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PUBLISHED BY FIREMEN'S RELIEF ASSOCIATION, CLEVELAND, OHIO. Compliments of he Cleveland uElectri c Railway Company* INTRODUCTORY. N compiling a history of the Cleveland Fire Department, it has been the aim of the Firemen's Relief Department, in whose interest this book is gotten up, to chronicle the rise, progress and development of the Department from its in ception. Owing to space, however, much that would make interesting reading had to be omitted in order to give place to illustrations of the men who, at the call of duty, abandoned their business and social life to battle with the flames, thus sacri ficing their personal and domestic comfort for the safety and happiness of others. The life of a fireman is, at least, one of hardship and danger, and our citizens owe these brave men a debt of gratitude which can never be fully repaid. The Cleveland Fire Department has attained the highest efficiency possible, and the lives saved, property protected and catastrophies averted cannot be estimated by the meagre statistics herein contained. No pains, however, have been spared to make the work accurate in every detail, narrating some of the more thrilling inci dents to life and property, much credit of which is due to several members of the Department who have personally and so generously aided in the compilation of the work. To those of our business men who have so liberally contributed to make the book a financial success, the thanks of the Firemen's Relief Department are ex tended CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. &&mimmm36mm3&m The above cut represents a section of the triangular reinforced tubing which is used in the HOFFMAN frames only. This adds about 12 oz. weight to an ordinary frame, but makes the frame 70 per cent, stronger than other makes. Also makes the frame stiffer, which prevents the frame from springing and throwing the sprocket wheels out of line, causing the chain to bind and make the wheel run hard. . . L. M. SIOLER, -President. G. L. SIGLER, - Vice-President. I, K. HOFFMAN, Secretary The cheapest is not the best, but the Best is the Cheapest. The HOFFMAN is made of the best material throughout. The bearings are turned from bars of tool steel, finely tempered, ground and polished to an exact gauge, whereby we get one of the smoothest and stillest running wheels built. Cheap wheels and some "so-called high-grade" wheels are made from struck-up sheet metal bearings, which makes a noisy rattletrap when new, and grows worse by use. The HOFFMAN is built in the Hoffman factory, built exclusively for a bicycle factory,with all modern improvements, on special automatic, up-to-date machinery, by practical, experienced mechanics. THE HOFFMAN BICYCLE C^ Lake and Marquette Streets. Qy fefMlflAL Gu CLEV'D ^^^^^^^^^^H OFFICERS AND DELEGATES OF THE FIREMEN'S RELIEF ASSOCIATION. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. THC ..ininiiniiiit..- <^J OfVELAND fl Bicycle Built to Cast. fc§i J Prices Reasonable..«««^ « E teach you to ride free in our Riding Academy.e^Competent instructors in constant attendance.^ Open daily.^ I' ($5 H. A. LOZIER & C(Xt Erie and Chestnut Streets. OB y^c^(^u|w(^w^(^^U|o(^y u^y^yc^ji^<^iu|u u^ivjpu^iu^i u^m^(^> vpa^iu^iv^vpu^) ypupu^ivp WINDSOR T. WHITE, MANAGER. White W. A. HENDERSON, AsS'T MGR. Sewing ^t^^^lCAPITAL PAID Mjtjtjtjt Machine Jtat^JtJtJ* $1,235,000.^atjXjt^jt Co., MANUFACTURERS OF HIGH-GRADE. BICYCLES. jfcjtjtJtJMOFFICE :£j*J*J*J*& 124 and 126 EUCLID AVENUE. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. ISTORY records that the first hand engine, Live Oak No. i, was purchased in 1833, and a fire company formed, though not regularly organized. Captain McCurdy was foreman. Prior to this time, from 1814, when Cleveland was incorporated as a village, the main reliance for quenching a fire was the nearest well or pond, from which water was carried in buckets or tubs. The first regularly organized volunteer fire company was Eagle No. 1, the outgrowth of Live Oak, retaining Captain McCurdy as foreman. Cleveland remained a village twenty-two years. Its close proximity to Lake Erie, however, increased its commercial value, and already large manufacturing in terests were being started, laying the foundation for the city's great future, thus rendering the importance of taking precautions against the happening of conflagra tions, which was followed by the organization of new companies from time to time. The first chief of the Department was Samuel Cook, with Sylvester Pease as first assistant, and Erastus Smith as second assistant. The succeeding chiefs of the volunteer department held their offices as follows : September 29, 1837—H. L. Noble, chief; Erastus Smith, first assistant; Jona than Williams, second assistant. June 14, 1838—T. Lemmon made chief. April 3, 1839—T. Lemmon resigned and John R. St. John took his place. June 29, 1840—J. R. Weatherby, chief; A. S. Sanford, first assistant; N. Hay wood, second. June 19, 1841—J. R. Weatherby continued, with Thomas Well, first assistant, and C. W. Hurd, second. June 13, 1842—M. M. Spangler, chief; John Outhwaite, first assistant, and Zachariah Eddy, second. June 7, 1843—John Outhwaite, chief; Jacob Mitchell, first, and W. R. Virgil, second. June 26, 1844—M. M. Spangler, chief; C. W. Hurd, first assistant; Zachariah Eddy, second. June 2, 1845—A. S. Sanford, chief; W. E. Lawrence, first assistant, and James Barnett, second. June 2, 1846—John Gill, chief; Joseph Proudfoot, second assistant. June 15, James Bennett, first assistant. June 19, 1847—M. M. Spangler, chief; S. S. Lyon, first assistant, and C. M. Reed, second. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. THE PABST, THE * * * THREE 339 SUPERIOR ST. 131 SUPERIOR ST. Base Ball Score Received by Open all Night. Innings. Base Ball Score by Ticker. ASK FOR HOME TEL. 381. TEL. 429. Bachr's Beer when you want a healthful and refreshing beverage. Delivered at your residence, Tel. 1662. SAM DEGRAW, PROPRIETOR. SAM BAER SOt BAER. TELEPHONE 2336. BAER BROS., pannan $ Iflcgknic's CAFE. MANUFACTURERS - LADIES' AND GENTS' DINING PARLORS. 368 Superior Street, REAR ENTRANCE 40 ROCKWELL ST. The Paul Schmidt O GROWERS AND IMPORTERS. mines, Delicacies, Wholesale Tobacconists. Cigar Manufacturers. mineral Slaters, * etc. ^ 131 Woodland Avenue. 570 Erie Street TEL. 722. 80 and 82 Michigan Street. Tel. 2204. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. GEORGE L. HECHLER, DIRECTOR, IO CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. JL PEERLESS BICYCLES Clje Graceful, £asy ^tinning rlIGH=CLASS IN PRICE BECAUSE HIGH=CLASS IN VALUE.jt^t^t^^ PEERLESS in Appearance.^ J- J- t- PEERLESS in Construction,.^^^ PEERLESS in Running: Qualities. PEERLESS on the Road.<3» J- J-J- PEERLESS on trie Track.^^^^ PEERLESS as a Hill Climber.^ J- PEERLESS as a Coaster.^ j» J- J- PEERLESS as a Ladies' Favorite. f 1, iPEERCESS iS '• '. MAKUFAGTURlNa* 'Peerless Heans Unequaled" • COMPANY;,; ;; UMUM 0///6- _•: U.S.A. ' The Peerless Mfg. Co., VT\ riakers of Peerless and Patrol Bicycles. r\t?f\trt«tfl f^ftflfiffl rtrt^tflotrtftrtfttrtf$»f$> r$>r$>r$>f$ > HIGH OR MEDIUM ^^t^GRADE.^^J* fttrt f$> fTrt oTfl fttfl f$> make r!frt ff» ($> f$) —^^^^^b^_ Bicycles. IrcHEWl f$) P WHITE'S *i <$» liAN JAMES W. DICKINSON, CHIEF. June 5, 1848—S. S. Lyon, chief; W. E. Lawrence, first assistant, and Geo. Cross, second. June 22, 1849—James Bennett, chief; William Sabin, first assistant; John R. Radcliff, second. June 4, 1850—M. M. Spangler, chief; T. C. Floyd, first assistant, and John Kilby, second. June 3, 1851—M. M. Spangler and T. C. Floyd, continued, William Delany, second. June 15, 1852—J. W. Fitch, chief; William Delany, first assistant; John Ben nett, second. In 1853, the Council refused to set a time for the election of chief, and for a time subsequently the chiefs were elected directly by the people. General Fitch was followed by William Cowen, who in turn gave way to James Hill. The latter held the office until the breaking out of the war, and Edward Hart succeeded him. 12 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. THE HOLT LUMBER CO., t-mk.mwm$3 OFFICE AND SALESROOM, TELEPHONE 1926. COR. MICHIGAN AND SENECA STS. THE WARWICK IS BUILT ON HONOR. Ask a WARWICK RIDER. They are our best advertisers, for they are always satisfied. *s* WARWICK CYCLE MFG. C2: H.B.HUNT STAMPING WORKS, <$, ^^HEADQUARTERS^jt <$, MANUFACTURERS OF Pieced, Lithographed and Decorated fffl flen's^t ^ tfo Children's 'CLOTHIN G SHEET «$> In 1862, Hart was re-elected, but the law was changed again and the Council elected James Craw. After the close of the war, Hill returned and was again made chief. The many and varied changes which occurred in the early history of the hand department would be too intricate to follow in this brief sketch. The different companies were disbanded and reorganized. In 1850, however, we find the Depart ment composed of the following companies: Eagle No. 1, Forest City No. 2, Saratoga No. 3. Phoenix No. 4, Cataract No. 5, Red Jacket No. 6, and Forest City Hook and Ladder Company No. 1. Neptune No. 7 was organized in 1853 and Hope No. 8 in 1852, of which company ex-Mayor Herrick was foreman. No. 7 had started to organize before No. 8, but the latter company finished its work first. When Ohio City was annexed, 1854, Washington No. 1, and Forest No. 2 of that city became respectively Nos. 9 and 10 of the Cleveland Department. Alert Hose Company was organized in 1857, and Protection Hose Company in 1858. Upon the first call of the President, in 1861, over two-thirds of the active members of the volunteer firemen of the city joined the army, which made a deple tion in the ranks of the volunteer firemen. The volunteer department continued until February, 1863, when it was partly disbanded. The following figures, embracing a total number of fires and their attendant losses during the volunteer department since 1854, will show the fluctuating differ ence in the amount of loss on property ; prior to that time there is no authentic record: Years. No. of Fires. Loss. 1854 46 1302,724 76 1855 53 96,008 68 1856 48 115,342 40 i857 54- 88,765 55 1858 38 29,050 00 1859 56 55,903 50 i860 50 35,5o6 80 1861 62 102,045 5° 1S62 48 87,150 28 In 1863, the City Council decided to reorganize the volunteer department and make the members thereof paid servants of the city. The first Committee on Fire and Water was appointed January that year, and was composed of the following council- men : J. D. Palmer, J.J. Benton and William Meyer. During the month of April, same year, an ordinance was passed creating a paid steam fire department; in the meantime, three steamers had been bought, the first of these having been placed in service December 17, 1862. The other two were bought during the month of Feb ruary, 1863, and a fourth steamer was purchased in June. On the Fourth of July that year, the steam fire engine department had its first parade, which attracted great attention from the novelty and beauty of its display. The procession was made up of the four steamers, with their new hose carts and the hook and ladder truck, drawn by splendid horses and elegantly adorned with bou quets. In front of the steamers was an American Express wagon, driven by Mr. David E. Lawrence, superintendent of the stock department of the American Ex press Company. Clark's Forest City Cornet Band was in this wagon, and added to the attraction by its excellent music. H CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. The^™ -.9- Dime Savings and Rational Banking CO: 85=86 Public Square. CAPITAL, - $300,000. SURPLUS FUND, - $65,000. CAPITAL, $1,000,000. DEPOSITS, OVER $2,500,000. M. G. WATTERSON, President. O. M. BURKE, ist V-President. T E. T. HAMILTON, - 2nd V-President. E. W. MOORE, Sec'y and Treas. F. H. TOWNSEND, Ass't Sec'y and Treas. SAMUEL MATHER, President. JOHN F. RUST, - Vice-President. The accounts of Individuals, Firms and GEORGE S. RUSSELL, Cashier. Corporations solicited. 4 per cent. in= GEORGE F. CLEWELL, Ass't Cashier. terest paid on Savings Accounts.jtjtjt FRED'K W. PELTON, President. GEORGE W. HOWE, Vice-President. H. W. IVTJETKEMEYER, Vice-President. The HORACE B. CORNER, Sec'y and Treas. ORI.O C. NELSON, Ass't Treasurer. Savings and Trust C2: 42 and 44 Euclid Ave. *TfoN*k»>* OTtttzBttg Sawinga mud krran Capital Stock, $750,000. Surplus and Undivided Profits, $100,000. Interest Paid on Time Deposits. Safe Deposit Vaults for keeping of Valuable Papers, Silverware, Capital and Surplus, $2,000,000. Deposits, $6,i7S,ooo. Acts as Administrator, Executor, Guardian, Assignee,Receiver,Reg- istrar, Transfer Agent and Trus Centrally located, with ample capital and every facility for tee for Estates, Corporations and transacting its business, the patronage of those hav ing need of Savings Bank accommodations Individuals, and is a Depository is respectfully solicited. for Court Funds z § H Pi «! P- M a w a z J > H ENGINE HOUSE No. i. i6 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. mercantile The Realty- Rational Investment Bank Company, E. E. PERKINS, - President. C. L. MUKFEY, Cashier. L. A. MURFEY, Ass't Cashier. .^^oStROOM No. 40j*J*JtJ* NOTTINGHAM BUILDING, ^•^89 EUCLLD AVE.J*^,M *• Capital, $1,000,000. STORES, Surplus and Undivided Profits, $300,000. OFFICES AND HOUSES TO LET. M. A. HANNA, - President. LEANDER MCBEIDE, Vice-President. WITH A CAPITAL, SURPLUS AND STOCK E. H. BOURNE, - Cashier. B. R. FANCHER, Ass't Cashier. LIABILITY OF *l,125,OOO, A CONVEN IENT LOCATION, THE HANDSOMEST BANKING ROOM IN AMERICA, AND THE ASSURANCE OF EQUAL ATTENTION TO ALL PATRONS, THE UNION MflTIOMAL BAMK. TLhe CAPITAL, $1,000,000. NGS SAVI SURPLUS, $200,000. Clcvelanb Crust Company Directors*** OFFERS ITS SERVICE TOT.ANY NEEDING •«« A SAFE DEPOSITORY FOR THEIR SAV INGS. FOUR PER CENT. INTEREST PAID M. A. HANNA, I,. McBRIDE, S. W. SESSIONS, S. T. EVERETT, ON SAVINGS ACCOU'- -ROM ONE F. A. STERLING, J. C. WEIDEMAN, DOLLAR UPWARD. VISITOR* ALWAYS L. SCHI.ATHER, G. H. WORTHINGTON, E. H. BOURNE. WELCOME. h Z H H Pi < PH a w a z > H O ENGINE HOUSE No i. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. £be East Capital, |5oo,ooo. Surplus, $100,000. ....i£nt> Savings Bank.... (^* t£* e5* (^* 1249 EUCLID AVENUE. Company112 3 ST. CLAIR STREET. CAPITAL, 8200,000. SURPLUS, S65.O00. STATE NATIONAL BANK Pays 4 per cent. Interest on Savings Deposits. Makes Loans on Real Estate. Transacts a Commercial Banking Business, t^*fc?*t^*G^* ...AND HAS A... SAFE DEPOSIT VAULT M. A. BRADLEY, President. H. K. SANBORN, Cashier. H. C.ELLISON, V-President. B.A.BEUCE, Ass't Cashier. At 1249 Euclid Avenue, cor. Willsou Avenue. W. H. GABRIEL, President. D. H. KlMBERLEY, Vice-President. Produce Exchange CHAS. O. EVARTS, CAPITAL $500,000. Banking Company Sec'y and Treas. Gor. Broadway and Central Ave. H. A. BISHOP, President. R. A. HARMAN, Vice-President. JOHN SHERWIN, Cashier. Paid-up Capital, $100,000. F. J. WOODWORTH, Assistant Cashier. Surplus, $14,000.^^ jt jt THE Che Central national Bank (Perry-Payne Building.) GUARDIAN RESOURCES. LIABILITIES. Loans, - . $2,600,000. Capital, - 5 800,000. TRUST Cash on Hand and Due Surplus and Profits, 200,000. from Banks, $ 800,000. Deposits, 2,300,000. Co. U. S. Bonds, - 200,000. Circulation, 180,000. OFFICERS: JOHN F. WHITELAW, THOMAS WILSON, Pres. JOSEPH BLACK, Vice-Pres. J. J. SULLIVAN, Cashier. C. A. PAINE, Ass't Cashier. PRESIDENT. . J. H. WADE—J. V. PAINTER, The record and business standing of the gentlemen com . . VICE-PRESIDENTS. . prising the Board of Directors will be a guarantee of care ful, conservative management. J. J. SULLIVAN, Cash. J. F. WHITELAW, Pres. E. R. DATE, Cashier. •THE- T. W. BURNHAM, Vice-President. FIRST .NATIONAL GITY BANK.... NATIPNAL CAPITAL, - - $250,000. BANK SURPLUS, - - $150,000. UNDIVIDED PROFITS, $150,000. JAMES BAENETT, President. W. H. CORNING, Vice-Pres. THOS. H. WILSON, Cashier. JOHN H. GEARY, ASS' t Cashier. • DIRECTORS: < JOHN V. WHITELAW, TOM L. JOHNSON, CAPITAL, T. W. BUENIIAM, HORACE E. ANDREWS. $500,000. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. 19 The procession was headed by Mr. J. D. Palmer, Chairman of the Committee on Fire and Water, and Mr. H. S. Stevens, President of the Council. After visiting the West Side, it passed on its return through Euclid, Huntington, Prospect and Bolivar streets to Chief Engineer Craw's residence, where an excellent dinner was served. After dinner the procession was re-formed and passed through Erie, Lake, Wood, St. Clair, Water, Superior and Bank streets to No. I'S house, where it was disbanded. The display, from all accounts, was very elegant and attractive, and as a comparative illustration of the then organized Department with the present, the names of all its members are here subjoined: Chief Engineer, James A. Craw. STEAMER No. i, I. U. MASTERS. Captain, William Kidd. „ \ Robert Bogatt, Engineer, David Boyd. ' / Henry Schnyder. Fireman, William Long. p. \ Thomas Sweeney, First Driver, Edwin Clarke. *Pe ' if Peter Meyers. Second Driver, A. A. Cavanah. STEAMER No. 2, J. J. BENTON. Captain, J.J. Benton. „ ^ P. McGuire, Engineer, James Dickinson. ' / Henry Rebbeck. Fireman, Fred Voltze. T-,. \ Samuel Rowe, First Driver, George Marshal. i 1DGH1GIF 1' / John Reeves. Second Driver, Morris Smith. STEAMER No. 3, WILLIAM MEYER. Captain, Barney McGrath. JT \ Jacob Volker, Engineer, S. H. Brown. ' / F. Boltz. Fireman, John Boltz. p. \ A. Clinton, First Driver, Henry Harmon. " ' / James Madigan. Second Driver, L. Ellsasser. STEAMER No. 4, J. D. PALMER. Captain, E. H. Lewis. Second Driver, J. McMahon. Engineer, Edward Lindsley. Pipeman, A. T. Van Tassel. Fireman, John Vandwelde. „ \ M. Van Tassel, First Driver, A. McGuire. tiosemen, ; John McMahon_ MAZEPPA HOOK AND LADDER COMPANY NO. I. Tillerman, John Gillson. Driver, George Kugler. In 1864, another steamer was added to the Department, when the three remain ing volunteer companies were disbanded. In March, 1865, we find the city pos sessed of a steam fire department, comprising five steam engine companies, with hose reels attached to each, and one hook and ladder truck. These companies were located as follows: Engine Company, I. U. Masters No. 1, Frankfort street, be tween Bank and Water; Engine Company, J. J. Benton No. 2, Champlain street, between Seneca and Ontario ; Engine Company, William Meyer No. 3, .Huntington street, between Garden and Prospect: Engine Company, J. D. Palmer No. 4, 20 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. DIETZ, DENISON & PRIOR, MUNICIPAL . . BONDS,. . 709 Perry-Payne Building. BOSTON : 35 CONGRESS STREET. H. TIEDEMANN, President. E. WIEBENSON, Sec'y and Treas. Tne Lake snore Banning 4 savings Go. nccirps; fCOR. WILLSON AVE. AND ST. CLAIR ST. "rl-i"*... (COR. PROSPECT AND HURON STS. Solicit Checking and Savings Accounts. Paying 4 per cent. Interest on Savings. Open Cbe United BanKing Saturday Evenings. ana Savings Co., ...rtake a Specialty of Foreign Exchange:.. DIRECTORS. JAS. A. KING, CHAS. P. EANNET, DAN. P. EELLS, JOHN S. ORAM, A. T. PERRY, S. H. TOLLES, CHAS. A. POST, DR. A. F. HOUSE, H. W. KING, COR. PEARL AND 0. E. BURKE, HARLEY B. trIBBS, G-EO. W. AVEBY, REG. F.JOPLING, H. H. HODELL. JNO. M. GDNDRY. LORAIN STREETS. JNO. M. GTJNDRY, Pres. and Treas. J. HORACE JONES, Secy. DAN. P. EELLS, HARLEY B. GIBBS, "Vice-Pres'ts. The German=American Savings Bank Co., . . . Biclul Hiw national Bank. Transacts a General Banking Business. Capital, $500,000 Surplus and Profits,. 215,000 Interest Paid on Time Deposits. : : : : : S. L. Severance, President <£<£ NO. 356 ONTARIO STREET. Kaufman Hays, Vice-President C. E. Farnsworth, Cashier^*^ OFFICERS. WM. M. REYNOLDS, President. MOSES HALLE, 1st. Vice-Pres. WM. W. BEAVIS, Secy. DR. A F. MEYER, 2d Vice-Pres. MAX LEVI, Ass't Treas. F. ROCKEFELLER, Pres. B. L,. PENNINGTON, Vice-Pres. WE BUY AND SELL IRI REYNOLDS, Secretary and Treasurer. W. F. PARSONS, Cashier, H J. DICKEY, Cashier, County, City, School, St. Railway Collinwood Branch. Willoughby Branch. The Wade Park Banking Co., , . . BONDS.. . 2259 EUCLID AVENUE. IYisL of Ohio and other Securities will be furnished Capital Stock, - $100,000. on application. W. J. HAYS &. SONS, General Banking. Interest Paid on Savings De posits. Boxes for rent in Safety Deposit CLEVELAND. 313 SUPERIOR STREET. BOSTON. Vault at Reasonable Prices. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. 21 WATER TOWER. The pressure of water thrown by this Tower is obtained from the fire-boat " Clevelander," situated at the river 2,000 feet away, at an elevation of 75 feet. 22 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. 4' 4t OTTO I. LEISY, Sole Mgr. ANNUAL CAPACITY 4' 2,500,000 BARRELS. 4« L # wzmm # 4' o< Isaac Ceisy Braving Co. 4' 4* sv. >v, >v. \'y >v. # •Ti\.Ti\.ri\.rj\i',\ I 4> 4> ESTABLISHED 4> ^S>l8e2 JV^-~ # 4K 4- PREMIUM^J«^^ 4K STRICTLY PURE [AGER 4K 4K 4» # 4 VBQA and RHODES AVE., 2* WALWORTH RUN ST. 4K 4> and BARBER AVENUE. 4- ^..^^^^^^^f Ar (BeTFfraf?f.5, E Co. «ieK S. O'BRI^ CLEVlLflND O. 24 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. Cleveland Arcade Co- &L Scblatber Brewing €o. COR. YORK & CARROLL STS. We Bottle and keep for Sale the fol= lowing Brands of Beer.~=szr TELEPHONE Standard Lager, ) CONNECTIONS. Select Export,..* - LIGHT. PUseaet,J* J* J* ) \ n A TJ \r ' Kulmbacher, 9@9@V@9@9®9m@9@$&: CLt VLLftND, 0. 26 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. The Permanent Savings I Loan Co. The OF CLEVELAND. Northwestern -176 EUCLID AVE. Mutual Furnishes life insurance Capital Paid In, $1,168,000. cheaper and its invest Assets, - 51,763,120. Life Surplus, - - $53,000. ment policies give larger returns than any other 5 per cent. Interest on Time Deposits. company. LOANS ON J. C.TRASK, REAL ESTATE. General Agt., 284 Arcade. THOMAS H. GEIJR H. G. HOPKINSON, I,. E. PARSONS, FRED S. GEER. R. HARPER. Thomas H. Geer & Co., Hopkinson, Parsons & Co. TELEPHONE GENERAL 579. t INSURANCE General Insurance Agents ^ OFFICE, Rooms 2 and 3, Kelley Block, 158 SUPERIOR STREET, Room 407 Mohawk Bldg. Public Sq., near Court House (Opposite Bank Street.) TELEPHONE 838. Capital Represented, $100,000,000. GEO. H. OLMSTED. I. P. CHANDLER. CHAS. J. SEAEEOOK. ESTABLISHED 1870. TELEPHONE 134. TELEPHONE 719. Geo. R. Olmsted * Go. BINGHAM Fire, Life, Plate Glass, DOUGLASS, Accident, Steam Boiler, Employers' Liability... jflSf-We invite corre and Elevator spondence, but would prefer personal inter- general insurance, INSURANCE, 'iew No. 86 Superior St., Cor. South Water St. Room 602, The Cuyahoga. HENRY M, BROOKS. HARRY H. CULP. LUCIEN A. WTLBOR. L. S- FISHt_ HENRY M.BROOKS SCO. Tire k- Insurance UNDERWRITERS Agent <+- No. 311 SUPERIOR STREET, -ft TELEPHONE 701. Room 413 (Fourth Floor) Cuyahoga Building. Telephone 743. ....-mill ..No. 11 ATWATER BUILDING. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. 27 Church street, between State and Hanover, and Engine Company, N. P. Payne No. 5, Phelps street, between St. Clair and Superior. These engines were all of Silsby make, second class, rotary power, complete. Hook and Ladder Company, Mazeppa No. i, was housed with Steamer No. i on Frankfort street. The whole force now employed by the city to watch over and protect it from the ravages of fire, consisted, all told, of fifty-three men, namely: One chief engineer, five captains, five engineers, five firemen, eleven drivers, twenty-five pipemen and one tiller- man. Water, the chief factor in subduing a fire, was commencing to be more liberally distributed in the mains branching out through the different parts of the city, thus facilitating the work of the firemen, there being then 167 fire hydrants, besides 75 reservoirs, placed at the most serviceable disposal for their use. The Fire Alarm Telegraph, which was added to the Department in 1864, also contributed its share toward the efficiency of the service, and at that early date proved its success beyond the utmost expectations. It being a direct means of communication from the near or immediate locality of a fire through its signal boxes, it was of indispensable value ; furthermore, it was invaluable in the business opera tions of the Department. In 1867, the City Council passed an ordinance to provide for the better regula tion of the Fire Department. This ordinance created the offices of first and second assistant engineers, the first assistant to reside on the east side of the river, and the second assistant to reside on the west side of the river. The ordinance specified the duties of the different members of the Department, and the salaries that should be paid them. This year saw the introduction of the Oysten's spreading nozzle, which was a decided improvement over the old. September, 1867, the "James Hill," a first-class rotary-power engine, Silsby make, was placed in service at No. 2's house, taking the place of the steamer J. J. Benton, which was sent to the house built for the new Company No. 6, at the junction of Lorain and Brainard streets, West Side. A hose cart was placed in this house during August, but the company was not fully equipped and organized until the following September. In 1868, another first-class rotary Silsby engine, named after Amos Townsend, was placed in service. A new engine company was also added to the force, going into service November, 1868, with the old steamer N. P. Payne, and located on Forest, near Garden, now known as No. 7. In the meantime, a new hook and ladder company was also organized, September, 1868, and was located in a house built for it, adjoining engine house No. 4, on Church street. The old apparatus which had been in use fourteen years by Mazeppa Hook and Ladder Company No. 1, had received a thorough overhauling, and went in service again with the new company, which took the name of "Rescue Hook and Ladder Company No. 2." Mazeppa Hook and Ladder Company No. 1 got the new truck which was pur chased. A third-class rotary-power Silsby engine was placed in service, November, 1871, in No. 3's house, taking the name of "F. W. Pelton," and a new company, with the old steamer "William Meyers," added to increase the strength of the Department. 28 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. HORACE KOOTF,. WM. B. MAXON. CX M. Stafford, , ...PHONE 4S2.... ^ Goss & Co., * • FOOTE & MAXON, Fire and Marine . . Insurance, . . 4 SOUTH WATER ST. FOOTE & MAXON PRINCIPAL, OFFICF> : Corner Broadway and Willson Ave. REPRESENT TELEPHONE 2639. PHENIX INSURANCE CO., BROOKLYN, N. Y. BRANCH OFFICES: SCOTTISH UNION & NATIONAL INS CO , SCOTLAND. NIAGARA FIRE INS. CO , NEW YORK. Corner Woodland and Willson Aves. NORWICH UNION FIRE INS SOCIETY, ENGLAND. TELEPHONE 3462. CALEDONIAN INSURANCE CO., • SCOTLAND. Room 4. Rouse Blk., 84 Public Sq. MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE CO., • NEW YORK. TELEPHONE 1041. PACIFIC FIRE INSURANCE CO., • NEW YORK. FRED. P. THOMAS. M. ADAMS. E. THOMAS. M. A. KINO. D. C. REED. TELEPHONE 1906. Fred. P.ThomasSCo. KING & $EEt>, ffiencval gtt&nvance GENERAL AGENTS FOR INSURANCE FIRE ASSOCIATION OF PHILADELPHIA. AGENCY, PHOENIX ASSURANCE CO , LONDON. TRADERS INSURANCE CO., CHICAGO. BRITISH AMERICA ASSURANCE CO , TORONTO. 245 iVRGADEi. NATIONAL STANDARD INSURANCE CO., N. Y. BOSTON MARINE INSURANCE CO. GRAND RAPIDS INSURANCE CO., MICH. WILLIAMSBURG CITY INSURANCE CO., M Y. FIRE. OHIO FARMERS $1,042,487 57 LLOYD'S PLATE GLASS rNSURANCE CO. OF NEW YORK. MANCHESTER 2,173,154 2* UNITED STATES CASUALTY CO. OF NEW YORK. COMMERCIAL 179,3" 97 STANDARD LI I'E AND ACCIDENT INS. CO., DETROIT. LIFE. JOHN HANCOCK 8,826,805 52 Total Assets Represented, $25,000,000 ACCIDENT. THE UNION CASUALTY 721,496 70 421, 422, 423, 424 £liy HOSE COMPANY No. i. \o CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. Ovei* half the Photographs in this book were furnished by A. D. BURK & CO., Photographers, Cor. Willson and Woodland Avenues. ^^J-J>J>^J-^ flntbony'$ Tire * Accident notification Agency. Offices—FIRE HEADQUARTERS and 350 HAMILTON STREET. Always have conveyances on hand to notify merchants of anything that might be a loss or damage to their place of business. = •tihu.\,-nii>Jy- P. J. ANTHONY, Pro. tinnerman Steel Range €o. G. A. TINNERHAN, Prop. MANUFACTURERS OF THE CELEBRATED. . » STEEL .. "Ohio ..RANGE For Family, Restaurant and Hotel Purposes. 799 LORAIN STREET AND 130 FULTON STREET. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. 31 • • ENGINE HOUSE No. 2. 32 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. vC- John A. Weber, I DEALER IN ^Di^m (Uines, Liquors and WHOLESALE <*>* Cigars, <*<* Liquor MERCHANT 103 EUCLID AVENUE. TELEPHONE II 53 37 SHERIFF ST. TELEPHONES., f S5"u2'?0- Cleveland, 0. j HOME 469. TELEPHONE 29 44. Restaurant a la Carte REGULAR MEALS 25c. TUB Square Bottling Ms, BOARD BY THE WEEK. JOHN A. SANDERS, PROP. Choice Wines, Liquors, tbe_ and Cigars, Sagarin '31, 44 PUBLIC SQUARE. SCHLEPBACH & FEIHL, ^OffiS Proprietors. 251 CHAMPLA1N STREET. //7 ONTARIO. Dew Cafe and Bowling Alley. ^THE^TIVOLI,^ 705 & 707 PEARL ST. ANDY SOMMER, Prop. Fine Imported and Domestic Liquors and Cigars, Restaurant and Sample Room. GUS. GROTHE, H. F. CAVANAUGH'S BUFFET, FINE WINES. RETAIL DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF IMPORTED AND LIQUORS •'«•" DOMESTIC FAMILY LIQUORS. CHOICE AND CIGARS. WINES A SPECIALTY. BASE BALL SCORE BY INNINGS. 257 SUPERIOR ST. TELEPHONE 2536. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. 