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MAXIM MOTOR<br />
COMPANY<br />
ESTABLISHED 1888<br />
Factory<br />
MIDDLEBORO, MASS.<br />
Manu]acturers o]<br />
FIRE APPARATUS - ALL TYPES<br />
FIRE DEPARTMENT SUPPLIES<br />
FIRE HOSE<br />
MAXIM BUILT FIRE DEPT. LADDERS
ADVERTISERS INDEX...<br />
A<br />
AD T ............................. 34<br />
A & P Super Markets ................. 54<br />
Abington Mutual Fire Insurance Co ...... 134<br />
Ace Welding Service .................. 326<br />
Adams Asphalt Company .............. 322<br />
Ahearn Company, P .................. 316<br />
Ainslie Electronic Products Inc ......... 352<br />
Air Conditioning Engineering ’Coznpany .. 282<br />
Abli Manufacturing ’Co~npany ........... 18<br />
Albert Bros .......................... 202<br />
Allen & Hall ........................ 112<br />
Allen Inc., Harold B ................. 206<br />
Allen Rogers Corp .................... 106<br />
Allied Machinist <strong>of</strong> Waltham ........... 266<br />
Allied Metals Inc ..................... 239<br />
Allied <strong>New</strong> Hampshire Gas Company .... 114<br />
American Abrasive Company ........... 308<br />
American Agricultural Chemical Company 358<br />
American Bobbin Company ............ 84<br />
American Cleaners & Dyers ............ 196<br />
American Fire Equipment Company ..... 156<br />
American Insurance Company .......... 80<br />
American Lumber & Supply Co ......... 279<br />
American Mutual Liability Insurance Company<br />
............................. 62<br />
American Oil Company ............... 48<br />
American Optical Company ............ 30<br />
America~ Screw Company ............. 239<br />
American Woolen Cmnpany ............ 295<br />
Ames Company, B. C ................. 166<br />
Ames Precision Machine ~,Vorks ........ 166<br />
Androscoggin Die Company ............ 342<br />
Ansin Company, J .................... 244<br />
Archer Rubber .Company .............. 292<br />
Architcctural Stone Company .......... 294<br />
Architectural Woodwork Company ...... 350<br />
Arden Rayshine .Company ............. 286<br />
Ark Les Switch Corp .................. 178<br />
Arlington Trust Company .............. 348<br />
Arnco Auto Supply Company ........... 336<br />
Ashland Garage ...................... 220<br />
Athens Olympia Cafe ................. 172<br />
Athol Coal Company .................. 276<br />
Athol Savings Bank .................. 278<br />
Atlantic Parachute Corp ............... 348<br />
Atlantic Refining Company ............ 62<br />
Atlas Powder Company ............... 200<br />
Attridge Company, Walter S ............ 170<br />
Atwood Costello Inc ................... 361<br />
Auburn Die Cmnpany ................. 342<br />
Automatic Fire Alarm ................ 38<br />
Automatic Heating Corp ............... 68<br />
B & B 0il Company .................. 344<br />
Babson’s Reports .................... 148<br />
Backman Uxbridge Worsted Corp ....... 238<br />
Badger Rand Ince Company ........... 114<br />
Bailey Company, E. W ................ 128<br />
Bailey Motor Sales ................... 160<br />
Baker,, Walter ....................... 54<br />
Balboni’s Express .................... 214<br />
Bancr<strong>of</strong>t Motors Inc .................. 270<br />
Banner, John L ...................... 312<br />
Barbour Welting Company ............. 142<br />
Burden Corp ......................... 284<br />
Bardwe]l Hotel ...................... 126<br />
Bargain Spot ........................ B32<br />
Barnicoat, N., Company ............... 352<br />
Bascom, Inc., George R ............... 344<br />
Basanisi, John ...................... 234<br />
Batchelder Oil Company ............... 112<br />
Bath Company, John ................. 300<br />
Bay State Cloth Steaming .Company ..... 234<br />
Beach Supply Company ............... 350<br />
Beaconsfield Hotel .................... 164<br />
Bean & Cole ......................... 334<br />
Bearings Specialty Company ........... 62<br />
Beckwith Manufacturing Company ...... 116<br />
Beebe Rubber Company ............... 98<br />
Beetle Boat Cmnpany Inc .............. 359<br />
Belgrade Shoe Co ..................... 76<br />
Belknap Mills Corp .................... 106<br />
Belmont Holding Cmnpany ............ 160<br />
Belmont Savings Bank ................ 160<br />
Belotti Inc., Victor ................... 154<br />
Bennett Company, H. G ............... 128<br />
Benson Gas ~’uels Inc .................<br />
326<br />
Bent .Company, Robert M .............. 172<br />
Berkshire Air Conditioning Co~npany .... 306<br />
Berkshire Construction Company ....... 182<br />
Berkshire Life Insurance Company ...... 310<br />
Berkshire Mutual Fire Insurance Company 310<br />
Berkshire Plumbing & Heating Company. 308<br />
Bersworth Chemical Company .......~.. 358<br />
Bessoni Brothers, Inc ................. 362<br />
Bete Fox Nozzle, Inc .................. 206<br />
Better Homes Club Plan .............. 152<br />
Bettinger Enamel ,Corp ................ 266<br />
Bilco Company ...................... 240<br />
Bilco Distributors, ~nc ................. 207<br />
Blackstone Valley Gas & Electric Company 217<br />
Blake, ~,Vilbur F ...................... 88<br />
B]instrub’s Village ................... 56<br />
Bliss Company, Janms ................ 176<br />
Blodgett Supply Company .............. 122<br />
Blouin, Charles P ..................... 230<br />
Bolden, Inc., Grace .................. 220<br />
Boris Beverage Cmapany .............. 332<br />
Boston Insurance Company ............ 42<br />
Boston Ladder Equipment Company ..... 232<br />
Boston, MetaI Door Company, lnc ....... 250<br />
Boston Nash Company ................ 172<br />
Boston Road & Equipment Company, Inc. 54<br />
Boston Stove Foundry Company ........ 220<br />
Boston Office Partition Company ....... 244<br />
Boulia Gorrell Lumber ’Company ........ 110<br />
Boulos Company, E. S ................. 90<br />
Boyce Maehine Company .............. 218<br />
Brady Cleaners & Dyers ............... 268<br />
Brax~nar Company, Inc., C. G ........... 154<br />
Breed Company, C. A ................. 2~2<br />
Bride Grimes Co~npany ................ 346<br />
Bridgeport Gas Company .............. 204<br />
Bridgeport Hardware Company ......... 190<br />
Bridgeport Housing Company .......... 194<br />
Bridgeport Hydraulic Company ......... 196<br />
Bridgeport Leather Specialty Company ... 198<br />
Bridgeport Machine Inc ............... 1~0<br />
Bridgeport People’s Savings Bank ...... 196<br />
Bridgeport Plastics & Rubber Company .. 204<br />
Bridgeport Thermostat Company ........ 194<br />
Brigham & Drew .................... 356<br />
Broadway Chevrolet Corp .............. 324<br />
Brodeur Company, M. J ............... 98<br />
Brookfield Engineering Laboratories ..... 214<br />
Brookline Federal Savings ............. 288<br />
Broekline Ice & Coal Company .........<br />
288<br />
Buckley, Leo J ....................... 230<br />
Buckley Scott ........................ 282<br />
Bullard Company .................... 181<br />
Burlen & Son, Robert ................. 142<br />
Burlington Drug Company ............. 124<br />
Butcher Polish Company .............. 260<br />
Butler Engineering Company .......... 280<br />
Butler & Hayden, Inc .................<br />
Byron V~eston Company ...............<br />
218<br />
290<br />
C B S Hytron ....................... 32<br />
C & S 0il Heating Company, Inc ....... 258<br />
Cambridge Federal Savings & Loan Assn..<br />
228<br />
Cambridge Plating Company ........... 162<br />
Canter Construction Company .......... 328<br />
Canters Monuments ..................<br />
Canton<br />
346<br />
Friend ...............<br />
Carbert ManufactUring Co~npany ......<br />
214<br />
266<br />
Carbone Sons, J. C ................... 326<br />
’Carey’s Texaco Station<br />
Carlson,<br />
................ 256<br />
Ernest .....................<br />
Carlson Garnetting Company ..........<br />
302<br />
166<br />
Carpenter Manufacturing Company ..... 362<br />
Carroll ~erge & Whipple Inc ........... 308<br />
Carter Milling Company .............. 342<br />
Cassedy Inc., James S ................. 322<br />
Cassidy Inc. W. S ................... 354<br />
Castro Convertibles .................. 216<br />
Cataldo ]nc ......................... 2¢~i<br />
Cavanaugh Inc. Leo A ................. 128<br />
Central Auto Sales .................. 332<br />
Central Cleaners ..................... 357<br />
Cerel, Realtor, Martin ................ 136<br />
Cesco Container Company ............ 316<br />
Chamberlain’s ........................ 168<br />
~Cbambers Storck Company ............ 240<br />
Chauipion International Company ...... 36<br />
Champlain Paper Box Company ........ 128<br />
Cham~:*lain Valley Fruit Company ...... 122<br />
Champlin, William H ................ 116<br />
Chandler Jr. Albert M ................ 252<br />
Chaples Grocery, H. F ................. 218<br />
Chapman Valve Manufacturing Cmnpany 298<br />
Charles <strong>of</strong> the Ritz .................. 239<br />
Charlestown Savings Bank ............ 64<br />
Chase & Son Inc ..................... 328<br />
Chatfield Paper Company ............ 240<br />
Cheshire Gas Service Company ........ 360<br />
Chittenden County Trust .............. 120<br />
.Cities Service Oil Company ........... 130<br />
City Lumber Company ............... 194<br />
City Oil & CoaI Company ............ 18E<br />
City Savings Bank .................. 190
ADVERTISERS INDEX...<br />
Clark l~Ietal Products Ine ............. 204<br />
Clark Shoe Company ................ 78<br />
Clinton Savings Bank ................ 160<br />
Clough, .Company Joseph L ........... 118<br />
Clougherty ’Company, ’Charles ~WI ........ 264<br />
Clover Cutting Die Company .......... 279<br />
Cloverleaf ........................... 178<br />
Cobb’s Steak l-Iouse ................... 174<br />
C<strong>of</strong>fee Ann Shop ................ : .... 322<br />
Coleman Disposal ,Company ............ 226<br />
Colmer 1Vfonument Works ............. 348<br />
Colony Food Products ................ 236<br />
Columbia Recording Corp ............. 180<br />
Commonwealth Chevrolet ’Company .....<br />
Commonwealth Ice Cold Storage Co ..... 242<br />
Congdon Transportation ’Company ......<br />
Conley’s Bay State Overall Cleaners .... 260<br />
Connecticut Clasp Company ........... 204<br />
Connecticut Glass Company .......... 198<br />
Conti’ & Donahue .................... 279<br />
Continental ~Iachine Company ......... 262<br />
Contiental Shoe .Corp ................. 108<br />
Cook Building Supply Company ........ 302<br />
Coolidge Cleaners .................... 158<br />
Coombs & McBeath Inc ............~.. 224<br />
Coombs ~Wfotor Co .................... 286<br />
Corbett Concrete Pipe Company ........ 336<br />
Cornwall & Patterson Company ........ 194<br />
Corseglia Company, George V ........... 354<br />
Cotter & Company Inc., James ........ 346<br />
Craftsman Insurance .Company ......... 80<br />
Craig & Sons, John H ................. 258<br />
Crescent Creamery ................... 268<br />
Crest Shoe Company .................. 342<br />
Cronin Inc., C. l-I ................... 168<br />
Cronin Lumber Company, D. ~ ......... 326<br />
Crowley Inc., James B ............. :. 102<br />
Crown Hote! ........................ 19<br />
Cummings iVfachine Works ............ 330<br />
Currier’s ...........................<br />
Curry ’Company, Frank B .............. 322<br />
Cushman Company, Charles ............ 66<br />
Cushman I-Iollis Company ............. 76<br />
Cushman & Son, Wi!liam ............. 110<br />
Cutler & Cutler Inc .................. 90<br />
D<br />
Daily Hampshire Gazette .............. 314<br />
Danbury Explosives Company, Inc ....... 192<br />
Davidson Fan Company .............. 262<br />
Davis & ]?’urber Machine Company ...... 279<br />
Davis Oil Company, Inc ............... 360<br />
Dedham Mills ....................... 234<br />
Deering Anderson Company ............ 226<br />
Dennison ........................... 42<br />
Dewiek & Flanders, Inc ............... 170<br />
Di iYfare Brothers .................... 226<br />
Diehl Son, F ......................... 162<br />
Dix Heel Company .................... 116<br />
Dodge Construction ’Company ........... 304<br />
Doehla Greeting ’Cards ................. 118<br />
Doelcam Corp ....................... 262<br />
Donahue & ’Cammisky ................ 342<br />
Donnelly Brick ,Co .................... 362<br />
Donovan Company Inc., L. A ........... 291<br />
Doran Brothers ..................... 284<br />
D.ow Agency, Neal. ................... 88<br />
Drake Engineering Company .......... ~92<br />
Draper Corp ......................... 10<br />
Dreyfus Properties ................... 328<br />
Drisco]l & Pearee, Inc ................. 80<br />
E<br />
E & F Construction Company .......... 180<br />
Eagle ~¢lachine & Tool Company : ...... 306<br />
Eagle Shoe ~Company ................ 172<br />
Eas~ ’Coast ,Construction Corp ........... 330<br />
Eastern Auto Parts Corp ............. 260<br />
E~stern Felt Company ................ 208<br />
E.astern Fire Equipment Company ...... 75<br />
Eastern Fixture Company ............. 178<br />
Eastern Gas & Fuel Associates ........ 130<br />
Eastern Industries ................... 240<br />
Eastern Oil Burner Service Company .... 66<br />
Eastern States Storm Window Company 281<br />
Eastern Trust & Banking Company .... 82<br />
Eastman, Samuel .................... 92<br />
Eaton, Lawrence R ................... 242<br />
Edgehill Lukins Inc .................. 222<br />
Edgerly-Son, R. lVf .................... 114<br />
Electric Specialty Company ............ 239<br />
Electric Wire Company Inc ........:... 316<br />
Electronic Development & Manufacturing<br />
Electronic Development & 1Vfanufacturing<br />
Co. Inc ......................... 284<br />
Elliot Company, Earl L ................ 332<br />
Ellis Fire Appliance Company .......... 264<br />
Embassy Restaurant .................. 320<br />
Esleeck ~Wfanufacturing Company .’. .... 294<br />
Eureka Fire Hose .................... 16<br />
Evening Call Publishing Company ....... 26<br />
Excelsior Laundry Inc ................. 210<br />
F<br />
Fabric Tire Hose Company ............ 26<br />
Fairfield & Ellis ...................... 68<br />
F’airchild Industries .................. 126<br />
Yules ’Company, Frank ................ 2:[4<br />
Falmouth Auto Body Company ........ 357<br />
Falmouth I-Iot el ...................... 74<br />
Farber Company .................... 318<br />
Farina Brothers .................... : 146<br />
Farmer & Mechanics Savings Bank ..... 256<br />
Farrar Company .................... 140<br />
Farrell & Gregory ................... 304<br />
Federal Flooring Corp ................. 224<br />
Federal Welding Service Inc.. .......... 284<br />
Feely Chevrolet Inc ................... 338<br />
Fels Company ....................... 86<br />
Felz Company, A. ;l ................... 262<br />
Fenwal ~Inc ........ ... : ............. 140<br />
Ferdinand & Company Inc., L. %~ ....... 178<br />
Ferro Inc. J.ohn A ................... 200<br />
Field & Cowles ..................... 152<br />
Field Point Manufacturing Company .... 360<br />
Fifty-seven R’estaurant ............... 174<br />
]~iremen’s lViutual Insurance Company .. 19<br />
First National Bank & Trust Company .. 206<br />
First National Bank <strong>of</strong> Athol .......... 278<br />
First National Stores ................. 138<br />
Fitts Insurance Agency .............. 256<br />
]~lorini’s Garden .................. 290<br />
Folsom ]~uneral Home ................ 228<br />
Foxboro ’Company .................... 292<br />
Foxboro Coal Company ............... ’ 292<br />
Foxborough Savings Bank ............ 292<br />
Fownes ±Wfanufacturing Company ........ 112<br />
Framingham ~/laster Service Station .... 324<br />
]?ramingham Trust Company .......... 136<br />
Frank Industries .................... 304<br />
Franklin County Trust Company ...... 206<br />
Franklin Saving.s Institution .......... 206<br />
Fraymor Flowers .................... 228<br />
Frazer Walker Company .............. 288<br />
French Company, George B ............. 108<br />
Friendly Banks <strong>of</strong> Portsmouth N. H ..... 94<br />
Frisbies Pies ........................ 186<br />
Frouge Construction Company ......... 182<br />
Fuelite National Gas Company ......... 208<br />
Fullam & Putnam .................... 104<br />
]Yeller Brush .Company ................ 186<br />
Fuller Lumber Company, W. A .......... 302<br />
Gagnon I-Iaskell Inc. ................. 84<br />
Gailey & Son, C. H ................... 90<br />
Galassi ’Company ..................... 244<br />
Gamewell Company .................. Cover<br />
Gammino Construction Company ....... 131<br />
Gas Inc ...................... . ..... 348<br />
Gate City Ro<strong>of</strong>ing & Siding Company .... 104<br />
Gelinas Cleaners ..................... 93<br />
Gem Crib & ’Cradle Company .......... 160<br />
General Alarm Corp ................. 40<br />
General R. F. Fittings ’Company ...... 245<br />
Genovese Coal & Mason ~-Ylaterial Company 200<br />
Gibbs Oil Company .................. 326<br />
Gibson & ’C.ompany, C. R, ............... 192<br />
Gilbert & Barker Manufacturing Company 34<br />
Gillespie Company, Robert ............. 296<br />
Gilmore & Rothery Company ......... . 246<br />
Glickson Upholstery .Corp. Oscar ....... 356<br />
Godfry Fuel ’Company ................ 357<br />
Goodman, William .................... 84<br />
Goodrich, Clifford ~ ......." .......... 308<br />
Gorin, H. N. Leeder lYfanagement ’Co ..... 164<br />
Gordon & Son, l-Ylorris ............... 232<br />
Gould Oil Burner .................... 344<br />
Gould, I.i. Maynard .................. 138<br />
Gould & Scamon Inc ................. 318<br />
Gove the Florist .................... 124<br />
Grange ~/lutual Fire Insurance ’Company 116<br />
Graves & Sons ’Company, ’C. H .......... 72<br />
Green ~/Iountain IViutual Fire Ins. Co .... 121<br />
Green Textile Associates .............. 361<br />
Greenfield Ice & Trucking Co .......... 290<br />
Greenfield Savings Bank ............. 354<br />
Greenhalgh Company, A ............... 318<br />
Greenlaw Company, H. C .............. 230<br />
Grimes Company, E. L ................ 144<br />
Grinnell Company ................... 38<br />
Griswold, George H... : ............... 350<br />
Grosvenor & Company W. J ........... 324<br />
Grouden Sales & Service .............. 90
ADVERTISERS INDEX...<br />
H<br />
Hahnel Brothers ....................<br />
218<br />
Hailer & Davis Piano Company ........ 336<br />
Hailinan Bros .......................<br />
236<br />
Halloran, W. J ......................<br />
318<br />
~-Iallowell Jones & Donald ............<br />
176<br />
Hampden Nationa! Bank & Trust ’Company306<br />
Hampton Beach Casino ..............<br />
114<br />
Handleman Company, A ...............<br />
194<br />
Harbor Auto Sales Company ..........<br />
346<br />
Harmon Inc., Herbert A ...............<br />
88<br />
Harrington Bros ....................<br />
248<br />
Harris & Guns Company .............<br />
192<br />
Hart Top Manufacturing Company ..... 302<br />
Hartford County IYiutual .............. 184<br />
Hartley & Son, Frank .................<br />
108<br />
Hartol Petroleum Corp ...............<br />
70<br />
Harvard National Bank & Trust ’Co ..... 120<br />
Harvey ~Company, 1~. C ................ 150<br />
Harwin Manufacturing ’Company ....... 100<br />
Haskell Plumbing Company, Carl N ...... 86<br />
Hathaway Bakeries Inc ...............<br />
152<br />
Hedlund Motor Company .............. 358<br />
Hercules Powder Company ............ 36<br />
Herrick Company ....................<br />
37<br />
Hersey Manufacturing Company ....... 242<br />
Hesser Business College .............. 100<br />
Hickok & Boardman Inc ...............<br />
82<br />
Hingham Mutual Fire Insurance Company 156<br />
Hitchiner Manufacturing ’Company Inc... 118<br />
Hodge Badge Company ..............<br />
220<br />
Hodges Mill No. 2 ..................<br />
357<br />
H<strong>of</strong>fman Fuel Company, Michale ........ 200<br />
Hoitt Furniture Company, Charles A ..... 118<br />
Holland ]~’urnace Company ............ 236<br />
Holmes Electric Company ..... ~ ....... 84<br />
Holyoke <strong>of</strong> Salem Insurance Agency .... 134<br />
Home Insurance Company ............<br />
ttomelite Corp .......................<br />
20<br />
Homes Inc .........................<br />
146<br />
Homestead Woolen Mills Inc ............ 360<br />
Hood l~ubber Company ................ 52<br />
Hoover l~Iotors ......................<br />
172<br />
Horan & Company, M. P ............... 224<br />
Hotel Braemore .....................<br />
230<br />
Hotel Continental ....................<br />
248<br />
Hotel Kenmore .......................<br />
56<br />
Hotel Lenox ........................<br />
58<br />
Hotel Manger . ......................<br />
58<br />
Hotel Northampton ..................<br />
298<br />
Hotel Somerset & Shelton ............. 58<br />
Hotel Statler ........................<br />
56<br />
Hotel Vendome ......................<br />
56<br />
Howe ~iotor Sales ....................<br />
114<br />
Howlett Company, Albert D ............ 322<br />
Hughes Motor Sales Company .......... 265<br />
Hugo’s .............................<br />
246<br />
Humphrey, William T .................<br />
361<br />
Hunnewell Trucking ’Company ......... 75<br />
Hunter Machine Company, James ....... 294<br />
Hutchinson Company, Wesley H ......... 66<br />
I. F ............................... 236<br />
Iafolla ’Construction Co ..................<br />
112<br />
Independent Coal Tar Company ........ 258<br />
Industrial Air C.ompany .............. 338<br />
International’ Cooperage Company ...... 328<br />
International Equipment ,Company ..... 361<br />
Interstate Busses Corp ................<br />
208<br />
Ipswich Motor ’Co., Inc .............. 361<br />
Irving Shoe Company, John ............ 176<br />
Iverson, Emil N .....................<br />
86<br />
Jackson & Son, J. H .................. 86<br />
Jane Dress ’Company ................. 296<br />
Jefferson Union ’Company .............. 208<br />
Jamey Shoe ’Company ................ 98<br />
Jenney’s Gas Station ................. 342<br />
Johnson Company, .~_ndrew T ........... 176<br />
Johnson’s, Howard, Auburn, Maine ..... 30<br />
Johnson’s, Ho~vard, P.ortsmouth, N. H... 112<br />
Johnson’s, Howard, Quincy, Mass ....... 22<br />
Johnson & Gustafson .................<br />
122<br />
Johnson, O. A .......................<br />
170<br />
Johnson Supply Company ............. 84<br />
Jog Togs Inc ........................ 164<br />
Jones Express ......................<br />
92<br />
Jordan & Company, Chester L .......... 86<br />
K-V Transformer Corp ................<br />
284<br />
Kaler .Carney Liffler & Company ........ 80<br />
Kaminski Company, H .................<br />
118<br />
Kane 0hevrolet Company .............. 70<br />
Keith Paper Company ................<br />
272<br />
Kennedy & Company ................<br />
236<br />
Keough’s Express ....................<br />
356<br />
Kimball & Carey Company ............ 354<br />
Kimball Gillman Company ............ 68<br />
Kinkade Company ...................<br />
60<br />
Knapp Brothers .....................<br />
78<br />
Knapp Oil Corp .....................<br />
306<br />
Koehler ~Ianufacturing Company ....... 148<br />
L<br />
I~acey & Sons Company, W. F ...........<br />
Laconia Shoe Company ...............<br />
Lalime & Partridge ..................<br />
Lambert Electrical Company ...........<br />
Lamies Tavern ......................<br />
Lamson & Goodnow Manufacturing Co.<br />
LaPorta’s Funeral Home ...........<br />
La Risista Corset Company ............<br />
Leen C.ompany Inc., Stanley J ..........<br />
Lentino’s ...........................<br />
Leen’s Electrical Motor Service Co .....<br />
Leominster Federal Savings ...........<br />
Leopold Morse .......................<br />
340<br />
106<br />
64<br />
338<br />
110<br />
354<br />
210<br />
194<br />
88<br />
218<br />
88<br />
302<br />
246<br />
Lewis Ltd., Guy .....................<br />
234<br />
Liberty Mutual Insurance Co .......... 144<br />
Lincoln Granite Company Inc .......... 361<br />
Lintott, H. C ........................ 98<br />
Litchfield County l~ealty & Insurance ,Co. 210<br />
Locke Steel :Chain Company ........... 190<br />
Lodding Engineering C.orp ............. 300<br />
Lombard Governor Corp .............. 220<br />
Long 5Iotor Sales, R. H ............... 147<br />
Lowell Company, Harry J .............. 156<br />
Lowell Five Cent Savings ............. 348<br />
Lown Shoe Company Inc .............. 78<br />
Lundermac Company ................. 242<br />
Levitt Company, Irving ............... 242<br />
Lynn Products Company ............. 326<br />
M<br />
M & ~I Package Store ................ 256<br />
MacDonald & Johnson ............... 278<br />
MacFarlane Lumber .Company ......... 212<br />
MacGregor Instrument Company ....... 338<br />
Mack Motor Truck ................... 48<br />
~acomber Inc., l~’ank Gait ............ 224<br />
~laine Manufacturing Company ........ I18<br />
Maine Truck & Tractors .Company ...... 84<br />
Malden Au.to Top Company ........... 260<br />
~laloney Studebaker .................. 64<br />
Manchester ~edimix Concrete Inc ....... I00<br />
~[argeson’s .......................... I~2<br />
hiason, Mary E ...................... 98<br />
~assachusetts Qasualty Company ......... 170<br />
~{assachusetts Fire & Marine Insurance Co 60<br />
5’Ia.ssachusetts Gas & Electric Light Supply<br />
Compan.y ........................ 328<br />
Massachusetts Indemnity Insurance Co. 213<br />
iViassachusetts Protective <strong>Association</strong> Inc. 27-I<br />
Massachusstts l~adio & Telegraph School 224<br />
Massimo Fuel Company ............... 202<br />
Maxim Motor Company ................ (c -"<br />
Maybury Shoe Company .............. 94<br />
Maynard 5~achin.e Company ........... 102<br />
5~Iechanics Savings Bank ............... 276<br />
~ieisel Press ........................ 232<br />
Medfield Custom Laundry ............ 336<br />
~ielrose Chemical Corp ................ 334<br />
~Ielrose Coopera.tive Bank ............. 158<br />
Melrose Trust Company ............... 394<br />
Merchants Bank & Trust Company ...... 192<br />
Merchants ,Cooperative Bank .......... 330<br />
Merchants National Bank, Leominster .. 302<br />
Merchants National Bank Farmers Trust<br />
Compgny ....................... 120<br />
Merrill Transport Company ............ 74<br />
Merrill Company .................... 234<br />
~Ietal & Fabricators Corp .............. 150<br />
Mstalix Manufacturing Company Inc ..... 192<br />
5~etropolitan Bo~ly Company .......... 188<br />
Middlesex Mutual Fire Insurance Co ..... 134<br />
~Iiddlesex %Vel.ding Supply Co ......... 324<br />
~Iidwestern :Vianufacturing Co ......... 274<br />
~[ilford Daily Ne~vs .................. 292<br />
Milford Savings Bank ............... 292<br />
Miller, Clifford V ..................... 287<br />
:VIiller, Hermer, Inc ................... 94<br />
5~illers Greenhouses Inc ............... 86<br />
Milton Savings Bank ...........: ...... 357<br />
Mine Safety Appliance Company ........ 50<br />
Mitchell & Barley Inc ................. 204<br />
~odern Hotel ....................... 104<br />
~o.dern Printing ,Company ............ 252<br />
5’Ioldmaster Engineering .Company ...... 272<br />
¯ ~¢Ionaco Construction COmpany ......... 320
ADVERTISERS INDEX...<br />
~£ontpelier Diner .................... :[24<br />
Montague l~od & t~eel ................ 294<br />
Montpelier National Bank ............ 120<br />
Montpelier Tavern ................... 124<br />
Moors &. Dabot ...................... 58<br />
Morley Company .................... 108<br />
Morrill & Everett Inc ................ :104<br />
Morse Payson & Noyes ................ 90<br />
lYforse Smith & Morse ................ 286<br />
Morton 0il Company ................ 260<br />
IYfoss & Son Inc. Edwin .............. 180<br />
Moulton & Son, John E ................ 279<br />
Moulton Ladder Manufacturing Company 282<br />
Mount Tom ]?’ire Door ,Company Inc ..... 314<br />
Muirhead Inc., t~. C .................. 338<br />
Munn Steele Inc ..................... 242<br />
Murphy, Joseph L .................... 295<br />
lViuzi Motors Inc .................... 358<br />
McCarthy ’Company, Justin A ........... 72<br />
McElwain Company, J. F .............. 53<br />
McGranahan ,Company, P. H ........... :[00<br />
1VicIntire Brass Works ................ 144<br />
1YicKinney Funeral Home .............. 332<br />
McLochlan ’Oompany, H ............... 284<br />
McLauthlin Company, George T ......... 344<br />
Nash North Adams Company ........... 290<br />
Nashua Brass Company .............. 96<br />
Nashua Building Contractors .......... 102<br />
Nashua Coal & Oil Company .......... 360<br />
Nashua Plastics. Company .............. 53<br />
Nashua Telegraph Company ............ 96<br />
Na.stri Brothers ..................... 202<br />
Natick Federal Savings & Loan <strong>Association</strong> 258<br />
Natick Trust Company ............... 340<br />
National Battery ,Company ............ 358<br />
National Contractors ’Company ......... 361<br />
National Electric Products ............ 250<br />
National Felt ’Company ............... 244<br />
National Fireworks Inc ............... 32<br />
National .<strong>of</strong> Hartford Group ......... :. - :[86<br />
N.eill Company, E. Y .................. 80<br />
Neidners ........................... 260<br />
Neverett, W. J ...................... 96<br />
<strong>New</strong> Bedford Hotel .................. 142<br />
<strong>New</strong> Bedford Institution for Savings .... 359<br />
-<strong>New</strong> Britain Iron Works .............. 362<br />
<strong>New</strong> City 0il Company ............... 210<br />
<strong>New</strong>. <strong>England</strong> Adding ~/f.achine Co ...... 232<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> Cable Company ......... 96<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> Conservatory <strong>of</strong> Music .... 222<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> Mica. Company Inc ....... 166<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> Plumbing ,Company ...... 212<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> Power Company ........ :[32<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> Provision Company ...... 222<br />
<strong>New</strong> Hampshire Fire ’Insurance ’Co ...... 52<br />
<strong>New</strong> H.ampshire Provision Company .... 108<br />
<strong>New</strong> London County Mutual Fire<br />
In.surance Co .................... 25<br />
<strong>New</strong>ton Buick Company .............. 254<br />
<strong>New</strong>ton Centre Savings Bank ......... 254<br />
<strong>New</strong>ton. Clutch Manufacturing Co ...... 252<br />
Nick Company, Herman ............... 248<br />
Ninety-nine Club ..................... 230<br />
Norfolk Dedham Mutual Fire Insurance Co. 150<br />
Northern Heating & Plumbing ’C.o ...... 106<br />
Northampton Electric Light Company .... 3:[4<br />
Northampton Gas Light Company ...... 314<br />
Northampton Motor Sales ............. 3:[2<br />
Noyes & Chapman ................... 90<br />
Oakley Motor Company". ..............<br />
OBrion, l~ussell Company ..............<br />
Ocean Spray ........................<br />
O’Connell Inc., 1~. M ..................<br />
O’Connor, George A ...................<br />
0cto’s Furniture Mart ~. ..............<br />
0’I-Iara Bros. Company ...............<br />
OilHeat Institute <strong>of</strong> <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> ......<br />
01d ,Colony F’urniture Company ........<br />
01son Manufacturing ’Company ........<br />
O’Neill :Motors ......................<br />
Orange National Bank ...............<br />
Orange Savings Bank ................<br />
0sley & Whitney Inc .................<br />
Overhead Door Sales ’Company ........<br />
P<br />
280<br />
138<br />
352<br />
304<br />
232<br />
276<br />
356<br />
130<br />
102<br />
274<br />
147<br />
278<br />
278<br />
312<br />
146<br />
P. M. Industries Inc .................<br />
Page Belting Company ..............<br />
Pa.ige Company, John C ................<br />
Paige Kimball Agency .......... ] ....<br />
200<br />
93<br />
60<br />
276<br />
Palmer National Bank ... :~ ............ 276<br />
Palmer Plumbing Supply Company ..... 116<br />
Palmer l~ussell Company .............. 288<br />
Palmer Tarinelli Construction Co ....... 184<br />
Panther Moccasin Manufacturing ,Co ..... 82<br />
Paris Shoe Co. Inc .................... 348<br />
Parizek Manufacturing Co., Frank ...... 238<br />
Park ’Central Hotel .................. 358<br />
Parker Company .................... 37<br />
Parker House ....................... :[44<br />
Parks Company, E. W ............... ~. 270<br />
Patterson ~rylde & Windeler ........... 80<br />
Peabody Construction Company ........ 226<br />
Peach Pontiac Company .............. 70<br />
Peck Insurance 0gency, T. S ...........<br />
Peerless Aluminum Foundry Co ........ 190<br />
Peerless Pressed Metal ° Corp ............ 178<br />
Pennichuck Water Works .............. 102<br />
People’s Savings Bank ................ 276<br />
People’s Savings Bank ................ 154<br />
Perini & Sons, B ..................... 136<br />
Perkins & Son, Lloyd ................. 361<br />
Personal Flower Service ............... :[62<br />
Peterson Inc., B. E ................... 172<br />
Petricca Construction Company ......... 310<br />
Phalo Plastics ,Corp ................... 270<br />
Phelps ,Company, .James T .............. 170<br />
Phillips ’Card Company ................ 252<br />
Phillips & Company Corp., I~ot ......... 352<br />
Pieroni’s Sea Grill ................... 228<br />
Pittsfield Co-operative Bank ............ 304<br />
Plasticrete Corp ...................... 46<br />
Plummer’s Insurance Agency ........... 88<br />
Porter Box & Lumber Company ......... 320<br />
Portsmouth Auto Dealers Assn .......... 2.8<br />
Portsmouth T~’ust Company ............ 1:[0<br />
Post Publishing ’Company .............. 190<br />
:Potter Drug & Chemical Company ....... 150<br />
Powdered Equipment Corp ............. 254<br />
Precision Tool & Die Company .......... 238<br />
Preferred Utilities Manufacturing Corp... 176<br />
Press Wireless Laboratories, Inc ......... 338<br />
Previte Inc., Peter i~ .................. 282<br />
Prindiville Trustees, John J ............. 136<br />
Priscilla Candy Shop ................. 98<br />
Products ~Iachine Company ............ 320<br />
Progressive !~Ietal Treating, Inc ......... 320<br />
Providence Buick Company ............ 318<br />
Public Service Company ...............<br />
Publix Food Markets ................. 54<br />
Puritan Furniture Manufacturing Co ..... 334<br />
Quaker Rubber Corp .................. 46’<br />
Queen City Transport Company .......... 122<br />
Quincy Mutual Fire Insurance ’C,ompany . . 134<br />
l~ackliffe Bros ....................... 2:[2<br />
t~adiant Ray R,~diation, Inc ............ 362<br />
Ranaund.o & Sons .................... 244,<br />
l~andolph 1V[anufacturing Company ...... 340<br />
Rankin’s Jenney Service Station ........ 162<br />
l~ay, Mike & Dick .................... 352<br />
l~ead & White ....................... 322<br />
P~eese Corp .......................... 140<br />
]~egan, Timothy ...................... 154<br />
l~eiss Associates, Inc .................. 254<br />
Reliable Steel Drum Company .......... 196<br />
l~emington Arms Company, Inc ......... :[82<br />
Research Machine Company ............ 352<br />
l~esolute Insurance Company ........... :[84<br />
l~ever6 Auto Exchange ................ 36:[<br />
Revere Racing <strong>Association</strong> ............. 72<br />
l~ynolds & Son ~ . ..................... 128<br />
Reynolds & Son, Milton F .............. 164<br />
Rida, Al ............................. 240<br />
Robbins Auto Supply Company ......... :[16<br />
l~obbins & Gamewell ’Corp ............. 306-<br />
¯ R, obinson, A. F ...................... 264<br />
Rock Manufacturing ~Company ......... 214<br />
l~oekdale Company ..................... ii0<br />
Roekwood Buick, Inc .................. 162<br />
l~ockwood Sprinkler Company .......... 50<br />
Rogers Sand & Door Co ................ 362<br />
Rohmer Wool Scouring ’Company ........ 252<br />
Rosenfield Uniform Company ........... 246<br />
Rowe, G. W ......................... 254<br />
l~ubino Bros ......................... 200<br />
l~u~lgas Service ..................... 220<br />
l~hssell Pontiac Company .............. 280<br />
l~jf.st Master Chemical Company ........ 361<br />
S & E Coat Sh.op ....................<br />
320<br />
S & S Waterproong Company .......... 156<br />
S~fety Fumigant Company . . .,.. ; ...... 168<br />
Shfety Fund National Bank ......... :. 354
ADVERTISERS INDEX...<br />
Sage Allen & OompanT/ ...............<br />
Sagamanco, Inc ......................<br />
St. Pierre Chain Corp .................<br />
Sanco ’Company ............ ~. .........<br />
Sanders Construction Corl) .............<br />
Savage, Inc., ~Ienry W ................<br />
Saval, ~aurice H .....................<br />
Schick, Inc ..........................<br />
Schnier, Joseph ......................<br />
Schonland Sons, Inc., W. F ........, .....<br />
Schreiter, Inc., ~. 1~. "<br />
Scott Brothers .......................<br />
Scott Williams "<br />
18~<br />
359<br />
270<br />
92<br />
74<br />
287<br />
224<br />
44<br />
212<br />
100<br />
332<br />
282<br />
106<br />
Scottish Union & National Inusrance Co... 198<br />
Scully Signal Company ................<br />
Sears, l~,oebuck 8~ Comp.any ............ 128<br />
Selby Shoe ,Company, inc .............. I00<br />
Self Locking Carton Company .......... 274<br />
Servic6 Bus Company ’. ............... 350<br />
Sewall & Sons, Inc ...................<br />
82<br />
Shapiro Bros ........................ 66<br />
Sharaf’s ............................<br />
168<br />
Shaw, Charles I~ ......................<br />
217<br />
Shawmut Inc ........................<br />
164<br />
Shawmut Hardware & Paint Company ... 248<br />
Shayeb, J. Victor ....................<br />
350<br />
Shepard & Evans Co., Inc .............. 102<br />
Sheridan & Fitzgerald ................. 344<br />
Sherman Paper Products Corp ..........<br />
¯<br />
286<br />
Sherman Sand & Stone Co.<br />
362<br />
Ships Galley l~estaurant ............... 174<br />
Silent Glow 0il Burner ...............<br />
186<br />
Silliman Company ................... 182<br />
Silver Lake Chevrolet .................<br />
252<br />
Signet Club Plan ..................... 250<br />
Simon, Inc., Oharles ..................<br />
240<br />
Simplex Wire & Cable Company ...’ ..... 148<br />
Simpson ’Company, James ........ . ....... 60<br />
Simpson Fur Sfore ...................<br />
124<br />
Sixteen A Stores ..................... 218<br />
Slye Bro.s .................... ..~.. ..... 268<br />
Smith & :Company, A ................... 250<br />
Smith Bros. Coal & Oil ........ .......<br />
306<br />
Smith & Company, D. B .............. 14<br />
Smith Corp, l~alph H ................. 110<br />
S.ob<strong>of</strong>fe Sons .........................<br />
72<br />
Somerville Auto Body Company ......... 248<br />
South Weymouth Savings Bank ......... 359<br />
Spax~lding Bros., A. G ........- ......... 298<br />
Spelewskis h[arket .................... 234<br />
Sprague Electric Company ............ 294<br />
Springfield Fire & 5[urine Insurance ’Co... 298<br />
Squirrel Brand Company ..............<br />
Standard Duplications ................<br />
Standard Fittings Company ............<br />
Stanley Home Products ...............<br />
Stanley Super Service, Inc. "<br />
Star 1Vfarkets ........................<br />
¯<br />
Star Restaurant<br />
Starrett ’Company, L. S ................<br />
State Care ..........................<br />
Sta-%Vite, Inc ........................<br />
Steadfast l~ubber Company ............<br />
S~erling Engineerinv Company ..........<br />
Sterling Insulation ~Wianufacturing Co ....<br />
Strathmore Woolen Company ...........<br />
Strazzulla Bros. Co ....................<br />
Stretton Transportation, E. T ...........<br />
Stevens Paper ~iills, Inc ...............<br />
Stevenson & Company, Inc .............<br />
Stron~’s Express .....................<br />
250<br />
324<br />
154<br />
296<br />
176<br />
228<br />
190<br />
278<br />
232<br />
248<br />
222<br />
106<br />
166<br />
2,4,1<br />
168<br />
152<br />
316<br />
308<br />
268<br />
Suffolk Downs .......................<br />
Sullivan &’Foster ....................<br />
Superior 1Vfattress ’Company ............<br />
Swan Engraving ,Company .............<br />
Swanson’s BUreau, ~’Iiss ...............<br />
Sylvan ~[anufacturing Corp ............<br />
359<br />
202<br />
198<br />
222<br />
204<br />
Symphony Hail .....................<br />
T<br />
26~<br />
Tallino’s Restaurant ..................<br />
Technology Instrument Corp ...........<br />
Terrace Gables Hotel .................<br />
Thayer, Inc ..........................<br />
Thompson Buick Company .............<br />
Thompson Insurance ’Co~npany ..........<br />
Threa~dwell Tap & Die Company ........<br />
288<br />
258<br />
357<br />
280<br />
270<br />
206<br />
Tigron Latex Company ................<br />
Trio l~o<strong>of</strong>ing Co ....................... 196<br />
Tombarello Company, John O. "<br />
Torrington ,Coal & 0il Company ........<br />
Torrington ~Company ..................<br />
Torrington Distributors Compan. y .......<br />
3~6<br />
210<br />
210<br />
Torrington Lumber C, ompany, InC .......<br />
Town House "<br />
Towne ~anufactu~ing Co., Inc ..........<br />
212<br />
174<br />
330<br />
Trailmobile, Inc ......................<br />
236<br />
Triangle Screw ~Viaehine Products Co ..... 282<br />
Trimount Bituminous Products Co ...... 340<br />
Trimont 01d Colony Plating Co ......... 354<br />
Tripp Company, Oliver W ............. 222<br />
Troll Blanket ~Iills ...................<br />
360<br />
True, A. 1~ .......................... 279<br />
Tubular t~ivet & Stud Company ........ 142<br />
Turner Barker & Company.. ........... 88<br />
Turner Seymour Company ............. 188<br />
Twaddle & 5fitchell ................... 76<br />
Twin ’City Gasoline Company ........... 82<br />
U. S. Beef & Provision ’Corp ............<br />
Underwood Company, William ..........<br />
Union Hardware Company ............<br />
Union Twist Drill ,Company. ...........<br />
Uptown Garage ......................<br />
Uxbridge Savings Bank ....... . ........<br />
268<br />
254<br />
188<br />
300<br />
330<br />
268<br />
V<br />
Valley Electric Company ..............<br />
Vanity Sportswear ..... - ..............<br />
Vermont Confectione~.-y Company .......<br />
Vermont ~Iutual Fire Insurance Company<br />
~rermont Peoples National Bank ........<br />
Vermont Structural Steel ’Company ......<br />
Vitrified Wheel Company ..............<br />
Voltox Company .....................<br />
W<br />
31<br />
228<br />
126<br />
121<br />
82<br />
124<br />
296<br />
198<br />
Walker, Inc., T. A ...................<br />
Walker iYfanufacturing .Company ........<br />
Walker Top ’Company ................<br />
Wall Streeter Shoe ’Company ...........<br />
Wal Lex l~ecreation Center ............<br />
Walsh & ~urley Company .............<br />
Waltham Lumber Company ............<br />
Waltham l~¢Iachine Company ...........<br />
Waltham Oil Burner Company .........<br />
Waltham Publishing Company ..........<br />
Waltham Super h[arket ...............<br />
~Valton’s Lunch Company ..............<br />
Ware Foundry ......................<br />
~¥are ~illinery Company ..............<br />
Ware Shoe Company .................<br />
Warren ,Corp., George E ...............<br />
Warren Heating Company, George E .....<br />
Waterbury Auto Spring Company .......<br />
Waterbury Companies .................<br />
Waterbury Plating Company ...........<br />
Waterman Sons, J. S .................<br />
Waterto~m Clothing Company ..........<br />
Watertown Coop6rative Bank ..........<br />
Watertown Savings Bank .............<br />
Waxman Company, J. G ...............<br />
Wear Well Uniform Company ..........<br />
Webb Supply ’Company, Inc ............<br />
Webster Hotel, Daniel ................<br />
Weiss & Lawrence, Inc ................<br />
Wellesley Hills IYiarket ................<br />
Wentworth by the Sea ................<br />
Wentworth Forman Company ..........<br />
Wentworth Jennings iYlotor Company ....<br />
West Paint & Varnish ,Company ........<br />
Westerb6ke Fishing Gear Company ......<br />
Westfie]d ~¢lannfacturing Company ......<br />
Westinghouse Electric Supply ...........<br />
Westminster IY~eter s ..........., .......<br />
Whitcomb, ]~’rank W ...................<br />
White Aircraft Corp ..................<br />
White Company, Charles D .............<br />
White & Hedges .....................<br />
Whitney Screw Core ..................<br />
Wiessner, Inc.. F. H ..................<br />
Wi~glesworth hJachinery Company ......<br />
Willey Biggin Woo! Service ............<br />
Williamstown National Bank ..........<br />
Williamsto~m Savings Bank ...........<br />
Winchester Carton :Corp ...............<br />
Winebaum’s <strong>New</strong>s Agency .............<br />
Wings <strong>of</strong> <strong>New</strong> Bedford ................<br />
Winslow Ship Company ...............<br />
Winston Company <strong>of</strong> ~assachnsetts .....<br />
Wolfenden ,Corp., F. W ................<br />
Wood Smith Shoe ’Company ...........<br />
Worcester Z[achine Products ...........<br />
Worcester 1Yiutual Fire Insurance Company<br />
Worcester Taper Pin Company .........<br />
212<br />
336<br />
226<br />
29~<br />
~64<br />
198<br />
266<br />
266<br />
3~<br />
140<br />
166<br />
17~<br />
96<br />
296<br />
272<br />
168<br />
346<br />
202<br />
25<br />
202<br />
148<br />
178<br />
43<br />
43<br />
226<br />
138<br />
256<br />
104<br />
114<br />
162<br />
l<br />
265<br />
146<br />
208<br />
356<br />
312<br />
68<br />
318<br />
126<br />
272<br />
230<br />
328<br />
104<br />
126<br />
250<br />
330<br />
290<br />
290<br />
208<br />
108<br />
359<br />
350<br />
355<br />
216<br />
76<br />
304<br />
340<br />
270<br />
Worumbo ~[anufacturing Company ......<br />
78<br />
Wyandotte Worsted .................. 310<br />
Wyck<strong>of</strong>f Steel Company ............... 238<br />
Y<br />
Yankee Network ..................... 132<br />
York Heat Shepley, Inc ................ 130<br />
Yong Joy Company ................... 174
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
Page<br />
Opening Session <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Conference</strong> ............[ ...........................................................17<br />
Invocation by REV. MICHAEL F. COLLINS .............................................................. 17<br />
Addresses <strong>of</strong> Welcome .............................................................................................. 17<br />
Remarks <strong>of</strong> CHIEF G. NAPOLEON GUEVIN Of Manchester, President, <strong>New</strong> Hampshire<br />
Fire Chiefs’ Club " 21<br />
Remarks <strong>of</strong> MR. H. L. WlnITi~EY, for Aubur~y G. Robinson, State Fire Marshal<br />
for <strong>New</strong> Hampshire ................................................................... : ..........’ ..........:. 23<br />
Remarks <strong>of</strong> CHIEI~ FREDERICK R. CROMPTON <strong>of</strong> Portsmouth ..............................<br />
Response .to Addresses <strong>of</strong> Welcome by CHIEf HORACE S. JOSE <strong>of</strong> South Portland,<br />
23<br />
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Maine .................................................................................................................. 29<br />
Memorial Exercises: Roll call <strong>of</strong> Deceased Members by SECRETARY O’HEARN 10 ....<br />
Memorial Address by REV. FRANK E. DUNN <strong>of</strong> Springfield ..................................31<br />
Benediction by REv. JoHN F. FITZSIMMONS .............................................................. 33<br />
- Adjournment <strong>of</strong> Monday Afterndon Opening Session ......................................... ....<br />
Opening <strong>of</strong> Monday Evening Session ......................................................................<br />
35<br />
Address: "International Activities and Fire Chiefs’ Problems", by CHIEf GEOROE<br />
35<br />
R. MCALPINE, President <strong>of</strong> International <strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs 35<br />
Address: "Fire Prevention Activities in Canada", by CHIEf C. GRAY<br />
<strong>of</strong> Ottawa, Canada ............................................................................................ 47<br />
Address: "Federal Fire Forums", by W. J. SCOTT, O.B.E., Q.C., Fire Marshal,<br />
Ontario, Canada ................................................................................................ 55<br />
Address: "The Activities <strong>of</strong> the State Division <strong>of</strong> Fire Prevention" by ROBERT F.<br />
ULM, Massachusetts State Fire Marshal ..........................................................67<br />
Adjournment <strong>of</strong> Monday evening session ..............................................................<br />
Opening <strong>of</strong> Tuesday Morning Session<br />
73<br />
" 77<br />
Remarks <strong>of</strong> LIEUTENANT MALONEY 77<br />
Address: "The Fire and Explosion Hazards <strong>of</strong> Gaseous Fpels," by ALLEN J.<br />
JOHNSON 87’<br />
Committee Appoinments 103<br />
Remarks <strong>of</strong> RAYMOND J. KENNEY, Director and State Forester <strong>of</strong> ’Massachusetts 103<br />
Remarks <strong>of</strong> SAMUEL J. POPE, Ex, Chief <strong>of</strong> Boston, Mass ........................................<br />
"Address: "Organization <strong>of</strong> Industrial Fire Protection at a Large Industrial Plant,"<br />
105<br />
by H. A. EARSY, Fire Marshal, United Aircraft Corporation, E. Hartford ........105<br />
Adjournment <strong>of</strong> Tuesday Morning Session ............................................................<br />
Opening <strong>of</strong> Tuesday Afternoon Session .................................................................. 125<br />
Opening Remarks <strong>of</strong> MODERATOR KENNETH H. 125<br />
ERSKINE ....................................<br />
Remarks <strong>of</strong> MRS. INA 125<br />
M. CURLEY, Department <strong>of</strong> Ed(lcation, Commonwealth <strong>of</strong><br />
Massachusetts ......................................................................................................<br />
Remarks <strong>of</strong> FRED W. WESTERVELT, General Adjustment Bureau ..........................<br />
127<br />
General Discussion<br />
137<br />
Adjournment o’f Tues~]~"X~’i~i~’~’~’"~’i~si~ ..:[ [[[ .... .....[[[ ....[.[ ................................<br />
Opening <strong>of</strong> Wednesday Morning Session, Round Table Discussiori, with "RoI B.<br />
163143<br />
WOO~.LEY, Moderator ........................................................................................ 163<br />
Remarks <strong>of</strong> CHIEI~ HERBERT F. TRAVERS <strong>of</strong> Worcester ..........................................<br />
Round Ta, ble Discussion: "Fire Department Operations’: ....<br />
163<br />
Address: "Natural Gas Pipe Lines," .by E. E. MILLER ....<br />
: ................................. 177<br />
i ...........~ .................... : ......<br />
Address: "<strong>New</strong> Developments in Fire Protection," by PERCY BUOBEE, General<br />
193<br />
Manager, NFPA ................................................................................................<br />
Adjournment ’<strong>of</strong> Wednesday Morning Session ......................................................<br />
203<br />
<strong>Annual</strong> Banquet Addresses ......................................................................................<br />
209<br />
Thursday Morning Session Opened ........................................................................<br />
211<br />
Report <strong>of</strong><br />
243<br />
SECR]~TARY JOHN W. O’HEARN ............................................................<br />
Report ~<strong>of</strong> the Auditing Committee ..........................................................................<br />
243<br />
Report <strong>of</strong> the Registration Committee .................................... ~ .............................<br />
259<br />
:.<br />
Report <strong>of</strong> the Exhibit Committee ............................................................................<br />
259<br />
Report <strong>of</strong> the Resolutions Committee .......................................................................<br />
259<br />
Report <strong>of</strong> the Courtesy Committee ......................................................................<br />
263<br />
:... 267<br />
Remarks <strong>of</strong> MR. RoI B. WOOLLEY ...........................................................................<br />
8election <strong>of</strong> Next <strong>Annual</strong> Meeting Place ................................................................<br />
269<br />
273<br />
Election <strong>of</strong> Ot~cers .............................................................<br />
Presidential Appointments ......................................... [ ......[[[[[-.[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[[293275<br />
Remarks <strong>of</strong> MR. JAMES BARKER SMITH, Manager <strong>of</strong> The Wentworth-By-The, Sea<br />
Adjournment <strong>of</strong> the <strong>31st</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Conference</strong> ........................................................<br />
293<br />
295
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
1953<br />
MONDAY, JUNE ZZ, 3:30 P.M.<br />
OPENING <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Conference</strong> by:<br />
President Anthony J. Molloy<br />
Hotel Ballroom<br />
INVOCATION: Rev. Michael F. Collins,<br />
DorcheSter, Mass., Chaplain.<br />
ADDRESSES OF WELCOME:<br />
Mayor Theodore R. Butler, Portsmouth,<br />
City Manager Robert C. Violette.<br />
Chief G. Napoleon Guevin, Manchester,<br />
N. H., President, <strong>New</strong> Hamp-<br />
.shire Fire Chiefs Club.<br />
Aubrey G. Robinson, Manchester, <strong>New</strong><br />
Hampshire, State Fire Marshal.<br />
Chief Frederick R. Crompton, Portsmouth,<br />
N. H.<br />
RESPONSE TO ADDRESSES OF WELCOME:<br />
Chief Horace S. Jose, South Portland,<br />
Maine.<br />
MEMORIAL EXERCISES<br />
Selection: The Chapel Quartette.<br />
Roll Call <strong>of</strong> Deceased Members.<br />
Taps.<br />
Selection: The Chapel Quartette.<br />
ME!vlORIAL ADDRESS:<br />
Rev. Frank E. Dunn, Springfield,<br />
Massachusetts.<br />
Selection: The Chapel Quartette.<br />
BENEDICTION:<br />
Rev. John P. Fitzsimmons, Belmont,<br />
Massachusetts, Chaplain.<br />
ANNUAL MEETING<br />
Members, <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> Division,<br />
International <strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
Fire Chiefs<br />
PROGRAM<br />
MONDAY, JUNE 2Z, 8:00 P.M.<br />
ADDRESS: "International Activities and<br />
Fire Chiefs Problems."<br />
Chief George R. McAlpine, Oklahoma<br />
City, Oklahoma, President, International<br />
<strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs.<br />
ADDRESS: "Fire Prevention Activities ifi<br />
Canada."<br />
Chief C. Gray Burnett, Ottawa, Canada,<br />
Presiden.t, Canadian <strong>Association</strong><br />
<strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs.<br />
ADDRESS: "Federal Fire Forums."<br />
W. J. Scott, O.B.E., Q.C., Fire Marshal,<br />
Ontario, Canada.<br />
ADDRESS: "The Activities <strong>of</strong> the State<br />
Division <strong>of</strong> Fire Prevention."<br />
Robert F. Ulm, Massachusetts State<br />
Fire Marshal.<br />
TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 9:30 A.M.<br />
ADDRESS: "Cold Facts on Forest Fires."<br />
Raymond J. Kenney, Director and State<br />
Forester, Massachusetts.<br />
ADDRESS: ~’T.he Fire Chiefs and Civil<br />
Defense."<br />
Samuel J. Pope, Ex-Chief, Boston,<br />
Massachusetts, Fire Department.<br />
ADDRESS: "The Fire and Explosion Hazards<br />
<strong>of</strong> Gaseous Fuels."<br />
Allen J. Johnson, Consulting Mechanical<br />
Engineer, Lansdowne, Pennsylvania.<br />
ADDRESS: "Organization o£ Industrial<br />
Fire Protection at a Large Industrial<br />
Plant."<br />
H. A. Earsy, Fire Marshal, United Aircraft<br />
Corporation, East Hartford,<br />
Connecticut.<br />
TUESDAY, JUNE 23, 2:30 P.M.<br />
ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION<br />
Presented by Bay State ,Club
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
1953 PROGRAM (Continued)<br />
Toi, ic: "Things You Ought to Know--<br />
Continued."<br />
Moderator, Kenneth H. Erskine<br />
The Liverpool & London & Globe Ins.<br />
Co. Ltd.<br />
PARTICIPANTS<br />
Ina M. Curley, Department <strong>of</strong> Education,<br />
Commonwealth <strong>of</strong> Massachusetts.<br />
Fred W. Westervelt, General Adjustment<br />
Bureau.<br />
T. Walter Keany, American Insurance<br />
Company.<br />
Harold M. Estabrook, Aetna Insurance<br />
Company.<br />
FIRE PREVENTION AND EDUCA-<br />
TION DISPLAY.<br />
Carl E. H.urst, Phoenix Insurance<br />
Company.<br />
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 9:30 A.M.<br />
ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION<br />
Moderator, Roi B. Woolley<br />
Asst. Editorial Director Fire Engineering,<br />
Technical Consultant <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong><br />
<strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs.<br />
ToPIc: "Fire Department Operations."<br />
PARTICIPANTS :<br />
Chief Horace S. Jose, South Portland,<br />
Maine.<br />
Chief Walter R. Messer, Keene, <strong>New</strong><br />
Hampshire.<br />
Chief John E. Keefe, Bellows Falls,<br />
Vermont.<br />
Chief Waiter R. ~lurray, Weymouth,<br />
Massachusetts.<br />
Chief Lewis A. Marshall, Providence,<br />
R.I.<br />
~Chief Francis T. Scully, Waterbury,<br />
Connecticut.<br />
W. J. Scott, O.B.E., Q.C., Fire Marshal,<br />
Ontario Canada.<br />
ADDRESS: "Natural Gas Pipe Lines."<br />
E. E. Miller Assistant Chief Engineer,<br />
Tennessee Gas Transmission Co., and<br />
’Chief Engineer <strong>of</strong> the Northeastern<br />
Gas Transmission Co.<br />
ADDRESS: "<strong>New</strong> Developments in Fire<br />
Protection."<br />
Percy Bugbee, General Manager, National<br />
Fire Protection <strong>Association</strong>.<br />
WEDNESDAY, 2:00 P.M.<br />
at the Exhibition Hall<br />
"Exhibitors’ Opportunity to Demonstrate<br />
Their Products"<br />
Awarding <strong>of</strong> Exhibitors’ Prizes<br />
6:15 to 7:00 P.M. Cocktail Party, Main<br />
Ballroom.<br />
ANNUAL BANQUET--7:00 P.M.<br />
President Anthony J. Molloy, presiding.<br />
His Excelle.ncy-Governor Hugh Gregg,<br />
<strong>New</strong> Hampshire.<br />
Guest S.~eaker: John H. Griffin, Editor<br />
The Boston~ Post.<br />
Dancing-- Main Ballroom.<br />
THURSDAY, 10:00 A.M.<br />
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Reports <strong>of</strong> Officers and Committees.<br />
Unfinished Business.<br />
Election <strong>of</strong> Officers.<br />
Selection <strong>of</strong> Place <strong>of</strong> Next <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Conference</strong>.
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
The Welfare and Security<br />
<strong>of</strong> Our Community and Yours<br />
Depend in a Large Measure<br />
upon the<br />
Activity and Faithfulness <strong>of</strong><br />
our Fire Departments<br />
Our Best Wishes to the<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> <strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
Fire Chiefs<br />
DRAPER CORPORATION<br />
HOPEDALE MASSACHUSETTS
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CFIIEFS<br />
THE WENTWORTH BY-THE-SEA<br />
PORTSMOUTH, N. ~H,<br />
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No.<br />
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Places and Dates <strong>of</strong> Past Conventions<br />
No. 2<br />
No. 3<br />
No. 4<br />
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No’. 6<br />
No. 7<br />
No. 8<br />
No. 9<br />
No. 10<br />
No.~ II<br />
No. 12<br />
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No. 24<br />
No. 25<br />
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No. 30<br />
No. 31<br />
BI~IDGEPORT, Conn., June 20-21-22, 1923<br />
PRES. CHIEF JOHN P. DOYLE, Wellesley, Mass.<br />
BOSTON, Mass., June 24-25-26, 1924<br />
PRES. JOHN C. MORAN, Hartford, Conn.<br />
PITTSFIELD, Mass., June 23-24-25, 1925<br />
PRES. PATR1CK J. HURLEY, Holyoke, Mass.<br />
MANCHESTER, N. H., June 22-23-24, 1926<br />
PRES. DANIEL E. JOHNSON, Bridgeport, Conn.<br />
PORTLAND, Maine, June 21-22-23, 1927<br />
PRES. CHARLES H. FRENCH, Manchester, N. H.<br />
BURLINGTON, Vermont, June 26-27-28-29, 1928<br />
PRES. WILLIAM C. SHEPARD, Pittsfield, Mass.<br />
NEW HAVEN, Conn., June 25-26-27, 1929<br />
PRES. OLIVER T. SANBORN, Portland, Maine<br />
RUTLAND, Vermont, June 24-25-26-27, 1930<br />
PRES. LAWRENCE E. REIF, <strong>New</strong> Haven, Conn.<br />
BOSTON, Mass., June 23-24-25-26, 1931<br />
PRES. SELDEN R. ALLEN, Brookline, Mass.<br />
NEWPORT, R. I., June 21-22-23-24, 1932<br />
PRES. JOSEPH LAWTON, <strong>New</strong>port, R. I.<br />
LEWISTON, Maine, June 20-21-22, 1933<br />
PRES. ALFRED H. KOLTONSKI, Rutland, Vt.<br />
BURLINGTON, Vermont, June 26-27-28-29, 1934<br />
PRES. DANIEL B. TIERNEY, Arlington, Mass.<br />
NEW BEDFORD, Mass., June 25-26-27, 1935<br />
PRES. JOHN S. PACHL, <strong>New</strong> Haven, Conn.<br />
HARTFORD, Conn., June 23-24-25, 1936<br />
PRES. DAVID H. DECOURCY, Winchester, Mass.<br />
THE BALSAMS, Dixville Notch, N. H., June 22-23-24, 1937<br />
PRES. CARL D. STOCKWELL, Burlington, Vt.<br />
BURLINGTON, Vt., June 21-22-23, 1938<br />
PRES. JOSEPH W. RANDLFTTE. Richmond, Me.<br />
PROVIDENCE, R. I., June 20-21-22, 1939<br />
PRES. THOMAS F. BURNS, Bridgeport, Conn.<br />
THE BALSAMS, Dixville Notch, N. H., June 25-26-2q, 1940<br />
PRES. SAMUEL J. POPE, Boston, Mass.<br />
BOSTON, Mass., Aug. 18-23, 1941<br />
PRES. THOMAS H. COTTER, Providence, R. 1.<br />
Cancelled because <strong>of</strong> the War<br />
PRES. WILLIAM C. ~/IAHONEY, Peabody, Mass<br />
RUTLAND, Vt., War <strong>Conference</strong>, June 22, 23, 24, 1943<br />
PRES. WILLIAM C. MAHONEY, Peabody, Mass.<br />
THE BALSAMS, Dixville Notch, N. H., June 27-28-29, 1944<br />
PRES. M. W. LAWTON, Middletown, Conn.<br />
Cancelled because <strong>of</strong> the War.<br />
PRES. ALLEN F. PAYSON, Camde,n. Mai.ne.<br />
THE WE,NTWORTH, Portsmouth, N. H., June 2.5-26-27, 1946<br />
PRES. ALLEN F. PAYSON, Camden, .~Iaine.<br />
THE WENTWORTH, Portsmouth, N. If., June 24-25-,26, 1947<br />
PRES. FRANK J. CALLAIIAN, Central Falls, R. I.<br />
THE WENTWORTH, Portsmouth, N. H., June 22-23-24, 1948<br />
PRES. ARTHUR W. SPRING, Laconia, N. H.<br />
THE WENTWORTH, Portsmouth, N. H., June 21-22-23, 1949<br />
PRES. CHIEF WILLIAM H. HILL, Belmont, Mass.<br />
THE WENTWORTH, Portsmout~h, N. H., June 20-21-22, 1950<br />
PRES. CHIEF STUART M. POTTER, Greenwich, Conn.<br />
THE WENTWORTH, Portsmouth, N. H., June 19-20-21-22,<br />
1951--PRES. CHIEF WILLIAM H. CLIFFORD, Cape Elizabeth,<br />
l~Iaine.<br />
THE WENTWORTH, PRES. JOSEPH E. SCANLON, Lynn,<br />
Mass.<br />
THE WENTWORTH, PRES. ANTHONY J. MOLLOY, Nashua,<br />
N.H.<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION<br />
OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
OFFICERS FOR 1952-53<br />
PRESIDENT<br />
CHIEF HENRI E. FOP.TIER, MANVILLE, R. I.<br />
FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT<br />
CHIEF GEORGE C. GRAHAM<br />
BRISTOL, CONN.<br />
SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT<br />
,CHIEF JOHN E. KEEFE, BELLOWS FA~,LS, VT.<br />
SECRETARY-TREASURER<br />
JOHN W. O’HEARN, WATERTOWN, MASS.<br />
206 MT. AUBURN STREET<br />
BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND STATE VICE-PRESIDENTS<br />
CHIEF ANTHONY J. MOLLOY, NASHUA, N. H.<br />
Immediate Past President<br />
CHIEF OLIVER T. SANBORN, PORTLAND, MAINE<br />
CHIEF CLARENCE H. GREEN, CONCORD, N. H.<br />
CHIEF ALFRED H. KOLTONSKI, RUTLAND, V’r.<br />
CHIEF THOMAS H. SLAMAN, WELLESLEY, MASS.<br />
CHIEF A. J. COTE, WooNsoc~E’r, R. I.<br />
CHIEF FRANCIS J. DAGON<br />
EAST HARTFORD, CONN.<br />
SERGEANT-AT-ARMS<br />
CHIEF WILLIAM J. DOOLING,<br />
HOOD RUBBER COMPANY<br />
A DMSION OF B. F. GOODRICH CO., WATERTOWN,<br />
PRESS REPRESENTATIVE<br />
ANDREW P. PALMER, WOONSOCKET, RHOD~ ISLAND<br />
TECHNI.CA.L CONSULTANT<br />
ROI B. WOOLLEY<br />
ASSISTANT EDITORIAL DIREGTOR, FIRE ENGINEERING<br />
NEw YORI~, N. Y.<br />
OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHER<br />
LIEUT. EDWARD J. CARROLL<br />
BROOKLINE, MASS.<br />
CHAPLAINS<br />
REV. MICHAEL F. COLLINS<br />
1 LINGARD STREET, DORCHESTER, MASS.<br />
REV. JOHN P. FITZSIMMONS, PASTOR<br />
PLYMOUTH CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, BELMONT, MASS.<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
CHIEF HENRI E. FORTIEI~, President, Manville, Rhode Islan.d ..........<br />
CHIEF GEORGE C. GRAI-IAMI Bristol, Connecticut ............................ 2~<br />
CHIEF JOHN E. KEEFE, Bellows Falls, Vermont ................................ 37<br />
Ex-CI-IIEF JOHN W. O’HEARN, Watertown, Massachusetts .............. 43<br />
CHIEF ANTHONY J. MOLLOY, Nashua, <strong>New</strong> Hampshire ..................<br />
CHIEF OLIVER T. SANBORN, Portland, Maine ....................................<br />
CHIEF CLARENCE H. GREEN, Concord, <strong>New</strong> Hampshire. "’r’," .......... 93<br />
CHIEF ALFRED H. KOLTONSI~I, Rutland, Vermog{"i~:~i ........................ 121<br />
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Officers Group ................................................ :. ..............................<br />
CHIEF THOMAS H. SLAMAN, Wellesley, Massachusetts ...................... 147<br />
CHIEF M. J. HAYDEN, Bridgepc,rt, Connecticut ................................ 181<br />
ANDREW P. PALMER, Press Representative ........................................ 207<br />
Our Visiting ~ Chiefs ........... : .................................................................. 213<br />
CHIEF A. J. COTE, Woonsocket, Rhode Island., ~: 217<br />
CHIEF FRANCIS J. DAGAN, East Hartford, Connecticu~ ...................... 239<br />
Panel Group .......................................................................................... 24~<br />
CHIEF WILLIAM J. DOOLING, Watertowr~, Massachusetts ................ 26~<br />
Our Banquet Guests ............................................................................ 281<br />
CHIEF THOMAS F. MALLOY, Brookline, Massachusetts ...................... 287<br />
Our Entertaining Members .................................................................. 291<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
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<strong>31st</strong> ANNUAL REPORT<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
Monday Afternoon, June 22, 1953<br />
The <strong>31st</strong> ~<strong>Annual</strong> ,Cc,nferenc~ <strong>of</strong> the N~w <strong>England</strong> ~’ssociation <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs convened<br />
at The "~gentworth, Por~smouth, <strong>New</strong>.Hampshire, on June 22, 1953, at threethirty<br />
o’clock with President Anthony J. Molloy, presiding.<br />
PRESIDENT Mo~.~.OY: Reverend Clergy and. Members <strong>of</strong> the <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> <strong>Association</strong><br />
Of Fire Chiefs, their ladies and guests, as your Pre:ident I now declare the 3 lse<br />
<strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Conference</strong> <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Association</strong> open. We will h~ve ~h2 i~..vocation by the Rev.<br />
Michael F. Co!lip.s , Dorchester, Masxachusetts, Chaplain.<br />
.<br />
REVEREND C~.I, INS: O God, our Heavenly Father, today we open another confer,<br />
once <strong>of</strong>, l the <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> <strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs. At the very outset <strong>of</strong> this. con,ference<br />
dS our very first ac~ we appeal to You for g~idance and for help. We ask<br />
You, O Lord, during these days <strong>of</strong> con.ference to enlighten our minds and to enlighten<br />
our intellect We ask You, O Lord, to have us faithful in cur devotion to our own<br />
dutics and to Thee. Thou knowes.t, O Lord, far betterthan we the serious proble~ s<br />
that and Confront squarelyl. us<br />
~<br />
and We the ask nation all this, today, O Lord, and, in so. these we ask next You few to days face these in Thy problems name, so fairly that<br />
when our conference is .over, through Your Divine Guidance, we may return to our<br />
homes to better serve Thee, our own community and our own citizens. Amen!<br />
PRESIDENT MOLLOY: It is indeed a privilege for me to present to you the Mayor<br />
<strong>of</strong> Ports_mouth, t~he.Hon. Theodore R. Butler, fox an address <strong>of</strong> welcome.. (Applause.)<br />
MAYOR¯ BUT~.ZR: Mr. Chairman, honor~ed guests, members cf the <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong><br />
<strong>Association</strong>; <strong>of</strong> ? Fi~e Chiefs, ladies and gentlemen, I will a~sure you that r~.y address is<br />
going to be very, very brief , bu,t I do want to .take this, .c,pportunitv to welcome you to<br />
the City <strong>of</strong> P6.rtsrr;outh; {n fact, tothis entire comw_u~ity, ~nd I wish to bring you greetings<br />
from theCity-<strong>of</strong> Port~mot~th and this~ community.<br />
I knc,w the Fire Chiefs always have a good time, ~because it so happens 1 lived down<br />
beyond the golf course, and I kn.ow that ~when the Fire Chiefs were in town there was<br />
always something going on around the ho~el in this vicinity, and so I know there was<br />
always a good time for them here. I hope we have this cc,ntinued godd weather-and<br />
we do call it good ~weath-er for this section - whi!~ you are here. I hope you will<br />
have a ~uccess.ful meeting and also have a good tim’e alon,g with it. I am very happy to,<br />
be here and I .bring the greetings <strong>of</strong> the City to you. May you have a very line time.<br />
(Applause.)<br />
PRESIDENT MOLLOY: We will " cow hear from the City Manager <strong>of</strong> Portsmouth,<br />
Mr. Robert C. V_iolette. (Applause.)
