Biarritz, France.... 507.3 32.60 18.31 60.91
Chicago Memphis, Tenn..... 626.7 21.16 6.08 27.23
Paris, France Milan, 1ta1y......... 522.5 47.69 22.12 69.71
Birmingham, Ala... Chicago 689.2 25.62 8.10 33.72
Paris, France Venice, Italy 687 2. 61.39 27.56 88.96
Chicago Jackson, Mlaa 737.4 29.34 8.91 38.25
Paris, France....... Florence, Italy 731.3 64.45 32.00 85.45
Louisville, Ky New Orleans, La.... 787.4 30.11 8.81 39.02
Paris, France Prague, Czecho Slov. 786 93.13 24.96 118.09
All American fares given In the table include a war tax of 8 per cent Th*
American sleeping-car fares are for lower berths.
The American custom of handling, free of charge, as much baggage as
the ordinary passenger carries is unknown abroad. In addition, baggage
rates in Europe are much h gher than in the United States. This condition
should be considered in comparing passenger fares in the various countries.
In the United States the railroads collect a surcharge on sleeping-car
fares, which is included in the above table. This surcharge helps to meet
the cost of hauling the* heavier cars required, in which fewer passenger*
are carried.
During 1919 the Illinois Central hauled lVj gross tons of weight for
each coach passenger carried, and 4 4-10 gross tons of weight for each
sleeping-car passenger carried. Not to collect the surcharge, therefore,
would obviously be a discrimination against the coach passenger, and an
injustice to the railroad.
The costs of facilities for rendering passenger service have increased
greatly. The average passenger coach cost $12,400 in 1914; it now costs
$30,300, an increase of 144 per cent. The average passenger locomotive
cost $20,000 in 1914; it now costs $65,000, an increase of 225 per cent. There
have been heavy increases in the costs of wages, fuel and other material.
These are some of the reasons why passenger fares are necessarily
higher now than they were in former years.
Constructive criticism and suggestions are invited.
Jr o. H. MARKHAM,
President, Illinois Central K&uroad Company.
Its purchase of equipment for the new
motor apparatus.)
That a battalion chief be assigned to
respond to al. alarms, including still
alarms, through the city.
That in connection with the motos-iza
tlon a rwirrangnment of assignments be
made, reducing the number of companies
responding to each alarm, but uot to
a point where there will be less than
‘our engines or hose and two ladder
companies for first alarms in high value
districts and two engine or h'>#* and
or.e ladder companies in residential dis
tricts
That improvements be made in the
fire alarm headquarters in the city ball
and to the cable systems.
ADDITIONAL ALARM
BOXES SUGGESTED
That additional n arms boxes be in
stalled o that there will be one within
500 feet of any building in Important
districts and within 600 feet of eveiy
group of valuable buildings; that the
boxes be marked In all closely built wt.
tiona by red lights and by wide red
bands arid the boxes themselves being
painted red once every year.
Thut the city building ordinance be
etrengtheped until they comply with the
national underwriters’ standsrde and
then be rigidly enforced. Among the
changes proposed, under this head. 1s
amendment of the ordinance prohibiting
wooden shingle roofs throughout the
city, so that an existing wooden shingle
roof if damaged more than 10 per cent,
must be repaired only with ape coved
roofing and that the ordinance be ampli
fied by requiring that all wooden shingle
roofs be replaced with approved roofing
within a period of twelve years.
That ordinances regulating the ass
sale and hand.ing of gasoline, oil, alco
hol and ail other explosive materials bn
mads to conform with underwriters'
standards and rigidly enforced
That automatic sprinkler systems be
required in all buildings considered as
special fire hazards.
The board of safety will have another
meeting with the underwriter*’ repreoen
totives Thursday morning at ft o’clock.
The represcntatlvei are meeting with of
flcials of the Indianapolis Water Com*
pany today.
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