33 In 1873, two new engine companies were organized; one being located on Willson avenue, with the old steamer "I. U. Masters," which was replaced at No. 5's house by the "James Hill," which steamer was replaced by another first-class Silsby engine named after Mr. Silas Merchant, which was placed in service in March, at No. 2's house. The other company was located on Doan street, with the old steamer "Geo. B. Senter," and another first-class Silsby engine placed in service at No. 4's house, taking the place of the steamer "J. D. Palmer," and named after Mr. John Martin. This new steamer was also placed in service in the month of March. Two new hook and ladder companies were also organized, one being placed in the new house on Willson avenue, during the month of July, and was called "Relief Hook and Ladder Company No. 3." The other company was organized in Novem ber and located in the double house on Doan street, and was called "Union Hook and Ladder Company No. 4." Old "Mazeppa," not having out-run its usefulness, was placed in service with this company. A new track, built by Gabriel & Sons, was placed in service in June at No. I'S house, the apparatus then in service there being transferred to Hook and Ladder Company No. 2 on the West Side, and the new company, "Relief Hook and Ladder No. 2," received the Hartshorn truck, which had been replaced by a new apparatus at No. i's house, September, 1872. The year 1873 being the tenth anniversary since the organization and formation of a paid steam fire department, let us stop and survey the surroundings, for the interval of years elapsed has received but hurried glances relative to incidents con cerning its members as well as its growth. Let us see what is the whole strength of the Department; let LIS see what resources and facilities it has for performing the work for which it was created. This we can do by bringing the whole of it before us in a collective review. Before doing so, however, in order to more fully realize its value to the city, we must know something of its cares, hence a few statistics concerning the city's prosperity and growth. We find that its population had increased to 100,000 souls, requiring for their convenience and comfort in life, 23,000 houses. These people, engaged in the differ ent marts of trade, manufacture and other enterprises, had certainly enriched, by their various industries, the city in a proportion commensurate with their means. Manufactories, mills, forges, factories, workshops, stores, etc., were necessary exponents, and of course, required more territory or a more extensive field for their operations. Now we return to the means at hand for the protection of all from fire. Engine companies there were ten, with five first-class and five second-class steamers, all rotary power, built by the Silsby Manufacturing Company of Seneca Falls, N. Y. ; twenty hose reels, two to each engine, each reel carrying seven hundred and fifty feet of five-ply rubber hose, making a line of fifteen thousand feet of hose, on reels ready for immediate use, besides a reserve line of six thousand five hundred feet; four hook and ladder companies, fully equipped; one protection wagon, one tele graph line wagon, three fuel wagons to convey fuel to fires for the use of steamers fifty-five horses, one hmndred and thirty miles of telegraph line, one hundred 34 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. New.... England Building, The highest building in the State of Ohio, located EUCLID AVENUE, Near Bond Street. Modern Fire-Proof Con struction and elegant In terior Finish. This build tKlflffilBS | ing has the best lighted offices in the city with commanding view of the Lake and city. l |, M iwBi J. MHWE1BI S if"^=* p»i All tenants are fur nished with hot and cold water, electric light, jan T itor service, awnings, etc., without extra charge. For rental of offices apply to the agent at the building. THE NATIONAL CARBON CO., MANUFACTURERS OF Electric Light Carbons, Battery Carbons, Carbon Brushes for Dynamos and Motors, Cored Carbons, Smelting Carbons, Carbons for Chemical Purposes and Search Lights. OFFICE AND FACTORY: WEST MADISON AND HIGHLAND AVES. OSBORN'S GOLDEN STAR GUARANTEED GALVANIZED 1C AND OLD STYLE % m. $ L K Osborn, COLD ROLLED ROOFING TIN SHEETS. IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF TIN PLATE, IRON, COPPER, TINWARE AND TINNERS' SUPPLIES, TELEPHONE 1809. 3, 5, 7 & 9 COURT PLACE. en A4 neM 36 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. "One Long Whistle" Calls our Tugs. Cbe Cleveland Cug Company C. A. MORGAN, Gen'l Mgr. First-class Tugs, Steam Pumps, Divers, Hawsers, Lifting Screws, Etc.^j*^ lizi' Furnished Promptly on Orders by Telegraph or Otherwise.~ui TELEPHONE 725—Long Distance, OFFICE AND DOCK-FOOT OF FRONT ST. OPEN DAY AND NIGHT. O. M. BURKE, Pres't and Treas. C. E. BURKE, Vice-Pres't and Gen'l Mgr. GEO. B. THOMAS, Secretary. LAKE SHORE FOUNDRY, .MANUFACTURERS OF. Cast Iron « « « 6a$ and mater* BRANCH CASTINGS. CAR, BRIDGE AND GENERAL CASTINGS. Office and Works, FOOT OF ALABAMA STREET. C. K. GROVER, President. W. A. COLLIER, Sec'y, Treas. and Mgr. Cbe Ue$$el Owners' Cowing (Ko. « Dock Office: Main Street Bridge. Steam Pumps, Hawsers, Divers, Etc.,^6 jt jt &<£ Furnished on Short Notice. TUGS Wm. Kennedy, Tom Maytham Alva B., Joe Harris, Cris Grover, W. D. dishing, H. Iv.Chamberlain, Dreadnaught, C. G. Curtiss. AllieMay. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. 37 and forty-seven alarm boxes and four hundred and eighty-five fire hydrants. To care •for and handle all this apparatus required one hundred and forty-eight men, includ ing officers. The efficiency of this force, both as regards its officers and men, was without question fully appreciated, yet its apparatus and means for fighting an extensive fire were in some respects inadequate to meet the requirements, which, alas, has only in too many instances been a great drawback to this Department. If the sums of money expended for its maintenance were to be balanced with the sums of total losses from fires, we would see that the latter more than many times would have paid for that necessary protection, which by some people can never be realized until they them selves become parties interested by a partial or total loss involving them. The extensive fire which occurred the following year, January 30, 1874, proved that the fire protection afforded the city was as yet unequal to its work. It took the whole Department many hours to subdue this fire, which left for that space of time other portions of the city, equally as valuable, without any protection. This fire started about 7 o'clock in the evening, from some unknown cause, in Koch, Goldsmith & Company's four-story brick block, used as a wholesale tailoring establishment, and spread with rapidity to Worthington's Block adjoining it. The weather was cold, and many of the firemen suffered from its effect, some having their hands and feet frozen. Heat, smoke and cold, the two former at times unbearable to an excessive degree ; the cold, piercing to their very marrow those who were drenched to the skin. Add to this the mental as well as bodily exertions ; one exciting, the other exhausting ; both combined testing human endurance to its fullest extent, and you have a faint idea of the firemen's work during the whole of that night. Their stubborn fight saved the Goodwillis Block, adjoining that of Goldsmith's, on the other side. The losses from this fire amounted to $380,750.69 ; fully insured. During the year, a new double house for Engine Company No. 4 and Hook and Ladder Company No. 2, was erected on the West Side. This house was built on the site of the old house, facing State street instead of Church. At a meeting of the Board of Fire Commissioners, December 22, 1874, Chief Engineer James Hill was notified to tender his resignation, said resignation to take effect on the day following. Mr. Hill entered into litigation against the city by appealing to the Supreme Court of the State, with a view of contesting the authori tative power of the Board compelling him to resign. The case was decided in favor of the city, and the action of the Board sustained. Mr. Hill became chief of the paid Department in February, 1864, taking the place of Mr. James A. Craw. The first piston engine in this city, a second-class Amoskeag, built by the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, Manchester, N. H., went into service at No. 2's house, in January, 1875, and was named after Mr. Chas. A. Otis. On the fifth of February that year, John A. Bennett, the first assistant chief, was promoted to chief; James W. Dickinson, from the position of second assistant to that of first; H. H. Rebbeck, from the position of third assistant to that of second ; and Joseph Speddy, engineer of Steamer No. 3, promoted to third assistant chief. A new engine house having been built in Newburg, a new company went in service there, February 9, 1875, with the old steamer "Geo. B. Senter." A new 38 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. Cbc Brown fitting and Conveying macn. Co. ENGINEERS, DESIGNERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF COMPLETE SYSTEMS FOR HANDLING OF MATERIALS. THE BROWN PATENT BRIDGE TRAMWAY, SHED TRAMWAY, WAREHOUSE TRAMWAY, CABLE TRAMWAY, SEWER MACH. TRAM., AUTOMATIC FURNACE HOIST. The most Perfect Machinery for Handling ORE, COAL, ETC., from Vessels, Docks and Cars. .SOLE MAKERS OF.. THE BROWN PATENT CANTILEVER CRANES, In Use on the Chicago Main Drainage Canal. Working Capacity of "Cantilever," 600 to 800 Cubic Yards "SOLID ROCK IN PLACE" per day of Ten Hours. ELECTRIC, STEAO* /<^ ^ A |VT r HAND POWER jijljlVQ^? tV-rVi ^ *-^?« The Best Machinery for Handling Material in Shipbuilding Yards, such as Marine Plates, Armor Plates, Structural Work, Etc. Designers and Builders of Traveling, Locomotive, Jib, Pillar and other Cranes. MAIN OFFICE AND WORKS: CLEVELAND, O. NEW YORK OFFICE, HAVEMEYER BLDG. J. B. ZERBE, President. W. S. TYLER, Vice-Pres. C. L. CUTTER, Sec'y and Treas. TOE OHIO X PENNSYLVANIA GOAL GO. ^!& ORGANIZED 1867. MINERS AND RETAILERS OF Anthracite, Pittsburgh and Massillon Coal. ^ *£ *£ CLOVER HILL MINE. Retail Department, 7 Prospect St. Kim. R. Gerrard, manager. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. 39 ENGINE HOUSE No. 3. 4o CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. ESTABLISHED 1841. INCORPORATED IS The W. Bingham Co., WHOLESALE DEALERS IN ^L£ Shelf and fieavy hardware and «* «* tinners' SiocKt ^ «* IMPORTED AND AMERICAN CUTLERY. Manufacturers', Machinists', Mining and Railway Supplies. Agents for Boston Belting Co. Fire Hose. 142, 144, 146, 148 and 150 WATER ST. 97 and 99 SUPERIOR ST. GEO. P. COMET, JR. SIX DEPARTMENTS. A. L. JOHNSON. DRUG, SUNDRY, LABORATORY, PAINT AND BRUSH, CIGAR, LIQUOR. Strong, Cobb and IMPORTERS ANDjtjtjt MANUFACTURERS OF Company, STRAW AND FELT^J^8 GOODS, ^ jt S jtjtjtjtjt 7 TO 15 -ACADEMY ST. ESTABLISHED LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE 2586. 1883. H. FINUCAN, 42 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. HE UNION DAIRY COMPANY ^ # # Makes Choice OLEOMARQERINE which a great many of the Fire Boys use. Try '•&. HERBERT WRIGHT. P. R. FAHEV. HERBERT WRIGHT & C& Bankers and BroRers, Perry=Payne Building. Stocks, Bonds, Grain, Provisions ami High Class investment Securities Bought and Sold for Cashjtj* jtjt Exclusive Wires to New York Stock Or Carried on flargin.^^^t,^ ^j»Exchange and Chicago Board of Trade. TflE KIRK-LATTY MT'GGO.,^ MANUFACTURERS OF Stove Bolts, Tire Bolts,^8 Tacks, Wire Nails,jtjtjtjt Small Cut Nails andjtjtjt Machine Screws..jt^ltjt^tjx ANTHRACITE, PITTSBURGH, PALMYRA, BLOSSBURG MASSILLON, AND.... WEST VIRGINIA. P. • P. • QUHYLE. OHIO COAL. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN STEAM AND DOMESTIC COAL AND COKE. 283 HUMBOLDT ST., Kingsbury Viaduct. 1J6 CANAL STREET. TELEPHONE 2208. TELEPHONE 1064. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. 43 addition to No. n's house having been added for the accommodation of a truck company, Hook and Ladder No. 4, then in service at No. io's house, was transferred to the new house in Newburg, April, 1876. At a parade on June 14, 1877, George Lamb, a member of Hook and Ladder Company No. 2, in trying to jump on to the truck to which he belonged, missed the step and fell under the apparatus, the hind wheels of the truck passing over his body, besides inflicting other injuries. It was thought at the time that he was fatally injured ; he, however, recovered. Two more engine companies and engines were added to the Department that year. These companies became located, respectively, one on Waverly avenue, near Lorain street, and known as No. 12, with one of the new engines, a third-class rotary, Silsby make. The other company was located on Broadway, near Petrie street, with the old steamer "James Hill," and known as No. 13. The other new engine was a third-class "Latta" engine, built by C. Ahern & Company, Cincinnati, and was placed in service at No. 5's house. A Scott Uda aerial ladder was also purchased during the year. In 1877, swinging harnesses were introduced in the Department. They were patented by Mr. E. O. Sullivan, and were a great improvement over the old way. These harnesses were suspended from the ceiling in front of the apparatus in such a way that the horses on coming out to their places could be immediately hitched, thus saving the harnesses from being torn by the horses when in their stable, besides free ing them from an unnecessary incumbrance when at rest. The fires during the years of 1876 and 1877, though numerous, were confined within the limit of very small losses. The hose cart belonging to No. 9's company was upset on Garden street, near Case, responding to a fire in June, 1878, breaking a leg of N. Clancey, a member of that company. In October, that year, another third-class Ahern engine was bought and placed in service at No. 8's house. The most destructive fires during the year 1878 occurred in March and Decem ber. On March 19, at n =56 p. M., a fire broke out in a four-story brick building, corner of Merwin and Superior streets, occupied by the Non-Explosive Lamp Company. On the arrival of the Department, the building was found enveloped in flames. The good work of the firemen confined the fire to this building. The loss, however, was heavy, amounting to $87,200, principally on machinery, which was very expensive. We now come to a year which, to several members of the Department, must have left an imprint on their memory never to be effaced. During the noon hour on April 10, 1879, some person started a bonfire back of the Atwater Building, for which an alarm from Box 15 was turned in. Engine Company No. 4 and Hook and Ladder Company No. 2 responded from the west side of the river to this box, with other companies from the east side. On taking their route over the then new viaduct, No. 4's engine was ahead, followed by the hose cart, with the Hook and Ladder Company some distance behind. It seems, that to avoid the steamer, two ladies in a buggy had turned into Flint street. After the steamer had passed them, 44 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. TELEPHONE 332. TELEPHONE 383. Tod, Stambaugh ALBRIGHT COAL CO. IND— --- •;•—, Company „ p •am o • r>^ SfXlfXM ? Tron Ores, Pig Iron f O O o /t and 0o9l,»**»»»»» A m •«^ Rooms FUEL OF ALL KINDS. 203 to 206 Perry-Payne -TRV OUR- Building. NEW MASSILLON COAL. .\k. «He*C0Alr*C0KE M.A. Hanna & Co. COAL, IRON ORE AND PIG IRON, jt F. M. KIRK & COrlPANY, New England B u i I diog •*&-!•> H*'%;»i T Telephone 11«/« I.ong Distance 1*1 v. VUKERT MERHIEK CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. d MCake €rie Tron Company, i) MANUFACTURERS Shape Torging$, flxle$, Bar Tron, nuts, Bolts and masbers. d LOFTUS CUDDY. MARTIN MUIAEN. The Cuddy=Mullen Coal Co.^ Miners and Shippers of Steam Coal. GENERAL OFFICES: PERRY-PAYNE BUILDING. TELEPHONE 2591. J. H. SOMERS. u. W. SOMERS. U. C. HATCH. W.A.GEIST, -DEALER IN- d. ft. SOMERS X COMPANY MINERS AND SHIPPERS OF LUMBER, LATH OHIO AND PENNSYLVANIA STEAM, QAS and DOMESTIC COAL SHINGLES, Telephone j ^9- GENERAL OFFICES: 155 LEONARD ST., 52 J,522,523 Cuyahoga Bldg. COR. COLUMBUS. THOS. F. TORREY, Jos. C. BATCHELOR, Gen'l Sales Agent, Sales Agent, F. E. Winzer Coal Co. New York City. Buffalo, N. Y. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Delaware & Hudson Canal Go. "THED. &H." Lackawanna AnthraciteCoal COKE. SAI.ES DEPARTMENT, Main Office and Yard, 373 Seneca St. J.S.VAN EPPS, AGENT 409 St. Clair Street, cor. Etie.Jt<*J*J» 295 SCRANTON AVE. TELEPHONE 2462. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. 47 48 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. Sole Proprietors of Dr. I,oew's Celebrated Stomach Bitters WATSON'S- and Nerve Tonic. 200 j4 SENECA STREET, The Loew & Sons Co.,\ KENTUCKY ESTABLISHED 1373. Growers of California Wines and Brandies SAMPLES. Importers and Wholesale Liquor Dealers. 392, 394, 396, 398 ERIE ST. CHOICE ALES, LAQER AND CIGARS. Telephone 2074. Morris Ullman. T^eopold Einstein. Herman Einstein. Monroe A. UUman. HEEMAN GUGGENHEIM. JULIUS GUGGENHEIM. ESTABLISHED 18GB. ULLMAM, EINSTEIN & GO. Guggenheim Brothers, Distillers and Dealers in Distillers and Jobbers of PURE RYE& BOURBON WHISKIES. WHISKIES, WINES AND LIQUORS. Wedding March Whiskey. FAMILY TRADE SOLICITED. 154, 156 and 158 SHERIFF STREET, OPP. NEW MARKET HOUSE. Telephone 2446. 179-183 PROSPECT ST. Bell Tel. 2112. Home Tel. 140. Absolute Perfection of Whiskey. JPride of Kentucky L, KAHN & Co. WHISKEY. IMPORTERS OF FINE Hand-Made Sour Mash, WINES AND LIQUORS. Distillery, New Haven, Nelson Co., Ky. '-si % wumnrxAN, HOLHES & co. 267 and 269 Erie Street. DISTILLERS. F. W. PHILIPS. Trank Philips F. B. SMITH., Carriage Co., -HIGH-GRADE- Carriages and Harness. 1203 euclid flwrnie. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. 49 thinking, no doubt, it was the only apparatus, they started to back their buggy out on o the viaduct again, giving the cart, following the steamer, barely room to pass them. The driver of the hook and ladder truck, Samuel Fitch, seeing them, and knowing full well from their actions that they did not realize the predicament they were in, pulled his apparatus over into the street car track on the north side of the street. In doing so, he, no doubt, saved their lives, but at the sacrifice of his own- A Pearl street car, being in the same track, but some distance ahead, was coming toward him at a lively gait, and the driver of it, instead of stopping his team, was looking back at the passing steamer. Fitch was on a down-grade, and the momentum of the apparatus he was driving made it impossible for him to avoid the collision which followed, and the shock of which threw him over the foot-board in between the horses, from one of which he received a blow in the back of his neck. One of the hind wheels of the truck passed diagonally over his breast, crush ing it. Life lingered a few hours, but consciousness never returned. The tillerman of the truck, Chas. Fogg, was also thrown to the pavement when the hind wheel struck the body of Fitch, and sustained injuries which laid him up for several weeks. The other members of the company jumped off, except George Lamb, who suc ceeded in getting into the tiller seat, and thereby probably prevented other damage being done, as the team kept on its way towards the draw, where it was finally stopped by Sanford Stephens, a member of the company, and others. Fitch left a wife and two children. Another accident occurred on the twenty-first day of October, the same year, which might have proved fatal to more than one. An alarm was turned in from Box 12 during the evening. Engine Company No. 6 being one of the companies responding to the box, on its way to the location of the alarm, had to cross Columbus street bridge. The night was very dark and hazy, making it impossible for a person to see any distance ahead. The bridge was swung open, but the men on the steamer, coming down Columbus street hill, did not see any signal displayed to warn them of their fast-approaching danger. They were on the very edge of the yawning chasm before they realized that there was no bridge for them to cross. To avoid the fatal plunge was then too late ; it seemed as if everybody on that steamer was doomed to destruction, as the horses instantly disappeared in the inky darkness, and the steamer, from the impetus, turned a complete somersault into the muddy water of the Cuyahoga river, on the bottom of which it settled upside down. Engineer Oliver Hartzell, John Moffett and Henry Delany went into the river, but were rescued before being drowned. John Sewell, who was on the seat with the driver, jumped off as the steamer went over, and landed almost on the very edge of the abutment, where he laid for several minutes unconscious. They all received more or less bruises from their fall, but nobody was seriously injured. Considering the distance of the fall, which was twenty-eight feet, and the circumstances under which it occurred, it was a miraculous escape for them. The horses, being entangled in their harnesses, were drowned. The engine was not damaged, except the boiler, which, from the sudden contraction of its iron, was ruined. Fires of any note during this year occurred in the months of January, May, July and August. 5° CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. WM. GREIF, President. C. T. HASBROUCK, Vice-Pres. THOS. GREIF, Treasurer. IvOUis M. GREIF, Sec'y and Gen'l Mgr. Che UanDorn Ironworks Co. 1793 EAST MADISON AVE. THE QREIF BROS. COMPANY, ESTABLISHED 1877. COOPERAGEJ MANUFACTURERS OF 18 FACTORIES. 5 IN OHIO. Iron Fencing; and Railings, Fire Escapes, 6 IN ILLINOIS. Stairs, Stable Fixtures, Jail Cells, Orna 5 IN INDIANA. mental and Structural Iron Work, .a* «^ 1 IN MICHIGAN. 1 IN WISCONSIN. PHONE 3435." CHAS. RAUCH, Pres. CHAS. B. J. LANG, Sec'y and Treas. INCORPORATED 1888. ESTABLISHED 1853. TheKilbyMfgXo The Rauch &LangGarriageCo. OFFICE AND WORKS: BUILDERS OF LAKE ST.. COR. KIRTLAND. J-J-Y'vciz. Vehicles^ <^ "J" of Every Description Cane and Beet Sugar Machinery, of the Highest Grade Rolling Mill, Wire and Nail Machinery, and Leading; Styled Automatic Engines and Boilers, and all classes of Heavy Machinery and Foundry Work. Landaus, Coaches, Broughams, Coupes, Rockaways, Cabriolets, Victorias, Phaetons, Buggies, -r Park and Road Wagons, Etc. Also dealers in Lower Grades of Light Work made Expressly for Us. NEW YORK OFFICE: Special Attention given to Repairing. Telephone No. 1554. No.143 LIBERTY ST., ROOM 339 FACTORY a WAREROOMS: 693-695-697-699-701 PWl $t. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. 51 fW ^ ~* xzM 7JL± m 1fZE ;fM11 &• 1P Ji^ ENGINE HOUSE No. 4. Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co.'s Power House, Cleveland Electric Illuminating Co.'s Switch Board, Part of Engine Room, containing 5,500 Horse Power. Conta'ntng 30,000 lights, on The Edison Three-wire System. r. r < w > z a to a w > H w 21 THE CLEVELAND ELECTRIC ILLUMINATING COMPANY. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. 53 QiiU^l' t»i 54 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. LAKE VIEW PLATS, COR. SUnniT AND ONTARIO STS. Apartments for l4§ht Housekeeping. Five-room flats, with Bath, Gas Range, Hot and Cold Water in each suite. Every suite with view of the lake. No inside rooms. Terms reasonable. 'Phone 594 or 813. Fred. P. Thomas & Go. HORACE FOOTE. WM. B. MAXSON. PHONE 492. TELEPHONE 438. FIRE • nit LIFE Till FOOTE X MAXSON, ACCIDENT 1 Hi PLATE GLASS 1 111 STEAM BOILER... Ill EMPLOYERS' LJjLl LIABILITY ••• mm Fire and flarine . . Insurance, . . ^ 4 SOUTH WATER ST., CUYAHOGA BLDG. REPRESENTING FHENIX INSURANCE CO., - BROOKLYN, N. T. SCOTTISH UNION AND NATIONAL INS. CO., SCOTLAND. NIAGARA FIRE INSURANCE CO., - NEW YORK. NORWICH UNION EIRE INS. SOCIETY, ENGLAND. " CALEDONIAN INSURANCE CO., - - SCOTLAND. MUTUAL EIRE INSURANCE CO., NEW YORK. $25,000,00C1 Assets Represented. PACIFIC FIRE INSURANCE CO,, - NEW YORK. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. 55 On the fifth of January, at 4:33 A. M., John Rock's buildings, at the corner of Woodland and Willson avenues, were discovered on fire, and he met with a loss of $15,900. Then, on the thirtieth of the same month, Hempy & Company's planing mill was burned, making a hot and smoky fire for the firemen to handle. The loss on this fire was $30,000. May 20, at 7 =44 P. M., a fire occurred in the Globe Iron Works, resulting in a loss of $16,467. The greatest fire was July 8, when Denham's Planing Mill, Variety Iron Works, Woods, Perry & Company, and part of the A. & G. W. freight house were burned, with a loss of $47,772. On the thirteenth of the same month, the Cleveland Paper Mill, on Canal street, took fire, the loss being $25,000 ; and August 23, the Cleveland Paper Company, on St. Clair street, suffered a loss of $31,000. In the month of November, another second-class Amoskeag engine was added, and placed in service at No. 9's house. During the year 1880, there were several extensive fires, of which the following may be mentioned: A leaky still at the Standard Oil Works, on the twenty-third of February, started a fire which caused a loss of $15,000. The ice house on Walworth Run caught fire on the fourth of May, and Gustave Weitz & Bros, and C. E. Gehring sustained a loss of about $12,500. On the sixth, the same month, the Telegraph Supply Company, A. N. Kellogg & Company, William Kaufman & Company, located in a large brick block on St. Clair street, lost over $86,000. The twenty-fourth of June, the Eclipse Iron Works, on Center street, caught fire. Chambers, McBeath & Silas, merchants, lost $7,700. The fourteenth of July, Lapham & Company, Vodgers, Varek, Cleveland Box Machine Company, on Leonard street, sustained losses amounting to $15,500. The tenth of September, the Lake Erie Nut & Bolt Works lost $13,882, and on the eighteenth, the Powell Tool & Plaster Company lost $16,000. On the morning of the seventeenth of December, the immense structure from 26 to 36 Superior street, on the viaduct, occupied by the Cleveland Co-operative Stove Company, as offices, salesrooms and warehouses, was completely destroyed by fire, causing a total loss of $77,000. On the twenty-second day of December, at a special meeting called by the Board of Fire Commissioners, John A. Bennett was discharged as chief of the Fire Department, and its present chief, J. W. Dickinson, elected, and on the last day of the year, H. H. Rebbeck was promoted to the position of first assistant chief; Joseph Speddy, to the position of second assistant chief; and Captain A. A. Cavanah, to the position of third assistant chief. Chief Dickinson's first general order was for the formation of the different companies into battalions, as follows: Engine Companies Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 5, and Hook and Ladder Company No. 1, comprised the first battalion, under the command of First Assistant Chief Rebbeck ; Engine Companies Nos. 7, 9, 10, n and 13, with Hook and Ladder Companies Nos. 3 and 4, comprised the second battalion, and were under the command of Second Assistant Chief Joseph Speddy ; Engine Companies Nos. 4, 5, 8 and 12, and Hook and Lad der Company No. 2 formed the third battalion, and were under the command of Third Assistant Chief A. A. Cavanah. 56 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. F. M. DREW. W. T. CAMPBELL. LYCEUM THEATRE. STAR THEATRE. CLEVELAND THEATRE. DREW & CAMPBELL, Mgrs. BRADY & STAIR, t The Only Popular Price Theatre in the MANAGERS. City .4 fflEBRITTON ROLLING MILLCO. be Garry Iron ana ESTABLISHED 1875. TEL. 2789. A. N. JEAVONS, Bourne s Knowles Bicycle enameling, manufacturing Co. MAKERS OF _75 CHAMPLAIN STREET. Nuts, Washers, Rivets, Etc. 3ICYCLE ENAMELING AND DECORATING IN ALL COLORS A SPECIALTY. JAPANNING, DECORATING AND BERLIN BRONZING. H. M. HEMPY. A. F. HEMPY. SCHABER,a*^ H. n. Hempy & Son, REINTHAL^ LUMBER DEALERS, and COMPANY MANUFACTURERS OF Doors, Sash, Blinds and mouldings. MANUFACTURERS OF OFFICE AND MILL: 47, 49, 51 Center St. and 20, 22, 24, 26 West St. FRAME AND ROOM YARD No. 1—Dressed Lumber—19 to 33 West St. MOULDINGS. YARD No. 2—Rough Lumber—151 Merwln St. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. 57 ENGINE HOUSE No 5. 58 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. ESTABLISHED [875. INCORPORATED 1889. B. W. SMITH, President. E. E. NEALE, "Vice-Pres. CHAS. 33. NEWELL, Treas. TELEPHONE 3111. TELEPHONE 2788. Tlie Cleveland Brass i Iron Bedstead Co. The Burrows-Bosworth MANUFACTURERS OF .*.*Artistic metallic Bedsteads.<*<* Hardware Company,^* HARDWARE AND HOUSE MAIN OFFICE AND WORKS FURNISHING GOODS. JENNINGS AVE. Cor. ABBEY ST. BICYCLES, STOVES, RANGES, FURNACES, PLUMBING, BRANCH SAMPLE J CHICAGO, TINNING and REPAIRING. R0OMS, ( GRANDJAP.DS. 1271-1273 EUCLID AVE. FRED C. ELMER, THE LAKE SHORE SAW MILL & LUMBER CO.,^ MANUFACTURER OF Manufacturers of and Dealers in ^, PERRY'S PIES andjtjtj»j*jtj* ~^ FOREST CITY MINCE MEAT. JW %umber.3Latb,5bttigles, ^ Boors, Sasb, Klines, AND ALL KINDS MILL WORK. ATA ORDERS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. Cor. Superior and Wason Sts. TELEPHONE 1B14. 