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
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Both rooms have been exposed to the same fire.<br />
Room on the left, coated with ALBI "R", is still<br />
intact after 25 minutes. Room on the right, painted<br />
with ordinary interior paint, is almost consumed.<br />
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29 Bartholomew Ave. Hartford 6, Conn.<br />
Telephone 2-9267<br />
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fun & relaxation<br />
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debonair dining<br />
Compliments<br />
FIREMAN’S<br />
PROVIDENCE<br />
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spirit <strong>of</strong> service . . . redecoration<br />
throughout.., can make your stay<br />
in Providence unusually pleasant.<br />
Rooms from $3.00<br />
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CHIEF HENRI E. FORTIER<br />
Manville, R. I.<br />
President<br />
MUTUAL INSURANCE CO.<br />
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RHODE ISLAND
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
HOMELITE<br />
FiRE EQUIPMENT<br />
PUMPS<br />
Self-Priming Centrifugal<br />
Sizes: 11/z", 2_", :3"<br />
Ideal pumps for filling booster tanks,<br />
or feeding pumpers from wells or<br />
streams. Guaranteed suction lift <strong>of</strong> 2_8<br />
feet, plus lightweight makes them<br />
ideal for fire service.<br />
GEN ERATORS<br />
Alternating or Direct Current<br />
Sizes: 1KW to 5KW<br />
Lightweight, dependable power plants<br />
for floodlighting night fires, or far<br />
standby power during emergencies or<br />
disasters. Compact for easy mounting<br />
on apparatus.<br />
SMOKEJ ECTORS<br />
A lightweight smokejector with a<br />
capacity af 5,000 cubic feet per minute.<br />
Removes hazardous smoke from<br />
basements, tanks, buildings. Overcomes<br />
one <strong>of</strong> the major causes <strong>of</strong> injury<br />
to fire fighters.<br />
FLOODLIGHTS<br />
300 to 500 watt<br />
Cast aluminum floodlight with sealed<br />
beam bulb. Weighs only 61/2 Ibs.<br />
HOMELITE CORPORATION<br />
PORT CHESTER . blEW YORK . U. S. A.<br />
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MR. VIOLETTE: Mr. Chaplain, ladies and gentlemen, it ~ is really a pleasure and<br />
honor for me to .be here today and .to help in tryicg to ,begin this convention--which<br />
will be a great pleasure to all or you, no doubt, i joined the rite Chiefs. <strong>of</strong> <strong>New</strong> Hamp,<br />
shire in 1948. I have atter.ded as many meetings as I possibly could, and I want to assure<br />
you that all the meetings I attended I enjoyed thoroughly. I think you ought<br />
to ,be congratulated; (1) to iorm an organization which has .been successful for so many<br />
years, and (2), in getting together and talking over the problems which yc.u may have<br />
in your own vicinity.<br />
The idea <strong>of</strong> organizing, itself, I believe, is a point <strong>of</strong> accomplishment when you can<br />
sit down in, the same pr<strong>of</strong>ession and be a.ble to iron .out some <strong>of</strong> the problems and find<br />
the answers.<br />
You ought to be congratulated, No. 3, in choosing this beautiful location, and<br />
No. 4, making it pcssible for the ladies to be present. It is almost impossible to get along<br />
with them, but what would we do without them? ’So you see, the men did have some<br />
forethought in inviting the ladies, and I know the part you play in, this convention<br />
will ,be as important as the firemen.<br />
The firemen as a whole are too, <strong>of</strong>ten criticized for the work they try to do. Many<br />
times they should ,be commended on their splendid work. The duties and work imposed<br />
on them are not <strong>of</strong>ten, pleasant, ,but they have in the past done a wonderful job<br />
and in the fire department in Portsmouth we have chcsen the best <strong>of</strong> men to protect our<br />
property. This is a very important pr<strong>of</strong>ession, because the people do appreciate a fire<br />
departraent--especially if the fire concerns their property.<br />
I think <strong>of</strong>tentimes, those <strong>of</strong> you who .belong to the fire department have received<br />
letters <strong>of</strong> commendation and compliments from people themselves that you protected<br />
their property. Maybe you brcke one or two windows which you shouldn’t, but I<br />
want to wish you the best <strong>of</strong> luck. I hope this convention will be agreat success, an’d<br />
we know you will en,joy yourselves here in <strong>New</strong>castle. The ladies, especially, we invite<br />
to come over to Portsmouth and look around. Our streets are not too wide, but we will<br />
try and make provisions so ycu can get by. Thank you very much. (Applause.)<br />
Our next spea’ker is Chief G. Napoleon Guevin, President <strong>of</strong> the <strong>New</strong> Hampshire<br />
Fire Chiefs’ Club. Chief Guevin. (Applause.)<br />
CHIEF OUEVIN: Mr. President, Reverend Fathers, MaYor Butler, City Manager<br />
Violette, I am very glad to be here this afterncon to <strong>of</strong>ficially ,bring you the greetings <strong>of</strong><br />
the Fire Chiefs CRib <strong>of</strong> <strong>New</strong> Hampshire. I am very proud that the members <strong>of</strong> the<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> <strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs meet here in. our beautiful state <strong>of</strong> <strong>New</strong><br />
Hampshire. I hope you will have a pleasant stay with us.. I know you will all enjoy<br />
the social, educational andi progressive work <strong>of</strong> our <strong>New</strong> Enqland <strong>Association</strong>. May this<br />
convention be the most successful and may you come back here for many years to come.<br />
I would like to take on this occasion the opportunity to. invite you to our Fire<br />
College, to be hem in <strong>New</strong>castle on September 19th and 20th. (Applause.)<br />
PRE8IDENT MOLLOY: Our next speaker is Mr. Herbert L. Whitney. He is a representative<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Fire Marshal, <strong>of</strong> the State <strong>of</strong> <strong>New</strong> Hampshire, Aubrey .G. Robinson.<br />
(Applause.) ,<br />
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Shops and Restaurants<br />
CANDIES AND PASTRIES<br />
DELICIOUS MEALS<br />
Luncheons and Dinners 50c, 75c and $1.00<br />
MASSACHUSETTS<br />
ANDOVER , M IDDLEBORO QUINCY<br />
BOSTON MONTELLO RANDOLPH<br />
BOURNE MARSHFIELD REVERE BEACH<br />
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CAMBRIDGE MELROSE SEEKONK<br />
CANTON METHUEN SALEM<br />
COHASSET NANTASKET . SHREWSBURY<br />
CONCORD NORFOLK DOWNS SOUTH WEYMOUTH<br />
DARTMOUTH NORTH ATTLEBORO SOUTH EASTON<br />
DEDHAM NO. DARTMOUTH SPRINGFIELD<br />
DORCHESTER NORTH SEEKONK WAKEFIELD<br />
EAST BOSTON NORTH WEYMOUTH WALTHAM<br />
FALL RIVER ONSET WALPOLE<br />
FALMOUTH ORLEANS WEST BOYLSTON<br />
FRAM I NGHAM OXFORD WEST ROXBURY<br />
¯ GRAFTON PEMBROKE WESTWOOD<br />
HARWI CH PORT P I TTSF 1 ELD WHITMAN<br />
HYANNIS PLYMOUTH WOLLASTON<br />
LYNN POCASSET WOLLASTON (Boulevard)<br />
LYNNFIELD<br />
RHODE ISLAND CONNECTICUT NEW HAMPSHIRE<br />
HOXIE BRANFORD NASHUA<br />
CRANSTON DARIEN SEABROOK<br />
PORTSMOUTH FAI RFIELD NO. CONWAY<br />
PROVI DENCE MILFORD LACON IA<br />
WETHERSFIELD<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
MR. HERBERT L. WHITNEY: President Molloy, Mayor Butler, Fire Chiefs, Members<br />
and Guests: <strong>of</strong> the <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> <strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs.<br />
Fire Marshal <strong>of</strong> <strong>New</strong> Hampshire, Aubrey G. Robinson, who was supposed to welcome<br />
you at this gathering, is unable to be here this afternoon, and he has requested<br />
that I give you a message in his behalf.<br />
Therefore, it is with pleasure that I am hon, ored to help welcome you to the 3<br />
<strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Conference</strong> <strong>of</strong> this <strong>Association</strong>.<br />
At this time, we wish to thank all our colleagues from <strong>New</strong> Hampshire, and also<br />
the Fire Marshals and Chiefs from the other States, who have been so gracious as to<br />
give us the. help which we have requested from them from time to time. The co,<br />
operation has been wonderful, and I ,believe the good services provided ,by £he Fire<br />
Service can.~be traced right back to this co-operation .....<br />
It may interest you Chiefs to kr~,cw that during this current session <strong>of</strong> the Legislature<br />
we have passed legislation for the flame-pro<strong>of</strong>ing <strong>of</strong> tents, as well as emergency<br />
lighting, which is a big step in preventing the loss <strong>of</strong> life.<br />
Also, during this session .<strong>of</strong> the Legisla.t~re, there was. a bill presented to undo the<br />
work <strong>of</strong> the last ten years, when the law prohibiting fireworks was enacted.<br />
The .bill was brought before the Legislature to repeal this act, and again allow<br />
the sale and use <strong>of</strong> fireworks in <strong>New</strong> Hampshire.<br />
Now, we--<strong>of</strong> the Fire Service--know what injuries and fires have come a’bout<br />
from fireworks, and therefore great efforts were made to prevent their sale and eliminate<br />
these injuries and fires, which could again, take their toll <strong>of</strong> life and property. :<br />
Through the Ibacking .<strong>of</strong> our Fire Chiefs in <strong>New</strong> Hampshire and other agencies<br />
dedicated to the prevention <strong>of</strong> injury, we stood .our ground and defeated this ’bill.<br />
We now wish to thank the Chiefs who have been so co-operative in this fight,<br />
and also the fight <strong>of</strong> the Natior~,al Fire Protection <strong>Association</strong>, through their secretary,<br />
Charlie Morgan, for their help, which they gave to our service.<br />
In closing, I earnestly hope that every one here will return home from ~this conference<br />
with s,cmething they h.ave learned Which will help in the prevention <strong>of</strong> loss<br />
<strong>of</strong> lives and property from fire.<br />
,<br />
Thank you very much! (Applause.)<br />
PRESIDENT MOLLOY: It is with a great deal <strong>of</strong> pleasure that I introduce to you the<br />
new Chief <strong>of</strong> Portsmouth, <strong>New</strong> Hampshire, Chief Frederick R. Crompton. (Applause.)<br />
CHIEF CROMPTON: Mr. President, honored guests and members <strong>of</strong> the <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong><br />
Ass, eciation <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs. When John wrote to .me he said he expected me to<br />
say a few words, and it is going to be a few words.<br />
On behalf <strong>of</strong> the City <strong>of</strong> Portsmouth and surrounding town,s it is a great pleasure<br />
to have you here. We gain a lot <strong>of</strong> knowledge getting together here. Mr. Vio,lette,<br />
we have a little trouble with parking; will you take care <strong>of</strong> the tickets? Come up town<br />
andwe will have a place for you to park. (Applause.)<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
CARLOS H. MASON, Vice President<br />
HOSEA D. HYLAND, JR., Assistant Secretary<br />
PAUL W. FRANKLIN, Secretary<br />
RAYMOND J. HITCHCOCK, Assistant Secretary<br />
L. M. BAER, Treasurer<br />
D. LESLIE OLSEN, Assistant Secretary<br />
O. E. WULF, Chairman <strong>of</strong> the Board<br />
Incorporated 1840<br />
NEW LONDON COUNTY MUTUAL<br />
FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY<br />
<strong>of</strong> Norwich, Conn.<br />
CHIEF GEORGE C. GRAHAM, Bristol, Conn.<br />
First Vice President<br />
WATERBURY COMPANIES,<br />
ESTABLISHED 1812<br />
Plastics - Metal Goods . Buttons<br />
835 SO. MAIN STREET<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
OUR BEST WISHES<br />
AND<br />
CONGRATULATIONS<br />
TO<br />
THE NEW ENGLAND<br />
ASSOC I ATION<br />
OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
FOR THE<br />
TH I RTY-FI RST YEAR<br />
OF PUBLIC SERVICE<br />
FABRIC: FIRE HOSE C:OMPANY<br />
SANDY HOOK, CONNECTICUT<br />
EVENING CALL PUBLISHING COMPANY<br />
Publishers o]<br />
THE WOONSOCKET CALL<br />
Rhode Island’s Liveliest <strong>New</strong>spaper<br />
BUELL W. HUDSON ANDREW P. PALMER<br />
Publisher General Manager<br />
MITCHELL F. STANLEY<br />
Manager<br />
Owners <strong>of</strong><br />
WOONSOCKET’S FRIENDLY VOICE<br />
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MRS. ANDREW P. PALMER<br />
President
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS "<br />
|<br />
WARREN H. BELCHER, Ex-Chief, Winthrop, Mass.<br />
Admitted March 19, 1924, died June 9, 1952<br />
E. F. FISHER, A.D.T. Company, Boston, Mass.<br />
Admitted June 21, 1937, died June 10, 1952<br />
CHARLES E. FORTIN, Ex-Chief, Lewiston, Maine<br />
Admitted Aug. 12, 1925, died July 23, 1952<br />
ARTHUR H. BLANCHARD, Blanchard Associates, Winthrop, Maine<br />
Admitted Aug. 12, 1922, died Aug. 27, 1952<br />
HENRY R. TAFT, Ex-Chief, Norwich, Conn.<br />
Admitted June 25, 1929, died Sept. 3, 1952<br />
GEORGE E. BYRON, Fire Commissioner, Hudson, Mass.<br />
Admitted June 24, 1936, died Sept. 16, 1952<br />
WILLIAM H. ST. JOHN, Cos Cob, Connecticut<br />
Admitted April 13, 1950, died Sept. 26, 1952<br />
JOHN MacDONALD, Captain, Rumney, <strong>New</strong> Hampshire Fire Dept.<br />
Admitted March 9, 1950, died Sept. 28, 1952<br />
A. J. FULTON, Ex-Chief, Westfield Vol. Fire Dept., Middletown, Ct.<br />
Admitted May 19, 1939, died Oct. 14, 1952<br />
RALPH B. BENNETT, Chief, Yantic, Connecticut<br />
Admitted Feb. 2, 1951, died Oct. 19, 1952<br />
OLIVER L. STUDLEY, Chief, South Yarmouth, Mass.<br />
Admitted June 21, 1949, died Nov. 10, 1952<br />
HERBERT K. PRATT, Bridgewater, Mass.<br />
Admitted June 24, 1924, died Nov. 15, 1952<br />
MARTIN J.. HAYDEN, Chief,-Bridgeport, Corm ....<br />
Admitted Jan. 28, 1941, died in the performance <strong>of</strong> duty, Dec. 6, 1952<br />
JAMES E. McBRIDE, Worcester, Mass.<br />
Admitted June 21, 1948, died Oct. 6, 1951<br />
GEORGE R. POOU~R, Ex-Chief, Brewer, Maine<br />
Admitted Dec. 4, 1944, died Oct. 8, 1951<br />
MALCOLM H.: McBRiDE, Cambridge, Mass.<br />
Admitted April 12, 1944, died Dec. 20, 1952<br />
CHARLES HISER, Ex-Chief, Adams, Mass.<br />
Admitted May 21, 1923, died Jan. 1, 1953<br />
JOHN BURNS, I st Asst. Chief, Danbury, Connecticut<br />
Admitted Feb. 2, 1950, died Jan. 4, 1953<br />
WILLIAM YOUNG, Chief, Cranston, Rhode Island<br />
Admitted Aug. 25, 1941, died Jan. 22, 1953<br />
PATRICK J. HURLEY, Ex-Chief, Holyoke, Mass., and a Past President<br />
Admitted Sept. 12, 1922, died Feb. 7, 1953<br />
MERLIN A. KIMBALL, Chief, West Lebanon, <strong>New</strong> Hampshire<br />
Admitted June 19, 1950, died March 4, 1953<br />
FRANK CUSHMAN, Long Beach, California, Honorary Life Member<br />
Admitted June 26, 1934, died April 27, 1953<br />
FRANK R. GISBORNE, Ex-Cl~ief, Sound Beach Fire Dept., Old Greenwich, Conn.<br />
Admitted June 9, 1923, died May 18, 1953<br />
FRANCIS O. SPAINE, <strong>New</strong> Haven, Connecticut, Retired Asst. ~Chief<br />
Admitted June 14, 1944, died May 19, 1953<br />
FRANK G. HATSTAT, Chief, Paxton, Mass.<br />
Admitted June 7, 1949, died June 10, 1953<br />
ARTHUR MYERS. Sales Mgr., Atlas Safety Equipment Co., <strong>New</strong> York, N.Y.<br />
Admitted June 19, 1939, died June 13, 1953
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
Best Wishes to the<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> Assn. <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs<br />
from the<br />
Portsmouth Automobile Dealers <strong>Association</strong><br />
Brooks Motor Sales, Inc. .<br />
Co.leman Nash Company .<br />
McCue Motor Sales . .<br />
Portsmouth Buick Co.<br />
Portsmouth Motor Mart, Inc.<br />
B. Franklin Peek . .<br />
Seybolt Motors . . .<br />
Taccetta Chevrolet Co., Inc.<br />
Thompson-McFadden, Inc.<br />
Vaughan Street Garage .<br />
Ralph T. Wood Motors, Inc.<br />
. Ford<br />
¯ Nash<br />
¯ Cadillac<br />
. Buick<br />
¯ Pontiac<br />
¯ Studebaker<br />
¯ Chrysler-Plymouth<br />
. Chevrolet<br />
¯ Lincoln-Mercury<br />
¯ Packard<br />
¯ Dodge-Plymouth<br />
VENtALARM<br />
WHISTLING TANK FILL SIGNAL<br />
In automotive gas tanks prevents the three types <strong>of</strong> spillage:<br />
Biowback - OverFilling - Temperature Expansion<br />
In home fuel oil tanks tells driver"<br />
( | ) If tank is sealed;<br />
(2) If putting oil in correct pipe;<br />
(3) If vent is free;<br />
(4) If level <strong>of</strong> contents is below expansion zone;<br />
(fi) When to stop filling.<br />
For safety every automotive gas tank and every fuel oil<br />
tank should be equipped with the VENTALARM Signal¯<br />
SCULLY SIGNAL COMPANY<br />
88 FIRST STREET CAMBRIDGE 41, MASS.<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF I~IEE CHIEFS<br />
PRESIDENT MOLLOY: Our next speaker is Chief Horace S. Jo~e <strong>of</strong> South Portland,<br />
Maine, in ’"Response to Addresses <strong>of</strong> Welcome." ,Chief Jose. (Applause.)<br />
CHIEF JosE: Mrl President, Reverend Clergy, <strong>of</strong>ficials <strong>of</strong> the State cf <strong>New</strong> Hampshire<br />
and the City <strong>of</strong> Portsmouth, it is a pleasure to respond to these addresses <strong>of</strong> welcome.<br />
I think this is our eighth convention at The Wentworth. Why d,o we keep<br />
coming back? I think the answer is--a beautiful spot, the welcome we receive from<br />
the people <strong>of</strong> <strong>New</strong> Hampshire, the hospitalities extended to us, particularly ,by Mr.<br />
Smith and his a.ble staff, leave nothin,g to Ibe desired on our part.<br />
I am sure that every Fire Chief knows, his part in his community. I am sure that<br />
every Fire Chief knows the part that the fire services are going to play in the event a<br />
disaster strikes in his community. Now each year we have new prc,blems, new me,<br />
terial, new processes, new processes .<strong>of</strong> old material, new tire fighting equipment andlast<br />
but not least--new firefighting techniques.<br />
There is a fine list <strong>of</strong> speakers, men who are experts in their field, who are going<br />
to address this conference. From the lectures, from the discussions and from roun&<br />
ta,ble discussion,s some <strong>of</strong> your answers wilt be found. Now it .behooves every Fire<br />
Chief to attend the sessions, take’part in the roun&ta.ble discussions, so he can go. back<br />
home and give the benefit <strong>of</strong> them to the fire service.<br />
So in. behalf .<strong>of</strong> the ’<strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> <strong>Association</strong>, I wish to extend to the City <strong>of</strong><br />
Portsmouth and the State <strong>of</strong> <strong>New</strong> Hampshire thanks for their welcome and hospitality,<br />
and assure them that the <strong>Association</strong> is one to Ibe proud <strong>of</strong>. Thank you. (Applause.)<br />
" PRESIDENT MOLLOY: On the platform here with me I have a number <strong>of</strong> Past<br />
Presidents. I wish they would just rise and take a bow.<br />
(The Past Presidents stood and received applause:)-<br />
PRESIDENT MOLLOY: NOW, ladies and gentlemen, we are about to enter into a most<br />
solemn phase <strong>of</strong> this entire conference--the Memorial Service for our ieparted members.<br />
Please remain as quiet as possi’b!e and refrain f}om any applause or smoking.<br />
We will now have a selection by the Chapel Quartette.<br />
Roll-,Call <strong>of</strong> Deceased Members by our Secretary.<br />
SECRETARY O’HEARN" Mr. President: In memory <strong>of</strong> our departed, members, I pre,<br />
sent the following Resolution prepared ,by our Chaplain, Rev. John P. Fitasimmons,<br />
Plymouth Congregational Church, Belmont, Massachusetts:<br />
W~IEREAS: Our Heavenly Father has called Hc.me, during this past year, several<br />
mem~bers <strong>of</strong> the <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> <strong>Association</strong>. <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs, and<br />
WHEREAS: In their earthly life they served Him and His children diligently<br />
and faithfully, and<br />
¯ .<br />
WHEREAS: Their friends deeply respected them and wish to honor them,<br />
therefc;re c , -<br />
BE IT RESOLVED: That we, the members <strong>of</strong> rrhe <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> <strong>Association</strong><br />
<strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs, have sustained a deep personal loss in their passing, ar~.d<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FII~E CHIEFS<br />
In five <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> communities: Southbridge and<br />
Chelsea, Mass., Keene, N. H., Brattleboro, Vt., and Putnam,<br />
Conn., where American Optical Company has plants, and<br />
in 24 other <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> cities where there are AO<br />
branches, American Optical Company knows its interests<br />
are protected by efficient fire-fighting t?orces.<br />
For the sense ot? security this provides, American<br />
Optical Company thanks the members ot? the <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong><br />
<strong>Association</strong> ot? Fire Chiefs.<br />
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BE IT RESOLVED: That we extend to their families and to the communities<br />
that they served so efficiently and loyally, our deepest sympathy on their loss, and ~<br />
BE IT RESOLVED: That the memories <strong>of</strong> their sacrifice and service will always<br />
inspire those who follow them.<br />
May that peace which passeth all hu’.man understandin,g remain with our departed<br />
loved ones f, cr evermore.<br />
PR~.SlD~.NT MOLLOY: We will now have the Memorial Address by the Reverend<br />
Frank E. Dunn <strong>of</strong> Springfield, Massachusetts.<br />
REVEREND FRANK E. ])UNN: IN MEMORY--A Memorial Ad’dress to the Fire<br />
Chiefs <strong>of</strong> <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> in <strong>Conference</strong> at Pc.rtsmouth, <strong>New</strong> Hampshirel June 22, 19f3.<br />
It was the an.cient writer, Horace, who, speaking out <strong>of</strong> the wisdom ,Q.f the past,<br />
gave us a thought for this Memorial Exercise today, when in Carmina, he said:<br />
"I have reared a Memorial more enduring than brass, and l<strong>of</strong>tier than the<br />
regal structures <strong>of</strong> the pyr-arr~ds, which neither the corroding shower nor the p,owerless<br />
n, orth wind can destroy; no, not even unending years, nor the flight <strong>of</strong><br />
" time itself."<br />
For, indeed, on such occasions as this, we are not only calling to m~nd our fellow<br />
colleagues, the great public servants whose lives have come to an end; we are seekin.g<br />
by appropriate recognition in our memories, yes, in our-hearts, to evaluate the service<br />
<strong>of</strong> their lives in those commur.,ities in which they provided leadership <strong>of</strong> great distinctfcn.<br />
~And it is well for us to retrace in thought and in memory the faces, <strong>of</strong> those we<br />
shall no longer see, the spirits <strong>of</strong> friends who have ascended the universal pea.ks <strong>of</strong><br />
spirituality whe[e the limitations <strong>of</strong> this life are no longer in evidence, and where new<br />
challenges for the advancement <strong>of</strong> pers.cnality are present.<br />
We are contemplating no sad <strong>of</strong>fice today. It is true that friends have gone, that<br />
old colleagues are no more seen in, familiar places. But they have merely taken an<br />
earlier train to a distant land. We shall be joined again some day with them. But<br />
their work is done. Whatever tasks obsessed them, these are cver. The problems <strong>of</strong><br />
materiality are behind.<br />
No .one can gainsay the value <strong>of</strong> their service to the community. The very nature<br />
<strong>of</strong> your occupation demands that such a service be primary, be constant, and continuously<br />
available. And the ramifihations <strong>of</strong> that service are many. I recall the story<br />
from my own community <strong>of</strong> a family whose house was burned to the ground on a<br />
Christmas eve. ,Christmas day would have indeed been bleak, had it not been for a speciat<br />
committee <strong>of</strong> the depa_rtment .c.petating un,der sincere leadership which provided<br />
food, clothing, money and other necessaries and thus stemmed the tide <strong>of</strong> despair that<br />
was .beginning to engulf this family.<br />
The stories <strong>of</strong> personal and pr<strong>of</strong>essional service <strong>of</strong>fered by your friends whose<br />
memory we honor today are .verified by the experiences <strong>of</strong> your own lives. For such<br />
great contribution to the living <strong>of</strong> their respective communities and the lives <strong>of</strong> many<br />
<strong>of</strong> its citizens, we can be truly thankful. ~<br />
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But, it is in, the call and the chal’lenges <strong>of</strong> pr<strong>of</strong>essional service and in its opera,<br />
tiv.ns that we are thinking <strong>of</strong> those who "have finished the course", who have laid down<br />
life..Could we gather together the sum total <strong>of</strong> the acts that were performed on behalf<br />
<strong>of</strong> the public in the course <strong>of</strong> duty, we should, find many who would be labeled "heroic"<br />
by the laymen. ~-<br />
Many were the urgencies which ~alled for quick thinking_and quick action,, and in<br />
these, heroism was born. Was it not doing the impossible? No, not necessarily. Was<br />
it in.doing what no other man would do if given opportunity in, a similar situation?<br />
No; probably not. ’It was in doing what needed to be done at the time that it was most<br />
urgently needed. Ands, the record <strong>of</strong> such actions in, the course <strong>of</strong> a life-time is replete<br />
with satisfying accomplishments. ~<br />
The best things in lif~ cannot be measured. Thekindly wo,rd, a good deed, a<br />
sincere example, the support <strong>of</strong> good works, the spiritual life, the love <strong>of</strong> God, the<br />
influence <strong>of</strong> a life--these things are, and they have become, a part <strong>of</strong> our experience,<br />
and we know <strong>of</strong> their great value, but we cannct evaluate their true worth, their full<br />
value.<br />
So that it is about those whohave, to us, become a memoryT- There is a sum total<br />
<strong>of</strong> their goodness that abounds, that exists in the lives <strong>of</strong> men and women they have<br />
touched. ,<br />
In this, they have a kind, <strong>of</strong> immortality. Their ideas., .their work, their gQod dee-ds,<br />
persist with the impression~ <strong>of</strong> their personalities.. No man is truly ever forgotten. For,<br />
if he persists as ’a memory in a single mind, though he may not be recalled <strong>of</strong>ten, heis<br />
remembered. -~ - - - - -’ ......<br />
¯ But all remembvr a colleague. A valued associate. A true friend.<br />
Those who are. gone, have been these to some or many <strong>of</strong> you.<br />
In the spirit <strong>of</strong> )ou~ relationship, you rear the proper Memorial, and remembe.r<br />
John Henry <strong>New</strong>man’s line:<br />
"Sd long thy pcwer hath blest _<br />
Sure it will lead me on,<br />
O’er moor and fen, o’er crag and torrengtill;<br />
The Night. is gone;<br />
And, with the morn,<br />
Those angel faces smile,<br />
Which I have loved long since ....<br />
And lost awhile."<br />
PRESIDENT MOLLOY: NOW we will close with Benediction by the Rev. John P.<br />
Fitzsim.mons <strong>of</strong> Belmont, Massachusetts, our Chaplain.<br />
CHAPLAIN FITZSlMMONS: Andl now ma~ ~ peace <strong>of</strong> God, the love <strong>of</strong> our Lord<br />
Jesus Christ bring every friendly bliss and blessing and vision, to all <strong>of</strong> us who follow in<br />
Thy name, now and forever more. Amen!<br />
PRESIDENT MOLLOY: This closes our Memorial Services at the present time, but I<br />
have a couple <strong>of</strong> announcements.
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Immediately following there will be a meeting <strong>of</strong> the <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> Division- <strong>of</strong><br />
the International <strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong> Fire ~Chiefs. ~<br />
Tonight’s meeting is at eight o’clock and, as you "can see by your program, we<br />
are going to have some very interesting spe.al~.ers. The first one is, "’International Activities<br />
and Fire Chief Problems" by .Chief George R. McAlpine <strong>of</strong> Oklahoma City,<br />
Oklahoma. He is President <strong>of</strong> the International Asiociati0n <strong>of</strong> F;re Chiefs. The next<br />
two speakers are from "Across the Border," our neighbor;, I kno~ they have an, inter,<br />
esting s,.ubject to talk about and an interesting message to bring to .you, so I would like<br />
you all here at about eight o’clock. Th’ank you very much.<br />
(Whereupon the afternoon session adjourned at four-thirty P.M:.) "<br />
Monday. Evening Session<br />
The Monday evening meeting <strong>of</strong> the <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> <strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs<br />
convened in the Ballroom...a.~ ~eight-thi:r~y o’clock, President Moli0y presiding.<br />
PRESIDENT MOLLOY: Please let’s start these meetings on time so we can get out a<br />
little earlier. Before starting this meeting I would like to ask the Secretary if he has<br />
any correspondence.<br />
CHIEF O’HEARN : I have no correspondence, but I have a report <strong>of</strong> the action taken<br />
at a special meeting yesterday that I believe the members should know <strong>of</strong>. You know<br />
what we have been through in Mid Massachusetts in the Worcester area. The President<br />
called a special meeting <strong>of</strong> our <strong>of</strong>ficers yesterd~ay afternoon at the Hotel and at<br />
that special meeting reports were heard. So far as is known, Lincoln~ Estes is still in<br />
the hospital, and we lost by accident there--being electrocuted--one <strong>of</strong> the younger<br />
Chiefs in the small town <strong>of</strong> Paxton. He was with us live years, a young man 36 or 37<br />
years <strong>of</strong> age, an& it is dou.btful if Massachusetts laws recompense with an, annuity for<br />
the widow. That is the purpose <strong>of</strong> the committee, -which I think is a commendable one.<br />
PRESIDENT MOLLOY: We will open the meeting this evening with a gentleman<br />
whom the majority <strong>of</strong> you know. He is my friend and your friend. He is President <strong>of</strong><br />
the International <strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs--Chief George R. McAlpine <strong>of</strong> Oklahoma<br />
City, Oklahoma, who. will talk on "International Activities and Fire Chiefs’ Problems."<br />
CHIEF MCALPINE : Mr. President, Fellow Fire Chiefs, ladies and guests, it is indeed<br />
a pleasure and a privilege to be invited to come up here to the grand old section <strong>of</strong> the<br />
country known as <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> and talk to you for just a few minutes this. evening.<br />
First, I would like these Fire Chiefs to know that I am just an, ordinary Fire Chief<br />
from a country .town in Oklahoma. I am not a public speaker, so you will have to<br />
bear with me if I ramble in some <strong>of</strong> the subjects I try to present to you this evening.<br />
I. would like to tell Chief Nickerson--I believe he is President <strong>of</strong> the <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong><br />
Division--that I have here a gavel which has "<strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> DivisiorF’ on it. I have<br />
a sounding board on there and a small case <strong>of</strong> ~walnut that I am presenting to<br />
the <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> Division <strong>of</strong> the International. This soun, ding board, the small case,<br />
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Branches at Hartford, Conn. -- Burlinston, Vt. -- Auburn, Maine<br />
CHIEF JOHN E. KEEFE<br />
Bellows Falls, Vermont<br />
Second Vice-President<br />
THE PARKER COMPANY, INC.<br />
Hollow Metal Doors<br />
Sanitary Metal Trim<br />
Metal Partitions<br />
Kalamein Doors<br />
Tin Clad Fire Doors Detention Screens<br />
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Bank Equipment<br />
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R. L. HALL, President<br />
HAncock 6-0348 and 6-1340<br />
JAMES HAIN, Vice President<br />
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REDUCING FIRE LOSSES<br />
... a reminder<br />
Keeping u community’s fire losses at a minimum is the principal concern<br />
<strong>of</strong> every fire chief . . . whether in the field <strong>of</strong> fire fighting, fire prevention or<br />
automatic fire protect!on.<br />
Recommending automatic sprinkler fire pro~,ect!on to unprotected fire risks<br />
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the gavel and ,book containing all the constitutions, including the International and all<br />
divisional constitutions, is in this one case.<br />
Now it might notseem a lot to some people to receive a small gift like that from<br />
a :own, in Oklahoma, but the walnut tree .that this gavel and this. sounding board were<br />
made from grew on one <strong>of</strong> my farms in the State <strong>of</strong> Oklahoma, and so it does mean<br />
something to me, and I made one for each c,f the divisions <strong>of</strong> the International.<br />
Now I want .to speak just a minute or two on International activities. I know<br />
you Fire Chiefs are no different from what I am, and I would like to know if there is<br />
something going on worthwhile in" the International <strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs. We<br />
have established several committees, there that are working on what I think are several<br />
important projects.<br />
We have one committee established on making a study <strong>of</strong> all the salaries paid<br />
Fire ,Chiefs in the United States and Canadal We have already prepared~ a report on<br />
that and put it out for releas.e, and it is available at the headquarters <strong>of</strong>fice ’by writing<br />
for it. We set up in that particular report the Fire Chiefs’ salaries <strong>of</strong> the various communities~nd<br />
recommend th~it Fire Chiefs .be paid n,0t less than a certain minimum,<br />
depending-enthe size <strong>of</strong> the ~city they represent.<br />
Thin that same committee is mXldng an’ addidonil stddy" at this time:<strong>of</strong> pension<br />
privilege~ <strong>of</strong> the Fife Chiefs throtighout the United States and Canada, to try to determine<br />
if in some way the Fire ’Chiefs <strong>of</strong> this Nation and Canada can increase the<br />
benefit pensions to Fire Chiefs. We established a committee to write and prepare a<br />
-fire-prevention guide for elementary schools.. IThat -has been prepared an&-is-on file<br />
and is available at the International Fire Chiefs’ <strong>Association</strong> in <strong>New</strong> York.<br />
The elementary teachers’ guide is the first ever developed in this country. We<br />
think that it is a fine document. We think it would be beneficial to every elementary<br />
s.chool in the Nation to have it. Now when we started on this we realized that none<br />
c.f us was competent to compile a fire-prevention guid’e that could be used in the schools,<br />
an.d so we went to the College <strong>of</strong> Southern California. There we got the curriculum<br />
division o.f that college to call in the various principals andi teachers from elementary<br />
schools in the City <strong>of</strong> Los Angeles.<br />
There we got together and compiled this information for International. It cost<br />
you fellows some money to do. it, but we thought it was a worthwhile project, and I<br />
definitely believe it is worthwhile to have in every elementary school in the country.<br />
We have another project on that which is dear to my heart, and I am sure to every<br />
Fire ,Chief. That is what we call a membership campaign. We started out at the<br />
ginning.o.f my administration to try and increase the membership in the International<br />
<strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs. I myself have given one prize, which will be a top price<br />
<strong>of</strong> $100, and <strong>of</strong> course for second place a $~0 prize, and third place a $2~ prize. I<br />
d,idn’t a’sk the International <strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs to appropriate this $100. I<br />
thcught it was something I could do--so I, myself, put up the $100 for the person that<br />
brings in the most members in any one division., and they don’t have to be a Fire Chief.<br />
They can be an associate member and get certain points for each member they ,bring in,<br />
and when reports are compiled in Toronto we are goin.g to give. thfee cash prizes..~.<br />
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Now the problems facing the Fire Chiefs in this country .are .many. I think that<br />
possibly none <strong>of</strong> us realize how we are responsible for Fire ,Chiefs in our community.<br />
I know one thing: a Fire Chief will come near realizing his responsibi!ity, but I some-<br />
~imes wonder if we as Fire ’Chiefs realize the real importance <strong>of</strong> our job and responsibility<br />
that goes along with it.<br />
. You know I had mentioned we had provided a teachers’ guide for the elementary<br />
schools. I am firmly .convinced as a Fire Chief-and, I haven’t .been a Fire .Chief as long<br />
as many <strong>of</strong> you gentlemen have, only since the sixth day <strong>of</strong> February, 1938, but if I live<br />
to the coming July first I will .be in the service forty years, and some <strong>of</strong> you have been<br />
in the service much longer than that--we are goin, g to have to do something about fire<br />
prevention other than go to Kiwanis, Lions Club and the Rotary and Chamber Of Commerce<br />
and preach fire prevention. You fellows do that and I do, each year, but we are<br />
getting not what I consider in our part <strong>of</strong> the .country the desired results.<br />
I .believe we are going to have to do two things in order to actually see any real<br />
progress in fire prevention. .One is: we are going to have to teach the children in<br />
elementary schools from the kindergarten to the finish, and, I believe it Will instill in<br />
them some <strong>of</strong> the things they will carry on through life, and I ibelieve it will be a beneficial<br />
thing in any .community to go into the elementary schools to talk fire prevention<br />
to the little children <strong>of</strong> that community.<br />
Now then, it has been my experience that a Fire Chief in talking to the children<br />
in the community, standing on .the stage when they are all assembled in front <strong>of</strong> him,<br />
they feel he should wear his full uniform, an’d those children will be very attentive and<br />
listen to the words you ’say. A lot <strong>of</strong> the words they will remember until they get as<br />
old as ! am, and I think a Fire Chief is not thinking straight when he doesn’t wear a<br />
fu’ll uniform.<br />
Now the children in your community or mine are the most precious possession<br />
we have, an.d we have got to realize that the lives <strong>of</strong> those child,ren are being snuffed<br />
out by fire at the rate <strong>of</strong> more than four thousand annually--and I think there ought<br />
to be something we can do about it. I think if we send messages home to dads through<br />
children <strong>of</strong> what causes disasters in the home, .it will help.<br />
You fellows, know what they are, but if you will send those messages home by<br />
those little children to the mothers and dads, I ibelieve it will pay dividends..<br />
Now I wouldi like to say just a few words about fire in .t’he community, and also<br />
the benefits received by your community from the industrial and business life <strong>of</strong> your<br />
community. You know it is a known fact that 9~ per cent <strong>of</strong> all the fires are preventa.ble,<br />
and when we know that 9~ per cent <strong>of</strong> them are preventable and you didi as much<br />
as I have, but I think we ought to use every method we can possibly think <strong>of</strong> to bring<br />
forcefully to the people <strong>of</strong> the communiity the importance cf fire prevention, and try<br />
to bring them around to thinkin, g fire consciously--and then we may get something done.<br />
I sometimes think that in connection with the lives lost in our communities<br />
we, as men, are going to have to appeal to the mothers <strong>of</strong> America. I believe we are<br />
going to have to educate the mothers <strong>of</strong> America <strong>of</strong> the dangers <strong>of</strong> fires in the home,<br />
and I ;believe when we show them definitely what starts fires that burn their children<br />
up, they will do something about it--maybe more than we have dyne.<br />
Now the ,business and industrial life <strong>of</strong> your community is <strong>of</strong> first importance.<br />
It is the lifeblood <strong>of</strong> your community, whether it is a ’barber shop or a large industriaI<br />
plant or a large business ccncern. That is what it takes to make a city--and without your<br />
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business and industrial life <strong>of</strong> your city, your city surely could not survive. You can’t<br />
survive without industrial an,d business life.<br />
In our cities we have too many disaster-type fires, and I call them a disaster<br />
when they strike in my community or in your communitywbecause when a ;business<br />
or an industrial plant is destroyed by fire, which employs 100 or 1,000 peop!~, people<br />
are out <strong>of</strong> jobs. ’Gentlemen,, it is a g~isaster. May,be a lot <strong>of</strong> children Will go hung{y;<br />
a Iot <strong>of</strong> mothers might go hungry because the dad 6i mother that carried the dinner<br />
bucket has a je.b no longer.<br />
, t think it is our responsibility as Fire Chiefs to call to t’he attention <strong>of</strong> all the industrial<br />
management <strong>of</strong> our communities the importance <strong>of</strong> that industry or business<br />
toour community and as’k their full co-operation. I know what you are goi_ng to heat:<br />
’O Chief, we have been operating here for thirty oi forty years and up in <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong><br />
on’e hundred or two hundred years; we have never had a fire here, and you come<br />
down and tell us we ought to. d~o, this or should do that to eliminate the possibility <strong>of</strong><br />
a fire. That will cost Us money." He doesn’t stop to .{hink how much money it is going<br />
to cost him when fhe telephone rings at two o’clock in the mo.rning to tell him he has<br />
a major fire going in his plant. He doesn’t stop to think how much money that may be<br />
going to take <strong>of</strong> his life earnings in just a few minutes,. -It is going:tdpnt those people<br />
out <strong>of</strong> work.<br />
You know that fellows if approached in the right manner co-operate with you.<br />
He built his plant th{re, and he didn’t build Jrthere with the intent-ion, <strong>of</strong> its burning<br />
up o.r drying UP. ,I-It ~built it to make money--and when you show him the possibilities<br />
<strong>of</strong> fire in his industrial plant, and show him what he should do to eliminate that possibility,<br />
the greater portion will co-operate with you--an.d when they do it will save<br />
the lifebloodi <strong>of</strong> your community. The lifeblood is going up in smoke.<br />
Our responsibility as Fire ,Chiefs in the community reaches further than just the extinguishment<br />
<strong>of</strong> fire. You fellows work twenty-four hours a day. You try in every<br />
way you = .can to figure out ways and means o.f proven.ring fires, to try to ,’bring to the<br />
attention <strong>of</strong> your people the importance <strong>of</strong> fire-prevention; and I say to you, we ar.e<br />
going to ’have to continue =that work. We can’t acknowledge defeat. We have never<br />
acknowledged defeat when’ the "chips are downi"<br />
You roll out at two or three o’clock in the morning, when the temperature is down<br />
around zero and you. can’t even see the street for smoke.. There are very few people<br />
in that community that would accept that possibility. You never do acknowledge defeat.<br />
You walk in and accept it, an,d~ say: "Yes, we will whip it"--and you do whip it.<br />
Gentlemen, the Fire .Chiefs dion’t acknowledge defeat, and.we have a serious situation<br />
throughout the United States <strong>of</strong> America in the preventing <strong>of</strong> fires. First, to save<br />
the lives <strong>of</strong> the children <strong>of</strong> this community. The second is to save the industrial and<br />
business life <strong>of</strong> our communities,. I can’t help bu~ think we may be called on sometime<br />
to combat an atomic-attack ,bomb.<br />
You fellows know I went out to Las Vegas, Nevada, and witnessed the explosion<br />
<strong>of</strong> an atomic bomb on’ the 17th day <strong>of</strong> March. I was agreeably surprised with that<br />
thing because it wasn’t nearly as bad as I thought it w.ould~ be. But, nevertheless, it<br />
isn’t going to be any minor thing if some enemy drops one on one <strong>of</strong> these large industrial<br />
cities which seem to cover the entire country up here in <strong>New</strong> Englan=d<br />
States, and in my opinion that is what would happen if the enemy wculd strike us.<br />
It would be in the place to do us the most harm--and they could do more harm in the<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> States than anywhere else_--so. I can’t help but recite to yo._u: let’s get<br />
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our own house in. order. Let’s think seriously about this atomic-bomb ~situation and<br />
think = how we could cope with it and think what we could, do. It might pay you, dividends<br />
to pay a lot <strong>of</strong> attention to planning.<br />
Mr. President, I am happy to come up here to. <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong>. You know, <strong>New</strong><br />
<strong>England</strong>--to us in Oklahoma--is the "Cradle~:<strong>of</strong> Democracy." Democracy started<br />
right up here in <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> and we are all going to be called on to protect it, and we<br />
hope we can do just as much as you do here in the <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> States, because we<br />
kncw it was born here and, we know you are not go{ng to let it die. With that, thanks<br />
a lot for this opportunity. (Applause.)<br />
PRESIDENT MOLLOY: Our next speaker on the program is Chief C. Gray Burnet~<br />
<strong>of</strong> Ottawa, ’Canada, President, Canadian <strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs, who will speak on<br />
"Fire Prevention Activities in Canada."<br />
CHIEF C. ’G. BURNETT: Mr. President and Gentlemen. I am very pleasedi to have<br />
the privilege <strong>of</strong> attending and addressing your <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Conference</strong> here in Portsmouth,<br />
as I have heard on. several occasions about the work carried on ,by the <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong><br />
Asscciation and~ the wonderful convention held each year. Our Ontario Fire Marshal,<br />
Mr. W. J. Scott--who, I believe, is a member <strong>of</strong> your <strong>Association</strong> and a regular attendant-comes<br />
back home .singing the praises <strong>of</strong> the convention and advising everyone<br />
to attend. =<br />
May I also bring you cordial greetings from =our .Canadian. <strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong> Fire<br />
Chiefs, who are meeting jointly this year with the International <strong>Association</strong> in. the City<br />
<strong>of</strong> Toro.nto, and who extend an invitation to all <strong>of</strong> your members to ..be with us in 8epteraber<br />
when--from all accounts <strong>of</strong> our Toronto Convention Committee under the<br />
Chairmanship <strong>of</strong> .the genial Jim Arnott--this should be the outstanding <strong>Conference</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
the year, and .Canada will welcome all those who attend.<br />
My main purpose in being here today is to tell you <strong>of</strong> the fire-prevention program<br />
which was carried out in the :City <strong>of</strong> Ottawa, andTwhich w6n top honors for Canada<br />
out <strong>of</strong> a field <strong>of</strong> seven hundred and eleven entries from all over .Canada.<br />
Our Canadian fire-prevention programs are judged similar to your United 8tares<br />
entries, ;by the National Fire Protection <strong>Association</strong> in the City <strong>of</strong> Boston, and we are<br />
very pleased that this <strong>Association</strong> and the Committee appointed by them, which in-:<br />
dudes one ’Canadian, takes on. this tremendous job <strong>of</strong> judging .the many entries= submitted<br />
~by both our countries.<br />
In my opinion, fire,prevention programs have more than proven their worth, and<br />
we <strong>of</strong> the Fire Service know that in order to reduce the rising loss <strong>of</strong> life and property<br />
each year, we must continue to .bring before our citizens the hazards <strong>of</strong> ~ire; and in order<br />
~or us to succeed, we must have co-operation from service clubs, schools, churches, thea~res,<br />
and from citizens in all walks Of life.<br />
The average citizen is not trained to recognize fire hazards, and does not have a<br />
practical, knowledge <strong>of</strong> fire fighting and the factors influencing the spread <strong>of</strong> fire, as<br />
dces the experienced fireman. 8till it is very SurprMng how much interest has been<br />
shown in matters <strong>of</strong> fire prevention by our business men and property owp.ers in the<br />
past few years. I think this is largely .due to the continued .p.ublicity and extensive inspection<br />
campaigns which have been organized and carried out by the fire departments<br />
in most <strong>of</strong> our communities. ........<br />
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’Owners and occupants <strong>of</strong> buildings need to ’be impressed with the fact that the<br />
tire department is maintained for the prevention and control <strong>of</strong> fires, andi it is to their<br />
adva.ntage to call the fire department inproblems 9f fire prevention and protection.<br />
Fire departments are.organized to give citizens protection agains.t loss <strong>of</strong> life and property<br />
~by :fire~ While fire fighting must .be their pri~mary job, the most alert <strong>of</strong> these departments<br />
.consider that their full measure o.f service to the citizens requires as much<br />
attention to preventing fires as to putting them out. Intelligently,made inspections are<br />
the ~backbone <strong>of</strong> effective fire-prevention work.<br />
While one week each year is proclaimed as Fire Prevention Week, it really only<br />
means a revival <strong>of</strong> our fire-prevention activities which are carried out throughout<br />
the whole year.<br />
Home and Business Inspections<br />
,The majority <strong>of</strong> fires are caused in, dwellings, and we therefore organized, our whole<br />
department to try and inspect not only the business section <strong>of</strong> our city, but a house-tohouse<br />
call, to try and advise the occupants <strong>of</strong> any fire hazards which might exist within<br />
the home. After this inspection was carried out, a report was left with the occupants<br />
as to the conditions found, and one <strong>of</strong> our fire,prevention pamphlets advising <strong>of</strong> the<br />
hazards <strong>of</strong> fire was left with the report. ’Over 10,000 <strong>of</strong> these dwelling inspections were<br />
made, and many thousands <strong>of</strong> these fire-prevention pa.mphlets were distributed throughout<br />
the city during the campaign.<br />
Schools<br />
It has long ’been recognized by fire departments that our children, can play a large<br />
part in preventing fires, and in this regard an effort is made to visit the schools at least<br />
twice a year, for the purpose o.f carrying out fire drills, and giving talks on how to preven.t<br />
fires in their homes, and what action to take when fire is discovered. These inspections<br />
always prove popular with the children, as the firemen bring along one <strong>of</strong> the<br />
pieces <strong>of</strong> fire apparatus, and put .on a demonstration in the handiling <strong>of</strong> life-saving and<br />
fire-.fighting equipment.<br />
During fire-prevention week, each child is given a Jun.ior Fire Inspector’s badge,<br />
making him or her a Fire Inspector during the campaign and throughout th4 year. Over<br />
Y,000 <strong>of</strong> these were ’distributed.<br />
Every co-operation is <strong>of</strong>fered ,by the schcols, and this year we had to appoint seventeen<br />
<strong>of</strong> their older members for detail to the fire department each day <strong>of</strong> the campaign to<br />
take over the different administrative positions. It was very interesting to see how<br />
seriously these ~boys took over their jobs and~ carried out their duties under the supervision<br />
<strong>of</strong> our otticers. I personally had a young lad act each day as Chief, and he<br />
drove with me in my car and followed the activities <strong>of</strong> the position throughout the day.<br />
After these boys returned to their respective schools, they were required to write an<br />
essay on the work <strong>of</strong> the fire department, and explain to their classes what they saw and<br />
the position, they held.<br />
The essays were submitted to the department, and prizes were awarded by our<br />
Board <strong>of</strong> Trade for the ’best and the nearest.<br />
Fire Prevention Talks<br />
Prior to and during Fire Prevention Week, members <strong>of</strong> our Department visited<br />
each service club meeting, showed pictures and gave a short talk on the fire hazards<br />
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existing in the homes and in places <strong>of</strong> business. The radio was widely used throughout<br />
the year, and during Fire Prevention Week we were very pleased to have the members<br />
<strong>of</strong> our City Council, Board <strong>of</strong> Trade, and Insurance <strong>Association</strong> give fire-prevention<br />
talks.<br />
Theatres<br />
Our theatres were very co-operative in allowing us to display domestic appliances<br />
in their main foyers, showing how fires start, through carelessness, and each day they<br />
showed a film on fire prevention.<br />
Fire Prevention Banners<br />
Fire-prevention banners were flown in different sections <strong>of</strong> our city, and all cityowned<br />
trucks .carried signs on the side <strong>of</strong> the body bearing a fire-prevention message.<br />
. Then, along the main streets <strong>of</strong> our city, the merchants permitted the use <strong>of</strong> large<br />
stencils on their windows, which toldi the populace that fires are costly and to exercise<br />
prevention against fire. Many <strong>of</strong> these signs are still intact and the merchants have no<br />
desire to remove them.<br />
Fire Prevention Stamp Stickers<br />
Prior to and through Fire Prevention Week, fire-prevention stickers were used on<br />
all envelop.es,sent out by our city <strong>of</strong>fices, service clubs, and many other organizations.<br />
Inspection <strong>of</strong> Government Buildings<br />
While our Government Buildings are inspected thro.ughout the year :by members<br />
<strong>of</strong> the R. C. M. P., our Department is responsible for their protection from fire. During<br />
Fire Prevention Week fire drills were held with demonstrations, and talks were given<br />
by our members.<br />
Inspecting by Radio<br />
Maximum efficiency in the handling <strong>of</strong> fire-,fighting equipment requires a detailed<br />
knowledge <strong>of</strong> the .building in which a fire is being fought. Knowledge <strong>of</strong> its hazards,<br />
its protection equipment, its structural features affecting the spread <strong>of</strong> fire, entry, and<br />
its exits for the safety <strong>of</strong> firemen, as well as for the efficient handling <strong>of</strong> a fire to eliminate<br />
unnecessary loss <strong>of</strong> life and property.<br />
In the past, it was not advisable to remove your apparatus, far from a fire station or<br />
have many <strong>of</strong> the members doing fire inspection work in their districts, owing to being<br />
out <strong>of</strong> commission, for a call, ,but recently, with the use <strong>of</strong> radio-equipped apparatus,<br />
all the personnel and apparatus in a fire station can be taken to any location in their district,<br />
giving the members the opportunity <strong>of</strong> seeing conditions as they exist.<br />
Each day, one <strong>of</strong> the station crews with apparatus, along with a District Chief,<br />
inspects by radio in the business district, and, with the apparatus or~ the street carrying<br />
fire-prevention, banners, much interest was shown bY our citizens in this type <strong>of</strong> inspection,<br />
and it was an advantage to our me:ml~rS t6 be able to s~ and discuss conditions<br />
in their district as a body, rather than eo~t aroun~t knd ~v’~"i-t for a call.<br />
As you can well imagine, in. order to ca-rry-.out such an extensive program, it takes<br />
the interest andi assistance <strong>of</strong> every member 0f the department, and while our fireprevention<br />
bureau is operating throughout the year, committees must be appointed<br />
prior to the program to act under their direc.tion, and many <strong>of</strong> these committee mem-<br />
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bers come from service clubs and other organizations which take a keen interest in<br />
fire prevention, in order to assist their community.<br />
In the past f~w years, more and more interest has been shown in fire prevention<br />
throughout Canada, and with the large number <strong>of</strong> entries, the competition has been<br />
keen. While our department has been either first, second or third in the last ten years,<br />
we do not intend to relax our efforts to protect life and property, and will continue<br />
to try to be one o.f the leading cities in Canadia in tire prevention.<br />
In closing, Mr. President and members <strong>of</strong> the NeW <strong>England</strong> <strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong> Fire<br />
Chiefs, may I again thank your group for the invitation to ;be in attendance, and I trust<br />
that we may see you all in Toronto in September! (Applause.)<br />
PRESIDENT MOLLOY: The next subject is presented by W. J. Scott, O. B. E., Q. C.<br />
Fire Marshal <strong>of</strong> Ontario, :Canada, and is titled "Federal Fire Forums." Mr. Scott.<br />
(Applause.)<br />
MRI SCOTT: President and Gentlemen, I very cordially invite you to come up and<br />
meet with us in Toron,to beginning September 1~. It is only six or seven hundred.<br />
miles for .most <strong>of</strong> you--two days’ driving on good roads, and our roads in Toronto are<br />
just as wide-and just as straight. Chief McAlpine was up there and spoke at a meeting<br />
I was conducting, and the Chief had one very unusual happening. Whenever he gets to<br />
a strange city, he looks up in the telephone directory for all the McAlpines. He found<br />
two <strong>of</strong> them in the telephone booF, and he had quite a chat with a fellow who came<br />
from Oklahoma. His; father came from the same part <strong>of</strong> the state, and they had quite<br />
a discussion whether he was a second or third cousin. .George said, "I have got to<br />
leave for dinner and I want to call the other McAlpine, and see if he is another relative."<br />
(Laughter.)<br />
It is a pleasure to be back here to. the <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong>~ <strong>Association</strong>. Chief McAlpine<br />
and I were reminded that the first year he became Fire Chief was the first year I was<br />
at the <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> Associaticn. During the wartime, visits were rather interrupted~,<br />
and so this is a very happy occasion and my wife and I are appreciating it very much.<br />
Now she knows why I gain so much weight: After being here two days she went<br />
downtown and bought three new dresses. I hope none <strong>of</strong> the rest <strong>of</strong> y.ou run into the<br />
same situation. The last time was. three years ago, and I had just finished spending a<br />
couple <strong>of</strong> weeks with the U. S. Army. Since that time I have been privileged to take<br />
the Staff Course at the Fed;oral Administration at Washington, and last year I was: in<br />
the United Kingdom taking the British Course, and I visited in other parts <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Country.<br />
I have two albums on Europe which I will pass around. One shows the British<br />
Fire Colleges and one <strong>of</strong> the Swedish Fire Colleges. I want to say, based upon what<br />
they are doing in Europe, we in ’Canada had a rather unique experiment late last fall.<br />
The Canadian Government brought together the Fire Cl~iefs <strong>of</strong> all the leading cities<br />
across ’Canada, and they went the entire week discussing how pr<strong>of</strong>essionals would<br />
hand,le any emergency. We had not only our own people, but we were very happy and<br />
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President, <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> Internaticnal, and also a man from Seattle, Washington. We<br />
also had Fire Chiefs from Detroit, Michigan. and from Buffalo.<br />
We discussed the p~?oblems which are certainly joint between Canada and the<br />
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company doesn’t recognize on which side it does start, and,. our fire pumps are the same<br />
whether in Canada or the United States. We had a most interesting week <strong>of</strong> it. I<br />
will show you one album which will be passed around, and also I will show you some<br />
<strong>of</strong> the problems we discussed in our Federal Forums, <strong>of</strong> how we would attack first on<br />
enemy action and--probably more important--just how big, and how big and what a<br />
problem those fires were.<br />
Until y~u-sit back and think in. todiay’s warfare you don’t worry a,bc.ut a fire at<br />
60 Smith Street, nor do you worry about one ,block <strong>of</strong> a village, or worry about the<br />
city blcck, but yo u have massed fires under modern warfare ten or twelve miles around<br />
the perimeter, and you have to use equipment, manpower and water in amounts and<br />
quantities almost unbelievable.<br />
Even in World War II they had fairly large fires. There were 3,000 pumpers<br />
at one time in London. That is a fair number <strong>of</strong> pumpers. The British Fire Brigade<br />
had 341,000 men and women fully trained firefighters. That is a big :brigade.<br />
You needi a lot <strong>of</strong> equipment to fight any type <strong>of</strong> fire that a real emergency, such<br />
as an ato.mid attack,’would cost. I worked with the British last fall and we went into<br />
it very fully, as far as the Canadians and Americans were ccncerned, i~nd we came to<br />
the conclusion that you only probably have 700 pumpers, all <strong>of</strong> 600 gallons or over.<br />
You need water supplies at the rate <strong>of</strong> 200,000 gallons per minute--ar, d that is a lot <strong>of</strong><br />
water, and ycu are not playing with one or two brigades or one or two pieces <strong>of</strong> equip,<br />
ment, as some days it gets worse an~t Some days it gets better. The fire people have to<br />
.be prepared to do their part because every authority in the English-speaking world<br />
agrees that 80 per cent <strong>of</strong> damage is caused by fire. It is not caused by radiation <strong>of</strong><br />
~he atomic bomb. Fire is just the same whether it started by incendiary or atomic<br />
bomb, or the type <strong>of</strong> fire you fight every day.<br />
The only difference is that under enemy attack it is a big fire in proportion. We<br />
haven’t been accustomed to, deal with this, and only those people in yc.ur communities<br />
struck by the cyclone a few weeks ago know how in a few moments a community can<br />
be devastated.<br />
That is why today when we are not in the midst o.f a war we have to get our houses<br />
in order and do things we never thought <strong>of</strong> doing before.<br />
One <strong>of</strong> the new principles that will .be talked o£ is getting rid <strong>of</strong> all wooden fences<br />
and outbuildings in our modern cities because that is the sort <strong>of</strong> thing that ignites from<br />
an atomic flash, and no fire department could possibly do it. In the week we met in<br />
To.ronto we first discussed the various effects <strong>of</strong> atomic warfare, the atomic .bomb; we<br />
discussed the heat effect. We discussed the blaze effect and the radiation effect. ~Those<br />
are all important as far as the men in the fire service are concerned.<br />
Probably most <strong>of</strong> the group here have seen the film taken on March 17 in Nevada,<br />
at which Chief McAlpine was present, and you saw where pictures appeared in most<br />
magazines. It shows how completely devastated; it shows how cc,mpletely devastated at<br />
3,~00 feet from the bomb zero; where another house had quite a bit <strong>of</strong> damage at 7,000<br />
feet--that is a mile and a half. Radiation effect was so serious they couldn’t go near<br />
those houses even six hours after the bomb went <strong>of</strong>f. What are you going to do if you<br />
can’t fight a fire for six hours after it is started? It is a problem that is not easily solved.<br />
That is why the fire services need to study all the effects <strong>of</strong> today’s problems in modern<br />
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8o far, ~we havebeen spared from thgt and I trust we always Will be, but the only<br />
way we can do our part is to be prepared, so as to make our enemy <strong>of</strong> Russia that much<br />
less likely to attack. "<br />
I just want to say a few word.s about European developments before passing out<br />
the photographs and showing a few slides. The British Fire Service today discontinued<br />
during the war the municipal fire departments common in this Country, and they are<br />
now organized’ only ’on the outer bases. One fire department handles all the fires in<br />
one county under completed radio control, and another county handles all the apparatus<br />
and all the manpower in that county.<br />
That. does allow mobilization very rapidly in a way which we tried to do here in<br />
our mutual aid systems--far advanced in ,both the United 8tares and Canada. They<br />
have it thoroughly coordinated today, and that is a very important measure in firefighting<br />
because every man, woman and child in the United Kingd~om has coordinated to took<br />
after fires in homes, factories and stores. "<br />
The prevention <strong>of</strong>ficers are quite thoroughly trained. -T-hey have nine months ~<br />
college course= before they are out in’ the field, and they. are thoroughly equipped and<br />
know the job well. That is probably one <strong>of</strong> the reasons why the per capita loss in Great<br />
Britain is only 20 per cent <strong>of</strong> what it is in Canada and the United 8tares.<br />
They do have other reasons for it. They don’,t have the central heating we have,<br />
but the fire prevention <strong>of</strong>ficers do a maj6r job<br />
We had a very interesting visit in Sweden., andi I think without question the Swedish<br />
fire departments are the most highly organized in the Western World--and what<br />
Russia has no one cf us_kn0ws... _T.h.e__re~ a_r__e a lot <strong>of</strong> _th_.ings.. t.h_e2 ¢~.j~ea_r_n from .u..s, but<br />
there are some things we can learn from them. They are very great believers in physical<br />
fitness, and every fire ’statior~ has a well-equipped gym_nasium w.h.ere all men in the department<br />
spend an hour a day in gym drill. - -~ -<br />
They are also great bel.i_evers in ..breathing appa_r_a.tus, and most <strong>of</strong> their modern<br />
trucks are equipped with it. Their cabs are different from ours. They are fu.lly,<br />
closed cabs and; the .two back seats have builtdn gas masks, similar to ours here in general<br />
design, which the firemen put on when they arrive at the fire. The first people to<br />
hop <strong>of</strong>f are the two firemen who have their masks on--without waiting to see what the<br />
situation is. They go back and try to find ,things. If not needed, that much is gained;<br />
but if needed--either for rescue work or firefighting--then they have their masks.<br />
They have a very excellent smoke-room which is more unique than anything I<br />
have seen..-I am speaking <strong>of</strong> Stockholm. Their-test room for their refresher course .<br />
whichever one they have to, take once in six months--is abou.t as wide as from this end<br />
<strong>of</strong> the stage to this wall (indicating). There were three levels with plate-glass panels, - on<br />
the side. The firemen, fully equipped on the top level . . . under obstacles and down<br />
head . firstand~ then a hole at the end. It is a travel <strong>of</strong> ~0 or 7~ feet--and as soon as the<br />
man’s physical condition is not such, then he is retired from active firefighting duties.<br />
It is a good automatic test cf their physical fitness.<br />
The Swedes also have their fire stations duplicated underground under fifty solid<br />
feet <strong>of</strong> rock. For each fire station above ground in Stockholm they have two fully<br />
equipped underground. Lthink i~ Would probably take ten-minutes to function underground,<br />
rI’hey have their beds and bedding; .they have food and water.<br />
Their short-wave radio and telephone system is upstairs. They are set in framework<br />
where..t._hey_ can be picked up by handles and carried underground. The_r__e ar~ qui_te<br />
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detailed pictures <strong>of</strong> Underground pictures in the oven. The Swedes arg.rather frightened<br />
<strong>of</strong>-something starting at any time, and not only do they have the preparations,<br />
but their desks are ready, pads <strong>of</strong> paper and pencils are sharpened--as you can see<br />
in the photograph I have here.<br />
That would be an enormously expensive proposition, for us to operate here, but<br />
Swedes live next door to Russians and they feel they can’t take any chances, and they<br />
view the Worldi-situation as a serious., one. A week befo)e coming down here I heard<br />
that Sweden, within the last few weeks, had completed ~two underground air-raid shelters-one<br />
for 20,000 and cr.e for 10,000 people.<br />
There are_sgme pictures <strong>of</strong> Swedish fire apparatus and pictures <strong>of</strong> British apparatus.<br />
They took their situation-rather seriously. ’They have just placed orders and<br />
have had delivered pumpers within the last year <strong>of</strong> a standard design, and they are<br />
getting, through mass production, prices which are very .much lower than what normally<br />
they could purchase ....<br />
That is one <strong>of</strong> the things which I think bo.th Can.a..da and the United States, with<br />
orders which the Federal Government is plahing and ~r~a~ching funds, which will mean<br />
more and better fire equipment for our communities. We have just started getting<br />
deliveries <strong>of</strong> two sizes <strong>of</strong> pumpers. One is rolling flow, andi the next will start within<br />
a .few week. We are getting, not some untried or green chitdl in fire pumpers, but we<br />
are getting the tried and true municipal ~fire-apparatus which all <strong>of</strong> you men know.<br />
We are getting pumpers under a mass-production basis--the same as you and I ,buy<br />
our private cars.<br />
I will show you a few slides. In working on the plan for ’Civil-Defense in our<br />
Province, we arbitrarily tried to do an area that we thought could conceivably put<br />
enough tirefighters and enough apparatus to handle one atomic bomb. To those <strong>of</strong><br />
you who don’t kno.w the population <strong>of</strong> Ontario, we have a population <strong>of</strong> five million<br />
people, five hundred miles East and West, and two hundred miles North and South-~<br />
It was divided into four regions, which we felt our fire department could con,<br />
ceivably handle. To those <strong>of</strong> you who ar t pl.anning to come to, Toronto in September,<br />
may I point out that <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> is down over here (indicating), on the far side,<br />
and this is Niagara Falls, Buffalo and Toronto (indicating).<br />
Next slide, please. This’ is’.tt.}e_region <strong>of</strong> eight counties which we co-crdinatedi in<br />
one group under one fire command, to handle the emergency <strong>of</strong> an atomic attack. This<br />
.(indicating) is the county <strong>of</strong> Wentworth in which the City <strong>of</strong> Hamilton, at the western<br />
end <strong>of</strong>. Lake. O_nta~io, is situated, andt in that program we worked with around 10.0 brigades<br />
and 3,000 firemen, who. today belong to the paid and volunteer fire departments<br />
in, that ~rea--which is the nucleus in planning for Civil Defense.<br />
Nex-t~ this is just a ,brief char~ <strong>of</strong> the organization plan which was .based, solely and<br />
completely on the existing municipal fire service, with the Fire Chief <strong>of</strong> .the largest city<br />
in each county and the man in charge <strong>of</strong> the departments in his county, and the other<br />
departments that came in to help him in any emergency.<br />
,Our government policy is that firefighting should be in charge <strong>of</strong> pr<strong>of</strong>essionals<br />
who handle it in peace time. This (indicating) is a communication system, an.d the<br />
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Next we mapped the City <strong>of</strong> Hamilton very thoroughly. Those who are familiar<br />
with underwriters’ maps will appreciate the coloring and the charting which we did<br />
for every block in the entire city to determine it. We worked very closely for a good<br />
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raany weeks with the underwriters’ survey maps for that city, and we defined things<br />
that were a surprise, to many people. Actually those .things. we found were kncwn<br />
to the Fire Chief <strong>of</strong> Hamilton and his senior <strong>of</strong>ficers, but it was something which would<br />
take them, by practical experience , thirty or forty years. They could not possibl-y pass<br />
that information on to junior <strong>of</strong>ficers until it was put down where everyone could<br />
see, and those who had planned fire protection from every section would see the hazards<br />
in their communities.<br />
The theoretical atom bomb was dropped in this territory which was not the most<br />
.. damaging place in the city, but it gave a combined effect from mercantile, industrial<br />
and residential areas.<br />
Next (indicating) that is the fire that can be expected, from a very detailed survey<br />
<strong>of</strong> the map c.f the city ar.d <strong>of</strong> each individual building in that area--the number <strong>of</strong><br />
fires that would be started immediately a bomb dropped.<br />
Next (indicating), that is what would happen to those same fires in fifteen minutes<br />
if.they weren’t attackea’,, and every effort made to control them. The big firefighting<br />
would be in an are~ <strong>of</strong>-one-half .to .cne mile. ,There-would be 230 large fires and<br />
900 small fires. -_<br />
Next (indicating), in the next fifteen minutes--~Iiirty minutes after .bomb zero=the<br />
fire department would-start to function locally, and help would be beginning to<br />
come in from the county and star.t in for the larger areas.<br />
Next slide (indicating) .there. is a .close-up <strong>of</strong> tlqe large form at ten feet by twentyfive.<br />
Again you see the areas <strong>of</strong> your higher: buildings=-your buildings <strong>of</strong> inflammable<br />
construction ~where a major blaze would develop. The junior <strong>of</strong>ficer could see where<br />
he has a break that would give him a chance to handle mass fir~s, and where he could<br />
get2--through extensive research wo.rk~some <strong>of</strong> .the ’knowledge the experienced Fire<br />
Chief ~as, but _wo_n’t have time to pass on to all his men.<br />
Next (indica:ing), that is a table I had made up ,by. our best research scientist <strong>of</strong><br />
the number <strong>of</strong> fires that would develop after an atomic attack. You can see the amount<br />
<strong>of</strong> water needed, the number <strong>of</strong> pumpers needed to provide that water--and just take<br />
the figuke that is in agreement between the scientists, the United Kingdom and the<br />
Canadian Government, which is 200,000 gallons <strong>of</strong> water per minute. That is gcing<br />
=to need a lot <strong>of</strong> pumpers and men to handle it. Incidentally, both the British and Swedish<br />
fire services, I believe, cannot Count on any water at-all comin.g from the regular<br />
water base. It coza-_es entirely from emergency piping, or pipes laid at the time. If<br />
there is any water left in the ordinary water system it is going to be needed for h.cspitals,<br />
casualties and refugees..<br />
Next (indicating) is a discussion on some <strong>of</strong> the maps <strong>of</strong> Hamil.ton, showing the<br />
fires star:ed by atomic attack. One <strong>of</strong> the class groups after the forums, in which the<br />
Fire Chiefs acrozs Canada were brought in, we had all the .City Fire Chiefs in Ontario<br />
for further discussion, and that prc.gram today is functioning very thoroughly and is <strong>of</strong><br />
enormous value to us in peacetime emergency. For many years in <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> you<br />
have had that type <strong>of</strong> organization, and only lately we have ,been catching up with you.<br />
Next, this is one <strong>of</strong> the really logical defense exercises at which we gave to everyone<br />
the practical knowledge .that radiation--while it is something--if ycu do not feel or<br />
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the dial on the radiological instrument to tell whether radiation is present or not, and<br />
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Next (indicating) is the lecture~ on radi01ogical work on a lot <strong>of</strong> instruments,<br />
but anyone who can read a dial can read radiation intensity.<br />
Next (indicating)-, the final part <strong>of</strong> radiological exercise.<br />
Next (indica_tlng), :this is. a picture <strong>of</strong> the quick-coupling water pipes which the<br />
British have ,been experimenting with. It is a plastic type cf hose that is sutticiently<br />
light that one man can carry a length under each arm. He can. carry forty feet <strong>of</strong> plastic<br />
hose a considerabl~ dis.tane-e without any undue labor. The coupling is very quick and<br />
can be laid a.t the rate <strong>of</strong> around 1000 feet in fifteen minutes. It will follow the contours<br />
<strong>of</strong> the ground: and, while it is meant to be straight, it will make a 30-degree circle<br />
and within approximately 600 feet <strong>of</strong> pipe will make a complete circle. It is six-inch pipe.<br />
We had a j.oint International Civil Defense exercise between Canada and the<br />
United States at Niagara Falls on June 4, 5 and 6, and we tried out the steel pipe and<br />
I think it took about five minutes to get each particular line together. Theyhave to<br />
meet very exactly, and after .they do meet, only two or three degrees .t.o bend it. It is<br />
excellent pipe to be pre-laid and to provide for a permanent emergency pipel but not<br />
the quick-coupling type the British and Swedes are using. The Swedes use<br />
four-inch pipe with quick ccupling that they do lay a little faster than a man could<br />
walk. I couldn’t keep up with them.<br />
QUESTION: What pressure does that pipe stand?<br />
CHIEE BURNV.TT : I think the pipe will stand a lot more than the joints. I think the<br />
joints will stand 150 potinds. The flange, as you may notice, is up about half an in.ch<br />
and only an inch through this way (in°dlcating), gnd there is trouble keeping ~it free <strong>of</strong><br />
leaks, particularly after the trucks pass over it. - -<br />
Next (indicating), the coupling is just being completed there. It is very rapid-only<br />
a ma.tter <strong>of</strong> seconds.<br />
Next (indicatifig).-is a picture <strong>of</strong> tile pump which the Britigh put on their pumper<br />
to hand,le emergend~Witt~r ’ supplies’. It is a portable pump. Our people objected to<br />
being called portable. It weighs 300 pounds. It does deliver about 250 gallons at<br />
100 pounds.<br />
Nex.t (indicating) is the photograph <strong>of</strong> the standard British pumper. .It looks<br />
rather different from our normal design on this continent. It has a fully enclosed cab<br />
for six men, a 350 U. ,S. gallon water tank, 600 Imperial. gallons (625 American gallons)<br />
at 100 pounds. It d’.oes givethree good streams. They don’t lay hose out the<br />
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Next (indicating) is a picture prepared .by our Canadian scientist <strong>of</strong> the center<br />
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Next (indicating) is the rear <strong>of</strong> the standard Civil Defense pumper, and you can<br />
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Next (indicating) is the side view <strong>of</strong> our pumper.- It is exactly the standardi 600gallon<br />
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ESTABLISHED 1876 -- INCORPORATED 1891<br />
Manufacturers <strong>of</strong> Folding Paper B~xes<br />
AUBURN, MAINE<br />
Telephone 1162<br />
CHARLES CUSHMAN CO.<br />
Factory: Auburn, Maine -- Boston Office: 179 Lincoln Street<br />
209 COURT STREET AUBURN, MAINE<br />
SHAPIRO BROTHERS SHOE CO.,<br />
Manufacturers <strong>of</strong> Smart Shoes for lVomen<br />
AUBURN, ME.<br />
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Again may t express my thanks for your presence, and I hope I will come back<br />
many times in the future. Also, I hope all <strong>of</strong> you come up and visit us. Thanks very<br />
much. (Applause.)<br />
PRESIDENT MOLLOY: Thank you very much, Marshal Scott. Our ’next gentleman<br />
on the program is a very distinguished man from Massachusetts, Mr. Robert F. Ulm,<br />
Massachusetts State Fire Marshal, who will talk on "The Activities o.f the state Division<br />
<strong>of</strong> Fire Prevention." Mr. Ulm. (Applause.)<br />
MR. ULM8: rI’hank you very much. Members <strong>of</strong> the <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> <strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
Fire .Chiefs, and friends. I know the hour is getting late, and I am going to"~ry to move<br />
along just as fast as I.can. It is a pleasure to be here and discuss, with you the activities<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Massachuset.ts Division <strong>of</strong> Fire Prevention. ’However, after listening to<br />
Chief McAlpine, who says he is rounding out forty years in the service, I have only<br />
had fifteen years--and ten years as Fire Chief.<br />
I would like to tell you a little about our divMon. It is under the Department<br />
<strong>of</strong> Public Safety, at 1010 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston,, and we are hea&d by a<br />
Commissioner, General Otis Whitney. We have a division <strong>of</strong> fire prevention, the<br />
criminal division <strong>of</strong> detectives, photography, etc. Besides his other duties, the Marshal<br />
is State Chairman <strong>of</strong> Electrical Examiners, an ex-<strong>of</strong>ficio member; he is a director <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Massachusetts Safety Council and Chairman <strong>of</strong> the Governor’s Council on Civil<br />
Defen, se.<br />
The <strong>of</strong>fice personnel consists <strong>of</strong> two junior clerks, a senior clerk, a hearings’ <strong>of</strong>ficer<br />
who takes notes on legal procedure for court action; a principal clerk who takes care<br />
<strong>of</strong> all our statistics <strong>of</strong> 3 ~ 1 towns and cities, fires and causes and loss <strong>of</strong> life by fire. We<br />
have a head clerk who is my secretary.<br />
Now, for the technical advisors we have an assistant fire-prevention engineer, and<br />
his job consists <strong>of</strong> advising Fire ’Chiefs and the Fire Marshal on technical points in regardi<br />
,to construction <strong>of</strong> .tanks, <strong>of</strong> liquefied petroleum ’ installations, oil-burner installations<br />
and other safety work. He travels, the field when necessary to assist the Fire<br />
Chiefs in the Commonwealth. We have an expert assistant on explosives who is responsible<br />
for all explosives, including all fireworks, blasting or transportation Or storage<br />
<strong>of</strong> materials.<br />
We have a chemical laboratory set up under statutory law to provide us with advice<br />
and .analyses <strong>of</strong> various fluids, solids, compounds and gases that are brought in to<br />
the <strong>of</strong>fice by various Fire ’Chiefs in the State. We use this informat~or~ to bring it back<br />
to the Fire Chief and inform him the method in which it should be stored c;r handle&<br />
Now, besides the technical advisers, w~ have a board <strong>of</strong> fire-prevention regulations--a<br />
.board which is. appointed by .the Governor and consists <strong>of</strong> seven technical<br />
men. They make rules and regulations not igconsistent with .Chapter 148 <strong>of</strong> Law<br />
Enforcement. That gives you an idea <strong>of</strong>..,., the personnel assigned t.o our Division <strong>of</strong><br />
Fire Prevention in the 8tare <strong>of</strong> Massachusetts.<br />
Our activities are centered around the Fire Chiefs themselves. They are centered<br />
around the law enforcement agencies and also by the material that is brought in to us,<br />
and the legislation that passes through the 8tare House and the Board <strong>of</strong> Fire Prevention<br />
r, egulations. ---~<br />
Our method .o.f determining the necessity <strong>of</strong> fire prevention work is based upon<br />
he statistics furnished by the Fire Chiefs. We find im our Commonwealth that the<br />
.greatest_n_umber <strong>of</strong> fires are caused by careless smoking, carelessness with matches and<br />
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WESTINGHOUSE.<br />
ELECTRIC SUPPLY COMPANY<br />
Boston Augusta Bangor Hartford Manchester<br />
MASS. MAINE MAINE CONN. N.H.<br />
<strong>New</strong> Haven Providence Springfield Worcester Burlington<br />
CONN. R.I. MASS. MASS. VT.<br />
KIMBALL-GILMAN & CO.<br />
Insurance Oj All Kinds<br />
STANLEY O. MacMULLEN -- HENRY T. DROHAN<br />
40 ~ 44 BROAD STREET<br />
C. ROBERT FRASER<br />
HAncock 6-8"750<br />
BOSTON 9, MASS.<br />
Timke,n Oil Heating<br />
AUTOMATIC HEATING CORP.<br />
OF MASSACHUSETTS"<br />
880 COMMONWEALTH AVENUE -BOSTON, MASS.<br />
LOngwood 6-’7900<br />
.<br />
Timken Oil Burners ¯ Tim~en Oil Burning Units<br />
Air Conditioning ¯ Water Heating Equipment<br />
INSURANCE o<br />
SIXT~ ~ONG~qESS STREET BOSTON<br />
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children playing with matches. I think this is true throughout the Nation. However,<br />
there is no legislation that will control any loss <strong>of</strong> life or property by fire which will<br />
affect the home owner where these fires are .occurring. Therefore, it is my opinion<br />
that the only method by which we can reduce these fires is to educate our people.<br />
A program <strong>of</strong> education, can be conducted by a speaker, not necessarily an orator,<br />
within the fire service itself. Recently I heard~ a .speaker talking on fire prevention<br />
to a group <strong>of</strong> laymen. I was impressed by his diction, vocabulary and presentation<br />
as a firefighter, but I don’t believe the laymen understood his message for the simple<br />
reason that he was. not advanced in the work <strong>of</strong> firefighting. He had been studying<br />
promotional work, and he talked to those people accompanied by the evolution <strong>of</strong> heat.<br />
He spoke <strong>of</strong> various evolutions, ventilation, overhauling and salvage. Although it<br />
was. impressing to me, he wasn’t talking on their level:-I mean, to get right dowr~ to<br />
the elementary .basis <strong>of</strong> fire itself~our ABC <strong>of</strong> fire: oxygen, temperature and fumes.<br />
if we can bring this home, I believe we can be impressive and it will bring a message<br />
home to our people. They understand that definition <strong>of</strong> fire. They can also use this<br />
definition <strong>of</strong> fire to go back in homes and practice fire prevention and extinguishment<br />
when and where necessary.<br />
The speaker can also bring simple equipment--candle, water and an empty glass,<br />
an.d demonstrate how it takes all to maintain a fire; demonstrate how to retain any two<br />
and }~e can prevent or extinguish a fire. o<br />
Now, speaking ,o.f children and matches: I have a theory on that. Wi:thin a month<br />
I read in one <strong>of</strong> our Boston papers that a gentleman ,was very much concernedi about<br />
the number <strong>of</strong> fires started by children playing with matches, an.d he suggested legislation.<br />
I disagreed with the gentleman.<br />
We find that most <strong>of</strong> our fires are caused by children playing with matches not<br />
purchased in our stores. They are too accessible in the home. Any child with a quarter<br />
can drop it in a vending machine and get matches and cigarettes. We can. find~ them in<br />
the subway stations or on our streets anywhere. I don’t believe legislation is going to<br />
be much <strong>of</strong> any help in this regard.<br />
I believe in an educational program, and I heard a speaker at the NFPA conference<br />
who had a similar theory. I suggest that we educate our people to educate their<br />
chil.d~ren. My theory is .that there are two phases in the child’s life. I call the first one<br />
the fascination stage, and the second one the curiosity stage. During the fascination<br />
stage--which is one to four years--we have seen a parent pass a match befc,re the eyes<br />
<strong>of</strong> a chil, di to watch for irregularities. A child will watch :because he is fascinated.<br />
As they get a little older they will grasp. They don’t realize the dangers. The<br />
only problem here is to keep them out <strong>of</strong> reach and you solve the problems.<br />
In the four-to-twelve group, or curiosity--and predominantly with boys--they<br />
will get to the stage where they want to take things, apart. I have experimented at<br />
home. I gave .this talk about four years ago, and I suggested that we teach our children<br />
to respect fire and .teach them to use fire properly under supervision. By this, I mean<br />
to let them light your cigarettes under supervision and extinguish the match properly.<br />
Let them Ifght-the incinerator, and get out <strong>of</strong> their system this fire business. Let them<br />
find out how to make and extinguish fire properly and not let them exploit behind<br />
closed doors. To hide matches is all wrong, because they are at the stage where they<br />
can out-climb you.<br />
This is my personal opinion as far as children and matches are concerned..<br />
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S & S ’ggATE, RPROOFING GO.,<br />
Waterpro<strong>of</strong>ing Engineers and Contractors<br />
Building Inspection and Restoration<br />
I00 WEST SPRINGFIELD STREET BOSTON 18, MASS. .<br />
COmmonwealth 6-4480<br />
¯<br />
INC.<br />
KANE CHEVROLET COMPANY INC.<br />
286 ADAMS STREET DORCHESTER 22, MASS.<br />
Phone AVenue 2-8000<br />
PEACH PONTIAC COMPANY<br />
SalesmINTERNATIONAL TRUCKSmService<br />
BESSOM STREET.OFF PLEASANT STREET, MARBLEHEAD, MASS.<br />
Tel. No. Neptune 2-0565<br />
Hartol Petroleum Corporation<br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong><br />
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Now, our seccnd cause is oil burners. We have taken action along this line. We<br />
have put up to the Fire .Chiefs recently our RFP-3 form. The main part <strong>of</strong> this regulation<br />
now is that we are going to compel all installers <strong>of</strong> fuel-oil burners in homes, mercantile<br />
and industrial plants to take an examination. We have five ,basic burners se,t<br />
up in our headquarters. When they are installed, all applicants will report to our<br />
buildiing and take a test in. regard to the rules and regulations. They will then go to<br />
the basement, where an engineer will examine them. The 9,000 who already hold these<br />
certificates can’t be touched because they come under the old "grandfather law." We<br />
have taken action along that line up to this date. The .Chief can enforce by Court<br />
action, or he can report to th~ Fire Marshal any violations for oil-burner installations<br />
and guarantee immediate action.<br />
Nursing homes is one <strong>of</strong> our big problems which I haven’t heard discussed. It has<br />
been in Massachusetts and all through the States. I am Very sympathetic withnursing<br />
homes. We need them .badly. They are going to outlying districts where there is no<br />
water, and: to be quiet... Real estate owners are advertising old homes suitable for<br />
nursing homes. ’ : .. ¯<br />
Now we have had legislation attempted recently to require ,the installation <strong>of</strong> automatic<br />
sprinklers in all nursing homes, hospitals and convalescent homes throughout the<br />
~ommonwealth. A committee was se.t. up. In this committee we are going to have a<br />
member <strong>of</strong> the Senate, two <strong>of</strong> the House <strong>of</strong> Representatives, the State Fire Marshal,<br />
the President <strong>of</strong> the Massachusetts Fire ,Chiefs Club, a member <strong>of</strong> the Buildin,g Divisions<br />
and four members appointed by the Governor, one to be a member <strong>of</strong> the Massachusetts<br />
Federaticn <strong>of</strong> Nursing Homes. "<br />
@his committee will study necessary legislation and report back for proper protection.<br />
When I say nursing homes, I.am taking in all categories--infi.rmaries, convalescent<br />
homes and nurseries .....<br />
What I consider the best possible protection for nursing homes, as I said before,<br />
is automatic sprinklers, and I stand on that report. My reason for this is that we in the<br />
fire service know <strong>of</strong> no loss <strong>of</strong> life due to fire in a builNng where automatic sprinklers<br />
were installed. I was asked about the cost, but I will not weigh the cost <strong>of</strong> human life<br />
against the cost <strong>of</strong> installation <strong>of</strong> sprinklers~ . -<br />
There are arguments about amortizing the ccst by rate. We are not interested in<br />
cost, but the saving <strong>of</strong> human life and property. Many recommendations were brought<br />
forth. One was a fire-resistant building. We know every building is as fire-resistant<br />
as its contents.<br />
Another suggestion was more stairways and fire escapes. Again, patients are not<br />
ambula.tory and need somebody to bring them out.<br />
A third was to hax;e supervisors on their feet twenty-four hours looking for fires<br />
and notifying the Fire Services and removing people. This is excellent--but again, we<br />
have the human element, and sometimes in the wee hours <strong>of</strong> the morning they wan.t<br />
to rest, andi that is when the fire strikes.<br />
Another one that has come to the front recently is our problem on liquefied<br />
petroleum gas--and there we have a definite problem. Our problem primarily centers<br />
on our :Cape area. We have had a number <strong>of</strong> deaths due to improper installation, <strong>of</strong><br />
liquid petroleum.<br />
Appliances, before the Board <strong>of</strong> Fire Regulations was formed, canoe Under the De,
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
CApitol 7-0030 - 003 ]<br />
SOBOFF<br />
Upholstery Manufacturers<br />
PORTLAND STREET BOSTON 14, MASS.<br />
Compliments <strong>of</strong><br />
"Wonderland"<br />
REVERE, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
"Where Dog Racing is at Its Best"<br />
Opening May 13th Thru September 5, 195.’3<br />
JUSTIN A. McCARTHY CO.<br />
Headquarters ~or Finest Quality Fire Department Hose and<br />
Fire Fighting Equipment <strong>of</strong> Every Description<br />
176 FEDERAL STREET BOSTON, MASS.<br />
Telephones Liberty 2_-5330 and 2-5331<br />
Ready-Mixed Cocktails<br />
MANHATTAN and MARTINI<br />
Over 100 Years <strong>of</strong> Quality<br />
PREPARED BY. C. H. GRAVES~& SONS CO., BOSTON, MASS.~ 84 PROOF
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partment <strong>of</strong> Public Utilities. I have askedi our Attorney-General, and I have been assured<br />
that the Board <strong>of</strong> Fire Underwriters can make this recommendation.<br />
Now, on outside installations we don~t have toe. much trouble, .but it seems to be<br />
around the valves and ventilations. Many ~are not vented properly. Many are not<br />
vented at all. Now when you come to .this problem and realize they are not ventilated<br />
at all, many people are dying from lack <strong>of</strong> oxygen.<br />
I would rather see a minimum requirement that we can strictly enforce than a<br />
maximum requirement we don~t have a chance to enforce.<br />
Now we have a problem <strong>of</strong> children’s playthings and teys. In this problem we<br />
had a child burn to death in Boston while playing with an inflammable plastic bubble<br />
compound or fluid. Immediately we had legislation startedl to prohibit sale <strong>of</strong> similar<br />
plastic bubble material. The Board <strong>of</strong> Fire Prevention Regulations was directed by<br />
the Senate to make a study <strong>of</strong> any legislation, necessary to prevent this sort <strong>of</strong> thing<br />
frcm occurring again, ,but the directive also included wearing apparel, furniture and<br />
household products. It complicates the original problem. We know the pro,blem <strong>of</strong><br />
wearing apparel.<br />
California has a pretty good law and I have ~eceived quite a bit <strong>of</strong> literature. Our<br />
chemist has it now but it is going to take time. iThe same is true with the furniture<br />
problem. Our household products start anywhere from floor polishes to finger-nail<br />
polish. I hope we can decide .on some regulation for children’s playthings and toys-my<br />
reason being that I won’t send my child out with a pint <strong>of</strong> gasoline to play with.<br />
Why should we allow inflammable fluids, compounds or gases to be used for playthings.<br />
The easy solution is to ban them from the market. They are unsafe for our<br />
children. As far as inflammable solids are concerned; plastics come under that category,<br />
and we would have to set up a yardstick to d~etermine the degree <strong>of</strong> heat an.d the rate<br />
the fire would burn to. set up a yardstick. I hope when we start we can make this<br />
recc.mmendation first and then move on with the more complicated phases <strong>of</strong> the<br />
legislation and I think, therefore, we would accomplish something more readily.<br />
I forgot .to mention in the first part that we have an enforcement branch which<br />
consists <strong>of</strong> law enforcement <strong>of</strong>ficers. We have a Captain <strong>of</strong> the State Police Detectives<br />
and he is a supervisor <strong>of</strong> all detectives. We have three Lieutenant Detectives <strong>of</strong> the<br />
State Pclice. Their job is primarily to cooperate and work with the Fire Chief.<br />
First is the detection, apprehension and prosecution <strong>of</strong> all persons charged with<br />
the crime <strong>of</strong> arson,. Secondi is fire prevention, and according to those regulations they<br />
are to remove any existing fire hazards brought to their attention within the CommGnwealth,<br />
this to ’be done with persuasion and finally by law enforcement.<br />
In conclusion may I say I would iike to accomplish uniformity on law enforcement.<br />
By this I would like to see that all permit fcrms and rules and regulations are performed<br />
in one city or town as in another. I feel sure, however, with the excellent cooperation ~<br />
I have received from fire prevention organizations, from our Commissioner <strong>of</strong> Public<br />
Safety, who is taking a personal viewpoint, the excellent cooperation I have received<br />
from the Fire ’Chiefs which is more than any mar~ can expect, that we are going to<br />
make definite strides in our crusades to combat our common enemy, fire... (Applause.)<br />
PRI~SIDgNT MOLI.OY: Thank you Marshal Ulm.<br />
(Whereupon the Monday~ evening meeting adiourned at ten-thirty o~clock.),<br />
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COMPLIMENTS OF<br />
MERRILL TRANSPORT GO.<br />
Specializing in Petroleum Hauling<br />
SERVING MAINE AND NEW HAMPSHIRE<br />
Terminals:<br />
Portland - Auburn - Augusta -Bangor - Searspor/<br />
1037 FOREST AVENUE, PORTLAND, MAINE<br />
Sanders Construction<br />
41 5 CONGRESS..~STREET<br />
Corporation<br />
PORTLAND, MAINE<br />
CONGDON TRANSPORTATION<br />
Common Carrier and Contract Carrier<br />
Pool Car Distribution<br />
Home Office" 52 CANCO ROAD PORTLAND, ME.<br />
The Famous Olde<br />
FALMOUTH HOTEL<br />
IN THE HISTORIC CITY OF PORTLAND, MAINE<br />
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Daily Service to all Parts <strong>of</strong> <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong><br />
HUNNEWELL TRUCKING, INC.<br />
Freight Forwarding<br />
EXPRESS EXCHANGE:<br />
551 COMMERCIAL STREET PORTLAND, MAINE<br />
Dial 2-8537--8538m8539<br />
BOSTON OFFICE:<br />
53 FARGO STREET SO. BOSTON, MASS.<br />
Telephone Liberty 2-6470<br />
CHIEF OLIVER T. SANBORN, Portland, Maine<br />
Board <strong>of</strong> Directors<br />
EASTERN FIRE EQUIPMENT INC.<br />
FIRE CONTROL ENGINEERS<br />
403-405 FORE STREET PORTLAND 3, MAINE<br />
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WOOD & SMITH SHOE CO.<br />
AUBURN, MAINE<br />
CUSHMAN-HOLLIS CO.<br />
AUBURN, MAINE<br />
TWADDLE - MITCHELL-<br />
INC.<br />
Oil Heating m Sales & Service<br />
40-42 N. MAIN STREET AUBURN, MAINE<br />
BELGRADE SHOE CO.<br />
CUSHING STREET AUBURN, .MAINE
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CH~IEFS<br />
Tuesday Morning Session, June 23, 1953<br />
The Tuesday morning session <strong>of</strong> the <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong>~ <strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs<br />
convened in the Ballroom <strong>of</strong> The Wentworth by the Sea, President Molloy presiding,<br />
at nine-forty o’clock.<br />
PRESIDENT MOLLOY: We shall now start this morning’s session. There has been<br />
a slight change in the program. I believe we have a very interesting speaker and that<br />
you will all be interestedi in hearing the story c.f the recent tornado in the Worcester<br />
area and the surrounding towns in Massachusetts.<br />
The speaker is:_ Fred J. Maloney, Lieutenant~ <strong>of</strong> _Police, Worcester Police Department;<br />
Director <strong>of</strong> Civil Defense, City <strong>of</strong> Worcester, Mass.; Director <strong>of</strong> the Police<br />
Academy, Worcester, ~Mass.; .Graduate <strong>of</strong> the National Police Academy,. Federal<br />
Bureau c..f Investigation; Has had thirty years <strong>of</strong> service in the Massachusetts. National<br />
Guard; Veteran <strong>of</strong> the Mexican Punitive Expedition, W~rld~ War I and World War<br />
II; Retired as Colonel, Infantry~ A.-U, S ......<br />
~ _<br />
Ladies and Gentlemen: ......<br />
First ~let me say this. I am not an authority on .Civil Defense. It is also true<br />
that the Department <strong>of</strong> Civil Defense in,.Worcester operated with efficiency. All <strong>of</strong><br />
the ten operating divisions mobilized and immediately went into action. What little<br />
success we had during t.he tornado-wa-sdue to-the type <strong>of</strong> persons who headed our<br />
c24visions. Without this type <strong>of</strong> personnel we could never have accomplished our mission.<br />
Chief Travers <strong>of</strong> the Fire Department, Chief Finneran <strong>of</strong> the Police Department<br />
and Commissioner <strong>of</strong> ’Public Works Earl R. Perry, after a reconnaissance <strong>of</strong> the<br />
devastated areas established communications with this Headquarters, set up their<br />
Command Posts, and remained in the field directing operations in close cooperation<br />
with the other operating divisions.<br />
Two years ago, we were given the mission to prepare an adequate defense for<br />
the ,City <strong>of</strong> Worcester in the event <strong>of</strong> an atc.mic attack. Not much information could<br />
f~e obtained as to just what an organization should consist <strong>of</strong> for a city the size <strong>of</strong><br />
Worcester. After giving this much thought an.d study, we decided to divide the city<br />
into four Operating Zones, and established a Command Post in each zone for the<br />
purpose-<strong>of</strong> operations. We also selected locations that would not be vulnerable to an -~<br />
attack. To explain the details concerning tl-,ese Operating Zones would require too<br />
much <strong>of</strong> your time at this convention.<br />
We then_ decided to organize a general staff, a special staff, and ten operating<br />
divisions as follows: Division <strong>of</strong> Fire, Division <strong>of</strong> Police, Divisicn <strong>of</strong> Public Works<br />
and Utilities, Division <strong>of</strong> Communications, Division <strong>of</strong> Transportation, Radiolc.gical,<br />
Biological and Chemical Divisicn, Civilian. War Aid Division, Evacuation Division,<br />
Medical Division and Warden Division. After the key personnel were selected to head<br />
these divisions, training programs were started, city-wide tests conducted, with command<br />
post exercises, and each division commander was required to write his own plan<br />
for the operations <strong>of</strong> his units in the event ~ <strong>of</strong> an emergency. This. required many hcurs<br />
<strong>of</strong> planning for the commanders and in spite <strong>of</strong> the apathy, these organizations were<br />
recruited enough for immediate action. The Director <strong>of</strong> Civil Defense and the Operations<br />
Section constantly consulted and were advised by "these expert ccmman..ders<br />
oa_all phases <strong>of</strong> ci,uil defense pertaining to their particular division. Only through this<br />
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COMPLIMENTS OF<br />
CLARK SHOE (30.<br />
AUBURN, MAINE<br />
LOWN SHOES, Inc.<br />
AUBURN, MAINE<br />
KNAPP BROTHERS<br />
Shoe Manufacturing Co~rporation<br />
BARKER DIVISION LEWISTON, MAINE<br />
COMPLIMENTS OF<br />
WORUMBO MANUFACTURING CO.<br />
LISBON FALLS, MAINE
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
methodi were we a~ble to meet the situation during this tornado. ~acia ~ Division Commander<br />
met his own problems, mastered, them, and maintained c!o’se liaison with our<br />
Headquarters.<br />
In setting up our plan we were concerned with a military operation such as an<br />
atomic attack, and did not give much thought to a natural disaster. Fortunately, our<br />
plan was flexible enough to meet both, and on the ’gth <strong>of</strong> June we were able to operate.<br />
Most <strong>of</strong> the people that we were trying to recruit were apathetic to civil d~fense<br />
and assumed the attitud,e ~hat ’tit, could never¯ happen,, ~ ~ ohere’?.,.,i~ ~, The thought <strong>of</strong>,,a disaster<br />
brought the comment, ~never in <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> . ,Many others answered, I am too<br />
busy, but you may use my name". Gentlemen, using a person’s name does not save<br />
lives. Fortunately, that night we had hundreds <strong>of</strong> people who were not "too busy".<br />
These were the people who kept the death list down and reduced the number <strong>of</strong><br />
casualties. To these people the City <strong>of</strong> Wo~cester ~vill always be grateful.<br />
We were well aware that a well organized .Civil Defense would~ not prevent a<br />
third World War, ,but were also, convinced that if properly trained, lives could be saved.<br />
Most people are under the impression that .Civil D.efense concerns the following:<br />
Receiving the Yellow Alert, notifying key personnel to ~eport to their stations for<br />
duty, alerting industry, institutions and others to prepare to place their defense plans<br />
in operation and disbursing apparatus and equipment:.. Then sounding sirens, to get<br />
people <strong>of</strong>f the streets and into shelters, as well as stopping all.vehicles. Then, having<br />
an alert periodi where no person or vehicle moves, and after that: the sounding <strong>of</strong> the<br />
sirens again to denote the All ’Clear Signal. We conducted several <strong>of</strong> these tests and<br />
:they were all successful. While they are necessary to educate the general public as<br />
to what they shall do in an attack, it is only the beginning <strong>of</strong> Civil Defense. When<br />
the attack is over, we will have ma~y fires to fight, devastated areas will have to be<br />
restricted to persons and vehicles, the injured and dead will have t.o be cared for, and<br />
the homeless will have to be housed, fed, registered and rehabilitated. This will be the<br />
real pro<strong>of</strong> <strong>of</strong> a well organized Department <strong>of</strong> Civil Defense.<br />
To give the Division Commanders more information~ and knowledge <strong>of</strong> their<br />
responsibilities, we conducted a .Command Post Exercise on the 26th <strong>of</strong> May, about<br />
two weeks after our City-wide test. This exercise involved the Commanders and their<br />
staffs, and not their personnel or vehicles. This hypothetical exercise was written up<br />
,by the ’Operations Section and was based on a 1X bomb droppedl over Worcester at<br />
i0:00 A. M. The groun,d zero was determined by dropping a coin on the situation<br />
map and developments started by the receipt <strong>of</strong> the Yellow Alert. Each Division<br />
Commander and his staff sat at their own tables with maps and prepared to solve the<br />
problems that the Operations Section presented. These problems were handed to each<br />
Commander in sealed envelopes and required his solutions.’ This exercise lasted for<br />
more than two hours and brought out the very important po~int that all units must have<br />
perfect coordination and that the channels <strong>of</strong> command must be followed if we are to<br />
-have a well organized Department <strong>of</strong> Civil Defense.<br />
Let me make this point very clear, Without a well organized tire department,<br />
police department, and department o,f public works and utilities, Civil Defense with<br />
the remaining seven divisions just could not operate, rI’hese three dii~isions W~re the<br />
first units into the devastated areas, and the efficiency under which, they performeld<br />
has drawn nothing but commenda.tion,. I. saw these .firemen fight the fires that were<br />
breaking out in the areas. I saw these men .driye their_ app._a__ra_t._u_s _on.~.to. priva.te p._r_o_pert~
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
DANIEL M. DRISCOLL ARTHUR P. PEARCE, JR<br />
DRISCOLL, PEARGF, inc.<br />
INSURANCE<br />
18 OLIVER STREET BOSTON 10, MASS.<br />
Telephone Liberty 2-4670<br />
AMERICAN ,INSURANGE COMPANY<br />
Organized 1846<br />
NEWARK, NEW JERSEY<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> Department H. PHILIP FREUD<br />
61 BATTERYMARCH STREET BOSTON, MASS.<br />
Telephone HAncock 6-3050<br />
KALER, CARNEY, LIFFLER & CO.<br />
INSURANCE<br />
CHARLES HAAS FRANKLIN J. CONNORS<br />
ANDREW S. NELSON JOHN J. RAFFERTY<br />
ARTHUR D. CRONIN JOHN J. LONERGAN<br />
EDWARD M. GALLAGHER, Jr.<br />
141 MILK STREET BOSTON 10, MASS.<br />
Telephone Liberty 2-7460<br />
CRAFTSMAN~ INSURANCE COMPANY<br />
Incorporated 190-/<br />
AccidenG Sickness and Hospitalization Insurance<br />
E. P. Goodnow, President - W. I. <strong>New</strong>ton, Vice-President, Secretary<br />
H. E~ Bardin, Treasurer<br />
137 NEWBURY STREET ~ BOSTON 16, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
Telephone COpley 7-5460<br />
E. Y. NEILL & CO.<br />
WOOL<br />
263 SUMMER STREET BOSTON I0, MASS.<br />
PATTERSON, WYLDE & WINDELER<br />
Insurance<br />
¯<br />
40 BROAD STREET BOSTON 9, ’MASS.<br />
- Telephone HUbbard 2-7750<br />
Cable Address "PATWYLWIN"
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIA~[.~ION ,OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
when they were unable to get through the streets. I saw them pull the hose and carry<br />
it through priva.te yards in their determined efforts to.. master those fires2 No one told<br />
me these things, I was there. While all <strong>of</strong> this work is highly commendable, it reflects<br />
the efficiency <strong>of</strong> Chief Travers who directed these operations. If the firefighters and<br />
their <strong>of</strong>ficers did not master these fires, .I hesitate to think what the Burncoat Hill<br />
section would have looked/like. -<br />
Chief Finneran immediately mobilized his <strong>of</strong>f duty personnel and auxiliary units<br />
and all available po.lice rescued victims as well as performing all <strong>of</strong> the othei: police<br />
services. The rapid response <strong>of</strong> the <strong>of</strong>f-duty regular police and auxiliary police, is indeed<br />
a credit to the Worcester Police Department. These men worked constantly under<br />
tough conditions and with r~o tho.ught to the many hours that required their services.<br />
Commissioner Perry mobilized the Department o,f ’Public Works and Utilities,<br />
and immediately the tremendous task <strong>of</strong> clearing streets and heavy rescue work was<br />
under way with smooth efficiency. All <strong>of</strong> this was necessary before the other Divisions<br />
could .get in to operate. At 5:30 P. ,M. Burncoat Street was impassable. At 10:30<br />
P. M., vehicles could operate in two lanes’, on Burncoat Street. This, indeed, was a<br />
tribute ’to the departments under the direction <strong>of</strong> Mr. Perry.<br />
Littledid we think that about two weeks after our test and command post exercise<br />
we would ,be faced with a real pro.blem in the’ form <strong>of</strong> a natural disaster and not a<br />
hypothetical situa.tion. We now had a vhance to place in operation the phases <strong>of</strong><br />
Civil Defense that we had learned in the training courses, when most people thought,<br />
"it was the bun,k and not necessary".<br />
Briefly, this is what happened on the day <strong>of</strong> the tornado:<br />
At 3:30 P. M. on Tuesday, 9 June 1953, we were holding a meeting <strong>of</strong> the<br />
personnel assigned to the Feeding Section <strong>of</strong> the Civilian War Air Division in our<br />
<strong>of</strong>fice at the Memorial Auditorium. Method~ were discussed and procedures established<br />
for feeding victims and Civil Defense personnel in the event <strong>of</strong> an emergency. At<br />
about 4:45 P. M. we dismissed this group as it appeared that a~ heavy thunderstorm<br />
was about to take place.<br />
About 5:05 P. M. we dosed the <strong>of</strong>fice and started for our homes. At this time<br />
a heavy rain was falling, and dark clouds appeared in the northern section <strong>of</strong> the city.<br />
En route to my home, which is in the northeast section <strong>of</strong> the city, I Was caught<br />
in a heavy tr.affic jam at West Boylston and <strong>New</strong> Bond Streets, ar~.d I could see that<br />
north and south bound traffic was tied up as far north as Brcoks Street. At this time,<br />
the diark clouds had disappeared, the skies w.ere clear, and the sun was shining.<br />
At this time, which must have been about 5:20 P. M., I heard fire and police sirens<br />
coming from the direction <strong>of</strong> the city. Then a piece <strong>of</strong> fire apparatus left the Greendale<br />
fire statior~ and entered, <strong>New</strong> Bond Street. Suddenly, many pieces <strong>of</strong> fire apparatus<br />
and police cruisers appeared from the city, entering <strong>New</strong> Bond Street and several<br />
streets leading east from West Boylston Street.<br />
As I sat in my car wondering what had happened, a man ran past an.d I inquired.<br />
as to what had happened. He replied that a heavy windstorm had blown down some<br />
trees and wires, and that fires were .breaking out in many houses on the east side <strong>of</strong><br />
West Boylston Street. -In an effort to get away fro.m the traffic jam and r~ender’assistance,<br />
I moved in the direction <strong>of</strong> Kendirick Avenue. Moving east in the direction <strong>of</strong><br />
Burncoat Street, parts <strong>of</strong> trees were strewn all over the streets, but they were still<br />
passable. As I approached Dorothy and Hillcr<strong>of</strong>t Avenues, further movement was<br />
8I:
209 COURT STREET<br />
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF !~II~E CHIEFS<br />
SEWALL & SON, Inc.<br />
Insoles and Platforms<br />
Telephone 2-14.61<br />
AUBURN, MAINE<br />
PANTHER MOCCASIN MFG. (30., Inc.<br />
Shoe Manufacturers<br />
24. RAILROAD STREET<br />
P. O. Box 422<br />
AUBURN, MAINE<br />
Eastern Trust and Banking Company<br />
BANGOR, MAINE<br />
HICKOK AND BOARDMAN, ING.<br />
Vermont’s Oldest Insurance Agency<br />
Established 1821<br />
154 ’COLLEGE STREET<br />
Incorporated 1930<br />
Telephone 4-5738<br />
BURLINGTON, VERMONT<br />
VERMONT-PEOPLES NATIONAL BANK<br />
OF BRATTLEBORO, VT.<br />
TWIN CITY GASOLINE COMPANY, Inc.<br />
PetroleumProducts<br />
Tel. Barre 771<br />
P. O. BO~ 306<br />
Tel. Montpelier 1400<br />
BARRE, VERMONT
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
impossible. Trees were uprocted, telephone wires and live electric wires made the<br />
street impassable. Leaving the car at this point, and making my way on foot, I arrived<br />
at the corner <strong>of</strong> Burncoat Street and King Philip Road.<br />
It was at this point that I was informed that a tornado had struck the city. Burn,<br />
coat Street, north and south, was littered with fallen trees, live wires and-d,ebris from<br />
demolishe~=,hou~.es. A man approached me saying that people were dead and many<br />
injured on ’Uncaten.a )~venue, that all the houses were destroyed, and that medical aid<br />
and doctors wer~n~ed~d: -All thd~streets l~gding td this secticn were impassable. We<br />
managed to get vehicles to start pushing the trees to the sides <strong>of</strong> the streets so that<br />
ambulances could get throug h. Telephones were all out. We were~able to get a vehicle<br />
at the end <strong>of</strong> the trattic-j~m to tur-ri a~round and move South until he could find a telephone.<br />
Hel was instructed to calL:Police Headquarters and ,have the doctdrs and<br />
ambulances report to the Uncatena- A~renne section. We then requested persons in<br />
nearby homes to go to the aidi <strong>of</strong> the injured on Uncatena Avenue and render .as,<br />
sistance un,til the arrival <strong>of</strong> the ambulances. Continuing north~h Burnccat ~t)eet, I<br />
met ’Commissioner <strong>of</strong>Public Works, Earl R.- Perry;- at t-h~-g{br~r <strong>of</strong> Cl~i~’!g-Street.<br />
He informed me that he had already called for help by radio, and-that he had mobiliaed<br />
all <strong>of</strong> his departments with instructions to report for immediate duty with full equipment.<br />
He was then establishing his field command post at this point for operations.<br />
We .then heard the wailing <strong>of</strong> sii~ens .gn ambulances moving in the direction <strong>of</strong> Uncatena<br />
Avenue.<br />
Suddenly, Civil Defense wardens., auxiliary pc~lic~i-~uxiliary fire, medical, trans,<br />
portation, and personnel from other operating divisions appeared everywhere with their<br />
arm bands on. I directed them to, the Uncatena Avenue section to render fi~Tgt aid,<br />
assigned others to trattic posts, and clearing the streets for passage <strong>of</strong> vehicles. Fire<br />
apparatus appeared andi in~ their frantic effor.ts to get to the fires, drove the trucks<br />
through debris, onto sidewalks, and through private property. Unless the o~ticers and<br />
firefighters <strong>of</strong> the Worcester Fire D-~p~rtment.-had mastered these fires, I hesitate, to<br />
think what the Burncoat Street area would have looked like. They did a remarkable<br />
job under tough conditions, and the City <strong>of</strong> Worcester will alway s be grateful to a<br />
highly efficient department under the direction <strong>of</strong> .Chief Travers.<br />
Arriving at Headquarters about 6:1Y P. M., I found Harold Rossi, Administrative<br />
Assistant <strong>of</strong> Regior~ No. 3, Rita Hawthorne, my secretary, and Edward J. Purcell,<br />
Chief <strong>of</strong> Operations, mcbilizing the Department <strong>of</strong> Civil Defense for immediate duty.<br />
When the police, fire, public works, and utilities divisions were contacted, they informed<br />
the Operations SectiOn that ,they had alread~r ordered all <strong>of</strong>f duty personnel<br />
and auxiliary units to report for immediate duty. This section was operating with<br />
such smooth efficiency under the directibn <strong>of</strong> Edward Purcell that I wasn’t needed.<br />
This department was immediately placed on a twenty-four hour duty status.<br />
It was at this point that we. learned the devastation included the area east and<br />
west <strong>of</strong> West Boylston Street, the Holden and Brattle Streets area, the east and<br />
west <strong>of</strong> Burncoat ’Street, the Great Brook Valley Housing Project, Brookside and<br />
Lincolnwood.<br />
The Transportation Staff under the direction <strong>of</strong> Elmer Jones, Carl Engd and<br />
Nathan Sa.tter, arrived and reported in to the Operations Section. Immediately,<br />
ambulances, ’t"~ucks, buses, cab~s and private vehicles were moving into the devastated<br />
areas with instructions to move dead and injured to ho.spitals, and the homeless to<br />
83,
PLUM STREET<br />
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
HOLMES ELECTRIC<br />
JOHNSON SUPPLY CO.<br />
PORTLAND, MAINE<br />
Wholesale Distributors oj American Radiator Standard~ Sanitary<br />
Corporation Heating and Plumbing Products<br />
165 FOREST AVENUE<br />
WILLIAM GOODMAN<br />
Grader and Pacl~er oj Paper Ma~er’s Supplies<br />
All Grades <strong>of</strong> Sterilized lViping l~ags<br />
13 HUTCHINS STREET<br />
PORTLAND, MAINE<br />
FORE ST., PORTLAND, MAINE. ~ -<br />
Tel. 3-05Z9 -- Res. Tel. 3-0416<br />
GAGNON-HASKELL, INC.<br />
Paint Manufacturers<br />
COMPLI MENTS OF<br />
AMERICAN BOBBIN CO.<br />
LEWISTON, MAINE<br />
AUBURN, MAINE<br />
MAINE TRUCK-TRACTOR CO.<br />
1079 FOREST STREET<br />
PORTLAND, MAINE
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
this Headquarters for housing, feeding and registration. The efficient manner in Which<br />
this division went into action is indeed a credit to. these men. Parking lots were seized<br />
as assembly areas .for motor vehicles.<br />
Upon the arrival <strong>of</strong> the National Guard, security measures were established in<br />
cooperation with the police.<br />
Radio communications were immediately, set up by amateur operators, and the<br />
mobile units assigned to the devastated areas under the direction <strong>of</strong> Radio Officer<br />
Allan D. McKerrow. Fixed stations were also pressed into service.<br />
As Civil Defense personnel and volunteers reported they were registered and<br />
formed into working par~ies and rescue teams. Under supervision, and transported<br />
in vehicles provided by the transportation division, they were assigned to diuty in the<br />
devastated areas.<br />
The Civilian: War Aid Division, which includes Registraticn and Inquiry, Clothing,<br />
Feeding, Housing, Financial Aid and Rehabilitation sectoris, reported for duty<br />
and with no confusion immediately went into action. They registered all disaster<br />
victims, Civil Defense personnel and volunteers. They also listed and accepted homes<br />
that were <strong>of</strong>fered ’to victims. Most evacuees preferred to go with relatives, friends and<br />
neighbors and while only a few were transported to private homes, many were taken<br />
to Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Holy Cross College where they were housed<br />
and fed.<br />
The Evacuation Division checked in with the Operatlor.s Section and prepared<br />
to place their plan in operation. There was no necessity for mass evacuation and this<br />
personne! was assigned to other duties.<br />
The Medical Divisic,n checked in with the Operations Section and prepared for<br />
immediate action. Doctors, nurses and medical personnel began pouring in to this<br />
.Headquarters and operated with remarkable efficiency.<br />
The Radiological, Biological and Chemical Division checked in with the Operations.<br />
Section for wha’tever assignments they might be required. As there was no d~uty<br />
for this particular division in~ the disaster, all personnel were assigned specific duties.<br />
The Supply Officer and staff checked in with the Operations Sectio~n’. and immediately<br />
established a supply depot for the purpose <strong>of</strong> receiving and distributing<br />
food, clothing, medical supplies and equipment.<br />
In the absence <strong>of</strong> street lights and power in the devastated areas it was necessary<br />
to seek lighting units from the other regions throughout the State for the purpose <strong>of</strong><br />
lighting up areas to prevent looting. These lighting Units repQrted to the Transportatibn<br />
Division each night at about 6:30 P. M: and by convoys were assigned to the<br />
many areas where they went into action from sunset to sunrise.<br />
State rescue vehicles under the direction <strong>of</strong> Frank King, Administrative Assistant<br />
from State Headquarte;s, reported for duty and were immediately dispatched to the<br />
areas to search for trapped victims. They performed a valuable service until relieve&<br />
Rescue operations and clearing <strong>of</strong> debris in all areas was resumed at 7:00 A. M.<br />
on Wednesday, 10 June 19~3. Volunteers started to report at 7:30 A. M. They<br />
were registered and dispatched to the areas to assist in clearing and rescue.<br />
Personnel from the Operations, Transportation arid Medical Divisions again went<br />
into action in the devastated areas andi remained on duty all day and all night.<br />
In accordance with instructions, and ":because the tornado was termed a natural<br />
disaster, the American Red Crcss assumed the responsibility <strong>of</strong> housingl feeding,<br />
clothing;, rehabilitation and medical services.
NEW "~ENGLAND ASSO,CIATION’,OF .F,,IltE CHIEFS<br />
CHESTER L. JORDAN & CO.<br />
Insurance and Surety Bonds<br />
22 MONUMENT SQUARE PORTLAND 3, MAINE<br />
Telephone 3-6484-<br />
MILLERS GREENHOUSES, INCo<br />
311 OCEAN AVE.<br />
Dial 2-2168<br />
Plants, Cut Flowers<br />
Telephone 2L3fiS7<br />
PORTLAND 5, MAINE<br />
Res. 2-2068<br />
CARL No HASKELL PLUMBING CO.<br />
68 PORTLAND ST.<br />
.<br />
509 FORE STREET<br />
39 CLINTON STREET<br />
42 UNION STREET<br />
Plumbing and Heating Repair<br />
EMIL N. IVERSON<br />
Plumbing and Heating Boiler Installation<br />
I~itchen Cabinets and Appliances<br />
PORTLAND, MAINE<br />
PORTLAND, MAINE<br />
Telephone 3-8462 ,=,<br />
J. H. JACKSON & SON<br />
.<br />
Contractors and Builders<br />
....<br />
FELS COMPANY<br />
Engineers and Contractors<br />
86<br />
PORTLAND 5, MAINE<br />
PORTLAND, MAINE<br />
i
NE,W ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
All personnel from the .Civilian War Aid Division and Medical Division were<br />
relieved <strong>of</strong> further duty andi all doctors, nurses and medical personnel returned to<br />
private practice and duty in the various hospitals to which they were assigned.<br />
Food, clothing, medical supplies and assistance started pouring into this Headquarters.<br />
Many <strong>of</strong> the contributors will never be known. Like the many hundreds <strong>of</strong><br />
persons who rendered valuable assistance to the victims in the field, they met the tragic<br />
disaster, mastered it, then: quietly faded out <strong>of</strong> the picture. This type Of person can<br />
be found in every city and town in this country, and they are the ones who make the<br />
United States the greatest country in the world in which.-to live.<br />
"LET’S KEEP IT THAT WAY".<br />
PRESIDENT MOLLOY: Thank you very much, Lt. Maloney.<br />
Our next speaker, this morning is All~n J. Johnson, Consulting Mechanical Engineer,<br />
Lansdowne, Pennsylvania. Mr. Johnson. (Applause.)<br />
MR. JOHNSON: My subject is "The Fire and Explosion Hazards <strong>of</strong> Gaseous<br />
Fuels." Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, I feel very humble indeed pounding<br />
the floor in a group such as this with a subject that is probably clcser to you than it<br />
could possibly be to any layman such as myself, and that is the hazards <strong>of</strong> fire explosions<br />
from natural gas. Nevertheless, this is a subject which is somewhat new to this<br />
pair <strong>of</strong> the country and therefore if I can succeed in throwing just a little light on it<br />
and give you any new thoughts whatsoever, my mission has. been accomplishedi. Any<br />
industry must stand on its own legs and no matter how it ’protests safety, the records<br />
speak for themselves.<br />
In the case <strong>of</strong> natural gas industry the record is a poor one. I know I am going<br />
to be criticized all over the lot by the gas people. Nevertheless, I hope ~o back it up<br />
with facts and theories. At the behest <strong>of</strong> one <strong>of</strong> your Massachusetts Congressmen,<br />
the Federal Power Commission asked them to. Of the sixty-two companies only twentysix<br />
replied and they reported 1700 pipeline breaks and accidents, which is not trivial,<br />
especially when it is considered that the largest <strong>of</strong> these damaged more than 314 feet<br />
<strong>of</strong> pipe. I saw that pipe afterwards. It was a 30:inch pipe; it threwit all cver just as<br />
you would throw confetti at a wedding.<br />
I was very much startled at the record <strong>of</strong> gas fires and explosions. I noted that<br />
out <strong>of</strong> twenty-eight listed causes for fires, and explosions that gas, natural and manufactured;<br />
that is, out <strong>of</strong> twenty-eight causes natural gas was twenty-first. In the average<br />
loss out <strong>of</strong> twenty-eight causes it wa.s twenty-sixth. Yet in another table in that very<br />
same handbook gas explosions were second only to airplane accidents in the number<br />
<strong>of</strong> lives lost. Airplane accidents counted for 861 lives; natural gas, 812 lives, it being<br />
second! with only one in the same group as far as fatalities--asphyxiation, smoke and<br />
suffocation, 802. Some <strong>of</strong> the asphyxiations were from manufactured and natural gas,<br />
so I don’t think it is exaggerating when I saw with the asphyxiations, gas disasters could<br />
easily make up the 49 necessary fatalities in order to make gas the greatest single<br />
destroyer in the United States. Therefore, it behooves us to look upon gas as being<br />
something that we can consider to be a hazard. ;~<br />
(Mr. Johnson went on to read his prepared paper.)<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CI-IIEFS<br />
WILBUR F. BLAKE<br />
Plumbing and Heating<br />
24 Hour Emergency Service at Your Door with the SHOP ON WHEELS<br />
Satisfaction Guaranteed<br />
Dial 2-5968<br />
9 FOREST ST. PORTLAND, MAINE<br />
STANLEY J. LEEN CO., ING.<br />
35 UNION STREET Tel. 2-3719 PORTLAND, MAINE<br />
LEEN’S ELECTRIC MOTOR SERVICE<br />
54 WILSON STREET Tel. Bangor 9416 BREWER, MAINE<br />
<strong>New</strong> Motors and Controls -- Used Motors and Controls<br />
Complete repair service on all makes <strong>of</strong> electric motors and control equipment<br />
HERBERT A. HARMON INC.<br />
General Insurance<br />
Dependable Insurance Since 1881<br />
O. L. PERRY, President and Treasurer--M. F. PERRY, Vice-President<br />
EXCHANGE ST. PORTLAND, ME.<br />
Telephone 5-0391<br />
PLUMMER’S INSURANCE AGENCY<br />
General Insurance Since 1890<br />
480 CONGRESS STREET PORTLAND 3, MAINE<br />
Tel: 3-3838<br />
40 EXCHANGE STREET<br />
210 MIDDLE STREET<br />
TURNER, BARKER & C,O.<br />
Insurance<br />
HERMAN B. LIBBY--CHARLES D. BOYD<br />
Telephone 3-3896<br />
NEAL DOW AGENCY ¯<br />
General Insurance<br />
(Formerly F. H. & C. C. Plummer)<br />
Telephone. 3-1636<br />
8~<br />
PORTLAND, MAINE<br />
PORTLAND 3, MAINE
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
THE FIRE AND EXPLOSION HAZARDS OF GASEOUS, FUELS<br />
Consulting Mechanical Engineer<br />
In the ~Nor-theastern States natural gas is only six years ol& Nevertheless, on<br />
the record already available, it seems indisputable that-it <strong>of</strong>fers a potential threat to<br />
life and property <strong>of</strong> sufficient magnitude to warrant prominence on your list <strong>of</strong> local<br />
fire and explesion hazards.<br />
In .order to fully reali;ze the problems involved, it is necessary first to review, even<br />
if o~Ay sketchily, the rapid growth <strong>of</strong> the natural gas industry.<br />
Less than thirty years ago less than 4% <strong>of</strong> the total requirements <strong>of</strong> the United<br />
States were supplied by natural gas; and even this was distributed on a purely local<br />
basis. Within this period, production increased over seven fold until natural gas now<br />
supplies c.ver 20% <strong>of</strong> our now greatly augmented energy needs through a network <strong>of</strong><br />
well over 200,000 miles <strong>of</strong> transmission lines.<br />
Only six years ago, the conversion <strong>of</strong> the "big inch" and "little inch" lines to<br />
natural gas marked the introduction <strong>of</strong> this fuel. into the Northeastern States; today<br />
the amount distributed northeast <strong>of</strong> Washington, D. C., by three companies ~alone,<br />
parallels the entire annual energy production <strong>of</strong> the anthracite industry.<br />
This expansion and construction is by r~o means over. In fact, the Petroleum<br />
Administration for Defense has just predicted that by 19~.y, over 94% <strong>of</strong> all gas<br />
distributed to the ultimate consumer will consis< either all or in part, <strong>of</strong> natural g~s.<br />
They further predict that almost 10 million tons <strong>of</strong> new pipe lines will be laid’in the:<br />
next three years, and that over 70% <strong>of</strong> this new pipe will be over 16" in diameter.<br />
A close connection is seen between this rapid, and at times almost .frantic, growth<br />
<strong>of</strong> the natural gas industry and a failure to institute higher standards <strong>of</strong> safety in con;<br />
struction and operation. A code designed in 1942 for gas transmission lines proved<br />
adequate for the mesquite prairie crossings constituting most <strong>of</strong> the pre-war construction;<br />
but it seems unfortunate that it was not more drastically changed when<br />
larger diameter pipe lines began to traverse valuable .sn.burban properties, closely knit<br />
farms, and even urban communities.<br />
As a result we find that transmission lines are being built in such areas with<br />
factors-<strong>of</strong>-safety that are only a fraction <strong>of</strong> those considered standard for other comparable<br />
pipes designed to carry high pressure fluids. Other precautions normally taken<br />
during orderly construction are <strong>of</strong>ten thrown to the winds in the haste to complete<br />
lines in a minimum <strong>of</strong> time and at the lowest possible cost. Dumping pipes from cars<br />
and trucks is a frequent example, despite the fully recognized hazard <strong>of</strong> even a deep<br />
scratch to vessels carrying a full pressure load. One company has twice admitted in<br />
court, in my presence, that their 16" pipe laid in the open for over a year without any<br />
protection from the weather before being used. Even when questionedl as to the bursting<br />
strength <strong>of</strong> the pipe being used, company engineers usually refer to general test<br />
codes instead <strong>of</strong> citing from specific tests on the pipe at hand.<br />
Even granting proper design and construction, there .are two separate and distinct<br />
hazards in connection with the operation <strong>of</strong> natural gas lines, the mechanical<br />
bursting <strong>of</strong> the pipe due to internal pressures in excess <strong>of</strong> its strength, and the ignition<br />
<strong>of</strong> explosive mixtures contained therein.
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In a 16 tt line operating at 750 psig the bursting pressure for each lineal foot is<br />
72 tons..As the only force in opposition to this bursting are the two sidewalls <strong>of</strong><br />
or even less in thickness, it is easy to see why ruptures have occurred due to even<br />
relatively minor changes in pipe stress. These have been attribut£d to a myriad <strong>of</strong> causes<br />
including ~basic failure <strong>of</strong> the pipe or welds~ corrosion, electrolysis, traffic vibration,<br />
earth tremors, nearby .blasting, washouts, land settlements, floods, erosion, mechanical<br />
damage to the pipe, etc.<br />
Since the sheer strength <strong>of</strong> steel is very much less than its bursting strength, there<br />
is a great likelihood that even a slight rupture will tear into a long horizontal break at<br />
the instant =o.f rupture. In one outstanding example at King <strong>of</strong> Prussia, Pennsylvania,<br />
such a:~ea~:extended for so.me 3,150 feet until finally stopped by the construction at a<br />
railroad underpass.. The thirty-inch pipe involved was ripped into ribbons, as though<br />
by giant pinking shears, and spewed all over the right-<strong>of</strong>-way, with sizable pieces even<br />
locgmg in the tops <strong>of</strong> trees..<br />
In the case <strong>of</strong> a simple rupture, where ignition does. not occur, the hazard is<br />
usually limited to the danger <strong>of</strong> being struck by the pipe, pipe fragments, rocks, or<br />
other debris. In one instance, on the occasion <strong>of</strong> a break in Northern Connecticut, a<br />
housewife described a veritable rain <strong>of</strong> rock and stones around her home, some 750<br />
feet from the pipe line. Unsuccessful attempts have been made to require transmission<br />
companies to exclude rocks and large stones from backfill; the companies being in opposition<br />
because, among c,ther reasons, such heavy fil! he_lps to hold the pipe down in the<br />
event <strong>of</strong> a rising water table..<br />
After the initial blast damage, the obvious"danger <strong>of</strong> a rupture is the ever-present.<br />
one <strong>of</strong> ignition. Since the Unitedi States Bureau-~-f- M~nes has determined that ignition<br />
<strong>of</strong> a natural gas-air mixture occurs with static sparks <strong>of</strong> 2/10 <strong>of</strong> a millijoule, with this<br />
being 1,000 times less energy than that liberated by-the combustion <strong>of</strong> the smalleit<br />
particle <strong>of</strong> coal that can be weighed on a sensitive analytidal balance, it is safe to assume<br />
that nearly all major high pressure pipeline rupture will be followed by fire. At least<br />
this assumption should be used as a bagis .for the complete evacuation <strong>of</strong> the area <strong>of</strong> a<br />
leak, and <strong>of</strong> keeping even. firemen and other emergency workers at a safe distance at<br />
all times. Anyond whb has ever been singed by the puff <strong>of</strong> a gas oven that was a<br />
little too full <strong>of</strong> gas-air mixtures when lighted, will know that "safe distance" does<br />
not mean adjacent to the column <strong>of</strong> escaping gas. Moreover, in anticipating ignition<br />
it is well to remember that a small stone striking the pipe or debris may be all that is<br />
needed.<br />
Under ordinary conditions existing i-n ho~es=xnd ih-industry, it is difficult to<br />
insure the complete absence <strong>of</strong> such sources <strong>of</strong> ignition as, open flames, static sparks,<br />
inductive sparks, electric arcs, hot wires, compression, shock, friction, heated surfaces,<br />
and hot flying particles.<br />
As distinguished from a rupture even though the same may be, and usually is,<br />
followed by fire, an explosion consists <strong>of</strong> the actual chemical : combination <strong>of</strong> gas and<br />
oxygen, usually under relatively close confinement. If a combustible gas is added continuousiy<br />
to a given quantity <strong>of</strong> air the concer~tration<strong>of</strong> the gas increases and eventually<br />
:’eaches a value known as the lower limit <strong>of</strong> flammability. Gas-air mixtures whose concentrations<br />
are below the lower limit <strong>of</strong> flammability are not flammable. With further<br />
~ontinued addition <strong>of</strong> combustible gas, a second value, known as the upper limit <strong>of</strong><br />
flammability, is reached. Gas-air mixtures whose cor~c~’~trktions, a-re- Xbove the upper<br />
limit <strong>of</strong> flammability are not flammable. Mixtures whose concentrations~._lie:_-b_etNe_en
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the lower and upper limits Xre flammable; i.e., flame can propagate through the mixture<br />
indefinitely once ignited. At atmospheric pressures the Buread-6f Mines finds that<br />
natural gas-air is flammablewhen the gas percentage~li~s 15etwe’en’ 4.~% and 14.2%;<br />
but at the higher pressures <strong>of</strong> ~00 psig while the lower limit remains substantially the<br />
same, the mixture continues to ,be flammable until the gas in the mixture comprises<br />
44.2 % .<strong>of</strong> the total. Thus gas under the high pressure <strong>of</strong> transmission lines has a wider<br />
range <strong>of</strong> flammability than low pressure gas.-<br />
The gaseous products formed by explosion <strong>of</strong> combustible gas-air mixtures near<br />
t..heir upper limit contain, large amounts <strong>of</strong> co.mbustible hydrogen and carbon monoxide:<br />
Adidition <strong>of</strong> air to these combustible products <strong>of</strong> the initial explosion can form a<br />
second explosive mixture, which may be ignited by even small fires resulting from<br />
the first explosion, to thus cause-a second explosion: The gaseous products formed by<br />
explosion <strong>of</strong> combustible gas-air mixtures near the lower limit consist chiefly <strong>of</strong> noncombustible<br />
carbon dioxide, water, and unused air. Addition <strong>of</strong> air to these products<br />
canno,t form a secondary explosion.<br />
In gauging the .force <strong>of</strong> a natural gas explosion, it has been estimated that every<br />
2~ feet <strong>of</strong> a 30 tt pipe line contains combustion energy equivalent to the explosive<br />
energy <strong>of</strong> a ~00 pound bomb.<br />
The Texas .City disaster involved an,~ex.plosion <strong>of</strong> about 2000 tons <strong>of</strong> ammonium<br />
nitrate. Calculations show that every 4~ miles <strong>of</strong> such a pipe line contains combusti<strong>of</strong>i<br />
~nergy equivalent to the explosion energy <strong>of</strong> the Texas City disaster. "<br />
: Technically, true explosions are possible only when the pipe contains a mixture <strong>of</strong><br />
gas and air in the flammable range; such as normally occurs only when the line is<br />
initially placed ir~ service c.r after a shutdown. However, for all practical pu~:poses,<br />
the distinction between a rupture and an explosion is largely academic, since the results<br />
after the first flash are substantially the same.<br />
It is important to note that even a small gas leak can supply enough energy to<br />
.the air to result in a small local explosion. As a result <strong>of</strong>~.such a small explosion or<br />
progressive failure in a pipe due to a previously undetected accident, considerable<br />
explosive mixture at high pressure can be ejected into the air. In addition to inducing<br />
further failure, a leak <strong>of</strong> any size thus represents a danger in the sense that it provides<br />
a readily available explosive mixture which can then initiate a very violent explosion in<br />
the event <strong>of</strong> a subsequent more pronounced! failure.<br />
Once ignited, the high pressure <strong>of</strong> natural gas lines, as fed by the large volume <strong>of</strong><br />
gas contained between shut<strong>of</strong>f valves insures a sustained fire <strong>of</strong> great magnitude. In<br />
this State the standard minimum distance between shut<strong>of</strong>f valves is eight miles: Even<br />
if the valves at both sides, <strong>of</strong> a break are shut <strong>of</strong>f at the instant <strong>of</strong> a break, and this has<br />
its own-serious hazards as will be described, an 8 mile line, 16" in diameter and at<br />
7~0 psig pressure contains 2,800,000 cubic feet <strong>of</strong> gas, all but ~6,600 cubic feet <strong>of</strong><br />
which must burn or otherwise escape before the broken section is reduced to atmospheric<br />
pressure. Furthermore, as a combustible mixture may contain as little as 4.~ % <strong>of</strong> gas,<br />
the actual amount <strong>of</strong> gaseous mixture involvedl in the conflagration will approximate<br />
62,000,000 cu’bic feet.<br />
Virtually the only way to combat a natural gas fire or serious leak is to shut <strong>of</strong>f<br />
the flow on both sides <strong>of</strong> the break. Even where it might be possible to extinguish the<br />
flame, the hazard <strong>of</strong> large quantities <strong>of</strong> gas escaping into the atmosphere usually makes<br />
it advisable to let it burn regardless <strong>of</strong> the amount <strong>of</strong> damage which it may be doing.<br />
This is especially true where the major amount <strong>of</strong> real damage has been completed<br />
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before you arrive. Most fire companies therefore confine their activities to preventing<br />
the spread <strong>of</strong>t.he-flames, while hastening the extinguishment <strong>of</strong> the major conflagration<br />
only through locating and = shutting <strong>of</strong>f the proper control valves.<br />
Precautions taken well in advance <strong>of</strong> pipe line trouble are by all odds the most<br />
valuable, including:-<br />
1. A thorough knowledge <strong>of</strong> ~he location <strong>of</strong> all high pressure lines and laterals<br />
in your area: .....<br />
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2. A knowledge <strong>of</strong> th~ location <strong>of</strong> the prcper valves for the isolation <strong>of</strong> any<br />
section <strong>of</strong> the lines which might give trouble.<br />
3. An. arrangement with the gas company whereby an authorizedt representative<br />
will be available on short notice at any time. To be <strong>of</strong> any value to you, such<br />
a man must have sufficient authority to take any action necessary, even to. that<br />
<strong>of</strong> closing valves.<br />
3. Plans for warning signs and even for the evacuation <strong>of</strong> an area whenever<br />
there is (1) a line break <strong>of</strong> even a seemingly minor nature, (2) fire adjacent<br />
to the right-<strong>of</strong>-way, (including brush or woods fires dangerously close to the<br />
lines), (3) any signs <strong>of</strong> the remc.val <strong>of</strong> earth or other support from either<br />
under or over the line, (4) any other signs <strong>of</strong> unusual disturbances that might<br />
disturb the line to even the slightest extent.<br />
.<br />
Interruption <strong>of</strong> service is a serious matter to gas companies .because <strong>of</strong> the hazards<br />
involved in resumption after the emergency has passed, as welt as for other reasons.<br />
For this reason, they have been known to delay the closing <strong>of</strong> valves long after a real<br />
emergency has developed. One such example occurred recently when the Chief <strong>of</strong> a<br />
large city tire department was forced to standl and watch explosion after explosion<br />
around him, including <strong>of</strong>ie which threw several firemen to the ground, while <strong>of</strong>ficials<br />
<strong>of</strong> the two gas companies .ir~v~.!ved each argued that the other was responsible and<br />
should thus shut his valves. Such-unfortunate situations should be worked out in advance<br />
in the form <strong>of</strong> a definite plan <strong>of</strong> action to cover a line break at any point in the<br />
State. " "<br />
A classic example <strong>of</strong> a lack <strong>of</strong> such planning occurred recently in the vicinity <strong>of</strong><br />
Somerville, <strong>New</strong> Jersey. At.9:40 A. M. an alert police <strong>of</strong>ficer smelled gas, and upon<br />
investigatior~ found a leak on a farm <strong>of</strong> such magnitude that it could be seen shimmering<br />
in the sun: In the absence <strong>of</strong> local representatives, the police clerk was obliged<br />
to call the contractor at Hartford, Connecticut, reaching him at 10:2~. He was instructed<br />
to block <strong>of</strong>f all nearby roads and wait. Nearly three hours later at 1:10 the<br />
contracter’s representative phoned back that someone was being dispatched to the<br />
scer.e from Suffern, <strong>New</strong> York and not to let anyone else near the leak. At 2:2~ this<br />
man appeare:d, but evidently lacking authority to take any real action, he spent the<br />
next hour phoning the Hartford principal, to tell him what the police had now known<br />
for nearly five hours, that the leak was a bad one. At 3:40 another representative<br />
appeared, and after seeing the seriousness <strong>of</strong> the leak, shut <strong>of</strong>f the proper valves. At<br />
4:40, just seven hours after its discovery, gas fl0w from the leak stopped and the<br />
road blocks ~were removed.<br />
Howeve..r: .the.t0o-sudden shutting <strong>of</strong> a valve ahead <strong>of</strong> a leak can also be hazardous.<br />
With the pumping’ stations continuously forcing gas through the line, tegether with:<br />
the inertia <strong>of</strong> the gas flowing at high pressure, such a sudden stoppage can cause a<br />
second break ahead <strong>of</strong> the valv_e.. For this reason many gas company engineers look
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~skance at automatic gas valves on large lines, even though they xre permitted ff not<br />
even encouraged by all present state gas cedes excepting <strong>New</strong> York. For this reason,<br />
the area behind an automatic valve should be listed as a zone <strong>of</strong> potential hazard.<br />
While gas companies habitually minimize the hazardi <strong>of</strong> fires and explosions as<br />
applied to natural gas systems, tangible pro<strong>of</strong> is seen in reports to the Federal Power<br />
Commission listing over 1,700 failures, ranging in impe.rtance from those with nominal<br />
damage to one which involved injuries to 18 persons and property damage <strong>of</strong> over<br />
$1,o00,000.<br />
_As approximately half <strong>of</strong> these fires and breaks occurred while lines were being<br />
tested, this suggests the desirability <strong>of</strong> alerting the local fire companies whenever such<br />
tests are scheduled.<br />
A tabulation <strong>of</strong> thc.se reports which included data on lateral damage showed that<br />
.~0% <strong>of</strong> all reportedl pipeline breaks caused substantial physical or property damage<br />
up to 333 feet from the center <strong>of</strong> the pipe; 33 % caused such damage up to 500 feet;<br />
with a maximum damage range <strong>of</strong> over 3,000 feet.<br />
Nor are these 1,700 breaks the isolated experiences <strong>of</strong> a few careless companies<br />
a.s is shown by the following analysis in which:<br />
,<br />
14 cc,mpanies reported 1 to..!9 failures<br />
20 or more failures<br />
2 .... 40 ....<br />
2 .... 50 " ~<br />
1 .... 80<br />
3 .... 100<br />
The question most frequently asked is that with the good safety, record <strong>of</strong> manufactured<br />
gas, why should natural’. gas b( different. There are several, answdrs to this,<br />
(~e most important <strong>of</strong> which is one <strong>of</strong> relative pressures.<br />
From its point <strong>of</strong> manufacture to its ultimate use, manufactured gas usually remains<br />
at lo.w pressures. Even in the few instances where the gas is compressed for<br />
distributional purposes the pressure never even approximates the 400, 750, and even<br />
~00 psig <strong>of</strong> natural gas. Thus all <strong>of</strong> the pressure hazards describedi apply to natural<br />
gas in much greater force than to manufactured gas. This point becomes particularly<br />
important when it is noted that the explosive force varies as the cube <strong>of</strong> the pressure.<br />
Thus gas at250 pounds has a potehtial’f0rce 1,000 times that <strong>of</strong> 25 ~pounds and n’ot ten<br />
times as might be expected.<br />
i- Another important difference is that manufactured gas is so made that no plant<br />
accident can increase its original pressure beyond the ounces provided by the weight<br />
Of the gas holder. Even when such gas is compressed an4 delivered to remote localities<br />
at higher pressures much <strong>of</strong> it is usually placed in district holders for distribution at<br />
an insured low pressure. In contrast, nearly always the several hundreds <strong>of</strong> pounds<br />
pressure in natural gas is reduced in a series <strong>of</strong> mechanical regulators; the failure <strong>of</strong><br />
one or more <strong>of</strong> which can, and has, sent much higher pressures into consumers lines<br />
than they were designed to handle.<br />
Just such a regulator failure was reportedly responsible for cne <strong>of</strong> our worst gas<br />
disasters--that at Brighton, a suburb <strong>of</strong> Rochester, <strong>New</strong> York. Here a relatively<br />
minor fire disrupted two series regulators to such an extent tha~ som:~q~\’g5 pounds<br />
pressure was sent into the residential district, instead <strong>of</strong> the ounces for which<br />
designed. As a result, thin sheet metal.meters burst, pilot lights burned three feet<br />
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521 AUBURN STREET MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE<br />
SELBY SHOE COMPANY, Inc~<br />
75 WEST HANCOCK STREET-<br />
100<br />
MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
high, extinguished burners ignited, and general pandemonium ensued. When,<br />
hours later, the city was able to count its toll it totaled three dead, including a<br />
little girl who had been trying to call her father to tell him that the gas was<br />
leaking; injuries to some thirty others; the complete destruction <strong>of</strong> 19 homes; and<br />
serious damage to 25 other buildings.<br />
Yet despite this catastrophe, few gas distributing co.mpanies are even today fully<br />
meeting the resultant recommendations <strong>of</strong> the National, Fire Underwriters or the<br />
United States Bureau <strong>of</strong> Mines.<br />
A further point <strong>of</strong> difference between natural and manufactured gas that has<br />
caused ~ much trouble is the former’s tendency to .so dry out the oakum pack’mg between<br />
pipe sections as to cause continucus leaks in lines not elaborately reconditioned for<br />
its use.<br />
The hazard <strong>of</strong> natural gas arising from its absence <strong>of</strong> a warning odor is intended<br />
to be met-in those states having a gas code through a requirement for artificial odorization.<br />
However, it has been found that, under certain co.nditions, as the gas is forced<br />
under high pressure through sand and clay it is sufficiently purified by the filtering<br />
action <strong>of</strong> the earth as to lose its telltale signal.<br />
This tendency <strong>of</strong> gas to travel for consid’erable distances underground has spelled<br />
disaster in several instances. This fugacious fluid has been known to follow water<br />
pipes and other service lines from even relatively remo.te street leaks into homes, where<br />
in at least two instances <strong>of</strong> recent record, it has resulted in loss <strong>of</strong> life and co.mplete<br />
destruction <strong>of</strong> the buildings, The recommended remedy is to place a dry-well around<br />
entering services so that accompanying gas will be vented in the yard before it can<br />
enter the cellar.<br />
The most dangerous fuel <strong>of</strong> all from this latter standlodnt is the so-called bottled<br />
gas, or propane. Being heavier than air, it tends to cling to the ground and accumulate<br />
in low places until ignited. By this time a substantial quantity is <strong>of</strong>ten present involving<br />
considerable areas and several buildings. In addition to this most undesirable property,<br />
propane is very hard to contain with0.ut strict precautions at all points <strong>of</strong> handling,<br />
storage, and use..Whe <strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong> Casualty and Surety Companies, 60 John St.,<br />
<strong>New</strong> York City 7, has issued an excellent series <strong>of</strong> pamphlets on this subject, so that<br />
for me to go into extended detail would be repetitious. I do, however, suggest that you<br />
obtain these booklets.<br />
Being practical men, you would have been entitled to the assumption that, even<br />
if the admittedly responsible gas companies choose to disregard fundamental precautions<br />
in the design and cperation <strong>of</strong> their lines, they would have been restrained by adequate<br />
federal and state regulation.<br />
Unfortunately, you would not have been wholly correct. The Federal Government<br />
makes no attempt to regulate either the construction or operation <strong>of</strong> such lines,<br />
and while Massachusetts adopted a natural gas code in May, 19~2, it is so weak in<br />
several <strong>of</strong> its mcst vital points as to <strong>of</strong>fer questionable protection to the public. I refer<br />
most specifically to the low factors <strong>of</strong> safety allowable under the code for even urban<br />
construction, these having probably been inherited from the 1942 version <strong>of</strong> the ASA<br />
code or its successors; to the fact that pipe line constructio.n is permitted within 40<br />
feet <strong>of</strong> an occupied building, a lethal distance in case <strong>of</strong> either explosion or rupture;<br />
and finally to the fact that the real safety test <strong>of</strong> the ASA code, requiring test at 1~0%<strong>of</strong><br />
operating pressure, has been dropped to retain only the leak finding provisio.n <strong>of</strong><br />
,~0 pounds over operating pressur< As is befitting a growing state, <strong>New</strong> York re-<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
Compliments <strong>of</strong> " ., ~ . ,<br />
PENNICHUCK WATERWORKS<br />
On Its l OOth Anniversary<br />
1852-1952<br />
James B. Crowl~y Insurance Agency<br />
WILLIAM F. SULLIVAN, Agent<br />
Insurance o] All Kinds<br />
171 MAIN STREET NASHUA, N. H.<br />
Telephone 467<br />
Nashua Builclin9 Contractors Inc.<br />
15 BOWERS STREET<br />
General Contractors and Builders<br />
NASHUA, NEW HAMPSHIRE<br />
Telephone 82 or 713<br />
OLD COLONY FURNITURE COMPANY<br />
29 CROWN STREET<br />
MAYNARD<br />
46 SPRING STREET¯<br />
46 SPRING ST.<br />
Quality Furniture<br />
..<br />
NASHUA, NEW~ HAMPSHIRE<br />
MACHINE SHOP,~ Inc.<br />
NASHUA, ~NEW HAMPSHIRE<br />
SHEPHARD & EVANS Inc.<br />
Toolmakers - Machinists<br />
102<br />
NASHUA, N. H.