202 DARE STREET. TELEPHONE 2043. N. P. Bowler, Pres. W. W. Balkwill, Vice-Pres. G. C. Iviieas, Ceneral Manager. H. I. CHANDLER, PRES. K. U. FRACKELTON, SEC. & TREAS. The Cleveland Frog &, Grossing Go. IU Cbandler $ Price Co. MANUFACTURERS OF LUCAS PATENT Steel Rail frogs and Crossings, MANUFACTURERS OF Split Switches, Stands and Track printing Presses and Supplies in General. r Crossings and Girder Rail Special Work, for ^^ Printing machinery. Electric and Cable Railways. Office and Works : OFFICE AND WORKS, ENGINEER'S OFFICE, E. Prospect St. and C. & P. R. R. Crossing. BESSEMER AV. AND ERIE R. R. 614 CUYAHOGA SLOG. TELEPHONE; 3158. A. B. FOSTER, Gen. Mgr. and Treas. TELEPHONE 139. F. ZIMMERMAN .^ Tfte Cleveland Electrical [fl'fg Co., MANUFACTURER OF Sole TUVanufaetuPefs oE ttie AMERICAN WATCHMAN'S TIME DETECTOR. MOULDINGS AND^t «* PICTURE FRAMES. GENERAL ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS. Manufacturers of Electrical Specialties and Jobbers of Electrical Supplies of every description. Works, Cor. Leonard and Voltaire Sts. Office, 159 Leonard St. GENEEAL OFFICES AND FACTORIES I TELEPHONE 2333. 44 AND 46 SHERIFF STREET. 6o CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. TELEPHONE 9B3. TELEPHONE 847. JOHN DAVIN, Adamant £o. 8 and 10 WALNUT STREET. t MANUFACTURERS OF * ADAMANT WALL PLASTER. 9 LIVERY, BOARDING, t CARRIAGES, fttfl 6a$« Appliance« €xcbange, .WHOLESALE WALL PAPER. 177 EUCLID AVENUE. d^t Gas Ranges and Heating Stoves, Gas Fixtures, lnstan= J 37 and 139 BANK STREET. taneous Water Heaters, Natural Gas Supplies. TELEPHONE 1373. I R. B. GROVER & CO., Gbafer & Beefier, 0| MAKERS AND SELLERS OF THE Practical Steam and 1 Hot Water Fitters,** 1 1 6tner$on * $boe. IMMIM, >v, Y(T) i54> 156. 158 Champlain St. § ONLY CLEVELAND STORE-259 SUPERIOR ST. TELEPHONE 1088. J* FACTORY: BROCKTON, MASS. LOW PRESSURE A SPECIALTY. LARGE PIPE CUT TO ORDER, CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. 6l During the year 1881, sliding poles were first introduced in the Department, the first one being put in use at No. 6's house in March of that year. The first poles put in use were made out of wood, and on account of the heat generated by the friction when sliding down quickly, were imperfect for the purpose intended ; there fore, iron was substituted. The necessity of having some one responsible for the actions of a company at a fire, as well as in the house, had become apparent, and the question of appointing a captain for each engine company had for some time been a subject of considerable discussion. The advisability of its adoption was demonstrated by the unanimous consent of the members of the Board of Fire Commissioners at their meeting, November 25, 1881, when a committee of two was appointed, with Chief Dickinson, to define the requirements necessary for an applicant to the office ; and the Committee on Men and Discipline was authorized to report rules defining the duties of captains. At a meeting of the Board on the third of March, 1882, on motion, it was decided to create the office of lieutenant for the different companies. A committee of three, consisting of Messrs. Wagner, Gloyd and Chief Dickin son, was appointed as an examining board, to consider applications for the positions of captains and lieutenants. And at another meeting, April 15, one captain and one lieutenant for each company were appointed from the different applicants, according to their average standing at the examinations held. In passing over the events which transpired during the year 1881, we must not forget the obsequies of President Garfield; the last tribute of affection by the people of the city to the memory of the valiant soldier, the able statesman, and the choice of the people of his country to the highest public trust within their gift, and in the acceptance of which, he, through the fanatical infatuation of a madman, lost his life. In the erection of the catafalque and the draping of the public buildings in the city, the assistance of the firemen was in demand. It seemed as though a thousand men and ladders were an immediate necessity, and Chief Dickinson was constantly besieged to supply that seeming want. In order to meet the requests of the differ ent committees, his executive abilities and tact stood him in hand. With only two truck companies convenient, it was a hard matter to comply with all requests ; he. however, managed with extraordinary good nature to fix things satisfactorily. The city was crowded to its utmost capacity with strangers, and it was very for tunate that no alarm occurred during this time, as the crowded condition of the streets would have made the passing back and forth of fire apparatus a thing liable to have been attended with considerable danger and perhaps injury to some. This was remarkable, for one would naturally suppose that during so much excitement people would become careless, and fires would be more likely to occur at such times than at others. The services of Captain Wallace, of Hook and Ladder No. 1, and the men under his charge, were especially commendable. The arrangements of Colonel Hayward and Chief Dickinson to supply the many thousands of people with ice water along the whole route, from the catafalque to Lake View Cemetery, were perfect and admirably executed by the firemen, under the direction of Assistant Chief Speddy. Had not such a perfect system been established to quench thirst, no doubt 62 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. The Burrows Brothers Co,, NEW ENGLAND BUILDING. " THE FINEST BOOK STORE IN THE M <* j> jt jt WORLD. A FACT. J> j» jt j* F THE BURROWS BROTHERS CO., 133-137 EUCLID AVENUE. g^n Stop TAKING Patent medicines, and TAKE a ride on jt j* dtjtjtjtjtjt Che JJKron, Bedford ana Cleveland,** Cbe Cleveland, Painesville and Eastern RAILROAD. IT'S BETTER, CHEAPER AND QUICKER. — tiUMWr r. GERITV 64 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. ^S^S^S^S^S^S^S^S^g^! ntHE TIPTOP Rtn,,.,.. ^THB' *m .1. BETWEEN Cleveland, Canton, Zanesville AND THE SOUTH. Tickets sold and Baggage Checked through to destination. Freight forwarded with despatch. For information as to rates, telephone 2084 or 2J24. J. W. WARDWELL, Mgr., H. A. KENNEDY, Gen. Sup't, CLEVELAND, OHIO. CANTON, OHIO. H. R. MOORE, G. F. A., H. B. STEWART, G. P. A., CLEVELAND, OHIO. CANTON, OHIO. S^S&S^S^S^S&S^S^S^: The Cleveland, Berea & Elyria ^ ^^^RAILWAY COMPANY.^**^ CARS LEAVE PUBLIC SQUARE, CLEVELAND, EVERY HOUR. The Most Beautiful Scenery in Cuyahoga County is on the line of j*^^^^*?* J-SJ- -\m CLEVELAND, BEREA & ELYRIA RAILWAY. Direct Route between Cleveland, Berea and Elyria. trolley Parties a Special feature. Apply for rates to F. T. POMEROY, Gen. Mgr., 614 GARFIELD BUILDING. V,S SAMIM.^ $wi7£gfe E & u 66 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. 9@9@9@9@9@9@9Gr9m&- It "B. &. O. SYSTEM." SHORT AND ONLY DIRECT LINE BETWEEN CLEVELAND, PASSENGER AKRON and^e SERVICE CANTON^ # UNEXCELLED. through Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars Daily Between Cleveland and Chicago. :o Quick Despatch Freight A SPECIALTY. 36 HOURS NEW YORK TO CLEVELAND. 30 HOURS BALTIMORE TO CLEVELAND. City Ticket and Freight Office, J» J* J» J» J» 241 SUPERIOR STREET. Passenger Depot—Champlain and So. Water. Freight Depot—Columbus and Center. J. T. JOHNSON, L. RUSH BROCKENBROUGH, General Superintendent, Traffic Manager, CLEVELAND. OHIO. £&&G&&&&&G®&t&S&6&£ CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. 6j there would have been much suffering. At the hydrant opposite the City Hall, thirty barrels of ice water were drank. At a special meeting of the Board of Fire Commissioners, Commissioner Weid- enkopf offered a resolution expressing the appreciation of the Board to the chief and his men for the faithful discharge of duties they were called upon to perform. A new house on Pearl street, near Clark avenue, for a proposed hook and ladder company, was erected during the early part of 1882, and accepted at a meet ing of the Board of Fire Commissioners, the eighteenth of May. An apparatus had been built for it by the Fire Extinguisher Manufacturing Company, Chicago, 111., consisting of a hook and ladder truck and chemical engine combined. A full com pany did not, however, go into service until the first of June. This was the first chemical apparatus purchased by the city, though not the first used by it as a fire apparatus. In 1873, a chemical engine, built by a Mr. Steiner, had been left on trial and placed in use in the old Sixteenth Ward, at No. io's house, where it re mained for several years. The supposition of many people that the chemical compounds used in chemical engines are destructive to furniture, carpets, etc., is fallacious. The chemical en gines of to-day are necessary auxiliaries to the Department. By the judicious use of a chemical stream, many a fire has been controlled, which, from the nature of its location, would have caused considerable damage to other property had it been necessary to bring in use a heavy stream of water. The idea of combining a hook and ladder truck with a chemical engine was no doubt a novel design, and for the purposes intended has answered all expectations. On June 6, 1882, John T. Gillson, an old volunteer fireman, and from Septem ber, 1865, a member of the paid Department, died from the effects of a disease con tracted in the service. He held the position of captain of Hook and Ladder Com pany No. 2 at the time of his death, and was a good, capable fireman, a faithful and reliable officer, and one whose many good qualities endeared him to all with whom he came in contact. The rapid growth of the city and the extensive territory it was already covering was beginning to tell on the resources of the city's fire protection, and we find that requests were made from different sources for increased fire protection, which, from the insufficiency of funds, had to be ignored. The year 1883 was remarkable for its heavy floods throughout the country, and which in this city caused such destruction to property along the flats. On the second and third of February, nearly the whole flats were covered with one mass of surging water, carrying with it all things movable. Lumber piles from the different lumber yards started, and in a short time millions of feet of it were on their way out into the lake. A heavy gorge, formed from floating materials, carried away Centralway bridge. Early in the morning of February 3, during the pelting rain, a fire started in the oil refinery of Shurmer & Teagle, on Willson avenue, for which Box 69 was turned in at 6 :20 A. M. The escaping oil from this fire, carried by the high water in Kingsbury Run, a distance of nearly three miles, communicated with the works of the Standard Oil Company on Broadway, and started one of the most extensive oil fires in this city ; a fire which, in fact, at one time threatened a conflagration which might 68 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. THE CINCINNATI BREWING CO. STEAfl BOTTLING WORKS, BOTTLERS OF COOPERATIVE Muenchner Export and Pilsner Beers. CLEVELAND BRANCH: CLOTHING 120, 122 and 124 WOODLAND AVE. TELEPHONE 1825. =C0.^ 214-216 ONTARIO ST. Standard Bottling lUorks Sign of the Horse Shoe over the Door. B. and P. STOCK, Prop's. HEADQUARTERS FOR No. 59 PROSPECT STREET. FIREMEN'S Winest Liquors and Cigars* UNIFORMS BEST BRANDS IN THE CITY. l&" Complete Outfitters for Men, Women and Children. Tailoring, Clothing, Cloaks, FREE LUNCH ALL DAY. Millinery, Ladies' and Gents' Furnishings, Shoes and Hats...... COMPLIMENTS Citizen's Overcoats to Order, $15. OF- Citizen's Suits to Order, $12. Citizen's Pants to Order, • $ s. B. Stroh Brewing Company. FIRST-CLASS WORK GUARANTEED. BRANCH HOUSE: 89 Bond Street. Telephone 2546. HE CO-OPERATIVE, one of the fore most and enterprising business houses in J. M. STRITMATER, the city, is always prepared to cater to MANAGER. the wants of its customers, furnishes only first-class merchandise to its trade AT LOW EST PRICES. Money cheerfully refunded. 10 per cent, discount to Firemen in all Depart= AUGUST PFAFF, ments except Merchant Tailoring Department. VIADUCT EXCHANGE, ALL WE ASK, GIVE US A TRIAL. Restaurant and Sample Room, (6-rjrl'olite salespeople always ready to wait on you, whether you wish to purchase or not. Fine Imported and Regular Dinner Domestic Cigars, T" 25 Cents. Wines and Liquors a Specialty. IMPORTED BEER. 72 SUPERIOR STREET. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. 69 ENGINE HOUSE No. 6. 70 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. THE HOLT LUMBER CO. TELEPHONE 1926, LUMBER ^r^tim^ —>-v— Office and Salesroom, Cor. flichigan and Seneca Sts. >~4>V,>V/ hSV-.v,NV,,.-/./ ,.-/,•. v,;.v, .-/,,-. v.,."/,;•-•/,;.-/„.v.;.-/. ,V,,.V.\.V,N/ V •--/.,.-/,>-/,>•/,>-/,>"/,> V^7.,.-/., V., .',\.',^^\. ,\.',\,',^. 1^/A/,^.•'A.•',•^.',^.•',^.•',^.',\-'•1^.',',',^- ,\.•',^.•'A.•'A.•'l^,',^,','..••l\.•',': S. W. SESSIONS, President. c-vv-".: A. S. UPSON, Vice-President. IT. A. FULLER, Gen'l Mgr. and Treas. H. H. WYMAN, Secretary. UNION A^ ROLLING f\1 W MILL || CO. flIE BERNER-MAYER CO. STATION D. -83-85-87 LAKE STREET, - MAKERS OF *^BAR IRON.^ Beer Pumps, Beer Pump Apparatus AND COOLING DEVICES. Entrance to Ladies* Cafe, Diebolt Place and Bartholomay Rochester Beer Depot 239 Champlain St. Steins Diebolt ^t^PAUL SYLLA,.J* J Wholesale Dealer and Bottler. Restaurant. TELEPHONE 2000. Telephone 1048. Diebolt Place. Public Square. 233-235=237=239 Champlain St. Depot and Bottling Works, No. 76 Michigan Street, 72 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. L. C. DAVIS. C. S. BRENNER. TIM. MCDONOUGH, Davis & Brenner, DEALER IN Sample and Billiard Rooms, Wines, Liquors and Cigars, 160 Superior St., Opp. Bank- TELEPHONE 1248. A Fine Line of LIQUORS and CIGARS. Restaurant in Connection. 728 Detroit Street. S. BUHRER, George S. Stettenfeld, ^$N^^^ If Table and Mineral FINEST N^^^^^ll Waters and Ginger pPl Champagne. Rye and Bourbon Che Old PROPRIETOR OF Hermitage BUHRER'S Whiskies, ^^t^t Rye a For Family and I GENTIAN Medicinal Use. Specialty.... [%&*&&>>.?& BITTERS. <*ir - •,. ESTABLISHED 1855. 64 and 66 Merwin St. Tel. 607. 277 SENECA STREET. TELEPHQ NE1611. Joseph Beltz, The UNION BREWING Co. BREWERS OF Pure malt ^MUeiss Beer Brewery, Eager Beer, 223 ©utbwaite Uvc, COR. ASH AND TRAIN STS. Corner SLATER STREET. THPU>OHEMIAN TELEPHONE 2408. Tr,EDREWING CO., 1031-1033 PEARL STREET, 121 VEGA AVENUE. cbc Jacob mall Brewing go. j^^^M^^TELEPHONE 1699. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. 73 have destroyed millions of dollars worth of property. Despite the scarcity of fire apparatus and the poor condition of some of the engines, the Department managed, after fifty hours of unceasing labor and hairbreadth escapes, to confine its limits within bounds of security as far as other property was concerned. Some of the companies had to stay in the water up to their waists hour after hour, and it was only by the utmost exertion and efficient management that this fire was brought within control. The safety of the more important works of the Standard Oil Company and of that part of the city lying directly south of it depended upon the success of keeping the flames from spreading beyond the New York, Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad embankment, either by overflowing or by means of the large culvert east of Broadway. The loss on this fire to the Standard Oil Company was $180,000. On the twenty-seventh of the same month, Meyers, Osborn & Company's stove foundry burned, causing a loss of $59,000. During the night of April 9, Taylor & Boggis' foundry on Centralway was burned down, with a loss of $32,556.91 ; and on the nineteenth, at 1 :35 A. M., a fire broke out in Davidson & House's planing mill and lumber yard on Scranton avenue, consisting of very inflammable material. The fire had gained control of the main part of the building and adjoining lumber piles before an alarm was turned in, and Chief Dickinson immediately made a call for four more engines. By per sistent efforts, it was got under control in a few hours. The total loss was $38,739.19. On May 26, C. Scofield's Works on Lowe and Oxford streets burned, with a loss of $31,180.41. These were the most conspicuous fires during the year. We now come to the year 1884, a year that no doubt will be remembered on account of the many incendiary fires, some of which required not only the whole strength of this Department, but the much-needed assistance received from neighbor ing cities. On the evening of the second of January, a fire started in the Republic Refining Company's works, which, from the inclemency of the weather, made the duty of those who had to attend it a more than unpleasant task, giving some of the companies a whole night's job. The loss on this fire was $15,000. On the morning of the fifth, about 8 :22 A. M., the new Park Theatre (now the Lyceum) was found in flames. The fire originated in the basement and in all probability was the result of escaping gas, which in some way got ignited. An alarm was at once turned in, and four engines and Hook and Ladder Company No. 1 responded. On the arrival of the Department, four more steamers were immedi ately called, and in a short while, two more truck companies, Nos. 2 and 3, and the atrial ladder, were at the scene of action. The fire spread rapidly from the base ment to the stage and auditorium above, in spite of the streams of water that were thrown upon it. The flames did not communicate to the front portion of the building at all, except in the theatre entrance and the offices upstairs, the stores on the first floor being entirety free from smoke or fire. The inflammable stage scenery gave the devouring element a new impetus. The chief efforts of the Department were then directed to confine the flames to the theatre alone, and this was a work that required heroic exertions, for the wind was blowing from the northwest and fanned the flames into a fury. After a hard- 74 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. • T>-'- »•<•• J A OF Fast Express Trains in each CHICAGO direction daily, made up of the BUFFALO PEERLESS most modem "high back seat" t coaches and luxurious through NEW YORK I TRIO vestibuled sleeping cars between BOSTON t t Jilt Unexcelled 7 t Dining J c Car Service. t The reason why I travel by the noted NICKEL PLATE Their diners really can't be matched by any road I know; In plain and simple language I can very quickly state: They run their trains at safety speed, quite free from all They always show their purpose is the traveling man to delays, please— And make connections in a way that's worthy of all praise C Their coaches are embodiments of comfort and of ease; And this is how in simple form my reasons I relate, Their sleepers are the finest that the latest art can show; Why I'm a constant patron of the famous NICKEL PLATE. A. W. JOHNSTON, General Supt., B. F. HORNER, Gen'l Pass. Agent, CLEVELAND, OHIO. CLEVELAND, OHIO. t j •<*• ome of the Good The Cleveland Stone Co., Largest Producers of Sand GENERAL OFFICES : The Cleveland Varnish Co. CLEVELAND, OHIO, ^liTTrA I a E c JOHN f. HtBK 76 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. The Chas. Koebler, dr., Undertaking Co. Invalid Carriage ana Ambulances. 369 WOODLAND AVE., Telephone 1881. 470 PROSPECT ST. Telephone 611. Forest City Monumental Works. DIENER &CO, 367 Woodland Ave., Bet, Perry and Chapel Sts. monuments in Granite and marble. Office Open Sunday Afternoon After 1 O'Clock. ^\ .TELEPHONE-/8/6 • AH&U WiCE& fiFo'jC.^tfir^- cv W. A. PRICE, Pres't. B. J. SPITZIQ, Treas. Monuments Statuary Mausoleums W. HI. REESE, Sec'y. B. H. KINKELAAR, Sales Mgr. Cleveland Burial Case Co., Manufacturers of J. P. SEARS, UNDERTAKERS' HARDWARE, "Wood Finished, Cloth Covered and Metal Lined Caskets, GRANITE WORK OF Robes and Linings, and Dealers in all Kinds of Undertakers' Supplies. EVERY DESCRIPTION OFFICE AND WAREROOMS : Con Willow and Center Streets. FOR CEMETERY AND BUILDING PURPOSES. J. BROGGINI & BROS., J. S. SMITH, Manager. ^-—Westerly Granite Works, CLEVELAND BRANCH: 2737 EUCLID AVENUE. 1254-56 Woodland Ave. Telephone Doan 489. SCULPTORS AND BUILDERS OF QUARRIES AND WORKS: STATUARY AND MONUMENTS QUINCY, MASS. Of the Highest Order. (//YMfiTA/rffiS % £/13MAf£JS>$ CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. 79 ENGINE HOUSE No. 7. 8o CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. JOHN H. MELCHER, Dotice! In all cases of Ladies' and Funeral Director Children deaths, my Wife will assist in taking care of and preparing them for and Embalrner, burial. She will also take 533 Central Avenue. full charge of the dressing and decorating and the mak TELEPHONE 3521. ing of the robes, if desired. HOGAN & SHARER, JACOB H. BROWN, FUNERAL DIRECTORS AMBULANCE ON RUBBER TIRE WHEELS<*<*& ndertaker. 1\1 Superior Street. 201 Prospect Street. TELEPHONE 381. • +'— TELEPHONE 1739. ADOLPH R. NUNN, JNO. I. NUNN, UNDERTAKER. 1097-1099 LORAIN STREET. TELEPHONE 2507. Ambulance in Connection. TELEPHONE 1547. DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF FUENITUEE. A. V. HORAK, funeral Director GENERAL UNDERTAKER, ana embalrner. 1323=1325 Clark Avenue. Embalming the Dead a Specialty. Carriages furnished for all Occasions. 559 Woodland Avenue- /€>.. 17f'/*(i/ E -t E. COMPANY 1 1^-S, /^-^>*^*^C LtVCLAND. /ILBERT^TEK *'^ 82 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. Your money's Worm or pioney Back." ft. E. MORGAN. R. H. MORGAN THAT'S Morgan Steam Heating Co. THE PRINCIPLE WE WORK ON. STEAM HEATING t HOT WATER HEATING TUB Cleveland Dry Boons Company, STEAM FITTING Cleveland's Popular Department Store, 120=122=124 ONTARIO STREET. Telephone 1896. 30 South Water St. The Cleveland Wire Spring Co. Helman-Taylor WASON AND HAMILTON STREETS. MANUFACTURERS OP Furniture, Bed, Car and Carriage Seat, Agri cultural Machine and I PUBLISHERS, SPKCIAI, SPRIXGS. j : BOOKSELLERS, High-Tempered Steel and Bessemer Grades. '"' STATIONERS, \X7 T T? T-T of all descriptions VV x XV LL straightened and cut to any desired length. Nos. 168-174 Euclid Avenue. Represented by W. A. COMSTOCK. New York Office, London, Eng., Paris, France, 94 Reade St. 158 Queen Victoria St. 68 Rue de Marais. P.J.TURNBULL The Standard Tool Co. 410 Pearl St., cor. Franklin Ave. CLEVELAND, O., U. S. A. TELEPHONE 1440. MANUFACTURERS OF Increase Twist Drills, Reamers^Taps, LUMBER AND^ I| GAS-FITTER Drill Chucks and Sockets, Milling Cutters, GAS FIXTURES. Spring Cotters and Flat Keys. GAS STOVES. Standard Patent Twist Drill Grinding Machine. Gas Stoves Connected Free. S. C. MORRIS, President. The Standard Lighting Go. The 0 hio Baking Co. /TN MANUFACTURERS OF FINE BREADS, Manufacturers of Superior Vienna Bread The New Process (las Range, CAKES, ETCst The New Process Vapor Stove, The New Process Oil Heater, The Globe Incandescent Lamp, Oil and Gasoline Torches. No. 768 SUPERIOR STREET. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. 83 the Stanley Lard Oil and Candle Works were soon adding their mite, in the shape of their whole works, to one of the grandest illuminations this city has ever wit nessed. In the meantime, Chief Dickinson had already asked for assistance from the neighboring cities. When the fire spread to the N. Y. P. & O. freight depot, strenuous efforts were made to check its further progress in that direction. Engine Company No. 2, having changed their line from one of the lumber yard alleys, got their stream to bear on it. In order to stand the heat, however, a continuous stream of water was showered on them by No. 10, and they succeeded in saving this build ing from any further loss. Various city officials were conspicuous in their efforts to do all in their power, Mayor Farley himself being in the hottest of the fight. Fire Commissioners Weidenkopf, Shannon and Hartzell were equally as industrious and untiring in their willingness to help the firemen in their arduous task. The different chiefs bent all their energies in utilizing the strength of the different com panies to the best possible advantage. The continual change in positions, the des perate efforts made to hold the ground taken, and the fearful heat and sometimes stifling smoke, called forth all the stamina possessed by the firemen, and several were overcome by the heat, many had their hands and faces scorched, and some received injuries, though fortunately no one was seriously hurt. The first engine to arrive in response to the call for aid was Engine Company No. 1 from the Elyria Department. This engine was placed on a flatboat and worked up and down the river in heat that was almost unbearable. Another engine from the Painesville Department was soon at the scene of action, and got its fine work in at Hubbell & Westover's lumber yard, to which the fire jumped about 12 o'clock. All the available force was brought to bear on this point, and with such good results that after crossing one of the alleys it was stopped. Looking down on the burning ruins from the heights, Monday noon, a weird spectacle presented itself. The eye, accustomed to familiar sights, sought them in vain. Of Woods, Perry & Company's large mill, nothing remained but the tall smokestack and a few crumbling walls ; the towering lumber piles of the different lumber yards, which had covered acres of ground, were now piles of smouldering cinders; here and there scattered remnants of freight cars, skeleton trains on tracks and switches twisted into all conceivable shapes. Everything, in fact, south- from the river between Scranton avenue and the C. C. C. & I. R. R. tracks, was a deso late pyre of smouldering embers, a barren waste, the remnant of the accumulated wealth of years of industry and hard work. The fire on the north side of the river did not succeed in doing much damage after the destruction of the Stanley Works. The danger to other properties was great. Many buildings along the river were on fire at different times, and were only prevented from becoming a prey to the flames by the exertions of the employes of the different firms who occupied them. The Handyside flour and feed establishment on Ontario street was caught burning four different times, and only for its proprie tors' lively work would have burned down. In fact, buildings all over the city were in danger from the numerous sparks, which were only prevented from setting roofs on fire by the vigilance of their owners. It is sad to think that from a false-notioned economy so much property should 84 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. Haserofs Canned Goods *"*r°*ff^» .^n^^n~^vnr. Are Guaranteed—those Bearing Our Name. If the can bears our name, it is the kind you want. If not, reject it Your Grocer can get ours, if you Insist. THE HASEROT COMPANY. Factories: Salesoffice and Warehouse: FORESTV1LLE, N. Y., 39. 4i and 43 WOODLAND AVE., OOWANDA, N.Y., CLYDE, O. CLEVELAND, O. WILLIAM EDWARDS & CO., 137, 139 and HI Water St. 318, 320, 322, 324 Spring St. Directors: JOHN C. WEIDEMAN, ERNST J. SILLER, CHRISTIAN MARTEN, The Weideman Company, HENRY W. WEIDEMAN, GEO. W. BARNES. Wholesale Grocers. P. C. O'BRIEN, Geo. P. Herman, GROCERIES, Successor to (| PROVISIONS, JOHN ROCK & CO. I GROCER FRUITS, ********** v- VEGETABLES. TELEPHONE 250. ft AND BAKER. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. Cor. Woodland and Willson Aves. Prospect St., near Ontario. BELL AND HOME TELEPHONES. Agent WELLS, FARGO & CO. EXPRESS. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. «5 ENGINE HOUSE No. S. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. HOOK AND LADDER HOUSE No. 5- S.RtEVE (A^jrtfcd) t&f. 88 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. FIRST-CLASS WORK GUARANTEED. PHONE 3182 PALACE STEAM LAUNDRY. Your gjorR Promptly Called for and Delivered. M. STEINHOFF, Prop. A Trial Respectfully Solicited. 1225 EUCLID AVENUE. H.G. GUENTZLER, (LIED'S GARDEN.) IMPORTED Wines, Liquors and Cigars 1485 WILLSON AVENUE. PH. GAENSSLEN, President. AUG. J. TIEDEMANN, Sec. and Treas. HENRY BOEHMKE, Vice-Pres. and Mgr. GOTTI,. KDEBLER, Brewmaster. rPboenix Brewing Co. TELEPHONE 98 LEW WILBUR, Prop. Che elite Restaurant. 29J-293 SENECA STREET. H5-H7 CHAMPLAIN ST. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. 