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
q.uires heavier line construction even where the right-<strong>of</strong>-way traverses an area "zonedresidential",<br />
Massachusetts and all other codes which I have examined adopt the principle<br />
that the one to get there first determines the strength o.f the line with all future<br />
construction being obliged to proceed at its own risk.<br />
It therefore becomes a matter <strong>of</strong> greatest civic importance that you each become<br />
alerted to all potential hazards within your area to the end that optimum service can<br />
be given if needed.--.<br />
.<br />
PRESIDENT MOLLOY: I announce the following committee appointments who will<br />
kindly prepare their reports for the last session on Thursday:<br />
Resolutions: Chief Travers <strong>of</strong> Worcester; Chief Marshall <strong>of</strong> Providence and<br />
Chief Thomas <strong>of</strong> Hartford.<br />
Courtesies: Chief Frates <strong>of</strong> Bath; Chid Mullen <strong>of</strong> Shrewsbury and Chief Crompton<br />
o,f Portsmouth. ’<br />
I think at the preser.t time the Secretary has some correspondence he wants to<br />
read. to you.<br />
CHIEF O’HEaRN: I have a letter from the Town <strong>of</strong> Holden, Office <strong>of</strong> Board <strong>of</strong><br />
Fire Engineers, Holden, Massachusetts which reads as follows:<br />
"Dear Chief O’Hearn: On behalf <strong>of</strong> the Board cf Fire Engineers and myself<br />
would you please extend to the members <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Association</strong> our sincere thanks for the<br />
help, m(n and equipment sent to our aid during the recent tornado which struck<br />
Holden.<br />
"It certainly is very gratifying to know that there is such an army <strong>of</strong> equipment<br />
and men ready to come to. the aid <strong>of</strong> those in trouble.<br />
"It was possible only with the assistance <strong>of</strong> all those Departments. that immediately<br />
rushed~ to our aid, to rescue and bring help to those in the devastated area. Alone, our<br />
own Department would have .,been unable to handle the situation and the final results<br />
would have been much worse.<br />
"Also our thanks go to those many departments who travelled long distances every<br />
night to bring their .lighting equipment, that we might illuminate the devastated area<br />
and help prevent looting.<br />
"Again many many thanks to all <strong>of</strong> you who did such a grand and noble job.<br />
"Sincerely, Town <strong>of</strong> Holden Board <strong>of</strong> Fire Engineers, Gordon H. Creamer, Clerk."<br />
PRESIDENT MOLLOY: On the platform I have a couple <strong>of</strong> gentlemen who relinquished~<br />
their time to. Lt. Maloney. One is Raymond J. Kenney, Director and State<br />
Forester <strong>of</strong> Massachusetts who was to talk on "Cold Facts on Forest Fires."<br />
MR. KENNEY: Mr. President, itis good t6 be with the gang again. I was certainly<br />
very glad to relinquish my time for that very interesting talk. I was in the disaster area<br />
on the night <strong>of</strong> June 9 and on several occasions back <strong>of</strong> that, and I want to back up<br />
everything the Lieutenant said, becaus~ I think he has very kbly and adequately covered<br />
it, and I hope it will leave with all <strong>of</strong> us a lesson as far as future emergencies are<br />
concerned. ’<br />
As far as =my talk was concerned, most <strong>of</strong> you have heard the gist <strong>of</strong> that before.<br />
Thank you very, much. (Applause.)<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
WHITNEY SCREW CORPORATION<br />
Bronze - 18-8 Stainless Steel - Monel Metal - Alumint;m<br />
Manujacturers oj V/ood Screws<br />
NASHUA NEW HAMPSHIRE<br />
21 MAIN STREET<br />
~DANIEL WEBSTER HOTEL<br />
NASHUA, N. H.<br />
ALFRED LAFLEUR, Pres. and Treas.<br />
Gate City Ro<strong>of</strong>in~ & Sidin~ Co., Inc.<br />
General Contractors<br />
WATER STREET NASHUA, N. H.<br />
Telephone 5] ] 4<br />
MODERN HOTEL<br />
Dining Room<br />
Air.Conditioned <strong>New</strong>. Banquet Hall for Weddings, Receptions~ etc.<br />
WEST PEARL STREET<br />
THOMAS P. FULLAM<br />
NASHUA, N. H.<br />
JOHN P. HEALY<br />
Thomas Po Fullam and G. Allen Putnam<br />
AGENCIES<br />
64 MERRIMACK STREET<br />
77 NORTH MAIN STREET<br />
All Lines o/Insurance<br />
MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE<br />
Dial 5-6949 or 5-’7839<br />
MORRILL & EVERETT<br />
Telephone 2600<br />
104,<br />
CONCORD’, NEW HAMPSHIRE
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
PRESIDENT MOLLOY: NOW we have another friend <strong>of</strong> all <strong>of</strong> us, former Chief<br />
Samuel J. Pope, Retired, Boston, Massachusetts, Fire Department on "The Fire Chiefs<br />
and’ Civil Defense." (Applause.)<br />
CHIEF POPE iI Mr. President and Brother Firemen and Brother Members <strong>of</strong> the<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> As~oclatlon <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs, I too wish to express my gratitude for two<br />
reasons. First, it i;ts much better to have somebody take your place because there is not<br />
tco much fun getting up here and talking, particularly on Civil Defense, as already<br />
you have heard me give that talk a year ago and it would not have been much different<br />
except with ;possible ct~anges in the prices <strong>of</strong> the equipment on the matching funds.<br />
I do think that we all should feel very happy that we have a lot <strong>of</strong> these so-called<br />
"screw balls" which Lt. Maloney referred to and~ I happen to be one <strong>of</strong> them who has<br />
interested himself in this particular project because even though there are times yo.u<br />
would be discouraged and feel that nothing had been accomplished, something has<br />
taken place in Michigan and Worcester which shows very definitely a great deal has<br />
been accomplished and I think if anything has stimulated the Civil Defense progress<br />
as tragic as these two disasters, it has ’brought to the minds <strong>of</strong> the public the necessity<br />
<strong>of</strong> this Civil Defense program.<br />
Again I say ..it was a pleasure to me to relinquish my time for Lt. Malo.ney’s in,<br />
terestlng talk. Thank you. (Applause.)<br />
PRESIDENT MOL~.OY: Our next speaker is Mr. H. A. Earsy, Fire Marshal, United<br />
Aircraft Corporation, East Hartford!, Connecticut. Mr. Earsy. (Applause.)<br />
ORGANIZATION OF INDUSTRIAL FIRE PROTECTION<br />
AT A LARGE INDUSTRIAL PLANT<br />
Address by H. A. EARSY, Fire Marshal <strong>of</strong> the United Aircraft Corporation at<br />
the Thirty-First <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Conference</strong> <strong>of</strong> the <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> <strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs,<br />
at "The Wentworth," Portsmouth, <strong>New</strong> Hampshire.<br />
Mr. President, Members and Friends:<br />
It is a pleasure and great privilege to have the opportunity <strong>of</strong> addressing this<br />
<strong>Conference</strong> <strong>of</strong> the <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> <strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs, and I hope that our<br />
remarks about the organization <strong>of</strong> industrial fire protection at a large industrial plant<br />
will be <strong>of</strong> interest.<br />
As the varic.us operations and processes involved in the manufacturing and’. testing<br />
<strong>of</strong> aircraft engines in this plant can create many potential tire hazards and fires <strong>of</strong><br />
various kinds, fire prevention and fire protection requirements must be continually<br />
maintained at all times by our industrial tire protection organization.<br />
Fire prevention work includes the study and safeguarding <strong>of</strong> every fire hazard<br />
in the plant; the maintenance <strong>of</strong> a high standard <strong>of</strong> good housekeeping; with the prompt<br />
removal <strong>of</strong> all waste and’ rubbish; the control <strong>of</strong> smoking and its suppression in "no<br />
smoking" locations; the devising <strong>of</strong> safe methods for handling hazardous materials such<br />
as flamma, ble liquids, magnesium, L. P. gases, chemicals, etc., and many other precautionary<br />
measures.<br />
Although everything possible is done to prevent fires by the foregoing fire prevention<br />
work, employee education, and the application <strong>of</strong> various safeguards--for equip-<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FII~E CHIEFS<br />
ALLEN-ROGERS CORPORATION<br />
Turned IVood Products<br />
LACONIA, NEW HAMPSHIRE<br />
Tel. Laconia 121 ~<br />
LACONIA SHOE COMPANY, INC.<br />
"Laconians" ~Genuine Goodyear IVelts"<br />
¯<br />
Little Laconians Laconian Deb~<br />
LACONIA NEW HAMPSHIRE<br />
Compliments <strong>of</strong>-<br />
Cable Address: Scottwill<br />
~g¢l~nap. ~l~lill~ (Eorporation<br />
Manufacturers <strong>of</strong> Hosiery<br />
LACONIA, NEW HAMPSHIRE<br />
ESTABLISHED 1865<br />
SCOTT & WILLIAMS<br />
Ī NCORPORATED<br />
LACONIA, N. H.<br />
Northern Heatin9 and Piumbin~ Coo, Inc.<br />
Contractors - Engineers<br />
17-31 WATER STREET<br />
Telephone -/06<br />
LACONIA, NEW HAMPSHIRE.<br />
St¢rlin9 Engin¢~rin9 Company, Inc.<br />
Subsidiary <strong>of</strong> American Machine & Foundry Company, <strong>New</strong> York<br />
54 MILL STREET<br />
~i’~ ~J~’ LACONIA, NEW HAMPSHIRE<br />
Telephone 182<br />
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who are<br />
All<br />
bilities:<br />
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
ment and processes, it is nevertheless an indisputable fact that the.most elaborate fire<br />
prevention practices and procedures cannot prevent all fires. Fire is too unpredictable.<br />
Fire protection by the prompt control and extinguishment <strong>of</strong> fires in their initial<br />
stage is therefore as essentially necessary as fire prevention in an industrial plant. This<br />
is based on our-experience that the majority <strong>of</strong> fires start small, except for explosions,<br />
or other especially serio.us occurrences, and that even fires in extra hazardous locations<br />
can usually be brought under prompt control if they are efficiently attacked within the<br />
first few minutes with proper fire fighting equipment.<br />
An industrial fire protection organization basically requires a sufficier_t hum’bet <strong>of</strong><br />
thoroughly trained personnel and adequate fire protection equipment.<br />
Our fire protection personnel in this plant is divided into. two groups. One is a<br />
full time paid Plant Protection Fire Department, organized along the lines <strong>of</strong> a<br />
nicipal fire department, with uniformed firemen and’ <strong>of</strong>ficers. The other is the Fire<br />
Brigade, consisting <strong>of</strong> a large number <strong>of</strong> volunteers recruited from among employees,<br />
organized, trained, and supervised by the Plant Protection Fire Department.<br />
Fire Department personnel are-ch.a.,rged .~ith~ the following general responsi-<br />
Prevent fire<br />
Extinguish fire<br />
Protect life and property endangered by fire<br />
Protect company property against carelessness, negligence, malicious destruction,<br />
sabotage, espionage, and d~epred.ation<br />
Aid.’ in preserving order and quelling disturbances on company property<br />
Uphold and aid in enforcing Company rules and regulations .....<br />
Perform such other duties as may be assigned from time to time<br />
Have complete knowledge <strong>of</strong> the Fire Department rules, regulations, and<br />
instruction as outlined in the Plant Protection Fire Department Manual<br />
,The Plant Protectie.n Fire Department ManUal is a pocket size book issued to<br />
all Fire Department personnel which must ,be retained in their possession at all times<br />
while on .duty. It serves as a guide to the proper pursuit <strong>of</strong> their various duties, contains<br />
departmental rules, regulations and instructions, andl provides a good general<br />
foundation <strong>of</strong> fire and plant protection, knowledge ........<br />
In addition to the Plant Protection Fire Department-Manual, the subject <strong>of</strong> fire<br />
protection is also included in the following company publications.<br />
A brief resume on fire protection, general fire rules, requirements if an employe~<br />
discovers a fire, and when the fire alarm sounds, is included in a booklet entitled "You<br />
and Your ’Company," which is issued to all employees in this plant.<br />
In a Supervisor’s Employee Relations Manual which is issued to all supervisors<br />
in this plant, there is a ~ fii:e protection section covering supervisor’s responsibility when<br />
a fire occurs in his department, supervisor’s responsibility when the fire alarm sounds,<br />
a representative list <strong>of</strong> especially essential fire prevention and fire protection rules, including<br />
the rules applying to welding, cutting, brazing, soldering, or the use <strong>of</strong> an),<br />
type <strong>of</strong> open-flame equipment in or on company property. -~’ "<br />
More specific duties and responsibilities <strong>of</strong> .the Plant Protection Fire Department.<br />
include fire fighting, training <strong>of</strong> members <strong>of</strong> J the Fire Brigade, the Auxiliary Defens~<br />
Corps, and the .Guard Force in the handling <strong>of</strong> fire fighting equipment and in pursuing<br />
proper fir~ fighting procedlures; inspection and maintenance <strong>of</strong> all porta~ble~nd built-in<br />
fire protection equipment, including the fire and crash trucks; fire prevention inspections<br />
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NEW EI~GL~ND ASSOCIATION OF I~IRE CHIEFS<br />
THE MORLEY COMPANY<br />
PORTSMOUTH NEW HAMPSHIRE<br />
NEW HAMPSHIRE PROVISION CO.<br />
"There is No Substitute for Quality"<br />
Ready to Eat Meats .<br />
698 ISLINGTON STREET PORTSMOUTH, N. H.<br />
Telephone Portsmouth 193<br />
FRANCIS HARTLEY, JR., Pres. FRANK HARTLEY, Treas<br />
FRANK HARTLEY l SONS-<br />
Manufacturing Chemists<br />
Dyes and Chemicals<br />
Office C- WorksmPORTSMOUTH, N.H. Telephone Portsmoufh 3245<br />
10|0 CARTER STREET, CHATTANOOGA, TENN. Tel. 7-1647<br />
Boston Telephone Liberty 2-5892’5893<br />
Continental Shoe Corporation<br />
Division <strong>of</strong> the Consolidated Nationa~ Shoe orporatlon<br />
Manufacturers <strong>of</strong> Goodyear ;Felt Sports and Arch Types<br />
PORTSMOUTH NEW HAMPSHIRE<br />
Telephone Portsmouth 62 and 560<br />
GEORGE B. FRENCH COMPANY<br />
37-41 MARKET STREET, PORTSMOUTH, N. H.<br />
Telephone 202 and 203<br />
WINEBAUM’S NEWS AGENCY<br />
HARRY WINEBAUM, Prop.<br />
7~ C6NGRESS STREET PORTSMOUTH, N. H.<br />
=’~,: :" ". Telephone 88
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
for fire hazards, inspection and supervision <strong>of</strong> welding and cutting and other special<br />
l~azard operations, etc.<br />
Although all the duties and responsibilities o.f Plant Protection Fire Departmeri~ ~<br />
personnel are too numerous to fully cover at this time, we.hope it may be <strong>of</strong> interest t?_<br />
give an account <strong>of</strong> their control <strong>of</strong> welding, cutting, and other open flame operations.<br />
This is o.ne <strong>of</strong> their most important and engrossing duties and responsibilities, a’g-a ~ -minimum<br />
<strong>of</strong> 18,000 open flame operations are conducted annually in this plant.<br />
The term "open flame operations" applies to the use <strong>of</strong> portable welding, cutting;<br />
brazing, and soldering equipment, gas furnaces and torches, tar kettles, or any other<br />
types <strong>of</strong> open flame producing equipment, in other than locatie.ns where production<br />
processes require their permanent use~ and which have been made safe for these operations.<br />
The use <strong>of</strong> portable open flame equipment in any plant can create potentially<br />
serious fire andi safety hazards. For these reasons, the use <strong>of</strong> any type <strong>of</strong> open flame<br />
equipment is not permitted in e.r on the property <strong>of</strong> United Aircraft Corporation<br />
plants, except in locations where production processes require their permanent use,.<br />
without authorization by the Plant Protection Fire Department. A. permit must be<br />
obtained for each p~rticular job from the Plant Pr.0.tection Fire Department Headquarters.<br />
Such work is not permitted in any area where the fire service system for<br />
hose lines or for automatic sprinklers is out <strong>of</strong> service.<br />
Contractors, or plant employees, must obtain permits signed by the Fire Department<br />
<strong>of</strong>ficer-in-charge or his assistant, before engaging in. work <strong>of</strong> this nature. Advance<br />
notice must be given when any work is contemplated at night or on a Sunday<br />
or holiday, to insure the presence <strong>of</strong> Fire Deparement personnel as required: The~<br />
nature c,f the work and the location must be described to assist the Fire Departmdnt’s<br />
inspection.<br />
Work permit forms are available ~t the Fire Department Headquarters in each<br />
plant. When issued, the original copy is given to the person who is to per_form the<br />
work andi the duplicate copy is retained in Fire Headquarters. The workmen performing<br />
the job for which a permit has been issued must have the permit available forinspection.<br />
After work is completed cn any job, tlae original <strong>of</strong> the permit bearing ~he<br />
notation that the work has been completed, must be returned for file to Fire Depa)tment<br />
Headquarters.<br />
Permits are valid only for the date issued. Any work requiring more time to,,com- "<br />
plete will require a new permit from Fire Headquarters for each subse_quent day; i.e.,<br />
duration permits will not be issued.<br />
When a permit is requested, the Fire Department shall inspect the propcsed operation<br />
and work area to determine possible fire hazards. Where conditions are unfavorable,<br />
measures must be taken to safeguard property before authorizing the work despite any<br />
work slow-down. When in doubt, Fire Headquarters personnel shall notify the Fire<br />
Department <strong>of</strong>ficer-in-charge.<br />
Adequate precauticns must be taken and protection equipment made available<br />
before any work with open-flame producing equipment will be permitted. At least<br />
one fireman or other authorized person with proper fire extinguishing equipment, must ....<br />
be in a position, to see that no sparks or hc.t molten metal, lodge in floor cracks;~pass’:~’ ~<br />
through any openings in floors, walls, or partitions, such as doors, windows, or pipe<br />
holes, or pass around asbestos curtains, sheet metal curtains, or cther non-combustible<br />
guards protecting combustible materials. Such watch supervision shall be maintained<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
LAMIES TAVERN<br />
Fine Old <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> Cooking at Its Best<br />
HAMPTON CENTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE<br />
Air Conditioned - Tel. Hampton 616<br />
RALPH Ho SMITH CORPORATION<br />
1150 UNION AVE.<br />
Tel. 1800<br />
LAKEPORT, N. H.<br />
PORTSMOUTH TRUST COMPANY<br />
SAVINGS BANK<br />
PORTSMOUTH NEW HAMPSHIRE<br />
Member <strong>of</strong> Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation<br />
Th~ Boulia-Gorrell LumBer Co.<br />
Manu]acturers o] Doors~ Vc~indows~ Special Mill lVork<br />
176 FAIR ST. LACONIA, N. H.<br />
Telephone 827 :,,<br />
CUSHMAN & SON<br />
General Contractors<br />
.<br />
,. BRATTLEBORO, VT.<br />
THE ROCKDALE COMPANY, INC.<br />
TURNERS FALLS MASS.<br />
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NE,W ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
at the scene <strong>of</strong> the operation for at least one-half hour after work has beencompleted<br />
to make certain stray sparks have not started smoldering fires. Before the watch is<br />
withdrawn, careful inspection must be made o~ adjoining areas, including, when warranted,<br />
the ro<strong>of</strong> above and floors below. Every watcher must be alert, use care, and<br />
exercise good judgment.<br />
No work with open-flame equipment shall be done in areas containing .flammable<br />
liquids, gases,-or dust; on or near any dust, or flammable vapor removing equipment<br />
which may contain combustible residue and deposits; or on containers which may have<br />
held flammable liquids or combustible materials, unless no safer alternativeis possible,<br />
and unless all fire and explosion prevention and protection requirements are effected<br />
before and during the job to insure against any possibility <strong>of</strong> an explosion Or serious<br />
fire.<br />
Before starting work with open-flame producing equipment, any combustible<br />
material must be movedi to at least thirty-five (3~) feet from the work area. If this<br />
cannot be done, measures must be adopted to protect the exposed area against sparks<br />
or hot molten metal by using asbestos or sheet metal curtains or guards. Processes<br />
exposing cc.mbustible materials must .be shut-down. Every care should be exercised in<br />
removing dust deposits or other materials which may be exposed to sparks or hot molten<br />
metal. Whenever possible this type <strong>of</strong> work should be done in a safe outside location.<br />
In many it.stances it will be more feasible to remcve the equipment to be worked on<br />
to an outside location than to attempt to protect it within the confines <strong>of</strong> the plant.<br />
All welding, cutting, brazing, andi soldering equipment, gas furnaces and torches,<br />
tar kettles, lead and sulphur pots, etc., must be safely arranged in accordance with<br />
National Fire ’Codes and maintained in good conditicn at all times.<br />
The foregoing requirements are included in oui: Plant Protection Fire Department<br />
rules on this subject.<br />
The Fire Brigade is also organized along the lines <strong>of</strong> the fire department, with<br />
fire brigade <strong>of</strong>ficers in command <strong>of</strong> each company. It is d!ivided into separate companies,<br />
and organized according to buildings in this plant to cover all shifts. In addition to<br />
these companies, there are two "general companies." One <strong>of</strong> these is composed <strong>of</strong><br />
maintenance men who respond to all fire alarms, rega~rdless <strong>of</strong> location. ,The other<br />
company comprises the fire and crash truck details.<br />
The duties and responsibilities <strong>of</strong> the Fire Brigade include attending <strong>of</strong> regular<br />
monthly fire training drills, and responding with their fire protection equipment to<br />
all fire and crash alarms. When the fire alarm sounds, Fire Brigade personnel are<br />
generally the first to arrive at the fire. The ranking Brigade man present is in charge<br />
until the arrival <strong>of</strong> the first member <strong>of</strong> the Plant Protection Fire Department, wldo is<br />
in command until the respc.nsibility is taken over by the Officer-in-Charge <strong>of</strong> the Plant<br />
Protection Fire Department.<br />
Fire Brigade personnel respond only to fires within the buildirrgs for which their<br />
own company is responsible. There are sufficient men assigfi~d to wheeled fire extinguishers<br />
and! hand drawn fire equipment trucks to transport and operate this equipment<br />
at the fire, and also use 11~ ’’ and 21~ ’’ ho~e lines whenever required at the fire.<br />
The size <strong>of</strong> the plant and the_ nature, severity, and extent <strong>of</strong> its potential fire<br />
hazards have a direct bearing cn the number <strong>of</strong> fire .brigade companies required. In<br />
our opinion an organization <strong>of</strong> at least two tire brigade companies should be established<br />
~n each shift in an industrial plant, to that thcre wi!l be sufficient personnel and fire<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
IAFOLLA CONSTRUCTION CO., INC.<br />
AND<br />
IAFOLLA CRUSHED STONE CO., INC.<br />
PEVERLY HILL ROAD PORTSMOUTH, N. H.<br />
TELEPHONE PORTSMOUTH 680<br />
ROCHESTER<br />
I NTERIOR DECORATI NG<br />
PORTSMOUTH<br />
ALLEN AND HALL~ INC.<br />
Manufacturers <strong>of</strong><br />
WOODEN SHOOKS AND BOXES<br />
ALLEN STREET, ROCHESTER, N. H.<br />
Telephone: Roch. 625<br />
COMPLIMENTS OF<br />
FOWNr:$ MFG. CO.<br />
SHOE CARTONS<br />
AND<br />
FOWNES LUMBER CO.<br />
NEW HAMPSHIRE<br />
MARGESON’S<br />
TELEPHONE 570<br />
NEW HAMPSHIRE<br />
BATCHELDER OIL CO., INC.<br />
Distributors oj<br />
Richfield Gas and Motor OilsmKerosene, Range and Fuel Oils<br />
White Mrs. Road_ NEWlNGTON, N. H.<br />
¯ -’Telephone Portsmouth 125<br />
PORTSMOUTH<br />
HOWARD JOHNSON SHOPPE<br />
AT NEw TRAFFIC CIRCLE<br />
112"<br />
NEW HAMPSHIRE
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
protection equipment to respOnd to at least a second alarm. The number <strong>of</strong> personnel<br />
required for each fire brigad~ company should be sufficient to transport the wheeled<br />
fire protection equipment assigned to it tO the fire, and use this equipment, including<br />
1~" hose lines from interior hose connections, and 2~" hose lines from yard and<br />
ro<strong>of</strong> hydrants on the fire.<br />
Each fire ,brigade company should be equipped with a sufficient number <strong>of</strong> wheeled<br />
fire extinguishers to be able to cope With any fire that could not be extinguished with<br />
hand fire extinguishers. In our opinion the wheeled fire extinguishers should includ~<br />
50 ob. or larger size carbon-dioxide extinguishers, 150 lb. dry chemical extinguishers,<br />
and 40 gal. foam extinguishers. In addition to the wheeled fire extinguishers, the ~re<br />
brigade should also respond to all fires with at least one hand drawn fire equipment<br />
truck, which should include basic equipment, such as firemen’s rubber coats andt boots,<br />
helmets, I~"CRL hose, combination water fog and solid stream nozzles, double male<br />
and female hose couplings, hose jacket, CO = , dry chemical, and pressurized carbontetrachloride<br />
extinguishers, self contained breathing apparatus, salvage tarpaulins, fire<br />
blankets, electric switch puller, sprinkler shut-<strong>of</strong>f tongs, bolt cutters, first aid kit, and<br />
other necessary equipment.<br />
Our fire brigade training procedures are as follows:<br />
In order to have uniform and specific procedures fo.r training the fire brigade in<br />
all divisions <strong>of</strong> the United Aircraft ’Corporation, a comprehensive training program <strong>of</strong><br />
instructions and drill schedules was prepared. The N. F. P. A. Industrial Fire Brigade<br />
Training Manual is used as the reference guide for many <strong>of</strong> these drills, and in our<br />
opinion it is an excellent source <strong>of</strong> information on this subject.<br />
All fire brigade training drills are arranged andl supervised by the paid Plant Protection<br />
Fire Department, who as previously mentioned are responsible for organizing,<br />
training, and supervising the fire brigade.<br />
The fire brigade personnel are summoned to all training drills by the plant fire<br />
alarm system. A fire alarm box is operated in a different location and at a different<br />
time for each drill. The fire brigade does not know in advance whether they are<br />
responding to a fire or a fire drill, in fact, only a few key personnel in management<br />
receive advance notification <strong>of</strong> the fire alarm box num.ber and the time it is to be transmitted<br />
for a fire drill.<br />
Four fire drills are conducted each month for the fire brigade on each shift. Two<br />
<strong>of</strong> these drills are one hour drills, conducted the first and third week <strong>of</strong> the month, and<br />
two are ten minute drills, conducted the second and fourth week <strong>of</strong> the month.<br />
The one hour fire drills provide the time required for training the fire brigade<br />
in the proper use <strong>of</strong> all inside portable, and exterior ro<strong>of</strong> and yard fire protection<br />
equipment, on practice or demonstration fires <strong>of</strong> various kinds, and for lectures, moving<br />
pictures, and instructions on fire prevention and fire protection requirements, the<br />
chemistry or nature <strong>of</strong> fire, etc.<br />
The ten minute drills are <strong>of</strong> value in familiarizing the fire brigade with the location<br />
<strong>of</strong> all fire alarm boxes andl the most direct route to reach each fire alarm box in the<br />
shortest possible time.<br />
A rcll call <strong>of</strong> fire brigade personnel, the time period that it has taken for each<br />
company to respond with their equipment to the fire drill£ a check <strong>of</strong> their equipment<br />
rand the drill number that was conducted, are recorded for each drill. .. ,_~<br />
In our opinion one <strong>of</strong> the most important .benefits <strong>of</strong> industrial fire protection<br />
training-is that it helps fire brigade personnel to regard fire with respect instead <strong>of</strong><br />
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SOMERSWORTH<br />
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
BADGER-RAND COMPANY<br />
PAUL C. BADGER, Man~er<br />
¯<br />
General Contractors<br />
PORTSMOUTH, NEW’ HAMPSHIRE<br />
Telephone 1403<br />
WEISS-LAWRENCE~ Inc.<br />
ALLIED NEW HAMPSHIRE<br />
GAS COMPANY<br />
PORTSMOUTH, N. H.<br />
ROCHESTER AND EXETER<br />
Ro M. EDGERLY & SON<br />
Funeral Directors<br />
N EW HAM PSH I RE<br />
86-88 SOUTH MAIN STREET ROCHESTER, N. H.<br />
Compliments oj<br />
,Damptort ~a~t) (Ea~in~<br />
HAMPTC~N BEACH NEW HAMPSHIRE<br />
HAMPTON<br />
HOWE MOTOR SALES<br />
Kalser-Frazer - Sales and Service<br />
International Truck.~ - Sales and Service<br />
American AMOCO Gas<br />
NEW HAMPSHIRE<br />
AAA Service Tel. 2215<br />
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fear, and enables them to fight fire with confidence in themselves and; their equipment.<br />
Our qualifications for appointments <strong>of</strong> employees in the fire brigade require that<br />
they must obtain written, permission from their supervisor. Their work assignments<br />
must not prevent them from immediately responding to fires and fire training drills.<br />
They must pass and continue to meet the physical requirements c.f our medical<br />
partment in order to be retained in the fire brigade.<br />
As soon as an employee is made a member <strong>of</strong> the fire brigade, he is issued a tire<br />
brigade badge, and a copy <strong>of</strong> the Fire Brigade Mandril and Fire Alarm System booklet<br />
for this plant.<br />
This booklet covers the fire alarm box numbers and locations, a map <strong>of</strong> the plant,<br />
fire brigade cc.mpany assignments for first and second alarms, schedule for additional<br />
alarms, special assignments, calling the municipal fire department, and general rules<br />
at an alarm <strong>of</strong> fire.<br />
Although we know that the company sponsored annual fire brigade outing is<br />
greatly appreciated and enjoyed by all members <strong>of</strong> the fire brigade, we also know that<br />
the greatest interest in being a member <strong>of</strong> the fire brigad’e is based on the satisfaction <strong>of</strong><br />
having the opportunity <strong>of</strong> protecting .c.ur plants against fire, thereby safeguarding the<br />
lives <strong>of</strong> fellow employees, their jobs, and company property.<br />
We are extremely proud <strong>of</strong> the fine spirit displayed by our fire brigade personnel<br />
in their prompt response to al! fire alarms, and their excellent cooperaticn with the<br />
plant protection fire department at fires, and fire training drills.<br />
The plant fire alarm s)stem can be termed the nerve center <strong>of</strong> fire protection for<br />
any industrial plant. The provisions <strong>of</strong> an approved positive non-interfering type ot:<br />
fire alarm system is an essential requirement for an industrial fire prc.tection organization.<br />
The fire alarm system should have a sufficient number <strong>of</strong> tire alarm boxes to<br />
adequately cover all portions <strong>of</strong> the plant; andl a sufficient number ,<strong>of</strong>, alarm gongs, air<br />
whistles, or electric code air horns to make the fire alarm box number transmitted,<br />
audible throughout all portions <strong>of</strong> the plant. The fire alarm system in this plant has<br />
as many fire alarm boxes as are provided in a small city.<br />
In ~plants not equipped with a private fire alarm system it is possible to substitute a<br />
telephbne fire ~larm .system, which although not as efficient and reliable, would make<br />
~t still possible for the fire department and fire brigade to respond to the location in<br />
the plant that the alarm was transmitted. Special fire phones used for no other purpose<br />
are used for this type <strong>of</strong> fire alarm system. Each tire phone has the code number <strong>of</strong><br />
the plant section, area, or d~partment in which it is located, and a sufficient number <strong>of</strong><br />
fire phones are installed to cover all portions <strong>of</strong> the plant. The plant switchboard<br />
operator upon receiving the code ’ number <strong>of</strong> the fire phone operated, manually transmits<br />
this code num.ber throughout the plant by means <strong>of</strong> alarm gongs, air whistles, or<br />
hor.ns <strong>of</strong> adequate audibility. During World War II this type <strong>of</strong> fire alarm system was<br />
used in two <strong>of</strong> our smaller satellite plants.<br />
All portions <strong>of</strong> an. industrial plant should .be equipped with an adequate supply<br />
<strong>of</strong> approved type fire extinguishers. These extinguishers should be installed wth regard<br />
to the kind~ <strong>of</strong> occupancy and type <strong>of</strong> fire hazards existing at their location. Manufac,<br />
turing areas subject to both class "A" and "B" fires, and mainly the latter in this plant,<br />
are protected by 2~ and 40 gal. foam .extinguishers. Special hazard areas involving<br />
class "B" and "C" fires are protected by 1~ lb, .and ~0 lb. carbon-dioxide, 30 lb. and<br />
1~0 lb. dry chemical, and 1 quart and 1 gal. carbo.’n-tetrachloride extinguishers. Office.<br />
areas subject to class "A" fires are protected by 2~ gal. water type fire extinguishers.<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
Grange Mutual Fir~ Insurance Co.<br />
ROCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE<br />
Compliments oJ<br />
DIX HEEL COMPANY<br />
CELLULOID and Fancy IVood Heels<br />
EAST ROCHESTER NEW HAMPSHIRE<br />
Telephone Rochester 669<br />
ROCHESTER<br />
WM. H. CHAMPLIN<br />
NEW HAMPSHIRE<br />
PALMERPLUMBING SUPPLY COMPANY<br />
1Vholesale Exclusively<br />
98-100 SOUTH MAIN STREET<br />
Water Street<br />
Keene, N. H.<br />
Complime.ts 4<br />
Plumbing, Heating and Mill Supplies<br />
ROCHESTER, N. H.<br />
:30-:32 Union Avenue<br />
Laconia, N. H.<br />
BECKWITH MFG. COMPANY. ,<br />
DOVER NEW. HAMPSHIRE<br />
ROBBINS AUTO SUPPLY COMPANY<br />
110-116 WASHINGTON STREET<br />
DOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
Special hazard areas involving magnesium fires are protected’ by powdered asbestos<br />
in drums at all machines.<br />
As fires in magnesium in any form are very difficult, and in many instances impossible<br />
to extinguish, special precautions must be taken in its processing and storage.<br />
We hope that a brief acco.unt <strong>of</strong> the methods which have ,been developed and successfully<br />
used for many years in this plant to prevent and control magnesium fires will<br />
be <strong>of</strong> , interest .....<br />
The main precaution is to keep the amount <strong>of</strong> magnesium chips on and around<br />
the machines at a minimum. This is accomplished by frequent sweeping and shoveling<br />
<strong>of</strong> chips into metal drums provided for this purpose at all machines. These drums are<br />
provided with metal covers, and are labeled, "For Magnesium Only." 8mall electric<br />
trucks make frequent trips daily to collect the chips and remove them from the manufacturing<br />
areas. The drums <strong>of</strong> chips are temporarily l~ept in an isolated inco.mbusti.ble<br />
automatic sprinklered area, or in the yard, until trucked away from the plant. Other<br />
precautionary measures include .keeping the storage <strong>of</strong> magnesium castings in piles <strong>of</strong><br />
moderate size in non-combustible automatic sprinklered areas; reducing friction in machine<br />
operations to a minimum by maintaining very sharp toolg, ground so that there<br />
will be sufficient clearance to prevent rubbing on the sides and bottom <strong>of</strong> the tool, and<br />
taking as moderately heavy cuts as consistent with good workmanship; restricting<br />
coolants to high flash pcint neutral mineral oils; provision <strong>of</strong> metal guards on machines<br />
to confine flying chips; use <strong>of</strong> properly installed approved type water wash dust collecting<br />
systems, for the removal and collection <strong>of</strong> magnesium dust created by sanding,<br />
grinding, burring, or other similar machine operations, and restricting smoking-at these<br />
machines.<br />
Of special interest is the technique used in this plant to promptly control magnesium<br />
machining fires by the application <strong>of</strong> varying amour.ts <strong>of</strong> dry powd~ered asbestos<br />
directly on the burning magnesium.<br />
An adequate supply <strong>of</strong> powdered asbestos in 55 gal. size ccvered metal drums<br />
secured on three wheeled dollies is provided near all magnesium processing machines,<br />
within easy reach <strong>of</strong> each machine operator. Each <strong>of</strong> these drums <strong>of</strong> asbestos contains<br />
at least two small metal bread pa1:s for dispensing the asbestos on the magnesium fire.<br />
8hovels are also used to dispense asbestos at some magnesium fires.<br />
If a fire starts on or at any machine, operators <strong>of</strong> machines in its vicinity also shut-<br />
&)wn their machines, and close-in upon the magnesium fire with their drums <strong>of</strong> asbestos<br />
to assist in its control. The operators carefully cover the burning magnesium with<br />
powdered asbestos from the small metal bread pans or shovels until it is sufficiently<br />
blanketed and controlled to be safely removed from the plant. This is accomplished by<br />
shoveling the asbestos controlled .burning mixture into empty metal drums. The bottom<br />
<strong>of</strong> each drum is first protected by a heavy application <strong>of</strong> asbestcs, and more asbestos<br />
is applied into each drum as it is filled to keep down the burning.<br />
Care is taken to have the application <strong>of</strong> powd,ered asbestos sufficient to retard<br />
the combustion 6f the burning magnesium and yet permit the gases to vent and ,burn.<br />
Asbestos gloves and a special slatted key lever are used to manipulate the hot<br />
drums onto hand pulled metal skids or small trucks, which immediately remove them<br />
from inside the plant to a safe exterior location in the yard, where they remain until<br />
their contents have been consumed by fire.<br />
Magnesium machining operations produce chips and fires which are readily ignited,<br />
and if accumulations are involved, a fire will be progressive, unless prompt con-<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
Joseph L. Clough Insurance Agency and<br />
The Mabel A. Thompson Insurance Ascy.<br />
~To Be Sure ~ Insure,"<br />
Insurance <strong>of</strong> All Kinds<br />
MABEL T. COOPER, CLIFTON F. SHAW, Agents<br />
142 MAIN ST. Tel: 1300 - 714 NASHUA, N. H.<br />
Best Wishes from ..<br />
Charles A. Hoitt Furniture Co.<br />
672 MAPLE STREET<br />
No KAMINSKE ¢O.<br />
NASHUA, NEW HAMPSHIRE<br />
MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE<br />
Hitchiner Manufacturin9 Co., Inc.<br />
Precision Investment Castings<br />
MILFORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE<br />
Telephone 635<br />
The Maine Manufacturin9 Company<br />
ESTABLISHED 1874<br />
Manufacturers o~ tVhite Mountain<br />
Refrigerators -- Metal Utility - Wall - Base - Wardrobe Cabinets<br />
, NASHUA, NEW HAMPSHIRE, U. S. A.<br />
DOEHLA GREETING C;ARDS<br />
I NCORPORATED<br />
Creators o~ Finearts Greeting Cards<br />
NASHUA, NEW HAMPSHIRE
NE,W ENGLAND AS, SOCIATI, ON OF FIRE CHIEFS-<br />
trol is undertaken by the use <strong>of</strong> asbestos or other suitable inert powder, manually<br />
applied. In this way the fire .can be localized and controlled to the extent that the<br />
magnesium which is not as yet involved by fire can be separated from the burning<br />
magnesium, which is removed from the plant as pre.vic.usly described.<br />
All personnel are instructed not to use chemical extinguishers <strong>of</strong> any type, including<br />
carbon-dioxide, and hose streams on any fire in wJdich magnesium is involve&<br />
Water greatly accelerates a magnesium fire ,because it is broken down into oxygen<br />
which supports combustion, and hydrcgen which itself burns freely. Water is therefore<br />
useful or.ly in extinguishing fires in ordinary combustible materials in the vicinity <strong>of</strong><br />
magnesium, and in preventing the ignition <strong>of</strong> unburned magnesium exposed to fire<br />
heat, if used in finely divided form as from fog nozzles, fog applicators, or automatic<br />
sprinklers, and never in solid streams.<br />
In addition to an adequate installation <strong>of</strong> fire extinguishers in this plant, other<br />
interior fire protection equipment includes the installation <strong>of</strong> 1~" hose stations strategically<br />
located throughout the plant, each equipped with a minimum <strong>of</strong> 400’ <strong>of</strong>~<br />
ll~"cotton rubber lined hose in specially constructed hose boxes, combination water<br />
fo.g and solid stream nozzles, liquid foam pick-up r.ozzles, five gallon cans <strong>of</strong> doublestrength<br />
foam, pinch bars, electric hand lights, .and fire blankets. Fire blankets in<br />
blanket ~boxes are also. located at all specially hazardous machines or operations. Self<br />
contained breathing apparatus are also provided at various locations.<br />
Practically all portions <strong>of</strong> the plant are prot, ected by automatic sprinkler systems,<br />
andl especially hazardous equipment, and rooms are protected by automatic and/or<br />
manually operated low or high pressure carbon-dioxide, and/or fine water spray extinguishing<br />
systems.<br />
’ Exterior fire protecticn includes the provision <strong>of</strong> an adequate number <strong>of</strong> yard<br />
hydrants and hose houses, including ro<strong>of</strong> hydrants and hose connections at strategic<br />
locations. Foam generators, liquid foam pick-up nozzles, and 30 lb. and 150 lb. dry<br />
Chemical extinguishers are provided! at hazardous yard locations. Large a:bc.ve ground<br />
fuel storage tanks are protected by a mechanical foam system.<br />
Last, but .<strong>of</strong> paramount importance particularly to exterior fire protection, are<br />
the following motorized fire and aircraft rescue and fire fighting apparatus.<br />
rI’he fire fighting apparatus cc.nsists <strong>of</strong> a 7~0 gat. pumper, equipped with a 250<br />
gal. booster tank, 200’ <strong>of</strong> booster hose on a reel and 200’ <strong>of</strong> 11~ ’’ hose with combination<br />
water fog and solid stream nozzles, water fog applicators, and foam pick-up nozzlei,<br />
2- 100’ lengths c,f CO 2 hose on reels supplied by 4- 7~ lb. built-in CO ~ cylinders,<br />
1200’ <strong>of</strong> 2~" hose, hard and s<strong>of</strong>t suction hose; 1250 watt porta.bte light generator<br />
with 2- ~00 watt flood lights, 30’ extension ladder, 12’ ro<strong>of</strong> ladder, 2 self-contained<br />
breathing apparatus, 2,30 lB. dry chemical, 2-15 lb. CO ~, and 2 goda-acid extin~<br />
guishers, helmets with plexi-glass safti-shields, rubber coats and boots, first aid kit,<br />
and other necessary fire truck accesscries. This fire truck is located in the fire station<br />
at Fire Headquarters, and is manr.ed at all times by Fire Department personnel.<br />
The Aircraft rescue and fire fighting apparatus is as follows:<br />
A specially ccnstructed: and equipped FogFOAM truck, and a 1000 gal. water<br />
t.ank "nurse" truck, are located in the fire station at Fire Headquarters. This locatior~<br />
~ advantageously situated for direct access to the airport as it is only. 1 ~00’ due west,<br />
6f the intersection <strong>of</strong> the diagc.nal runways. Both <strong>of</strong> these trucks are manned at all<br />
times by Fire Department operators, ar.d a crew <strong>of</strong> six members <strong>of</strong> the fire brigade<br />
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"Savin8 Cents--<br />
Makes Sense<br />
2% . Highest Interest Paid<br />
MONTPr::LIER NATIONAL BANK<br />
MemBer F.D.I.C.<br />
CHITTENDEN COUNTY TRUST CO.<br />
"The Good Will Bank"<br />
BURLINGTON - ALBURG - SWANTON<br />
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation<br />
HOWARD NATIONAL BANK<br />
AND TRUST CO.<br />
BURLINGTON, VERMONT<br />
Branches Winooski and Richmond<br />
Member Federal Depost Insurance Corp.<br />
120
NEW ENGLANI) ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
1828 1951<br />
Vermont Mutual Fire Insurance Co.<br />
114 STATE STREET TELEPHONE 124<br />
MONTPELIER, VERMONT<br />
CtlIEF ALFRED H. KOLTONSKI, Rutland; Vermont<br />
Board <strong>of</strong> Directors<br />
Green Mountain Mutual Fire Ins. Co.<br />
MONTPELIER, VERMONT<br />
Insures Against Loss<br />
Property Damage. Fire - Wind - Automobile Fire, TheJt, Collision<br />
!21
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF IeIRE CHIEIeS<br />
QUEEN CITY TRANSPORTS<br />
179 STI PAUL STREET BURLINGTON, VERMONT<br />
COMPLIMENTS OF<br />
CHAMPLAIN VALLEY FRUIT CO., INC.<br />
BURLINGTON, VT. RUTLAND, VT.<br />
THE 6~ODGETT SUPPLY CO., Inc.<br />
BURLINGTON, VT.<br />
MANUFACTURERS OF SUPERKRAFT MEMORIALS<br />
AND MAUSOLEUMS ’<br />
JOHNSON & GUSTAFSON<br />
Established 1908<br />
BARRE, VERMONT<br />
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crash detail is assigned to these trucks. Thes~ men reOpend-from their locations .,<strong>of</strong> work<br />
in the plant near Fire Headquarters at the sounding <strong>of</strong> the crash alarm siren.<br />
At the airport there are two small trucks e~peciallg~ equippedl fc.r aircraft rescue<br />
service, although one <strong>of</strong> these trucks being eqUipped ~ith 2-1~0 lb. dry chemical<br />
truck mount extinguishers, is also capable <strong>of</strong> performing effective fire fighting service.<br />
~One <strong>of</strong> these trucks is located at the experimental hangar, and the other at ’ the ~ service<br />
hangar. A crew <strong>of</strong> seven members <strong>of</strong> the fire brigade crash details, is assigned to each<br />
<strong>of</strong> the trucks, and consists <strong>of</strong> aircraft technicians frc.m these hangars. These men respond<br />
to the si.ren that is operated by the first one to receive the crash phone alarm from the<br />
control~t:o~,. Both <strong>of</strong> these trucks are equipped with 1~ lb: ’002, and i0 1,b. dry<br />
chemical extinguishers, Bunkin coats, helmets with ’plexi-glass safti-shields, boots, asbestos<br />
gl.oves, hand master lights, various forcible-entry tools; including specially<br />
equippedl tool belts, parachute harness knives, axes, bars, metal cutters, pliers, screw<br />
drivers, hydraulic jxck, sledge hammer, coils <strong>of</strong> rope, grappling hook with 30’ <strong>of</strong><br />
iSteel cable, shovels, fire blankets and first-aid kits.<br />
The FogFOAM truck consists <strong>of</strong> a Ford F-8, ten wheel chassis, equipped with<br />
full air ~brakes, and Baumis Truckstell, dual axle drive rear wheels with three range<br />
;transfer case. It carries.-a 1000 gal. water tank, a Chrysler engine driven Waterous<br />
’centrifugal pump, and a complete FogFOAM system, consisting c.f two manually<br />
operated combination turrets and nozzles, three ground sweep nozzles, two under truck<br />
nozzles, two hand line nozzles, a type "C" proportioner, andt a 110 gal. foam liquid<br />
~tank containing do.uble strength foam liquid. A manual selection <strong>of</strong> FogFOAM, solid<br />
foam, ~water-fog, or solid water stream discharge can be obtained from the turret and<br />
hand line nozzles, and FogFOAM or water-fog from the other nozzles.<br />
In operation the FogFOAM truck is’ fol.lcwed by’ the 1000 gal. water tank "nurse ~<br />
truck, which through its own pumping systeiri and h~se’"lines car~ supply this additional<br />
~rater to the FogFOAM truck, if required. With both trucks operating as a team,<br />
the 2,000 gals. <strong>of</strong> water available ° will permit the FogFOAM truck to utilize the reserve<br />
supply <strong>of</strong> foam liquid in its foam tank to produce approximately 16,000 gals. <strong>of</strong> foam<br />
for fire control and extinguishment.<br />
All fire X~id aircraft rescue and fire fighting apparatus, Guard cruisers, and the<br />
Medical Department ambulance are radio equipped, and respond to fire and crash alarms<br />
,or other emergencies in accordance with established procedures and radio instructions. .<br />
. Aircraft rescue and fire fightir~g standarc1: operating procedures have been<br />
~a.blished to ccordinate the duties, procedures, and training <strong>of</strong> plant protection, medical,.<br />
and airport personnel in this plant.<br />
ii Our procedures are generally in accord with N. F. P. A. standard operating procedures<br />
and o;her authoritative information on this subject.<br />
i In closing, we would like to mention that although our industrial fire prctection<br />
Organiza:ion has been establishes on what we consider to be basically essential fire<br />
)rotection requirements for this large industrial plant, we know that each industrial<br />
~ire protection 6)ganizatic.n has to be tailored to fit, and designed to meet the particular<br />
’~eeds and Conditions <strong>of</strong> each individual industrial plant.<br />
, No fire prevention and fire protection system can be successful unless a conscioushess<br />
<strong>of</strong> its importance is developed throughout the entire personnel <strong>of</strong> a plan.t~ from<br />
the executives to the workmen on the assembly line. This consciousness has been created<br />
in the United Aircraft .Corporation.’s plants, and is <strong>of</strong> inestimable value .~o our<br />
industrial fire protectic.n organization.<br />
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VERMONT STRUCTURAL STEEL CORP.<br />
Structural Steel and Ornamental Iron<br />
Fabricators and Engineers<br />
207 FLYNN AVENUE BURLINCTON, VERMONT<br />
Compliments <strong>of</strong><br />
SIMPSON’S<br />
"/ CHURCH STREET<br />
FUR STORE, Inc.<br />
BURLINGTON, VERMONT<br />
BURLINGTON DRUG CO.<br />
lVholesale Druggists<br />
125 COLLEGE STREET BURLINGTON, VERMONT<br />
MONTPELIER TAVERN<br />
COMFORTABLE RO,OMS<br />
DININC ROOM COFFEE SHOP<br />
MONTPELI ER VERMONT<br />
GOVE THE FLORIST<br />
~’Say it with Flowers ’~<br />
Flowers for All Occasions<br />
184 MAIN STREET BURLINGTON, VERMONT<br />
60 STATE STREET<br />
MISS MONTPELIER DINER<br />
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NEW ENGLAND XSSOCIATION OF I~IRE CHIEFS<br />
We wish~ to express our appreciation for the opportunity <strong>of</strong> participating in this<br />
conference, and if there are any questions, I shall be pleaged to attempt to answer them.<br />
PP,~Sm~.NT MOLLOY: Thank you Mr. Earsy. This closes the session for this morning.<br />
After dinner I plan to start it e.n time. We have a very interesting program so<br />
try to be here at the opening <strong>of</strong> this afternoon’s session. Remember this is the day <strong>of</strong><br />
the clambake. ¯<br />
(Wherea-i~on-the-Tuesday morning session adjourned at eleven-twenty-five.)<br />
Tuesday Afternoon Session<br />
June 23; 1953<br />
The first item on our program will-be .a co.ntinuation <strong>of</strong> the Panel program, left<br />
over from last year.<br />
The subject <strong>of</strong> this afterno6n’s program is: "Things You Ought to Know," and<br />
I am going to turn this meeting over, now, to the Moderato.r, Mr. Kenneth H. Erskine<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Liverpool & London & Globe’ Iiasur~nce Co., Ltd. Mr. Erskine!<br />
-,,<br />
MR. K~qN~.TN H. ERSKI:~F.: Mr. Chairman,’ Members and Friends <strong>of</strong> the <strong>New</strong><br />
<strong>England</strong>t <strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs. It is my very pleasant duty to brdn~ y.o.u the<br />
warmest greetings and the best good wishes for a su_ccessful Convention from the<br />
Bay State Club. You have signally honored us .by inviting us back to continue the<br />
discussion that evoked such spirited interest last year, and we hope, gave yc.u a somewhat<br />
better and: more sympathetic understanding <strong>of</strong> the fire insurance business and its<br />
many problems. ., ~ ~<br />
You will recall that I told you then that the Bay State Club is a sort <strong>of</strong> a trade<br />
organization, not unlike your own State <strong>Association</strong>s; that its membership ~is. drawn<br />
from those State and Special Agents <strong>of</strong> the stock fire insurance companies doing business<br />
in the eastern half <strong>of</strong> Massachusetts; that its purpose is to provide a medium for<br />
the interchange <strong>of</strong> ideas and free discussion <strong>of</strong> the many and diverse problems that<br />
constantly beset a rapidly expanding business, as well as to encourage high ethical<br />
standards <strong>of</strong> practice amongst its mem,bers, all <strong>of</strong> whom are keen competitors in a<br />
highly competitive business. I venture to say there are not many other businesses or<br />
even pr<strong>of</strong>essions where the competition is more severe, and none, to my knowledge,<br />
operating more harmoniously, or with a greater sense <strong>of</strong> public consciousness.<br />
The Bay State Club also serves as a medium through which we may approach<br />
other crganizations, such-as,yours, whose interests touch ours in one way or another,<br />
in an effort to gain some knowledge <strong>of</strong> their problems, while answering questions they<br />
might have <strong>of</strong> ours.<br />
In such-a spirit <strong>of</strong> mutual helpfulness; we meet frequently with the Insurance<br />
Commissioner and <strong>of</strong>ficials <strong>of</strong> the Insurance Department <strong>of</strong> the Commonwealth<br />
Massachusetts, with the Massachusetts <strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong> Insurance Agents, the Inde2<br />
pendent Ad~justers’ <strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong> Massachusetts, and <strong>of</strong>ficials <strong>of</strong> the General Adjustment<br />
Bureau, Inc., and perhaps our favorite group, at least to those <strong>of</strong> us who have<br />
had the pleasure <strong>of</strong> working closely with them, the Massachusetts Fire Chiefs Club.
NEW ENGLAND AS$OGIATION OF FII%E G’I-IIEF$<br />
JAMES T. BROWN, JR., Proprietor<br />
THE BARDWELL HOTEL<br />
¯ ’ ~" "RUTLAND’S FINEST"<br />
One Hundred Rooms - European Plan<br />
Air Conditioned Dining Room and Grill Room<br />
RUTLAND Phone Rutland 3350 VERMONT<br />
FAIRCHILD INDUSTRIES, ING.<br />
110 MAIN STREET BURLINGTON, VERMONT<br />
The Store <strong>of</strong> Youth<br />
~Vomen’s Ready.to-Wear Shop<br />
66 CHURCH STREET BURLINGTON, VERMONT<br />
¯<br />
BELLOWS FALLS<br />
FRANK W. WHITCOMB<br />
Bridge and Road Construction<br />
Rental Equipment ~ ....<br />
¯ Phone’ 120<br />
,:<br />
F. H. WIESSNER, INC.<br />
ManuJacturing Chemists<br />
VERMONT<br />
159 LAKESIDE AVENUE BURLINGTON, VT.<br />
VERMONT CONFECTIONERY CO.<br />
MANUFACTURERS OF<br />
Vermont Blue Ribbon<br />
100% Pure Maple Sugar<br />
65" 69 KING STREET BURLINGTON, VT.<br />
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NEW EN’GLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
~ I rather suspect it is because <strong>of</strong> our Icng and dose friendship with that gran~<br />
crowd that we were first invited to meet with this larger, but equally distinguished<br />
Chiefs <strong>Association</strong>.<br />
I might add that there are other organizations similar to ours, scattered throughout<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong>, all desirous <strong>of</strong> developing the same contacts and’. friendships. The}<br />
are the Western Massachusetts Field Club, the Pine Tree 8tare Field Club in Maine,<br />
~the Mountain Field Club in <strong>New</strong> Hampshire and Vermont, and the Rhode Island<br />
and .C~ianecticut Field Clubs in those two states.<br />
And now, just a wo.rd about this panel and its members who are here to continue<br />
~he discussion started a year ago on the subject, "Things you Ought to Know about the<br />
Fire Insurance Business." We feel that we erred,, then, by having each member <strong>of</strong><br />
the Panel speak, briefly, on some phase <strong>of</strong> the topic, so that there was ir.sui~icient time<br />
to answer all the questicns su.bmitted from the floor.<br />
Consequently, this year, we are limiting the preliminary remarks to the special<br />
messages from our two guest members, both <strong>of</strong> whomI shall introduce as I call upon<br />
them.<br />
Before introducing the other panel members, I should like to. take just a moment<br />
to have you me~t, again, Mr. ’Carl E. Hurst, former General Agent cf the Phoenix<br />
Insurance Compan.,y <strong>of</strong> Hartford, Connecticut, who was a member <strong>of</strong>i last year’s Panel,<br />
and who, although now retired, was still interested enough ~n you Chiefs to return<br />
this year in charge <strong>of</strong> the exhibit in the outer room. Mr. Hurst urges all <strong>of</strong> you to stop<br />
by there to see him and the exhibit. (Applause.)<br />
There is also, ~ Mr. Maurice C. Chase, 8tare Agent <strong>of</strong> the Farmers’ Insurance<br />
Company <strong>of</strong> Pa. who, in addition to providing transportation for Mrs. Curley, who<br />
must, unfortunately return to Bcston immediately, following this session, will pass<br />
among you with cards during the question period. (Applause.)<br />
’Of the two non-speaking, but still articulate members <strong>of</strong> the Panel, the first hardly<br />
need’s an introduction, although courtesy demands it. He is Mr. Harold M. Esterbrook,<br />
8tare Agent <strong>of</strong> the Aetna Insurance Company <strong>of</strong> Hartford, Ccnnecticut, your longtime<br />
friecd and staunch supporter, and responsible for arranging this program. Mr.<br />
Esterbrook! (Applause.)<br />
The other gentlemap, not. as well-known to you, perhaps, did such an outstanding<br />
job last year as our general prat boy, collecting questions from the floor and doing<br />
other odd jobs, we felt that he deserved a spot in the sun this year, Mr. Waiter T.<br />
Keany, Special Agent <strong>of</strong> the American Insurance Company <strong>of</strong> <strong>New</strong>ark, <strong>New</strong> Jersey.<br />
Mr. Keany! (Applause.)<br />
You will recall that when Mr. John I. Lusk, Supervisor <strong>of</strong> Public Service Occupations<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Department <strong>of</strong> Vocational Educaticn <strong>of</strong> the Massachusetts Department<br />
<strong>of</strong> Education, spoke to us last year, he recommended in highly flattering terms, Mrs.<br />
Ina M. Curley, the 8tare Supervisor <strong>of</strong> Safety Education in the Department <strong>of</strong> Safety<br />
Education. It was our good fortune to secure, through the auspiees <strong>of</strong> Mr. Lusk, Mrs.<br />
Curley as a ~member <strong>of</strong> this panel. 8he will not only tell you <strong>of</strong> the good work that<br />
but ho.w you may best proceed in interesting your respective Boards ~<strong>of</strong> Education inthis<br />
vital subject in your own communities. Mrs. Curley! (Applause.)<br />
MI~S. INn M. Cul
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE ,CHIEFS<br />
ESTABLISHED IN 1875<br />
REYNOLDS & SON<br />
INCORPORATED<br />
Equipment and Supplies ]or Quarries and Mines, Building and<br />
Road Contractors, Industrial Plants~ Public lVorks and Utilities<br />
BARRE Phone 334-335 VERMONT<br />
~ H. G. BENNETT COMPANY, Inc.<br />
Buick Sales and Service<br />
322 NORTH MAIN STREET BARRE, VERMONT<br />
Plant No. 2, Swanton, Vermont Main Plant, Montpelier, Vermont<br />
E. W. BAILEY & COMPANY<br />
Grain . Feed . Flour<br />
MONTPELI ER VERMONT<br />
SEARS ROEBUCK CO.<br />
Shop and Save<br />
..<br />
BURLINGTON, VERMONT<br />
Champlain Paper Box Corporation<br />
"/5 MAPLE ST.<br />
Phone 4-4315<br />
BURLINGTON, VT.<br />
Telephone 5-8587<br />
LEO A. CAVANAUGH, INC..<br />
Chrysler and Plymouth Sales and Service<br />
557, SECOND STREET MANCHESTER, N. H.<br />
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NI~W ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
About seventeen years ago, I joined the State Department <strong>of</strong> Education, leaving<br />
the position <strong>of</strong> principal <strong>of</strong> a junior high school. Because I had done no public speaking<br />
at that time, I went cver to Harvard and took a few courses in public speaking,<br />
she has done in introducing fire prevention education into the schools <strong>of</strong> 19Iassachusetts,<br />
and one <strong>of</strong> the things that we were taught first, was to get your audience in a friendly<br />
frame <strong>of</strong> mind by telling-one or two stories to them. ~<br />
Well, safety education:; doesn’t lend itself to very funny stories, but I do know<br />
that I heard a gag at a commercial safety meeting, and this was it. They took a poll <strong>of</strong><br />
the number <strong>of</strong> television sets in .-the saloons <strong>of</strong> a certain town..’They went about and<br />
looked them over and counted them, and when they got the grand total, it was staggering!<br />
(Laughter.) It takes a moment, doesn’t it?<br />
Now, I fancy that you gentlemen all drove up here to this meeting, and I also<br />
found in one <strong>of</strong> our magazines this little anecdote or stow and I am .interested in fire<br />
prevention. If you must "Sing While You Drive," at forty-fiVe miles per hour, sing<br />
"Highways are Happy Ways." Then, at fifty-five miles per hour, sing, "I’m but a<br />
Stranger Here, Heaven is my Home." At sixty-five miles, sing, "Nearer My God to<br />
Thee." At seventy-five miles, sing, "When. the Roll is Called up Yonder, Fll Be<br />
There." At eighty-five miles, sing, "Lord, I’m Coming Home." Try to remember that,<br />
when you are on your way home.<br />
I am primarily a schcol teacher and ~in educator, and what I have to say may not<br />
be exactly pertinent to your business, but I have tried to bring out in what I have to<br />
say, what we are doing in the public schools <strong>of</strong> the Commonwealth.<br />
Evidence that man has failed to adjust satisfactorily to his changing environment<br />
is made patent by the appalling number <strong>of</strong> fatal and serious accidents caused by carelessness<br />
and ignorance in the use <strong>of</strong> new inventions and disccveries.<br />
The widespread and general use <strong>of</strong> electricity, today, is responsible for many accidental<br />
deaths and. d,e-structive fires.. In a large city, a dressmaker hastily closed her<br />
shop at night, leaving an electric iron plugged in. In the morning, a large part <strong>of</strong> the<br />
business section was in ruins, with millions <strong>of</strong> dollars’ worth <strong>of</strong> property lost.<br />
One in. ten fires <strong>of</strong> known causes is <strong>of</strong> electrical origin. Faulty wiring and faulty<br />
apparatus are the causes <strong>of</strong> by far the greatest number <strong>of</strong> these fires. Too many individuals<br />
still believe that a blown fuse may .be successfully replaced by a penny, used<br />
as a makeshift.<br />
Too many housewives still run electric cords under rugs, where they are subjected<br />
to constant wear, or these same women are indifferent to worn insulation on lamp or<br />
other cords.<br />
The use cf gasolir.e and its derivatives for cleansing purposes has proved, a very<br />
expensive proposition for many women. One woman filled her washing machine in<br />
the .basement with gasoline to cleanse blankets. A spark caused an explosion that killed<br />
the woman and her helper, and wrecked the house.<br />
The widespread use <strong>of</strong> friction matches and tobacco has caused nearly 30 per cent<br />
<strong>of</strong> all fires from !lrtown causes, over a ten-year period. An article entitled: "Nitwits<br />
smoke in bed," cites many instances Of fatal accidents and serious fires caused~ by this<br />
careless habit.<br />
=One, ironically enough, concerned "George Andre, a pr<strong>of</strong>essiona! fire-eater in<br />
vaudeville, who was burned to death in bed when the cigarette he was smoking ignited<br />
the bedclothes."<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
Compliments <strong>of</strong><br />
CITIES SERVICE OIL COMPANY<br />
660 BEAC:O.N STREET<br />
BOSTON, MASSAI~HUSETTS<br />
EASTERN GAS AND FUEL ASSOCIATES<br />
250 STUART STREET<br />
BOSTrON 16, MASS.<br />
Subsidiaries: Boston Consolidated Gas Co. - Old Colony Gas Co. - The Connecticut<br />
Coke Co. - <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> Coke Co. - Philadelphia Coke Co. - <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> Coal<br />
~ Coke Co. - Castner, Curran ~ Bullitt Inc. - Mystic Iron VVarks - Boston Tow<br />
Boat Co. Divisions: Operating Div - Everett Coke Plant and Blast Furnace ~<br />
General Div. - Coal Div. Connecticut Coke Sales Div. -- Mystic Steamship Div. ~<br />
General Department Stores.<br />
YORK HEAT<br />
THE GREAT IVHITE LINE<br />
Distributed by YORK-SHIPLEY, INC.<br />
839 BEAC:ON ST. BOSTON, MASS.<br />
Oil Heat Institute <strong>of</strong> <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong><br />
~Member~<br />
Oil Heat Institute o~ America<br />
839 BEACON STREET KEnmore 6-9766 ¯<br />
130<br />
BOSTON, MASS.
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
OUR COMPLIMENTS<br />
M.A. AMMINO CONSTRUCTION CO.<br />
PROVIDENCE<br />
728 VALLEY STREET<br />
RHODE ISLAND<br />
OFFICERS GROUP: 1. to r., seated, Chief Graham, Bristol, Conn.; Chief Molloy,<br />
Nashua, N. H.; Chief Fortier, Manville, R. I.; Chief Keefe, Bellows Falls, Vt.; Ex-Chief<br />
John W. O~nearn, Watertown, Mass. Standing, 1. to r., Chief Koltonski, Rutland, Vt.;<br />
Chief Dagon, East Hartford, Ct.; Roi B. Woolley, <strong>New</strong> York, Technical Consultant;<br />
Chief A. J. Cote, Woonsocket, R. I.; Chief Wm. J. Dooling, Hood Rubber Co., Watertown,<br />
Mass.; Chief Thomas H. Slaman, Wellesley, Mass.; Rev. John P. Fitzsimmons,<br />
Belmont, Mass.; Chief Oliver T. Sanborn, Portland, Maine; Chief Clarence H. Green,<br />
Concord, N. H.<br />
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NEW ENGLAND POWER COMPANY<br />
PART OF NEW ENGLAND SYSTEM<br />
WNAC<br />
50,000 WATTS~<br />
680 On Your Dial<br />
AND<br />
~fAN KEE NETWORK<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
Another "Three women and a baby burned to death, and a man was killed in a<br />
leap from the fourth-floor window, when the fire swept through a rodming house.<br />
The blaze originated, when a roomer fell asleep while smoking in bed. Aroused by the<br />
heat, he dashed into the hall and left his door open, giving the flames, air and full<br />
, possession <strong>of</strong> the building."<br />
After giving more instances <strong>of</strong> fatalities caused by smoking in bed, the article<br />
closes with:<br />
"And, if that isn’t enough, the sights the firemen see day.after.day would convince<br />
anybody that <strong>of</strong> all the nitwits on earth--and under the earth---the ones who really<br />
take first prize are those who smoke in bed!"<br />
In the wintertime, particularly, newspapers carry daffy reports <strong>of</strong> fires caused~ by<br />
overheated or exploding space heaters. The sad part <strong>of</strong> the stories is the number <strong>of</strong><br />
small children who lose their lives in such fires.<br />
Some <strong>of</strong> the human interest stories might well be told to paren.ts, in order -that<br />
they may see the dangers which their children face, and that children themselves, <strong>of</strong><br />
school age and above, may learn how they can protect themselves in case <strong>of</strong> fire. These<br />
older children have, in many cases, demonstrated by acts <strong>of</strong> real heroism their resourcefulness,<br />
initiative and clear thinking in times <strong>of</strong> crisis.<br />
We have reason, to believe that the ed,ucation and training received in our schools<br />
have been-<strong>of</strong> inestimable value in the saving <strong>of</strong> human lives. Because safety education<br />
to us in school work means the training <strong>of</strong> children to avoid accidents to themselves<br />
and prevent accidents to others, it involves the acquisition <strong>of</strong> a certain fund <strong>of</strong> information,,<br />
the ability to apply the information to concrete safety situations, and the building<br />
up <strong>of</strong> habits which will result in desirable behavior.<br />
"Safety education means teaching the child to adjust himself to our modern civilization."<br />
From this point, I shall try to show yo.u what we are doing in the schools <strong>of</strong><br />
Massachusetts to assist you in reducing the number <strong>of</strong> fires in the Commonwealth.<br />
You each have a copy <strong>of</strong> the reprint from the curriculum ’Guide, which indicates the<br />
mar.ner in which safety education is presented;<br />
After years <strong>of</strong> experience , we believe that accident prevention should be in a<br />
continuous program from kindekgarten through ,high school, and integrated with any<br />
subject in the curriculum.<br />
Because you are particularly interested in fire prevention, let us turn to page 279,<br />
and see where there are opportunities for a teacher to introd~uce the subject in her<br />
daily program. Recent fires may be reported and discussed in opening exercises. Assemblies<br />
give opportunities for presentations <strong>of</strong> speakers from the Fire Department.<br />
Mc.ving pictures, slides, demonstrations and plays are a visual means <strong>of</strong> presentation.<br />
In social studies, the community is studied, an.d the work <strong>of</strong> the Fire Department<br />
receives attention.<br />
Language arts provide opportunities for the writing <strong>of</strong> plays, compositions and<br />
reading allied to the subject.<br />
First-aid, is introduced into the health program, and home economics furnishes<br />
many cases in which the prevention <strong>of</strong> fires may well be presented.<br />
Science gives opportunities for ,teaching the causes <strong>of</strong> fire, .and many demonstrations<br />
are possible.<br />
~ Thus, the. alert teacher teaches fire prevention and accident prevention on many<br />
and varied occasions.<br />
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NEW ENGLA~ND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
Middlesex Mutual Fire Insurance Co.<br />
CONCORD, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
Incorporated 1826<br />
FIRE, AUTOMOBILE, TORNADO, RENT, INSURANCE<br />
A~ents Throughout <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong><br />
COMPLIMENTS OF THE<br />
Abington Mutual Fire Insurance Company<br />
Abington~ Massachusetts<br />
1856 -- 96th Year -- 1952<br />
Fire and Automobile Insurance<br />
ASK YOUR I’OCAL AGENT<br />
SPECIFy<br />
Q~incy Mutual Fire Insurance Company<br />
57 WASHINGTON STREET, ~UINCY, MASS.<br />
ESTABLISHED 1851<br />
Don’t Lose What You Ha~,e--<br />
INSURE IT!<br />
Holyoke <strong>of</strong> Salem Insurance Agency, Inc.<br />
39 NORMAN STREET, SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
Telephone 6123<br />
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Home and school safety education cannot be successfully taught without the<br />
troduction o.f safety in the use <strong>of</strong> fire.<br />
On page 282, we note that in the. first~ gr, ade, pupils are taught appreciation <strong>of</strong><br />
the contribution{0 safety and health made by the workers in the community.and nation,<br />
and are led to realize the importance <strong>of</strong> fire and pdlice d~partments in the protection <strong>of</strong><br />
life and property.<br />
Follc-wing across, we find, "Art--Workers who Protect Us." In Truro, Massachusetts,<br />
recer.tly, I found a booklet made and illustrated by pupils <strong>of</strong> the second grade.<br />
The pictures <strong>of</strong> firemen, <strong>of</strong> children playing with matches, and <strong>of</strong> ,buildings in flames,<br />
were crudely illustrated and accompanied by stories in simple child language. But,<br />
they were ~ ehe ~outcome <strong>of</strong> les~ons in tire prevention. ’<br />
¯ The realization <strong>of</strong> the need <strong>of</strong> personal respensibility in preservation <strong>of</strong> life and<br />
property appears on page 284, and very appropriately, the matter <strong>of</strong> the fire drill and<br />
care in the handling <strong>of</strong> fire and matches is stressed.<br />
The well-directed fire drill <strong>of</strong>fers excellent opportunitie~ for motivating a constructive<br />
fire prevention education program. Follow~n.g a fire drill, there sho.uld be a discussion<br />
<strong>of</strong> the responsibility <strong>of</strong> the individual for his 6wn dafety and that <strong>of</strong> others,<br />
and the importance <strong>of</strong> cooperation and leadership in an emergency situation.<br />
In the discussion fc.llowing, I feel sdre that the ways in which Fire Chiefs may!<br />
assist in planning the fire drill, will be cited.<br />
In Grades 4, 5, 6, the need for cooperation at home, at_school, and in the community<br />
is emphasized, and effort is made to impress the children with the important<br />
part which the police and the fire department play in the protection <strong>of</strong> life and property.<br />
On page 287, we see how these older children, through the development <strong>of</strong> original<br />
problems, learn <strong>of</strong> the terrific cost <strong>of</strong> fires to the state and to the nation.<br />
In the early days <strong>of</strong> safety education teaching, songs and slogans were used almost<br />
exclusively. We have come to believe that these are pleasant, attractive means <strong>of</strong><br />
presenting the subject, but that they are not the most effective means.<br />
Let me tell you about an experience that I had with teaching safety by singing.<br />
We sang "The Man, on the Flying Trapeze" with disastrous results. Please do not<br />
misunderstand me. I do not say that we should not sing safety songs. But let us not<br />
fool ourselves that we are actually teaching accident prevention this way.<br />
Firemen are constantly before the public, and children, especially, are interested<br />
in and admire these men for their courage, and in many instances, their deeds <strong>of</strong><br />
heroism. What they do in their daily lives is more vital in the teaching <strong>of</strong> fire prevention<br />
than what they say when talking before any assembly <strong>of</strong> children.. We should<br />
avoid implying by our actions: "Do as I say; not as I do."<br />
When I talk to teachers, I close with this quotation<br />
"No printed word, no spoken plea,<br />
Can teach young hearts what men should be.<br />
Not all the books on all the shelves,<br />
But what the teachers are, themselves."<br />
Each one <strong>of</strong> you is a teacher <strong>of</strong> fire prevention, and the example that you set is<br />
<strong>of</strong> paramount importance.<br />
Thank you very much! (Applause.)<br />
MoI)~Rawoa Eas~:~.: Thank you, Mrs. Curley. I think that she answered a<br />
great many questions submitted on this.subject last year. In spite <strong>of</strong> her demure ap-<br />
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MARTIN CEREL, REALTOR<br />
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pearance, and that little jingle at the .beginning <strong>of</strong> her talk, it is not the same story<br />
that she told us when she reached here this morning, however.<br />
Mrs. Curley drives her car with a rather, heavy foot, and in going along at about<br />
sixty-five miles an hour, she noticed a traffic cop had fallen in behind her.. She got it<br />
up to seventy, and a couple <strong>of</strong> other traffic cops followed her, and when getting it up<br />
to seventy-five miIes an hour, eventually, a couple <strong>of</strong> state troopers had’. joined in, and<br />
at about the time she reached the first traffic light in Portsmouth, she had an escort<br />
<strong>of</strong> about ten or twelve minions <strong>of</strong> the law[<br />
" She came to this traffic light, ducked into a gas station, and was in th~ere for<br />
about ten minutes, and here were all <strong>of</strong> these policemen with their books and pencils.<br />
She came out primping and smiling and said:<br />
"’I’ll bet that you fellc.ws didn’t think I’d make it, did you?" (Laughter.)-<br />
It was not too difficult to select the panel member who will now address you.<br />
This gentleman was with us last year, and when we asked him to join us then, he<br />
accepted with such alacrity that we rather felt that he looked on it as an opportunity<br />
for a rather pleasant hoIiday at-this delightful spot.<br />
And, our suspicions appeared to be well justified, when, at our dress rehearsal, he<br />
shared none <strong>of</strong> o.ur concern for the success, <strong>of</strong> the morrow’s program, but he just sat<br />
there, placidly, sucking on a bottle <strong>of</strong> my scotch, until there was little left for us.<br />
However, he was so impressed with the apparent interest in our discussion, the<br />
se.riousness <strong>of</strong> your deliberations, generally, and the fine group <strong>of</strong> men he met and<br />
conversed with, .outside <strong>of</strong> the fe.rmal sessions, that he shamelessly made it quite plain<br />
that he wanted to be a member <strong>of</strong> this year’s panel, if we were invited ,back again.<br />
I am very happy to make his dream come true, and it is now a pleasure for me<br />
to present to you at this time, Mr. Fred W. Westervelt, Jr., Director <strong>of</strong> Public Relations<br />
for the General Adjustment Bureau, Inc., with headquarters in <strong>New</strong> York City.<br />
Mr. Westervelt! (Applause.)<br />
MR. FR~.D W. WF.ST~.RVF.LT: Mr. Moderator, members <strong>of</strong> the <strong>New</strong> Englan.d Fire<br />
Chiefs’ <strong>Association</strong>, and: friends. First, I want to say that only a part <strong>of</strong> that intro-<br />
¯ duction is true, I can assure you.<br />
And the part that is true is the fact that I wanted to come back because I was<br />
so deeply impressed with the work you men have been doing. I was more impressed<br />
with the friendship and the fellowship you fellows have together and which you let<br />
me share with . you last year. I had looked forward at great length and, frankly, had<br />
plan,ned a little vacation up here. I had hoped~ to be a day or two ahead <strong>of</strong> time and<br />
a day after, but an event took place that changed my plans and many in the insurance<br />
business.<br />
Lieut. Maloney spoke this morning <strong>of</strong> the disaster which hit Worcester County.<br />
He told you <strong>of</strong> the work <strong>of</strong> the Civil Defense authorities and ~because they had planned<br />
and had the cooperation and help <strong>of</strong> the m~mbers o~f the Fire Department, Police<br />
partme.nt and Public Yv~orks Department, those all helped not only to relieve but to<br />
reduce a rather difficult situation. The story he told’ was a dramatic one. It could only<br />
happen where there had been prepared plans, but that is not only true <strong>of</strong> Civil Defense.<br />
It is true <strong>of</strong> o.ur business, except in our business we have had a catastrophe plan<br />
set up for many, many years. It is one <strong>of</strong> the things you ought to know. For years<br />
in our business we have had the job <strong>of</strong> helping to rehabilitate stricken areas from California<br />
to the East Coast, through all the states in-between when nature has gone on<br />
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the rampage and we in the insurance adjustment field have been called cn to help.<br />
What we do is <strong>of</strong> interest to you because insurance men and firemen have x very<br />
close community df interest.<br />
What is the catastrophe plan I speak about? No. 1, when disaster strikes in a concentrated,<br />
savage form, destroying property, hundreds and: hundreds <strong>of</strong> houses, reducing<br />
people to a homeless state, there isn’t enough insurance help in the vicinity to~ do the<br />
job the insuran.ce people want to do, funds to reha.bilitate an area, so that something<br />
had to be done to prevent an influx <strong>of</strong> individuals into an area, each concerned with<br />
enriching themselves, perhaps at the expense <strong>of</strong> the public, <strong>of</strong> men who would not take<br />
the proper care, give the proper service which we in our businss expect to give in time<br />
<strong>of</strong> stress and do give it in the normal course <strong>of</strong> events so that the National Board <strong>of</strong><br />
Underwriters has organized: a catastrophe plan for speeding up the processing cf insurance<br />
claims after disasters.<br />
It invol-~,ed the setting up <strong>of</strong> a field once which would process the claims adjusted<br />
by the men who came in for that work. It meant that men from that National Board<br />
would check the work <strong>of</strong> the adjustors to ensure the public was getting the full adjustment<br />
service to. which it was entitled. Further than that, these <strong>of</strong>ficers acted as a<br />
clearing house for information, as a means <strong>of</strong> communication to the people and as a<br />
means <strong>of</strong> speeding up loss papers to the company for payment.<br />
That is fine as far as the supervisory <strong>of</strong>fice is concerned. In our own organization,<br />
the General Adjustment Bureau has esta,blished: a catastrophe plan and we have had<br />
occasion to bring men in from California, Maine an.d the State <strong>of</strong> Texas. We have had<br />
operations in hurricanes in various parts <strong>of</strong> the Country where men have been brought<br />
in spedtically for the job <strong>of</strong> speeding the payment <strong>of</strong> insurance funds so these people<br />
can rehabilitate an~d get back on a normal living basis.<br />
A catastrophe plan must have some background. I would like to tell ye.u what<br />
the insurance .business generally does and why it is doing what it is doing. It is the<br />
insurance man’s dream to be able to pay a claim almost before the building falls to the<br />
ground. We would: like to be able to pass our loss payments to. the people immediately.<br />
It works where there are a few claims but in an occasion such as happened the<br />
o~her day, you have an entirely different situation. You have thousands <strong>of</strong> peopla<br />
affected. You have a state <strong>of</strong>.mental shock which exists for days after the occurrence.<br />
You have an influx <strong>of</strong> men who are there to get what they can as quickly as they can<br />
get it, builders, material men, contractors who have no interest in the community other<br />
than to get a fast dollar and get away.<br />
We don’t think that is right in our business. Our men are trained to render aa<br />
equitable adjustment <strong>of</strong> claims to provide an indemnity within the provisions <strong>of</strong> the<br />
policy to start the policyholder. When prices are inflated, the cost <strong>of</strong> rebuilding goes<br />
up and it is very possible that a quick adjustment won’t give the policyholder what he<br />
needs in the way <strong>of</strong> indemnity.<br />
We have certain processes by which we strive to stabilize the upset conditions and<br />
so our business is to follow the work which you have done.<br />
We are bringing in new men to the community--men who come from other parts<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Country. There are in Worcester today adjusters who two weeks ago were in<br />
Texas and three weeks before that in Mississippi. The man who heads our <strong>of</strong>fice is<br />
from Buffalc. He was called to Columbus, Georgia and stayed two weeks down there.<br />
He was about cleaned up and came home and then he had to move over to Waco. He<br />
just barely got back when the Worcester job came up. He is a man whose experience<br />
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is along the lines <strong>of</strong> emergency operation. He is training the new men on~ the local<br />
conditio.ns.<br />
I say ’~training new men on local conditions," f£r this reason. Where we must<br />
bring in, as other companies hive from outlying areas, those men must first know local<br />
conditions in Worcester. In order to know that we must set a basis <strong>of</strong> adjustm~n.t cost.<br />
Now that basis <strong>of</strong> adjustment cost is arrived at by a meeting <strong>of</strong> contractors and material<br />
men in Worcester with adjustment staffs to work out unit costs <strong>of</strong> repair. That is an<br />
important thing because that means the men who are going to do the work have agreed<br />
on a certain, cost for doing repair work and they are going to hold to that cost, so the<br />
people in Worcester are going to get the benefit <strong>of</strong> an agreed replacement value, as<br />
a starting-point in the adjustment <strong>of</strong> a loss.<br />
Those adjusters from other areas, from Boston, Maine, <strong>New</strong> York and: Pennsylvania,<br />
and even some from the South, are briefed on costs as they are peculiar to<br />
Worcester, so the people <strong>of</strong> Worcester will get an adjustment based cn Worcester<br />
expense.<br />
No. 2, the chap who is in a state <strong>of</strong> mental shock is not going to have to worry<br />
about an adjustment for a day or two. We can’t find the people; they are locking after<br />
their dead and the injure.d members and we feel it would be almost a sacrilege to<br />
intrude on family sorrow to quickly adjust a claim.<br />
There is a human side <strong>of</strong> our business and’ we can’t see what chaos there is in such<br />
a situation, without being to sympathetic we wil]~ not intrude cn family grief.<br />
The moratorium <strong>of</strong> seventy-two hours gives the National Board a chance to set<br />
up a supervisory <strong>of</strong>fice, issue instructions to all the insurance interests as to the plan<br />
to be followed. In following the catastrophe adjustment operation somewhat like the<br />
Civil Defense with its plan for disaster, we in the insurance business have our own<br />
plan for disaster. We follisw you men in. It is work which we must necessarily follow<br />
and it sometimes interferes in that we must go into the territory.<br />
I was up here Wednesday, the day following the storm. There were pro.bably<br />
fifty men in- that area who were getting in the way <strong>of</strong> some <strong>of</strong> the rescue squads. We<br />
were there to find out the extent <strong>of</strong> damage, to find out the number <strong>of</strong> men we would<br />
require ~in that area, to find out what we would need in the way <strong>of</strong> supplies and’ manpower<br />
to mo.ve in after the emergency clean-up is over, so that the people in that part<br />
<strong>of</strong> the county could secure as quickly as possible, their insurance.<br />
Catastrophe work has various aspects. We want you to know what we are doing<br />
,because we don’t want you to think we are interfering in any way with the work you<br />
have set. On the other hand, the organized groups, such as fire and police departments,<br />
afford us a valuable means <strong>of</strong> information and are a great help in time <strong>of</strong> stress. I don’t<br />
know how long it is going to take the insurance adjustmer~t job out’<strong>of</strong> one <strong>of</strong> the most<br />
disheartening disasters I have ever seen, but I can assure you <strong>of</strong> this, that whatever<br />
does happen, there isn’t .an insurance adjuster, agent or fieldman in that area that hasn’t<br />
the greatest sympathy for the people, nor who will cot give to the utmost to provid~<br />
whatever we, in our business, have promised to provide when disaster strikes.<br />
We have a disaster plan; we have it to build goodwill not f.cr ourselves but for a<br />
business which over 300 years has stepped in when just such occasions have happened,<br />
to rebuild.<br />
I want to digress just a moment to develop a little community <strong>of</strong> interest, to point<br />
out how the firemen,and insurar.ce men have worked tcgether ever since the early part<br />
<strong>of</strong> our colonies. In the days <strong>of</strong> the. volunteers it was not uncom:;’_on for fire companies<br />
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to race to the scene because it might be awarded some cash and sometimes liquid: re,<br />
freshmen’t.s. Later on as the .business o.f firefighting developed the folks in the insurance<br />
business found they had to work with the firemen for the common good..The first<br />
committee to be organized was on arson and incendiarism. The committee on arson and<br />
incendiarism <strong>of</strong>fered rewards for the apprehension <strong>of</strong> fire bugs, but in 1917 it was<br />
found that more scientific means <strong>of</strong> detection was needed and the special agents <strong>of</strong> the<br />
national board came into being.<br />
Today we have gotten away from the close interests <strong>of</strong> insurance. They are concerned<br />
with the conservation <strong>of</strong> life, the reduction <strong>of</strong> fire waste. Beyond that we have<br />
the committees on fire prevention and engineering standards. That is a group <strong>of</strong> insurance<br />
men that work closely with you in yo.ur business.<br />
Going back over the years with the conflagrations--Boston, 8an Francisco and<br />
Chicago--the one thing which is impressive was the lack <strong>of</strong> a uniform standard. To<br />
Baltimore was shipped ten or twelve engines. They might as well have left them home<br />
because they had no means <strong>of</strong> hooking up. 8o far as time and effort were concerned<br />
they might have stayed’ in <strong>New</strong> York.<br />
I like to think <strong>of</strong> an occasion that happened at home. In <strong>New</strong> Jersey there was a<br />
series <strong>of</strong> hotel fires--three bad ones. I was~a fire-engine chaser; I still am. Each little<br />
community sent in its engines arid Asbury Park was using them all and a truck came<br />
in. from Annisquam. They tore down the main street, jumped out--no hose--so they<br />
came to Asbury Park merely for the ride.<br />
We work closely with the Bay-State Club. Last week we came up to give you a<br />
program--things you ought to know. We took back with us things you though~ we<br />
ought to know, and I think much good has come <strong>of</strong> it.<br />
~.<br />
The main thing as <strong>of</strong> today is that when c.~saster strikes anywhere in the United<br />
States the insurance business has a means to cope with the financial loss which must<br />
c ecessarily follow. We follow behind you. The good work you do, we hope, has<br />
enhanced the good work we can go in providing for rehabilitation <strong>of</strong> stricken areas.<br />
(Applause.)<br />
=CHAIRMAN ~ER8KINE: I would like to make an acknowledgment <strong>of</strong> the Bay State<br />
Club. I went to our good friends, "Well, we don’t sell banners, but whatever we can<br />
get <strong>of</strong>f on one we are glad to turn back to you." This was the outcc,me and-when I got<br />
back from my vacation I found it in my <strong>of</strong>fice and I called up Jim and said, "It is<br />
!ovely, but where is the bill." Two or three weeks later I called again and he said that<br />
he would send~ me the bill. It was a receipted bill and I would like to make acknowledgment<br />
to the American Fire Insurance Company fc.r the banner.<br />
We have come to the most interesting part <strong>of</strong> the conversation because I think<br />
the audience participation in it gives you fellows a chance to ask specific questions, so<br />
if there are any questions from the floor at this time we will be glad to receive them.<br />
We have already received one and I might start with this until you get your nerve<br />
up. I think the first one was directed at Mrs. Curley. "Who determines what may be<br />
taught in the school, i. e., subjects like fire prevention?"<br />
MRS. CURLEY: I would like to say that the State Department <strong>of</strong> Education determines<br />
what shall be .taught in the schools. The State Department <strong>of</strong> Education<br />
doesn’t have that much authority. There are a few required subjects, required by law<br />
that have to be taught in the school. Other ~ubjects may be taught at the discretion <strong>of</strong><br />
the school board; that is your board <strong>of</strong> education in your local community. I will leave<br />
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American history, English and a. few other subjects; the u~se ~<strong>of</strong> alcohol and some <strong>of</strong><br />
the other subjects are required, but as far as safety education is concerned, it is not<br />
a required subject in the public schools and <strong>of</strong> course iire prevention is a part <strong>of</strong> safety<br />
ed.~cation, but let me say this, I know <strong>of</strong> no community in our state in which the schools<br />
do not carry a gcod fire prevention educational program.<br />
,<br />
:CHAIRMAN ERSKINE: Any time you fellows feel you have a question you want<br />
to address to the moderator, speak up.<br />
, THEODORE Gu~TN: I am glad you got Mrs. Curley here. You all know that I<br />
have been giving demonstrations since 1922. I have a questiorr to ask you for the<br />
benefit <strong>of</strong> the firemen. I went to <strong>New</strong>ton, Massachusetts, and the headmaster would<br />
give me only twenty minutes <strong>of</strong> a forty-minute period to, give a forty-minute fire prevention<br />
demonstration. You remember, .Alfred Miner? He got me there.<br />
It was the night before the meeting <strong>of</strong> the Massachusetts Safety Council but the<br />
next morning I left my_paraphernalia there, and I had a good one. I wanted to shame<br />
the headmaster and I did. He would give me only twenty minutes. He said I was<br />
nothing .but a book seller an.d he says, "you can’t keep the scholars interested; I have<br />
had too many <strong>of</strong> your type here for agents to sell paraphernalia." That was his idea<br />
<strong>of</strong> fire prevention demonstration, and I want you to, carry that back to Your superintendents<br />
and headmasters. I am from <strong>New</strong> Hampshire so I can criticise.<br />
I have a question I would like to ask. Are there specific characteristics to be<br />
considered when choosing firemen as speakers for school assemblies?<br />
MRS. CUR~.EY: I ca.n speak very definitely on that subject. There certainly are<br />
specific things that should be noted in choosing firemen to speak to children in the<br />
public schools. In days gone by the Fire Chief would choose the person to go into the<br />
school that he wanted to get rid <strong>of</strong> for a few hours, and the firemen would come in<br />
with no. knowledge <strong>of</strong> what the children had been taught, very untidy in his appearance,<br />
very ungrammatical in his speech and with no knowledge <strong>of</strong> child psychology. I believe<br />
today that that condition has been greatly improved. I believe that the Chiefs<br />
<strong>of</strong> today took at their firemen and choose them’ with perhaps some <strong>of</strong> these things in<br />
mind. ~Does this man havechildren <strong>of</strong> his o.wn? Will he be interested -,in talking to a<br />
group <strong>of</strong> child:ren and understand .the psycholggy <strong>of</strong> small children? Is he, neat and<br />
tidy in dress? Will he present a good appearance before these children? Can he speak<br />
grammatically?<br />
Now I don’t mean to criticise anybody for poor grammar. That isn’t an index<br />
<strong>of</strong> how much a person kr~ow; if~ he splits a,n iinfinitive.; ,That is no index <strong>of</strong> his ability<br />
but if that man is going to stand up, particularly befgre junior high and senior high<br />
children--and they are not generous <strong>of</strong> ~0eople who spe.ak ungrammatically, n~o. matter<br />
how much they may know--I feel very strongly that these men should be handpicked<br />
very carefully to do the job in the public schools. (Applause.)<br />
LIEUT. L. N. CLARK, <strong>New</strong>ton: I would like to correct the:~i~ua~ion that the<br />
gentleman here has brought up. We have started: a very good system <strong>of</strong> ~re prevention<br />
education in schools. We usually take one school at a time. We take each class by<br />
itself, show them a set <strong>of</strong> demonstrations and give them a chance to ask any questions<br />
regarding demonstration and the ~re department. In that way you can talk to each<br />
grade level that you find.<br />
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kY.i,~ntworth-J~nnin~s Motor Company<br />
Lincoln - Mercury -- Sales and Service<br />
| 180 WASHINGTON STREET<br />
DE 2-2900<br />
WEST NEWTON 65, MASS.<br />
Only Overhead Door Corporation and its manufacturing<br />
divisions make The "OVERHEAD DOOR"<br />
Overhead Door Sales Company,<br />
District Warehouse: <strong>New</strong>ton Highlands, Massachusetts<br />
NEEDHAM STREET<br />
COMPLIMENTS OF<br />
Trade Mark for Garage - Factory - Warehouse<br />
NEWTON HIGHLANDS 61, MASS.<br />
HOMES<br />
I NCORPORATED<br />
DUDLEY St. Sta., 2251 Washington St.<br />
NEWTON COR., 317 Washington St.<br />
2 SCOLLAY SQ., at Subway, Boston<br />
FARINA BROTHERS<br />
General Contractors<br />
HI 2-2233<br />
DE 2-2600<br />
CA 7-6600<br />
429 WATERTOWN STREET NEWTON 58, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
LAsell 7-5448 - 7-5449<br />
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~’~/~ O’nEILL MOTORS, I~C. ~///~.~.y<br />
463 WASHINGTON STREET ¯ WELLESLEY, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
Telephone WE 5-1276<br />
CHIEF THOMAS H. SLAMAN<br />
Wellesley, Mass.<br />
Board <strong>of</strong> Directors<br />
R. H. LONG MOTOR SALES COMPANY<br />
CADIkkAC Authorized Automobile Dealers PONT|AC<br />
$alesroom and Service Station<br />
161-165 LINDEN STREET WELLESLEY<br />
Telephone WE 5-2650<br />
Other Salesrooms and Service Stations<br />
535 UNION AVENUE, FRAMINGHAM, Telephone 8338<br />
392 WAVERLY STREET, FRAMINGHAM, Telephone 3581<br />
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Simplex Wire & Cable<br />
79 SIDNEY ST.<br />
CAMBRIDGE, MASS,<br />
Manufacturers <strong>of</strong><br />
Insulated Wires and Cables<br />
for all types <strong>of</strong> electric<br />
fire alarm systems<br />
including<br />
Polyetthylene- I nsulated,<br />
Plastic-Jacketed Cables<br />
for use overhead or<br />
underground<br />
LIG~-IT WEIGHT LONG LIFE<br />
BRIGHTER LIGHT FOR FIREMEN<br />
The <strong>New</strong> Delux<br />
~~AT SPOTLIGHT<br />
Babson’s Reports<br />
Help to Decrease<br />
Fire Losses<br />
and<br />
Protect Firemen<br />
Send jor Illustrated Fotuer<br />
[(OEHLER ~ANUFP, CIURING CO.<br />
MARLBORO MASSACHUSETTS<br />
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We usually start with the third or fourth grade and those children are naturally<br />
interested in different things from those in junior ,high and high school. We have had<br />
the program going now for about three years. It is working very successfully andl we<br />
h~ve c.vercome the opposition that the gentleman from <strong>New</strong> Hampshire had.<br />
We also have a nature study division where children are taken out into the woods<br />
and show them the birds and the bees, how to build fires in the open and take care <strong>of</strong><br />
cooking and fires. I believe we are the only school in Massachusetts doing that type<br />
<strong>of</strong> work. I want to have everybody here understand that the situation has Changed<br />
in <strong>New</strong>ton and that we are d:oing everything to bring children up right to reduce the<br />
number <strong>of</strong> fires. (Applause.)<br />
CHAIRMAN ERSKINE: I think, Lieutenant, that possibly we might give Gunn a<br />
vote <strong>of</strong> thanks.<br />
MR. GuN,c: That was back in 192~ before he was born.<br />
CHmr LEW~S A. MmaSHAL, Providence: Is the damage from a tornado covered<br />
by windstorm insurance?<br />
CHAIRMAN ERSKINE: Mr. Estabrook, do you want to take that question?<br />
MR. ES~:ABROO[: That was a question which was frequently raised in Worcester<br />
in the two or-three days following the storm. Definitely the layman didn’t understand<br />
that a tornado is a windstorm and that windstorm insurance dees cover damage caused<br />
by a tornado, and the answer is "yes."<br />
CHAIRMAN ERSKINE: Would you be good eno,ugh to pick up the questions which<br />
are asked,<br />
EX-CHIEF POPE, Boston: Does the average home owner carry sutticient insurance<br />
to cover b.is loss? Walter, you have been down there.<br />
MR. T. WALTER KEANY: I would say from all the information available to us<br />
that very few people carried windstorm insurance on their household belongings. You<br />
take out in’ ~e park, I .doubt if 10 per cent <strong>of</strong> all the people there carried windstorm<br />
insurance or extended coverage as we know it on household contents, but a number<br />
had it on automobiles with comprehensive policies, but not more than 10 per cent had it.<br />
MR. I..OP~TON C. WALDEN, Wcrcester, Supt. Protective Department: How does<br />
the public know what to do to collect on insurance in case <strong>of</strong> a disaster such as the one<br />
in Worcester?<br />
MR. WESTERVELT: That is one <strong>of</strong> the most important things the insurance business<br />
muir do in time <strong>of</strong> disaster, and in Worcester radio, newspaper advertising, word<br />
<strong>of</strong> mouth were used throughout the entire area. For example, the four radio stations<br />
at Worcester carried a talk by the National Board <strong>of</strong> Fire Underwriters; the manager<br />
<strong>of</strong> our .oNce in Worcester, a Mutual loss man, and an agent in town gave part <strong>of</strong> what<br />
the public shoul~ do in order to prepare their losses. The newspapers have carried ads<br />
on the front page as part o.f their public relations program to keep the people aware <strong>of</strong><br />
what they have to do to speed up the adjustment <strong>of</strong> claims. The people have been told<br />
bY radio, word <strong>of</strong> inouth, as well as in the newspapers to begin first emergency covers<br />
and then they have been told how to proceed to make up estimates <strong>of</strong> damage and<br />
:<br />
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Metal Fabricators Corporation<br />
Artisan Metal Products, Inc.<br />
Fabricated Metal lFork<br />
73 POND STREET WALTHAM, MASS..<br />
Telephone WAltham 5-6800<br />
R, C. HARVEY COMPANY<br />
ff~OOL AND ~OOL I~ASTE<br />
144 MOODY STREET<br />
Garnetted Products<br />
WALTHAM, MASS.<br />
Since 1825<br />
Service and Protection to Policyholders<br />
All Losses Paid Fairly and Promptly<br />
Liberal Dividends to Policy Holders<br />
Insurance Against Fire and Allied Perils<br />
Automobile, Fire, Theft and Collision<br />
We Shall Be Glad To Give You The Name Of Your Nearest Norfolk<br />
and Dedham Agent<br />
NORFOLK AND DEDHAM<br />
Mut~tal Fire Insurance Company<br />
DEDHAM, MASS.<br />
CUTICURA PREPARATIONS<br />
Manufactured by<br />
POTTER DRUG. ~- CHEMICAL CORP.<br />
MALDEN, MASS.<br />
MA 5-2751<br />
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what to. do until the adjuster gets there. It is important that the people know as soon<br />
as possible what the insurance business wants them to do. <strong>New</strong>spapers, radio, word<br />
<strong>of</strong> mouth--those are the three ways we tell the public what to do.<br />
.CHAIRMAN ERSKINE: I have a question here that was left over from last year.<br />
It is from Chief C. E. Jacobs <strong>of</strong> Wakefield, Mass. "Do yo.u feel a local public relations<br />
program on the part <strong>of</strong> a fire department would, be <strong>of</strong> any advantage?" I am<br />
going to ask Westervelt if he wants to tackle that one.<br />
MI~. WESTERVELT: I think that a program <strong>of</strong> building goodwill with the public<br />
is going to pay c.ff with any fire department. It doesn’t have to be a pr<strong>of</strong>essional program<br />
because each one <strong>of</strong> us is a public relations council. Each one is engaged in public<br />
relations in daily work, and a local public relations program is going to acquaint<br />
the citizens with what the Chief wants to do--what he is trying to do to solicit and<br />
elicit aid fro.m the public in building a more highly regarded fire department.<br />
I don’t believe any single Chief in this room can sit back and~ say that we don’t<br />
needl g.ood public relations. You need to court the goodwill <strong>of</strong> the public for ttie advantage<br />
<strong>of</strong> your own fire department.<br />
CHAIRMAN ERSI(INE: I think it couldn;t have been more than six weeks to two<br />
months~ ago that I saw in the paper that either a regional or national meeting <strong>of</strong> Police<br />
Chiefs had adopted a resolution on that very point. They were recommending that<br />
their variou’s chiefs engage in a well-conceived public relations program which would<br />
make the people <strong>of</strong> their particular communities more conscious <strong>of</strong> what they do, and<br />
in that line I think it might be a swell thing for you fellows to give some thought for<br />
yourselves.<br />
CHIEF DOUOLAS, Lakewood, Rhode Island: Will Mr. Westervelt explain more in<br />
full how outside adjusters adapt themselves to local conditions?<br />
MR. WESTERVELT: First <strong>of</strong> all, let-me say this--that the adjusters from our own<br />
organization are in the same category, and are brought in only when they have had<br />
sufficient experience to be able to handle these properly. In a catastrophe operation,<br />
such as Worcester, you can’t afford to have a man there who doesn’t know his ,business.<br />
It would slow down the operation because you would have to watch him tco carefully.<br />
No. 1, we bring in men who have been trained, are experienced and have been<br />
operating under strenuous trials <strong>of</strong> emergency.<br />
No. 2, that man--whether he be from the South, West or East has been<br />
trained by our organization to a pattern. Our plan <strong>of</strong> operation is the same in California<br />
as in Massachusetts, and so a man from California can move in. here, if necessary,<br />
and be ful~ at home, but he doesn’t know local conditions. Now I mentioned before<br />
that Worcester conditions and prices, for example, are nct the same as those for<br />
Boston, Portland or anywhere else.<br />
First we must establish a uniform price basis. I don’t say uniform cost for each<br />
brick; in other words, how m~ach it would cost to put a square <strong>of</strong> rc<strong>of</strong>ing on, or 100<br />
feet <strong>of</strong> siding on. These are basic reconstruction costs, so first <strong>of</strong> all those costs are<br />
established, and then the adjusters who come in here are briefed on those costs. They<br />
are briefed on local conditions, deviations from normal practice, and when a man goes<br />
out in the field, even though they are from Texas, they would do as good a job as the<br />
man frcm the State <strong>of</strong> Maine <strong>of</strong>fice or the Worcester <strong>of</strong>fice.
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
E. T. STRETTON TRANSPORTATION ~CO.<br />
103 FULKERSON STREET CAMBRIDGE, MASS.<br />
BETTER HOMES CLUB PLAN, !NC.<br />
John J. Cornish,<br />
Frederick A. Bailey<br />
Donald Warren<br />
238 MAIN STREET (KENDALL SQUARE)<br />
CAMBRIDGE 42, MASS.<br />
"LIFE BREAD"<br />
HATHAWAY BAKERIES, Inc.<br />
BOSTON, MASS:<br />
FIELD, & COWLES<br />
Established 1867<br />
INSURANCE<br />
40 BROAD STREET, BOSTON, MASS.<br />
Thomas R. Young Walter ,C. Small<br />
Pays0n. T. Barber John. G.,~ Cornish<br />
James L. Sandison Philip. L. Miller<br />
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They must be brought up to date with local conditions with the idiosyncrasies <strong>of</strong><br />
people, so they know how to handle themselves and adjust a claim without friction as<br />
quickly as possible. .. ~ =<br />
CHAIRMAN ERSKINE: You might ~ be interested in ’knowing how the price list was<br />
operated. The committee o,f two ,building adjusters from Boston had made up the<br />
format for this price list. In other words, they had’, it entirely completed with the<br />
exception <strong>of</strong> the insertion <strong>of</strong> prices. On Wednesday following the storm, they worked<br />
all day in’ Boston inserting prices. Thursday they went to Worcester and worked from<br />
morning until late at night with contractors. Friday,. that list was printed and in<br />
circulation. -<br />
’CHIEF SCANLON, Lynn" My question is" should demonstrations be used by firemen<br />
in speaking to children?<br />
CHAIRMAN E._RSKINE : I am ,going _to transfer this to Mrs. Curley.<br />
MRS. CUR~.v.Y: Bein,g a woman, ~,f course, I like to talk. I am very sure that demonstrations<br />
should be usedi, as far as they can be used in speaking to children. Every<br />
day we learn that what the child can see in the matter <strong>of</strong> visual education carries more<br />
weight than when he listens to words or reads them from books, and b~cause I am a<br />
firm believer in demonstration, I brought along this book, published bythe National<br />
Fire Protection <strong>Association</strong>, andl it says: "Selected Demonstraii~n~ for Use" in Fire<br />
Safety Education," and I think some <strong>of</strong> these would be very valuable for’sor~e <strong>of</strong> your<br />
men to have ; .-that is, a man who could h~ndle such a thing in setting "it ’up on a stage<br />
and showing children what actually happened in cases <strong>of</strong> fire and how it could be<br />
put out. It costs 3Y cents--and is well worth the price. I have used some <strong>of</strong> those<br />
demonstratic,ns and I fin,d them very effective.<br />
CHAIRMAN ERSKINE: As a raatter <strong>of</strong> fact, if I remember’ this booklet, they have<br />
stolen most <strong>of</strong> your thunder.<br />
MRS. CURL~.Y: Mcstly.<br />
MR. GUN>r: Mrs. Curley, I notice you have the first and second graders in this<br />
pamphlet. I have talked to thousands <strong>of</strong> children, and I have been trying to drop it<br />
down and get out <strong>of</strong> it, but they want to bring the younger children in and~ they don’t<br />
comprehend what these gentlemen will try to demonstrate to them, and all they are<br />
looking for is another piece <strong>of</strong> fireworks to go up here and there.<br />
Today there are so many chemical sets that are sold, our younger generation likes<br />
to play with them and they get burned, and by bringing in these younger children I<br />
have found it doesn’t pay to talk to a too-young grade <strong>of</strong> child. When you get to<br />
junior high, or the high schools, it will’ register and~ be carried home. The younger<br />
generation should not be shown how to. start a fire.<br />
MRS. CURLEY: Are you going to wait until they get to junior high and high<br />
school before you begin any fire-safety education? Let’s see what it does say for<br />
first graders in here. On page 282 it says: "Try in the first grade to teach children<br />
appreciation <strong>of</strong> the contribution to safety and health, made by the workers in the<br />
community." Now the fireman in talking to first and second,grade children would not<br />
use the same technique used in talking to older children. He might perform a simple<br />
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TIMOTHY RE GAN<br />
BUILDER<br />
Adjuster oj Fire Losses<br />
For Insured Only<br />
|2 HAZELTON ROAD NEWTON ~ CENTRE 59, MASS.<br />
DE 2-1582=- LA 7-4503 .....<br />
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are Braxrnar Badges<br />
Write ~or our latest catalog<br />
THE C. G. BRAXMAR CO., INC.<br />
John O. Veit, President<br />
216 EAST 45th ST. NEW YORK 171 N. Y.<br />
VICTOR BELOTTI Inc.<br />
Oldsmobile ~ Sales - Service<br />
33%345 BROADWAY<br />
SOMERVILLE 45, MASS.<br />
PEOPLE’S SAVINGS BANK<br />
221 MAIN STREET BROCKTON, MASS.<br />
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experiment for them, showing them a lighted~ candle would go out when put under<br />
¯ glass, which would ~shut <strong>of</strong>f the supply <strong>of</strong> air. It doesn’t seem to me that that would<br />
¯ be .’beyond the comprehension <strong>of</strong> a child.<br />
I think we underestimate our children <strong>of</strong> today. With all the television and the<br />
~ things they hear* talked about in the atomic age, I think they would understand this<br />
’very clearly. I think it is norie too early to teach them that if another person’s cloth,<br />
ing gets afire it .can be smothered by roiling them on the ground~ by the application <strong>of</strong><br />
a thick ,blanket or rug, and then the demonstration <strong>of</strong> putting out a candle by cutting<br />
<strong>of</strong>f the air. is very, very timely.<br />
-I wguldn’t go into great involved experiment with these children, but I do think<br />
there are ~ some simple facts about fire which should be taught them in the primary<br />
grades. We, do it, anyway ....<br />
~CHAmMAN ERSI
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
CLINTON L. SCH~cVAMB, Pres. COmmonwealth 6-4480<br />
S & S ~VtATFRPROOFING CO., INC.<br />
IVaterpro<strong>of</strong>ing Engineers and Contractors ~<br />
Building Inspection and Restoration<br />
100 WEST SPRINGFIELD STREET BOSTON 18, MASS.<br />
HEADQUARTERS FOR FiRE DEPARTMENT SUPPLIES<br />
AMERICAN FIRE EQUIPMENT CO.<br />
717 BOYLSTON STREET<br />
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
Tel. KE 6-1315<br />
Exclusive ,4gents Republic Fire Hose<br />
HARRY J. LOVELL<br />
Bo<br />
894 COMMONWEALTH AVENUE<br />
BOSTON, MASS.<br />
Telephone LOngwood 6.7080<br />
NEW ENGLAND AGENT<br />
F. GOODRICH FIRE HOSE<br />
Standard <strong>of</strong> Comparison Since 1870<br />
Hingham Mutual .Fire Insurance Co.<br />
HINGHAM, MASS.<br />
Incorporated March 4, 1826<br />
In Appreciation <strong>of</strong> Your Work in Fire Prevention and Salvage<br />
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sistently bad fire record we do retire from the risk. Now we have no way <strong>of</strong> educating<br />
that fellow, and whether it has any influence on him I can’t say.<br />
I had another question submitted from the floor, and I am going to ask Harold<br />
Estabrook <strong>of</strong> the Aetna Insurance Company to answer it. This is a divided question.<br />
One, are steam-boiler explosions covered by comprehensive policies covering homes<br />
against fires, windstorms, etc.? And’, two, if not, how can such coverage be secured?<br />
MR. ESTABRoOK: There are two forms <strong>of</strong> explosion insurance. One is steamboiler<br />
insurance, which is a form <strong>of</strong> in.surance itself. The second is normal explosion<br />
that could be found and is so-called inherent in a piece <strong>of</strong> property. Most dwellings<br />
have gas in their homes. An explosion can develop from the presence <strong>of</strong> gas. Such an<br />
explosion is covered under exten.ded .coverage, and accidental explosion, like gun-powder.<br />
Your boiler insurance is covered under boiler insurance specifically and~ is excluded<br />
under .c.ur extended coverage contract. It can be purchased as a separate rate policy and<br />
would be covered under your policy. Does that satisfy the questioner?<br />
CHAIRMAN F, RSKINE" I wonder if any other members <strong>of</strong> the Panel would like to<br />
talk on this.<br />
MR. WF.ST~RV~.*.T: I want to bring out very strongly this, that there is an honest<br />
estimate <strong>of</strong> lcss on any fire. When the policyholder or building owner arrives at the<br />
amount <strong>of</strong> damage that was done and the adjuster separately and independently sets<br />
up a figure that is close together, nobody is trying to rob the other. On the other hand,<br />
the public adjuster is trying to get as much as he can out <strong>of</strong> the same fire. The third<br />
is indemnity.<br />
If you lose a ro<strong>of</strong> in a windstorm and that rc<strong>of</strong> is twenty years’ old, there is very<br />
little value in that ro<strong>of</strong> and yet some <strong>of</strong> these men will try to get a new ro<strong>of</strong> for one<br />
that is worn out. Our adjusters have no interest in cutting down the amount <strong>of</strong> any<br />
recovery. Our men are taught in school that we have only one basis <strong>of</strong> adjusting a claim,<br />
and that is, what it is actually worth. I will grant you there are times where the<br />
difference <strong>of</strong> opinion is so much that it takes cooler heads to solve it, but generally<br />
speaking, if an adjuster employs a contractor and the owner employs another contractor,<br />
they are going to come out at a reasonable close figure and a public adjuster Concerned<br />
with getting more than the policyholder is entitled to, something is wrong somewhere.<br />
I suspect that there are occasions <strong>of</strong> people who are trying to get something out <strong>of</strong> someone<br />
else’s misfortune.<br />
CHAIRMAN ERSKINE: Are there any other questicns? I have a card here, "How<br />
can the Fire Chief assist the school in planning fire drills? ’’<br />
MRS. CURLEY: At the beginning <strong>of</strong> every school year it is the duty <strong>of</strong> the school<br />
principal to plan a fire drill. Often he has had enough experience to be able to plan a<br />
good fire drill by himself, *but I am sure if he would call upon some <strong>of</strong> you men to.<br />
help him plan his fire drills they would~ be better. I have observed in my travels over<br />
Massachusetts in several places they have put on fire drills for me and as the children<br />
filed out and tok their positions in the school yard I have asked this question. Where<br />
does the fire apparatus come in? And the principal would say, this direction or that<br />
direction, and immediately he says, "Why the fire apparatus would have to cut right<br />
through those lines .c.f child,ren." I think he could take your advice as to where to station<br />
the children when they leave the building.<br />
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COOLIDGE CLEANSERS, Inc.<br />
Cleansers and Dyers Since 1902<br />
Plant and Main Office<br />
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THE MELROSE GO-OPERATIVE BANK<br />
The Bank for Savings and Home Financing<br />
638~ MAIN STREET ME 4-2500<br />
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I am sure you could help him too in planning his exits from the building. I am<br />
sure that at the time <strong>of</strong> his. annual inspection, or that <strong>of</strong> the superintendent <strong>of</strong> schools,<br />
<strong>of</strong> the building in which many <strong>of</strong> them ~use, your ~national fire protection blank for<br />
checking, that it would be <strong>of</strong> great value if he would call upon you people to go around<br />
the building and check with him.<br />
Now as inexperienced as I am in the matter <strong>of</strong> fire safety in a building, I can go<br />
into a building sometimes and see things that are very wrong as far as safety from fire<br />
exists.-:t: ~’an se4 tl}e i’~k{ih’guishers hidden in corners, hidden under garments hanging.<br />
I have asked teachers where the nearest fire extinguisher to the room is? "I don’t know."<br />
In one place in the dead <strong>of</strong> winter I found all the fire extinguishers in the basement<br />
where they would freeze in the winter when they are most likely to be needed. I have<br />
been in school buildings to look at the hose to realize they were full <strong>of</strong> holes and would<br />
burst very readily, and I am inexpe~ed-~ed in your line. 8~e how much you could do<br />
¯ . , t: . ~ ’o ~’ , ’ ’<br />
if you went through a bud&ng w,th the prmc,pal, saw those things and helped him<br />
plan differently. :<br />
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C~AIRMAN ]~RSKINE: We are running short <strong>of</strong> time, about seven minutes left¯<br />
CHIEF FRED E. WHELAN, Milton, Massachusetts: How can a Chief <strong>of</strong> Police<br />
have a town inspection made similar to that made in the town <strong>of</strong> Natick, Chief Brown?<br />
CHAIRMAN KENNETH H. ERSKINE: I believe it was last year we discussed the subject<br />
<strong>of</strong> town inspections rather thoroughly. Town inspections are put on by members <strong>of</strong><br />
the Bay State <strong>Association</strong> and fire prevention inspections are arranged, after a city or<br />
town through its municipal authority has requested such inspection. In the case <strong>of</strong><br />
Natick the Board <strong>of</strong> Selectmen made an <strong>of</strong>ficial request that the Bay State Fire Prevention<br />
<strong>Association</strong> inspect their town and it was made with the cooperation <strong>of</strong> Chief<br />
Brown and the agents’ association in the town, and civic organizations located in the<br />
town. It is a rather large undertaking and perhaps "Bud;" Brown would like to just say<br />
a word as to what it accomplished in the town <strong>of</strong> Natick.<br />
CHIEF LYMAN GI BROWN, Natick, M~ssachusetts: They brought in 100 men and<br />
inspected the town in one day and they were only refused admission to two buildings.<br />
One <strong>of</strong> them was called back afterward and the owner d~cided to have it inspected!.<br />
The other was a man who has a small greenhouse who carries no insurance and that<br />
explains pretty much the type <strong>of</strong> indi4cidual he was. ~-<br />
As a result <strong>of</strong> it they tagged, I believe, four buildings dilapidated that should be<br />
removed. We have one in the process <strong>of</strong> being removed now and two more will be as<br />
soon as the people can get to it. They are definitely getting to it. The third is in an<br />
estate and as you fellows all realize, it is hard to do.<br />
The hardest job I had in connection with this whole project was selling the idea to<br />
the Board <strong>of</strong> Selectmen. They were afraid to have the inspection made. Ffhey were<br />
afraid it would create ill feeling in the town and I can truthfully say there was not<br />
one complaint. They tagged a lot <strong>of</strong> d~efects, some minor and some proba.bly major.<br />
We have 90 per cent tied up with the exception <strong>of</strong> a few, and one was the gas line<br />
pump in the public works building. It has been there for twenty years and it probably<br />
will take a little time to get it moved outside, but in general the common hazards have<br />
been cleaned out.<br />
We had more rubbish taken to the dump two weeks before the inspection than<br />
normally in six months. We do inspect work as well as most towns <strong>of</strong> our size can.<br />
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~BELMONT~ HOLDING COMPANY<br />
"~-~’~ ’ ’" EDWIN°’E. FARNHAM. Treasurer<br />
365 CONCORD AVENUE BELMONT, MASS.<br />
BELMONT SAVINGS BANK<br />
BELMONT, MASSACHUSETTS-<br />
Money available for mortgage loans on residential property<br />
. Two convenient locations<br />
24 LEONARD STREET 74 TRAPELO ROAD<br />
’’ Telephone BElmont 5-0150<br />
M IDDLEBORO<br />
BAILEY MOTOR SALES<br />
INC.<br />
MASSACHUSETTS<br />
GEM CRIB AND CRADLE COMPANY<br />
Originators. Manujacturers and Distributors<br />
oj the Famous GEM 1Vheel Bassinets<br />
Often Imitated - Never Equaled<br />
Main Office and Factory GARDNER, MASS.<br />
CLINTON SAVINGS BANK<br />
ESTABLISHED 1851<br />
CLINTON, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
STANDARD FITTINGS CO.<br />
Forged Steel Pipe Fittings and Specialties<br />
82 HERBERT STREET, BOX 310, FRAMINGHAM, MASS.<br />
Telephone Framinsham 434.8 - 4349 - 6339<br />
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In one instance a store cleaned out a stockroom there and removed stuff that had been<br />
stored there since 1916 by the owner. As a result we got the town cleanedf up <strong>of</strong> a<br />
lot <strong>of</strong> that debris.<br />
As a result <strong>of</strong> the recommendations <strong>of</strong> the Bay State Club we are increasing our<br />
central= fire zone and the Finance .Committee <strong>of</strong> the town are recommending that a<br />
civilian committee be named to study fire ordinances. The entire town is very pleased<br />
by the whole inspection and I don’t think there is any town that should miss it. I<br />
think it is a great boost for the fire department.<br />
CHAIRMAN ERSI~INE: Did you notice any reduction in alarms and fires following<br />
that inspection? .<br />
CHIEF BROWN: I couldn’t state right <strong>of</strong>f, but we haven’t had~ any which amounted<br />
to anything since. I don’t know definitely whether it is the result or not, gut we haven’t<br />
had any fires traceable to that.<br />
’CHAIRMAN F, RSI(INE: I think Chief Meunier <strong>of</strong> Southbridge reported they went<br />
something like 90 or 100 days after inspection before having an alarm.<br />
CHIEF BROWN: I think what concerns most <strong>of</strong> us, and that is, our rest homes.<br />
We have quite a number <strong>of</strong> rest homes and even for delinquent children, and I think<br />
the Bay State Club in going through those homes, and our public schools, found defects<br />
almost nil, which I think is a good point. We have received through our rest homes<br />
andl the school department 100 per cent cooperation. Every rest home has tire detection<br />
required by the State.<br />
MR. KEANY: I would like to say the Bay State Fire Prevention <strong>Association</strong> would<br />
like to inspect every town and every city but with our limited manpower naturally<br />
we have to confin~ o{a}~n@ections to towns around 1~,000 to 20,000 population. It<br />
would be ~ physically impossible for us to inspect the City <strong>of</strong> Worcester, so we try to<br />
limit it to towns under 20,000 people.<br />
CHIEF MILTON C. ANDREWS, <strong>New</strong> Bedford: What is the policy <strong>of</strong> insurance<br />
companies in relation to claims where a fire is caused from the violation <strong>of</strong> laws, such<br />
as inflammable fluids? Second, what is the policy in regard to paying claims where a<br />
fire was caused from burning <strong>of</strong>f paint on the outside <strong>of</strong> buildings?<br />
MR. WESTERVELT: Let me take the last part first..He is going to collect his loss.<br />
If it occurs because <strong>of</strong> workmanship there is no reason why he shouldn’t collect. On<br />
the other hand there is always the possibility that subjugation could be taken agains.t<br />
the person in case <strong>of</strong> gross negligence. There is nothing in the policy which claims<br />
refuge because <strong>of</strong> violation <strong>of</strong> the law.<br />
Now there may be--and I don’t know the particular policy contracts--a violation<br />
<strong>of</strong> policy .contract and if there be a violation <strong>of</strong> policy contract the company is within<br />
its rights to hold <strong>of</strong>f payment <strong>of</strong> the claim. Whether it be increased hazard or any<br />
other policy violation, but violation <strong>of</strong> law per se is not reason for violation <strong>of</strong> claim.<br />
CHIEF CORCORAN, <strong>New</strong>ton: Is it under a mutual agreement with the mutual<br />
insurance companies that the owner <strong>of</strong> a home who is going to have a paint job done,<br />
that he notify the insurance company together with the Chief?<br />
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Rankin’s Jenney Service Station<br />
B. F. Goodrich Tires and Batteries<br />
258 WASHINGTON ST., WELLESLEY HILLS<br />
Tel. WE 3-2317<br />
ROCKOOD BUICK INCo<br />
BABSON PARK AVENUE<br />
WELLESLEY HILLS~ iVIASS.<br />
Telephone WEllesley 5-1866 5-2755<br />
"Diehl~s Dependable Deliveries"<br />
F. DIEHL & SON~ INC.<br />
Coal - W’ood - Grain - Fuel Oil - Lumber . Building Materials<br />
180 LINDEN STREET WELLESLEY,. MASS.<br />
WEllesley 5-1530 Natick 2000<br />
Compliments <strong>of</strong><br />
WELLESLEY HILLS MARKET,<br />
"EVERY~THING GOOD TO EAT"<br />
251 WASHINGTON STREET WELLESLEY HILLS, MASS.<br />
Telephone WEllesley 5-3300<br />
CAMBRIDGE PLATING COMPANY<br />
I NCORPORATED<br />
"Catering to Industry Since 1900"<br />
Telephone TR 6-0478<br />
78-84 PROSPECT STREET CAMBRIDGE 39, MASS.<br />
PERSONAL FLOWER SERVICE<br />
578 MAIN STREET<br />
WAtertown 4-2474<br />
162<br />
WATERTOWN, MASS.<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF ~IRE CHIEFS<br />
CHAIRMAN ERSI
NEW EN, GLA~ND ASSOCIATION OF TIRE CHIEFS<br />
BERYL DAVID GORIN HARRY N. GORIN. FRANK LEEDER<br />
H. N. Gorin & Leeder Management (30.<br />
Realtors: Construction~ Appraisals~ Management<br />
.Coolidge Corner -- Arcade Building<br />
THREE-EIGHTEEN HARVARD STREET, BRO’OKLINE 46, MASS.<br />
Tel. LO 6-7010<br />
MILTON F. REYNOLDS & SON<br />
:.<br />
ContractorsmGenera! Repairs--Builders<br />
KENT STREET, BROOKLINE, MASS.<br />
Telephone BE 2-4088--BE 2-4150<br />
THE BEACONSFIELD HOTEL<br />
ARNOLD R. KERRY, General Manager<br />
1731 BEACON STREET<br />
Tel. LO 6-6380<br />
BROOKLINE 46, MASS.<br />
COMPLIMENTS OF<br />
SHAWMUT, Inc.<br />
Manufacturers <strong>of</strong> MCKem - Vanta<br />
Children’s Outer and Underwear<br />
STOUGHTON, MASS. WALTHAM, MASS.<br />
BROCKTON, MASS. PAWTUCKET, R. ~.<br />
WAL-LEX RECREATION CENTER<br />
800 LEXINGTON STREET<br />
144 MOODY STREET<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong>’s Finest Roller Skating Rink<br />
38 Streamlined Bowling Alleys<br />
Phone WA 5-?0"70 - WA 5-152"7 - WA 5-8045<br />
JOG-TOGS, Inc.<br />
Tel. WA 5-8240<br />
WALTHAM, MASS.<br />
WALTHAM, MASS.