89 be sacrificed ; it is sadder still to know that even after this heavy loss there should be found people indifferent to future risks from the possible repetition of another con flagration, which might prove even more sweeping in its extent, and perhaps fraught with a sacrifice of untold human lives. The cost of lire protection should not be a consideration of "how many dollars and cents expended," but, "how many lives and how much property are pro tected." It becomes a criminal negligence, when people vested with the power of catering to a city's immediate and absolute wants, fail to comply with the needful demand for increased fire protection. Had this city had adequate means at hand in the shape of a few more engines, and those in use reliable when set to work, plenty of water hydrants with mains of sufficient size to furnish a needful supply of water on the fiats, and a fire boat on the river, with pumps like the Weatherly, this fire would have been of insignificant loss. The wisdom of calling on the militia at a time like Sunday night cannot be doubted, and Mr. Bayne's covtrse in ordering the Fifth Regiment under arms at a time when Superior street and other portions of the city were in such danger, was commended on all sides. Had the fire spread, as at one time seemed probable, unless some body of men had been on hand to protect property and keep back the crowd, pillaging and loss of life would have been the result. The police, though earnest in their efforts, could not have spread themselves over a sufficient space to protect all, and only the militia could do what was so much needed, guard life and property. The Board of Trade met the day after the fire, and adopted the following resolutions : Resolved, That the Board of Trade takes this occasion to express its hearty approval of the heroic and efficient manner in which the Fire Department managed the great conflagration last night, doing all that brave and experienced men could do to save property and prevent the spread of this unprecedented disaster with the means at their command. Resolved, That the Board of Trade respectfully but earnestly calls the attention of the City Council to this most important subject, and through it the Board of Fire Commissioners, and asks them to increase the fire apparatus and strength of this Department, Resolved, That a vote of thanks be,and the same is, hereby extended to the chiefs of the fire departments of those neighboring cities who so promptly responded to our call for aid in the hour of our distress. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be forwarded to the chiefs of the fire departments of Toledo, Erie, Youngstown, Akron, Columbus, Sandusky, Elyria, Painesville, Norwalk, Delaware, Ashtabula and to our City Council. The following were the losses sustained, with insurance on same : LOSSES. INSURANCE. Woods, Perry & Company $400,000 $ 48,800 C. G. King & Company 170,000 127,000 Potter, Birdsall & Company 100,000 88,000 Variety Iron Works 60,000 28,500 Davidson & House 60,000 37,000 Damage to docks • 9° CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. De KLYN'S EDWARD WEISGERBER, 167 EUCLID AVENUE. FINE CHOCOLATES AND BON BONS Restaurants ICE CREAM, ICES AND Cakes, Pastries, Breads, Ice Creams, FINE CAKES. Water Ices, Fruit ~Puddmgs.JtJ*J*Jt PURVEYING FOR PARTIES. Ice Cream Soda. BLUM BROTHERS, THE G. N. CHANDLER CO., WHOLESALE DEALERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF Bakers', Confectioners', Hotel and Ice Cream Makers' Supplies. Grocers Baking Powder and Flavoring Extracts. and Confectioners' Glucose, Bakers' Troughs and Importers. Peels, Diamond Brand Cooking Oil, New Orleans Molasses a Specialty. A full line of Bakers' and Confectioners' Tools, Machinery, Ice Cream Freezers, Etc., Etc. We make a Specialty of Fine Imported and Domestic Cigars. 66 Woodland Ave., TELEPHONES 1131 AND 1236. Opp. Cleveland Baking Co. ?F ?F $ TELEPHONE 2808. J 39 and 141 Euclid Ave. INSIST UPON HAVING The J. Nussdorfer Standard Baking Go.'s BREAD, PIES AND CAKES. ALWAYS IN THE LEAD. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. ENGINE HOUvSE No. 9. e^n&,\u pfcWEY 94 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. THE CENTURY MANUFACTURING CO., MANUFACTURERS OF Cbe "2otb Century" Steel Shell, Copper Lined, and Cbe "Century" Galvanized Steel, Enameled Bath Tubs. PHONE 33M. End of Perkins' Place. THOS- MANNING, JR. & CCX, BUILDERS OF Steam Fire Engines Simple, Light, Powerful. Fire Pumps For Land and Floating Stations. FIRE ENGINES OF ALL MAKES REPAIRED AND REBUILT. 0?P er R. C. ALLEN, Hubbell & Westover $ 15,000 $ 5,000 .Stanley estate 10,000 21,000 Howells Coal Company 3.000 1,400 Eynon & Son 1,500 8,500 Sherwin, Williams & Company 500 5,000 Phosphate Company 800 1,000 Yates & Company 250 2,500 Kelly Island Lime Company 200 Total 1801,250 $373,ooo On Sunday, the twenty-first of September, at n o'clock in the forenoon, the stillness of the Sabbath was disturbed by the ringing of fire bells and the clanking of heavy fire apparatus on its way to Monroe Bros. & Company's lumber yard, where the flames were already bursting forth from several lumber piles. The quick re sponse and lively work of the Department had this fire subdued in a couple of hours, and some of the companies were in the act of taking up their lines of hose, when a dense smoke and forked tongues of flames were seen issuing forth from Monroe Bros. & Company's storehouse, some distance away from the original fire. While active preparations were on foot to meet this emergency, black clouds of smoke were seen to rise towards the sky in the direction of Browne, Strong & Company's lum ber yard. Again, the nearly exhausted firemen had to bend all their energies in an other direction. The flames spread with rapidity and the city was once more under the necessity of calling for outside help. In a remarkably short time, thirteen com panies, by the prompt aid of railroad and telegraph companies, had responded, and were at the command of Chief Dickinson. They were from Akron, Elyria, Paines- ville, Ashtabula, Sandusky, Lorain, Oberlin, Clyde, Delaware, Galion, Columbus, Toledo and Fremont. Of these, only four, Akron, Elyria, Painesville and Ashta bula, were brought into action. Some of the others were stationed at different en gine houses, ready to respond to any alarm that might occur in other parts of the city. All were anxious to go to work to assist in stemming the sea of fire, but the flames were sufficiently under control to render this unnecessary. The same fa tiguing work as at the other fire was the characteristic feature of this. The at times un bearable heat and smoke, with every stitch of clothing wet through and through with water, hands and faces scorched from the blinding heat,was the order throughout the whole. After the fire was over, the efficient work of the Department was apparent. As an offset to the other burned district, where nothing but piles of ashes remained, here remnants of half-burned lumber piles were to be seen everywhere. The losses on this fire were as follows : Monroe Bros. & Company's lumber yard arid store house, $29,800; Browne, Strong & Company's lumber, $81,297.15. On the twenty-seventh of the same month, another fire originated in the Cleve land Saw Mill Company's yard, which, however, was brought under control in a short while, with a loss of $11,756.56. Too much praise cannot be bestowed upon the firemen who responded to the city's call for aid from other towns. Their anxiety to immediately get to work on their arrival showed the true characteristic of the American firemen throughout the country. With the exception of Brocket Paint Company's brick block, which caused a 96 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. 'PHONE 1708. I. T. and GEO. H. . dohn Meckes, BOWMAN & CO,/ DRY GOODS, CARPETS, DRAPERIES AND MILLINERY. IMPORTED, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL 55I , 553, 555 PEARL, COR. CARROLL AND MCLEAN STS. CHINA, CROCKERY, The Williams & Rodgers Co., GLASSWARE AND SUPERIOR, SENECA AND LONG STS., Estimates for Furnishing LAMP GOODS.^^^ Hotels and Boats on Short Notice, at Very Low Prices. DRY GOODS, CARPETS, 16, J8 AND 20 EUCLID AVE. FURNITURE, CURTAINS, CROCKERY AND HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS 'Phone J07. Carpet Dept. 'Phone J J60. Strauss Bros. & Miller, J. H. SHAW, DEALER IN DRY GOODS, MILLINERY, CLOAKS, ^\ LADIES' FURNISHINGS, ETC. F. STRAUSS, Nos. 49, 51 and 53 Euclid Ave. I. STRAUSS, H. C. MILLER, W. H. FOURNIBR. 93 and 95 Euclid Avenue. I. L. FULDHEIM. M. E. FULDHEIM. Buckeye Woolen Co., IMPORTERS AND FULDHEIM'S JOBBERS OF Woolens and Tailors' Trimmings, *^?ine footwear,*^ Cor. St. Clair and Bank Sts. 'THE POPULAR." 52 and 54 Euclid Ave. Sample Business a Specialty. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. 97 ENGINE HOUSE No. 10. 98 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. The Garlock-Frazee Laundry Co. 3642 Sheriff St. Telephone 2092. WM. DOWNIE, WALL PAPER, HOUSE AND SIGN PAINTING, fiand KlorR Dep't. HARDWOOD FINISHING. "THE FRONTENAC Old Work Done as New. Telephone 82. Try It. Neck Bands and Repairs. J 65 PROSPECT STREET. MA-!£E£>s CHARLES FRIES. CHRISTIAN SCHUELE. Chestnut and McWhorter Sts. 300 South Fourth St, NEWARK, N. J. ST. LOUIS. FRIES & SCHUELE, Importers, Jobbers and Retailers Itturpby Uarnisb Co. DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, Uarnisbes and Colors, FANCY GOODS,^^^^ 575, 577, 579, 58/ No. 140 Pearl Street, 22nd & Dearborn St. PEARL STREET. BOSTON. CHICAGO. C. K. SUNSHINE. I. KAUFMAN. F. F. STRANAHAN, Manager. Stranahan Sunshine $ Kaufman, Brothers MANUFACTURERS OF Ladies' and Children'Children'ss Co* CLOAKS (D) atevcv&,•-••••ill .^~.* SUITS. Confectioners, Bakers. 82 and 84 BANK ST. THE ARCADE J. Landesman,~Pres. I. Levi, 1st Vice-Pres. W.BUSCHMAN&CO. F. Hirschheinier, 2nd Vice-Pres. Ben I^owensteiii, Treas. Harry New, Secretary. -DEALERS IN- CARPETS^ <*<*<* OIL CLOTHS, .*.* LACE CURTAINS lie Lanaesman. Hirscnneimer Co. AND DRAPERIES. MANUFACTURERS OF Also manufacturers of and dealers in All Kinds of Furniture. Ladies' and Misses' Cloaks, 214-216 SUPERIOR STREET. Telephone 1016. COR. WATER & ST. CLAIR STS. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. IOI loss of $17,000, the other fires for the remaining part of the year were hardly wor thy of note. The lesson learned by the city from the year's experience was fruitful of one result, namely, the setting aside of money and the contracting for more lire ap paratus. During the month of October, $25,000 was appropriated from the Sinking Fund to pay for five new engines. A like sum was also appropriated for a fire boat, for the building of which, plans and specifications were drawn and submitted ; but, from appearances, some of our wise legislators seemed to be opposed to this latter transac tion, and the building of that much-needed boat was merely talk, or so much chaff in a whirlwind. In the early part of the year, a new Hayes Extension Ladder Truck, built by the LaFrance Fire Engine Company, had been purchased and went in service at No. i's house. The notable feature of this apparatus is its long exten sion ladder, the bottom of which is secured to a stationary pivot or turntable on the front part of the truck. When needed, the hind part, or rather the top of the lower section, is raised by gearing, and when high enough to clear the braces on which it rests when in a horizontal position on the truck, can be turned in any direction, and whilst thus operated, men standing on the turntable can elevate the upper section to the desired height of a building, not exceeding eighty-five feet, this being the limit of its reach. A new engine company also went in service November 20, and was located on Muirson street. The engines contracted for were as follows: PRICE. WEIGHT. CAPACITY. Silsby's make, 1 first-class $4,230 7,800 1,000 Silsby's make, 2 second-class 3>995 7,200 800 Clapp & Jones' make, 1 first-class 5,000 7,900 1,000 Clapp & Jones'make, 1 second-class 4,35o 7,400 800 Henry C. Harmon, a member of Engine Company No. 12, a victim of the cold and exposure of the Park Theatre fire, died from the effects of inflammatory rheu matism, from which he suffered untold agonies until his death, January 14. He left a wife and two children. The second of the three Silsby engines, contracted for in 1884, arrived during the month of February, 1885, and was tested on the sixth of that month. On being accepted by the Board of Fire Commissioners, the engine was placed in service at Fire Station No. 15, on Muirson street. The last of the three steamers ordered from the Silsby Manufacturing Company arrived and was tried February 18. This steamer was the extra No. 1 size, with a water capacity of 1,000 gallons per minute, her net weight being 7,800 pounds. When tested, a distance of 233 feet, with a solid body of water through a two-inch nozzle, was obtained, beating the best previous records by thirty-six feet, showing the remarkable strides of advancement made in the building of fire engines. This engine made the sixteenth steamer purchased by the city of Cleveland from the Silsby Company. The two engines ordered from Clapp & Jones did not arrive until March, on the twenty-third of which month they were both tried at the reservoir on the corner of Lake and Wood streets. 102 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. ESTABLISHED 1882. CAPACITY, 100,000 TONS. The American Wire Company, manufacturers of \JJ\ft R0(1$ m Draw* $ Iron and Steel Wire of Every Description. SPECIALTIES: Screw, Rivet, Bolt, Telegraph, ^lire Straightened and Telephone, Screen Wire, Galvanized, Tinned and Coppered Wire, gut to Ccngtbs. High Grade and Fine Quality Wire. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. IO3 ENGINE HOUSE No. 11. 104 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. '^'•••-:';-:'-,-C'--K'.,-'-.l-~'-; "W"/,; "'.,•"',;.-/„ v,;.v,;,-/-.v„.v,;. v-.v,; .v,sv. 7l\7,,71;.7;.-/'-7'.y,.vAV J. C. WILLIAMS, Pres't. W. L. NUTT, Vice-Pres't. J. S. WILLIAMS, Treas. and Gen'l Mgr. GEO. B. MERRELL, Sec. ;•-; M | The Standard the forest City || Car Wheel Company, Wire and Tron Co., v. -: MANUFACTURERS OF Iron and Steel Buildings, Manufacturers of Engine, Car and Roof Trusses, Girders Mining Wheels... and Structural Work. WIRE AND GRILLE WORK OF ALL KINDS. ELEVATOR ENCLOSURES %-, '0 C. A. BRAYTON, Pres't. IRON STAIRS, JAIL WORK |S i?< W. B. BRAYTON, Sec'y and Treas'r AND FENCES- « g{ W. L,. BOWLER, Sup't. OFFICE AND WORKS: kV/-<'/-<'/.N'y,<'/.-i'/^'A^.^.^i\/'^i>,^ KfiSJfr.'WWv Ramsey St. & L. S. & M. S. R'y. NEWELL BROTHERS, Gas and.*.*.*.)* Gasoline Engines. Cbe obeille Pattern Co. The Largest Pattern Works in the World.jtjtj&jt^tjt^tj* <£<£ Real estate-*^ OFFICE AND WORKS: 26K SOUTH WATER ST. J'i L. V/KNdi- a. E co (Unf^'l : 11 v o io6 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. Established 1834. Incorporated 1892. CAPITAL STOCK $200,000. BCClTla n S, THE ORIGIN AL The Forman-Bassctt-Hafch Co., Pepsin Shewing Gum, Commercial Lithographers, Blank Book Manufacturers, MANUFACTURED BY Printers and Stationers. The Beeman Chemical Co. J. C. FORMAN, Pres't. C. D. HATCH, Vice-Pres't. A Delicious Remedy For Indigestion, C. O. BASSETT, Sec'y and Treas. Beware of Imitations. The B. Dreher's Sons Co., J. C. WILMOT. WALL PAPER, Pianos Interior Decorations, Room Mouldings. and^ Estimates Furnished. 7 PUBLIC SQUARE. Organs, TELEPHONE 2 109 PAINT SUPPLIES. Oil and Turpentine, Var nishes and Brushes, Mixed 371 and 373 Superior Street. Paint and White Lead, Lad ders, Etc. 84 MICHIGAN ST. 29 and 129 Arcade. TELEPHONE 1806. ESTABLISHED IN 1834. B. G. Treniaiue, Pres. H. L. Taylor, Sec. B. Schatzinger, Vice-Pres. L. Poplowsky, Treas. FARNAN BRASS WORKS, The Cleveland MANUFACTURERS OF Gas and Electric Fixture Companyf ^rass Castings MANUFACTURERS OF and Tine 6a$ and electric fixtures, fteass toads Art Metal Work, &c. Stamping, Spinning, Casting, For Steam Fitters, Plumbers and Engine Builders. Factor}', cor. Bond and Rockwell Sts. Sole Manufacturers of Farnan's Patent Stop and Waste Cocks, SA'.ESROOM, MASONIC TEMPLE BUILDING, Street Washers, Hydrants, Oil Pumps, Etc. 396-398 Superior Street. Office and Works: 23, 25 and 27 CENTER STREET. TELEPHONE 203S. Babcock, Hurd & Co., The D. L. Scheier Furniture Co., MANUFACTURERS OF ALL KINDS OF Upholstered Furniture. Parlor Suites. Lounges, Couches, Etc. Leather Work a Specialty, jtjtjtjtjt Office and Salesroom, 64 and 66 Chestnut St. J 02-104-106 Factory, J47 to J57 Muirson St. WATER STREET. TELEPHONE 2022. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. 107 Two chemical engines, built by the Fire Extinguisher Manufacturing Company, Chicago, went in service the nineteenth of November, one taking the place of the old Steiner apparatus at No. 2's house, and the other stationed at No. 4's house on the West Side. They were each supplied with one 80-gallon revolving tank and 250 feet of one-inch chemical rubber hose. The bottle containing the acid was so fixed that when needed for service at a fire, the turning over of the tank would re lease the stopper of said bottle, thus allowing the acid to mingle with the water and soda already in the tank, thereby generating a pressure of nearly 250 pounds to the square inch. They were also supplied with axes, door-openers and other parapher nalia needed at fires. The need of this apparatus had been advocated a long time by Chief Dickinson, and its useful services have, been practically demonstrated too many times to need further mention here. The introduction daring the year of hose wagons, in place of hose reels, was another new feature, and, like all new arrange ments, was looked upon with disfavor by many at first. The numerous alarms during the year to which the Department responded showed the activity and tension of its work, and though there were no heavy lumber-yard fires to swell the list of fire losses, there were other properties which from various causes became food for the flames, and at times required all the judgment and skill possessed by the Department, and in the exercise of which, the lives of many of its members were often jeopardized. The first fire of any note that occurred during the year was the fire which broke out in the Stillman House early Sunday morning, April 12. No. 14's company, situated in the rear, and close to the Stillman House, was notified, and Cap tain McGloo, who was on watch at the time, turned in Box 29. In a few seconds that company was on the ground. Engine Company No. 3, the chemical engine from No. 2's house and Truck 1 were the other companies besides No. 14 which responded to this alarm, and their arrival was only a matter of very short time. Assistant Chief Wallace, who also responded to this box, arrived in a couple of minutes, and immedi ately called for more engines. Chief Dickinson made another call, and soon eight steamers had powerful streams playing on the fire from the most serviceable points. The fire, which originated in the southwest corner of the attic, had gained consider able start before being noticed. As the attic, or seventh story, was entirely of frame, having a wooden floor and wooden partitions, it is easy to understand why it did not require but a very short time before nearly the whole upper portion was one mass of flames. In place of laths, a wire screen was used to back the plaster. The roof- bracing was of iron, but the supports and rafters were heavy timbers, and there were reasonable grounds to believe that the roof would fall in before the fire was under con trol. Both the assistant chiefs, Rebbeck and Speddy, had a narrow escape from being crushed by the fall of the terra-cotta ceiling, which came down with a crash in the southernmost part of the sixth floor. Some of the fire dropped down through the ven tilators and started a fire on the fourth floor, which, however, was put out with a few dashes from No. 5's stream. Of the many streams that were used, six were taken up inside, and gradually fought their way through heat and smoke. Two went up from the outside, No. 2's line being carried up on the Hayes extension ladder to the sixth story, and thence to the burning attic on short ladders. No. 5's company went up on the serial ladder, which was standing between the Stillman and Colonel Harris' io8 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. American •f^ Registers, Ventilators, Etc. t 132 Water Street. TELEPHONE 275 1. The Cleveland y (% Scofield,* <& «$ *$ Refining Co., Shurmer \ Teagle, 6 Water White PROPRIETORS OF Diamond Cigbt Great Western Oil Works. Carbon Oil A SPECIALTY. -REFINERS OF REFINERS MANUFACTURERS Petroleum ana its Products. OF OF BRANCHES: 1 CHICAGO, ^Petroleum** Eubricating Oils, *$&,_ ST. LOUIS, KANSAS CITY, ,Vy,NV,>. V,N V.VV, VV, > V.J.V, XV, VY.NV. N v,vv,>v, OMAHA, WILLSON AVENUE ST. JOSEPH, and its Naphtha and AND ERIE R. R. DES MOINES, INDIANAPOLIS, Products. Gasoline. DETROIT, GRAND RAPIDS, KALAMAZOO, JACKSON, OFFICE AND WORKS: BATTLECREEK. COR.BESSEMER AVE. AND ATLANTIC ST. (®(./ttf<*l>likt<. MENRY C^fffr^ "E•' I 12 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. THE TROPICAL OIL COMPANY, GEO. R. CANFIELD, Pres. LOUIS CARRUTH, Sec'y. CASE, NUTT & CO., Prop's. C. 0. BARKWILL, Treas. Refiners and Manufacturers I Finest Engine, Cylinder, Machinery, Castor THE CHdFIELD OIL C0J1PJNY, | Machine and White Castor Machine SI-OILS.-^ TRADE MARK, SPECIALTIES IN Petroleum Products, Special Commercial Fine Oils for all Castor Oil. Purposes. t Cliocene Burning Oil. Registered. TELEPHONE 2036. HENRY C. MYKRS, Pres't. THOS. FII.MER, V-Pres't. ftrt Filtered Cylinder Stocks, 1 he Mohawk JKefining Co., Cylinder Oils, Engine Oils, Office and Refiners and Manufacturers of Mineral Gelatine, Manufactory: Highest Viscosity Engine Castor Machinery Oils, and Dynamo Oils Ivory Black Harness Oil, Willson Ave. Petrolatum, Perfection in Quality. Electer Axle Grease, antM^ Highest Fire Test Cylinder Oils. Rolling Mill Greases, N.Y.P.&O.R. 9 Specialties. The Greatest Discovery Since 1492, Tne MOHAWK Boiler Compound. MAIN OFFICE : IOO and 102 River Street. J fet Merit Win. CLEVELAND PETROLATUM CO., H. M. BROWN, MGR. The Planet Oil Co., Manufacturers of JL MANUFACTURERS OF Q DENSOLINE For Burns, Bruises, Etc. ^Eubricating Oils.^ All Firemen use it, and so does all the World. 201-202 SOCIETY FOR SAVINGS: CLEVELAND 767 PEARL ST. C. J- MANIX, MGR. PETROLATUM CO., Geo. C. Hascall, Pres't & Treas. C. C. Young, Vice-Pres't. Sam'l D. Wise, Sec'y. Cbe €agle Lubricating €c, THE ATLANTIC MANUFACTURERS OF Refining Co., Sight Feed Lubricators, Automatic Injectors, IVIANUFACTURERS OF Lubricating Oils, Greases Water Gauges, Etc. and Boiler Compound...... OFFICE AND WORKS: 130-132 and 134 River Street. 267 St. Clair Street. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. "3 ENGINE HOUSE No. 12. II4 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. 115 residence, to the fifth floor. As the apparatus came dashing up to the burning hotel, the form of a man was seen standing in a sixth-story window, near the center of the Euclid avenue front. The Hayes truck was drawn up in front of the portico, and the extension ladder was quickly raised, reaching within a few feet of the window. The man in the window was Mr. Harry A. Stephens. He did not like the idea of descending the slim-looking ladder, the top of which was towering ninety feet above the ground, but a fireman ran nimbly up the ladder. Thus assured, Mr. Stephens made the descent via the ladder route, although there was no occasion for his making the trip. The halls were full of smoke, but there was plenty of time for escape by the stairway. Many of the guests living on the upper floors of the hotel were compelled to va cate the premises before they had time to gather any of their valuables, such as watches and jewelry. Assistant Chief Wallace, after having recovered two gold watches and a diamond pin for one of these guests, went into another room the.sec ond time on the sixth floor, but his retreat was cut off by a mass of falling tile and glass, which, by the way, was a great source of danger to all the firemen, and his men only succeeded in rescuing him by quick work. The loss from this fire amounted to nearly $75,000. Numerous accidents and casualties happened to different members during this year. Captain James Vandeveld of Truck 5 was thrown off the truck when that apparatus was turning into the street car track on Pearl street, on coming out of the house in response to an alarm. A hind wheel of the truck ran over his left leg, breaking it near the instep and crippling him for life. Fireman Frank Smith, a member of the same com pany, was caught between the truck and the door, as it was leaving quarters in response to an alarm for a small fire near Walworth Run, on the evening of May 29. Both bones of one of his legs were broken between the ankle and knee. Captain Quarrie of Engine Company No. 3, in trying to reach for the chemical line at a fire in Mrs. M. Bradford's two-story building on Prospect street, December n, slipped on the icy roof and fell a distance of twenty-five feet, landing upon a picket fence, breaking his left leg below the knee in three places, besides injuring his back. The death of Oliver H. Hartzell, engineer of Engine Company No. 6, occurred about six o'clock in the evening on January 1. He apparently was in the best of health and spirits, and had just been home to partake of supper. On his return to the engine house, he went to the barn, where he was found a few minutes later by Fireman Schwartz, lying on his side, dead, the cause of death being heart disease. He was an old fireman, having first entered the volunteer department as a torch-boy. At the breaking out of the war, he joined the 103d Regiment, Ohio Volunteers, and in 1867 entered the paid Department. He had numerous friends, and was universally liked by everybody. He left a wife and three children. During the year 1886 the much-talked-of and much-more-needed fire boat was destined to become a reality. All the pro and con arguments, all the little prejudices and dissensions manifested during the different controversies, as regarded its equip ment with pumps, etc., were settled. The following plans and specifications had been furnished to the Board of Fire Commissioners by Mr. William Cowels, the well-known marine architect of New York, and at a special meeting of that Board, November 23, the previous year, two 116 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. Akron Hydraulic-Press Brick Co., Austin Powder Company, MAKERS OF THE "Akron" Hydraulic-Pressed Impervious Red Brick, MANUFACTURERS OF In Standard, Roman and Ornamental Shapes. Agents for the sale of Buff, Grey, Pink, Mottled, Old Gold and Different Colored Bricks, MANUFACTURED BY THE St. L,ouis, Illinois, Findlay, Eastern and New York ^QUNPOWDER.^ II Hydraulic=Press Brick Companies. E. C. Sterling, President, St. Louis, Mo.; S. S. Kimbell, Vice-President, Chicago, 111.; H. W. Eliot, Sec'y and Treas., St. I,ouis, Mo.; Wm. H. Hunt, Gen'l M'gr. and Ass't Treas., Cleveland, O.; C. A. Bliss, Ass't Sec'y, Cleveland, O. OFFICE: General Office and Exhibit Rooms: 504. 505, 506 CUYAHOGA BUILDING. 906=912 Society for Savings Building. LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE NO. 4092. Works: SOUTH PARK, O., Valley Railway. H. BLACK & CO., Tryphsna MANUFACTURERS OF €igar$ Ladies' ARE THE BEST 5c. CIGARS. and 6—BRANDS—6 H. A. B. PURITANOS, CONCHAS, Verbatim. ELEGANTE&PERFECTO, Children's Cloaks. H. A.BORSGEJR Se, OO., TELEPHONE 1326. 6AND 8 FRANKFORT ST. 77-79-81 Bank Street. Cleveland Union Cbe Cleveland Stamping $ tool Co., MANUFACTURERS; OF Stock Yards.0) ^^^^••W* "Solid-Steel" How Ware, -AND- T. F. WHITELAW, Pres't. Sheet Metal Stamping of all Kinds. ^ E. MURPHY, Sec'y and Treas. ^ AI.SO BUILDERS OF J. B. FOSTER, Sup't"^^^ DIES AND MACHINERY. J. D. COX, JR. ESTABLISHED 1874. F. F. PRENTISS. H. FRIEDMAN & GO., Cleveland Ovist Drill Co., MANUFACTURERS OF MANUFACTURERS OF Twist Drills, Self-Feeding Reamers, nit Goods, Taps, Cutters, Etc^J*^*^^^^^ Cor. Lake and Kirtland Sts. 21, 23, 25, 27 and 29 Bank Street. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. 117 ENGINE HOUSE No. 13. n8 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. c c Compliments of m. K Bradley, Western Reserve Building. $ $ N^^<^f^^<^ffi^<^(^^«^«^^jyu^ §> The Cornell & OECKENBACH J-Jabbard Co., .^@^x SONS, Jewelers « Opticians. WHOLESALE: GARFIELD BUILDING, 508 to 512 1129 and 1131 Euclid Ave. cor. Bond. St. Clair St. St. Clair St. A. T. HUBBARD, Pres't. T. S. BECKWITH, vice-Pres't. J. H. DANFORTH, Sec. & Treas. UpU^UpUpQ^)V^iV£)UpU^iV£iV£> Compliments of The Sheriff Street Market and. Storage Co.<^•<££•<£*$• • • 1<1*%> ; sz^ <^%r^ The Gibson & Price Co., Lead Pipe and Sheet Lead MANUFACTURERS. OFFICE AND WAREROOMS: 375-381 St. Clair St. FACTORY Bartholomew Rochester Choice Line of Imported 106-114 Columbus St. Beer on Draught. and Domestic Cigars. W. A. PRICE, President. i^BUOU CAFE,^t W. J. ROBERTS, Vice-President. C. CREIGHTON, Prop'r. C. I,. V. EVANS, Secretary. Fine line of Wines and Liquors. <99 St. Clair St. SAMUEL GIBSON, Superintendent. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. 121 sets of these specifications were submitted, as it was proposed to advertise for both an iron and a wooden boat. The proposed dimensions were as follows: IRON. WOOD. Length over all 78 feet o inches. 