NEW ENC~LAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
future disasters. We must be sure this information reaches the other Fire Chiefs so<br />
that they and their communities pr<strong>of</strong>it ,by what we have had to learn the hardi way.<br />
I understand tliere is a large fire in Boston today--the headlines tomorrow will be the<br />
next one.<br />
There never was a nicer summer day in Worcester than June 9th. I left the <strong>of</strong>fice<br />
at five o’clock. I proceeded toward home in the opposite direction from the disaster<br />
area--travelling probably a mile toward the South end <strong>of</strong> the city while the disaster<br />
was occurring in the North end. Without any warning whatsoever my car radio (i<br />
was in the <strong>of</strong>ficial car) announced that there was an A. D. T. alarm in the new Norton<br />
Plant (situated directly in the path <strong>of</strong> the tornado). That would call for sending two<br />
companies, one engine, one ladder, and a district chief. This .still alarm that occurred<br />
drew the two companies out to the new Bond Street Plant which, incidentally, was<br />
damaged, to the extent <strong>of</strong> one million dollars, but it would be a two-mile run for the<br />
district chief who was radio-equipped and a three-minute run for the nearest engine<br />
company which was also radio-equipped. I mention the radios because they enabled<br />
me to communicate and receive messages almost instantly. ~<br />
Immediately on receiving the first still alarm, it was followed by a radio cut-in by<br />
the operator, t-It said, "We now have an A. D. T. alarm from the old Norton Company’s<br />
plant and we will send, two additional companie, s’, and asked the district chief<br />
if he could take care <strong>of</strong> the two fires. He responded that t~e.hadn’t~gotten into the ar~a<br />
as yet but would look at the first one and, if possi.ble, cover the second one also.<br />
A few moments later the district chief saw the area on fire--it is on rising ground<br />
--and he radiod in that there was a bad fire breaking out in the Francis Street area and<br />
to send out a box alarm immediately. I had received all that on my radio while I was<br />
travelling about one block. This is how fast this sequence <strong>of</strong> events occurred.<br />
The box alarm meant we would get four more water line companies, two ladder<br />
companies, a deputy chief, a rescue squad and the protective department. Without<br />
getting into the thing at all, gentlemen, you can see we have now used up ele*en companies,<br />
a deputy chief and a district chief and we haven’t st&rtid to work yet.<br />
I should tell you at this time that the Worcester Fire Department consists <strong>of</strong> thirty<br />
active companies, ten ladder companies, nineteen water lines, engine and hose and a<br />
rescue company.<br />
Following the calling <strong>of</strong> ~he box and the deputy chief leaving quarters and travelling<br />
about three minutes apparently, he afterwards told me he could see the large rising<br />
cloud <strong>of</strong> dense ,black smoke which I also saw very quickly later when headed into that<br />
area. As soon as he detected this disturbing sight and sensed what was happening<br />
(whatever it was) he called on his radio to the fire department, "You had better get<br />
hold <strong>of</strong> the Chief. He should know what is happening out here." He was still a mile<br />
and a half away from the area. I cut in to tell him I was on my way out because <strong>of</strong><br />
receipt <strong>of</strong> those various messages. I had told the driver to swing around the block and<br />
start heading out there.<br />
This will all fit in, gentlemen, with the timing shown in the Worcester Fire Department<br />
¯ record. We find that the time records read quite efficiently, as you shall see<br />
when I give them to you. ...... , ....<br />
When I cut in and told the d.eputy~ chief that I was on my way out I did not<br />
know what the time was, but as I proceeded there the picture began to develop very<br />
rapidly on the radio. I cannot speak too highly <strong>of</strong> the service rendered by the radio.<br />
It was the one cutstanding factor in keeping the department coordinated.<br />
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NEW ENGL&ND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
St~rlin9 Insulation Manufacturin9 Co.<br />
INSULATION HEADQUARTERS<br />
"The Most Complete Line <strong>of</strong> Insulation Products in the Industry"<br />
14-4 MOODY STREET- WALTHAM, MASS.<br />
Phone: WAltham 5-536-/<br />
840 MAIN STREET<br />
4<br />
am uper lar et<br />
Compliments <strong>of</strong><br />
Carlsons’ Garnetting Mills~ Inco<br />
WALTHAM, MASS.<br />
?..3 SUMMER AVENUE WALTHAM, MASS.<br />
WA 5-2590<br />
Compliments <strong>of</strong><br />
B. C. AMES CO.<br />
Micrometer Dial Indicators and Micrometer Dial Gauges<br />
AMES STREET WALTHAM 54, MASS.<br />
WA 5-0095<br />
AMES PRECISION MACHINE WORKS<br />
Bench Lathes ¯ Bench Milling Machines ¯ Hardness Testers<br />
WALTHAM 54, MASS., U.S.A.<br />
Factory and General Office: 131 Lexington St. Tel. WAltham 5-6560<br />
COMPLI MENTS OF<br />
NEW ENGLAND MICA CO., INCo<br />
WALTHAM, MASS.<br />
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NEW ENGLAND A, ssOCIATION OF ~IRE CHIEFS.<br />
There are three main through streets that run laterally across the devastated area.<br />
They are fine streets to make the approach. The devastated~ area crossing them was<br />
probably half a mile. My first thought was to follow the direct line to the box alarm-that<br />
would be on the street which Lt. Maloney described as having been "bogged down"<br />
by traffic. I got reports from the deput;# chief that he was having trouble getting<br />
through streets. Trees were down. I began to notice tremendous activity as I got close<br />
to the area. It Was beginning to be a problem--and the outstanding fear I felt during<br />
the entire situation was that I would get tied-up in traffic and be unable *o move ai’ound.<br />
For the first several hours, the one thing I valuedl most was to be able to move<br />
around and by means <strong>of</strong> the radio, be the hub <strong>of</strong> over-all Coordination <strong>of</strong> the different<br />
currents <strong>of</strong> thought; making decisions that would send companies, from one point to<br />
another and take care <strong>of</strong> the requests coming in from so many units <strong>of</strong> the department.<br />
I was in perfect contact with every radio-equipped car. I was in perfect contact with<br />
my <strong>of</strong>fice, the fire alarm divisions and maintenance division.<br />
Getting back to the traffic and to give you the picture, it is c!ear how radio communications<br />
aided me in making decisions.. Being afraid <strong>of</strong> the traffic tie-up and knowing<br />
what companies I had in the area, as previously described, I diverted from the<br />
first approach, whihh was via the most. northerly through street. I had my eye on<br />
the cloud <strong>of</strong> black smoke and at the time it was increasing ’so I crossed over *o the<br />
middle road which was on the high plateau land <strong>of</strong> the area. Here I might say that as<br />
the tornado came in from the north it first hit, we will say, the lower level (Boylston<br />
Street) and then with an upward stroke it swept over the top plateau and then down<br />
over the further slope where it struck the Great Brook Valley one thousand unit housing<br />
development, with which you are familiar.<br />
I tried to hit into the middle road--at least that was my intention--but this was<br />
not carried out. The reports, coming in on the radio were frantically calling for<br />
bulances and describing the fact that the fire was getting ou* <strong>of</strong> control and further,<br />
that the streets were being plugged up--some radio-equipped fire apparatus advised<br />
how they were hemmed in. The picture finally developed that there were many injuries<br />
to person’s. I knew a large number <strong>of</strong> person.s lived in the housing project and<br />
the description <strong>of</strong> the injuries, was so tragic that I changed my plan again and went<br />
to the third through street--which would take me out to the housing project.<br />
When I give you the time later you will see that this did not take very long, but<br />
that was the order <strong>of</strong> my thinking and my actions up to that point. Arriving at the<br />
housing project, *here was a scene that was really tragic. You have heard it described<br />
in various news stories, but those descriptions won’t ever cover it. It is like black-andwhite<br />
film as. compared with colored film.<br />
I will try to give you a little <strong>of</strong> it to this extent, because it helped me to form<br />
opinions so quickly. There is a broad--pretty close to 100-foot--street that passes<br />
what is the main entrance to th eh0using project. Keep in mind that there were 1,000<br />
apartments, and when this tornado hit, not one apartment escaped. There was not one<br />
pane <strong>of</strong> glass which hadn’t been broken. In most apartments there was a large picture<br />
window at one outside wall with one opposite on the other outside wall, through which<br />
the wind swept and cleaned out everything. There were injured people in every apartment.<br />
Can you picture 1,000 apartments emptying out their people and converging<br />
onto just the one main entrance? That situation just naturally took them all down the<br />
one street; they were walking up abreast, almost in parade, only so badly disorganized<br />
and hopelessly covered with dust. Everyone was covered with gray, brownish, muddy<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF I~IRE CHIEFS<br />
CHAMBERLAIN’S<br />
General Office: 24 SOUTH MARKET ST., BOSTON 9, MASS.<br />
o/<br />
BOSTON m CAMBRIDGE -- BROOKLINE<br />
GEORGE E. WARREN CORPOR..~TION<br />
Coal<br />
GENERAL OFFICES:<br />
PARK SQUARE BUILDING 3 i ST. JAM£S AVENUE, BOSTON, MASS.<br />
CABLE ADDRESS: WARRENCOAL<br />
BRANCH OFFICES:<br />
<strong>New</strong> York City Kittanning, Pa. Scranton, Pa. Philadelphia, Pa. Norfolk, Va.<br />
C. H. CRONIN, Inc.<br />
Plumbing~ Heating~ Power Piping<br />
Fire ProtecHon Systems, Automatic Sprinkler Systems<br />
<strong>New</strong> York Office: 60 East 42nd St.<br />
12 BYRON STREET BOSTON 8, MASS.<br />
BOSTON<br />
STRAZZULLA BROSo CO.<br />
Growers. Packers and Distributors <strong>of</strong> Tomatoes<br />
Extermination and Fumigation<br />
SAFETY FUMIGANT COMPANY<br />
Sole Manufacturers <strong>of</strong> "SaJti-Fume ~ Briquettes<br />
MASS.<br />
158 STATE ST. BOSTON, MASS.<br />
Tel. RI 2-2820<br />
Factory at Hingham, Mass. Tel. Hingham ]199<br />
168
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEF,S<br />
dust; ragged, bleeding and injured~, and it stays in my memory because there were ram,<br />
ily groups. There was a woman with two or three children; there was a large boy<br />
helping a mother. It wasn’t a man’s group; it was a family group. One look at that,<br />
the number <strong>of</strong> people, the reports <strong>of</strong> the other areas, and my eyes on that increasing<br />
cloud .f9 black smoke and reports frdi~’ it! I was getting calls c0ntimially for more apparatus,<br />
and telling me <strong>of</strong> tragic injuries and property damage.<br />
There was one particular fellow that I had to quiet down. He was doing the best<br />
he could about the situation but he was using up valuable radio :_ti~me--which only<br />
showed: the stress he was under. Well, that one look, and the understanding and mental<br />
view I was ~ble to get from my radio, filled out the picture. I will give you the timing<br />
on it now, and you can judge it.<br />
There is a clock in the gym <strong>of</strong> l~he Assumption College (an electric clock) which<br />
stopped at five-twelve. Reviewing my lire department records, the box alarm which<br />
the first district chief called for came in at five-seventeen. At five-thirty I was at the<br />
point I have just described to you, and had those reflections. At live-thirty-live, according<br />
to our records, I called for a multiple-alarm status, called~ in all <strong>of</strong>f, duty firemen,<br />
called in all civil defen.se lire auxiliary, got the lire department ambulance to the point<br />
where the above-mentioned injured were immediately, and made a special request that<br />
am~bulances be sent from every surrounding town, adding, "You cannot get too many;<br />
quote my name in getting them." And if I may digress for a moment, in that call for<br />
ambulances, the Town <strong>of</strong> Webster, which.is about twenty miles away, sent one, and<br />
before the fellows in the lire d~epartment <strong>of</strong>fice who handled the out-<strong>of</strong>-own ambulance<br />
calls had completed calling the other communities, they heard the screeching <strong>of</strong> her<br />
brakes-outside the <strong>of</strong>fice windows. There were a couple <strong>of</strong> young fellows driving<br />
who claimed they had made .the trip in eleven minutes. I will be conservative and<br />
call it twenty-two minutes, and it might be right. We got live ambulances on those<br />
calls. That was just my own call, so don’t confuse it with the tremendous number that<br />
later came <strong>of</strong> a general and civil defense call.<br />
I have considera, ble data in my records that is coming together pretty much like the<br />
pieces in a jig-saw puzale. All have rendered reports to me telling everythingthey had<br />
done--from the time the aml~ulances came until they left town, etc. In an attempt to<br />
get the further record <strong>of</strong> the =thirty lire companes, I have had each company give me<br />
a record <strong>of</strong> all duty performed. It is surprising, but it does put the pieces together and<br />
the picture is formed.<br />
The area struck by the tornado is quite broad: the circumference, I should’ say, is<br />
live miles in travelling distance--because you do not have all through streets where<br />
you might like them, and the diameter is a mile and a half to two mlies. As I moved<br />
around through it and reflected afterwards, it was my impression, as I recalled the work,<br />
and my contact with all the various fire companies--"Where is Engine one, two and<br />
three, etc,"---in my mind, surprisingly, I could account for having seen andl contacted<br />
at some point in the di’saster area and knew something a.bout them all. I ’didn’t quite<br />
believe it might be that way. I had to see the record which; when it came in, showed<br />
that every one <strong>of</strong> the thirty companies sconer or later worked in the devastated area.<br />
While occupied with the actual disaster work I also was concerned with what was<br />
to be done a.bout protecting the res t<strong>of</strong> the city while this tremendous demand was on<br />
the department, and with thoughts <strong>of</strong> calling additional help from out <strong>of</strong> town. In<br />
such a situation it is a regular procedure in hte department to depend on the use <strong>of</strong> a<br />
limited number <strong>of</strong> well.maintain_ed but old reserve apparatus.<br />
169
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF I~IRE CHIEFS<br />
WALTER S.:~ATTRIDGE CO.<br />
t~StJ~VCE -~<br />
89 SROAD STREET<br />
Telephone HUbbard 2-1344<br />
BOSTON ~<br />
HAMILTON P. EDWARDS, President and Treasurer<br />
JAMES T.PHELPS &.EO.; Inc.~<br />
Established 1854<br />
Insurance o~-All Kinds ¯<br />
Telephone LAfayette 3-4930 r "<br />
33 BROAD STREET ¯ BOSTON 9, MASS.<br />
DEWICK& FLANDERS, Inc. " ~<br />
ESTABLISHED ] 902_<br />
Compliments <strong>of</strong> HAMILTON P..ED~VARDS," I~resident and Treasurer<br />
]48 STATE STREET . ¯ ¯ BOSTON 9, MASS.<br />
Teiephone LAfayette 3-5730<br />
O. H. JOHNSON<br />
EARL 3. d’ENTREMONT<br />
Klrkland 7-4"]90<br />
CAnton 6-0045-W<br />
O. A. JOHNSON AND CO., !NC..<br />
Insurance Adjustments - Construction Engineg~s " "<br />
Insurance Appraisals<br />
15~ MILK STREET Znd Floor BOSTON 9, MASS.<br />
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Telephone HUbbard 2-6078<br />
COMPLIMEN½S OF<br />
FRIEND<br />
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MILAN A. HEATH, Pres. and Gen. Mgr. -- MELVILLE F. HEATH, Vice-Pres.<br />
-.... ROBERT C. MOELLER, Vice-Pres.--MELVILLE F. HEATH JR., Secy.<br />
20 KILBY STREET BOSTON 9, MASS.<br />
" ~, = Tel. LA 3-7365<br />
170
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF I~IRE CHIEFS<br />
We have twelve spare trucks: pumpers, hose wagons and ladders.. We have a plan<br />
whereby at any multiple alarm the incoming shifts called for emergency duty will set<br />
them up. One <strong>of</strong> my orders was for the first chief <strong>of</strong>ficer that came in to concentrate<br />
on quarters in setting up spare pieces. As a matter <strong>of</strong> fact, an hour after the tornado<br />
struck--possibly an hour and a half we did have a box alarm fire. We needed four or<br />
five water lines, two pumpers. None <strong>of</strong> that assignment came from those already working<br />
in the devastated area.<br />
Now, as regards the fighting <strong>of</strong> the fire and the troubles involved--the greatest<br />
difficulty was experienced in getting in there. My deputy chief at the fire would: tell<br />
me what was going on and what progress they were making. I literally fought that fire<br />
by judging from the volume <strong>of</strong> smoke whether it was getting worse or not. While it was<br />
going the wrong way for a while I would ,cut in across, close enough to see the flames<br />
and the outside waterline companies, talk into the area with the deputy chief and move<br />
along. That is why the fire was under control before I got into the actual fire area<br />
for personal on-the-scene supervision.<br />
I considered my work primarily as co-ordinating, and I was in constant fear <strong>of</strong> get,<br />
ring penned in. ,Had that happened,, the co-ordination <strong>of</strong> the whole operation would<br />
have been badly affected. It was my spot--being the loose, flexible man. My driver<br />
worked beautifully with me. W’henever I left the car, he had a notebook ready, and<br />
when I came back to the car he had a series <strong>of</strong> messages, all urgent and importap:t, which<br />
I took care <strong>of</strong> on, the radio, one by one, as best I ’could. This method was repeated over<br />
and over again. I might add that part <strong>of</strong> our system in Worcester at a .fire is to have<br />
the Chief’s driver stay with the radio; so, as a result here, every time you spoke there<br />
was no delay, but a ,ready response and a solid line <strong>of</strong> communication. I just can’t say<br />
too much for the radio.<br />
Now the difficulties at the fire--the streets were obstructed to begin with. The<br />
companies went as far as they could with the apparatus--they crossed yards and over<br />
fences. We had four pumps working on the fire. The area was not our best one for<br />
water even under normal operations, andl what water there was, up in the high plateu<br />
area-~before described--we now lost entirely. The extensive, breaking <strong>of</strong> the domestic<br />
supply--and I noticed several hydrants were broken--depleted the water so we -had to<br />
go to a lower lever. Finally the fire engines struck a prevailing pressure <strong>of</strong> twenty<br />
pounds. It would have been more advantageous to work from the higher level, but<br />
the various companies did a tremendous job overcoming this and all other o,bstacles.<br />
"~Disasters just d~on’t come conveniently."<br />
I certainly have to thank every one <strong>of</strong> my men individually, because that is the<br />
kind <strong>of</strong> teamwork there was. We could never have done it alone, in any sense <strong>of</strong> the<br />
word, and it helped greatly that everybody pitched in. When people are available you<br />
have a fifty-man company instead <strong>of</strong> just the three or four-man crew that left the station.<br />
It is such aid as this that is needed under-i:hese devastated and: confusing conditions.<br />
A lot <strong>of</strong> people =can pull on a hose line without any training.<br />
I might just touch on the fact that the ambulances did arrive that I called for,<br />
and I stayed at that point, earlier described, after sending the alarms.. It was such a<br />
natural loading place--four ambulances with all the mass <strong>of</strong> ~iople walking toward<br />
them--that the ambulances, they tell me, just turned aroun& at the common point and<br />
the people filled them. I know that it was what happened to in) ambulance. It came<br />
along, turned around, and we opened the back doors... A young mother with baby in<br />
.£z~s; a ~girl holding her right arm and one hanging onto the _m_pther_?_s l~le_g, got.:i_n- 7<br />
i71
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
EAGLE SHOE MFG. COMPANY, INC.<br />
MANUFACTURERS OF BOYS ~ SHOES<br />
93 PARIS ST. EVERETT, MASS.<br />
Phone EVerett 9-0331<br />
186 LINCOLN ST. BOSTON, MASS.<br />
Liberty 2-4830<br />
BOSTON NASH G:Oo<br />
NISH ATAMIAN, President and Treasurer<br />
1075 COMMONWEALTH AVENUE BOSTON 15, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
Directors: FORREST A. CLARK, J. DUDLEY CLARI~," MERRILL GRISWOLD<br />
HOWARD J. SCHRAMM, GRAFTON FAY--HOWARD J. SCHRAMM, President<br />
Boston’s Only Intown Ford Service Station<br />
HOOVER MOTORS, Inc.<br />
FORD<br />
20 BUCKINGHAM STREET<br />
BGSTON 16<br />
In the National Garage at Back Bay S~ation Telephone KE 6-9300reConnecting All Depts.<br />
44 FARNSWORTH STREET<br />
B. E. PETERSON. Inc.<br />
Heavy Sheet Metal ~Vork<br />
Cutting - Forming - Welding -- Stainless Steel ~:~. -~,..<br />
Tel. HAncock 6-09B’]<br />
IOHN D. COCORI$, Manager<br />
ATHENS.OLYMPIA CAFE<br />
A REAL EUROPEAN SPOT<br />
51 STUART STREET, BOSTON<br />
ROBERT M. BENT CO., Inc,<br />
NOILS " WOOL " WASTE " GARNETTS<br />
RAYON ¯ SILK ¯ SPECIALTIES<br />
326-330 CONGRESS STREET, BOSTON, MASS.<br />
Tdephone HUBbard 7489<br />
172<br />
BOSTON 10, MASS.
NEW EN’GLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
just walked right into the open door <strong>of</strong> the ambulance and were whisked away to the<br />
hospital.<br />
Leaving that point--which I consider a critical one--I knew that the apparatus<br />
was coming up, and much <strong>of</strong> it would land, out there where I had started my multiple<br />
alarm. I watched the fire growing at the time and saw that the injured people were<br />
getting a lot <strong>of</strong> help; a lot <strong>of</strong> people were coming in, and the ambulances, were showing<br />
up at a pretty good rate, so, that first aid seemed to be one thing that would be well<br />
taken care <strong>of</strong>. I then had to stop unnecessary fire companies from coming down there.<br />
I had already detailed some to do the work as best they could;, but my most imperative<br />
thought at that moment was with ways to get the fire under control. My deputy chief<br />
up there in the plateau area was calling for more help, and with that thought I raced<br />
back a mile and a half to where I knew would be a main junction. If responding com,<br />
panies were to take the road on the right they would all come out to the housing project.<br />
The project was .composed ’0f buildings <strong>of</strong> the best masonry construction. I had<br />
ascertainedl that there was no fire. The road to the left <strong>of</strong> the "Y" was the one which<br />
ted to the. fire area. I reached that junction, in time to divert five companies to the left.<br />
My deputy chief told me it was wonderful to be able to call for help and get it so readily.<br />
A company would show up tugging a line <strong>of</strong> hose by hand, and he was pleased in telling<br />
me how well it worked out that way.<br />
An hour later the factory which had had the ro<strong>of</strong> blown .<strong>of</strong>f reported that there<br />
was a tire a half a mile away from where I was (now supervising the large fire area just<br />
described). The fire alarm advised me a factory wa’s now on fire, and I said I would’<br />
get over there. I could see so,me smoke, and getting down there found a three-story<br />
wooden factory in which later reports showed could not have ;been more conducive<br />
to a quick,starting, fire. It was an industrial plant with a supply <strong>of</strong> paints, oils and<br />
thinners, and a targe quantity <strong>of</strong> oily and paint-soiled canvas stored in the .first story,<br />
The fire built up quickly, and I--being the one in that.position and with the radio-called<br />
for the box alarm about which I told you.<br />
I also received a call that there was a fire in the Assumption College, which was<br />
terribly wrecked. I worked my way out there, but I didn’t see any fire. I saw apitiful<br />
condition <strong>of</strong> mutilated human beings. The first thing I saw was a broad platform truck<br />
on which bodies, covered with dirt and blood, were piled like cord wood. I think their<br />
first purpose was to get the people to the hospital, but as they piled them up it became<br />
a platform from which the ambulances worked. Ci’here were ambulances which took<br />
away probably ten or fifteen bodies <strong>of</strong>f that truck.<br />
I was. concerned with the repo,rted fire but couldn’t see any tire at that building.<br />
It is a five-story building, all brick, about two hundred feet tong and one hundred~ feet<br />
wide. The ,fire alarm had told me that there was a fire in the boiler room. I drove<br />
around to the rear corner, and I .could see a fire truck at the .other end <strong>of</strong> the building.<br />
There was a lot <strong>of</strong> rubble and an imp’c.ssible driveway surface between us. I was able to<br />
use my radio right from that point. = I asked, if the truck at the other end <strong>of</strong> the college<br />
had a radio. They answered back that they were a company from five or six miles away<br />
in the south end <strong>of</strong> our city--Engine .Co. No. 5. I asked if there was a fire. They said<br />
there was one in the boiler room but it was all under =control. "Can you take control <strong>of</strong><br />
it? .... Yes." That is the way the thing went. At one time I had a pumper set in at<br />
the swimming pool <strong>of</strong> the College with an assured water supply.<br />
Then there was another serious in-between period--standing alert and guarding.<br />
When we had finished our real urgent control <strong>of</strong> the situation night was beginning:
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
Ship’ a!le , staurant<br />
Where Shipmates Meet jor Good Food<br />
Known in Every Port in the IVorld<br />
494-500 SUMMER STREET Ladies Invited BOSTON 10, MASS.<br />
THE 57 RESTAURANT, Inc.<br />
57 CARVER STREET BOSTON, MASS.<br />
Telephone LI 2-2487<br />
Course<br />
TOWN HOUSE<br />
JOHN T. MACRIS, Manager<br />
Sirloin Steak ~1 85<br />
COMPLETE DINNERS []<br />
100 WARRENTON STREET (Opposite Plymouth Theatre) BOSTON, MASS.<br />
HUbbard 2-0930<br />
alton’<br />
LUNCH CO.<br />
O~fice: 1083 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON 18, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
Washington Street - 437 Boylston Street - ~40 Commonwealth Avenue<br />
204 Dartmouth Street<br />
21-23 HARRISON AVE.<br />
JOY YONG INC.<br />
Chinese and American Restaurant<br />
Fine Selection <strong>of</strong> Wines and Liquors<br />
~’elephone HAncock 6.6627<br />
174<br />
BOSTON, MASS.
NEW ENGLAND A,SSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
fall, and .there was a remarkable accounting for missing persons. There was. only one<br />
missing--a baby recorded out in H.olden. There were only about three unidentified;<br />
so you can see how rapidly they got names and numbers together. As long as you<br />
can balance that sheet--as I h~d to. tell some <strong>of</strong> .my men--that was the way we must be<br />
guided in our work. Some companies, wanted to search one cellar hole after another<br />
without anything definite to go on. You could search in .one cellar hole all night and<br />
not be sure a person or a body was there.<br />
By this time the last group <strong>of</strong> .distressed people hadi disappeared. They had been<br />
absorbed into friendly homes, and thevarious organized group had taken care <strong>of</strong> them.<br />
I heard the story from an employee <strong>of</strong> the Y. M. C. A. that they had spread mattresses<br />
on the floor with blankets over a wide area <strong>of</strong> .the gym. No one ¯ came in. At least we<br />
did have facilities., and they seemed to have been adequate to take care .<strong>of</strong> them that<br />
first night.<br />
That first night was just a beginning. It was just a stopping <strong>of</strong> the immediate<br />
effects. When dawn ,came we really had our job in picking up the pieces. Of course,<br />
I had all my firemen orr duty. There was a large ,fire station located near the devastated<br />
~rea--the station from which the first piece had come. I used~ that as a headquarters<br />
for ’as many as ten or ,twelve pieces, o,f fire apparatus. I used the same point for firemen<br />
to report to who were unable to trace the location <strong>of</strong> their fire companies. The informati.on<br />
was there as to where the various companies were from time to time and we<br />
were able to, direct personnel. From this point I was able to direct apparatus from one<br />
place to another.<br />
I remember sendin~ a company from Assumption College-over to the housing project,<br />
a distance <strong>of</strong> two miles, where they continued to do good work in an, other area.<br />
I hadl been told there was a fire in the project. There was no fire <strong>of</strong> serious, consequence,<br />
but they did put out a fire in one <strong>of</strong> the apartments.<br />
I was. happy to be able, as so.on as possible, to distribute my .chief oNcers so that I<br />
had one in each area to ,co-ordinate and work with me. Finally, when the darkness<br />
came, gentlemen, that was the end <strong>of</strong> the immediate stopping process. I had a varied<br />
experience from there . .on. I maintained--and am .still maintaining--an around-the-<br />
clock radi,o-equipped engine company at what we call a field station, right out in the<br />
open air in the heart .<strong>of</strong> the dlevastated area. Two engine companies iwork ther.e halfa-day<br />
each, andtwo ,other engine companies work a half-a-fright shift each--to cover the<br />
twenty,four,hour detail.<br />
In the disaster, work a lot <strong>of</strong> hose was used. The damage to ~he department I have<br />
estimated at between $25,000 and $3.0,000-.-.I have ordered three thousand feet <strong>of</strong> hose,<br />
tw, o, and,a,half,inch; and seven hundred and tlfty:<strong>of</strong> the three-inch, just as a replacement--the<br />
result . <strong>of</strong>.damage from nails and spikes and being run over. I figure I have<br />
lost thirty tires, due to punctures. My me.chanics made repairs right .on the<br />
field. We vcould take the tires ~ <strong>of</strong>f the trucks and lug them to the nearest filling station,<br />
and .call for ’them later. One particular engine company had three tires flat. I was<br />
in fear <strong>of</strong> my own tires f’~tiling me, but Lord knows it was the etticiency <strong>of</strong> our maintenance<br />
division which paid <strong>of</strong>f. Twenty fire-alarm boxes w.ere damaged or destroyed.<br />
I am ordering thirty thousand~ feet <strong>of</strong> aerial wire. Tools and equipment were taken <strong>of</strong>f<br />
the ladder trucks and used by people for a good purpose, but did_not always find their<br />
way back t.o the apparatus.<br />
And finally, I could go on ~nd on but I realize you understand quite a bit<br />
..what happened, between the lines<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF .FIRE CHIEFS<br />
Pr¢!CrrCd Utilities Manu{acturin9 Corp.<br />
~ndustrial Oil Burners<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> Office: 839 BEACON ST., BOSTON 15, MASS.<br />
Facto.ry: DANBURY, CONN.<br />
STANLEY SUPER SERVICE, Inc.<br />
24 Hour Towing Service Anywhere in <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong><br />
NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY, AND PENNSYLVANIA<br />
DAYS: ALgonquin 4-9624 - STadium 2-4090<br />
NIGHTS: STadium 2-0569 - ALgonquin 4-3601<br />
Insured and Bonded<br />
500 WESTERN AVENUE BRIGHTON 35, MASS.<br />
ANDREW T. JOHNSON COMPANY, INC.<br />
-.- Blueprinters -.-<br />
Reproductions . Black and White Prints . Planographing . Photostat Copies<br />
Drawing Materials<br />
173 Milk Street - I~ Tremont Place and 103 <strong>New</strong>bury Street, Boston, Mass.<br />
Telephone: CApitol 7.1619 Connecting Both Plants<br />
JAMES BLISS & CO., INC.<br />
Marine Hardware and Boat Supplies<br />
SCALE MODEL FIRE APPARATUS FITTINGS, KITS AND<br />
MATERIALS FOR EARLY AMERICAN ENGINES<br />
Also: Kits for Model Ships, Planes, Autos<br />
342 ATLANTIC AVE., at Rowe’s Wharf~BOSTON 10, MASS.<br />
RICHARD P. HALLOWELL, 2nd DURHAM JONES<br />
FRANK A. MASON<br />
HALLOWELL, JONES & DONALD<br />
Wool Merchants<br />
253 SUMMER STREET BOSTON 10, MASS.<br />
JOHN IRVING SHOE CORP.<br />
General Offices and lVarehouse<br />
119 BEACH ST. BOSTON, MASS.<br />
Telephone Liberty 2~2140<br />
176
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION, OF I~IRE CHIEFS<br />
There was one tragic loss in our equipment that speaks for itself. I have had an<br />
inventory taken, and all <strong>of</strong> my companies reported, to me all tools and equipment missing.<br />
In ~i)ery case they reported that their blankets were missing. You know what<br />
that means. Thank you, gentlemen! (Applause)<br />
CHAIRMAN WOOLLEY: If this will accomplish nothing else but having Chief Travers<br />
talk, I am sure we have done a good job, and it was worth all the time and effort<br />
that th~ committee has put in. I want to thank ’Chief Travers in the name <strong>of</strong> the panel,<br />
and I .e.nly wish we could sl? here and listen all the rest <strong>of</strong> the session because I am sure<br />
it would be pr<strong>of</strong>itable. I only hope we will be able to publish this whole story--amplitied<br />
a bit in "Fire Engineerin.g"---bec~use this is one <strong>of</strong> the epics, <strong>of</strong> the fire service.<br />
At least we owe it to the ,Panel to discuss many <strong>of</strong> the questions preseented them<br />
from the audience. Let me make you acquainted with members <strong>of</strong> our panel. Those<br />
participants with me are Chief Horace S. Jose, So. Portland, Maine (applause) ; Chief<br />
Walter R. Messer<strong>of</strong> Keene, <strong>New</strong> ’Hampshire (applause) ;Chief John E. Keefe, Bellows<br />
.Falls, Vermont (applause); Chief Walter R. Murray <strong>of</strong> Weymouth, Massachusetts<br />
(applause) ; Chief Lewis A. Marshall <strong>of</strong> Providence, Rhode Island (applause) ; Chief<br />
Francis Scully, Waterbury, ,Conn,. (applause); Fire Marshal W. J. Scott, Ontario, Canada<br />
(applause).<br />
In preparing this Panel, we asked each one <strong>of</strong> them for ideas and questions that<br />
could ~be discussed here. Since .they sent in" their recommendations, we have tried to<br />
check them with other questions that would be <strong>of</strong> interest to all <strong>of</strong> you.<br />
I would like to add. a word or two here. Since Chief Travers has brought up the<br />
questions ,<strong>of</strong> mutual aid ~and amb[llance work, one question submitted by Walter Messer<br />
is particularly proper: "Is the fire department the proper agency to handle ambulance<br />
service?" Chief Messer asked this question, and I want him to take a minute or two to<br />
give his opinion, and then I want to hear from one or two members <strong>of</strong> the Panel.<br />
CHIEF MESSER: Roi, this question was brought out in the idea that our department<br />
gave up the ambulance service and a local undertaker has purchased ambulances in trying<br />
.to fill ifi the service for ambulance duty in the town. In many <strong>of</strong> the cities throughout<br />
our area, many ambulances were handled by the fire service and it takes many more<br />
men in the fire service to handle ambulance service.<br />
I would like a few points on whether it would be feasible tO have ambulances in<br />
the fire service. Every time there is an ambulance call, the personnel from the fire department<br />
is called~.<br />
CHAIRMAN W00LLEY: Thank, you, Chief. I believe the idea is this: You have two<br />
phases to this ambulance question. One is, shall the fire department have its own, ambulances<br />
and, two, should the fire department itself or through a committee or bureau,<br />
operate the ambulances fv,r the municipality--in other words, dispatch them and operate<br />
them.<br />
Let’s take the first .one. I am wondering if there are any questions? Is there anyone<br />
on the Pan,el who would disagree with the idea that all ,fire departmeents should<br />
have an ambulance, or more than one? Anyone?<br />
CHIEF LEWIS A. MARSHALL, Providence, Rhode Island~: I think at the present moment<br />
with our rescue service we are almost providing an ambulance--and the rescue<br />
service is building up all the time. It has built up from probably two hundred runs a<br />
year, and I checked befgre: I left the city, and this year we will. have._w.ell over eight
NEW EN,GLA_~D ASSOCIATION OF ~’IRE CHIEFS<br />
PEERLESS PRESSED METAL CORP.<br />
191" ARLINGTON STREET<br />
WATERTOWN, MASS.<br />
=EASTERN FIXTURE COMPANY, INC.<br />
Manufacturers <strong>of</strong> Fluorescent Lighting Fixtures<br />
170 VERNON STREET, BOSTO.N 20, MASS. ~<br />
Telephone GArrison 7-2205<br />
ARK’LES SWITCH CORP.<br />
51 WATER STREET<br />
WATERTOWN, MASSACH USETTS<br />
WATERTOWN CLOTHING CO~~<br />
CLOTHING FOR THE FAMI.LY -- =<br />
Retail at lVholesale Prices<br />
214 DEXTER AVENUE<br />
WATERTOWN~ ~MASS.<br />
WAtertown 4-8240<br />
MANUFACTURERS ¯ IMPORTERS ¯ "EXPORTERS<br />
L. W. FERDINAND & CO. INC.<br />
FERDICO ¯ JEFFERY<br />
Marine Glues and Waterpro<strong>of</strong> Cements<br />
M!CA LANE, NEWTON LOWER FALLS 62, MASS.<br />
2 BRIGHTON STREET<br />
CLOVERLEAF<br />
iCaterers<br />
VINCENT R. CELLUCCI<br />
Bus. : BElmont 5-6218 - Res.’ WAltham 5-2936-M<br />
BELMONT "/8, MASS.
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
hundred runs, so it would seem that .the rescue service is going to be built up in the<br />
fire service. It is called upon for every practical sickness and medical aid.<br />
F’ven the &)ctors call for oxygen, so actually the rescue service is building itself up<br />
into an ambulance service. Ninety-five per cent <strong>of</strong> all the .runs that the rescue companies<br />
make has a’bsolutely nothing to do with the fire service, but it is a public service<br />
and it does a tremen, dous good in public relations for the fire department. I don’t know<br />
<strong>of</strong> anything that is building up ’better public relations than the ambulance.<br />
CHAIRMAN WOOLLEY: Chief Marshall i~troduces another idea. In order to arrive<br />
at a clear definition <strong>of</strong> this problem we mu~.t consider the small-town fire services, as<br />
well as those <strong>of</strong> the big cities. The question is: where does ambulance services and<br />
rescue .services begin and end? Many cities like to have rescue units d~ ambulance work.<br />
Many other .chiefs claim if their emerg~t~cy .or rescue unit attempts to do duty as an<br />
am’bulance, they lose all its utility as a rescue unit which it would have when located<br />
on the fire ground.<br />
Also, as the Chief has emphasized so well: the question <strong>of</strong> public relations and <strong>of</strong><br />
building goodwill for us is a vital one. Now, since the Panel .doesn’t want to discuss<br />
this at too great length, is there anyone on the floor with a thought? In speaking from<br />
the fl,oor, I would like to, <strong>of</strong>fer this thought: Stand up to be seen; speak up to be heard,<br />
and sit dgown to be remembered.<br />
CHIEF HUGH L. F.AMES, Reading: In my town I have been approached several<br />
times to have the fire department take over the ambulance. I tell them we will take it<br />
over if we are provided with men. I know some departmeents that render ambulance<br />
service and cram their manpower to the extent that, should anything serious happen in<br />
the fire-fighting line, they would be out <strong>of</strong> luck. We must have the men.if we are gc.ing<br />
to render am’bulance service.<br />
CHIEF JOSElbH O. MOWR¥, Attleboro: We took over the ambulance service for<br />
the hospital two years ago, and it has ,built ,our public prestige 100 per cent. We did<br />
not receive the man-power; we are doing that at thte expense <strong>of</strong> putting a piece <strong>of</strong> apparatus<br />
.out ,o,f service at times, but you can always put in the multiple alarm and call<br />
in the <strong>of</strong>f-shift.<br />
.CHIEF WALTER R, MURRAY, Weymoouth, Massachusetts: The first <strong>of</strong> this year<br />
I happenedl to be a member Of a committee in our town to weigh whether the town<br />
should accept as a gift an ambulance. During the war the town raised funds for a<br />
veterans’ home-coming committee. It seems they had quite some difficulty in, finding a<br />
proper metho,d <strong>of</strong> spending this, so the money laid there.<br />
Last year they attempted to take definite steps to do something with this money,<br />
and it was turned over to the veteran organizations. They came up with the thought<br />
they wouldl like to donate an ambulan, ce to the town. The town then formed a committee-<strong>of</strong><br />
which I was .one--to make a stud,y so that the town meeting could take<br />
definite action. We put quite some study into it, but we did not make any recommendations.<br />
We came up with the pros and cons <strong>of</strong> the matter and then presented it in that<br />
way ’before the town.<br />
The ambulance would, <strong>of</strong> course, coat the town nothing, but its actual cost would be<br />
just short <strong>of</strong> $10,000. However, the donors <strong>of</strong> the am,bulance wanted it manned 24<br />
hours a. day--for which, we felt, there should be at least two men on duty at all times.<br />
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Under our fire department working hours that would mean six men. We attempted to<br />
be fair in the questions <strong>of</strong> maintenance, garaging, etc., and all other problems.<br />
gave the advantages <strong>of</strong> having i t , and the disadvantages. We put it in an impartial way<br />
before the town, meeting--which meant the people themselves..<br />
The people voted against accepting an ambulance f.o,r nothing. It was the people<br />
speaking, and that is why I wish to put the thought before you men.<br />
CNAIRMAN WOOLLY.Y: I would like to explore this further, but we are going to<br />
have to cover many things. Any <strong>of</strong> you who are interested in the development <strong>of</strong> ambulance<br />
work can take a leaf from the .:bc,oks <strong>of</strong> the ambula~¢e:2seryices <strong>of</strong> Pennsylvania<br />
and <strong>New</strong> Jersey. Both <strong>of</strong> them operate many services. The. que_~ion is, whoShall<br />
the am~bulance? How shall it be paid for and .charged for? The money may come<br />
from a variety <strong>of</strong> .sources. We could discuss this at great length.<br />
You can get irif6rmation thro~ugh our ,<strong>of</strong>fice .<strong>of</strong> Fire Engineering, or yours truly,<br />
your technical consultant. There is an organization known as the International Rescue<br />
andl First Aid <strong>Association</strong> and its data is available to you.<br />
Now we have a question which I think simply cannot be by-passed. In fact, a<br />
number <strong>of</strong> the questions given us by the Panel have to do with this same prolblem. That<br />
is the subject <strong>of</strong> manpower. I would like to have us discuss these questions--we have<br />
two <strong>of</strong> them: One is Shorter working hours; One is, can a fireman perform outside part,<br />
time duty and still do justice to his wor k as a fireman? Many <strong>of</strong> yo,u men don’t have<br />
full-time work, :but full .and part-time. What .is your problem? Perhaps this will open<br />
plenty <strong>of</strong> discussion--and let each speaker try to keep it short.<br />
CHIEF FRANCIS SCULLY, Waterbury, ,C.o,nnecticut: During the Second W.orld<br />
War our Fire Commissioner allowed .the men to work part-time. Of course, labor was<br />
scarce theri, a_nd they were glad to getthe firemen. That is still in effect, providing they<br />
send a communication to the Chief stating where they are working and what hours. In<br />
my town--like probably a good many other towns--most <strong>of</strong> our boys are wo.rking parttime,<br />
and it is a question, whether a man--after working six or seven hours on part,<br />
time during the day--can do justice t.o his j,ob at night when he comes to work in the<br />
department.<br />
Another thought on that is tha.t a lot .<strong>of</strong> the work the firemen are asked to do on<br />
part-time jobs probably won’t be done by a full-time man; work such as heavy trucking,<br />
pulling and dragging. They probably get hurt and then naturally come to work, waiting<br />
for the bell-t6 hit. ¯ -<br />
Now that brings up another question--whether they should stop from working<br />
part-time, and if they are getting enough money to stop? If they are getting enough<br />
pay from the department they don’t have to have a part-time job. That is the problem<br />
I would like to have solved by you gentlemen out there.<br />
CHAIRMAN WOOLLEY: Thanks,-Chief Scully. We have a rather unique incident<br />
in this cc,nnec~ion. This same problem is affecting Canada as well as this country. I<br />
-will ask Fire ~Marshal Scott to tell us very quickly the story <strong>of</strong> the incident which happened<br />
in Canada.<br />
MR. W. J. SCOTT: I administer the state law in our Province. The firemen have<br />
a maximum work week <strong>of</strong> Y6 hours, which gives them the guaranteed wages common<br />
~n their community. The arguments have been that they don’t get fai~ treatment, unless<br />
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they have guarantees by law, but they don’t have to work excessive hours. A great<br />
many are working on <strong>of</strong>f.shift time.<br />
We had one case in the past two weeks, where a fireman was working in a sawmill.<br />
He lost two fingers and, is now claiming, full pay from the fire department.<br />
CHAIRMAN Woo~.*.i~Y: I ;believe other members <strong>of</strong> the Panel have encountered<br />
this. If we_can crystallize these questions. I want to do so. Chief Murray, have you<br />
any thought.<br />
CHIEF MURRAY: I might be barking up a tree: and maybe we can’t do anything<br />
about it, judging from a headline that appeared in our Boston papers within two weeks.<br />
Most <strong>of</strong> you may recall that it upheld a man’s right to work outside. Therefore, we<br />
may have nothing to argue on at all.<br />
CHAIRMAN WOOLLEY: I would like to have Chief MarshaI1 give us his story. It<br />
is a very serious matter.<br />
CHIEF LEWIS A. MARSHALL, Providence,Rhode Island: We solved the manpower<br />
situation by a physical reorganization <strong>of</strong> the fire department. Of course, the fire department<br />
stations were built in the horse-drawn idea; by means <strong>of</strong> a $1,750,000 bond issue,<br />
and getting rid <strong>of</strong> most <strong>of</strong> the old stations, and meeting new travel distance requirements,<br />
we kept the seven stations we wanted, did away with twenty-three old, and<br />
built nine new. From a total <strong>of</strong> thirty-seven companies we cut down to twenty-nine<br />
and to a great extent solved our manpower situation.<br />
O’f course it was a bond issue and we ran quite a publicity campaign on it to<br />
acquaint the people with the situation. It was a pro;blem that was worked over for a<br />
period~ <strong>of</strong> seven years. It started in 1945 and the first <strong>of</strong> this year it .moy,ed .into the<br />
last stages. ’ >" - -<br />
CHAIRMAN WOOLLEY: You have had some observations by our Panel, but it<br />
wouldn’t ;be fair unless we invited expressions from the audience. We have only a<br />
short time ,but I think we could take at least five minutes to have this aired first, so let’s<br />
hear from anyone <strong>of</strong> you and make it as short as you can.<br />
CHIEF THOMAS P. GORMAN, Quincy, Massachusetts: I think it is a problem on<br />
which sooner or later the chiefs will have to take a definite stand. There may come a<br />
time when firemen with any availabgz time may be called on to give their service to<br />
other tasks. I have noticed .some are engaged in pretty labori.ous work. When they came<br />
in to the job they gambled they might get an all-night’s sleep. I think the Chief should<br />
find out what these men are doing so they can .be properly accounted for in case <strong>of</strong><br />
injuries they may claim, or the ability, or inability to do their work in the fire department.<br />
I don’t think you can penalize a man, for going out and earning a few more dollars.<br />
When each person starts to get more money he starts to live at a different level. He<br />
reaches a tempo that he hates to give up and a fellow will keep on working as long as<br />
he can obtain some sort <strong>of</strong> outside labor; but I think we Chiefs have got to. develop<br />
some sort .<strong>of</strong> system to have them physically able to perform duties--Chief Murray did<br />
mention the case in Boston,--that is only in the District Court but I think it is going to<br />
the Superior Court.<br />
CHAIRMAN WOOLLEY: Very pertinent observations.<br />
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CHIEF T. H. DONNELLY, West Hartf.ord, Connecticut: Sometime ago, before we<br />
changed to ~6 hours, it seemed as if we had less outside work than we do now. We<br />
have disciplinary action taken against men who had idle hands. Since we allowed them<br />
to work on the ,outside and looking for the ~6 hours, they signed’ a petition. We are<br />
not bothered unless we get complaint.s. One young fellow who didn’t work on the<br />
outside got into financial difficulties; I took over his case and! got him out <strong>of</strong> it. Sin.co<br />
then the fellow is working--outside, not heavy work, as he is physically fit. When<br />
he comes on the. night shifts he wasn’t tired so 1 let him go ,on. I think idle hands sometimes<br />
need a little ’bit <strong>of</strong> disciplinary action,. -<br />
Gt=I~2~RMAN WOOLLEY: It begins to develop from this discussion that although I<br />
can’t speak for all the executive committee <strong>of</strong> the International <strong>Association</strong>, I can tell<br />
you this topic is on the International program at Toronto and the man to headl the<br />
Panel is .Chief Fitzgerald. ,He has done a great deal for the fire service in his studies<br />
<strong>of</strong> manpower and wages.<br />
In discussing this we found out there are four major aspects <strong>of</strong> the whole problem:<br />
(1) the question <strong>of</strong> wages; (2) the question <strong>of</strong> liability; (3) the legal aspects involved,<br />
particularly on the state level, and (4) the question <strong>of</strong> compensation and the concerted<br />
action that must be maintained in the face .<strong>of</strong> organizations that are very strongly prothis-or-that,<br />
or somethin,g else, in this particular field.<br />
It might be considered from the standpoint <strong>of</strong> health, or the welfare <strong>of</strong> the community-and<br />
it might be the effect on organized labor. This is perhaps n.ot the time<br />
to urge any action, but it is something that your <strong>of</strong>ficers here, and the <strong>Association</strong>,<br />
might well consider. You might think .<strong>of</strong> appointing a special committee .to study this<br />
question and to perhaps work on ir~ .concert with the International or other groups.<br />
It is going to ’become more <strong>of</strong> a problem. I remember reading about the Mayor <strong>of</strong> a<br />
certain Massachusetts city who started considerable agitation on this score by ordering<br />
the beds out .o,f the fire-house, and carrying on against outside work. I think some <strong>of</strong><br />
you know whom I mean.<br />
Is there anyone who would like to take a minute more?<br />
MR. PERCY C. CHARNOCK, Boston, Massachusetts.: You have been discussing<br />
the men in the department working on the outside. I haven’t heard anyone suggesting<br />
that the Chief take an outside job. (Laughter.)<br />
~CHAIRMAN WOOLLI~Y: That is a very pertinent observation, but I think we wo.n’t<br />
get too many Chiefs to stand’ up to discuss that because they may have some <strong>of</strong> the<br />
"home folks" from their neighborhood here who might take the news back. Is there<br />
anyone else?<br />
CHIEF JOHN ~E. CORCORAN, <strong>New</strong>ton Center, Massachusetts: We have firemen<br />
working in <strong>New</strong>ton on time,<strong>of</strong>f as we have in other departments. I had a tragedy occur<br />
with one <strong>of</strong> my young men who while at such work, fell from a ladder and was killed.<br />
That is a tragedy that will never ’be forgotten in <strong>New</strong>ton. I have asked for a ruling<br />
on the question., from my city solicitor but to date I have not had the ruling. These<br />
men are wo.rking because they claim they have to do this work to make both ends meet.<br />
’.CHAIRMAN WOOLLEY: Thank you very much.<br />
CHIEF WILLIAM B. ~I-IuNT, ’Haverhill, Massachusetts: Since I have been on the<br />
fire department on the last twenty-five years they have always worked outside. The<br />
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amount they work varies with their financial position and what they are being paid,<br />
and the amount <strong>of</strong> work available. I thin,k that probably economic conditions <strong>of</strong> the<br />
country will straighten out the work problem before we get around to straighten it<br />
out ourselves.<br />
CHAIRMAN WOOLLEY: That is an interesting observation. Thank you, Chief.<br />
Things may better, or worse before they are better, but I believe sooner or later<br />
we are all going to be faced with the manpower problem. I would like to call on many<br />
more but we have only time for one or two chiefs who. have volunteered to say something.<br />
I would like to hear from Chief incidentally they tell me he is so well fixed<br />
his salary is gift-wrapped. :Chief Potter, what is the situation in the town <strong>of</strong> Greenwich.<br />
CHIEF STUART M. POTTER, Greenwich, Connecticut: Some <strong>of</strong> our men work on<br />
<strong>of</strong>f-time; others, do not. I think it is a matter that will largely have to be determined<br />
by the la’bo.r conditions in, the community and nationally..Certainly firemen would<br />
be frowned upon if they went into a fire station and slept at night and then went<br />
out and played golf the next day when National Defense needed labor very badly.<br />
On the other hand, firemen would be frowned upon if they put in their required<br />
hours in the fire department and did other work on the outside when there was an<br />
unemployment condition in the community. I think it can’t be determined by any<br />
hard and fast rules, but it should ,be determined by con, ditions, particularly the local<br />
conditions in the community where the men work.<br />
CHAIRMAN W’OOLLEY: There we have some well considered o’bservations. Are<br />
there any members, <strong>of</strong> N. F. P. A. or the National Board who. would like to comment?-<br />
Would George Swann like to give us his personal observations? The Rating Bureaus<br />
are all concerned with this question, <strong>of</strong> manpower as it bears upon efficiency. George<br />
Swarm, would you .care to speak on this?<br />
MR. GrORO~ SWANS: I will just make this observation, gentlemen. It is not conceivable<br />
that a man would work in any employment and hold a job in outside employment.<br />
The only reason this question, comes up are the peculiarities in the fire department.<br />
Very frequently firemen have no actual labor work to doand therefore they are. not<br />
tired out, and can handle work outside.<br />
’CHAIRMAN WOOLLEY: Now yOU can see the value <strong>of</strong> a Panel <strong>of</strong> this kind when<br />
we are able to secure opinions from the horse’s mouth, so to speak. I know that Joe<br />
Scanlon, is around biting his nails. It is a shame we lost the fifteen minutes to let the<br />
men who have come here with other subjects have a chance to bring them up. One <strong>of</strong><br />
these is: "Are we making the fullest use <strong>of</strong> radio?"<br />
Some departments have one-way and some have two-way radio---some only in the<br />
Chief’s car. Does anyone want to discuss this? I would be very happy to entertain<br />
it or any other question’s. (No answer. ) I will assume then that no one wishes to<br />
present a question now and therefore we can turn over the balance <strong>of</strong> our time to the<br />
others on the program who deserve it.<br />
SUPT. GREENLAW, Fire Alarms, Beverly, Massachusetts: I wonder whether or not<br />
this matter would come under fire d,epartment,--that is the matter <strong>of</strong> the tire alarm com,<br />
munications.<br />
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CHAIRMAN WOOLLEY: I would say definitely "yes," 100%. (Remarks were made<br />
<strong>of</strong>f-the,record) ooncerning the substitution <strong>of</strong> telephone’s for the municipal street<br />
signal box.<br />
CHAIRMAN WOOLLEY: We have a man here who is a technician and wants to<br />
discuss the question <strong>of</strong> fire alarm vs. telephone ~boxes, about which he is quite concerned;<br />
but we do not want to put any <strong>of</strong> our speakers in a posit}on where they may<br />
be requested to speak for an organization they represent at this time, .against their will.<br />
The communications committee <strong>of</strong> the International Ass.ociation <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs is<br />
very much ,concerned about this situati.on. You might as well face the fact that whether<br />
it is inspired by selfish interests, commercial in.terests or civic interests, they are going to<br />
have to be faced. You found that out in the .City <strong>of</strong> Stamford where this and other<br />
radical measures i~ the guise <strong>of</strong> economy, it was determined firemen were intended<br />
to do fire duty and n.ot traffic duty.<br />
The City <strong>of</strong> Miami has made a decision to discard fire alarm boxes, and other<br />
cities are weighing this action very seriously. I believe that your organization with the<br />
International <strong>Association</strong>, working with the National Board, will see to it that proper<br />
standards are maintained.<br />
I have been delegated to go to .Columbus to speak to the convention, in October<br />
<strong>of</strong> the International Municipa] Signal <strong>Association</strong>, and we have the signal men on<br />
our program in Toronto. This subject, will be .,thoroughly aired.<br />
In con.cluding, let me thank here Percy Bugbee for his kindness in relinquishing<br />
some time to which he was entitled. ’Last Call--"Has anyone got a question bearing<br />
on the t.opics you have just heard? Is there anything you want us to discuss here ’before<br />
we conclude which concerns doing a better job on the fire ground, gettin,g to the fire<br />
faster, extinguishing it more quickly andl cleaning it up quicker?"<br />
CHIEF KERWIN, Naval Base, <strong>New</strong>port: Is the wave length <strong>of</strong> the various fire<br />
department radios kept within a certain rang.e on the FM band--are some 152 and<br />
some 1467<br />
CHAIRMAN WOOLEY: I believe I can answer that for the Panel. It is an engineering<br />
problem largely. The installation <strong>of</strong> radio in any area--state, county or other,<br />
wise--is being done according to engineering standards set up by the signal men, the<br />
fire chiefs communications group and the FCC, which has designated to these groups<br />
the responsibility. In <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong>, Brother O’Banion <strong>of</strong> Boston is looking after details<br />
<strong>of</strong> allocations, etc. While some will use 152, MC band, others will be given the<br />
46 megacycle band, and so on, where it is a matter <strong>of</strong> expediency and~ efficiency. It is anengineering<br />
problem having to do with interference, terrain and other details.<br />
I would like to say this for the record: we are fighting a battle ir~ Washington<br />
today to hold the frequencies which the fire service has been given, as the result <strong>of</strong> the<br />
efforts <strong>of</strong> Sam Pope, May.or LaGflardia and others who went down there in 1940-41<br />
and secured the wave lengths for the fire service. Very frankly it is a problem. We<br />
have no paid 1.obby in the Na.tion’s Capit.ol, but the telephone; railroad and taxi companies<br />
have powerful lobbies andl they are bringing pressure upon, FCC.<br />
I give them all the credit in the world, and I believe no frequencies will be taken<br />
from the fire service at this time. The allocations, I believe, are safe at our hands if<br />
we work through the established channels. Anyone who wishes to have the details <strong>of</strong><br />
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radio should check with Brother O’Banion; however, I am sure you have radio technicians<br />
in your area who can, answer your questions very nicely.<br />
MR. WALTER F. AMES: I believe that every Chief here sho.uld carry home with<br />
him the idea that this community should organize a disaster .unit taht would be prepared<br />
at all times for disasters such as happened in Worcester, or what may happen in his<br />
town in the future. Such plans workedi out well on the West .Coast.<br />
CHAIRMAN WOOLLEY: That is a v~ry good suggestion. We have said in these<br />
Panels that all this discussion gets us nowhere, unless out <strong>of</strong> it comes seine action. In<br />
the past we have had a number <strong>of</strong> resolutions~d_eyeloped out <strong>of</strong> thePanel discussions,.<br />
Chief O’Hearn suggests that this is a topic which might be given the Resolutions Committee.<br />
NOw it wouldn’t be fair with this group in back <strong>of</strong> me here f.o.r the Moderator<br />
to take up all the time. Have yo.u gentlemen (the Panel) .anything you would like to<br />
bring up here? I hate to monopolize the discussion.<br />
CHIEF JAMES L. GROTE, Chester, Connecticut: Chester is a small town, but I have<br />
a lot <strong>of</strong> neighbors there. I want to go back to the ambulance question. Our county is<br />
cut up into two districts--n.orth and south. We contributed $300 from each town for<br />
two ambulances, maintained by the Connecticut State Police. They give us the manpower--24-hour<br />
service with no trouble whatsoever--and! the little city <strong>of</strong> Middletown<br />
takes care <strong>of</strong> its own area because they have a hospital and their own ambulance. Each<br />
town contributes $300, and as we accumula.te this money that is-the way we buy new<br />
am’bulances. We are volunteers.<br />
’CHAIRMAN WOOLLEY: Thank you very much, Chief. ,That is one <strong>of</strong> the shortest<br />
speeches .on record. Therefore, I will take this opportunity to thank the Panel and the<br />
rest <strong>of</strong> you for your patience, including the boys on the porch. Some <strong>of</strong> these topics<br />
we have discussed here will be aired further in Toronto. I also want to thank our good<br />
lady here who takes a terrible beating from me. Thank y.ou, and the President will<br />
take over.<br />
PRESIDENT MOLLOY: Just a_ minute; we have two more speakers this morning and<br />
I ~wish you would remain here for a few minutes. Mr. E. E. Miller, Assistant Chief<br />
Engineer, Tennessee GaS tTransmission Co., and Chief Engineer <strong>of</strong> the Northeastern<br />
Gas Transmission Co., will talk on "Natural Gas Pipe Lines." Mr. Miller. (Applause.).<br />
President Moll.oy and members <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Association</strong>:<br />
After Mr. Johnson’s indictment, <strong>of</strong> the natural gas industry <strong>of</strong> yesterday morning,<br />
I am somewhat frightened-to appear before you as a natural gas man and a proponent<br />
<strong>of</strong> high-pressure, natural gas transmission. Perhaps the best answer to Mr. Johnson’s<br />
remarks is to remind you that he is connected with the anthracite industry and the<br />
National Coal <strong>Association</strong>. ..<br />
Natural gas has been in <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> for nearly two years, and in spite <strong>of</strong> all the<br />
dire prophecies regarding explosions and hazards <strong>of</strong> high-pressure, natural gas transmission,<br />
no one has been killed or injured as a result. In fact, many lives have been<br />
saved,, as evidenced by recent statistics compiled by the Mass. Department <strong>of</strong> Public<br />
Utilities. These statistics show that in the four years immediately preceding the start<br />
<strong>of</strong> natural gas service, 20 Massachusetts gas companies reported 239 deaths frem acci-<br />
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The ’Cornwall & Pa~:!:¢rson Company<br />
Manujacturers oj Piano and Action Hardware<br />
Screw Machine and tVire Specialties<br />
SINCE 1881<br />
BRIDGEPORT 7, CONN.<br />
CITY LUMBER COMPANY<br />
LUMBER MILLV/ORK<br />
MASON SUPPLIES<br />
75 THIRD STREET BRIDGEPORT, CONN.<br />
COMPLI MENTS OF<br />
THE BRIDGEPORT HOUSING CO.<br />
BRIDGEPORT, CONN.<br />
Bridgeport Th~rm,os!:at: Division<br />
Rober!:shaw’Fulton Cont:rols Company<br />
BRIDGEPORT<br />
A. HANDLEMAN CO:<br />
Dealers ~or 43 years<br />
JUNK, SCRAP IRON AND METALS<br />
CONNECTICUT<br />
208 HOUSATONIC AVE. BRIDGEPORT, CONH.<br />
COMPLI MENTS OF<br />
LA RESISTA CORSET CO.<br />
BRIDGEPORT, CONN.<br />
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~dental asphyxiation, while in the year following the introduction <strong>of</strong> natural gas, these<br />
same 20 companies reported no deaths from gas inhalation,. There ale three obvious,<br />
major reasons why.<br />
First, <strong>of</strong> course, is the fact that natural gas co.ntains no carbon monoxide and is,<br />
therefore, nor~-toxic. Second, the limits <strong>of</strong> inflammability <strong>of</strong> naturaI gas are much narrower<br />
than those <strong>of</strong> manufactured gas. Third, the uniformity <strong>of</strong> the product provides<br />
greater ease <strong>of</strong> control and better operation .<strong>of</strong> applilnces. As you doubtless, kn.ow,<br />
natural gas--as furnished; by Northeastern Gas Trari~mission Company--comes from<br />
the Gulf Coast area <strong>of</strong> the United States, and is approximately 94 per cent methane<br />
with small amounts .<strong>of</strong> ethane and heavier hydrocarbons. All <strong>of</strong> the gas from the<br />
Gulf Coast area is surprisinigly unif~orm in chemical’ composition, specific gravity, anc~<br />
thermal heating content. The manufactured gases Wl~ich this natural ga,s replaced all<br />
contained varying amounts .<strong>of</strong> carbon monoxide in q~i~tntities up to 30 per cent. This,<br />
<strong>of</strong>~ course, provided a ready avenue for suicides and Yeas responsible for a considera’ble<br />
number <strong>of</strong> accidental asphyxiations each year..<br />
Again, in spite <strong>of</strong> the dire prophecies <strong>of</strong> natural ~a~ performance, there have been<br />
no pipelihe explbsions in <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong>’---and we do not expect any. I do not wish<br />
to deny the fact that there have .been explosions .<strong>of</strong> natural gas pipelines in the past,<br />
nor that i.t is impossible for similar explosion.s to occur in the future, but I do wish to<br />
emphasize the fact that hazards connected with such explosions, have been greatly exaggerated<br />
b) people who oppose natural gas for persQnal reasons. As a matter <strong>of</strong> fact,<br />
there were approximately l lY,000 miles <strong>of</strong> high-pressure, large-diameter natural gas<br />
pipelines in the Unit4d States in 19~1, and approximately 342,000 miles <strong>of</strong> natural gas<br />
distribution mains suppl-ying approximately 3 trillion cubic feet <strong>of</strong> natural gas to sixteen<br />
million gas customers, representing 21 per cent <strong>of</strong> the nation,’s fuel supply. Approxim~ttely<br />
~00 miles <strong>of</strong> these high-pressure gas mains are located in <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong>. Unfortunately,<br />
I do n.ot have statistics for all pipeline companies for recent years, but I<br />
do have the information relative to my own company.<br />
Tennessee .Gas, Transmission .Company and Northeastern have over 6,000 miles<br />
<strong>of</strong> large-diameter pipelines, which have been in operation for periods from one to nine<br />
years, at pressures from Y00 to 100.0 pounds. The total mile-years <strong>of</strong> operation repre.<br />
sented~ by this system is approximately 20,000. This means the equivalent <strong>of</strong> 20,000<br />
miles <strong>of</strong> pipeline operatin.g for one year or, conversely, one mile <strong>of</strong> pipeline operating<br />
for 20,000 years. During this! period, Tennessee has had 10 expl.osions on operating<br />
pipelines, or an average <strong>of</strong> one explosion for each 2,000 mile-years. Again, this<br />
simply means that the probability <strong>of</strong> an explosion on any single mile <strong>of</strong> Tennessee Gas<br />
pipeline system is one in., each 2000 years, and in all its operation there has never been<br />
a case .<strong>of</strong> death or serious injury to anyone other than pipeline company personnel or<br />
workmen on pipeline projecets. I quote these figures simply to call your attention to<br />
the extremely minor extent <strong>of</strong> the hazard, so that you may properly evaluate the state~<br />
ments which are made from time to time regarding the hazards attendant on natural<br />
gas transmission. And to further lessen the hazard, you must realize that steel tubular<br />
products and methods..<strong>of</strong> pipeline installation are being continually improved so that<br />
the pipelines in <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> should have an even lesser probability <strong>of</strong> failure than those<br />
on the average <strong>of</strong> rrennessee’s ,system--some .<strong>of</strong> which are ten years old, at this time.<br />
Na.tural gas is not a new product, but is only new to <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong>. It has been<br />
frequently pointed out that natural gas was first discovered an,d used many centuries<br />
ago. In fact, our first written reference to this gas is probably in the Old Testament;<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
RELIABLE STEEL DRUM CO.<br />
808 UNION AVENUE<br />
Telephone 5-4155<br />
Plenty <strong>of</strong> water at high pressure is<br />
the fire fighter’s first line <strong>of</strong> defense<br />
BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT<br />
BRIDGEPORT HYDRAULIC.-CO.<br />
Bridgeport-People’s Savings Bank<br />
~ , Fairfield County’s, largest Mutual Savings Bank<br />
MAIN AND STATE STREETS. .<br />
BRIDGEPORT, CONN.<br />
TILO ROOFING COMPANY, Inc.<br />
zlmerica’ s Largest Roo~ers<br />
FACTORY AND EXECUTIVE OFFICES: STRATFORD, CONNECTICUT<br />
The Palmer Tarinelli Cons{ruc~:ion Co.<br />
ESTABLISHED 1928<br />
Contractors<br />
44 ISLAND BROOK AVENUE<br />
BRIDGEPORT 6, CONNECTICUT<br />
Telephone 5-8526 or 5-2668<br />
’ ~AMERICAN CLEANERS AND DYERS<br />
I NCORPORATED<br />
We specialize in flamepro<strong>of</strong>ing drapes, portieres and all hangings<br />
for hotels and all public assemblies<br />
Z47 ASH S,TREET~<br />
BRIDGEPORT 5, C,ONN.<br />
Telephone ~-67 | 7 ¯ .~-6762.<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
book <strong>of</strong> Daniel, Chapter 3, where Nebuchadnezzar ordered Shadrach, Aschech and<br />
Abedneg.o thrown into a burning fiery furnace. The ~fiery furnace is believed by scholars<br />
to be the flames <strong>of</strong> natural gas issuing from ai~ area near the Kirkuk oil fields in Iraq. To<br />
this day, the flames are ’burning, and are <strong>of</strong>ten mistaken by airplane .pilots for the lights<br />
<strong>of</strong> Baghdad.<br />
In the Twelfth Century B.C. Homer wrote <strong>of</strong> the Oracles <strong>of</strong> Delphi. The Temple<br />
<strong>of</strong> Delphi wa’s built over a crevice from which poured stupefying vapors, believed to<br />
be the divine breath <strong>of</strong> Apollo. The priestess ’Pythia, breathing these vapors, interpreted<br />
the gods’ messages. It is reasonable to assume that the vapors were natural gas.<br />
You have all heard <strong>of</strong> the Chinese use <strong>of</strong> natural gas, the first recorded use being in<br />
469 B..C., wher~ they used hollow bambco tubes to conduct natural gas to drying kettles<br />
for drying salt brine. And the first natural gas well i~ the United States was the result<br />
<strong>of</strong> the sinking <strong>of</strong> a hollow log to a depth <strong>of</strong> 27 feet in a bog near Fredonia, <strong>New</strong> York.<br />
For 100 years thereafter the natural gas industry continued to develop in the Appalachian<br />
area with lane gas field,s occurring in western <strong>New</strong> York and Pennsylvania,<br />
eastern Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia. And a huge network <strong>of</strong> pipelines grew<br />
up in the area from Buffalo to Pittsburgh, ’Charleston, Louisville, Cincinnati and Cleveland.<br />
About the beginning <strong>of</strong> World War II, the demands for natural gas greatly increased<br />
and at the same time supplies in the Appalachian area began to decrease. For<br />
many years pricr to this time, huge deposits <strong>of</strong> natural gas had been located in the<br />
southwest--particularly ir~ Texas and Louisiana, and in 1944 Tennessee Gas Transmission<br />
Company constructed the first natural gas pipeline systems in the Appalachian area<br />
in eastern Kentucky and West Virginia. Since that time, the Transcontinental Gas Pipeline<br />
Company has constructed a line into <strong>New</strong> York .City, the Texas Eastern Gas Transmission<br />
Corporation. conver.ted the Big Inch and Little Inch oil pipelines to natural gas<br />
service, and Tennessee Gas has enlarged its system to extend to Buffalo, <strong>New</strong> York,<br />
and into <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong>. ,Tennessee Gas now has four parallel pipelines extending from<br />
east Texas to southern Ohio and two to three parallel lines connecting from the Rio<br />
Orande River to Buffalo, N. Y.<br />
Natural gas service has also been extended to the west coast through the combined<br />
pipeline systems <strong>of</strong> E1 Paso Natural Gas Company, Pacific Gas and Electric Company<br />
at San Francisco, and Southern Counties Gas Company at Los Angeles,. I~, addition., to<br />
these, there are many large pipeline systems in the mid-continent area co~nnecting such<br />
locations as Detroit, Chicago, Minneapolis and St. Louis with the natural-ga.s.:producing<br />
area <strong>of</strong> the southwest. I qu.cte youthese dry statistics to point out the extent <strong>of</strong> the<br />
dustry, and the huge acceptance that natural gas has had in the United States--an<br />
acceptance which could not have occurred had there been the hazards which opponents<br />
<strong>of</strong> natural gas have attempted~ to create in the minds <strong>of</strong> <strong>New</strong> En.glanders. In fact, since<br />
the advent <strong>of</strong> natural gas in <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong>, there is only one largely populated area in<br />
the United States--namely, the Pacifi.c Northwest--which is without natural gas service,<br />
and public hearings ’before the Federal Power Commission are now in progress to determine<br />
whether this area will be supplied with natural gas from the southwest or from<br />
the huge Canadian reserves which have been discovered within the past five years.<br />
Of more particular interest to you as firefighters is the utilization <strong>of</strong> natural gas<br />
and the specific location <strong>of</strong> the pipelines in your own communities. I have pointed out<br />
the relation <strong>of</strong> toxicity and chemistry <strong>of</strong> natural gas to accidental and suicidal deaths<br />
which will, <strong>of</strong> course, lessen the work <strong>of</strong> your emergency resuscitation squads. The spe-<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF TIRE CHIEFS<br />
THE SWAN ENGRAVING CO.<br />
Photo Engravers<br />
Zinc Etchings - Color Half Tones - Copper Plates - Retouchers<br />
Package Designers - Illustrators<br />
385 HANOVER STREET " BRIDGEPORT, CONN.<br />
THE VOLTAX COMPANY<br />
Incorporated<br />
o<br />
Manu]acturers o/ Industrial Paints - Enamels - Lacquers. Solvents<br />
BRIDGEPORT 6 CONNECTICUT<br />
Telephone 4-0839<br />
THE WALSH AND HURLEY COMPANY<br />
General Insurance<br />
945 MAIN STREET<br />
Telephone 5-4131<br />
BRIDGEPORT 5, CONN.<br />
Established 1922<br />
BRIDGEPORT LEATHER SPEGIALTY CO.<br />
I NCORPORATED<br />
Manu]acturers oi Leather Belting - Specialties - Novelties<br />
HARBOR AND CARBON STS. BRIDGEPOR’T 5, CONN.<br />
Compliments o/<br />
SCOTTISH UNION AND NATIONAL INS. CO.<br />
AMERICAN UNION INSURANCE CO.<br />
ADMINISTRATIVE O’FFICE HARTFORD, CONN.<br />
THE CONNECTICUT GLASS CO.<br />
108 TEMPLE STREET HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
cific gravity <strong>of</strong> natural gas from the Gulf :Coast area is approximately 6 tenths, which<br />
is very.nearly that <strong>of</strong> the manufactured gas to which most <strong>of</strong> you are accustomed. Contrary<br />
to some public conception, natural gas is lighter ~than air and consequently will<br />
rise and dissipate itself if adequate ventilation is provided.. This is in contrast to lique,<br />
fled petroleum gases--that is, propane or :butane or a mixture <strong>of</strong> the two--which are<br />
heavier than air (specific gravity 1.~), and if leaks occur, will be found in the buildings<br />
at or near floor level. I have also calledl your attention to the fact that natural gas has<br />
extremely narrow limits <strong>of</strong> inflammabili.ty. In fact, the limits for natural gas are from<br />
~-1~ per cent. This means that gas-air mixtures containing from ~ to l Y per cent <strong>of</strong><br />
natural gas in air will Burn, but that if the natural gas is less than ~ per cent <strong>of</strong> the<br />
mixtureor mo.re than 1~ per cent <strong>of</strong> .the mixture, it will neither burn nor explode.<br />
These figures compare with flammability limts <strong>of</strong> 4 to 30 per cent for ordinary manufactured<br />
gas with which you are familiar. The same combustible gas indicators which<br />
you have used in testing from manufactured gas may .be used to indicate the presence <strong>of</strong><br />
natural gas.<br />
Natural gas is also odoriaed for ready detec.tiod in case <strong>of</strong> leakage. Natural gas,<br />