79 feet o inches. " or depth, L. W. L 71 " 6 " 70 " o Beam, moulded 22 " 2 " 22 " 2 " " over plating, or plank 22 " 2^ " 22 " 8 " " overall 22 " 11^" 23 " \Y% " Deep load draught, extreme 7 " 7 " 8 " 4 " Depth, moulded at frame 2 10 " o " 10 " o " Displacement to deep L. W. L. (fresh water) 125 tons. 136 tons. " per inch at same, " " 2.4 tons. If an iron boat, to have three water-tight bulkheads, and the bow protected by f-inch plate, tapering down to \ inch. The forward-cabin to have room for six sleeping berths and the after-cabin four. The pumping machinery to consist of two duplex double-acting pumps of the following dimensions : Steam cylinder, 16-inch diameter by io-inch stroke ; water cylinder, 8-inch diameter by io-inch stroke. The clear waterway in each pump to be for inlet not less than 40 square inches, and for outlet not less than 25 square inches. The total weight of pumps, including all pipes and connections, not to exceed 17,500 pounds. These pumps to connect with a io- inch cast iron main, formed in two parts, curved and so placed that on each side are to be the following connections : One 6-inch diameter "right-angled" valve at after end for "flooding" hose, and at side and front six 3i-inch diameter discharge gates, each with reducers to 2-J--inch diameter. The maximum duty or capacity of pumps to be 3,200 gallons per minute, deliv ered at a cylinder pressure of not less than 160 pounds, with a steam pressure of 85 pounds per square inch at pumps. One cylindrical boiler of the "Scotch" type, with a diameter of shell over all 10 feet 1 inch, and length over all 14 feet; and to be built for a working pressure of 100 pounds above atmosphere. Heating surface to be about 2,269 square feet: grate surface, about 63 square feet. The motive power to be furnished by a vertical high-pressure engine. Either boat to have the "Kun- steedter Swivelling Screw." The Board approved the plans and specifications and authorized the secretary to advertise for proposals for hull and propelling and pump ing machinery. The cost was estimated at $28,000. It was decided to have a wooden boat built, and the following contracts were awarded: Excelsior Iron Works, for hull, $18,265 ; Clapp & Jones, for pumps, $6,865. By a request from the Board of Aldermen, the contract with the firm of Clapp & Jones, for the pumps, was rescinded at a meeting of the Board of Fire Commis sioners, March 1, and the contract for the building of pumps awarded to Thomas Manning, Jr. & Company, for $5,940. In the meantime, $29,000 had been trans ferred from the Sinking Fund by the passage of House Bill No. 171, at Columbus, February 16. With the money on hand, it was not long before the different con tracts and sub-contracts were ratified and the building of the boat and its machinery begun. The very best of material was used in its construction. As a further assurance that nothing but the best of timber be used in the construction of the hull, the Board detailed Lieutenant C. Anthony, of Hook and Ladder No. 2, who is 122 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. MANUFACTURERS OF Wire Hails, Staples, ttlirc ana lUnc Rods. OFFICE AND WORKS: FOOT OF CASK AVEJNUB. S. H. CHISHOLM, President. C. E. BEACH, Vice-President. TELEPHONE No. 877. A. T. DE FORKEST, Sec'y and Treas. The National Malleable Castings Qo.,^&*An^7Rr— The Eberhard PROPRIETORS Cleveland malleable Manufacturing Tron Works. <*<*<* Company. Piatt and C. & P. R. R. near Woodland Avenue Tennyson and C. & P. R. R. A. A. POPE, President. A. A. POPE, President. O. K. BROOKS. Sec'y and Treas. W. P. CHAMPNEY, Vice-Pres't and Treas. L,. O. RAWSON, Sales M'gr. . MII/FORD I.EWIS, Secretary. H. F. POPE, Ass't Treas. C. A. AKERS, Superintendent. E. W. HOTCHKISS, Sup't. C. A. KXUMP, Sup't. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. 123 ENGINE HOUSE No. 14. 124 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. Riverside Foundry Works, Rolls, Compliments of Machinery and Rolling Mill uyaboaa Building. Castings. OFFICE: No. 16 CARTER STREET. Oil and Gas Heating and Cooking Stoves. Foote, Trade ^Ts PURITAN. Mark Reed & Co., * IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS OF ClK fkvelaitci foundry Co. Millinery and^ Warm Air Registers, Mrs. Potts Sad Irons, Hardware Specialties. "^Straw Goods. 61, 7J and 73 Bank St., CLEVELAND, O. BOSTON, 82 North Street. Corner LakeJ*^*^*^*^^ NEW YORK, 103 Beekman Street. CHICAGO, 67 Lake Street. GEO. H. FOOTE. F. If. EBBD. O. H. LUDWIO. SAN FRANCISCO, 132 Market Street. v. T. EEED. J. L. MCCLELLAND. F. C. ELLSASSEB. R.ARNOLD 126 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. The Economy Building X Loan Co. Lowest Rates on Chattel Security. a. L. PIERCE. W. W. CHAMBERLAIN. D. H. POND, MANAGER. 7 Blackstone. TELEPHONE 1999. S. L. PIERCE & CO., THE CLEVELAND -r^^^ Makers of DESK CO.«^«^^^^ Eadies', misses', Desks and Office furniture. Children's and Tnfam$' Shoes. 97 and 99 ONTARIO ST. Fine Cabinet Work to Order. Cleveland E. H. JONES & CO,, Co-Operative Stove Co., MANUFACTURERS OF engineers and Contractors. Hollow Ware and w Stows t Plumbers' Sinks. PRINCIPAL HOUSE, Steam Power and Heating Plants, 26 to 36 Superior Street, On the Viaduct. REPOSITORY, Sturtevant Steam Hot Blast Apparatus. BRANCH HOUSES, Minneapolis, Minn. Chicago, 111., Springfield, Mo. 11 South Water Street. The W. n. n. Peck Co., W. C. Cowin & Co. AGENTS FOR 1"^ 1 1 w r Beiti,igand Interior WaleSc ^°s Goodyeag co r Rubbers . Rubber + Sawyer Belting Co. DEALERS IN Mackintoshes. Decorations Rubber and Oiled Clothing Goods. MANUFACTURERS OF 4- Wall Papers (Dak Tanned ksatftsr lilting. 353-355 Superior St. 176 SUPERIOR STREET. ARCADE BUILDING. a Pi 0 < > O FIRE BOAT " CLEVEIANDER," ENGINE COMPANY No. 15. *-'*' ^.i^^"' C L. f. V E t A N D CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. I29 specially adapted for that kind of work, to see that its wishes were complied with in that respect. The work progressed rapidly, and on August 4, the little craft, in which so much interest was manifested, gracefully left the cradle in the shipyard at 3 o'clock in the afternoon, for the watery cradle of the river, and the launch was a success. The boiler, running machinery and pumps were soon placed and the upper works completed. The boat was now named "Joseph L. Weatherly," and very appropriately, if the object in so doing was to perpetuate the memory of a good man, which there is no question Mr. Weatherly was. However, the understanding was that the fire boat was to be named after the first fire chief of this city, and, if so, J. L. Weatherly was a misnomer, Samuel Cook being the first chief. After several trial trips, one being from the Cuyahoga river piers to Rocky river, a distance of 7 miles, in 41 minutes and 16 seconds; returning, the same dis tance was made in 43 minutes. The official test was made with the pumps October 19, the result of wThich is shown in the following table: en M en en O M n ft w w U NO. OF FEET OF HOSE. en w fti- r M W 0 5 fn 0 3^-INCH SIZE. STEA M 3 ° WATE R THROWN . DISTANC E PRESSURE . R * PRESSURE . & NO . O E PIPES P4 1st. 10 Four \y% inch 200 85 140 200 100 feet each. 2d. 2 and six 1 inch 200 90 140 240 100 " 3d. 2 2 240 90 150 200 100 " 4th. 3 2 250 90 160 210 100 " " 5th. 3 2^ 210 90 200 190 200 " " Two 3^-in. at 200 ft. each siamesed into 6th. 1 3 , 240 85 235 155 one 4-inch hose Three 3^-in. of 200 ft. each siamesed into 7th. 1% 275 80 200 170 one 4-inch hose. The second, third and fourth tests were made with only one engine in operation, the others with both engines running. At a regular meeting of the Board of Fire Commissioners, October 21, the boat was accepted, and Herbert F. Cook made engineer. On the twenty-sixth of the same month, Captain Moffett was appointed to take charge of the boat, and C. C. Campbell was appointed lieutenant and Thomas Mooney assistant engineer. Novem ber 1 the boat went into service. The excellent services of this boat at the numerous fires attended have fully dem onstrated her value to the city, and the cost of placing her in service has been repaid manifold times already. Experience, however, has proved the necessity of needed changes in the propelling power, the weight of the boat requiring a double engine, in order to have more control of her when underway to or from a fire, thus lessening the chances of an unavoidable collision in the at times crowded river. The number of alarms received during the year 1886 were more numerous than in any previous year, yet the fires, in the majority of cases, were confined to very narrow limits of loss, considering the value of the different properties endangered. Following are a few of the most noteworthy fires during the year: 130 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. THE OSBORN CO., <*W\ Cngjneers.^ The 1. N. Topliff Surveys, Designs, Estimates, Manufacturing Qo.,«$«£ and Reports for Bridges, Roofs, Electric and Steam Railways and Improvements of County Roads. Bow Sockets* Inspection of Iron and Steel Structural Materials, Railway Supplies, Water Pipe, &c. Complete Equipment for Cement Thin Washers* Viaduct Brass Works, m TRADE MANUFACTURERS OF 1 MARK JAT.*»™ Oressore Reducing; Valves, PISTON | amp Pressure Regulators. The Crescent Sheet With Lever and Weight or Spring. and Tin Plate Co. Relief Valves, Deadlights, Indicator Cocks, Deck Plugs, Grease Cups, Brass Hose Goods, Brass Railings. W. D. B. ALEXANDER, Pres't. D. AULD, Jr., Treas. D. ELLIOTT, V. Pres't & Gen'l Sup't. C. W. BRAINERD, Sec. HIDOS B. fllcllairy & Co., The National Screw ttanihrf Paint Rn & Tack Co., MANUFACTURERS OF Prepared House and Steel, Iron and Brass Wood Screws, Decorative Paints Tacks, Trunk, Clout and Small Nails. Colors in Oil and Japan. Machine Screws, Stove Bolts, Brushes and Varnishes. Tire Bolts. Shaker Liquid Paints. Dorman & Co., MANUFACTURERS OF AND DEALERS IN Triumph, _ Palace King fuphgCgS MANUFACTURERS OF andOther^* ui ip^vvwi High Grade SOAPS. OUR SPECIALTIES : V^/ TELEPHONE 2022. ESSEX for the Laundry. munv w PTJRITAS for the Toilet. L..KJNU-X. 3 ± • Standard Wax Laundry ancl C.C.C. & St. L. R'y 64 and 66 Chestnut St. Chips for Steam Laundries. (j&iitr*? l & EiowAKr CLEVELAND *• SHRIPEH 132 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. Compliments of Compliments of ^e Garfield Building. ade Building, Euclid Ave. and Bond Street. Compliments of ERRY AYNE The Hickox Building, BUILDING, 103-J09 Superior St. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. 133 ENGINE HOUSE No. 16. !34 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. The Morreau Gas Fixture Manufacturing Co., Designers and The Standard Sewing Manufacturers of Machine Co. Artistic 6a$ ana Electric Ciflbt fixtures. <*<*<*<* 778 Cedar Avenue. Salesroom and Factory: Prospect, Erie and Huron Sts. 'PHONE 460. The G. H. Herringshaw Co., Ltd. Old National Hall, JOHN SCHXITZ, Prop'r. 793-795 Woodland Ave., cor. Case. Hardware, PLUMBING AND RESTAURANT. Paints and Oils, QA§ FITTING, GaTtngTs?"' STOVES, RANGES Regular Dinner 25 cents. launch Counter in Connection. Gasoline Stoves. AND TIN WORK.... Oysters in Every Style Served. Agency for F. W. DEVOE & Co.'s Open Day and Night* Paints and Colors. TELEPHONE 30 1 8. 42 Public Square. E. Denison, Pres't and Mgr. H. E. Cooke, Sec'y. J. "Wagner, Pres't. C. lyOhiser, V.-Pres't & Gen'l Sup't. F. A. Wagner, Sec'y & Treas. C. J. Wagner, Ass't Sup't. The Home Security Co., The Wagner Mfg. Co., (Incorporated.) TEN T F LV RWHIRGS, dewders and Dealers in Canvas, all widths and weights, Money Loaners, Awning Frames of every description, Waterproof Horse and Wagon Covers, Wagner's Adjustable Awnings for windows. Established in 1850. TELEPHONE NO. 3407- 337 Superior Street. 1207 to 1211 Euclid Ave., Near Willson. F. MARTIN. F. W. WAKEFIELD. J. C. ULMER. EDWARD HOFF. Gas Fixture and ULMER & HOFF. Brass Specialty Co., Manufacturers of and Dealers in Manufacturers of • Engineering, Surveying Gas and Electric Fixtures and and General Brass Goods. Scientific Instruments. TELEPHONE 130. „. .„ „. . HOME -PHONE 747. 44 Sheriff Street. No. 224 Champlain St, CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. 1,35 Box 62 was turned in at 5 : 25, on the morning of January 6, from the Standard Oil Company on Broadway, near the Nickel Plate Railroad, where a storage tank containing 2,500 barrels of oil had caught fire from some unknown cause. By prompt work, the fire was confined to this tank, with a loss of $4,000. On the evening of February 1, the two-story brick planing mill owned by J. R. A. Carter, and occupied by Cochrane & Lane, on Centralway, near Canal street, was found in flames, which were bursting out of the upper windows on the arrival of the Department. Despite the exertions of the firemen, the loss on machinery and lumber amounted to $23,000, and the loss on the building reached $7,118. The cause of this fire was also unknown. On the twenty-fifth of the same month, at 6:13 in the evening, the three-story brick hardware factory owned by the Whipple Manufacturing Company, on Waverly avenue, caught fire from some unknown cause, and started a blaze which was fanned into a roaring fury in a few minutes by the strong gale of wind from the lake, and made lively work for the firemen, on account of the shower of falling slate and burn ing cinders. The loss on this fire was $36,950. March 17, at 9: 36 P.M., the two-story frame flour and feed store occupied by ,H. L. Morgan & Company, at 1725 Broadway, burned, with a loss of $15,000. Early in the morning of April 15, carelessness in dipping a red-hot pipe in coal oil started a fire in the frame foundry on the lake shore, near Case avenue, which, before subdued, entailed a loss of $29,000. A little after 2 o'clock in the morning of July 20, the big five-story block, Nos. 85 to 95 Euclid avenue, owned by C. G. King, from some unknown cause, caught fire, and but for the prompt and energetic work of the Department, would in a short time have been a total loss. Loss on the building was $16,500, and to the different occupants, $22,300. This fire was followed shortly after, August 2, 9 139 p. M., by another big block fire, namely, the four-story brick block, 132—134 St. Clair street, owned by S. C. Green. The Cleveland Window Shade Company occupied the third and fourth floors, and sustained a loss of $19,880, and H. B. Hannum & Company figured their loss at $1,226. The loss on building only amounted to $3,000. August 13, at 12 : 15 P. M., a leaky still at the Standard Oil Company's works, Kingsbury Run, added to the heat of the day a fire which burned $20,000 worth of oil. At 11:23 Sunday forenoon, August 15, the Church Furniture Manufacturing establishment of George Faulhaber, corner Jennings and Scranton avenues, occupied the attention of several companies for a number of hours, and made the surrounding neighborhood ring with the hum of fire engines. The building was a three-story frame structure, and with its contents, furnished excellent material for stifling smoke and fire, which, before subdued, entailed a loss of $19,000. During the night of October 27, the Case School of Applied Science, corner of Euclid avenue and Stearns street, a newly-erected five-story brick and stone struc ture, dedicated to scientific researches, elaborately equipped with all the latest appliances for the demonstration of science, a temple of learning of which the city could have been proud, became a prey to scorching flames. About half past 2 o'clock in the morning, a gentleman passing the grounds saw flames pouring out of the win- i36 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. Rubber Boots, Shoes and Clothing. hi WE CARRY A COMPLETE STOCK OF IpBLUJ Rubber Boots, Shoes, Clothing and ^^IttacRintoslKS.^^ BEST GOODS AT LOWEST PRICES. 4J "->T THE -3c ALL KINDS OF ROBBER GOODS REPAIRED. PIONEER TAR SOAPG? 'DAYTON. OHIO. U.S.A. R?ttl(?ttlb^f -^ ^ar Soaps are not the same. A irviiiviiivvi pure) Mi]d Antiseptic wi]1 keep the skin in healthful condition. E. B. Davidson & Co., Recommended by all physicians for the com plexion, hair and scalp, chapped hands, eczema, etc. A healing lotion and unequalled as a cleanser. 102 Superior Street. Sold by all leading Grocers and Druggists. Telephone 2365. D. A. DANGLER, Pres't. C. I. DANGLER, Vice-Pres't. E. Bloeh&Co., D. ED. DANGLER, Sec'y and Treas. DISTILLERS AND WHOLESALE THE DANGLER DEALERS IN STOVE & MFG. CO., Kentucky and Pennsylvania MANUFACTURERS OF VAPOR AND GAS STOVES AND RANGES, OVENS, BURNERS, --,«• -r- -Y- ^ -?W)bisl^ies- . TORCHES, ETC., ETC. Stamping a Specialty. Established 1851. No. 66 Water St. Perkins Ave. and C. & P. R'y. CLEVELAND BAKERY. GEORGE HATCH, DEALER IN United States Baking Co., Staple and fancy Groceries, Provisions, Truits, etc. OFFICE AND WORKS: Central Avenue near Woodland. 84 Prospect St., Bread Baked at Night and Shipped by First Morning Express to Towns within 150 Miles. Corner Sheriff Street. R. B. STEVENSON, Mgr. Goods Delivered to any part of the City. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. 137 ENGINE HOUSE No. 17. 138 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. J. M. Allen, President. W. B. Franklin, Vice-Pres't. H. F. Fulton, Pres't & Treas. H. H. Bundy, Sec'y. J. B. Pierce, Sec'y & Treas. F. B. Allen, 2d Vice-Pres't. THE FULTON BUILDING CO., Burwell & Briggs, General Contractors. Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co. Houses for Sale or Built to Order. Charter Perpetual. TELEPHONE 1923.— Incorporated J 866. No. 208 Superior St. Room 722 Garfield Building. A. T. OSBORN. Pres't. A. SHERWOOD, Vice-Pres't. OHIO IRON AND W. W. FURRY, Sec. and Treas. METAL CO.=^** THE A. T. OSBORN CO., •"•"••jr"**™!™. Scrap Jron and Steel. Painters', Artists' and Architects' OFFICE: Materials. 411 Cuyahoga Building. Residence 'Phone 3862. Office 'Phone 249. LEOPOLD ARNSTEIN. DAVE M. STRAUS. Hugti Hunungion & SOD, L. ARNSTEIN & CO., MANUFACTURERS OF SUCCESSORS TO ARNSTEIN & LEWITH, Shield Brand, Wholesale Dealers in Asphaltum Roofing ^^Woolen Rags,ijj^ 3,HC*(^* (£* ei?* s5* &9* «^* Improved Gravel Roofing. 120=122=124=126 River St. Residence 262 Case Ave. Metals, Rubber TELEPHONE 236. OFFICE: 257 THE ARCADE, EUCLID AVE. and Paper Stock. Stone $f Koblitz, The Strong, Graders and Wholesale Dealers in Carlisle & Turney Co., Woolen Rags and Wool Stock, >93=i95='°7 Bank Street. Metals and Rubber. Graded Soft Woolens, Wool Clips, Seamed Cloth, TELEPHONE 2696. JOBBERS OF Skirted Cloth a Specialty. Supplies, Hand Tools 365 to 369 Broadway. 32 to 38 Cherry Lane. and Machinery, 140 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. IVY PHARMACY, THE MAYELL-HOPP CO., K. C. T. SCHNEIDER, PROP'R. MANUFACTURING CHEMIST. PHARMACISTS, Careful compounding of prescriptions a specialty. The neatest drug store in Cleveland. 198 EUCLID, COR. ERIE. IVY PHARMACY, 66 Perry Street. TELEPHONE JSS5. WM. F- KUDER, CHAS. HONECKER, Jennings Avenue Pharmacy, DRUGGIST, 342 JENNINGS AVENUE COR. AUBURN STREET. COR. CLARK AVE. AND PEARL ST. A. W. ROSENFELDER'S HAAKE'S NO-CHAP. The most exquisite preparation for the skin. Cures chapped hands, chafed and scaled skin. Removes tan and PHARMACY, freckles. Ladies pronounce it perfection. Gentlemen will be delighted with its effect after shaving. Perfectly harm FINE CIGARS, less. Directions:—Shake well and apply a small quantity on STATIONERY, J 26 J Pearl Street. retiring or after washing in the morning. PERFUMERY, PREPARED ONLY BY TOILET ARTICLES. A Full Line of Krebs'Remedies. Central Chemical Co., ?95 CENTRAL AVE. Established 1873. Telephone 1023. TELEPHONE 114. E. A. SCHELLENTRAGER., EDWARD BE6KENBA6H & CO., PHARMACIST, PHARMACISTS, 1111 ST. CLAIR, OPP. PHELPS ST. 223 SUPERIOR STREET. S. T. ELLIOTT, "Who is your pill roller?" GEORGE W. VOSS, PHARMACIST, APOTHECARY, 380 PROSPECT ST., COR- BROWNELL. WOODLAND AVE, COR. FOREST ST. TYROL for diseases of the Skin. TELEPHONE CONNECTIONS. For Careful. Conscientious, Competent Dispensing of your GEORGE KIEFFER, Prescriptions, go to Registered Pharmacist, GEO. A. DOkklNGER'S PHARMACY, 620 LORAIN ST., LANG'S BLOCK. TELEPHONE 1773. 1003 Woodland Ave., Haltnorth's Block. F. VvTGK, TELEPHONE 320B. HENRY M. SGHklTT, Staple and Fancy Groceries, PHARMACIST, 754 ST. CLAIR ST. 534 Central Ave., Cor. Greenwood. ALBERT PETERSILGE, L. SMITHNIGHT, DISPENSING PHARMACIST, DEUTSCHER APOTHEKER, PHARMACIST, 315 Woodland Ave. Telephone 982. Erie Street, Corner Scovill Avenue. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. I4I dows of the first floor of the building, and without stopping to investigate, rushed in haste to Engine House No. 10, Doan street, from which place Box 316 was turned in at 2 : 46 A. M. On the arrival of the companies responding, Steamers 7, 10 and Hook and Ladder No 3, a heavy explosion was heard, which burst out a portion of the west wall and sent a shower of sparks and long streaks of flames from the win dows of the now doomed building. No call was made for more apparatus, as the water supply was inadequate for the already working engines; furthermore, the nearest company to come on a call would have had a distance of three miles to travel, over extraordinarily bad roads, and could not possibly have arrived before the building was a roaring furnace. The explosion was caused by chemical sub stances in the laboratory, to which the flames had found their way, and ended all hope, if there had been any from the first, of saving the building. Roof and floors went crashing in one after the other, and the only thing the firemen could now do was to protect the walls of the dormitory of Adelbert College, which was only seventy-five feet from the fire. Thus, in a few hours, nearly $200,000 worth of property was destroyed, the munificent gift of a generous donor, which no doubt could have been saved, had there been an abundant supply of water and the streets been in proper shape, which, by the way, is an evil the city fails to remedy on more than one occasion. We now come to the first fire for the fire boat, and one at which she had ample opportunity to show her value as a fire apparatus. On November 6, Otis' four-story grain elevator on East River street was discovered in flames, which had gained con siderable headway before Box 8 was turned in, at 10 : 36 p. M. A few minutes sufficed to see the whole structure in flames, and a call was made for three more engines. That part of the elevator facing the river loomed up like a large fagot on a pedestal of glowing coals. On this mass of fire, the boat, before reaching the dock, got a 2i-inch stream to bear, which sent a deluge of water that darkened every part it touched. Other lines were soon gotten on shore and placed in position where they could do the most good. The fire was under control in a short time, and before 1 o'clock, the companies started on their way back to quarters. The cause of this fire was unknown. The loss on grain and building was $45,000. November 14, at 2 : 20 A. M., the packing house of Alex. J. McCrea, on Clark avenue, partly burned, with a loss of $13,600; and on the eighteenth of the same month, the two-story frame machine shop on Herald street, near the Nickel Plate, owned by Mrs. E. D. Crocker, was damaged to the extent of $2,000, and the occu pants lost on stock, $14,355. December 1, at 9:51 P.M., BOX 61 was turned in for a fire in the two-story frame foundry owned by Mr. William Fitzsimons, and before the Department got the best of the situation, $10,000 went up in smoke. Very few accidents occurred during the year, and none resulted fatally. Sev eral firemen received slight injuries at fires, such as cuts and bruises, but were otherwise fortunate. The worst accident happened to Assistant Chief Cavanah, who, with Fireman Michael Mulcahy, was thrown out of his buggy at the corner of Liberty and Lorain streets, when responding to an alarm for a fire on Swiss street, in the afternoon of April 28. He landed on his face and knees, and while in that 142 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. MOFLRI S SPERO E. H. KLAUSTERMEYER, & C0 * t -^Okfe^-fTTYv Wholesale and Retail MANUFACTURERS OF groceries, flour, Teed, €tc. mens Clotting, TELEPHONE 507. 100=102 iit. Clair Street. Nos. 386 and 388 Prospect Street. L. J. ROBECHEK, H H. GILL & CO,, DEALER IN Flour, Feed, r^ FANCY GROCERIES, Hay and Straw, ^x FRUITS AND VEGETABLES, fiard ana Soft Coal, 157 BROADWAY. 13 J 2 Broadway. TELEPHONE 2950. WM. POEHLMAN, F. W. LEIMKUEI1LER, DEALER IN GR9G6R, Fine Qroeeries, ^— •—^ 974 LORAIN STREET. 1025 and 1027 LORAIN STREET. JOS. SCHIl•TOLER . JOHN HAHN. The Recovery Oil Co., 1NATIONA L BOX CO., MANUFACTURERS OF Grates irod Boxes, Hailed or in Sfioofts, Coal Car Distillers ALSO MANUFACTURERS OF Turned Cinumns . Balusters, Newels, Illouldings. manufacturing Chemists. Dealt;r s in Roupn and Dressed Lumber. Cor. Ohi 0 St. and Stone's Levee. Erie R. R. and Forest Street. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. 143 ENGINE HOUSE'No. iS. 144 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. position was run over by his horse, and his face and body were badly bruised. Despite his injuries, he climbed into the buggy again and drove to the fire, where he fainted away. Mulcahy had his right ankle badly broken, and was taken home on some canvas stretched across the top of No. 6 hose wagon. Mr. Dwight Palmer, a gentleman who was conspicuous in the organization of the paid Department in 1863, and chairman of the first Committee on Fire and Water of this Department, was now a member of the State Legislature, and in that office exerted himself in behalf of the firemen by the introduction of House Bill No. 402, which passed the House April 21 : An Act to create and perpetuate a board of trustees of the Firemen's Pension Fund ; to provide and distribute such funds for the pensioning of disabled firemen, and the widows and minor children, and dependent mothers and fathers of deceased firemen ; to authorize the retirement from all service, or the relief from active service and the pensioning of any such member of the Fire Department, and for other purposes in connection therewith, in cities of the second grade of the first class. This bill has since been amended, and now applies to every other city in the State. Thanks are also due to Mr. Haley for his co-operation, and to A. J. Sandford, Esq., who drafted the bill. In accordance with this bill, at a meeting of delegates from the different com panies, May 20, candidates were selected for trustees, to be voted for by the members of the Department. At the counting of votes received on the twenty-fourth, the following members received the highest votes and were duly elected trustees for the year : Operator John Barlow, Captain Charles B. Knapp of Engine Company No. 7 and Engineer William Clayton of Engine Company No. 3. These gentlemen, to gether with the Board of Fire Commissioners, constituted the Board of Trustees of the Firemen's Pension Fund for the year. We now turn to the year 1887, which will be remembered by the veteran volun teer firemen throughout the United States, and more particularly so by those who were residents near or along that vast iron span of traffic which connects the city of New York with San Francisco. The grand excursion of the Old Volunteer Firemen of New York, which left thatcity September 5, kindled the enthusiastic spirits of all the old veterans along its route, which embraced nearly all the large cities from the rugged shores of the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific slope. The Forest City being a point of visit, active preparations were made to receive them in handsome style, and representatives from the various companies of the old volunteer department were requested to meet, September 11, at the rooms of the Fire Commissioners in the City Hall. Mr. Edwin Hart, the last chief of the volunteer department, acted as chairman, and Mr. W. R. Nevins as secretary. The following companies were rep resented: Forest City Hook and Ladder, W. R. Nevins, Cornelius D. Murphy and F. Stebbins ; Live Oak No. 1, Barney Clark ; Neptune No. 2, J. Sirloin, Isaac New and H. II. Rebbeck; Forest City No. 2, John DeMoore and John Saddler; Saratoga No. 3, Charles Secrist, A. A. Cavanah, Jacob Saxer, James McKearney and John Connelly; Phoenix No. 4, S. S. Lyon, P. L. Shaw, George Vetter, A. Cordes, J. P. McMahon, Edwin Hart and N. Waidenkopf; Cataract No. 5, William Humphrey, J. C. Wagner, George Eichorn, George Koegler, S. W. Rowe, James 146 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. FINE TAILORING A SPECIALTY. V. NUSBAUM, C. A. MUERMAN, Jfferohant jailor.** ts« Agent, «« 259 ARCADE. 188 Seneca Street, t OPP. HAWLEY HOUSE. GUS P. BOflD, A u. YESINGER. JOS' JANOUSEK. A. C. YESINGER & CO., merchant Ittercbant ailor, tailors^ -5—»— i MOHAWK BUILDING, 363 Bond Street. PUBLIC SQUARE. MOONEY BROS., 5. Kohn & Sons, 390-392 Woodland Avenue, Importers DEALERS IN and FURNITURE, CARPETS, STOVES AND COMPLETE HOME FURNISHERS. TELEPHONE 24BO. 371 and 373 BOND STREET. j\ J s\ Pr"ir*^Q ever quoted as low PJnton gcbacba, 1 lU 1 1 ILCj as now on first-i-clas s CUSTOM-MADE CLOTHES. See the quality and style of our goods made -merchant Cailor, Jk up for $15.00 A fine line of Gents' Furnishing Goods always Clothier arid Gents' Furnisher. * in stock. L. ALDERMAN, 1348-1350 BROADWAY. J227 Euclid. Importing Tailor. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. I47 ENGINE HOUSE No. 19. i48 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. CHARLES SEMON, E. A. KLINE &CO., PACKER OF MANUFACTURERS OF car tobacco HIGH GRADE /7t/|*»* IS AND IMPORTER OF CLEAR HAVANA I6iy«r>t ««m««$uniatra and fiauana, 226 AND 228 282 and 284 SENECA STREET. ST. CLAIR STREET. F. S. SMITH & CO., IMPORTERS AND PACKERS OF Cbe Obio Brass $ Leaf Tobacco, Tron ifflg. Co.1SfS « 14 AND 16 SOUTH WATER STREET. JOHN REMESCH, . ESTABLISHED 1865. ;y^y/,^^^^^v,|V^^v,^^/,^/>v^^^ M. HARM & SON, Pattern maKer. iS#t^ Gear Patterns •linn arriage and Klaaon '^fm%M& a Specialty.«««. « mm^ € ...manufacturers Telephone 3566. 108 and no Merwin St. TELEPHONE 84. Nos. 8 J J & 813 Woodland Ave. E.J.YOUNG. John M, McKay, -BUILDER OF FINE- PRACTICAL Ff™ty(£JARRIAGES, f Imttlxer mtti ^earl Burner. Light Top Buggies and Road 1 Wagons a Specialty.J*^^ ^ All work done on the most approved REPAIRING PROMPTLY DONE. plan and on reasonable terms FIRST-CLASS WORK ONLY. Nos. I I I AND I I 5 ANY STYLE BUILT TO ORDER. FRANKLIN Av. 'PHONE 4059. '76 ERIE STREET. 15° CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. STANDARD OIL COMPANY. OFFICES: Standard Block, 43-53 Euclid Avenue, MANUFACTURERS OF Refined Illuminating Oils, Lubricating Oils, Deodorized Naphthas and Gasolines and Fuel Oils. H. M. HANNA, JOHN F. PANKHURST, LUTHER ALLEN, R. L. IRELAND, President. Vice-President and Gen'l Mgr, Sec'y and Treas. Ass't Sec'y and Treas. Cbe Globe Tron jUorks Company, IRON AND "STEEL STEAMSHIPS AND VESSELS OF ALL DIMENSIONS. MULTIPLE EXPANSION, COMPOUND, HIGH PRESSURE AND LOW PRESSURE MARINE AND STATIONARY EN GINES, MARINE, STATIONARY AND PORTABLE BOILERS. The "Globe" Patent Steam Cap- stan-Windlass, The "Globe" Patent Steam Steer ing Engine, Steam Deck = Engines, Steam Pumps, Combined Hoisting and Pumping Engines, Cargo Hoisting Hachinery, Hand Windlasses and Winches. General SHeet and Plate Iron Workers, machinists, Boiler makers and Founders. OFFICE AND WORKS: West Center and Spruce Sts. SHIP YARD: Old River Street, Foot of Taylor Street. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. 1$! W. Dickinson, J. E. Williams, James McGrath and F. J. Miller; Hope No. 8, Henry Walford, Thomas Simmonds, E. P. Farren and George H. Zimmerman ; Washington No. 9, Patrick Walsh, John Douglass, John Heme, John Logan, Jacob Fetterman, Thomas Willows and A. T. Van Tassel; Torrent No. 10, John Wood- hull, Joseph Kling, John Kniking, Thomas Oberling, Henry Straugh, Michael Cayne and John Drackett; Protection Hose, Walter O'Dormell and John Calkins ; Eagle No 1, Robert Greenhalgh and James Wright. A general committee was appointed to arrange plans and report at a subsequent meeting. The expected guests did not arrive until noon, September 30. On the morning of that day a special train was taken by a number of city officials, veteran firemen, members of the reception committee and others, and they proceeded to Berea to meet the visitors. The New York veterans were greeted at the Cleveland suburbs, and in a short time the long train from Cincinnati pulled into the Central Depot. There a detachment of Cleveland firemen was waiting, and after the apparatus of the New Yorkers had been taken from the car, the veterans were escorted to the center of the city, where they broke ranks and started to visit places of interest about the city. They presented a fine appearance in their fire helmets, red shirts and black silk ties. Many of them had seen fire service dating away back in the forties. Their apparatus, a relic of the past, having been built in Philadelphia in 1835, was gorgeously decorated with gold, silver and nickel-plated trimmings, surmounted by a golden eagle, from whose beak an electric light would illuminate the darkness at night. Mr. George W. Anderson, president of their organization, a gentleman of high social standing in New York, and an old-time fireman, was in charge of the excursionists. Being on their way back, they had already visited numerous cities, yet they expressed themselves as having in no place received a more genuine hospi tality than accorded them here. They were accompanied on their journey by Cappa's famous Seventh Regiment Band of New York, numbering fifty pieces, and Miss Hortense Pierce, a well-known vocalist. The volunteer firemen of several towns adjoining Cleveland participated in the reception and parade which took place during the afternoon. Akron sent seventy- five men with Chief Taylor, and they brought with them an old engine that was in deed a curiosity, having seen service as far back as 1839. Wakeman, Ohio, was represented by twenty men under Chief A. C. Penfield, and with their light appa ratus presented a fine appearance. Wellington sent fifteen men in uniform, under Chief S. F. Black. Galion was represented by a large crowd of old firemen and citizens, who brought with them an old engine once the property of Phoenix Com pany No. 4 of this city. The grand event of the day was the parade, which was delayed until 3 o'clock in the afternoon. The procession, after being formed, marched in the following order: Detachment of Police. Chief Marshal, Edwin Hart. Assistant Marshals, W. H. Hayward and M. A. Gross. 152 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. ENGINE HOUSE No. 20. •"•J-fiEeKEK *-'*- I Ifl/tLAND *54 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. .^TURRET MACHINERY^ BARDONS & OLIVER, CLEVELAND, OHIO. Compliments of V^estern Reserve Building, Cor. Superior and Water. SIX SIZES. WRITE FOR CIRCULARS AND PRICES. ^TURRET MACHINERY,^ WM. STRANGWARD, C. F. SEELBAOH, Pres't aud Gen'l Mgr. Sec'y and Treas. Compliments of (bhe forest City foundry ana mrt eo„ larence Building, LIGHT GRAY CASTINGS A SPECIALTY. 122 EUCLID AVENUE. FINE STOVE PLATE A SPECIALTY. TELEPHONE 1470. Winslow, Sycamore, Elm ms&m and Main Streets.^ JMJ* CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. 155 FIRST DIVISION. Marshal, S. W. Rowe. Aids, Thomas Willows, W. R. Nevins and J. P. McMahon. Fay's Cornet Band. Cleveland Veteran Volunteer Firemen, wearing badges. Knights of Pythias Band. West Side Veteran Volunteer Firemen, uniformed, with apparatus. Eighth Regiment Band of Akron. Akron Firemen, with old-time apparatus. Akron Veterans in carriages. Mystic Hook and Ladder Company, of Wakeman, with apparatus. Wellington Fire Department. Cleveland Steam Fire Department. Assistant Chiefs H. H. Rebbeck and A. A. Cavanah. Hayes Truck No. I—Captain Charles Dougherty. Engine Company No. 6—Captain C. E. Varner. Chemical Engine "A"—Lieutenant Geo. A. Killip. SECOND DIVISION. Marshal, James W. Dickinson. Aids, Assistant Chiefs Joseph Speddy and Geo. Wallace. Cappa's Seventh Regiment Band of fifty-five pieces. Veteran New York Firemen's Association, in full uniform, with ancient engine. Ladies in carriages. Old Volunteer Firemen in carriages. Tally-ho coach, containing veterans. Mayor and invited guests in carriages. A line of civilians. The following line of march was observed: St. Clair to Water, Water to Su perior, Superior through Public Square, east side of Public Square to Euclid, Euclid to Erie, Erie to Superior, Superior to Monumental Park. While the procession was passing the City Hall, it was reviewed by Mayor Babcock and members of the City Council, Board of Aldermen and Boards of Fire and Police Commissioners. After the review the column was broken, and the New York veterans were escorted to the depot, where supper was served in their special dining car. A grand concert was given in the evening at Music Hall, and an informal reception was tendered to the firemen. The losses from fire during this year were not nearly so heavy as the previous year, although the alarms responded to were only one less. Many large block fires were encountered, yet the management of the Department was such that the losses incurred were, in proportion to the valuable properties endangered, a very small per centage. Accidents during the year were few, and, considering the many risks and dangers to which the firemen in their calling are at all times liable, remarkably so. ON o r w < F > 21 C 2 H a H > fa W 2 FIRE BOAT "JOHN H. FARLEY," ENGINE COMPANY No. 21. GlLliER (^i/ittH^ i g( ^ u 158 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. The Lakeview Grocery Co., HILL BROS., 2819-2823 Euclid Avenue. SOLE BOTTLERS OF AGENTS FOR THE CELEBRATED Gehring's Export Beer, Tonticello Eitbia Water, Ale and Porter.•• Gnoice Wines and Liquors lor Family Use. CHESTERFIELD CO., All Orders Promptly Attended to. VIRGINIA. TELEPHONE 1700. 758 Lorain St. VAN WAGONER Cbe Eittle Bowery news & WILLIAMS Depot and BOOK exchange,^ GOOD CIGARS, ^si^^ REASONABLE PRICES. hardware Co., ALL BRANDS TOBACCO. MANUFACTURERS. H. C. KLINKE, 223-J St. Clair St. NEW YORK OFFICE. Three doors east of Cleveland Theatre. 14 WARREN STREET. F. B. WIGGINS, GROSSMAN planing Jfjffill —^S~^ and ~y~tr~'— Paper Box Co., "ffiox: factory, Paper Novelties, Commercial and Folding Boxes, Patented Boxes. 148 COLUMBUS STREET. 21=23=25 Noble Street. Telephone 444. Chicago Office: 34 Wabash Ave. TELEPHONE 2 144- R. A. Williams & Co., L. Rickersberg's Sons, MANUFACTURERS OF LUBRICATING OILS, 1GAR BOX GREASES AND MANUFACTURERS. AND DEALERS IN ^BOILER COMPOUND.*^ CIQAR BOX LABELS AND RIBBONS, CIGAR MANUFACTURERS' SUPPLIES. OFFICE AND WORKS: 15-17-19 JUDD ST. Forest Street and N. Y. P. & O. R. R. 288-294 CENTRAL AVE. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. 159 The overturning of Chemical Engine " B," stationed at No. 4's house on the West Side, which occurred in the evening of June 10, when that company was responding to an alarm from Box 125, was the only accident attended with fatal results. The apparatus was upset at the corner of Church and State streets, throwing the men on it to the pavement with considerable force. Henry Gensert, one of the members of the company, landed on his head and shoulder, sustaining a fractured collar bone. The injury at the time was not considered of a dangerous nature, and with the assist ance of some of his comrades, he walked to his home on Detroit street, and it was a surprise to everybody to learn that he died at half-past seven o'clock the following morning. Gensert was a cheerful companion, and his death cast a gloom of sorrow over his friends. His funeral took place from Hook and Ladder Company No. 2, and he was buried the thirteenth of June, in the Relief Association's lot in Woodland Ceme tery. Rev. H. D. Aves, of St. John's Episcopal Church, delivered an impressive funeral service, which will be remembered by many. The necessity of some means wherewith to reach the upper floors in the many towering buildings that have been erected within the last few years, was the introduc tion of the Pompier ladders, and Morris Hawley, lieutenant of Hook and Ladder Company No. 1, was detailed, August 18, to go to Chicago and receive instruction in their use. On his return, members who were willing to learn practiced drilling in the use of the Pompier ladders until proficient, and the different truck companies were furnished with a sufficient number of these ladders to reach the top of the highest building in the city. The need of a Department surgeon had been a long-felt want for a number of years, and at a meeting of the Board of Fire Commissioners, March 3, Dr. D. R. Travis was elected Fire Department physician. On March 17, House Bill 1,153, introduced by Mr. Dwight Palmer, specifying the maximum and minimum amounts in salaries to be paid the members of the Fire Department, became a law. Another accident occurred this year which was fatal in its results. Cadet Timothy Graham, while practicing with the Pompier ladders at the Pompier tower on Church street, fell a distance of thirty-five feet, October 17, and received internal injuries, besides a fractured leg, from the effects of which he died on the twentieth of the same month. Lieutenant Morris Hawley, of Hook and Ladder Company No. 1, had his leg broken when responding to a fire on Superior street, January 7. Mr. Haley's House Bill, granting the firemen twelve days' vacation each 3-ear, became a law March 21. The estimate by the Board of Underwriters of the amount of property insured in the city in 1892 amounted in round numbers to $150,000,000. The total amount of losses by fire was $1,603,129.73, with an amount of $1,325,093.90 paid to the insured during the year. The individual reports to the Department, given at the time when fires occurred,.show an aggregate of $1,561,025.40. The aggregate loss has not been exceeded in any previous year. With the almost marvelous growth in material and population of Cleveland will come the exigencies that follow this gain, and every effort to secure public safety should be provided by law, so that not only construction, but occupancy, of buildings i6o CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. ENGINE HOUSE No. 22. "AliTZt LL W, O'GONNOR ee-fflB^A^ 162 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. Over half the Photographs in this book were furnished by A.. r». BUHK «&s CO., Photographers, Corner Willson and Woodland Avenues. MX* 8 m^ n C. A. SELZER, The Walker Gompany, MANUFACTURERS OF Fine Porcelains (> and Novelties, Electrical Gas and Electric Fixtures. Machines. Euclid Avenue and Erie Street. J. W. HINCKLEY, President. HICKOX BUILDING' S. H. SHORT, Vice-President. F. W. FERGUSON, Treasurer. THF^ZIPF Printz, Biedernran & Go., MANUFACTURING CO.^^ MAKERS OF FINE FLAVORING EXTRACLS, Qloaks PURE FRUIT JUICES, CRUSHED FRUIT PULPS, and £)Vlts9 ROGK 6ANDY SYRUP, ETC. OFFICES AND FACTORY: I I l-l 13 WOODLAND AVENUE. Telephone 2329. 162=164=166 St. Clair Street. Li. R. BAILEY, HOWER&HIGBEE, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL an EPARTMENT iDrygoods,! STORE. 238-240 SUPERIOR STREET. 142, 144, 146, 148 AND 1 50 ONTARIO STREET. I CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. 163 be made safe. If such conditions could be enforced, greater caution would prevail and less loss occur. The resources for the year 1893 were $617,711.46; this includes $247,000 for the sale of bonds, and with this amount it was desired to so arrange affairs as to give the members one-third time off. To accomplish this would require a large increase to the force, and to pay the salaries would leave the Department without the neces sary apparatus to extinguish fires ; therefore, it was deemed expedient to increase the efficiency of the Department by replacing some of the worn-out apparatus with new, and add more companies, in order to satisfy the constant and justifiable demands be ing made by the taxpayers for better protection against fire. Accordingly, arrangements were made to purchase six new engines, three new trucks, a water tower, a new fire boat, and to construct three new engine houses. The expenditures in the aggregate for that year amounted to $369,711.22 ; this included $7,550 paid for land, $18,500 for new apparatus, $14,744 on new buildings. Director Hyman, in his report that year, says : " Having succeeded my prede cessor, Honorable G. W. Gardner, on April 18, 1893, as a natural consequence, many suggestions were made as to what changes should be made as to the modus operandi of managing the Department, all of which were duly considered; but to satisfy the demands of all was found to be impossible, and the course taken has been in accordance with what I considered for the best interest of the Department. It is true, a sufficient number of men could have been added to give one-third time off, but the efficiency of the Department would have been lessened rather than increased. Under the circumstances, the best that could be done was to add enough men so as to give one 'day off' in five." Mr. W. A. Spilker, who was a member of the City Council, introduced a bill before that body to give the firemen one day off in three, instead of one day in seven, but Director Hyman compromised with the Department and gave them one day in five, and thus the measure was defeated. Mr. Spilker was at that time Chairman of the Committee on Fire. The Department at this time consisted of 287 men, distributed among 18 engine companies, seven hook and ladder companies, a hose company and the Fire Alarm Telegraph branch, and it required an appropriation of no small amount to meet the expenses of this important branch of our municipal government. The number of fires during this year was 1,174, an increase of 69 over 1892. The losses were $684,000, a decrease of nearly $1,000,000. During the year 1893, the grand total of alarms was 1,175, as against 1,118 alarms the preceding year. The number of working fires was 657, and of the num ber there were 48 calls for additional apparatus. Of box alarms there were 906, and of still alarms 269. Included in the aggregate there were 25 false alarms. The loss by fire in 1893 amounted to $684,772.16, or nearly one million dollars less than in 1892, while the number of alarms of fire in 1893 was 59 greater than in 1892. The property affected by fire during the year was insured for $3,969,411.50. The owners' loss was $519,444.61, and the occupants' loss was $165,027.55. Owners were insured for $3,173,681.50 and the occupants for $795,130. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. ENGINE HOUSE No. 23. •^•y^j{^^ &» 166 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. R. H. YORK & CO., Billings, Taylor & Co. (INCORPORATED.) -^•MAKERS OF-V-- Fine Varnishes and Dryers, Pure Prepared House Paints, Red Diamond Varnish Stains, Liquid Enamel Colors, Fine Coach Colors, U. S. N. Deck Paints, Oil Wood Stains, Fine Oil Colors, Tinted Paints, Puri tan White, Dry Colors. COLOR MAKERS, CLEVELAND, VARNISH MAKERS and BOSTON, •^ *» » ^ ^Perry-Payne Building. PAINT MANUFACTURERS. NEW YORK. CHICAGO, NEW YORK, THE ROOKERY. COURTLANDT ST. The McAllister=Dall Building Co., Rill Clutch Company, The Mohawk Building, Power Transmission Machinery, Public Square. Clutch Pulleys and Couplings, Plain Cast Pulleys and Gears, PHONE 1792 Shafting Hangers, Self-oiling ' Bearings, 'Etc,^jtjt'J'<£jt<2* JNO. H. BLOOD, AGENT, ROOM 60 I. THE S1GLER BROS. GO., J. L. RICE & CO., MANUFACTURING ROOM 4, General 236 «£* <£• eJ* «5* JW.^N J-J t5* «5* w* *5" «^* <&* SUPERIOR Insurance WHOLESALE JEWELERS, STREET. Agents. 'PHONE 1933. 52-54 EUCLID AVENUE. 7^ ESTABLISHED I 847. TELEPHONE 6S.I . C. J. LANGDON, JR. S. W. TUCKER. Tfie Born steel Range & JMJ. Co., Cbe Tulton foundry go., MANUFACTURERS OF Born's Steel Plate French MANUFACTURERS OF Ranges and Bake Ovens. HIGH GRADE, DRY SAND, LOAM CHILLED AND ALL COFFEE URNS AND HOTEL AND RESTAURANT KITCHEN Factory: GALION, O. OTHER KINDS CASTINGS, OUTFITS, LAUNDRY STOVES, ETC. OFFICE AND SALESROOM: 124-126 SUPERIOR STREET. 202 Merwin Street. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. 167 This startling, yet most gratifying, reduction of the fire loss in this city for the year can justly be attributed to the prompt response, quick action and efficient service of the members of the Department. Many of the fires of the year were caused by the negligent use of occupied buildings, and the exposure to fire of combustible and other material or refuse there in. With plans projected and being carried out in the location and erection of fire stations, the property in the city will be fairly well protected from damage by fire. If the apparatus is kept up each year equal to the growth of the city, the efficiency of the Fire Department will not only be maintained, but increased, and the burden of taxation upon the people to effect this will scarcely be felt. The action of the City Council in regard to more time off for the members of the Department has been carried out as far as practicable, and one day off in every five is allowed them. This has proved most satisfactory by greatly adding to the efficiency of the force in providing more men for the apparatus in case of fire. Plans have been carried out to place wagons constantly loaded with coal ready for use in each battalion district. The proceeds from the $247,000 of bonds to strengthen and increase the efficiency of the Department could never in its history have been appropriated at a time when the necessities of the Department were more urgent for its actual mainte nance, and were judiciously and effectively expended. For the year ending December 31, 1894, the report of the Director of Fire showed that the Department had been increased by the addition of sixty-three men. The expenses incurred in making improvements, although seemingly large, had been made at a favorable time, when both labor and material were cheap. The annexation of Brooklyn and West Cleveland to the city having been com pleted, the demands made for fire protection in these localities were satisfied, and such new and modern apparatus added as to compare favorably with other cities of the same grade. Throughout the year 1894, the Department responded to 1,000 alarms, of which 810 were box alarms and 190 still alarms. There were 509 working fires. The calls for assistance were 31, and 24 false alarms were turned in. The loss by fire in 1894 amounted to $592,714.90, being considerably less than in 1893, and was over one million dollars less than in 1892. This large and un precedented reduction in fire loss can be directly attributed to the wisdom of the City Council in appropriating $247,000 for the erection of additional well-distributed and located engine houses, the purchase of improved apparatus and good horses, and the quick response, rapid progress to and the efficiency of the members of the Depart ment in putting out fires. The insurance on buildings on fire in 1894 was $3,961,875, and on contents $306,620. The owners of such buildings loss was $450,771.71, and the occupants' loss $141,943.19. Notwithstanding the continued industrial and business depression, there were 2,622 new buildings erected in this city in 1894, at an estimated cost of $4,171,690. These erections do not include the large number of buildings contained in the territory annexed to the city, and comprised in the 41st and 42d wards, since the last annual 168 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. ERWIN REIF. FRANK J. MIIvI,ER. The above portraits are Messrs. Erwin Reif and Frank J. Miller, fire wardens. Mr. Reif entered the service, June, 1880. After serving three years, he was appointed assistant engineer, and in 1885 he was appointed engineer, in which capacity he served ten years, and on July 16, 1895, he was appointed fire warden. Mr. Miller entered the service, April 1, 1881. After serving three years, he was appointed assistant engineer, which position he held for ten years, when in 1894 he was appointed engineer, serving in that capacity until July 19, 1895, when he was appointed fire warden. The safety of the city of Cleveland from disastrous conflagrations practically depends upon the inquisitorial power and energy of our two Fire Wardens, Messrs. Reif and Miller. The duties incumbent upon them for the preservation of life and property from fire rarely come -before the public. Carelessness and negligence, constantly bordering upon criminality, mixed with the infamous work of the profes sional incendiary, abounds on all sides, and is ferreted out by these two indefatigable officers. It is of necessity that their number be increased. The enormous area re quired to be searched for material liable at any moment to spontaneous combustion, and hoarded in countless cellars, sheds, barns and attics of the city, surpasses all belief, until the reports of these two most efficient men are considered. During the past year, they have incited a'fear in the souls of many desperate wretches, who, being crazy to realize the insurance money so glibly placed within their reach by the common insurance agent, hourly plot methods and means whereby at all costs they may escape the detection of their incendiary crime. Insurance companies owe it to themselves, as well as to their patrons, that these men be powerfully sustained in their efforts and their number much augmented. It is a necessity to an efficient fire service. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. 169 ENGINE HOUSE No. 24. 17° CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. report. Just previous to that annexation there were 63,114 buildings in this city. During 1893 and 1894, there was an increase of 6,010 buildings erected in Cleve land, at a valuation of $7,877,777. The following new companies have been put in service: January 1, 1894, Hook and Ladder Company No. 8, in Engine House No. 10, on Doan street, near Euclid avenue. March 6, 1894, Hook and Ladder Company No. 7, with a full complement of men, and a first-class city truck, in the new double house on Central avenue, between Erie and Brownell streets. March 18, 1894, Engine Company No. 19, with a full quota of men and new apparatus, in the new engine house on Willson avenue, near St. Clair street. April 1, 1894, Hook and Ladder Company No. 9, at Engine House No. 12, on Waverly avenue, near Lorain street. May 10, 1894, Engine Company No. 20, in the new engine house on Clark avenue, near Gauge street. June 16, 1894, the Water Tower, stationed at the house of Engine Company No 1, on the corner of St. Clair and Academy streets. August 1, 1894, Engine Company No. 22, in the new engine house on Wade Park avenue, near Genesee street. On March 1, 1894, Engine Company No. 3 was transferred from its quarters on Huntington street to the new double house on Central avenue, and occupied jointly with Hook and Ladder Company No. 7. August 28, 1894, the new fire boat, "John H. Farley," No. 21, was launched in Buffalo, N. Y., and put in service and is located near lower Seneca street bridge. Engine House No. 23, on the corner of West Madison and Florence street. Engine House No. 24, on Pearl street near Terrace street, and Engine House No. 25, on Broadway, opposite Marcelline avenue. When the $247,000 was appropriated for new houses and additional men, appa ratus and horses in the estimate therefor, it was supposed to be a sufficient sum to put in service three new companies, build another fire boat, and replace three old and worn-out fire engines with new ones. By strict economy and great competition among bidders for the work, from plans and specifications for it furnished by the city's building inspector, and members of the Department detailed to watch the contractors, we not only succeeded in securing better work, but there was money enough left over from that appropriation to put up houses for Nos. 23, 24, 25, a new double house for Engine Company No. 3 and Hook and Ladder Company No. 7, and also erect one of the best, most convenient and commodious houses in the United States on the corner of St. Clair and Academy streets (in place of the old and dilapidated building there torn down), and place therein headquarters for the assistant chief, accommodations for forty men, a double company for Engine No. 1, Hook and Ladder No. 1, the serial ladder, the water tower, the Supply and Telegraph Line wagons, the harness-makers and storerooms, besides a greatly increased number of stalls for the horses required there. The occupied new houses necessitated the erec tion of additional fire alarm boxes and connected telegraph wires, and to further increase the efficiency of the service of the fire boats at fires remote from the river, H. 6MITH ^RMAN 6GHLEE &*#£«£ EftE 172 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. SCHORNDORfERXEBERHARD, iBERS OF STEPHENS & WIDLAR, Grocers' and Sundries IMPORTERS AND JOBBERS Bakers' MANUFACTURERS OF Teas, Coffees and Spices, Grape Crystal Baking Powder and Flavoring Extracts. 168 and J70 St. Clair Street. 113 AND 115 WOODLAND AVENUE. ' — The Ohio Cooperage Co., W. D. RANDAIX. B. I,. RANDAI,!,. W. D. Randall & Company. MANUFACTURERS OF MA NUFA CTURERS OF ALL KINDS OF y Office and Factory: "BOXES, ALUM STREET CRATES, AND T^EDDINQ C.C.C.&ST.L.RY- MATTRESSES, f FEATHERS, £L 1 O+f-V^'x^ > PHONE ij? 1794. PILLOWS, ETC., ETC. TELEPHONE is4o. „, 20J to 205 Superior St. Viaduct. 1 NEW YORK OFFICE, LONDON, ENG., PARIS, FRANCE, t£r* t£r* tjT* t£r* t&* *2r* *&* t^T* t^r f2r*e^* t£>* t&* t£r* t^r* t&r* tj!r* 94 Reade St. 158 Queen Victoria St. 68 Rue de Mara is. The Patterson-Sargent Co. % The Standard Tool Go., MANUFACTURE J MANUFACTURERS OF «£ B- p. $• <# \i Increase twist Drills, Reamers, taps, PAINTS. ^Hgp> Drill Chucks and Sockets, Standard Patent •pif >?•&'?•$'<$'•&>&•$'•$'•&•$'&•$''$''$' Milling Cutters, Spring Twist Drill Cotters and Flat Keys. Grinding Machine. Theodor Kundtz, J. H. PHELPS, MANUFACTURER OF SEWING MACHINE WITH ^JL±t&abinet Work* ROSS, SPRAGUE & CO., ^==Wholesale Grocers,«gfr THE EAST END OF CENTRAL VIADUCT. KUNDTZ BENDING COMPANY. TELEPHONE 1517. TELEPHONES 231 AND 319. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. 173 about 1,900 feet additional and special iron pipe has been laid, making altogether about 5,400 feet of that kind of pipe available for that purpose. After eight years of very hard and efficient work by the fire boat "J. L. Weatherly," and while her machinery was still in fair condition and transferred to the "John H. Farley," her hull was found to be entirely useless from dry rot. Upon a close inspection and thorough survey by some of the best shipbuilders of this city, her hull was condemned as unsafe and totally unfit for further fire service. The new boat, "The Clevelander," was built and stationed at the foot of Superior street, taking the place of the abandoned Weatherly. Joseph Rothgery, chief operator, in submitting his report for 1894, says: "During the past year the Fire Alarm System has worked satisfactorily. Our lines have been rebuilt and extended so as to take in the new engine houses built, those in the course of construction, and additional boxes. The lines were also extended to the former "Brooklyn Village," and boxes were connected thereto. The former vil lage of West Cleveland had wires and ten boxes up, but not in circuit. As soon as the annexation was completed it was connected with No. 6 circuit. In rebuilding and extending the lines, sixty-five miles of copper wire were used. Including the ten boxes which were in West Cleveland, fifty-nine alarm boxes were added to the system during the year. During the same time there were placed by this Department in Cleveland, telephone underground ducts, 21,479 ^eet of lead-covered cable, containing 358,063 feet of copper wire. All lines in the underground district were connected undergrotmd, and the overhead lines taken down. During the year five new engine houses were fitted up with complete sets of instruments, and connected." The report of the Director of Fire for 1895 shows that the Department responded to 1,108 alarms. Of these, 844 were box alarms and 264 still alarms. There were 541 working fires ; calls for assistance, 28, and 12 false alarms. The loss by fire in 1895 was $515,155.51, distributed as follows: On buildings, $267,863.38, and on their contents, $247,292.13. The insurance on buildings on fire in 1895 was $2,062,071 ; on their contents, $633,561, making a total of $2,696,071. There were 108 more alarms and 32 more working fires in 1895 than in 1894. Throughout 1895 over four millions of dollars were expended in the erection of buildings and the construction of additions to others, and notwithstanding the in creased alarms and working fires, and the addition of fire risk by reason of such erec tions and constructions and their contents, there was less loss by fire in 1895 than in 1894 by $127,856.39. This absolute decrease in fire loss in 1895 is a record that not only the Fire Department, but the people of this city, may well be proud of, and no stronger or more convincing argument in favor of keeping this city, as at present, well supplied with the latest improved and most efficient apparatus, well manned, for putting out fires. During the year 1896, the Department responded to 1,000 alarms, which is 108 less than last year. Of these, 726 were box alarms and 274 were still alarms. There were 401 working fires, which is 140 less than in 1895. There were 29 calls for assistance and 12 false alarms. The loss by fire in 1896 was $460,842.55, distributed as follows : On buildings, 174 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. I r <- EXGIXE HOUSE No. 25. CHA {3(Jttj^ih E & E. c«. 