as it .comes from the well, is almost odorless but Public Utilities Regulations in Connecticut,<br />
Massachusetts and <strong>New</strong>’Hampshire require odorization. Northeastern Gas has<br />
installedl odoriaing equipment at the <strong>New</strong> York Massachusetts State line, so that all<br />
gas transmitted in <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> is odorized to such an extent that a mixture <strong>of</strong> l~<br />
<strong>of</strong> 1 per cent <strong>of</strong> the natural gas in air is readily detectable by the average nose. This<br />
odoran.t is designed to have an odor similar to the manufactured gas with which you<br />
are familiar so that if a gas leak should occur, people will immediately associate the odor<br />
with gas. In fact, natural gas is very similar to manufactured gas except, <strong>of</strong> course,<br />
that it is safer, cleaner, and cheaper.<br />
In entering gaseous atmospheres, it is, <strong>of</strong> course, unnecessary to use a poison gas<br />
mask. However, it is. possible to have an atmosphere so high in n.atural gas concentration<br />
that insufficient air will be provided for breathing. In this case, the air type <strong>of</strong><br />
gas mask is necessary. Not only is natural gas safer as regards toxicity and asphyxiation,<br />
but statistics prove tha.t it creates less fire haaard than comparable fuels. The Boston<br />
Office <strong>of</strong> the Nati.onal Fire Protection <strong>Association</strong> has recently issued statistics<br />
~howing-that for the period from 1941 to 194Y electric wiring and appliances caused<br />
f~,700 fires with: a loss <strong>of</strong> $32,000,000. ’Coals and hot ashes caused 13,200 fires with a<br />
loss <strong>of</strong> $3,600,000, whereas gas and gas appliances, both natural and manufactured,<br />
caused only 4,300 firedwith a loss <strong>of</strong> $2,4~0,000.<br />
An interesting sidelight on comparative hazards is also providec~ by the fact that<br />
during the period from 1923 to 1949, there were 32 coal-dust explosions reported, causing<br />
28 deaths and 31 serious injuries, and I might also call your attention to the fact<br />
that due to the very n.ature <strong>of</strong> gas service and! ~he fact that mains and pipelines are installed<br />
underground, it is less subject to interruptions and: the haaards attendant to ino<br />
terruptions, than any other type <strong>of</strong> fuel from the standpoint <strong>of</strong> storms., floods, tornadoes,<br />
strikes, etc. Let me caution you, however, that all companies having natural gas pipel<br />
line service do not necessarily plan .to use 100 per cent natural gas. Norwalk, Connecticut,<br />
for instance, is distributing a mixture <strong>of</strong> manufactured and natural Which has lethal<br />
perercentages <strong>of</strong> ’CO. ,Lynn is mixing, and Boston plans to mix. Also most distribution<br />
companies are planning the use <strong>of</strong> propane standby facilities, which will be used in some<br />
cases for peak load control and generally for emergency stand’by in case <strong>of</strong> maintenance<br />
~interruptioni on the pipelin.e. Each <strong>of</strong> you should contact your local g~s company to<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
Telephones Stamford 4-41.81, Port Chester 5-I 440, Norwalk 6-| 505,<br />
Greenwich: Enterprise 5330<br />
THE NICHAEL HOFFMAN FUEL CO.<br />
Fuel Oils -:. Oil Burners .:- Burner Service<br />
&uthorized Distributors Oil Heating Equipme.~ ~<br />
Bridgeport- Stamford - Danbury<br />
100 SO,UTHFIELD AVENUE STAMFORD, CONN.<br />
JOHN A. FERRO, Inc.<br />
Scrap Iron and Metal<br />
502 CANAL STREET STAMFORD, CONN.<br />
Telephone Stamford 3-3146 ¯ ¯<br />
The G~novCse Coal & Mason’s Material<br />
Company<br />
~0 DAVENPORT ST. STAMFORD, CONN.<br />
Tel. 4-92~5<br />
ATLAS POWDER COMPANY<br />
STAMFORD, CONN.<br />
RUBINO BROTHERS, Inc.<br />
Scrap Iron and Metals. Rags - Rubber. W’aste Paper<br />
16-29 CARDINAL PLACE, STAMFORD,, CONNECTICUT<br />
Telephone 4-7564<br />
PM INDUSTRIES, INCORPORATED<br />
280 FAIRFIELD AVENUE STAMFORD, CONN.<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
determine the probable gases which are being or will be distributed in your town and<br />
making your plans accordingly.<br />
For those <strong>of</strong> you who have natural gas pipelines in your area, I would cite live<br />
principal points to be observed if and when a pipeline break should occur in your area.<br />
First, keep people away from the area <strong>of</strong> gas leakage an,d keep all sources <strong>of</strong> fire away.<br />
Second, notify the nearest <strong>of</strong>fice <strong>of</strong> Northeastern Transmission Company or the local<br />
gas company or both. Third, avoid confinement in any area <strong>of</strong> gaseous atmosphere<br />
where there may be insufficient air for breathing. Fourth, if necessary to enter such<br />
areas, use an air-type gas mask. If possible, check the area for explosive possibilities with<br />
a combustible gas indicator. Fifth, if a fire occurs, extinguish it by one <strong>of</strong> the following<br />
methods:<br />
A. Dry-type chemicals.. B. Fog nozzles. C. Steam.<br />
We have found that the dry-type chemical is the most effective in extinguishing<br />
gas fires, and that .it is very successful where properly u.sed. You, as firemen, are doubtless<br />
much more familiar with the proper method <strong>of</strong> application <strong>of</strong> these various fire-fighting<br />
agents than I am.<br />
In order to provide maximum safety <strong>of</strong> operation, Northeastern has what we believe<br />
is the most modern equipment available. We maintain regular airplane patrols <strong>of</strong><br />
our pipeline by low,flying plane to observe any con, ditions which might create a hazard<br />
to the pipeline. The pilot is equipped with ’short-wave radio, and all <strong>of</strong> our maintenance<br />
crews have such short-wave radio communication equipment in their trucks and<br />
automobiles. These un.its are in constant communication with central stations at I-I.otliston,<br />
Springfield and Shehon. Any unusual or hazardous conditions observed by the<br />
pilot will be immediately radioed to the nearest maintenance crew and the hazard<br />
taken care <strong>of</strong>. We have installed automatic closing devices on all pipeline valve’s 16"<br />
and larger in size so that if a break in the pipeline occurs, the valves on each side <strong>of</strong><br />
the break will automatically close immediately--thus isolating the break and allowing<br />
the gas to dissipate.<br />
We have installed what is known as telemetering equpiment, whereby we have<br />
a continuous chart record in our Springfield Dispatching Office <strong>of</strong> pressures at all strategic<br />
points in the pipeline system. The instruments are located at points from Concord,<br />
<strong>New</strong> Hampshire, to ’Greenwich, Connecticut, and the info,rmation is transmittedby<br />
leased telephone wire. Any unusual conditions in the system are immediately indicated<br />
on the charts in, the Springfield Office, andl maintenance crews are dispatched accordingly.<br />
We maintain operating crews, at Springfield and Holliston, Massachusetts, and<br />
Shelton, Connecticut. In addition, each <strong>of</strong> our customer companies is a source <strong>of</strong> quick<br />
contact between us and the public, a’s all are familiar with the location <strong>of</strong> our pipelines<br />
and the operation <strong>of</strong> our metering and regulator stations..<br />
Those <strong>of</strong> you who have pipelines, in your towns are, doubtless, familiar with the<br />
location. However, generally speaking, our pipeline system starts in Berkshire County<br />
at the <strong>New</strong> York-Ma, sachusetts State line west .<strong>of</strong> Pittsfield, and runs generally in a<br />
southeasterly direction through the Towns <strong>of</strong> ’Richmond, Stockbridge, Lee, Tyrringham,<br />
Otis, Sandisfieldl, Tolland, Granville, Southwick, and Agawam to the Connecticut<br />
River. From there it runs generally easterly through Longmeadow, East Longmeadow,<br />
Hamden, Monson, Wales, Tolland, Sturbridge, Charhon, Oxford, Sutton, Lexington,<br />
Burlington, and Wilmington. In Connecticut, the main line system starts in the Towr<br />
<strong>of</strong> Greenwich and runs northeasterly through Stamford,, <strong>New</strong> Canaan, Norwalk, West-<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
Phone 3-2186 Res. Phone 4-5"783<br />
WATERBURY AUTO SPRING CO., inc.<br />
RENE J. MARCHAND<br />
36-38 BROWN PLACE , WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT<br />
THE WATERBURY PLATING CO.<br />
112 PORTER STREET P.O. Box 352 Vv’ATERBURY 86, CONN.<br />
Compliments <strong>of</strong><br />
20 JUDD STREET<br />
Phones: 4-3800 - 5-1410<br />
ALBERT BROS.<br />
SIDNEY J. ALBERT<br />
Scrap<br />
~VATERBURY, CONNECTICUT<br />
Phone 3-8320<br />
THE SUPERIOR MATTRESS CO.<br />
Manufacturers <strong>of</strong><br />
MATTRESSES s SPRINGS s STUDIO COUCHES s PILLOWS<br />
284 BANK STREET<br />
WATERBURY 85, CONNECTICUT<br />
MASSlMO FUEL COMPANY<br />
Coal -Fuel Oil. Coke<br />
550 SOUTH LEONARD ST. kMATERBURY, CONNECTICUT<br />
Phones 3-7975 - 3-5896<br />
NASTR! BROTHERS, Inc.<br />
Wholesalers in Candy, Tobacco,= and Specialties<br />
¯<br />
Distributors <strong>of</strong> Schrafft’s Chocolates, ’Richardson’s Quality Fruit Products<br />
and Nationally Known Cigars<br />
106 MEADOW STREET WATERBURY,’ CONN.<br />
~ .<br />
202
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
port, Fairfield, Easton, Trumbull, Shelton, Orange, Woodbridge, Bethany, Hamden,<br />
Cheshire, Southington, West Hartford, Bloomfield, Windsor, East Gran.by, and Sub<br />
field: These are the two main, line systems with lateral lines <strong>of</strong> small diameter extending<br />
to approximately. 3~ delivery points in .Connecticut, Massachusetts, and <strong>New</strong> Hampshire..ri’he<br />
mo, st northerly .<strong>of</strong> which is Concord, <strong>New</strong> Hampshire.<br />
I would suggest that each <strong>of</strong> you familiarize yourselves with the location and size<br />
<strong>of</strong> the pipeline in your town. In wooded areas it may be readily identified by the<br />
cleared space f~om 30-~0 p wide. In other location’s it may be identified by the casing<br />
vent pipes at each highway ’crossing. These casing vent pipes~are either two or three<br />
inches in diam_eter extending vertically above ground a distance <strong>of</strong> two or three<br />
feet and’ terminating in a 180-degree U-bend at the property lines on each side <strong>of</strong> the<br />
road. Signs have been, or are being, placed at all road crossings identifying the pipe,<br />
line and its location. Local gas company <strong>of</strong>ficials are familiar with the pipeline location,<br />
and Northeastern Gas Transmission Company has individual town maps showing the<br />
pipeline location, which are available to any <strong>of</strong> you up.ort request.<br />
It is our earnest desire to co-operate with all local and state agencies in order to<br />
maintair~ the excellent record, which we have already established, and to insure that<br />
if a pipeline failure should ever occur, that it will be handled in a safe, efficient manner<br />
with the maximum speed and the least possible ir~convenience to local residents. We have<br />
asked our airplane pilot to notify our maintenance crews <strong>of</strong> any fires or other hazardous<br />
conditions which may be observed not only in connection with .o.ur own pipeline, but<br />
which may exist elsewhere along the system--particularly gra’ss fires or forest fires which<br />
may not have been recorded. He will notify our maintenance crews by radio, who<br />
will in turn contact the proper .<strong>of</strong>ficials immediately to see that such hazards are properly<br />
taken care <strong>of</strong>. And we would particularly appreciate receiving word from any <strong>of</strong><br />
you if you ever notice any conditions which appear to you to be hazardous or even<br />
r!oubtful. Just call Northeastern Gas--collect--at any <strong>of</strong> the three <strong>of</strong>fices or notify<br />
your local gas company. We promise immediate investigation. May I extend an invi,<br />
ration to each <strong>of</strong> you to visit our <strong>of</strong>fices at either ’Holliston, Shelton, or Springfield to<br />
become acquainted with our operating personnel, and to further familiarize yourselves<br />
with the services which we perform. Thank you.<br />
’PRESIDENT MOLLOY: Thank you, Mr. Miller. Is Percy Bugbee in the aud,ience?<br />
I want to thank you very much, Mr. Bugbee, for relinquishing some <strong>of</strong> your time. Mr.<br />
Bugbee is General Manager <strong>of</strong> the National Fire Protecti<strong>of</strong>l <strong>Association</strong> and will talk<br />
on "<strong>New</strong> Developments in Fire Protection." Mr. Bugbee. (Applause.)<br />
Mr. Bugbee: Gentlemen, Mr. President, and those ,<strong>of</strong> you who are left here this<br />
morning. I will cut this down so you can, get out <strong>of</strong>here at twelve o’clock on schedule,<br />
and I will just cover a few <strong>of</strong> the more important new developments in fire protection<br />
out <strong>of</strong> a great many we might disguss with some pr0,fit in a meeting like this.<br />
To me the obviously most important development these days is the world situation<br />
we are in, and how it may._ affect all fire departinents in this country eventually--par,<br />
ticularly if we are ever subjected to an atomic attack. I think the fire ’service in general<br />
has been played down altogether too much by the Feddral Ci~,il Defense thinking, and<br />
hasn’t been give~ the opportunities and information that is really available, but all too<br />
much <strong>of</strong> which is classified as "secret," and that there is a great deal <strong>of</strong> useful research<br />
and information that would affect very materially the fire department operations in<br />
event <strong>of</strong> any attack on any <strong>of</strong> our cities, which ought to be released to the fire service.<br />
203
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
COMPLI MENTS OF<br />
BRIDGEPORT GAS<br />
BRIDGEPORT, CONN.<br />
CLARK METAL PRODUCTS 1NCo<br />
FAIRFIELD, CONN.<br />
HORACE A. MITCHELL, President and Treasurer LOUIS BAILEY, Vice-President and Secretary<br />
MITCHELL & BAILEY,.~,!nc.<br />
Power Plant Piping~ Pipe ~Zelding~ Maintenance ,<br />
Industrial Heating and Plumbing, Automatic Sprinkler Sys~em~<br />
170 GARDEN STREET, BRIDGEPORT 5, CONNECTICUT<br />
Telephone 3-8952<br />
Compliments <strong>of</strong><br />
THE CONNECTICUT CLASP CO.<br />
BRIDGEPORT 1, CONNECTICUT<br />
SYLVAN MANUFACTURING CORPo<br />
Moulds/or Plastics - Precision Machining<br />
1 ROOSEVELT ST. BRIDGEPORT, CONN.<br />
Telephone 4-0297<br />
Bridgeport Plastics & Rubber Company<br />
Injection and Compression Molding _ .<br />
,.<br />
1"73-175 LEE AVENUE " ~ , ~ " BRIDGEPORT 5, CONN.<br />
Teiephome .4-6851<br />
204
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
One <strong>of</strong> the most interesting and impqrtant devetc,pments ha.s been the study made <strong>of</strong><br />
the East River Project. We had an opportunity to participate in that project. It is a<br />
very voluminuous report, some 1000 pages <strong>of</strong> material. It is not possible to digest this<br />
at a meeting <strong>of</strong> this sort, but the direction <strong>of</strong> this type <strong>of</strong> thinking was that we should<br />
demand <strong>of</strong> the Air Force at least a one-hour warning and prove that that w, as a rea~onable<br />
demand to make upon the Military.<br />
Secondly, there are various measures taken now in the future to make our cities<br />
and principal target areas less vulnerable to fire than they_ are today, and those ought<br />
to be put into operation immediately.<br />
Third, we should have a much more realistic and workable Civil Defen.se on State,<br />
Federal and local levels, and a complete reorganization <strong>of</strong> the Civil Defense set-up was<br />
recommended,. I think the fire department has a great stake that hasn’t been appreciated;<br />
ha~n’t been given an opportunity to take hold the way it should, and I have attended<br />
a number <strong>of</strong> conferences with <strong>of</strong>ficers <strong>of</strong> the International on this subject. With<br />
the new administration in .Washington, and particularly the new set-up in Civil Defense,<br />
there is hope the fire service will be permitted to take its rightful plade in the<br />
planning ....<br />
One <strong>of</strong> the current items has been brought about ’by the series Of very disastrous<br />
m~rsing homefires in thi.s country, , with a considerable loss <strong>of</strong> life ~.to these helpless and<br />
old people, and I am glad to say these national organizations have finally come to recognize<br />
the importance <strong>of</strong> doing something £1~6,u~ :i~: We have developed material which<br />
has been distributed to every nursing home throughout the country, and we are hopeful<br />
that ,_a.t least a partial solution <strong>of</strong> this very serious problem <strong>of</strong> burning up these helpless<br />
and aged people has ’been made and will be made in the coming months, becau.se there<br />
is a tremendous amount <strong>of</strong>-interest and.legislation is being presented in various states<br />
to get some inspection tl~rough fire marshals-xnd others.<br />
One <strong>of</strong> the most important and very,:r~;ent developments that I think would be<br />
<strong>of</strong> interest to you is in connection with this question <strong>of</strong> co.mbu’stible interior finish (fibre<br />
board) which has been responsible for many fires in hospitals, hotels and institution<br />
build~ings. Some will burn fifty,~o,o~ight_g~_im~g faster. People living in one-story homes<br />
can’t..get.out with their lives ......................<br />
It is a very serious problem, beecause that type <strong>of</strong> board i.s popular; it is goodlooking<br />
and carpenters like it. We have recently prevailed upon the entire .industry-some<br />
twenty manufacturers were involved--that fr.om now on, as fast as they can<br />
convert, they will no longer sell any combustible fibre board unless it is given a firepro<strong>of</strong><br />
coating at the factory. ’That is industry policy fromnow on, so I think we have<br />
. made tremendous ,strides forward in getting a reduction in the very serio,us loss <strong>of</strong> life<br />
we have had in our public buildings <strong>of</strong> all kinds from the sales and use <strong>of</strong> this highly<br />
combustible proda~ct~ ¯<br />
Another development <strong>of</strong> particular importance in <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong>--where we have<br />
every state in <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> under model fire contact--took such action after a bitter<br />
fight--with which ~ill the Connecticut chiefs are familiar. The fireworks manufacturers<br />
are quite desperate over the situation. They are introducing bills all over the country<br />
to ’back down on the m.o, del~fireworks laws. It was introdueed in Maine and <strong>New</strong> Hampshire<br />
and stopped by very prompt action when we found out and appealed<br />
to Fire Chiefs, Governors and others.<br />
A similar controversy is going on in Ohio and Illinois. There is a .Federal Bill,
409 FEDERAL STREET<br />
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
HAROLD B. ALLEN, Inc.<br />
International Trucks - Sa~es and Service<br />
Tel. 6316<br />
~GREENFIELD, MASS.<br />
BETE FOG NOZZLE INC.<br />
Manufacturers <strong>of</strong> ,Bete Fog Nozzles - Bete Fog Guns<br />
Portable Concentrate Mist Sprayers - Special Fog and Spray Equipment<br />
Quality Spray Equipment jor Agriculture<br />
Industry.., Fire Protection<br />
30.5 WELLS STREET GREENFIELD, MASS.<br />
Cable address "fog" - Telephone 7198<br />
Member <strong>of</strong> Federal Reserve System, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.<br />
FRANKLIN COUNTY TRUST COMPANY<br />
ESTABLISHED 1849<br />
GREENFIELD, MASS.<br />
THE FRANKLIN SAVINGS<br />
COMPLI MENTS OF<br />
Incorporated 1834<br />
GREENFIELD, MASS.<br />
INSTITUTION<br />
Eor~a~w~[I ~ap an~ ~i~ Campanr<br />
GREENFI,ELD, MASS.<br />
The Oldest Bank in Franklin County<br />
~irSt ~ati[~nal ~anl~ & ~ruSt C~mpan~,<br />
Member <strong>of</strong> Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.<br />
GREEN FIELD MASSAC H US ETTS<br />
2O6
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
BELCO DISTRIBUTORS, INC.<br />
]40 CROSS STREET SOMERVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
Telephone: SOmerset (~-88(~5<br />
ANDREW P. PALMER<br />
Press Representative<br />
Woonsocket, R. I.<br />
Compliments <strong>of</strong> ,~<br />
BOSTON FRIEND<br />
207
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
JEFFERSON UNION COMPANY, ~INC.<br />
Manufacturers <strong>of</strong><br />
Jefferson-300 lb. - AAR-300 lb. - Enduro-300 lb.<br />
Excel-250 lb. - Master-150 lb.<br />
Air Furnace Malleable Iron Pipe Unions<br />
Also<br />
90 ° Union Elbows - 40 ° Union Elbows - Union Tees<br />
and Flange Unions<br />
LEXINGTON 73 MASSACHUSETTS<br />
BOTTLED GAS<br />
FUELITE NATURAL GAS CO.<br />
LEXINGTON 73<br />
LExington 9-192_0<br />
ESTABLISHED 1896<br />
EASTERN FELT COMPANY<br />
Manufacturers <strong>of</strong><br />
U. S. A. Brand Spanish Felt IVheels<br />
WINCHESTER, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
Telephone Winchester 6-0195<br />
~Y./incheste r Carton-:Corporation<br />
Manufacturers o z Foiding#~per Boxes<br />
MASS.<br />
50 CROSS STREET ’ WINCHESTER, MASS.<br />
Telephone WI6chester;<br />
1"72 MEMORIAL AVE.<br />
DE~UXE BUS SERVICE<br />
Provid:~f:~e 2 Southbridge - Pittsfield - Albany<br />
and Parts West<br />
Busses Available Jot Charter lVork<br />
INTERSTATE BUSSES CORPORATION<br />
WEST SPRINGFIELD, MASS.<br />
Tel. 9-2551<br />
WEST PAINT & VARNISH COMPANY<br />
:,<br />
BOSTON, MASS. (Everett Station)<br />
.208
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
House Bill No. 116, which makes it illegal to ship fireworks, which have control <strong>of</strong> fireworks<br />
under the law, and on that bill we are working very hard and we would like<br />
to have the support <strong>of</strong> the <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> Fire Chiefs.<br />
One <strong>of</strong> the other very important new developments, and one wfiich I think is going<br />
to revolutionize to a considerable extent the control <strong>of</strong> fires in factories, warehouses, etc.,<br />
has been -the development and adoption <strong>of</strong> a new type <strong>of</strong> automatic system--a spraytype<br />
sprinkler approved at the ann.ual meeting in Chicago last month. It will come in<br />
time, I think, to replace the old standard~ type <strong>of</strong> sprinkler system. This new type is<br />
more efficient; it can be installed more cheaply and will do a better job, and I think it<br />
will revolutionize the sprinkler system in years to come.<br />
Another new development which will interest the Fire Chiefs, who have struggled<br />
with this problem <strong>of</strong> loss <strong>of</strong> life and deaths an.d injuries in fire, has been the adoption<br />
recently <strong>of</strong> a standard definition .<strong>of</strong> ~qre casualties, which I think will make it easier for<br />
everybody throughout the country to follow, and unify the reporting <strong>of</strong> fire deaths and<br />
fire injuries so, we will get more adequate and relic’bit information to study and put<br />
to use, just as study hazards in various industrial processes. There has been a lack <strong>of</strong><br />
good experience because <strong>of</strong> a lack <strong>of</strong> understanding, lack <strong>of</strong> uniformity and definition<br />
<strong>of</strong> fire casualties. We think .the new definition is going to be very helpful to produce<br />
more accurate information cn what causes deaths an6 why.<br />
As far as the fire departmenl:s are concerned, I have a large list <strong>of</strong> things which<br />
I won’t go into_ at all, but I think you all recognize the fact that the use <strong>of</strong> water fog<br />
and indirect water ir~ firefighting has made tremendous strides in the last few years; and<br />
in tests all over the country, where old buildings were discarded, some actual tests can<br />
be made. Henry Thomas, chairman <strong>of</strong> our co.mmittee, was present in a ’series <strong>of</strong> tests<br />
at E!mira last year. Other tests have been conducted in the Mid;dle West and Memphis,<br />
and Lloyd Layman <strong>of</strong> Parkersburg--who is probably the exponent <strong>of</strong> the operation--has<br />
proceeded to a point where every fire department in the country is either<br />
adopting it or is seriously considering it.<br />
In the ~eld <strong>of</strong> fire prevention education we have had the greatest success.<br />
during the past year because <strong>of</strong> the advent into the picture <strong>of</strong> the advertising council,<br />
which has taken on fire prevention as one <strong>of</strong> its national campaigns, along with<br />
blood d,on0~:s and governmer~t recruiting, etc. In every newspaper, in every television<br />
and radio program, in street cars and buses--and they are giving voluntarily publicity<br />
for fire protection ~and prevention., at no cost. It is a tremendous development that I<br />
think will :do a great deal to cut down loss <strong>of</strong> life in fires for years to come.<br />
For the la’st several .years our <strong>Association</strong> has been holding regional meetings in<br />
various parts <strong>of</strong> the country and they have been very successful That is in addition to<br />
our annual meet’ing held in the Spring. We have had these meetings in various parts<br />
<strong>of</strong> the United States. The first was in Hartford six years ago. Next Fall it is going<br />
to be in Providence, Rhode Island, under the direction <strong>of</strong> ’Chief Lewis Marshall, on<br />
October 29 and 30, and we will try to present to a <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> audience the picture<br />
<strong>of</strong> what is going ~on, both engineering-wise and educational-wise. It is very ,short and interrsive,<br />
and I hope the <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> Fire Chiefs will come in large numbers. Thank<br />
you very much. (Applause.)<br />
PRESIDENT MOLLOY: Thank you, Mr. Bugbee. I think that is all for this morning.<br />
Don’t forget the exhibitors’ gifts after dirmer in the exhibit hall.<br />
(The Wednesday morning meeting adjo.urned at. twelve o’clock.)<br />
209
NE~V ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
The Torrins~on Coal & Oil Company, Inc.<br />
Distributors = o] Texaco Petroleum Products<br />
186 NORTH ELM STREET<br />
TORRINGTON, CONN.<br />
LA PORTA’S FUNERAL HOME<br />
82 LITCHFIELD STREET<br />
454 NO. ELM STREET<br />
Telephone 7991<br />
NEW CITY OIL CO.<br />
Mobilheat - Mobil ~el’OSel~e<br />
Phone 3609<br />
TORRINGTON, CONNECTICUT<br />
TORRINGTON, CONN.<br />
EXCELSIOR LAUNDRY, INC.<br />
152 FRANKLIN STREET<br />
TORRINGTON, CONNECTICUT<br />
TORRINGTON DISTRIBUTORS CO.<br />
¯<br />
Manufacturers <strong>of</strong> Distinctive Auto Seat Covers<br />
Wedge Cushions<br />
Custom Built and Fit<br />
Anti Rattle Kits<br />
48 LAKE STREET<br />
Telephone 5651<br />
TORRINGTON, CONN.<br />
Litchfield County Realty & Insurance Co.<br />
Incorporated<br />
Pro~essional Building - ~Insurance Service"<br />
TORRINGTON, CONN.<br />
F. C. BALDWIN, President - Telephone 8115<br />
, .<br />
210
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
The <strong>Annual</strong> Banquet, June 24, 1953<br />
TOASTMASTER MOLLOY: What a lovely gathering here tonight! First, I want to<br />
introduce the <strong>of</strong>ficers <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Association</strong> at the head table.<br />
Chief Oliver T. Sanborn <strong>of</strong> Portland, Maine..<br />
Chief Clarence H. Green, .Concord, N. H.<br />
The new Chief <strong>of</strong> the Portsmouth, N. H., Fire Department, Frederick R.<br />
Crompton.<br />
Chief Francis J. Dagen <strong>of</strong> East Hartford, ConnectiCUt.<br />
Chief Henry G. Thomas, Hartford, the First Vice,:Pre.sident <strong>of</strong> the International<br />
<strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs.<br />
Chief .George R. McAlpine <strong>of</strong> Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, President <strong>of</strong> the In.ternational<br />
<strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs.<br />
Chief Joseph E. Scanlon, Past President o.f the <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> <strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
Fire Chiefs.<br />
My friend and your friend, and the friendi <strong>of</strong> everybody:Father Michael F. Col,<br />
lins, ’Chaplain, <strong>of</strong> Dorchester, Massachusetts.<br />
Chief Henri Fortier, First Vice-President, <strong>of</strong> N. E., Manville, Rhode Island.<br />
Chief George C. Graham <strong>of</strong> Bristol, Connecticut, Second Vice-President <strong>of</strong> the<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> <strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs.<br />
And, in the same category as Father Collins, the Reverend John P. Fitzsimmons,<br />
ChapIain, <strong>of</strong> Belmont, Mass.<br />
Next is the fellow who writes all <strong>of</strong> our news ’stories, Andrew P. Palmer, Press<br />
Representative, Woonsocket, Rhode Islan.d.<br />
Chief A.J. Cote, Woonsocket, Rhode Island,.<br />
Chief Thomas H. Slaman, Wellesley, Mass.<br />
Chief Alfred H. Koltonski, Rutland, Vermont.<br />
Chief William J. Dc.oling, Hood Rubber Company, Watertown, Massachusetts.<br />
And the fellow who pays all the expenses, the backbone <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Association</strong>, John<br />
W. O’Hearn.<br />
(Applause.)<br />
Now, as long as I have introduced the <strong>of</strong>ficers <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Association</strong>, I think that it is<br />
only fitting that I introduce the wives c~f the <strong>of</strong>ficers. But before I do that, I have a very<br />
pleasant task to perform, and that is to introduce to you who are assembled here one<br />
<strong>of</strong> the most charming ladies in the State ,<strong>of</strong> <strong>New</strong> Hampshire :. Mrs. Hugh Gregg, wife<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Governor o.f <strong>New</strong> Hampshire. (Applause.)<br />
We have with us here tonight our genial host and hostess, Mr. and Mrs. James<br />
Barker Smith, and Jimmie Smith, Jr. (Applause.)<br />
Mrs. Graham, Mrs. Sanborn, Mrs. Scanlon, Mrs. Dooling, Mrs. Koltonski, Pat<br />
Koltonski, Mrs. Fitzsimmons; Miss Rose McKenney, our Assi’stant Secretary; Mrs.<br />
Crompton, Mrs. McAlpine,.Mrs. Fortier, Mrs. Slaman, Mrs. Griffin, and Mrs. Molloy. ¯<br />
At this time, I want to thank all <strong>of</strong> the Committees and~ the members who have<br />
so generously assisted Mrs. Molloy throughout this <strong>Conference</strong>. (Applause.)<br />
211
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
THE TORRINGTON LUMBER CO., Inc.<br />
Dealers in Lumber and Building Material<br />
FARLEY PLACE<br />
Terms 30 Days Net - Phone 7084<br />
Contractors and Builders<br />
TORRINGTON, CONNECTICUT<br />
MacFARLANE LUMBER CO., INC.<br />
Quality Building Material<br />
2_26 PEARL STREET TORRINGTON, CONN.<br />
Phone 5500<br />
NEW ENGLAND PLUMBING CO., Inc.<br />
Incorporated<br />
~First" in Plumbing and Heating<br />
~ TORRINGTON, CONNECTICUT<br />
,.<br />
T. A. WALKER, INC.<br />
Established 190~ - Incorporated 192_4<br />
Heating and Sanitary Engineers and Contractors<br />
22 MIGEON AVENUE TORRINGTON, CON~.<br />
Phone 5434<br />
Office Phone 9259<br />
40 MAIN .STREET<br />
JOSEPH SCHNIER<br />
Realtor - Insurance<br />
Prompt - Reliable - Dependable Service~<br />
: RACKLIFFE BROS. CO., Inc.<br />
Jobbers and Dealers<br />
Res. "/188<br />
TORRINGTON, CONN.<br />
250 PARK STREET =-NEW BRITAIN, CONN.<br />
Telephone 9-2001<br />
212
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
Massachusetts Inclemni~y<br />
Company<br />
Insurance<br />
Superior--M.l.l.Co.mDisability Insurance<br />
Non-Cancellable, Guaranteed Renewable<br />
BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS<br />
OUR VISITING CHIEFS, 1. to r., Chief C. Gray Burnett, Ot;awa, Canada, President,<br />
Canadian <strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs; Chief Anthony J. Molloy, Immediate Past President,,<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> <strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs; W. J. Scott, O.B.E., Q.C. Fire Marshal,<br />
Ontario, Canada.<br />
213
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
TIGRON LATEX CORPORATION<br />
Compounds -- Latex -- Products<br />
25 BROCK STREET STOUGHTON, MASS.<br />
Telephone Stoughton 1400<br />
a oratari , $n¢.<br />
Specialists In the Measurement and Control <strong>of</strong> Vfscoslty<br />
COMPLIMENTS OF<br />
STOUGHTON, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
A CANTON FRIF:ND<br />
ROCK MANUFACTURING COMPANY<br />
"From Standing Timber to Finished Product"<br />
GENERAL OFFICES AND WORKS STOUGHTON, MASS.<br />
FRANK A. FALES & CO.<br />
Flour~ Grain~. Meal, Feed, Hay~ Oyster Shells<br />
Lime, Cement. Sewer Pipe<br />
119 RAILROAD AVENUE<br />
MASO,N’S SUPPLIES<br />
NORWOOD, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
BALBONI’S EXPRESS COMPANY<br />
Service<br />
48 CENTRAL STREET<br />
NEW YORK and BOSTON<br />
Phone: NOrwood 7-0116<br />
214<br />
NORWOOD, MASSACHUSETTS
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
We have with us at this Banquet tonight a few distinguished guests, and the first<br />
one I am going to call upon is our new fellow member, Commissioner Cotter <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Boston Fire Department; Marshal Scott and Mrs. Scott, Toronto, Canada; Chief Burnett<br />
and Mrs. Burnett, Ottawa, Canada, 2nd Vice-President <strong>of</strong> the International <strong>Association</strong><br />
<strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs; and President <strong>of</strong> the .Canadian <strong>Association</strong>, Roi B. Woolley and<br />
Mrs. Woolley--and as you know, Roi Woolley is the ,Technical Ad.visor to the <strong>New</strong><br />
<strong>England</strong> <strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs. (Applause).<br />
I am going to ask all <strong>of</strong> the Past Presidents and their’ wives to stand up and take<br />
a bow, at this time. (Applause.)<br />
Ladies and Gentlemen, our first speaker on tonight’s program is a young man<br />
whose friendship I have cherished for a number <strong>of</strong> years; he is a lawyer, and he is a<br />
man I predict will never stop until he has attained the political goal that leads to Washington.<br />
He is loved and’ respected by every citizen in <strong>New</strong> Hampshire, regardless <strong>of</strong> his<br />
or her political affiliations.<br />
It is a pleasure for me to present to you at this time His Excellency, Hugh Gregg,<br />
Governor <strong>of</strong> <strong>New</strong> Hampshire! (Applause.)<br />
His EXCELLENCY, HUGH GREGG: Thank you, Tony, for those very kind remarks.<br />
Members <strong>of</strong> this grand <strong>Association</strong>, and your friends who are here this evening..<br />
One <strong>of</strong> the really pleasant duties about being the Governor <strong>of</strong> a great State like <strong>New</strong><br />
Hampshire, is the privilege you have <strong>of</strong> welcoming the visiting firemen who come to<br />
this state and their beautiful wives.<br />
This is a particular pleasure tonight, because this is the first time that the "visiting<br />
firemen" h~ve really .been firemen--and they really have their beautiful wives with them.<br />
I want you to know that I feel very highly honored in having this opportunity to<br />
be here with you, and to welcome you to our State.<br />
I had the opportunity, this noontime, <strong>of</strong> meeting with a Police <strong>Association</strong> group<br />
up in the White Mountains. I was wondering, as I drove down here, what the contrast<br />
would be between the policemen and! the firemen. You know, I always think <strong>of</strong><br />
firemen with red shirts, and I always think <strong>of</strong> a lot <strong>of</strong> nice buildings burning--and then<br />
I come down here, and I find such a well-controlled, magnificently behaved group! I<br />
was, to be perfectly frank, quite surprised.. So I asked-the good Father, here, how it<br />
happened, and he said that it was because he and the Reverend, Fitzsimmons took care<br />
<strong>of</strong> things, and kept you in. line! (Applause.)<br />
I was wondering if he wasn’t taking too much credit for this.<br />
, It reminded me <strong>of</strong> a situation where there was a horrible accident in <strong>New</strong> Hampshire,<br />
where a taxicab was involved. We had a taxicab driver, and two Protestant<br />
ministers, and they finally got outside the Pearly Gates, to see whether or not they<br />
qualified for admission. As they were standing there, St. Peter came along, and, to<br />
the Congregationalist Minister he said:<br />
"What is your occupation?".<br />
"I have been a Minister for twenty-five years."<br />
"All right; you step aside, then."<br />
Then he turned to the next gentleman, and he asked:<br />
"What is your occupation?"<br />
"I am an Episcopal minister."<br />
"’How long have you been in that pr<strong>of</strong>ession?"<br />
About-twen’ty~-five - yea~s:<br />
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"Then, you had better step aside." ’ ?<br />
Good old St.: Peter then turned to a third member <strong>of</strong> the party, and he said to him:<br />
"What do you do?"<br />
"I’m a cab driveri"<br />
"How long have you been doing that?"<br />
"Oh, about three years."<br />
"All right; the Gates are open to you; walk in."<br />
Well, now, the two ministers, <strong>of</strong> course, were quite surprised by that, so they<br />
turned to St. Peter and said:<br />
"What goes on here? This isn’t what we were taught."<br />
_ ~A-M=St. Peter said to them:<br />
"Yes, .but that cab driver, in three years, ha,s scared more hell out <strong>of</strong> people than<br />
you have in. fifty years[" (Laughter and Applause.)<br />
Of course, I am honored to think that you people have come to this particular part<br />
<strong>of</strong> our State, for eight~ c.onsecutive years, and, even before that, you had been in our<br />
State, up in the mountain areas. You must know that <strong>New</strong> Hampshire is the most<br />
beautiful and magnificent o.f all the states <strong>of</strong> the forty-eight, and it is second only to<br />
the <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> State from which you may come! (Applause.)<br />
You are here tonight, in. the seacoast area. It i.s a small share <strong>of</strong> our total beauty,<br />
and I hope that if you have not .done it before, you will have an opportunity to visit<br />
some <strong>of</strong> the other parts <strong>of</strong> our State, <strong>of</strong> which we are very proud. We have 1500 lakes.<br />
’We have sparkling Lake Winnepesaukee, with its 72-mile-around area. We have six<br />
mountains, over a mile high. We have the only chair-lift in the world. We have the<br />
only aerial tramway in this country, the famous cog railway.<br />
Thus, we have in <strong>New</strong> Hampshire many things that give us distinction in this<br />
great <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> community <strong>of</strong> ours. We certainly do want you to make yourselves<br />
at home while you are here, and please do come back for many more conventions.<br />
And do you know, but sometimes, I feel that perhaps we are a little too hospitable<br />
in our State. We had a Legion convention in Nashua, and there were a lot <strong>of</strong> boys<br />
there, who were renewing old friendships. The way I get the story is that a couple <strong>of</strong><br />
boys were down at the railroad bar, whi.ch is a little establishment d,own beside the<br />
railroad tracks. They came along in time to close up the place, and it was necdssary<br />
for the bartender to gently invite them ~outside, and to be on their way home, which he<br />
did, after considerable persuasion.<br />
Finally, they got outside, and one <strong>of</strong> the boys had just enough sense <strong>of</strong> equilibrium<br />
at that point to feel that maybe he shouldn’t go home, so he said:<br />
"You know, if I go home, my wife isn’t going to be very happy, the way I’m<br />
feeling, so I shouldn’t go home."<br />
And the other boy said:<br />
"Well, we’re having a good time in <strong>New</strong> Hampshire, so maybe you should come<br />
up to the place that I’ve rented. Y~u come on up with me."<br />
So they proceeded to move along towards the second man’s apartment. They got<br />
out in the middle <strong>of</strong> the railroad tracks, anti as they were going along the tracks, they<br />
got in between the ties, and they stumbled from tie to tie; it was a little difficult walking.<br />
After going for five minutes, sweating and straining, as they tried to step from tie to tie,<br />
one <strong>of</strong> the boys turned~ to the other, and said:<br />
"This is an awfully long flight <strong>of</strong> stairs up to your apartment."<br />
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Distributor oj Fuller Products Co.<br />
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BuL the other fellow, who didn’t want. to go home in the first place, said:<br />
"You know, Joe, it’s not the flight <strong>of</strong> stairs that’s bothering me; it’s these low<br />
hand-rails that are getting me!" (Laughter.)<br />
Now, you have paid our State a further great honor this evening by coming here<br />
for your eighth convention at this hotel, ~n~t, as Governor <strong>of</strong> the State, I am glad that<br />
you have done so. You have invited Mr. John ’Griffin <strong>of</strong> the Boston Post, who, as Editor<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Boston Post, ha,s made a substantial contribution to the welfare Of our State.<br />
You also have a very aggressive Tax Commissioner in Massachusetts, and those<br />
<strong>of</strong> you who are from that fine State know that he has contributed a great deal to our<br />
State; yes, he has helped us a great deal. We appreciate the fact .that he can work<br />
along wish us, a!though it takes the Boston Post to get the pictures <strong>of</strong> the people<br />
getting their liquor cheaper in <strong>New</strong> Hampshire! So that the Boston Post has beer~ very<br />
cooperative in. that regard. The result <strong>of</strong> all <strong>of</strong> this is that we-have had to, open up<br />
new liquor stores all along our border line; in fact, this has .been a God.-~end ~to me, as<br />
a politician, because we have had to keep these stores open so long that we have a<br />
<strong>of</strong> new jobs for people who are looking for jobs. So that between, that and our race<br />
track, which pays <strong>of</strong>f much better than .Suffolk Downs, we are .most grateful.<br />
We have in <strong>New</strong> Hampshire a Society known as the Wh~opers’ Organization.<br />
To be a member <strong>of</strong> this organization, you have got to be a resident and a native <strong>of</strong> <strong>New</strong><br />
Hampshire; in other words, you have got to be brought up in the greatest <strong>of</strong> all states.<br />
You have got to have a feeling for the mountains and the lakes and the seashore. Those<br />
<strong>of</strong> you who didn’t have the good fortune to be blessed b~ being born in this State, <strong>of</strong><br />
course, cannot become regular members ’<strong>of</strong> the organization.<br />
However, we do extend a few gratuitous memberships to people outside <strong>of</strong> our<br />
State. Henry Long received our first Honorary membeiship, and believe me, there is<br />
no one who is better qualified.<br />
We now want to complete the-cycle by awarding, tonight, to your guest speaker,<br />
who has done so much for <strong>New</strong> Hampshire, an I-tonorable membership, for his good<br />
publicity <strong>of</strong>-our State. "<br />
At this time, Mr. Griffin, I am going to ask you to stand and face in the direction<br />
<strong>of</strong> the White Mountains, and a-ssume the-position <strong>of</strong> reverence, letting your hair wave<br />
in the spruce trees, and like the spruce trees. When you have assumed that position,<br />
I am going to read to you this scroll, which is the .,symbol <strong>of</strong> your membership as an<br />
Honorary Member:<br />
"To all who shall see these~Presents, Greetings:<br />
"Whereas, a befuddledl star, some years ago, did ~leave on some boundless<br />
ocean, or in some strange and unenchanted land, John H. Griffin, and it is, therefore<br />
the misfortune <strong>of</strong> said John H. Griffin to be unable to declare <strong>New</strong> Hampshire<br />
as his native State, and<br />
"Whereas, he has surmounted this fearful handicap, and by virtue c;f vigorous<br />
application <strong>of</strong> elbrow-grease, ability and ingenuity, has, none the less, made his<br />
distinguished mark on the scroll <strong>of</strong> time.<br />
"I, Hugh Gregg, Governor <strong>of</strong> the State <strong>of</strong> <strong>New</strong> Hampshire, do hereby<br />
nominate and, elect the said John H. Griffin, an Honorary <strong>New</strong> Hampshire<br />
Whooper, and hereby empower him to whoop-it-up for this greatest <strong>of</strong> all States,<br />
and I do declare him to be a legal resident <strong>of</strong> <strong>New</strong> Hampshire, thereby placing<br />
special trust and confidence in the valor and fidelity <strong>of</strong> this loyal friend, and I<br />
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hereby decree that this Honorary Whooper-ship shall remain in force for all eterr.<br />
nity, including that day when we shall all meet on. this bright and shining shore~i.<br />
which, by any other name, will still resemble <strong>New</strong> Hampshire more than any<br />
other land." (Applause.)<br />
TOASTMASTER MOLLOY: Thank you, Governor. You, n.o doubt, have seen our<br />
next speaker on television, in "Starring the Editors." He is outstanding in the editorial<br />
field, and ha,s been recently awarded the Howe Award for distinguished writing <strong>of</strong><br />
public significance,<br />
May I now present the Editor-in-Chief <strong>of</strong> the Boston Post, John H. GriKin.<br />
(applause.)<br />
I am very happy to be here tonight, and I was. pleased that .Chief Molloy managed<br />
to get my title in as Editor-in-Chief. For, you know, I wanted: to be on a parity with<br />
all the Chiefs present here tonight.<br />
However, I want to talk about a serious subject here this evening. It is a subject<br />
with which my remarks may not find favor with many <strong>of</strong> you perhaps. It is a very hot<br />
subject, and a controversial, thing.<br />
I feel fairly comfortable about it, though, because I have a strong belief, and I<br />
also have the opportunity right now <strong>of</strong> having the floor, and it is not good form for<br />
anybody to stand up and dispute the speaker[<br />
I want to talk about investigations. I want to talk, particularly, about investigations<br />
having to do with schools and colleges. And that, <strong>of</strong> course, is a subject on which<br />
there is a great variety <strong>of</strong> opinion and greater bitterness in- that variety, too.<br />
In order to introduce this matter to you, I want to read a letter which recently<br />
appeared~ in a prominent newspaper, signed by a woman whose writing very obviously<br />
indicated that she was a woman <strong>of</strong> some learning and some ability to handle the English<br />
language. She said:<br />
"Fears <strong>of</strong> Communist infilt.ration into our schools are unfounded. I think<br />
we can trust the great majority <strong>of</strong> our teachers. Should there be a Communist or<br />
two among them, he or she would be foolhardy, indeed, in the present state <strong>of</strong><br />
public opinion, to make the slightest move in the direction <strong>of</strong> indoctrination. The<br />
real danger, I consider to be in the direction <strong>of</strong> stifling initiative andl an honest<br />
expression <strong>of</strong> opinion in our schools. Our teachers become afraid to speak their<br />
minds, fearful that some careless word may be misinterpreted. Then, and then<br />
indeed, our American. way <strong>of</strong> life is endangered from within."<br />
That was the letter <strong>of</strong> an undoubtedly sincere and learned woman.<br />
Just about that time, the Superintendent <strong>of</strong> the Schools <strong>of</strong> <strong>New</strong> York City, William<br />
Jensen, .who is heldl in high regard by all educators everywhere, made a report that 81<br />
teachers had been fired from the public school system, because they were Communists<br />
and were teaching Communism.<br />
He ,said that the number <strong>of</strong> :Communists among <strong>New</strong> York’s 37,000 teachers is<br />
small, but they exert an influence far beyond their number. He further said:<br />
"The situation is not cleared up in <strong>New</strong> York. Furthermore, the pro:blem is<br />
not Confined to <strong>New</strong> York City. School authorities throughout the nation are<br />
increasingly concerned about Red infiltrations."<br />
He even praised the Senate Investigating Cgmmittees , particularly the Internal<br />
Security Committee, and he said that the Communists were talking nonsense when<br />
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they denounced investigations as assaults on academic freedom. Then, he went on to<br />
talk about his own investigation and~ the investigations condu,cted by Senate Com,<br />
mittees regarding the <strong>New</strong> York Schools. He said:<br />
"I am not inquiring-into the political beliefs, <strong>of</strong> teachers, ..but I am inquiring<br />
into their activities in an organization which advocates the violent overthrow <strong>of</strong><br />
our government, an organization which gives allegiance to an outside government<br />
rather than our own, which teaches people to hate, and which justifies lying a’s<br />
a means <strong>of</strong> accomplishing its goal."<br />
The trial examiner in the previous cases made it very clear that the political existence<br />
,<strong>of</strong> the Communist Party does not give its members a cloak <strong>of</strong> immunity to practice<br />
un-:American activities.<br />
There is a man who is in a position to know what i’s~ going on, at least in the public<br />
schools .<strong>of</strong> <strong>New</strong> York, and his testimony is that other educators he knows are becoming<br />
increasingly alarmed.<br />
Well, <strong>of</strong> ~course, some educators are, -and some ~tucators are not. Some educators,<br />
such as Dr. Conant, say that it i.s not the duty <strong>of</strong> a university to investigate its own<br />
faculty. He has no objection to the government, to the Senate or House Committees<br />
conducting investigations <strong>of</strong> his faculty, but he doesn’t think that the university should~<br />
have to do it. Whereas the President <strong>of</strong> Dartmouth College, the President <strong>of</strong> Brown<br />
University, the head <strong>of</strong> the American <strong>Association</strong>. <strong>of</strong> Universities, all take the opposite<br />
viewpoint. They say that it is really none~ <strong>of</strong> the government:s businessl and that it is<br />
up to the schools themselves to investigate their own faculties.<br />
The President .<strong>of</strong> Brown recently came out with a statement which attracted relatively<br />
little attention, but it was a very acutely thought-out statement, in which he<br />
said that academic freedom has nothing whatever to do with the relations, <strong>of</strong> a faculty<br />
member to the United States Government, that academic freedom applies only to the<br />
relations between ~. Prc~fessor, a faculty member, and the Board~ <strong>of</strong> Overseers, the<br />
President, or whatever is the governing body <strong>of</strong> his particular school. The Pr<strong>of</strong>essor<br />
has duties, just as the citizen ha,s, and the cry <strong>of</strong> academic freedom is so <strong>of</strong>ten used<br />
and so <strong>of</strong>ten employed to discredit the investigations in this country, that it has gotten.<br />
to the point <strong>of</strong> incredibility.<br />
They have succeeded in convincing a good part <strong>of</strong> the world, particularly Great<br />
Britain, that all our schools are in a turmoil, because Senator McCarthy is running<br />
them, when, actually, as Rebeoca West points out, Great Britain has gone through<br />
exactly the same ’sort <strong>of</strong> investigations in the so-called, Lyndon Report by the Lyndon<br />
Committee, as we have had in this country, and they have gotten rid <strong>of</strong> disloyal people<br />
in that way.<br />
However, the investigators are really up against a great deal <strong>of</strong> opposition; it is<br />
put in one word--~McCarthyism. But, <strong>of</strong> course, long before Senator McCarthy started<br />
any investigations or took part in any, there was Martin Dies, who headed the un-<br />
American Activities Committee, and the same things that are now being said about<br />
Senator McCarthy were ,said about Martin Dies. And, those same things are being<br />
said about Senator Jenner, Senator McCarthy, and Representative Velde, who, incidentally,<br />
is a former F. B. I. agent, and up until the point that he took charge <strong>of</strong> an<br />
investigating committee, was held to be a reputable citiaen.<br />
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But, Ladies and Gentlemen, Senator ~McCarthy, Senator Jenner and all the rest<br />
<strong>of</strong> the investigators are up against a real campaign in this country; they are up against<br />
a great many sc<strong>of</strong>fers in the press <strong>of</strong> the country, in the magazine field, in the ~book<br />
publishing field, in. the radio field and in the television field.<br />
Some <strong>of</strong> the leading papers, the Washington Post, for instance, quite widely known<br />
in Washington nowadays as the Washington Daily Worker, and the <strong>New</strong> York Times,<br />
always the apex <strong>of</strong> American Journalism, has in the last year or so taken to slanting<br />
the news so badly that on an occasion when Senator McCarthy_ revealed that Greek<br />
ship owners using American ships were trading with our enemy, they used just one<br />
little paragraph on that story, and on the same page, they Used a half a column, <strong>of</strong><br />
type to tell that Father Divine had put a curse on the <strong>New</strong> Jersey-Turnpike.<br />
Then, on April 13th <strong>of</strong> this year, TIME Magazine had an article describing the<br />
situation in the .colleges in, relation to the investigations, and I am going to quote one<br />
thing, here, and this i,s all they said about this particular case:<br />
"In the meantime, Boston University was deba,ting the case over Maurice<br />
Ha.lperin, former O.S.S. man and Latin-American expert, who refused to say<br />
whether he ever knew Elizabeth Bentley."<br />
And that is all that TIME Magazine said~ about that case. And yet, what he had<br />
refused to do, <strong>of</strong> course, was to answer any questions as to whether he was a member<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Communist Party, and whether he was a .Communist while in the O.S.S.<br />
That is the sort <strong>of</strong> coverage that the investigators are getting in the newspapers,<br />
or at least some <strong>of</strong> them.<br />
And that TIME Magazine story, obviously, was deliberately designed to lo_ok as<br />
if it was a trivial .case, when this man had just refused to say he knew Elizabeth Bentley.<br />
He wa’s a member <strong>of</strong> the most secret organization this country had, during the war, the<br />
0.8.8., and he refuses to say, now, whether he was a .Communist at that time.<br />
You might not know that today, the man who heads what is called Reos, the<br />
American Broadcatsing 8ration in Berlin, which is .designed to flood East Berlin and<br />
Czechoslovakia with our propaganda, is coming back to this country. Ne gave out a<br />
statement to that effect:<br />
"1 might as well get the jump on Joe McCarthy, and admit, now, that I used<br />
to be a ’Communist. But, I haven’t been a Communist for several years, and I am<br />
violently opposed to it."<br />
Well, you can have those who used to be Communists and who have reformed,<br />
but Fll take, in a position like that, somebody who was never a Communist, who. always<br />
was an American! (Applause.) -<br />
I am, and I suppose a great many other people are getting a little fed up with<br />
those who used to be Communists, and have now reformed. And!, a great many <strong>of</strong><br />
them used to .be .Communists in 1946, 1947, 1948 and 1949 and 1950. Well, to me,<br />
it is going to be very difficult to convince some people, yes, really to convince a great<br />
many Americans, that these are people who were dupes, that they were just suckers,<br />
who were taken in. They might get away with that up to 1945, but after that, everybody<br />
knew what Communism was, or they should have known it.<br />
The Communist party, <strong>of</strong> course, has undertaken every possible way to infiltrate<br />
education. Congressional investigators estimate that there are 3,500 Pr<strong>of</strong>essors in this<br />
country who have Communist affiliations, and I should say, now that I am not condemning<br />
Pr<strong>of</strong>essors, that as a class, 3,500 varying shades <strong>of</strong> pink and redl are a relatively<br />
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small group, and any university, any big university, where you might find two, three,<br />
four or five Communist tendencies, has dozens and scores <strong>of</strong> Pr<strong>of</strong>essors who have<br />
nothing to do with Communism, and want nothing to do with it, and would like to<br />
fight it in the :best way they know how.<br />
And, speaking <strong>of</strong> academic freedom, those who were-suffering academic restraint<br />
are those who woul4 like to speak out against Communism. It isn’t popular, in some<br />
circles, you know.<br />
Well, what are these Pr<strong>of</strong>essors concerned with? Are they concerned with the<br />
truth, or are they concerned wit..h~ the John Dewey ph~ilosophy <strong>of</strong> pragmatism, so well<br />
expressed by Justice Holmes, who said: "<br />
"Truth is the majority vcte <strong>of</strong> that nation that can lick all others."<br />
’On that basis, Communism could be called truth. Don’t the Pr<strong>of</strong>essors know that<br />
truth is not Communism? They say, <strong>of</strong> course, that they are for the under-go.g, and<br />
they want to cure social ills.<br />
Well, that doesn’t apply in this country. You can understand anybody from<br />
Russia, or people whose roots go back to Russia, and whose traditions carry them back<br />
to life under the Czars. When Czarism ended, and Communism took over, to those<br />
people, anything was better than Czari.sm. They embraced Communism,. because they<br />
lived under Czarism, and anything was an improvement.<br />
However, that =situation never applied in this country. There never was that sort<br />
<strong>of</strong> social ills. We have had no restraint on our freedom. 8o that I can’t understand<br />
how they can talk about the under-dog. Those are the people who have some social<br />
sympathies, like some <strong>of</strong> the Hollywood multi-millionaires, who send their chauffeurs<br />
to throw brick,s.<br />
Under Communist discipline, up to 1945, there were many things that occurred.<br />
You need~ only the testimony <strong>of</strong> Herbert Philbrick, who is now being called an informer<br />
instead .<strong>of</strong> a patriot, which he was, and anybody connected with the Department <strong>of</strong><br />
Justice or the F. B. I. can tell you that Herbert Phil.brick was a great patriot; he performed<br />
a service never performed in the history <strong>of</strong> the country. He is known among<br />
the Left-wing organization as an informer and a stool pigeon. He took his life in his<br />
hand’s to inform the government <strong>of</strong> what was going on., in Communist circles. Those<br />
people, especially on faculties, under Communist discipline, could not teach except as<br />
the Party directed.<br />
Is that to be doubted? ’~ .......<br />
Well, here is what The Commuhist, the <strong>of</strong>ficial theoretical magazine <strong>of</strong> the .Communist<br />
Party in the United States, says:<br />
"A people’s movement around the schools can thus transform the latter into<br />
popular forms, for progressive social action, ultimately in the form <strong>of</strong> revolution.<br />
Communist teachers are, therefore, faced~ with a tremendous social responsibility;<br />
they must take advantage <strong>of</strong> their positions, without exposing themselves. Only<br />
when teachers have really mastered Marxism and Leninism will they be able, skilfully,<br />
to inject it into their teaching at the least risk <strong>of</strong> exposure."<br />
That is from the <strong>of</strong>ficial Communist Party Magazine. And, if you don’t think<br />
they infiltrated into various other aspects <strong>of</strong> American life, as well as into the schools,<br />
you ought to take a look at some <strong>of</strong> the text books that have been published by reputa:ble<br />
publishing houses.<br />
Yes, take a look at some <strong>of</strong> the production.s <strong>of</strong> Little, Brown and Company, one<br />
<strong>of</strong> the great, in terms <strong>of</strong> size, publishing houses <strong>of</strong> America. The mar, who directs tlqis<br />
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publishing house is Angus Cameron, who has consistently refused to say whether he<br />
was or is a member <strong>of</strong> the Communi’st Party.<br />
During and right after the war, the~e were twenty-nine books published on China,<br />
and twenty-two <strong>of</strong> them were pro-Communist and seven were not. All twenty-two<br />
<strong>of</strong> the pro.Communist books were highly praised and recommended to readers in the<br />
Book Section <strong>of</strong> the <strong>New</strong> York Times, the <strong>New</strong> York Herald-Tribune, the Saturday<br />
Review <strong>of</strong> Literature, The Nation and-the <strong>New</strong> Republic; the seven anti-Communist<br />
books were all roundly condemned.<br />
All right. That is a little something in the past.<br />
So, what about 19~37 Well, 19~3 is the year that the United States has pretty<br />
well caught up with the Communists.<br />
Who caused that? Who was responsible for that? It was not the universities.<br />
It was not the book publishers. It was not the book ~eviewers. The press helped some.<br />
But, in the main, it was Congressional Investigating Committees. And, <strong>of</strong> course, that<br />
is McCarthyism.<br />
Senator McCarthy is one <strong>of</strong> the most controversial figures in America. I am not<br />
going to try to defend him, personally. I don’t know enough about him. I know something<br />
about him. I had lunch with him recently in Washington, and he caused! me<br />
tb wonder a little because his lunch consisted <strong>of</strong> these things, and in this order: A<br />
Martini, a ham sandwich, a glass <strong>of</strong> milk, another Martini, another ham sandwich, and<br />
another glass <strong>of</strong> milk. And yet, he seemed to hold up under it very well.<br />
I do know, also, and this is not generally known, that on many occasions when<br />
his Committee has talked to people in private to those they ,suspected <strong>of</strong> being Communists<br />
or <strong>of</strong> having once been a Communist, some <strong>of</strong> those fellows have said to<br />
Senator McCarthy:<br />
°’Look, I was a member; I got hooked, and I was a dope. I’m terribly sorry,<br />
and I’ll do anything under the sun that I can, to undo all <strong>of</strong> this."<br />
And, Senator McCarthy would say:<br />
"Forget it; we will never bring your name up."<br />
And I know that to be a fact. And yet, some people say that he goes around<br />
smearing innocent people. Who are they? I don’t know <strong>of</strong> one yet, who ha,s been<br />
smeared, who can call himself innocent to the point where he will clear himself by<br />
his own statement.<br />
You may remember that on a television show, a man by the name <strong>of</strong> Harrison<br />
Dilworth accused Senator McCarthy <strong>of</strong> smearing people and conducting investigations<br />
in secret session, and~ not giving them an opportunity to appear in public session. Senator<br />
McCarthy challenged him to name one, and he named one; however, Senator<br />
McCarthy proved that they had <strong>of</strong>fered that man the opportunity to appear in public<br />
session. Senator McCarthy asked for an}" others in that category, and Dilworth said:<br />
"I will let you k~ow later."<br />
But he never got in touch with the Committee.<br />
And, I don’t know <strong>of</strong> a single one who has appeared before the Jenner Committee,<br />
or the un-American Activities ’Committee, who wasn’t given an opportunity<br />
to establish that he wasn’t a Communist, or, having been one, is no longer associated<br />
with the Party.<br />
After all, a great many <strong>of</strong> these things were developed and revealed long before<br />
Senator McCarthy got into the Senate. He achievedl prominence when he came in on<br />
the Lattimore case. Lattimore was the man who ran Amerasia. That was a magazine.<br />
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The story <strong>of</strong> Amerasia has never been fully told, becau, se influences were used to<br />
prevent its being carried out to a completion. But it wasn’t a very complex case; it was<br />
simply about a man in the State Department who had charge <strong>of</strong> filing certain papers,<br />
under a top secret designation and this man happened to pick up, one night, a copy<br />
<strong>of</strong> the magazine, Amerasia, and he read in it, verbatim, something that he had filed<br />
in the State Department as top secret. A slight investigation was started, and it revealed<br />
that it wa’s stolen from the State Department. That was Lattimore. Lattimore<br />
wrote a book called, "Ordeal by Slander" and it got great reviews and raves from all<br />
over the .country. But, shortly afterwards, before ’one <strong>of</strong> the Investigating Committees,<br />
Lattimore’s stroy was so full <strong>of</strong> holes that he was indicted for perjury.<br />
The Lattimore case still hasn,’t been disposed <strong>of</strong>.<br />
Another charge by the McCarthy haters, and I am using Senator McCarthy not<br />
as a personal symbol but because he is the one around whom the bitterness and the<br />
term McCarthyism revolves, is that he, personally, had taken money to fight Commu,<br />
nism, and that he had used it for his own purposes; that he had received money for<br />
his campaign, and he usedl it personally.<br />
Well, n~ow, who is the most investigated man in America, today? Do you think<br />
that it is Lattimore? No[ It is Senator McCarthy. His opponents have turned over<br />
every ~tone they could turn over, and they haven’t hesitated to do an~hing and everything.<br />
He turned over all <strong>of</strong> his books and his check ’books and statemen.ts to an investigating<br />
committee, made up largely .<strong>of</strong> the opposing party. Yes, his private life has<br />
~bee~ thor0,ughly investigated, and I don’t think that an:Cbody is naive enough to think<br />
that if there was something they could get hold <strong>of</strong>, they would pull no punches but<br />
they would get it.<br />
Now what has Senator McCarthy produced?<br />
One thing that he produced not so long ago was the fact that thd British were<br />
using ships to transport Communist troops from one part <strong>of</strong> Asia to another. These<br />
are the :Communist troops who have killed 2~,000 Americans in the last three years.<br />
The war is three years, old tonight. Tomorrow is the start <strong>of</strong> the fourth year <strong>of</strong><br />
the war in Korea. There are 1~0,000 wounded and maimed an.d 2~,000 dead. And<br />
our ally has been transporting enemy troops from one position to another, and has been<br />
dealing with the enemy in materials Of war.<br />
Senator McCarthy made those charges. And, <strong>of</strong> course, everybody said:<br />
"Well, it is just McCarthy again."<br />
But, maybe you noticed that the State Department and the Pentagon both said,<br />
two weeks ago, that that was true, and that they taave the records, and the evidence,<br />
to prove that it was tree.<br />
Well, is that a service to America, to reveal something like that? Or, does that<br />
just lay the man open to charges <strong>of</strong> being a demagogue, and a ruthless man, trying to<br />
take over the control <strong>of</strong> American liberties?<br />
That was being done. The State Department would not admit it, if it were not<br />
so. And the Pentagon would not admi~ it if it were not so. It was so. There i,s no<br />
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You remember the World Peace <strong>Conference</strong> at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in<br />
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Air Lift to Berlin was on. The State Department publicly recognized the Communist<br />
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among the Communists <strong>of</strong> that meeting were seven university Presidents, and, <strong>of</strong> course,<br />
Albert Einstein. Einstein is connected with forty Communist Front organizations.<br />
The other day, ’he suggested that anybody who was called before the Senate Committee<br />
should refuse to testify, but nobody takes Einstein too seriously. He is the case <strong>of</strong> a<br />
genius in his own field, an.d~ a child when he steps out ’<strong>of</strong> it.<br />
Einstein received the .blessings <strong>of</strong> American citizenship a few years ago, :but ap-<br />
parently he does not rate it very highly.<br />
However, the magazine, LIFE, ..after that <strong>Conference</strong> at the Waldorf-Astoria,<br />
used pictures <strong>of</strong> fifty prominent persons under the caption:<br />
"Dupes and Fellow 7I’ravelers dress up Communist Fronts."<br />
Now, <strong>of</strong> those fifty, ,sixteen <strong>of</strong> them were educators; that is 32 per cent <strong>of</strong> the<br />
total.<br />
Did the academic world protest this debasement <strong>of</strong> the teaching pr<strong>of</strong>ession? Not<br />
a word was heard; not a peep wa~ heard.<br />
What have the colleges and the universities d’.one to clean themselves up?<br />
The Radiation Laboratory <strong>of</strong> the University <strong>of</strong> California, at Berkeley, participated<br />
in the productidn <strong>of</strong> the atomic bomb. Six Pr<strong>of</strong>essors in that laboratory have been linked<br />
with Communist Fronts. All <strong>of</strong> them have taken refuge in the Fifth Amendment,<br />
when questioned about their membership in the Berkeley cell.<br />
Who exposed that?<br />
It wasn’t the educators. It was curious newspaper men who exposed that.<br />
And what happened to the six Pr<strong>of</strong>essors? Well, one <strong>of</strong> them is teaching at<br />
Brooklyn Polytech Institute; one is at the University <strong>of</strong> Minnesota; one is = teaching at<br />
Fiske University; one i,s at the University <strong>of</strong> Puerto Rico.; one is at Princeton, and one<br />
is still at the University <strong>of</strong> California.<br />
Then, we have something that is a little closer to home. A pr<strong>of</strong>essor at Harvard<br />
University, Wendell Furry, refused to testify .before the Jenner Committee. He testified,<br />
but he refuse5 to give answrs to questions as to whether, he wa, s or had been a<br />
Communist. He came back to .Cambridge, and he told the newspaper men the answers<br />
to the questions.<br />
Whereupon, Harvard University told him to go back to Washington and testify<br />
again, which he did.<br />
Then, the Harvard Board <strong>of</strong> Overseers studied the case, and after studying the<br />
ca’se, they said that he had made a mistake, and it was a grave mistake, but they said<br />
that it was not <strong>of</strong> such a nature that should cause his dismissal from the. faculty, even<br />
though he lied when he signed a questionnaire concerning his employment on the<br />
atomic bomb project, and he deliberately lied in that questionnaire, and yet the Harvard<br />
¯ Board <strong>of</strong> ’Overseers, in their <strong>of</strong>ficial report, said that he lied, but they were going to<br />
overlook that, and place him on probation for three years.<br />
Well, ¯ over the gates to the entrance <strong>of</strong> the Harvard Yard, there is a keystone,<br />
an.d ,on that keystone, there is the Latin word, Veritas, which you all know means<br />
Truth.<br />
However, Pr<strong>of</strong>essor Furry is still a.t Harvard.<br />
Harvard also said that Dr. Helen Markham was not going to be disturbed, be*<br />
cause she had told them she was not a Communist. After that, she went to Washing,<br />
ton, to appear before the Jenner Committee, and, under oath to the Jenner C=ommittee,<br />
she refused to say whether or not she wa.s a Communist.<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
KENNEDY & CO., INC.<br />
Specialists in Fancy Quality<br />
BUTTER - EGGS - CHEESE - TEA - COFFEE<br />
<strong>New</strong> General Office and ~arehouse at<br />
~30 RINDGE AVENUE EXTENSION CAMBRIDGE 40, MASS.<br />
Telephone UNiversity 4-I 144<br />
~ STORES SERVING NEW ENGLAND SINCE 18~I ~<br />
TRAILMOBILE Inc.<br />
Commercial Trailers & Tank Trailers oj All Types<br />
282 MYSTIC AVE. MEDFORD 55, MASS.<br />
Phone MYstic 8-9400<br />
374 SALEM ST.<br />
573 FELLSWAY<br />
HOLLAND FURNACE CO.<br />
FACTORY BRANCH<br />
Tel. MYstic 8400<br />
HALLINAN BROTHERS<br />
OIL BURNER<br />
Sales - Installations . Service<br />
Phone MY 6-3700<br />
MEDFORD<br />
MEDFORD, MASS.<br />
COLONY FOOD PRODUCTS, Inc.<br />
4060 MYSTIC VALLEY PARKWAY, MEDFORD 55, MASS.<br />
Telephone MYstic 6-7~Z4 - 7625<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
Herbert ’Philbrick said he was in the same cell with her.<br />
Well, you can take your pick, but I think that there is something <strong>of</strong> great sig~<br />
nifican.ce, something <strong>of</strong> great import, there, to the American people.<br />
I thirik that the same thing is true in. regard to the Voice <strong>of</strong> America, which is<br />
the other one that was exposed by a Senate Investigating Committee, and which loaded<br />
the book shelves <strong>of</strong> libraries that we were .keeping overseas with books by Communist<br />
authors so that they could be read, by people whom we are trying to influence in the<br />
ways <strong>of</strong> democracy.<br />
Well, if that makes sense, then anything goes.<br />
But, this isn’t all academic, and this isn’t all theoretical. All <strong>of</strong> this means something.<br />
.Here we are, in Korea, and we don’t know how to get out <strong>of</strong> there. The President<br />
<strong>of</strong> South Korea is no good, according to the Americans, now; he is in the way <strong>of</strong> an<br />
Armistice, and, perhaps from our point <strong>of</strong> view he is no good.<br />
But, from the point <strong>of</strong> view <strong>of</strong> South Korea, he must be a great patriot. He had<br />
the United Nations come in there to stop aggressi6n, and to punish the aggressors.<br />
And what has happened?<br />
The aggression was by North Koreans, and the United, Nations went in the~’e<br />
as. policemen, and the policemen, in the process <strong>of</strong> stopping an aggression, were jumped<br />
on by a worse aggressor, the Red Chinese.<br />
Now, we are asking for an. Armistice, and we are trying to arrange an Armistice,<br />
which will leave a million and a half Red .Chinese troops in K0rca!<br />
It is going to take a very big stretch <strong>of</strong> the imagination to call that a victory.<br />
And further, it dcesn’t take too much imagination to have a little sympathy with the<br />
position <strong>of</strong> Mr. Rhee.<br />
That can be <strong>of</strong>fset by the terrible fix-that we are in. Apparently, we have got to<br />
have an Armistice.<br />
Now, I have heard people argue that there is no principle involved over there<br />
at alll The question., then, is:<br />
What are we doing there? And, why don’t we get, out <strong>of</strong> there?<br />
We haven’t tried to win it. There-is-no end to it. And yet, we want to walk<br />
out and leave the Red ,Chinese over there, and because the President <strong>of</strong> South Korea<br />
objects to that, he is no good and he is a traitor.<br />
The United States Senator and the Prime Minister <strong>of</strong> Great Britain are berating<br />
President Rhee very seriously.<br />
We have a situation in East Germany, which carries extreme significance. Recentl3~,<br />
a very prominent man, speaking in the great Stare<strong>of</strong> <strong>New</strong> Hampshire, made some<br />
referen,ce to the fact that we have got to devise some way to <strong>of</strong>fset the great, appeal<br />
<strong>of</strong> Communism to the masses <strong>of</strong> people, and he referred to the peoples .who~h:~tve<br />
allegiance to Communism and described it as a religion.<br />
In all the history <strong>of</strong> recent years, since the rise <strong>of</strong> Communism, I doubt:~at yo,~<br />
could find a single case .<strong>of</strong> any mass <strong>of</strong> people rushing toward Communism. The’-:~ush<br />
always away from Communism. The Poles didn’t rush towards Communism. Tt~e<br />
Czechoslovakians didn t rush towards it. An.d, neither did the Russians, for th~<br />
matter. The Communists are a great minority in Russia. The evidence in East Germany<br />
certainly indicates that the ’Germans are not rushing towards it.<br />
Russia, <strong>of</strong> course, is afraid <strong>of</strong> the Germans. There is no questio~p - about that. If
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
PRECISION TOOL AND DIE CO.<br />
Carbide Specialists<br />
226 MILL STREET WATERBURY 15, CONN.<br />
14 HAMILTON ST,<br />
Telephone 5-I 772<br />
Inc. and Berkeley Co.<br />
NEW LONDON, CONN.<br />
ELECTRIC SPECIALTY CO.<br />
Manufacturers <strong>of</strong> Motors~ Generators and Motor.Generators<br />
STAMFORD<br />
Phone 4-1148<br />
CONN.<br />
THE FRANK PARIZEK MFG. CO.<br />
PUTNAM - CONN.<br />
Bachmann Uxbridge ~VC’ors~:ed Corporal:ion<br />
Putnam Woolen Division: PUTNAM, CONNECTICUT<br />
WYCKOFF STEEL COMPANY<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> Works: PUTNAM, CONN.<br />
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COMPLIMENTS OF<br />
AMERICAN SCREW COMPANY<br />
SO. NORWALK<br />
WlLLIMANTIC, CONNECTICUT<br />
CHIEF FRANCIS J. DAGON<br />
East Hartford, Connecticut<br />
Board <strong>of</strong> Directors<br />
CHARLES<br />
OF THE RITZ<br />
239<br />
CONN.