176 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. $220,918.41 ; on contents, $239,924.14. The insurance on same was $2,635^932.50. On buildings, $1,981,607.50; on contents, $654,325. The Department consists of 116 pieces of apparatus in active service, 379 offi cers and men and 145 horses, which are divided into 26 engine companies, 9 hook and ladder trucks, 3 chemical engines, 1 hose company, 1 water tower, 1 aarial Scott Uda ladder, Engine Companies 15 and 21 being fire boats. The Department also has on hand 40,300 feet of hose of all kinds. There were but few accidents to the Department machinery during the year, the most serious one being when Engine No. 2 went into the river at Seneca street bridge, January 25, damaging it some, but not very seriously. The driver and the assistant engineer went in with the steamer and very miraculously escaped death. They were rescued by the crew of the fire boat "John H. Farley." They received a bad nervous shock, being in the water so long and the weather very cold at the time. The second accident was the breaking of a tooth in the cam of the steam cylin der of Engine No. 14, February 3, at fire corner of Wason and Hamilton streets, disabling it at the time. The third casualty was to Engine No. 1, at a fire on December 17, at the corner of Sheriff and High streets, when two driving gears of main pump were broken ; re pairs were promptly made in each case and all put in good order for service again. By the burning of No. 16's engine house on August 8, a pair of new- steamer wheels stored in the hay-loft were burned so as not to be fit for use. They were of the Archibald make. The hubs and tires are good, and by renewing the wood-work they can be made as good as new and at less cost. They were originally intended to be used on the Manning third-size engines as extras. On the whole, the greatest economy was practiced in the expenditure of funds for the care of apparatus that was consistent with keeping it in good, serviceable condi tion in the meantime, and on the last day of the year 1896, there was not a piece of apparatus of any kind in shop for repairs. A very good showing for a Department with one hundred and sixteen pieces of all classes in it. The Department, in its management and equipment, is inferior to none in this country, as its record will show. Work has been commenced on the new Kinsman Street Fire Station, which, when finished, will be one of the most complete and modern buildings in the city. There have been several bad accidents during the current year. The report con tains the name of Captain William Ney, of Engine Company No. 13, who was thrown from the engine on his way to a fire, and sustained a fracture of the large bone of the forearm and other injuries. Captain Charles Knapp, of Fire Company 7, was seriously injured at the Phcenix Iron Work's fire by being knocked down by the pole of an engine and stepped on by the horses. He was sent to Charity Hospital in a critical condition. The injury to his spine is serious. It is thought he will be a cripple the remainder of his life. The sharp point of a horse's shoe so mutilated the ankle bone that it cannot, it is feared, be evenly united. P. J. Ruddy, of Hook and Ladder No. 3, fell over a bale of hay and into a, '^MrThTGTrLe" £N& c" rv,7^2^ *; 178 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. window glass, thus cutting his wrist severely. Several arteries were severed, and it seemed at first that Ruddy's arm had been cut off. While crossing the tracks of the N. Y., P. & O. Railroad on Aetna street, Saturday, September 11, 1897, Truck No. 4 of the Fire Department was struck by the fast mail on its way to the city. As a result of the frightful accident, Captain Gairns was seriously injured, while another mem ber of the company and the gateman at the cross ing were also badly hurt. At 10:22, an alarm of fire came in from a box in the district of the double company including Engine Company No. 25, at Broadway and Mar- celline avenue. The truck responded and took the way through Aetna street and over the railroad CAPTAIN JOHN GRADY, tracks. No gates were down, and fearing no DECEASED. danger, the truck speeded on. The horses had passed over safely, when the fast mail struck the apparatus and hurled it into space like so much cardboard. The horses escaped, as the harness which attached them to the truck was severed by the force of the collision. Most of the firemen succeeded in escaping by jumping when the accident oc curred. Captain Gairns was not so fortunate. He was the most severely injured, being hurt about the back, ribs and hip. Thomas Axford, the fireman, sprained his ankle and leg. John Cullen, the gateman at the crossing, also sustained injuries which are thought to be of a serious character. Firemen of Truck No. 4 who were lucky enough to escape uninjured from the midst of the disaster were : John Hooper, lieutenant; Charles Ward, Michael Falvey, Peter Murphy, Albert Dawson and John Flynn. Captain Gairns was taken to his home on Broadway in Chief Delaney's buggy. James Nes- bitt sustained a broken leg and was also removed to his home. Driver Axford was slightly injured, but did not leave his post. Strange to say, there was not a scratch on the horses. The truck, however, was demolished, the hind LIEUT. HENRY RESSLER, wheels and end being broken off. Every one DECEASED. of the ten large ladders on the truck were broken. HISTORY OF CLEVELAND FIREMEN'S RELIEF ASSOCIATION. URING the month of February, 1868, a meeting of the Cleveland Fire Department was called at the chief engineer's office, having for its object the better protection of its members against accident or sickness. After trying for several years the plan of accident insurance, which only pro tected against accident, and knowing from the past that the life of a fireman was not only one of constant danger and hard toil, but one which in a few years breaks down the hardiest constitution or produces early death—constantly on duty, in sum mer's heat or winter's cold, they pass their lives in watching over the interests of others—it was but natural that they should seek to protect themselves. After several preliminary meetings, an organization was effected which was known as the "Cleve land Firemen's Relief Association," and a constitution was adopted for the govern ment of the same. At its organization, sixty members of the Department signed the constitution and became members of the association, thereby manifesting their good will towards an association that promised to throw around them, when disabled, the generous arms of pecuniary protection. The funds of the association were to be raised by monthly dues, initiation fees and voluntary contributions, there being on hand, as a fund to start with, the sum of $362.60. This association now contains two hundred and ninety-eight members, with funds of $4,110.63 to its credit. Since its organization, $50,200 has been paid out in beneficiaries. The officers for the year are : JOHN MCGLOO, President. R. J. REICHERT, Secretary. CHAS. B. KNAPP, Vice-president. WM. H. NEY, Treasurer. COMMITTEES. Auditing Committee—Chas. B. Knapp, Wm. T. Burgess, Andrew Newmore. Relief and Investigating Committee—W. W. McMahon, Wm. H. Ney, Andrew Newmore. SURGEONS. East Side, Dr. J. Perrier; West Side, Dr. W. H. Rogers. i8o CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. |HK accompanying portrait is that of Mr. N. Heisel, one of Cleveland's progressive and representative business men. He was a pioneer in the confection ery business, not only in Cleveland, but in the United States, having been engaged in the busi ness 54 years—up to the time of his death. Having served his apprenticeship, and having heard and learned a great deal about America, he concluded to come to this country, where greater opportunities were afforded him. Hence, early in the summer of 1S34, he took passage in a clipper ship for America. After a brief sojourn in New York, he came direct to Cleveland. At that time Cleveland was only a small town of about 3,000 inhabi tants. Remaining in Cleveland until the next spring, Mr. Heisel went back to New York and secured a situation in an established bakery and confectionery. He remained there three years, observing with a keen eye the difference in meth ods employed, and adapting himself to the demands of the business, after which, in 1838, he again returned to Cleveland and embarked iu business^ establishing a confectionery, cake and pastry bakery, catering for a time particularly to local trade, but finding opportunity to gradually extend his opera tions into the wholesale business, which he has carried on successfully with an increasing trade. During Mr. Heisel's life he was enthusiastic in the welfare of the city, and was one of the volunteer firemen of the early days. He was selected to organize a hose company, the first one established in the city. His principal service as a volunteer was with the old Phcenix No. 4, on Water street. He served as a volunteer from 1830 to 1S50. Mr. Heisel was very fond of getting some of the old volun teers around his table and relating old incidents and experi ences connected with the early fires. His wonderful memory was a fund of information and entertainment to his old com panions, and they all regretted his death, which occurred March 13, 1892, at the hale old age of nearly 76. He was a member of the "Early Settlers' Association" from its organization, and was highly esteemed both in his social and business life. MR. N. HEISEL. Akron Hydraulic-Press BUFF, Brick Co* OLDGOLD, GREY, MAKERS OF THE MOTTLED, "cAkron" PINK, Hydraulic-cPressed AND Impervious Red Brick, Different COLORED In Standard. Roman BRICKS. and Ornamental Shapes. CAPACITY »£50_000 BUSH.tLS. MANUFACTURED BY THE HAY STORAGE CAPACITY, 1,000 TONS. ^CSt. Louis, Illinois, Findlay, M. B. Clark, Pres't. W. ]. Salter, Vice-Pres't. Eastern & New York Hydrau= A. W. Gibbons, Sec'y and Treas. lic=Press Brick Companies.j* E. C. Sterling, Pres., St. Louis, Mo.; S. S. Kimbell, Vice-Pres., THE UNION ELEVATOR CO., Chicago, 111.; H. "W. Eliot, Sec'y and Treas., St. Louis, Mo.; Wm. H. Hunt, Geu'l Mgr. and Ass't Treas., Cleveland, O.; C. A. Bliss, Ass't Sec'y, Cleveland, O. GRAIN and HA Y^^t^ General Office and Exhibit Rooms: <&<£<£ MERCHANTS. 504-505-506 Cuyahoga Bldg. Offices 197 Merlin Street. T^ong Distance ! Phone No. 4092. Works:-South Park, O., Valley Ry. TELEPH0NEJ663. LIEBENTHAL & BLOCH, M. BLOCH, President. A. BLOCH, Sec'y & Treas. MANUFACTURERS OF the Blocb Billiard table £0. Saloon Furniture, Billiard Supplies, Bank, Drug Store BilliardX Pool Tables Cailor made trousers and Office Fixtures, OFFICE: AND LOW PRICE CLOTHING, FACTORY: 20-22-24-26 FRANKFORT ST. 12J-J23 St. ClairlStreet. 51-53-55-57 Professor St., and 19-21-23-25 College St. TELEPHONE 1852 BRIEF REVIEW OF THE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT. HE "fire laddies" who "ran with the machine" in the palmy days of Cleve land's volunteer fire department, before the war, are growing less and less numerous as the years go by, and the memory, even, of an institution once among the most significant and picturesque in local history, is passing with them. Doubtless there are many among the older inhabitants who recall the appear ance of the red-shirted and leather-helmeted volunteers as they dragged their heavy hand-engines along the unpaved streets to a fire—through mud up to the hubs, often as not. Probably many solid old citizens still live who, wrhile not active members, gave their assistance to the firemen, assistance which, in the helpful old days, was usually given voluntarily, but which the foreman of any company, or any city official, had a right to demand under a city ordinance. Still among the active members were men whose names are now among the most familiar to Clevelanders. General James Barnett, General Jabez Fitch (afterward Lieutenant-Governor of Ohio), Colonel John Hay, M. M. Spangler, W. H. Hayward, S. S. Lyon, W. R. Simmons, N. Heisel, Ed. Hart and a host of others who have become known in official and busi ness life, have been volunteer firemen and served the city when the Department wielded a mighty influence in the maintenance of public spirit. The establishment of a paid Department using steam fire engines drawn by trained horses was not accomplished without many and bitter struggles at the polls. It is reported by an old inhabitant—not the oldest, but about the third in rank—that Honorable Dwight Palmer was once defeated as a candidate for membership in the City Council, because he had declared himself in favor of the purchase of a steam fire engine. The Department in those days was a political and social factor of large importance—politics being of course barred from discussion at the firemen's meetings. Mr. M. M. Spangler, who was chief engineer of the volunteers for four years back in the "40's," says that as conditions then existed, the volunteer department was more effective than the more modern institution could have been. Mr. Spang ler, it may be said in parenthesis, is a remarkably well-preserved gentleman of 82, who still conducts an extensive business on Michigan street. He is full of remi niscences of the volunteer fire department, for which he retains a warm affection. Cleveland's territory in the "40's" was bounded on the east by the "park" (as the Public Square was then called), on the south by Champlain street, and by the river and lake on the west and north respectively. A few houses had been built in the suburbs now occupied by the City Hall, Cuyahoga Building and the Hollenden, X82 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. The accompanying are portraits of First Assis't Chief Rebbeck, and his son Charles who died January 15, 1896, from palpitation of the heart, brought about from a strange incident that oc curred at a fire a few days before at the River side blast furnace on Carter street. The fire was extinguished and Chief Dickinson and most of the Department had left, but Chief Reb beck remained, leaving his son Charles in a bug gy in front of the build ing that had been burn ing. One of the employes of the burning building happened to call to mind that there was a barrel of gasoline in the build ing, and with a lighted torch in his hand, he went in to see in what condition it was. An explosion followed, and some one ran out of the building crying that sev eral firemen were inside FIRST ASSISTANT CHIEF H. H. REBBECK. and were blown up. Young'Rebbeck, hearing the report, and not see ing his father, became frightened. Chief Rebbeck soon appeared and assured his son that no accident had befallen him, and jumped into the buggy and drove the boy home. When at supper that even ing, Chief Rebbeck remarked to his wife that her son had received a severe fright that day, and it was noticed by both the chief and his wife that he was still suffering from the shock, but that there was no grave cause for alarm. The boy's mind, however, must have been set on the event, which bordered on hysterics, as his sufferings were pain ful, and as related above, he died on the fourth day following the shock. The deceased was a familiar figure in church circles, and was a member of the Boys' Brigade of Pilgrim Church, corner of Jen nings and Starkweather avenues, having won the medal at the last prize drill for the finest exhibi tion in the manual of arms. THE LATE CHARLES REBBECK. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. l83 GEORGE A. WALLACE, JOHN ANDREW, Second Assistant Chief. Third Assistant Chief. CHARLES DOUGHERTY, HENRY J. DELANEY, Eourth Assistant Chief. Fifth Assistant Chief. 184 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. but the northern ends of Seneca and Bank streets were lost in the forest. In fact, the greater portion of the Forest City was still unhatched in the depths of the woods. Each fire company in the early days was composed of about forty men, all able-bodied citizens, who gave their services to the city without pay—the $12 per year granted by the Council to each company being deposited in the company's treasury, and used for the benefit of the community as often as for any other purpose. Four engine companies, a hook and ladder company and a hose company was the city's usual complement. Each "machine" was dragged to the fires by hand, one or two men holding the pole, and as many as could be secured pulling upon the ropes, which were attached to the forward axles and stretched forward parallel with the tongue. The vehicles were quite heavy and the full strength of a company was none too much for a quick run. Reservoirs, which were kept constantly filled with water, were placed at in tervals along the streets to supply the engines. The first citizen to discover a fire was expected to shout the intelligence at the top of his voice, and others within earshot took up and passed the cry along. Alarms were sounded upon the bells in churches and schoolhouses. The firemen were in the habit of keeping their equipment in their homes or places of business, and upon an alarm being sounded, each would seize his leather helmet—the distin guishing feature of his uniform—throw his fireman's coat over his shoulders and "leg it" for the engine house. The first member of a company to reach the engine house was expected to take the trumpet, which served as an insignia of authority then as now, and retain com mand until the arrival of the foreman, who was the duly constituted captain of the com pany, or his assistant. The engine was run out of the station by the first arrivals, and outsiders being pressed into service when the number was short, it was trundled off to the fire at a breakneck speed. There were always plenty of outsiders. The aptitude of the human animal to run to fires is possibly a hereditary taint derived from ancient volunteer firemen. At any rate, the only known humans able to resist the temptation to rush into the street at an alarm, seem to be newspaper men grown blase in many conflagrations and retired to some less exciting field of duty. A "connection" would be made at the reservoir nearest the fire. Were the dis tance to the reservoir too great for the force of a single engine, the second to arrive was stationed between the first and the fire, receiving and transmitting the water from the first. Each engine carried about three hundred feet of hose, and if this proved insufficient, the hose company was called upon to furnish the additional length needed. The engines were operated by hand power, a long lever running lengthwise on each side of the machine for the purpose. Each man not engaged in handling the hose would lend his strength to the lever, which was moved up and down to operate the pumps. The work was laborious, as anyone who has worked a similar pump on shipboai'd can attest, and the provision requiring the spectators to lend a hand when called upon, was found to be a wise one when the blaze was of serious extent. As a CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. 185 1 C. D. MURPHY, A. J. SPENCER, Superintendent of Machinery. Secretary. DEATH OF CAPTAIN WM. REYNOLDS. APTAIN Wm. Reynolds of Engine House No. 8 died suddenly on August 15, 1897. An alarm had been rung in, and Captain Reynolds, jumping upon the hose cart, started for the fire. As the hose cart swung around the corner of Scranton and Starkweather avenues, Captain Reynolds com plained of feeling sick. The driver of the cart placed his arm around the captain, and told him to take hold of a rail on the side of the seat. On reaching the place of the fire, Captain Reynolds said he felt better, and jumped from the cart to the ground and disappeared into the burning house. Coming out of the house, he gave orders to the men to "lay out" the hose, and started for the house, when he fell senseless to the ground. His comrades rushed to his assistance, only to find him a lifeless corpse. His remains were taken to the engine house, and a fireman delegated to break the news to his wife. Coroner Arbuckle gave out the cause of death as heart disease. Captain Reynolds entered the Fire Department in 1871 as a pipeman. In 1882, he was made captain of Company 3's house, shortly after which he left the Depart ment and went into business in Canada. He returned to Cleveland in 1886 and joined the Department. Two years ago, he was made captain, and has done faithful service. 186 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. rule, however, more engines than were needed reached each fire, and members of each company, under direction of the chief engineer, relieved each other. Upon a pinch, at a trial or exhibition, a company was able to throw a stream one hundred feet into the air, but the exertion necessary was too much for the best of human muscles, and was rarely long continued. The buildings in the city were seldom more than two stories high and were almost invariably of wood, so that the necessity for a powerful stream did not then exist. The volunteers entertained a justifiable contempt for a certain class of dainty in dividuals called by them then (and by their descendants since) "the silk-glove fel lows." They were predecessors of the modern genus dude, and their distinguishing characteristic was the alacrity with which they dissolved from view upon the approach of an engine or an alarm of fire. The volunteers regarded the capture and impress ment into service of one of these gentry as a creditable feat of large proportions. Some objection being raised by a haughty immigrant to the force used in compelling him to give aid to the common cause on one occasion, led a member of the City Council to ask Mr. Harris of the Herald to reprint the municipal law on the subject, which is accordingly to be found in the files of the newspaper under date of January 4, 1844, as follows : "SECTION 28.—The marshal and every constable shall repair immediately, on the alarm of fire, with his staff of office, to the place where the fire may be, and there report himself and remain subject to the direction of the mayor or any alder man or councilman, for the preservation of the public peace and for the removal of all idle and suspected persons or others not actually or usefully employed in aiding to extinguish such fire, or in the preservation of property in the vicinity thereof. "SEC. 29.—Any person who may repair to a fire shall be obedient to the orders of the mayor, aldermen, councilmen, fire wardens, the chief engineer and assistant engineer, in the extinguishing of fires and in the removal of property ; and in case any person shall refuse to obey such orders, he shall forfeit the penalty of $5, and be subject to imprisonment forthwith. The citizens and inhabitants shall respec tively, if the fire happens at night, place a lighted candle or lamp at the front door or window of their dwellings, to remain there during the night, unless the fire be sooner extinguished, under the penalty of $2. "SEC. 30.—It shall be lawful for the foreman or assistant foreman of any fire engine or other fire company, or for the mayor, aldermen or councilmen, chief engi neer or assistants, to require the aid of any citizen or inhabitant in drawing any en gine or other apparatus to the fire, or near about the fire, or in working any engine at the fire, and on neglect or refusal to comply with such requisition, the offender shall pay a penalty of $5." The various companies were in the habit of assembling once per month for parade and drill. After a march about the street, the chief engineer would order a halt and then announce some convenient reservoir in a loud voice. Away the fire men would scurry, each company intent upon being first to make a connection at the spot named, and the first to arrive would begin "playing" at once. The competi tion was valuable for the purpose of drill, and of course the exercise was magnifi cent athletic sport. Accidents occurred occasionally, however. The most serious CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. one now remembered occurred during Chief Spangler's administration and affected Mr. Frederick Whitehead, who is still living here. He was a member of one of the companies, and in one of the "parade day" tests was running with the rope, when he tripped and fell, the engine passing over his leg and breaking it. He is still some what the worse for the experience. The firemen maintained a fund, the forerunner of the present pension fund. The best days of the local Department began with the installation of J. L. Weatherly as chief engineer, in June, 1840. He was the real organizer of the independent companies. In his inaugural, published July 6, 1840, he urged that there be no more "tumults" at fires—referring, of course, to the excessive competition, which led to lively encounters. He announced that the salary fixed by the City Council for the chief engineer (a mere gratuity amounting to $50 per year) would be devoted to premiums to be distributed among the companies according to their deserts. The prize so awarded, as a rule, was a silver trumpet, and was given at the end of the year to the company which had been the first at fires the greatest number of times in the year. Mr. Weatherly urged the different companies to strive for greater efficiency, and allow no flagging of interest. Firemen's parades were features of every holiday celebration in those days. The Fourth of July, 1844, was ushered in by the National salute, fired at sunrise by the artillery squad. The Herald of the day following, after commenting on the fact that no old-fashioned celebration had marked the day, says: "The excellent Fire Department was out, in honor of the presentation of a beautiful silver speaking-horn by ex-Chief Engineer John Outhwaite to the success ful competitor, gallant No. 5, and the Department partook of a generous collation prepared by that company. Everything was highly creditable to the firemen of our city." Mr. Whitehead, then foreman of No. 5, accepted the horn on behalf of the company. The efforts of the chief engineer were exercised largely in keeping up a pleas ant state of feeling between the companies, and the newspapers came in for their full share of this labor. A local paper made the mistake on one occasion, in 1843, of commending Company No. 4 particularly for its work at a fire on River street, at which all the companies had been at work. A warehouse on the dock burned and several vessels moored alongside were in great danger. Chief Spangler ordered No. 4 to the hottest place, between the warehouse and the vessel. The heat was so in tense that it burned the coats off the men's backs and twisted their leather helmets out of any recognizable shape. Mr. Samuel S. Lyon, who is still living here, was one of the members whose coat dropped in shreds from him during the fire. The men remained where they were placed, however, and Mr. Spangler characterizes their action at this half-century later as an exhibition of "clear pluck." The Herald waxed enthusiastic over it. Company No. 4 was regarded as a "fancy com pany" and was quartered in a building on Frankfort street which served later as an armory, but is now used for a warehouse by the United States Express Company. It was a better building than was enjoyed by other companies. The other companies were perhaps a bit envious of No. 4, especially its chief rival,. No. 5, which had se- CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. 189 LAW OFFjfCES OF VERNON H. BURKE, HOYT, DlJSTIN & KELLEY, ATTORNEY, Tel. 530. Room 839 Rooms 701-706 Society for Savings. Western Reserve Bldg. D. 0. CASWELL, Kline, Carr, Tolles & Goff, ATTORNEYS, REAL ESTATE, No. 517 415 Society for Savings. Tel. 605. Cuyahoga Building. Telephone 1202. Home 'Phone ^ DEWlTT & TOLAND, H. C. RANNEY, ATTORNEYS -ATTORNEY, AND COUNSELORS, No. 533 Offices—729-732 Society for Savings Building. Society for Savings. FORAN & DAWLEY, SOLDERS & HOGSETT, ATTORNEYS, ATTORNEYS, Telephone 2087. Room 725 MOHAWK BUII/DING. Home 'Phone 48. Society for Savings. GOULDER & HOLDING, SMITH & BLAKE, ATTORNEYS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, 816-817-818 Rooms 818-819 Perry-Payne Building. Society for Savings Building. Tel. 1932. North Side Public Square. HENDERSON & QUAIL, THURSTON & BATES, ATTORNEYS, PATENT LAW, 510-512 No. 1028 Telephone 18. Cuyahoga Building. Society for Savings Bldg. G. E. HERRICK, Louis H. WINCH, -ATTORNEY, ATTORNEY, No. 830 Tel. 1087. Cuyahoga Building. Tel. 1164, 87 Public Square. I9O CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. cured improved machinery similar to that used by No. 4, and was pushing hard for supremacy. The members of No. 5 were rather rough fellows, but splendid firemen and thoroughly reliable. They took offense at the praise showered upon No. 4, and called a meeting of the Department. Lengthy resolutions were adopted, showing that each company had done its full duty, and that any other company, if ordered to No. 4's dangerous position, would have acted quite as creditably. The resolutions were printed in a later issue of the paper. They are signed by M. M. Spangler, chief engineer; J. Outhwaite, assistant chief; Z. Eddy, second assistant, and the foreman of each of the companies, as follows: W. R. Virgil, of Hook and Ladder Company No. 1 ; N. Heisel, of Hose Company No. 1 ; J. Mitchell, of Neptune Engine Company No. 2 ; T. Blackwell, of Cataract Engine Company No. 5 ; B. Giles, of Eagle Engine Company No. 1, and C. F. Lender, of Phoenix Engine Company No. 4, who evidently signed in the interest of general harmony. The annual balls given by the firemen were looked forward to and remembered as events of social importance and interest. They were held at one of the hotels each of which in those days was provided with a large hall upon its upper floor for that and similar purposes. An invitation to the ball given January 27, 1843, "for the benefit of the Firemen's General Association Fund for the relief of disabled fire men in the city of Cleveland" is cherished among the relics of the surviving mem bers. It looks as if it had been printed upon a hand press, but is quite elaborately and laboriously gotten up. The names of the Committee on Arrangements printed on the invitation, in addition to the chief and his two assistants, are as follows : Eagle Engine Company No. 1—B. Giles, W. Towner, John J. Vinall, H. Stickney, L. R. Giles, James Ashwell. Neptune Engine Company No. 2—J. Mitchell, Joseph Ross, W. H. Hayward, W. H. Potts, J. W. Fitch. Phoenix Engine Company No. 4—C. F. Lender, J. Barnett, S. S. Lyon, C. Sanford, W. R. Simmons, Ed. B. Fisher. Cataract Engine Company No. 5—T. Blackwell, H. Lloyd, J. Foote, Jr., H. Willey, W. DeLang, Thomas Mell. Hook and Ladder Company No. 1—W. R. Virgil, I. Proudfoot, D. Dean, A. Hemmenway, J. S. Phillip, William Bliss. Hope Hose Company No. 1—N. Heisel, H. Helling, E. Hopperman, S. Thor- man, J. Risser, C. Cordes. FIRE ALARM TELEGRAPH. GENERAL DIRECTIONS. HIS important branch was added to the Department in the month of October, 1864. The first circuit laid embraced twenty-three fire alarm boxes, six of which were located on the west side of the river. The growth of the city cannot be better illustrated than from the fact that to-day this branch has over two hundred and sixty-five miles of lines for its operation. On the breaking out of a fire, notice should be immediately communicated to the Department by turning in the nearest signal box. Any person wishing to inform the Department of fire by telephone, will call the City Hall Exchange, giving name and location of same, and not call any fire station. The locality of the fire will be indicated on the gongs in the engine and police station houses, and on the fire bells, by the striking of blows corresponding to num ber of the signal box or locality nearest the fire. NUMBER AND LOCALITY OF SIGNAL BOXES. 2 City Hall.. 26 Erie and Eagle streets. 3 Lake and Ontario streets. 27 Erie and Prospect streets. 4 Engine House 1, St. Clair and Acad 28 Erie and St. Clair streets. emy streets. 29 Engine House 14, Muirson and 5 Water and Lake streets. D, Water Chestnut streets. and St. Clair streets. Nickel Plate Freight House, foot of 6 Union Depot. Cross street. 7 C. & P. Freight House. 32 Hill, near Commercial street. 8 Spring and Front streets. 34 Woodland and Erie street. 9 East River and Main streets. D, 35 Engine House 3, Central avenue. East River and St. Clair streets. 36 Prospect and Perry street. 10 Merwin and James street. 37 Perry and Scovill avenue. 11 Spring, near Superior street. 38 Broadway, near Perry street. 12 Merwin and British streets. D, 39 Woodland and Harmon street. Cleveland Milling Company. 41 Pearl and Monroe streets. 13 Columbus and Center streets. D, 42 Railroad crossing, foot Willey Columbus and Voltaire streets. street. 14 Canal, near Michigan street. 43 Mill, near Barber avenue. 15 Superior and Water streets. 45 Pearl and Pearl court. 16 Superior and Bank streets. 46 Vega avenue, between Rhodes and 17 Society for Savings corner. Hitchcock street. 18 Superior and Seneca streets. 47 Seymour and Mill street. 19 Engine Company 2, Champlain 48 Scranton and Rowley avenues. street. 49 Infirmary, Scranton avenue. 21 Euclid and Sheriff street. 51 Engine House 8, Scranton avenue. 23 Ontario and High streets. 52 Literary and Professor streets. 24 Central avenue and Broadway. 53 Jennings and Fairfield street. 25 Central Market. 54 Merchant and Starkweather. IQ2 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. 56 Jennings and Castle avenues. 138 York and Jay streets. 57 Tremont and Pelton avenue. r39 Jersey and Chatham streets. 58 Jefferson and University streets. 141 Old River and Weddell streets. 59 Jennings and Holmden avenues. 142 Detroit and Taylor streets. 61 Broadway and Irving. D, Standard H3 Harbor and Woodbine streets. Oil. 144 Lorain and Fulton streets. 62 Standard Oil Agitator. H5 Lorain and Burton' streets. 63 Standard Oil Cooper Shops. 146 Chatham and Willet streets. 64 Independence and Holly streets. 147 Bailey and Devine streets. 65 Broadway and Forest street. 148 Burton and Buckley streets. 67 Warren and Dillie streets. 149 Harbor and Cook streets. 68 Engine House 13. D, Broadway '51 Herman and Weddell streets. and McBride. > J52 St. Paul and 23d avenue. Willson avenue and N. Y., P. & O. !53 Franklin and Dare street. Railroad. J54 Lorain and Liberty streets. 7i Central avenue and Sked street. *55 Tenth Precinct, Swiss street. 72 Scovill and Henry street. 156 Junction and Ravine streets. 73 Woodland and Irving street. '57 Bridge and Taylor streets. 74 Jackson and Pittsburgh streets. 161 Walker Manufacturing Company, 75 Engine House 18, Croton street. Waverly avenue. 76 Forest street, at Nickel Plate Rail 162 Detroit and Waverly avenue. road. 163 Bridge and Courtland streets. 78 Standard Oil, Forest street. 164 Engine House 13, Waverly avenue. 79 Orange and Perry streets. 165 Lorain and Higgins streets. 81 Scovill and Maple street. 166 Lorain and Clark avenue. 82 Third Precinct, Forest street. 167 Chestnut Ridge and Clark avenue. 83 Woodland and Case avenues. 168 Gordon and Lawn street. 84 Scovill and Kennard. D, Scovill 171 Hook and Ladder House 5, Clark and Putnam street. and Pearl street. 85 Mayflower and Orange streets. 172 Clark and Rhodes avenue. 86 Woodland and Seelye avenues. !73 Clark and Bergen street. 87 Sawtell and Davis street. 174 N. O. Mills, Pleasant street. 89 Woodland and Linden street. i75 Brighton and Meyers avenue. 91 Central avenue and Sterling avenue. 176 Sackett and Rhodes avenue. 92 Prospect and Sterling avenue. 177 Pearl and Marvin streets. 93 Cedar and Greenwood street. 178 Trowbridge and Louis. 94 Engine House 7, Forest street. 181 Engine House 20, Clark and 95 Prospect and Case avenue. Gauge street 96 Fourth Precinct, Euclid Station. 183 Big Four crossing, Clark avenue. 97 Cedar and Hayward street. 185 Gilbert and Arkansas streets 98 McAllister's Mill, Newton street. 186 Gauge and Essex streets. 131 Whiskey Island. 187 Storer and Isabella. 122 Division and Old River streets. 188 Hopwood Provision Company. I23 Center and Hemlock streets. 189 Ridge and Wentworth. I24 Main and Svcamore streets. 191 Pearl and Scranton. 192 I25 Center and Winslow streets. Forestdale and Lyle court. 126 Pearl and Division streets. *93 Pearl and Dennison. 127 Pearl and Detroit streets. 194 Howar and Dennison. 128 Barrett Brewery, West River J95 Plymouth and Dennison. street. 196 Mapledale and Mt. Vernon. 129 Lorain and Brock streets. 197 Rhodes and Dennison. I3I Lorain and York streets. 198 Rhodes and Marvin. 199 132 Engine House 6. D, Pearl and Engine House 24, Pearl and Ter Bridge streets. race. J33 Franklin court. 211 Superior and Hazard streets. J34 Pearl and Franklin avenue. 212 Lake and Canfield streets. i35 Engine House 4, State street. 213 Davenport and Clinton Park. 136 Franklin and Kentucky street. 214 Euclid and Dodge street. i37 Bridge and Fulton streets. 2I5 St. Clair and Ross streets. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. 193 210 Second Precinct, Oregon and 317 Euclid and Walter street. Oliver streets. 3i8 Plough and Ansel avenues. D, 217 St. Clair and Alabama streets. Cable Park. 3l8 Lake Shore Shops. 3*9 Plough and Crawford road. 219 Lake and Alabama streets. 321 Scovill and Slater avenues. 221 Bond and Vincent streets. 322 Quincy and Willson avenues. 223 Prospect and Middle streets. 323 Woodland and Willcut avenues. 225 Sheriff and Huron streets. 324 Piatt and Carr streets. 226 Prospect and Brownell streets. 325 Engine House 16. D, Woodland 227 Euclid and Erie street. and Giddings. 228 Superior and Erie streets. 326 Hough and Madison avenues. Lake and Bond streets. 327 Superior and Madison avenue. Otis Steel Company, Lake street. 329 East Prospect and Watkins streets. 2 2 Lake and Lawrence streets. 3 33i Engine House 22, Wade Park 233 Superior and Waring streets. avenue. 2 Engine House 5, Phelps street. 2 34 33 Logan and Lamont streets. 2 Payne and Sterling avenues. 35 334 Euclid and Streator avenues. Payne and Buckeye street. 336 335 Crawford and Amesbury avenue. 2 Payne and Case avenues. 6 37 33 Cedar and Bolton. Brush Electric Company, Mason 238 337 Cedar and Doan. street. 341 Central avenue and Kennard street. 239 Engine House 17, Windsor street. 342 Central avenue and C. & P. cross 341 Payne and Willson avenues. ing. 243 Superior and Case avenue. 343 Central and Madison avenues. 243 Wason and Hamilton. D, Wason 344 Cedar and Arlington street. and L S. Railroad. 345 Cedar and Lincoln avenues. 344 Tyler Wire Works, St. Clair. 346 Cedar and Logan avenues. 245 St Clair and Lyman streets. D, 347 Cedar and Fairmount street. St. Clair and Kirtland streets. 348 Fairmount Reservoir, Woodland 246 Engine Llouse 19, St Clair and Hills. Willson avenue. 349 Case School, Euclid avenue. 247 Lowell and Oxford streets. 35 * Cedar and C. & P. crossing. 248 St. Clair and Madison avenue. 35 2 Cedar and Giddings avenues. 349 King Bridge Company, Ruskin 353 East Prospect and C. & P. crossing. street. 354 Quincy and Southern avenue. 251 Oregon and Dodge streets. 355 South Woodland and Nickel Plate 252 Payne and ITuntington street. Railroad. 253 Euclid and Oliver street. 356 Bismarck and Holton streets. 254 Euclid, between Case and Sterling 357 Eberhard Manufacturing Com avenues. pany. 255 St. Clair, west of Dodge. 358 Van Dorn Iron Works, C. & P. 356 City Forge, Case and Lake. Railroad. 257 Kilby Manufacturing Company, 359 Cleveland Rubber Works, C. & P. Lake near Kirtland. Railroad. 25S Hamilton and Kirtland streets. 361 Superior and Willson avenue. 259 Lake and Marquette streets. 362 White and Norwood streets. 261 St. Clair and Hodge avenue 363 Hough and Norwood street. 362 Merkel street L. S. crossing. 364 Wade Park avenue and Giddings. 263 Superior and Grafton streets. 365 Lexington and Russell avenues. 264 Superior and Ansel avenue. 366 Hough and Giddings avenues. 265 Wade Park avenue and Marcy. 367 Willson and Quimby avenues. 266 Woolsey and Donald streets. 368 East Madison and Melrose street. 267 Superior and Dana streets. 371 South Woodland and Woodland 268 Becker and Lewis avenues. Hills avenue. 12 3 Euclid and Dunham avenues. 2 Cumberland and Woodland Hills X 37 3 3 Euclid and Giddings avenues. avenue. 3*4 Euclid and Madison avenues. 374 North Woodland and Oakdale. 3L5 Euclid and Bolton avenues. 375 Quincy and Oakdale street. 316 Engine House 10, Doan street. 376 Quincy and Parker streets. i94 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. 377 Qiiincy and Cemetery streets. 451 Tod and Rogers streets. 378 Quebec and Streator. 461 South Willson and Fleet. 381 Engine Llouse 9, Willson avenue. 463 Petrie, near Chard. 382 Kinsman and Nicola. 465 Davis and Trumbull. 384 Kinsman and Deckand streets. 491 Woodland Hills and Bessemer. 386 Herald and Grand avenue. 493 Kinsman Street Hills. 387 Kinsman and Madison avenue. 494 Woodland Hills and Aetna. 38S Kinsman and C. & P. crossing. 495 Woodland Hills and Harvard. 39J Superior and Doan streets. 512 Engine House 21, .Scranton and 392 Crawford road and Lyman avenue. Seneca. 393 Crawford road and Parkwood. 5!3 Carter street, at Big Four Rail 394 Euclid and Nickel Plate Railroad. road. 396 Murray Hill and Cornell street. 5H Scranton and Carter street. Logue and Praha streets. 4" 5r5 Upson Nut Company, Scranton 412 Sixth Precinct, Willson avenue. avenue. 4'3 Oil Works, Tod street Railroad 5i6 Scranton and Girard street. crossing. 5i9 Columbus and Franklin. 414 Broadway and Union street. 524 Central avenue and Seneca street. 4J5 Tod street and N. Y., P. & O. 525 Commercial and Canal streets. crossing. 526 Cleveland Provision Company. 416 Francis and Sheridan streets. 529 Central Viaduct. 417 Tod and Fleet streets. 53i Scranton and Fairfield street. 418 Independence and Sykora. 532 Scranton and Jennings avenues. 419 Ham and Petrie streets. 54i Seneca and Mahoning. 421 Engine House 11, Sawyer street. 542 Jefferson and Seneca streets. 422 Broadway and Miles avenue. 545 Starkweather and Professor. 423 Broadway and Harvard. 554 Jennings and Auburn. 4-74 Miles avenue and Atwater street. 56i Scranton and Mentor avenues. 425 Woodland Hills and Union. 562 Pearl and Wade avenue. 426 Union and Upton streets. 563 Scranton and Holmden. 437 Woodland Hills and Hull street. 921 Detroit and Jones. 428 Richmond and Sawyer streets. 932 Ramsay and L. S. Railroad. 429 Bessemer and Atlantic streets. 923 Lake avenue and Elliot. 43 * N O. Insane Asylum. 924 Detroit and Jackson streets 432 Harvard and Jones avenue. 925 Detroit and Berea. 433 Marcelline and Covert streets. 926 Detroit and Hillsdale. 434 Fullerton and Spafford streets. 93 J West Madison and Henry. 435 Wire Mills, on Wire street. 932 Engine House 23, West Madison 436 Broadway and Axtell street. and Florence 437 Aetna and Axtell streets. 933 Lorain and Henly. 438 Union and Wright streets. 934 Henry and Evergreen streets. 439 Engine House 35, Broadway. 935 Dudley and Ridge avenue. 441 Marcelline and Fremont. 936 Jones and Bayne streets. 443 Warner road and Force. 937 Gordon and Franklin. The first fire alarm was built in the summer of 1865, using the wooden box, and known as the Key and Bell System, which was placed in buildings. In the sum mer of 1867, the wooden alarm boxes were discarded and iron ones were used, and placed on the outside of buildings, but the same Key and Bell System on the inside of the box. In the fall of 1867, the City Council entered into a contract with the Automatic Fire Alarm Company to change all of the Key and Bell alarm boxes, and put in the place of them the automatic alarm box known as the Allen Patent: and also build a talking line connecting all the engine houses, and use the former lines for fire only. This system worked well and is still in operation, but the automatic alarm box has been improved on in many ways. ROSTER OF THE CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. The following is a complete roster of the Cleveland Fire Department by companies : James W. Dickinson, Chief. William Logan, Fireman. Henry H. Rebbeck, First Assistant. Gustav Grunan, Cadet. George A. Wallace, Second Assistant. John Andrew, Third Assistant. ENGINE COMPANY NO. 4. Charles Dougherty, Fourth Assistant. M. B. Maloney, Captain. Henry J. Delaney, Fifth Assistant. Michael H. Nolan, Lieutenant. A. J. Spencer, Secretary. Vincent Seidel, Engineer C. D. Murphy, Superintendent Machinery. William J. Keeuen, Assistant Engineer. Perry H. Auxer, Storekeeper. William Dehaney, Fireman. D. L. Travis, Medical Officer. Thomas J. Rafferty, Fireman. Nathan H. Downs, Veterinary. Neil McNuIt}', Fireman. Patrick R. Mclntyre, Fireman. ENGINE COMPANY NO. I. Eugene P. Coleman, Fireman. William E. Scharf, Captain. Michael Conway, Fireman. William MacFeeters, Lieutenant. Edward Gillman, Lieutenant. ENGINE COMPANY NO. 5. Charles Hunt, Engineer. Henry Tucker, Captain. Edward Grady, Engineer. Frank S. Fish, Lieutenant. Tony Dreschler, Assistant Engineer. Wm. Koze, Assistant Engineer. John Dienst, Assistant Engineer. Michael H. Kane, Fireman. Frank Lynch, Fireman. John K. Irwin, Fireman. Hugh Mahar, Fireman. Henry L. Swift, Fireman. Patrick H. Jordan, Fireman. Horace S. Shannon, Fireman. Stephen Hughes, Fireman. Charles Craft, Fireman. Peter McFadden, Fireman. Samuel M. Purvis, Cadet. J. J. Mahoney, Fireman. John Ko3'an, Cadet. John H. Carroll, Fireman. Louis J. Earll, Fireman. ENGINE COMPANY NO. 6. W. J. Snell, F'ireman. Charles B. Whyler, Captain. P. J. O'Brien, Fireman. Stephen Kavanaugh, Lieutenant. Matthew A. Gallagher, Fireman. Elmer S. Yocum, Engineer. Frank Stansbury, Cadet. Robert Lane, Assistant Engineer. Peter McMahon, Fireman. ENGINE COMPANY NO. 2. John Schwartz, Fireman. John Clancy, Captain. George Mulholland, Fireman. Frank Fleming, Lieutenant. Martin A. Downs, Fireman. Daniel Finucan, Lieutenant. Levi J. Blue, Fireman. Albert H. Rowe, Engineer. Charles McGuire, Fireman. Charles F. Coolidge, Assistant Engineer. Wm. J. Blondin, Cadet. William T. Burgess, Fireman. Albert J. Drew, Cadet. James Gaul, Fireman. John C. Nevel, Fireman. ENGINE COMPANY NO. 7. John Cleary, Fireman. Charles B. Knapp, Captain. Daniel O. Laughlin, Fireman. William H. Roth, Lieutenant. Daniel Grady, F'ireman. William J. Kortz, Engineer. C. F. Chain, Fireman. John Sewell, Assistant Engineer. Henry M. Pritch, Cadet. Joseph Leroy, Fireman. Joseph Sharp, Fireman. ENGINE COMPANY NO. 3. Peter A. Logan, Fireman. George W. Killip, Captain. Owen D. McGinty, Fireman. James Johns, Lieutenant. Lawrence Lowe, Fireman. Rees D. Jones, Engineer. Albert Herr, Fireman. Frederick N. Flick, Acting Assistant Engineer. ENGINE COMPANY NO. S. August Kampfe, Fireman. Donald Grant, Fireman. William D. Jeffers, Captain. C. F. Smith, Fireman. John Waterbury, Lieutenant. Michael Finucan, Fireman. Stephen B. Conklin, Engineer. 196 CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. Frank A. Rothgery, Assistant Engineer. James Granger, Fireman. Sylvester Esterle, Fireman. Michael Fallow, Fireman. Frank Gillette, Fireman. John Ochs, Fireman. Charles B. Collins, Fireman. George Arnold. Cadet. John Bellar, Fireman. John F. Conway, Fireman. ENGINE COMPANY NO. 15, FIRE BOAT CEEVELANDEK.. ENGINE COMPANY NO. 9. Charles H. Anthony, Captain. John A. Moxon, Captain. Harry Blanchard, Lieutenant. William Shine, Lieutenant. William F\ Dempsey, Engineer. David Ward, Engineer. James Williams, Fireman. D. R. McClellen, Assistant Engineer. Glenn Anderson, Fireman. William Herr, Fireman. Philip Kaufman, Fireman. Fred W. Cummings, Fireman. William C. Rok, Fireman. Charles Havlichek, Fireman. William Dwelle, Fireman. George Oswald, Fireman. Bert McClue, Cadet. J. H. Powers, Fireman. C. C. Dewey, Fireman. , ENGINE COMPANY NO. 16. ENGINE COMPANY NO. IO. George W. Davis, Captain. William H. Clayton, Engineer. Andrew R. Brott, Captain. William C. Evans, Assistant Engineer. Frank Patton, Lieutenant. George Prichard, Fireman. Frank I. Mears, Engineer. William Baerlack, Fireman. Nicholas Clancy, Assistant Engineer, William Shrider, Fireman. Leslie Hendershot, Fireman. William Kruse, Fireman. John Schwartz, Fireman. William Zink, Fireman. George Badke, Fireman. Philip Belz, Cadet. James F. Strong, Fireman. Henry Kunze, Cadet. Vincent J. Vomer, Fireman. ENGINE COMPANY NO. 17. ENGINE COMPANY NO. II. Lyman H. Waterbury, Captain. Charles H. Mulcahey, Captain. George G. Jackson, Lieutenant. David T. J. Lewis, Lieutenant. Walter W. McMahon, Engineer. William H. Fenney, Engineer. Frank Barnett, Assistant Engineer. John A. MacFeeters, Sr., Assistant Engineer. Charles Coyne, Fireman. Harry Dyer, Fireman. Jacob Hoffman, Fireman. James Freeman, Fireman. John Hoffman, Fireman. Edward Dieghan, Fireman. William Dittman, Fireman. John Laughlin, Fireman. Thomas Hilton, Cadet. Louis Vance, Fireman. ENGINE COMPANY NO. 18. ENGINE COMPANY NO. 12. John'F. Aukens, Captain. Charles C. Hackmayer, Captain. George Farr, Lieutenant. Patrick V. Ginly, Lieutenant. John McWilliams, Engineer. Melvin Prindle, Engineer. William Zimmerman, Assistant Engineer. William J. Hartzell, Assistant Engineer. John Eldridge, Fireman. Jacob Bruehler, Fireman. Arthur S. Rand, Fireman. William H. Nightingale, Fireman. Frank Kulish, Fireman. Arnold Vanderwyst, Fireman. Charles Freiberg, Fireman. Joseph P. Sanders, Fireman. Joseph Kessler, Fireman. Max Voss, Cadet. August Marquardt, Fireman. Alfred Downs, Cadet. Joseph Kaufman, Fireman. Robert Melbourne, Cadet. ENGINE COMPANY NO. 13. William H. Ney, Captain. ENGINE COMPANY' NO. 19. Martin Armstrong, Lieutenant. Thomas F. Connell, Captain. Frank Weber, Engineer. Althanasius Hogan, Lieutenant. Andrew C. Presley, Assistant Engineer. Hugh D. Collins, Engineer. John Anderson, Fireman. Patrick H. Devine, Assistant Engineer. Carl A. Patterson, Fireman. Daniel J. Kennedy, Fireman. Herman David, Fireman. Joseph Kernan, Fireman. James Moore, Fireman. John T. Goggin, Fireman. Charles McCrackeu, Fireman. Bernard E. McGivern, Fireman. Edward J. Gunnon, Fireman. ENGINE COMPANY NO. 14. Joseph S. Glyde, Cadet. John McGloo, Captain. Charles Ballou, Lieutenant. ENGINE COMPANY NO. 20. Henry Wagner, Engineer. Jacob Broat, Captain. Patrick Hart, Assistant Engineer. James T. Neiswinter, Lieutenant. Robert McKenna, Fireman L. S. Bartholomew, Engineer. David Deitrick, Fireman. J. E. Tuq}in, Assistant Engineer. Edward Davis, Fireman. Benjamin F. Eyre, Fireman. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. [97 Frank Hovorka, Fireman. George Frey, Fireman. John E. McGinty, Fireman. T, F. Redmond, Fireman. Albert Donovan, Fireman. Robert Cain, Cadet. Frederick Becker, Fireman. Albert Kascher, Cadet. William Srp, Cadet. ENGINE COMPANY NO. 21. HOOK AND LADDER COMPANY NO. 2. William M. Hunks, Captain. John A. MacFeeters, Jr., Lieutenant. Sheldon Wright, Captain. Fred Hart, Assistant Engineer. Charles Fogg, Fireman. Frank Hearns, Fireman. Frank P. Anthony, Fireman. Samuel W. Jones, Fireman. Sanford Overmyer, Fireman. William Mier, Fireman. Franklin Perrell, Fireman. Harry Isbister, Fireman. Patrick J. Ferrie, Fireman. Wm. E. Koehlke, Cadet. Charles C. Tower, Fireman. Gilbert E. Turnbull, Cadet. Henry B. Wood, Fireman. James S. Richards, Cadet. Christopher J Howley, Fireman. Patrick J. McGinty, Fireman. ENGINE COMPANY NO. 22. Thomas P. Gerity, Fireman. Patrick J. Reddy, Fireman. Richard Gorman, Captain. A. P. Schuchardt, Cadet. W. H. Lawrence, Lieutenant. Emil A. Burger, Cadet. Thomas Waters, Engineer. Nelson Cheney, Assistant Engineer. HOOK AND LADDER COMPANY NO. 3. Max Boufford, Fireman. Timothy Madigan, Fireman. John P. Belz, Captain. Patrick Stanton, Fireman. George B. B. Shibley, Lieutenant. Archie W. Hartzell, Fireman. Conrad Bender, Fireman. George W. O'Connor, Fireman. John F. Schutte, Fireman. Fred Dambach, Fireman. ENGINE COMPANY NO. 23. John Vetrovec, Fireman. Hugh Hussey, Captain. A. J. Malone, Fireman. William Joyce, Lieutenant. Arthur C. Phillips, Fireman. Conrad Wamser, Engineer. J. J. Ruddy, Fireman. George Miltner, Assistant Engineer. Harvey Yarhaus, Fireman. Edward Sewer, Sr., Fireman. James McGrail, Fireman. HOOK AND LADDER COMPANY NO. 4. Edward Sewer, Jr., Fireman. Grant Gairns, Captain. Thomas F. Kane, Fireman. John Hooper, Lieutenant. Joseph Flaherty, Fireman. Charles B. Ward, Fireman. Thomas Axford, Fireman. ENGINE COMPANY NO. 24. Michael Falvey, Fireman. Peter Murphy, Fireman. William Witt, Captain. Albert Dawson, Fireman. Otto Lautermilch, Lieutenant. James Nesbitt, Fireman. Reinhold Reichert, Engineer. John Flynn, Fireman. John J. Mooney, Assistant Engineer. Albert Davis, Fireman. HOOK AND LADDER COMPANY NO. 5. Thomas Quinn, Fireman. William Smith, Fireman. Maurice Butler, Captain. Herman Schlee, Fireman. Thomas D. Emsley, Lieutenant. Frank D. Smith, Fireman. ENGINE COMPANY NO. 25. George S. Green, Fireman. August Bieber, Fireman. William McNamara, Captain. William Mulcahy, Fireman. James Garner, Lieutenant. Joseph Fields, Fireman. Frank Hughes, Engineer. Thomas Graulty, Fireman. Otto Schafranek, Assistant Engineer. Edwin Reeve, Fireman. Alex. Skaleski, Fireman. Ernest Hooper, Fireman. HOOK AND LADDER COMPANY NO. 6. John Kenlis, Fireman. Joseph Drdek, Fireman. George H. Haywood, Captain. Edward Schacha. Ernest T. Woolway, Lieutenant. Edward P. Henry, Fireman. HOOK AND LADDER COMPANY NO. 1. Fred Arbeck, Fireman. Frank B. Brunner, Fireman. Abraham L. McKenzie, Captain. Edward M. Brass, Fireman. Andrew Newmore, Lieutenant. Robert Duffy, Fireman. Edward F. Hewitt, Fireman. John P. Nugent, Fireman. George Stechler, Fireman. John J. Lally, Fireman. Louis Pritch, Fireman. Robert Nicholson, Fireman. Louis Michel, Fireman. John T. Pursey, Fireman. Reuben J. Hooper, Fireman. William R. Coe, Fireman. HOOK AND LADDER COMPANY NO. 7. William Herkert, Fireman. Morris Hawley, Captain. Joe Dub, Fireman. Theodore Jirele, Lieutenant. CLEVELAND FIRE DEPARTMENT. John J. Reilly, Fireman. TRAINING STABLE. Edmund J. Colburn, Fireman. Joseph Andrew, Fireman. Adam Dickler, Fireman. John Livingston, Fireman. Henry P. Boulton, Fireman. David Kain, Fireman Willis Saddler, Fireman. PAINTER. Thomas Jones, Cadet. Conrad Lippus. John Fferr, Cadet. FIRE ALARM TELEGRAPH COMPANY. HOOK AND LADDER COMPANY NO. 8. Joseph Rothgery, Chief Operator. Thomas Broderick, Captain. John D. Barlow, Operator. George Hemrich, Fireman. Henry Kenneman, Operator. Fred W Stockey, Fireman. John J. Rothgery, Lineman. Edward Heffron, Fireman. William Warnock, Lineman. John Welch, Fireman. J. J. Dunn, Fireman. Charles Spillman, Fireman. Joseph Marsal. HOOK AND LADDER COMPANY NO. 9. BUILDING INSPECTORS. Sanford Stephens, Captain. Fred W. Salisbury, Fireman. John E Thomas, Inspector. John C Durell, Fireman. W. D. Campbell, Assistant. Charles Lautzer, Fireman. James D. Cockburn, Deputy. Peter J. Allen, Fireman. Henry J. Ellen, Deputy. Henry A, McNamara, Fireman. J. T. Gillson, Fireman. BOILER INSPECTOR. HOSE COMPANY NO. 1 . Thomas Caldwell, Inspector. John A. Rees, Captain. Jacob Willard, Clerk. William J. Axford, Lieutenant. James Angel, Fireman. EXAMINER OF ENGINEERS. John C. Huebner, Fireman. Fred G. Kaufholz. Louis Chuppell, Cadet. FIRE WARDENS. ELECTRICIAN. Erwin Reif and Frank Miller. George M. Hoag. FRIENDS AND PATRONS OF THE CLEVELAND FIREMEN'S RELIEF ASSOCIATION. J. S. Ashley. Hughes Steam Pump Co. Sam'l Aubley, 2358 Broadway. Koch & Henke, 702 Lorain St. American Washboard Co. J. P. Lamson, 412 Scranton Ave. Barrett Mfg. Co., 29 Euclid Ave. S. A. Muhlhauser, no Walton Ave. Mrs. L. Beckman, 44 Ontario St. F. Muhlhauser Co., 16 Pleasant St. Bing Furniture Co., 230 Seneca St. W.J. Morgan, Cor. Wood & St. Clair Sts. Brightman Machine Co. Wm. Neracher, Society for Savings Cleveland Gas Light & Coke Co. Building. Clement Bros. Construction Company, National Lead Co., Champlain Street, 23 Vincent Street. Junction Canal St. Cleveland Wheel & Foundry Company, T. F. Newman, Gen'l Manager C. & B. 20 Carter Street. Transit Company. Cleveland Facing Mill Co. Ohio Heating & Manufacturing Co. Cleveland Steel Co. Paragon Insulating Co., 1025 Society Cleveland Spring Co. for Savings Building. Cleveland National Bank. Pilsner Brewing Co. Commercial National Bank. Parrish & Bingham Co. National Bank of Commerce. W. H. Quinby, 13 Euclid Ave. Cleveland Steel Range Co. Robinson Bros., Bakers, 42 Bridge St. Columbia Brewing Co. J. Rosenwater, 439 Woodland Ave. Cleveland Rolling Mill Co. The N. G. Richman Co., 74 Water St. Ellwell-Parker Electric Co. S. W. Sessions, 412 Scranton Ave. O. R. Goodyear, 1156 Pearl St. M. T. Silver & Co., 269 St. Clair St. M. Greenhut, 1038 Lorain St. Chris. Siegrist, 651 Castle Ave. Glidden Varnish Co. W. A. Spilker, 41 Merwin St. Gehring Brewing Co. Schneider & Trenkamp. J. M. Hirt, 956 Pearl St. H. Van Zalk, 1202 Pearl St. Hexter & Wertheim, 121 St. Clair St. A. J. Wenham's Sons, 138 Sheriff St. Hallet & Davis Piano Co. B. W. Wolf. H. H. Hackman, 278 Seneca St. The L. H. Whitcomb Co., 99 Bank St. Horix Manufacturing Co. Thos. Wilson, 519 Perry-Payne Bldg. The Williams 'Publishing and Electric Co. Printers, Publishers, Binders, No. 237 St. Clair Street, Cleveland, 0.