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
THE CHATFIELD PAPER CO.<br />
233, 235, 237, 239 STATE STREET<br />
NEW HAVEN, CONN.<br />
EASTERN INDUSTRIES<br />
INCORPORATED<br />
General Offices<br />
290 ELM STREET<br />
NEW HAVEN 6, CONN.<br />
EAST NORWALK, CONN.<br />
AL<br />
NE’~I’ON, MASS.<br />
RIDA FIRE ENGINE PAINTING<br />
THOROUGHLY EQUIPPED<br />
Down to the Metal Finish<br />
Durable Non Chalking Finish<br />
Permanent Color<br />
Details U~d~: Request<br />
.......... ’~).~L WEST= HAVEN, CONN.<br />
THE ~BILCO COMPANY<br />
Manufacturers 6f BILC0 CELLADORS<br />
To Make Home Cellars Useful - Safe - Accessible<br />
MAKES FiRE FIGHTING EASIER<br />
NEW HAVEN (6) CONN.<br />
¯<br />
THE CHAMBERS.STORCK<br />
Incorporated<br />
Engravers<br />
COMPANY<br />
751 NORTH MAIN STREET NORWICH, CONN.<br />
CHARLES SIMON, INC.<br />
FORD - Sales.Service.Parts<br />
"A Good Reputation Does Not Just Happen--It Must Be Earned"<br />
394 N. MAIN STREET NORWICH, CONN.<br />
Tel. Turner "/9205<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF I~IRE C,IIIEFS<br />
we hadn’t helped them, the Russians would have lost the war to. Germany in the first<br />
place.<br />
The ’Germans have a great capacity to work. I was in Germany in 1946, and I<br />
went everywhere, except in the Russian Zone, and I even saw part <strong>of</strong> that. The city<br />
was nothing for a radius <strong>of</strong> fives around’, the main gates archway in Berlin; it was 99<br />
per cent destroyed.<br />
Hamburg was flat, too.<br />
I was over there, again, last year, and I want to say that you would hardly know<br />
that there was a war; everything was ,cleaned up, and 2,000 apartmen.ts a month were<br />
being built in Hamburg.<br />
T,he total production <strong>of</strong> German industries is larger and greater today than it<br />
was in 1939, before the war. And that is what Russia is afraid <strong>of</strong>, in Germany. They<br />
are afraid <strong>of</strong> the great power <strong>of</strong> the Germans.<br />
But the point that I wanted ,to make was that none <strong>of</strong> these people are rushing<br />
towards Communism. And Communism doesn’t get a country because the mass <strong>of</strong><br />
people want it. It gets a country through the revolutionary technique, and the revolutionary<br />
technique doesn’t require allegiance <strong>of</strong> great masses <strong>of</strong> people. It requires getting<br />
control <strong>of</strong> a few things, such as communications, transportation, police and firemen,<br />
just a few things. Tl~at is the secret <strong>of</strong> the Russian. success in the other countries,<br />
where they are now .dominating. They do it through a revolutionary technique <strong>of</strong><br />
strict discipline, with a small group <strong>of</strong> people, and, to me, while we all know that the ~<br />
great majority <strong>of</strong>-American people are strongly anti-Communistic, the danger <strong>of</strong> a<br />
small group enslaving the minds and spirits an.d bodies <strong>of</strong> Americans is greatly lessened<br />
and i,s practically, you might say, almost hompletely out <strong>of</strong> the picture now, because<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Investigating Committees <strong>of</strong> the ’United States Congress. (Prolonged Applause.)<br />
TOASTMASTER MOL~_~OY: Thank you, Mr._Griffin, for this forceful address; we<br />
all appreciate this very much.<br />
I sincerely hope that I haven’t neglected to introduce anybody here who should be<br />
introduced. At the present time, I have two young fellows with ~heir wives, and I am<br />
going to ask them to stand up and take a bow--my sons and my daughters-in-law!<br />
(Applause.)<br />
It was not my intention to have any gift awards here this evening, but we have a<br />
few valuable gifts and these are to be awarded to chiefs who registered at the Registra,<br />
tion Desk.<br />
I am going to ask Andy Palmer to take over, now, and present these gifts..<br />
MR. ANDY PALMER: This <strong>Association</strong> is carrying on something that we started<br />
seven years ago, and they are carrying it on just to praise the line record <strong>of</strong> The Hotel<br />
Wentworth Chief; he has done well for his dad, and if he will put on his helmet and<br />
come forward, we have a gift for Jimmie Smith.<br />
(Young Jimmie Smith then. came to the rostrum and received the gift <strong>of</strong> the<br />
<strong>Association</strong>.)<br />
We had some confusion this afternoon, when we let two members <strong>of</strong> the clergy<br />
assist us in awarding gifts, so that possibly we will get away from that and let Mr.<br />
Griffin assist us here tonight.<br />
(Gifts were then presented to the ladies and’ gentlemen whose names were called,<br />
after which the Banquet Session was adjourned, and dancing was enjoyed for balance<br />
<strong>of</strong> the evening in the Ball Room.)<br />
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CASTLE ISLAND<br />
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
Use MICAFIL Insulation ~"<br />
It’s Firepro<strong>of</strong><br />
MUNN & STEELE, Inc.<br />
SQUTH BOSTQN, MASS,<br />
Tel. SO 8-~992 - SO 8-6:370<br />
Commonw,~alt:h ic~ & Cold $!:,ora9 Co.<br />
220 NORTHERN AVE.<br />
+un ¢rma<br />
3 NORTH BEACON STREET<br />
11-15 FARNSWORTH STREET<br />
BOSTON 10, MASS.<br />
BOSTON 34, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
LAWRENCE R. EATON<br />
Custom Sorting <strong>of</strong> Mohair<br />
BOSTON<br />
HERSEY MANUFACTURING COMPANY<br />
ESTABLISHED 1859<br />
CORNER OF E AND SECOND STREET<br />
V~ater Meters<br />
SOUTH BOSTON 2"/, MASS.<br />
IRVING LEVITT CO.<br />
Suppliers and Purveyors<br />
Hotels- Institutions- Restaurants<br />
Member <strong>of</strong> National Assoc. <strong>of</strong> Hotel and Restaurant Meat Purveyors<br />
35-41 NORTH STREET BOSTON 13, MASS.<br />
Tel. CApitol 7-8435 - 7-8436 - 7-2299<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
Thursday Morning Session, June 25, 1953<br />
The Ttiursday Morning Session convened at 10:30 o’clock, with President Molloy<br />
presiding.<br />
PR~.SID~.NT MOLLOY: The meeting will please come to order.<br />
.Our first order <strong>of</strong> .business this morning is the report <strong>of</strong> our Secretary,Treasurer<br />
John O’Hearn.<br />
S~.CR]~Ta~Y O’H~.a,~N :<br />
TREASURER’S REPORT<br />
1953<br />
June 1953<br />
Following the custom, <strong>of</strong> past years, your Secretary,Treasurer presents for your<br />
approval, a brief summary report covering membership and financial standing since<br />
our last annual report to closing <strong>of</strong> the books on June 1, 1953.<br />
The Treasurer’s books ’show in detail all receipts and expenditures during the past<br />
twelve months as testified to by the Auditing ’Committee, appointed by the President,<br />
as per By-Laws.<br />
The entire financial report is not published as part <strong>of</strong> our annual report, but it .is<br />
available to any member who may desire further information than what is reported<br />
here. A further breakdown <strong>of</strong> receipts and expenditures is furnished the Directors.<br />
The total membership reported on June 1, 1952 was 1240, <strong>of</strong> which 735 were<br />
active members and 505 were associate members.<br />
During the ,past year we lost by .death, 22 members, one <strong>of</strong> whom was a Past President.<br />
Twenty-two members resigned and 41 were dropped as per By-Laws for nonpayment<br />
<strong>of</strong> dues, all <strong>of</strong> whom owed $6.00 each. Membership losses totalled 85 f~r<br />
the year. We admitted a total <strong>of</strong> 118 new members, giving a net increa,se for the year,<br />
<strong>of</strong> 35. At the present time, there are 50 members who owe $6.00 each (2 years’ dues)<br />
as <strong>of</strong> June 15. This is about the average annual report and is not considered too bad<br />
when the total membership is taken into consideration. They, too, like those who have<br />
gone before, must be dropped from membership after the conference and final notice<br />
is given them. Of the total mem’bership, 692 have paid 1953 dues before the ~conference.<br />
During the past year we have held’ but three meetings,, one in Hartford, Oonnecticut,<br />
on Dec. 13, .1952, one in Boston in Mar&, and the third and final meeting was<br />
held May 13 at Portsmouth, <strong>New</strong> Hampshire, when, we were again the guests <strong>of</strong> our<br />
genial host, Mr. James Barker Smith. Every o~icer and committee member was present<br />
at these meetings and the business transacted at these meetings will be printed in the<br />
annual report.<br />
It was the aim <strong>of</strong> your secretary to report a membership <strong>of</strong> 1300 at this conference<br />
but we fell slightly short <strong>of</strong> this total. You will note that we only accepted a<br />
total <strong>of</strong> 118 new members during the past year whereas we accepted 164 in 1951. How-<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
GALASSI COMPANY<br />
INCORPORATED<br />
Tile~ Terrazzo~ Marble and Slate<br />
.BOO NORTH BEACON STREET BRIGHTON 35, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
COMPLIMENTS OF<br />
NATIONAL FELT COMPANY<br />
Manufacturers <strong>of</strong> Fine Pressed IVool Felt Since 1905<br />
EAST HAMPTON, MASS.<br />
"HERB" GOLDBERG ISRAEL "DOC" GOLDBERG "AL" GOLDBERG<br />
BOSTON OFFICE PARTITION CO.<br />
PARTITIONS OF ALL KINDS<br />
Carried in Stock for Inrmedlate Installation<br />
Carpenter ~~ork and Jobbing<br />
OfficemS0 KNEELAND ST. Factory--17-23 OAK ST.<br />
BOSTON, MASS.<br />
Tel. HA 6-821~<br />
STRATHMORE WOOLEN CO.<br />
35 KNEELAND STREET<br />
145 SO,UTH STREET<br />
.,<br />
Phone HAncock 6-5632<br />
J. ANSIN & CO. INC.<br />
Shoe Fabrics<br />
Telephone LI 2-6940<br />
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
BOSTON 1|, MASS.<br />
Ranaudo and Sons Service S~:ation<br />
REVERE AUTO EXCHANGE<br />
ylutomobiles Bought and Sold . Used-Cars and Trucks<br />
Parts <strong>of</strong> All Description<br />
"Our Aim Is to SaHsfy You"<br />
1059 BROADWAY<br />
RE 8-1299<br />
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702<br />
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
GENERAL RF FITTINGS COMPANY<br />
MANUFACTURERS<br />
Components jor Co-/lxial Lines<br />
BEACON STREET BOSTON<br />
KEnmore 6-2290<br />
1 5, MASS.<br />
A PANEL GROUP, left to right, Chief Francis J. Scully, Waterbury, Connecticut;<br />
Chief Walter R. Messer, Keene, <strong>New</strong> Hampshire; Chief Lewis A. Marshall, Providence,<br />
R. I.; Chief John E. Keefe, Bellows Falls, Vermont; Chief Horace S. Joe, So. Portland,<br />
Maine; Chief Walter R. Murray, Weymouth, Mass.; Marshal W. J. Scott, Ontario, Canada ;<br />
Roi B. Woolley, Moderator.<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
Internationally Famous jor Excellent Foods<br />
Choose Your Own Lobster jrom Our O’cean Pools<br />
Private Rooms for Vc~eddings - Banquets and Parties<br />
Cocktails Served<br />
The Orisinai HUGO’S-KIMBALL’S<br />
Lobster Shops<br />
RIGHT ON BEAUTIFUL COHASSET HARBOR, OFF ROUTE 3A<br />
1442 MASS. AVE.<br />
137 ADAMS ST.<br />
For Reservations COhasset 4-0525<br />
OPEN DAILY FROM NOON-~ALL YEAR ROUND<br />
LEOPOLD ,MORSE<br />
Men~s Clothiers For Over A Century<br />
HARVARD SQUARE, CAMBRIDGE<br />
ADAMS SQUARE, BOSTON<br />
( ILMOUR, ROTHERY & CO.<br />
INSURANCE<br />
FORTY BROAD STREET BOSTON<br />
ROSENFIELD UNIFORM COMPANY<br />
Est. 1902<br />
VISIT OUR NEW ENLARGED QUARTERS<br />
Specializing in high grade uniforms and accessories for:<br />
ARMY POLICE SCHOOL CADETS<br />
NAVY FlEE CIVIL DEFENSE<br />
AIR FORCE AMERICAN LEGION BAND & DRUM CORPS<br />
COAST GUARD V.F.W. INDUSTRIAL<br />
R.O.T.C. CIVIL AIR PATROL CAR HOPS<br />
36WASHINGTON ST. (near Haymarket Sq.) BOSTON 14, MASS.<br />
Telephone: LAfayette 3-6180<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
ever, I feel .certain that before this conference is over we will make i:he_ 1300 mark.<br />
So, I urge the members and others who have never sponsored a new member, to contact<br />
your neighboring Chief and ask him to join.<br />
The total membership on June 1, 1953 was 1275 <strong>of</strong> which 735 are Active members,<br />
540 are ASsociate members, cla.ssified by states, which figures include our Insuran.ce<br />
Brokers Section and~ our Honorary membership.<br />
Maine ............................................ 99 Florida .............................................. 3<br />
<strong>New</strong> Hampshire ............................ 104 <strong>New</strong> York .............. .......................... 28<br />
Vermont ............. ~ ........................... 41 <strong>New</strong> Jersey ...................................... 15<br />
Massachusetts ................................ 639 Pennsylvania .................................... 4<br />
Rhode Island .................................. 109 Ohio .................................................. 6<br />
Connecticut .................................... 211 Louisiana .......................................... 1<br />
Indiana .......................................... 2 California .......................................... 2<br />
Michigan ........................................ 2 Canada ............................................ 3<br />
Colorado ........................................ 2 Alaska .............................................. 1<br />
South Carolina .............................. 1 Iowa ........... ~ ...................................... 1<br />
Virginia .......................................... 1<br />
On June 1, 1952, the ca’sh balance <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Association</strong> was $13,862.59.<br />
On J.une 1, 1953, the cash balance was $14,691.34. Of this amount $2,181.95 is<br />
deposited in the Union Market National Bank checking account, Watertown, Mass.;<br />
$1,216.81 is deposited in the Watertown Savings Bank and $7,740.58 is deposited in<br />
the Watertown Cooperative Bank.<br />
Included in the cash balance <strong>of</strong> June 1, 1953, the <strong>Association</strong> owns Government<br />
War Bonds the present value <strong>of</strong> which is $3,552.00 with a maturity value <strong>of</strong> $4800.00.<br />
These bon& are placed in the Union Market National Bank Vault.<br />
With reference to the funds deposited in the Watertown Cooperative Bank, I<br />
present the following statement from the bank:<br />
Mr. John W. O’Hearn, Treasurer May 28, 1953<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> <strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs<br />
206 Mr. Auburn Street<br />
Watertown, Massachusetts<br />
Dear Mr. O’Hearn: The following is a statement <strong>of</strong> the accounts in the name <strong>of</strong> the<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> <strong>Association</strong>. <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs as <strong>of</strong> May 28, 1953:<br />
Present Value<br />
Paid-up shares .................................................................. $4,000.00<br />
Savings Account .............................................................. 1,426.46<br />
Serial Account ................................................................. 2,314.12<br />
$7,740.58<br />
Very truly yours,<br />
(Signed) LAWRENCE ANDERSON,<br />
Assistant Treasurer.<br />
In conclusion I wish to repeat what I have said year after year, the success which<br />
we enjoy can ~be attributed to the .entire association and its leaders, your <strong>of</strong>ficers.<br />
Respectfully .submitted,<br />
JOHN W. O’H~.a!
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
Compliments <strong>of</strong><br />
HOTEL CONTINENTAL<br />
One <strong>of</strong> <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong>’s Best Hotels<br />
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.<br />
Telephone KI 7-~I00<br />
CHAUNCEY DEPEW STEELE, JR., General Manager<br />
Agents for Sherwin-Williams Paint .~.<br />
S aWmut at’ War ,% Daint Co., 3Jut.<br />
1Vallpaper~ .Plumbing~ Heating and Electrical Supplies<br />
514" MEDFORD ST.<br />
MEDFORD 55<br />
Telephone SO 6-2470<br />
HERMAN NICK CO., Inc.<br />
Metals<br />
SOMERVILLE, MASS.<br />
135 LINWOOD STREET, SOMERVILLE 43, MASS.<br />
For Pleasant Eating<br />
STA-WITE, Inc.<br />
3Jtalo=~mtrita.=~tobutt<br />
MYstic 6-8360<br />
HARRINGTON BROS., inco<br />
Office and Works: 4 MYSTIC AVENUE, MEDFORD 55, MASS.<br />
Tel. MYstic 8-5600<br />
MASS.<br />
SOMERVILLE AUTO BODY C:O.<br />
IVe Operate a Bear IVheel Alignment Tester<br />
Body and Fender Dents Quickly Repaired<br />
Axles and Frames Straightened - ~Velding<br />
S. D. TULLIO, Manager<br />
Res. MYstic 6413-W<br />
646 BOSTON AVENUE at Ball Sq. SOMERVILLE, MASS.<br />
SOmerset 6-3360 - 3361<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
Hartford, Connecticut, Dec. 9, 1952<br />
The first meeting <strong>of</strong> otticers and ~committee members for the season 1952-53 was<br />
held at the Bond Hotel on above date with all otticers present, together with Jolan Ashmead~,<br />
Phoenix Insurance ’Company; Chief Henry G. Thomas, .Chief John Laughlin,<br />
East Providence, R. I., Chief Stuart M. Potter, Greenwich, ’Ct., past ,president, an.d<br />
Roi B. Woolley, Fire Engineering.<br />
Themeeting was called to order by President Molloy at 2:30 P. M.<br />
The secretary presented a copy <strong>of</strong> the proceedings <strong>of</strong> our 30th <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Conference</strong><br />
and stated that the report was now in the hands <strong>of</strong> the printer and expected to be ready<br />
for distribution about Jan. 20.<br />
On Motion <strong>of</strong> the secretary, the report as presented was accepted as the records<br />
<strong>of</strong> our last meeting._<br />
The following deaths were repo,rted ’since the conference in June.<br />
Warren H. Belct~er, Ex-Chief, Winthrop, Mass. Admitted March 19, 1924; died<br />
June 9, 19~2. ~<br />
E. F. Fisher, A.D.T. Company, Boston. Admitted June 21, 1937; died June<br />
10, 1952.<br />
Charles E. Fortin, Former Chief, Lewiston, Maine. Admitted June 11, 1925;<br />
died July 23, 19~2.<br />
Arthur H. Blanchard, Winthrop, Maine. Admitted August 12, 1922; died August<br />
27, 1952.<br />
Henry R. Waft, Ex-Chief, Norwich, Connecticut. Admitted June 2=5, 1929;<br />
died September 3, 1952 ....<br />
George E. Byron, Fire Commissioner, Hudson., Mass. Admitted June 24, 1936;<br />
died September 16, 19~2.<br />
A. J. Fulton, Ex-Chief, Westfield Vol. Fire Dept., Middletown, Ct. Admitted<br />
May 1’9, 1939; died Oct. 14, 1952.<br />
William H. St. John, Cos Cob, Connecticut. Admitted April 13, 1950; died<br />
September 26, 1952.<br />
John MacDonald, Captain Rumney, <strong>New</strong> Hampshire, Fire Dept. Admitted<br />
March 9, 19Y0; died Sept. 28, 1952.<br />
Ralph B. Bennett, ,Chief, Yantic, Connecticut. Admitte5 Feb. 2, i951; died Oct.<br />
19, 1952.<br />
Oliver L. Studley, Chief, South Yarmouth, Mass. Admitted June 21, 1949;<br />
died Nov. 10, 19~2.<br />
Herbert K. Pratt, Bridgewater, Mass. Admitted June 24, 1924; died Nov. 15, 1952.<br />
Martin J. :.Hayden, .Chief, Bridgeport, Connecticut. Admitted Jan. 28, 1941;<br />
died Dec. 6, 19~2.<br />
Letters <strong>of</strong> appreciatio~n t~or sympathies or courtesies extended were read from the<br />
following: Mrs Russell Calley, ’Chief Anthony J. Molloy, president; Mrs. Charles E.<br />
Fortin, the Family <strong>of</strong> the late Ex-Chief Belcher; family <strong>of</strong> the late Commissioner Byron,<br />
Mrs. Ed Fisher, Mrs. St. John, Mrs. Ralph Bennett; M)s. 0liver Studley, family <strong>of</strong> the<br />
late Herbert K. Pratt, Mrs. ’Harry Sears, Chief Ren.e J. Patingre, Mrs. Malcolm McBride.<br />
The secretary reported on Wage Rate Sheets announcing that they covered all<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong>, this year, and were more in detail than the first .bulletin sent out. A letter<br />
received from Roi Woolley commented upon the work done on statistics relating to<br />
wages, hours <strong>of</strong> labor, vacation and sick leave, clothing and equipment <strong>of</strong> the fire de-<br />
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Compliments <strong>of</strong><br />
National Electric Products Corporation<br />
2";0 ALBANY STREET CAMBRIDGE, MASS.<br />
Tel. ELiot 4-7770<br />
A. SMITH & COMPANY<br />
ESTABLISHED 1896<br />
Manufacturers <strong>of</strong> Ornamental Sheet Metal Work<br />
Specialty work <strong>of</strong> all kinds<br />
139 FIRST STREET CAMBRIDGE, MASS.<br />
Phone Klrkland 7-4050<br />
THIRD STREET<br />
SIGNET CLUB PLAN<br />
The Seal <strong>of</strong> Quality<br />
CAMBRIDGE 42, MASS.<br />
"SQUIRREL BRAND" PEANUTS<br />
S~U|RREL BRAND CO.<br />
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.<br />
Tel. KI 7-148!<br />
Wigglesworth Machinery Company<br />
<strong>New</strong>~ Used and Rebuilt Machine Tools<br />
199 BENT STREET CAMBRIDGE, MASS.<br />
Bosf.on M~al Door Company, Inc.<br />
Manufacturers <strong>of</strong> Kalamein and Tin.Clad Fire Doors<br />
Structural Iron Frames and Fire Door Hardware<br />
¯ 360 PORTLAND STREET CAMBRIDGE 41, MASS.<br />
Telephone TRowbridge 6-g’]9"/, 6-5T 12<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
partments throughout <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong>. This work was quite extensive and very comp!ete,<br />
in which we received a valuable amount <strong>of</strong> assistance from the permanent lifemen’s<br />
association <strong>of</strong> Hingham, Mass. Eight hundred copies were distributed throughout<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> to every city and town known to employ permanent men.<br />
A letter was read from Mr. Percy Bugbee, General Manager <strong>of</strong> the NFPA, advising<br />
<strong>of</strong> production <strong>of</strong> 16ram..film animated, cartoon in technicolor, produced in Hollywood,<br />
to be used on home fire prevention. After discussion, it was voted to "lay on the<br />
table" awaiting further information.<br />
The secretary repcrted on a disastrous fire at Westport, Mass., where a home was<br />
partialiy;Tdestroyed, but eight children and their mother lost their lives by suffocation.<br />
A midnight fire, the father and son were at work in a mill some distance away. A<br />
small town, with no fire alarm, had dispatched four tank trucks to the scene after re,<br />
.ceiving an alarm by telephone. The chief <strong>of</strong> the town lire d~epartment, Stanley E. Oilford,<br />
is a member <strong>of</strong> our association, stated that a fund to assist the family affected had<br />
been started. Briefly, this is the story <strong>of</strong> the Fire Chief, who adds:<br />
On motion <strong>of</strong> Chief Sanborn, the following resolution was unanimously adopted<br />
and made a part <strong>of</strong> these records.<br />
"May God, forbid that I ever be called upon to witness such a scene as met my<br />
eyes in that home where a line mother and eight <strong>of</strong> her dear children perished."<br />
On motion ’o.f Chief Graham, seconded by .Chief Slaman, it was voted to contribute<br />
$100.00 from our treasury to the Audette Fire Fund <strong>of</strong> Westport, Mass.<br />
On motion <strong>of</strong> the secretary, seconded ,by Director Dagan, East Hartford, Ct.,<br />
it was voted that Honorary membership .be conferred upon Ex~Chief John S. Pachl <strong>of</strong><br />
Annex Fire Dept., <strong>New</strong> Haven, Ct., who has been a member since June 20, 1923.<br />
Director Oliver T. Sanborn, Portland,-Maine, addressed* the meeting at some<br />
length, presenting information regarding the distribution and sale <strong>of</strong> flammable sprays<br />
or lacquers. These are being distributed from containers under pressure without<br />
proper labeling to indicate their hazardous nature.<br />
WHEREAS: The increase in the use .<strong>of</strong> flammable toiletries, cosmetics, and wear,<br />
ing apparel throughout <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong>,, with consequent injury and possible death to<br />
users <strong>of</strong> such products, is <strong>of</strong> growing concern to the Fire Service <strong>of</strong> <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong>~ and<br />
WHEREAS: Most recent <strong>of</strong> these products are various .brands <strong>of</strong> women’s wave<br />
sets and lacquers, which are found to be highly flammable and a hazard to life and<br />
property, and ~<br />
WHEREAS: Many <strong>of</strong> these hazardous products are being sold by well-intentioned<br />
merchants, who are unaware <strong>of</strong> their dangerous properties, therefore be it<br />
RESOLVED: That the Board~ <strong>of</strong> Directors <strong>of</strong> the <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> <strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
Fire ’.Chiefs in con.ference assembled this ninth day <strong>of</strong> December, 19~2, does hereby<br />
strongly urge that all such products containing flammable materials be ,plainly labeled<br />
to indicate their hazardous nature, with appropriate warning to the purchaser on the<br />
safe use <strong>of</strong> same; and be it further<br />
RESOLVED: That the co-o.peration <strong>of</strong> all wholesale and retait merchants throughout<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> ’be solicited to see that such flammable and/or explosive products,<br />
including hair treatments, etc., be appropriately labeled and that they be urged, not to
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE " CHIEFS<br />
......<br />
NEWTON CLUTCH MFG. COMPANY<br />
Manufacturers o~ Industrial Clutches .<br />
1-5 BORDER STREET<br />
L. F. HAUGH<br />
Telephone Blgelow 4-9261<br />
~!!~ert :fltl. ~;13anl~ler ~¢r.<br />
Insurance<br />
Fire -Auto - Liability- Burglary- Life -Bonds<br />
WEST NEWTON, MASS.<br />
1076 GREAT PLAIN AVENUE NEEDHAM 92, MASS.<br />
NEedham 3-0399<br />
91 UNION STREET NEWTON CENTRE 59, MASS.<br />
Blgelow 4-9225<br />
ROHMER WOOL SCOURING CO.<br />
149 ,CALIFORNIA STREET<br />
COMPLIMENTS OF<br />
Telephone LA 7-1628--I 629m1630<br />
PHILLIPS CARD CO.<br />
NEWTON, MASS.<br />
50 HUNT STREET NEWTON, MASS.<br />
-<br />
Telephone WAtertown 3-9000<br />
A. John Simone<br />
MODERN PRINTING COMPANY<br />
"~The Shop <strong>of</strong> Superior raftsmen"<br />
Telephone Bi 4-4530-1-2<br />
FOU~ THIRTY-SEVEN CHERRY STREET<br />
WEST NE%,VTON 65 ¯ MASSACHUSETTS<br />
¯<br />
SILVER LAKE CHEVROLET CO.,<br />
444 WATERTOWN ST, NEWTON, MASS.<br />
Tel. BIgelow -- 4-5880<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIAT_ION OF FIRE CHIE~S~<br />
~tisplay and sell products not so labeled, and where the sale <strong>of</strong> such products are now<br />
permitted their distribution and use .be discouraged; and finally be it<br />
RESOLVED: That copies <strong>of</strong> this Resolution be sent to all active Chiefs <strong>of</strong> this<br />
<strong>Association</strong> with the request that they review this subject with their local merchants,<br />
and this resolution be forward’ed to all Fire Service organizations throughout the Nation,<br />
the public press, radio and television..<br />
JOHN W. O’t-IEARN,<br />
Secretary.<br />
Further discussion relative to the next or <strong>31st</strong> <strong>Conference</strong> were .discussed. Topic’s<br />
and speakers were suggested and all members were urged to do all possible to again<br />
conduct a ;<strong>Conference</strong> <strong>of</strong> which all would be proud.<br />
President Molloy announced the following as members <strong>of</strong> the Entertainment Committee<br />
for the June <strong>Conference</strong>: Ex-Chief William H. Clifford, 3rd, Cape Elizabeth,<br />
Maine; Chief Clarence H. ~ Green,. Conc.ord, <strong>New</strong> Hampshire; and. Chief William J.<br />
Dooling, Hood Rubber Company, Watertown, Mass.<br />
.A.fter discussion, on motion <strong>of</strong> Chief Scanlon, it was voted to appoint a committee<br />
to acquire information upon the advisability Of adopting a "DeCal" or other type<br />
insignia to place o.n private .cars for identification purposes. The president appointed<br />
Chief Scanlon, Lynn, Mass. ;.Chief Aidred H. Koltonski, Rutland, Vt., and Chief Green,<br />
Concord, <strong>New</strong> Hampshire.<br />
It was voted to adjourn the meeting at 5:00 P.M. to meet at seven o’clock with<br />
the Connecticut~ Fire Chiefs <strong>Association</strong> at the Indian Hill Country Club, <strong>New</strong>ington,<br />
Ct., where we were feted in the usual fine way that fire chiefs enjoy.<br />
Respectfully submitted:<br />
John W. O’Hearn,<br />
Secretary.<br />
Boston, Mass., March 25, 1953.<br />
The second meeting <strong>of</strong> all <strong>of</strong>ficers and committees was held on the abov& date<br />
at the Parker House, Boston, opening at 3:30 P.M. The meeting was called to order<br />
by President Molloy with all present, together with Roi B. Woolley, our Technical<br />
.Consultant; Harold Estabrook and Kenneth Erskine, who, discussed topics and speakers<br />
for our <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Conference</strong> in June.<br />
The secretary submitted his report <strong>of</strong> the minutes <strong>of</strong> the first meeting held’ December<br />
9, 1952, at Hartford, Conn., which were accepted.<br />
The secretary reported the following deaths since the last meeting:<br />
James E. McBride, Worcester, Mass., admitted June 21, 1948, died Oct. 6, 1951.<br />
George R. Pooler, former Chief, Brewer, Maine, admitted Dec. 4, 1944; died<br />
Oct. 8, 1951.<br />
’Charles Hiser, Adams, Mass., Former ’Chief, admitted May 21, 1923; died<br />
Jan. 13, 1953.<br />
John Burns, 1st Asst. Chief, Danbury, Conn., admitted Feb. 2, 1950; died Jan.<br />
14, 1953.<br />
William Young, .Chief, Cranston, R.I., admitted Aug. 25, 1941; died Jan.<br />
22, 1953.<br />
’Patrick J. Hurley, former Chief, Holyoke, Mass., Past President, and Honorary<br />
Member, admitted Sept. 12, 1922; died Feb. 7, 1953.<br />
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NEW ,ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
Established 1821<br />
WM. UNDERWOOD<br />
~132 Years <strong>of</strong> Fine Foods<br />
85 WALNUT STREET WATERTOWN, MASS.<br />
NEWTON CENTRE SAVINGS BANK<br />
103 UNION STREET<br />
49 ELMV~/OOD STREET<br />
NEWTON CENTRE 59, MASS.<br />
REISS ASSOCIATES INC.<br />
Plastics Division<br />
NEWTON 58, MASS.<br />
POWERED EQUIPMENT CORP.<br />
NEEDHAM ST.<br />
Industrial and Construction Machinery<br />
LAsell 7-54S0 - 7-54~I<br />
NEWTON HIGHLANDS 61, MASS.<br />
NEWTON BUICK COMPANY<br />
Sales and Service<br />
~371 W’ASHINGTON STREET NEWTON 58, MASS.<br />
Telephone LAsell "7-’7150<br />
G. W. ROWE<br />
Auto Body Repairing<br />
CORNER OF BEACON AND UNION STREETS, NEWTON CENTRE, MASS.<br />
LAsell "7-3894<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FII%E CHIEFS<br />
Merlin A. Kimball, .Chief, West Lebanon, N.H., admitted June 19, 19~0; died<br />
March 4, 19~3.<br />
In order that our visitors might be permitted to attend another meeting, Messrs.<br />
Estabrook and Erskine, together with the directors, discussed at length the problem <strong>of</strong><br />
continuing the very interesting and instructive program presented by our insurance<br />
brokers’ section last year. It was unanimous opinion <strong>of</strong> all that the program be continued,<br />
and all may .be assured <strong>of</strong> another successful session with the topic: "Things<br />
You Ought to Know."<br />
A letter <strong>of</strong> appreciation was read, received from Chief Robert F. Ulm <strong>of</strong> Northampton,<br />
Mass., who was recently appointed State Fire Marshal. As. far as it is known,<br />
Chief Ulm is the first Fire Chief to be so honored in Massachusetts.. Marshal Ulm was<br />
tendered a reception ,by his home,town folks on Feb. 23, 19~3, and our association<br />
contributed flowers for the banquet table and pledged our support for the success <strong>of</strong><br />
his administration..<br />
A letter received from James Barker Smith, Managing Owner <strong>of</strong> The Wentworth,<br />
was al’so read. This letter contained rates for the June conference, and expressed Jim’s<br />
pleasure <strong>of</strong> serving us again.<br />
Also read was a letter from Dennison Tag Company, Boston, regarding so,called<br />
Convention Tags to use instead <strong>of</strong> the usual ribbon badges. On. motion <strong>of</strong> Director Dagon,<br />
it was voted to continue using same type <strong>of</strong> badge as other years.<br />
The secretary reported~ a meeting with President Molloy regarding his par~ <strong>of</strong> our<br />
program, and Chief Molloy instructed him to invite Mr. John H. Grfltiin, Editor, Boston<br />
Post, to address our members at the <strong>Annual</strong> Banquet.<br />
Past President William H. Clifford, 3rd, reporting for the Entertainment Committee,<br />
announced he had engaged another good vaudeville show with a repeat performance<br />
by Chloe.<br />
It was voted to extend a cordial invitation to the following to participate with<br />
us and address the conference on a topic <strong>of</strong> their own selection:<br />
Chief George R. McAlpine, Oklahoma .City, President, International <strong>Association</strong><br />
<strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs.<br />
Chief C. Gray Burnett, Ontario, Canada, Vice President, International <strong>Association</strong><br />
<strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs and President, Canadian <strong>Association</strong>. <strong>of</strong> Fife Chiefs.<br />
W. J. Scott, Fire Marshal, Ontario, Canada.<br />
It was voted, on moticn <strong>of</strong> Director Slaman, that Roi Woolley prepare and conduct<br />
a Round Table on the subject, "Fire Department ,Operation", with every <strong>New</strong><br />
<strong>England</strong> State entering the discussion,.<br />
On~ motion <strong>of</strong> Director ’Graham, it was voted to hold an evening session on Monday,<br />
June 22nd~ at 8:00 P.M., topic committee to arrange this program for our visitors<br />
and Fire Marshal Ulm <strong>of</strong> Massachusetts.<br />
On suggestion <strong>of</strong> Past President Clifford, for the registration committee, it was<br />
voted that registration fees remain the same as last year, all gentlemen registering $2.00,<br />
all la.dies $1.00.<br />
On motion <strong>of</strong> Chief Cote, it Was voted unanimously that the registration corn,<br />
mittee be given a vote <strong>of</strong> confidence and support in their work by the Board <strong>of</strong> Directors.<br />
On Motion <strong>of</strong> Director Koltonski, seconded by Director Graham, it was voted<br />
that the <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> Division <strong>of</strong> the International <strong>Association</strong>. <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs be<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
WEBB SUPPLY COMPANY, INC.<br />
~Vholesalers and Distributors<br />
Plumbing, Heating and Oil Burner Supplies<br />
38 PARK STREET FRAMINGHAM, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
CAREY’S<br />
Telephones: 7484 - 7485<br />
- Oil - ;Vashing. Lubrication<br />
COR. O.F WASHINGTON AND COURT STS.<br />
Tel. Natick 828<br />
TEXACO STATION<br />
NATICK, MASS.<br />
STANDARD FITTINGS COMPANY<br />
Gorged Steel Pipe Fittings<br />
82 HERBERT STREET FRAMINGHAM, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
Telephone Framingham 4348-4349<br />
Farmers & Mechanics Savings Bank<br />
FRAM I NGHAM MASS.<br />
173 CONCORD STREET<br />
ARTHUR M. FITTS, .JR.<br />
40 UNION AVENUE<br />
M & M PACKAGE STORE<br />
S, S. Pierce Distributors<br />
Telephone 6956<br />
FRAMINGHAM, MASS.<br />
FITTS INSURANCE AGENCY<br />
Licensed Broker<br />
256<br />
Telephone 3761<br />
FRAMINGHAM, MASSACHUSETTS
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
granted permission to hold their <strong>Annual</strong> Meeting Monday, June 22, following our<br />
opening meeting and~ Memorial service.<br />
At 7:00 P.M..the business meeting was suspecded for dinner and final conference<br />
preparation and discussion<br />
Respectfully submitted:<br />
, John W. O~Hearn,<br />
’: Secretary.<br />
~ _<br />
Portsmouth, <strong>New</strong> Hampshire, Ma3~ l a, . 3.<br />
The third meeting <strong>of</strong> all <strong>of</strong>ficers and committee members was held on the above<br />
date at The Rockingham Hotel upcn invitation <strong>of</strong> our genial host, Mr. James Barker<br />
Smith.<br />
The meeting was called to order by President Moiloy at 11" 15 A.M. with all<br />
present with the exception <strong>of</strong> Chief Henry Thomas <strong>of</strong> Hartford, Connecticut, who was<br />
detained at home because <strong>of</strong> important Civil Defense meeting.<br />
The records <strong>of</strong> the March 25th meeting in Boston were read and approved.<br />
Letters <strong>of</strong> appreciation for courtesies extended were received and read by the<br />
secretary as follows: Mary Connelly, Pawtucket, R. I., Frank R. Gisborne, Greenwich,<br />
Ct., Chief Abel 8. Eldridge, <strong>New</strong>port, R.I. A letter received from Chief Stuart M.<br />
Potter <strong>of</strong> Greenwich, Ct., was read concerning the illness <strong>of</strong> Ex-Chief Gisborne, and the<br />
secretary was authorized to extend further courtesies as needed. A letter was also<br />
read from retired Chief George W. Bogardus <strong>of</strong> Norwalk, Connecticut, who is now<br />
siding in St. Petersburg, Florida. The letter announced that he ’ is in poor ptiysicgl condition.<br />
The secretary was, authorized to extend the association’s sympathy and render<br />
the .chief assistance if and when necessary.<br />
William H. Greenlaw, Superintendent <strong>of</strong> Fire Alarm <strong>of</strong> Beverly, Mass., appeared<br />
before the directors., in the interest <strong>of</strong> the Fire Alarm Service. He stated that there<br />
had been some stat~Ne-ii{g ~ made, asserting that the sending <strong>of</strong> tire alarms over the telephone<br />
wires had .been advocated. He spoke at length on resolutions prepared by him<br />
that were published~in Municipal Signal Engineer <strong>of</strong> March-April, 1953. It was vo’:ed<br />
to refei" the subject matter to the Resolutions Committe.<br />
Letters received by Chief Sanborn from John Calkin and Joseph A. P. Flynn,<br />
Maine 8tare Fire Marshal, regarding topics and speakers for the conference were also<br />
read. After discussion, it was voted that in so far as the conference program had been<br />
completed to the extent that a night session had to be added, it was voted to accept<br />
the program as outlined at the meeting.<br />
The secretary also read letters from John H. Griffin, Editor <strong>of</strong> the Boston Post,<br />
announcing his acceptance <strong>of</strong> our invitation to address the conference at the <strong>Annual</strong><br />
Banquet; from Gcvernor Hugh Gregg, who will be with us on banquet night, but was<br />
unable to attend opening session.<br />
It was voted to invite Chief Horace 8. Jose <strong>of</strong> 8outh Portland, Maine, to respond<br />
to the addresses <strong>of</strong> welcome.<br />
It was also voted to use the same methcd <strong>of</strong> other years by requesting the closing<br />
<strong>of</strong> rooms <strong>of</strong> entertainment while business sessions are on, and to discontinue music at<br />
midnight.<br />
.On Motion <strong>of</strong> the secretary, seconded by Director Graham, it was voted to place<br />
William T. Jordan, retired insurance company adjuster <strong>of</strong> 23 Alden Road, Watertown,<br />
Mass., on our Honorary Ro!l.
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CI-IIEFS<br />
Natick F~d~rai Savings and Loan Assn.<br />
NATICK<br />
S. E. SKILLIN<br />
Incorporated 188~<br />
MASSACHUSETTS<br />
R. O. CHICKERING<br />
C & S OIL HEATING CO., INC.<br />
7 MIDDLESEX AVENUE<br />
Timken Silent Au.tomatic Heat<br />
Technology Instrument Corporation<br />
Designers and Manufacturers <strong>of</strong> Electronic<br />
and Laboratory Apparatus<br />
Natick 3100<br />
531 MAIN STREET ACTON, MASS.<br />
Telephone Acton 205-600-(582-<br />
CLARK’S BLOCK<br />
JOHN H. CRAIG & SON<br />
Real Estate and Insurance<br />
ESTABLISHED 1899<br />
Tel. 25-W - 25-R or 1078<br />
NATICK, MASS.<br />
Na~ick Federal Savings and Loan Assno<br />
NATICK, MASS.<br />
INDEPENDENT COAL TAR<br />
WAVERLEY STREET<br />
Taric Road Products<br />
Established 1913<br />
258<br />
COMPANY<br />
FRAMINGHAM, MASS.
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
The ladies held a well-attended meeting and completed their program <strong>of</strong> games<br />
and entertainment.<br />
At the luncheon, discussions continued with a very enjoyable meal.<br />
Follcwing lun, ch, members visited, The Wentworth--which was receiving the first<br />
convention group <strong>of</strong> the season.<br />
Respectfully submitted:<br />
John W. O’Hearn,<br />
Secretary’.<br />
PRESIDENT MOLLOY: At this time, I am going to call for the report <strong>of</strong> the auditing<br />
Committee, and this will be ~iven by Chief A1 Koltonski.<br />
CHIEF KOLTONSKI: Mr. President, for the Auditing Committee, I wish to report<br />
that on Sunday night we audited the books <strong>of</strong> the Secretary-Treasurer, the bankbooks<br />
and thd bank statements, and we found them to be correct. We had a net gain <strong>of</strong><br />
$809.00 plus for the year.<br />
CHIEF WILLIAM CLIFFORD, Retired, Cape Elizabeth, Maine: Mr. President, I<br />
move that we accept the report <strong>of</strong> the Secretary-Treagu~er as given to us here this<br />
morning.<br />
This motion was duly seconded and, was carried.<br />
PRESIDENT MOLLOY: The next order <strong>of</strong> business is that <strong>of</strong> reports <strong>of</strong> Committees.<br />
Are there any committee reports to be made here this morning?<br />
CHIEF KOLTONSI
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
WALTHAM STORE NEWBURYPORT STORE MEDFORD STORE<br />
738 MAIN STREET 23 MARKET SQUARE ’76 MAIN STREET<br />
PORTSMOUTH, N. H., STORE ROSLINOALE STORE GARDNER STORE<br />
322 STATE STREET 4170 WASHINGTON ST. 384 MAIN STREET<br />
EASTERN AUTO PARTS CO., INC..<br />
Wholesalers and Distributors <strong>of</strong> AUTOMOTIVE PARTS AND EQUIPMENT<br />
182 EASTERN AVE. MALDEN, MASS.<br />
Telephone MAlden 4-4000<br />
Butcher’s Boston Polish is Best for Hardwood Floors<br />
THE BUTCHER POLISH CO.<br />
¯Manufacturers <strong>of</strong> Butchers" Boston Polish<br />
183 COMMERCIAL STREET MALDEN, MASS.<br />
Phone MA 4-_~6"70<br />
fluid heat.<br />
OIL BURNER<br />
MORTON OIL COMPANY<br />
Petroleum Products<br />
169 MEDFORD STREET<br />
Telephone MA 2-7575<br />
MALDEN 48, MASS.<br />
Conley’s Bay State Overall Cleaners<br />
184 COMMERCIAL STREET ....<br />
MALDEN, MASS.<br />
Tell MAlden 2-0400<br />
MALDEN AUTO TOP COMPAN~~<br />
Auto Tops. Slip Covers - Mats- Upholstering - Side Cu~ia~ns<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF I~IRE CHIEFS<br />
Again, I want to thank everybody, and especially the members <strong>of</strong> my committee<br />
who helped me in this endeavor.<br />
ExHIBI’I" COMMITTEI~, FINAL REPORT<br />
The following firms were exhibitors at our <strong>31st</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Conference</strong>-<br />
Motorola, Inc., 4545 Augusta Boulevard, Chicago, Illinois.<br />
Harry J. Lovell, 894 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Mass. . , ~<br />
Grinnell Sprinkler Company, 260 West Exchange Street, Providence, R. I.<br />
Superior American Fire Alarm & Signal Co:, 85 Tremont St., Meriden, Conn.<br />
Mine Safety Appliance, Braddock Street, Pittsburgh, Pa. ’<br />
John J. O’Brien/90.54eh Avenue, Elmhurst, Long Island, N. Y.<br />
A. F~ Robinson Boiler :Works, 200 Second Street, Cambridge, Mass.<br />
Eureka Fire Hose Company, 1230 Avenue <strong>of</strong> Americans, <strong>New</strong> York 201 N. Y.<br />
Circul-Air Cor_p_o_zation, 5_.75_Mil_waukee Avenue,_ Detroit, Mich.<br />
Wear Well Uniform Company~ 164 Washington ~Street, Boston, Mass.<br />
Eggleston Supply Company, 253 Franklin Street, Boston, Ma’ss.<br />
Kelly Leather Corporation, 174 Pleasant Street, Leominster, Mass.<br />
Charles Clougherty Company, 39 Miller Street, Medtield, Mass.<br />
Delameter Distributing Ccmpany, 62 LaSalle Road’, West Hartford, Conn.<br />
Peter ’Pirsch & Sons Company, Kenosha, Wisconsin.<br />
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General Alarm Corporation, 89 Broad Street, Boston, Mass.<br />
M. Linsky & Bros. Inc., 1 Washington Street, Boston, Mass.<br />
Justin A. McCarthy Company, 176 Federal Street, Boston, Mass.<br />
Boston Couplin.g Ccmpany, 293 .Congress Street, Boston, Mass.<br />
Farrar Company, Woodville, Mass.<br />
Homelite Corporation, 267 Cambridge Street, Allston, Mass.<br />
The Gamewell Company, <strong>New</strong>ton Upper Falls, Mass. . .<br />
Rockw0od Sprinkler Company, 38 Harlow Street, Worcester, Ma’ss.<br />
American Fire Equipment Company, 717 Bcylston Street, Boston, Mass.<br />
Midwwestern-Manufacturing Company, 480 yvrestminster Street, P)ovidence, R. I.<br />
S-T Hydrant Wren:~h Company, 12 Silverwood Terrace, South Hadley, Mass.<br />
Maxim Motor Cor@any, Middleboro, Mass.<br />
D. B. Smith Company, Main Street, Utica, N. Y.<br />
C. G. Braxmar Company, 216 East 45th Street, <strong>New</strong> York, N. Y. -<br />
Zabek Motor Sales, 575 North Main Street, Palmer, Mass.<br />
Boston Rcad’~ Equipment Company, 2262 Dorchester Avenue, Dorchester, Mass.<br />
Ward LaFrance Company, :Y5 Allerton.Avenue, =East Providence, R. I.<br />
American LaFrance =Company, 28 Brighton Avenue, Boston., Mass.<br />
Seagrave Corporation, Columbus, Ohio.<br />
Total Receipts from Exhibitors ......: .............. 2. ..... ¯ ................. $2275.00<br />
Total Expenditures ......... " ........................ ........................... 490.6~<br />
Net Receipts ~" : $1784.35<br />
Many companies that to:k exhibit space in the past were unable to be with us<br />
this year, therefore the net receipts for 1953 are about $400 less than in 19Y2.<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
A. J. FELZ COo OF NEWTON<br />
Wholesalers <strong>of</strong> Plumbing and Heating Supplies<br />
56 RAMSDELL STREET, NEWTON HIGHLANDS 61, MASS. - Tel. Blgelow 4-8100<br />
BOSTON BRANCH: 263 NORTHAMPTON ST., BOSTON 18, MASS-.<br />
COMPLI MENTS OF<br />
CONTINENTAL MACHINE CO.<br />
Precision-Machined Electronic.Components<br />
161 NORTH STREET NEWTONVILLE, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
LAsell 7-8437<br />
DOELCAM CORPORATION<br />
Gyroscopic Flight Test and Control lhstrumentation<br />
Synchros . Servomechanisms - Microsyns<br />
Electronic Inverters ...... ¯<br />
400 SOLIDERS FIELD RD.<br />
BOSTON 35, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
Phone ALgonquin 4-52_00<br />
1089 WASHINGTON STREET<br />
NEWTON<br />
C. A. BREED CO.<br />
Automatic Heating Equipment<br />
Blgelow 4-9000<br />
WEST NEWTON 65, MASS.<br />
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DAVIDSON FAN COMPANY<br />
Phone: Blgelow 4-1375<br />
And Pay Cash for Property Needing Repair<br />
HOMES, INC.<br />
DE 2-4000<br />
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MASSACHUSETTS
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
The Exhibit Committee wishes to thank the exhibitors for presenting their displays<br />
and demonstrations, ar.d appreciates their.cooperation and-courtesy in providing the<br />
prizes given during the <strong>Conference</strong>.<br />
This year the total receipts for the Exhibit Commit{ee will be some $300 or $400<br />
less than they were last year. We have fewer exhibits this year.<br />
CHIEF THOMAS H. SLAMAN, Chairman<br />
CHIEF JOHN A. SAVAOE<br />
CHIEF A. J. COTE<br />
CHmF HENRI FORTIER<br />
o ANDREW P. PALMER<br />
PRESIDENT MOLLOY: You have heard the report <strong>of</strong> the Exhibit Committee. What<br />
is your pleasure?<br />
CHIEF GRAHAM, Bristol, Conn. : I move that we accept the report <strong>of</strong> the Exhibit<br />
Committee.<br />
This motion was duly seconded, and was carriEd.<br />
PRESIDENT MOLLOY: At this time, I am going to call on. Chief Travers, Worcester,<br />
Mass., for a report <strong>of</strong> the Resoluticns Committee.<br />
CHIEF TRAVER8: This is the report <strong>of</strong> the Resolutions Committee. I should like to<br />
make a resolution, asking that there be no more disasters; I think that that one might<br />
pass. I have a resolution here covering the subject <strong>of</strong> the tire alarm systems as ordinarily<br />
set up, the orthodox system--and the pcssibility <strong>of</strong> that being changed radically--such<br />
as to the telephone system, which has been thought <strong>of</strong> and, in some cases, an attempt or<br />
some action has been taken towards that end.<br />
Relative to a resolution c.f that t3)pe, such as would replace our fire alarm boxes<br />
and, cables and wiring and that sort <strong>of</strong> thing for so radical a change as, possibly, the<br />
telephone or other type, and with the feeling that a gradual change might be the right<br />
approach; and that science, engineering, electronics and various things that we have<br />
come in ccntact with would bring a gradual change, we move with time and progress<br />
as the picture develops, on a conservative approach, and with.the thought that it is such<br />
a vital part in our operation, the fire alarm communications, and that the watchword,<br />
with prcgress, ~tlong that line should, be made, so that there would be no sacrifice in<br />
accura:y, safety, dependability ar.d prompt response, a resolution adopted by the Committee<br />
is proposed for the consideration <strong>of</strong> this <strong>Conference</strong>, as follows:<br />
WHEREAS: It has been brought to the attention <strong>of</strong> the <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> <strong>Association</strong><br />
<strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs, at annual conference assemb!ed this day, June 25, 1953, at Portsmcuth,<br />
<strong>New</strong> Hampshire, a growing tendency by certain mur.icipalities to recognize<br />
telephones as a substitute for the municipal fire alarm box, and<br />
WHEREAS: This recognition is at variance with the nationa!ly approved standards,<br />
as now exist, and<br />
WHEREAS: These present standards have been thoroughly tried and~ proven, and<br />
WHEREAS: This <strong>Association</strong> does recognize and approve such standards aS<br />
Pamphlet No. 73 <strong>of</strong> the Nationa! Board <strong>of</strong> Fire Underwriters, and<br />
WHEREAS:Such recognition and approval by this <strong>Association</strong> is based on our<br />
concern for a high standard <strong>of</strong> fire aiarm communications, and<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
CHARLES H. CLOUGHERTY CO.<br />
Manufacturers RepresentaHves<br />
Bi.Lateral Fire Hose<br />
Fire Dept. & Industrial Supplies & Equipment<br />
MILLER STREET MEDFIELD, MASS.<br />
ELLIS FIRE APPLIANCE CO.<br />
Fire Protection Equipment<br />
ELLIS SAFETY BELT<br />
¯<br />
You can’t fall <strong>of</strong>f a ladder<br />
195-197 HIGH STREET (Fort Hill Square) BOSTON 10, MASS.<br />
Telephone Liberty 2-] 022 - 2-] 023<br />
"FIRE APPARATUS"<br />
A. F. ROBINSON<br />
200 SECOND STREET CAMBRIDGE, MASS.<br />
Phone" TRowbrid~e 6-1"7"7~<br />
SYMPHONY HALL<br />
"Home oJ the Boston Symphony Orchestra"<br />
CHARLES MUNCH, Conductor<br />
Available for Concerts, Public and Private Meetings, Conventions,<br />
Motion Pictures and Exhibitions<br />
Telephone CO 6-1492. BOSTON, MASS.<br />
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NEW ENGI,.\ND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
WENTWORTH-FORMAN CO.,<br />
Manu[acturers o[<br />
"HEAD-MASTER" UNIFORM CAPS<br />
FOR FIREMEN.POLICEMEN<br />
21-23 EDINBORO STREET<br />
CHIEF WILLIAM J. DOOLING<br />
Sergeant at Arms, Hood Rubber Co.~ Watertown, Mass.<br />
HUGHES MOTOR MART, Inc.<br />
Desoto ~ Plymouth<br />
INC.<br />
BOSTON 11, MASS.<br />
2067 MASS. AVE. CAMBRIDGE, MASS.<br />
KI 7-5050<br />
363 HIGHLAND AVE. SOMERVILLE, MASS.<br />
PR 6-7700<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION 0F FIRE CHIEFS<br />
WALTHAM MACHINE WORKS<br />
Small Automatic Machinery, Gear Cutting Machines<br />
Thread Milling Machinery, Cylindrical Sub-Presses<br />
Edmund L. Sanderson<br />
WALTHAM, MASSACHUSETTS, U. S. A.<br />
WA 5-0508<br />
Office: WAltham 5-3561 Residence: WAltham 5-4536<br />
CATALDO, INC.<br />
Realtors<br />
JOS. M. CATALDO, W. A. CATALDO<br />
4 GORDON STREET WALTHAM, MASS.<br />
¯<br />
THE BETTINGER CORPORATION<br />
Porcelain Enamel Products<br />
High Temperature Ceramic Coatings<br />
WALTHAM, MASS.<br />
WALTHAM LUMBER CO., INC.<br />
Lumber and Building Materials<br />
182 NEWTON STREET Telephone WAltham 5-4639<br />
WALTHAM, MASS.<br />
CARBERT MANUFACTURING CO., Inc,<br />
Designers and Builders o]<br />
Production Machinery and Equipment<br />
144 MOODY STREET WALTHAM, MASS.<br />
Tel. WAlthsm 5-6"/03<br />
ALLIED MACHINISTS OF WALTHAM<br />
Tool - Jig. Die and Fixture lVork<br />
Production o] Small Parts and Complete Machines<br />
,.<br />
6-14 WATER STREET WALTHAM 54, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
Telephone WAltham 5-0416<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CI-IIEF$<br />
WHEREAS: We are concerned that any lessening <strong>of</strong> these standards would im~<br />
pair the efficiency <strong>of</strong> municipal fire alarm co.mmunication~,, and<br />
WHEREAS: Such impairment could well increase the loss <strong>of</strong> life and property<br />
by fire; now, therefore, be it<br />
RESOLVED: That this <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> <strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs, at the Annua!<br />
<strong>Conference</strong> assembled, strongly urges and recommends that no municipality accept or ¯<br />
condone any action that, would impair and/or reduce the efficiency <strong>of</strong> its municipal<br />
t~rm alarm system; and be it further<br />
RESOLVED: ,That this <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> <strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs does endorse<br />
inc~ recommend the acceptance <strong>of</strong> the standards <strong>of</strong> the National Board <strong>of</strong> Fire Under,<br />
writers for municipal fire alarm systems; and only such changes and/or revisions as<br />
may be hereafter approved and endorsed by the National Board <strong>of</strong> Fire Underwriters.*<br />
¯ CHIEF HERBERT F. TRAVERS, Worcester, Mass., Chairman.<br />
CHIEF LEWIS A. MARSHALL, Providence, Rhode Island..<br />
CHIEF HENRY G. THOMAS, Hartford, Connecticut.<br />
CHIEF TRAVERS: Mr. President, I <strong>of</strong>fer this resolution for the consideration <strong>of</strong><br />
the <strong>Conference</strong>.<br />
PRESIDENT MOLLOY: You have heard the reading <strong>of</strong> this Resolution, Gentlemen.<br />
What is your pleasure?<br />
CHIEF GRAHAM, Bristol, Conn. : Mr. President, I move that we adopt this-Resolution<br />
as read by the Chairman <strong>of</strong> the Resolutions Committee.<br />
This motion was duly seconded by Chief Koltonski and other memberspresent,<br />
and was carried, unanimously.<br />
PRESIDENT MOLLOY: We shall now hear from the .Chairman <strong>of</strong> the CoUrtesy Corn,<br />
mittee, Richard Frates.<br />
CHIEF RICHARD FRATES, Bath, Maine : The following is the report <strong>of</strong> the Courtesy<br />
Committee:<br />
The <strong>New</strong> Engiand <strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs is about to close its <strong>31st</strong> <strong>Annual</strong><br />
<strong>Conference</strong>. It has been a most successful and, happy meeting, and our people <strong>of</strong> <strong>New</strong><br />
<strong>England</strong> may rest assured that it has been a fruitful one. ¯<br />
hi the form and manner <strong>of</strong> our delibera.~t.ions and discussions, we h~a~e again dem;<br />
onstrated that the <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> <strong>Association</strong> o,f Fire Chiefs will continue to lead the<br />
way in ever~ battle agains tthe loss <strong>of</strong> life aiad property from fire.<br />
The <strong>Association</strong> wishes to express its grateful appreciation to His Excellency,<br />
Hugh C. Gregg, Governor <strong>of</strong> <strong>New</strong> Hampshire; Hi’s Honor, Mayor Theodore R. Butler<br />
<strong>of</strong> Portsmouth; City Manager Robert C. Vidlette <strong>of</strong> Portsmouth; Chief G. Napoleor~<br />
Guevin, President <strong>of</strong> the <strong>New</strong> Hampshire Fire .Chiefs Club; Herbert Whitney, representing<br />
State Fire Marshal Aubrey G. Robinson <strong>of</strong> <strong>New</strong> Hampshire; Chief Frederick<br />
R. Crompton <strong>of</strong> Portsmouth; the Town Officers and people <strong>of</strong> Portsmouth and <strong>New</strong>castle,<br />
and our genial Hosts, Major and, Mrs. James B. Smith and their son, Jimmie,<br />
who has assisted everyone; to 0ui~-Chaplains, our <strong>of</strong>ficers, and the various committees,<br />
especially the Entertainment Committee, which provided such fine entertainment.<br />
’Once again, our stay here has been most delightful and enjoyable, because <strong>of</strong> the<br />
combined efforts and contributions <strong>of</strong> so many.<br />
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SPRINGFIELD<br />
168 SOUTH STREET<br />
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
STRONG’S EXPRESS<br />
General Trucking<br />
Box 215 - Telephone Westfield 2112<br />
Springfield 6-928=~<br />
SLYE BROS.<br />
MASSACHUSETTS<br />
PITTSFIELD, MASS.<br />
U. & S. Beef and Provision Corporation<br />
Distributors <strong>of</strong> Beef~ Veal~ Lamb and Pork Products<br />
1619 EAST STREET<br />
PITTSFIELD, MASS.<br />
P. O. Box 22z~ - Telephone 2-1518 - 2-1519<br />
85 SO. ONOTA STREET<br />
CRESCENT CREAMERY<br />
~Quality Milk for Particular People"<br />
JOHN J. O’BRIEN, Prop.<br />
PITT.SFIELD, MASS.<br />
BRADY CLEANERS AND DYERS<br />
108 WEST HOUSATONIC STREET<br />
Compliments <strong>of</strong><br />
P ITTSF I ELD, MASSACH USETTS<br />
UXBRIDGE SAVINGS BANK~<br />
INCORPORATED 1 8"70<br />
.... UXBRIDGE; MASS.<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
Therefore, Mr. President, it is the recommendation <strong>of</strong> your committee that the<br />
most sin.cere thanks <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Association</strong> be formally extended to these fine pec’ple.<br />
This report is respectfully submitted, by the Courtesy Committee.<br />
CHIEF RICHARD:F.RATES, Bath, Maine, Chairman.<br />
CHIEF FREDERICK R. CROMPTON, Portsmouth; N. H.<br />
CHIEF GEORGE MULLEN,. Shrewsbury, Mass.<br />
PRESIDENT MOLLOY: Gentlemen, you have heard the report <strong>of</strong> the Courtesy Committee.<br />
What is your pleasure?<br />
CHIEF GRAHAM: Mr. President, I move that, the report <strong>of</strong> the Courtesy Committee<br />
be accepted.<br />
This motion was duly seconded and ckrried.<br />
PRESIDENT MOLLOY: Are there any other Ccmmittees to report?<br />
If not, we will go into the matter <strong>of</strong> unfinished busihess. Under unfinished business,<br />
I want to cal! upon Roi B. Woolley, as he has something to explain to you. Roi<br />
talked to me this morning, and we thought that we should show a united frcnt in regard<br />
to the matter <strong>of</strong> radio, so that I am going to let him explain it to you, briefly.<br />
MR. RoI B. WOOLLEY: I shall try to be brief. Now, some <strong>of</strong> you have talked with<br />
me, and some <strong>of</strong> you have heard me say that unless we hang together, we will hang<br />
separately.<br />
Now, when it comes to certain over-all, nation-wide movements affecting the fire<br />
service <strong>of</strong> the nation, at the present time, there is not a full, united front; and it seems<br />
to me imperative that in connection with one or two <strong>of</strong> those developments, this Associatioa<br />
should be fully represented.<br />
In short, the International <strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs, for a couple <strong>of</strong> years, through<br />
the Committee--<strong>of</strong> which I happen to be the Chairman--has been exploring the need <strong>of</strong><br />
a manual on radio operations. To put it another way, it is for the use <strong>of</strong> radio--how<br />
it is to be procured, and ~o forth--which can be given to every fire chief, to enable him<br />
better to use his radio and to get i_t m_c.re easily.<br />
The Interrational <strong>Association</strong> has that m~nual ready, now, for distribution to its<br />
Committee for final approval. It only awaits the typing--which will be done Very<br />
shortly "<br />
Now when I take that Manual to Washington--as Chairman <strong>of</strong> the Ccmmittee<br />
on Communications, <strong>of</strong> the International--it will bear the approval, we hope--and I<br />
am quite certain it will because they are represented on this Committee--<strong>of</strong> the Inter-<br />
~ational, the National Board <strong>of</strong> Fire Underwriters, the National Fire Protecticn As~oclarion,<br />
the International M.unicipal Signal <strong>Association</strong>, and the International <strong>Association</strong><br />
<strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs.<br />
, Then tt~e Federal Communications Commission must approve this--and this has<br />
to do with the wordfng, the glossary <strong>of</strong> terms, rules and regulations unde~r Rule 10 <strong>of</strong><br />
the Federal Communications Commi}sion, and they’ will s~.y to me as the Chairman<br />
Of the Committee: .<br />
"You representwhom?" oTtie; International As~odation <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs?"<br />
"That is corr4ct."<br />
"That <strong>Association</strong> represents-the Fire Chiefs 6,f America?"<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
PHALO PLASTICS CORPORATION<br />
Insulating ~Vire and Cable Manufacturers<br />
Cord Set Assemblies<br />
FOSTER STREET WORCESTER 8, MASS.<br />
Telephone 5-8658<br />
BANCROFT MOTORS, INC.<br />
Chrysler-Plymouth<br />
36 PORTLAND STREET WORCESTER 8, MASS.<br />
E. W. PARKS COMPANY<br />
Curriers and Finishers ~~<br />
BRIDLE SHOULDERS,STRAP SIDES AND SPECIAL LEATHER<br />
"/0 BEACON sTREET WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
WORCESTER TAPER PIN CO.<br />
I NCORPORATED<br />
WORCESTER 8, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
THOMPSON INSURANGE Inc.<br />
465 MAIN STREET .<br />
Tel. 204<br />
ATHOL, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
-ST. PIERRE GHAIN CORPORATION<br />
Crajtsmen in Metals<br />
Anchor Chain - Industry Chain - Tire Chains - Drop Forgings - Automotive Tools<br />
Pi~¢hing Ho~sehoes - Welders’ ~hipping Hammers<br />
WORCESTER 4 MASSACHUSETTS, U. S. A.<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
"Yes," I will say, "but there has been a little division, under certain conditions,<br />
in certain parts <strong>of</strong> ~he country."<br />
And <strong>of</strong> course, they know that, because they are serving you people through the<br />
Signal Men’s <strong>Association</strong> and Chief O’Banion in Boston,; yes, they know that the <strong>New</strong><br />
<strong>England</strong> <strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong> Fire ’Chiefs is not a divisior~ <strong>of</strong> the International. ,Therefore,<br />
they wil! say to me as Chairman:<br />
"Then, you do not represent the entire Fire Chiefs <strong>of</strong> the country?"<br />
And <strong>of</strong> course that is quite true. And therefore, we do not come before the Federal<br />
Communications ,Co~mmission with a complete, full slate and a united front.<br />
Now, in order to be sure that this Manual gets the widest use and that it gets the<br />
approval <strong>of</strong> the Federal .Communications Commission--which it must have or el’so we<br />
are out <strong>of</strong> luck it should bear the name <strong>of</strong> this <strong>Association</strong>.<br />
I have no part whatever in this. I haven’t even discussed this with the Executive<br />
Board <strong>of</strong> the International Ass.ociation <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs.<br />
It came to me last night when I was working dn the Manual that, well, I am going<br />
down there and there is going to be a seriously loose end--and I may be caught short.<br />
So then I talked with one or two <strong>of</strong> your <strong>of</strong>ficers. I talked with President Molle.y<br />
and I explained the situation, and he asked me to present it to you. I talked with Chief<br />
McAlpine--who has left, just now, by cab, and he said to me:<br />
"Roi, I am sure that I could speak for our Executive Ccmmittee in saying that<br />
anything you do for the <strong>New</strong> En.gland Ass.ociation <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs will have our endorsement,<br />
because we are with you one hundred per cent in what you are doing."<br />
So that as your Technical Consultant it is nay hope that we can. put the name <strong>of</strong><br />
the <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> Ass’.cciation <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs on that Manual.<br />
The only question, that might come up is:<br />
"Why is the <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> name separate, and. as a separate entity?"<br />
Well, it so happens that this <strong>Association</strong> is not fully established by law as a regional,<br />
or what.have.you, <strong>of</strong> the International. That has no bearing on your division<br />
<strong>of</strong> the International; it has no bearing on any status that may exist between this association,<br />
the International <strong>Association</strong> or the Signal Men’s <strong>Association</strong>--or any other group<br />
whatever. But it merely strengthens the Ccmmittee’s hand when we go to Washington<br />
to .present this for approval, which will affect the whole nation’s fire service.<br />
I did not know what action you would care to take, but I would ~ather inv.ite the<br />
hop~ tl~at you would approve the Committee including you in its representation, regardless<br />
cf any condition which may exist between yourselves or the Internationa! <strong>Association</strong><br />
<strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs, <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> Division.<br />
I hope that I have made myself clear. I can see International Vice-President<br />
Thomas !ooking at me and wondering what I am talking about. But I hope that I have<br />
made this clear, both to him and to the members <strong>of</strong> the <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> Division <strong>of</strong> the<br />
International, and to yo.u boys <strong>of</strong> the <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> <strong>Association</strong>--what we hope to do,<br />
and by "we". I mean my committee on communications, which happens to include all<br />
<strong>of</strong> these other groups and does not at the present time include the very important group<br />
<strong>of</strong> the <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> <strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs, as represer~ted in this rocm.<br />
If there are any questions, I shall be glad to try to answer them.<br />
CHIEF WELl:S: What is it that you are trying to do? What is it-that you are going<br />
to <strong>of</strong>fer, briefly? You said something about a glossary <strong>of</strong> terms, but really, you went<br />
so fast, Roi, that I couldn’t get what you were driving at.<br />
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Compliments o]<br />
~ KEITH PAPER<br />
¯<br />
Compliments<br />
TURNERS FALLS, MASS.<br />
Telephone 333<br />
COMPANY<br />
WARE SHOE CO.<br />
WARE, MASS.<br />
WHITE AIRCRAFT CORPORATION<br />
PALMER, MASS.<br />
Mo,ldmas~:er Engin,eerin9 Company<br />
Fine Molding Dies<br />
187 NEWELL STREET PITTSFIELD, MASS.<br />
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OLSON MANUFACTURING CO.<br />
ESTABLISHED 1913<br />
100 PRESCOTT STREET WORCESTER 5, MASS.<br />
General Officesm589 E. Ifilinois S~., Chicago 11, U. S. A.<br />
MilimPalmer, Mass.<br />
Division <strong>of</strong> SheIlmar Products Corporation<br />
SELF-LOCKING CARTON ~CO.<br />
Carry-Safe Division<br />
Tel. Palmer 930raP. O. Box 230~Mail Reply to Above Address<br />
PALMER, MASS.<br />
The Massachusetts Protective<br />
<strong>Association</strong>, Inc.<br />
The Paul Revere Li~e Insurance Co.<br />
WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
ACCIDENT AND SECKNESS e LEFE ~ GROUP<br />
Midwestern -Firemen’s Clothing<br />
Manufacturers <strong>of</strong> a complete line <strong>of</strong> Quality Firemen’s CI6thing.<br />
MIDWESTE~,N garments are nationally known and have been pronounced<br />
by many leading fire chiefs as the VERY BEST on the<br />
market. Our garments will give long service, will retmn the same<br />
flexibility through all .temperatures <strong>of</strong> weather and will keep you<br />
warm through all the cold days and .nights when fighting fires.<br />
MIDWESTERN garments are in a class by themselves, as we are<br />
exclusive users <strong>of</strong> the MIDWESTERN VANITEX and also the<br />
Famous Safety Snap which can be fastened and unfastened with<br />
one hand and will not freeze as the old type harness snap will do.<br />
Order your MIDWESTERN OUTFIT today and be prepared for the<br />
cold winter ahead.<br />
<strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> Representative I. A. LUFT<br />
281 Washington St., P,rovidence, R. I.<br />
Factory and Main ’Office ,<br />
I~IDWESTERN MANUFACTURING COMPANY<br />
Mackinaw, Illinois<br />
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MR. RoI WOOLLEY: For the sake <strong>of</strong> Chief Wells, and our good stenotypist-who<br />
may have .a hard time catching up with me at times--let me say this:<br />
You have a radio. You have procured radio in the fire service <strong>of</strong> your Fire Department.<br />
You are probably going to have more radio. You, yourselves, may know<br />
how to procure the radio and get the allocations, etc.<br />
You know that Mr. O’Banion <strong>of</strong> the Signal Men’s Associati.c.n, working with the<br />
Fire Chiefs <strong>Association</strong>, has charge, literally, in this area in <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong>, <strong>of</strong> the allocation<br />
<strong>of</strong> radio, through and, by dispensation <strong>of</strong> the Federal Communications Commission.<br />
You know that we, ,in the use <strong>of</strong> radio, have to follow certain rules and regu!a,<br />
tions as set down by the Federal Communications Commission. You and I know--and<br />
everyone knows who uses radio--that its use must follow certain requirements and<br />
limitations.<br />
Now, cn that basis, the entire country must have a manual <strong>of</strong> operation, or at<br />
least a book <strong>of</strong> procedure, call it what you will, ar..d that book must have the full approval<br />
and the endorsement <strong>of</strong> the fire s~rvice.<br />
In order to .br.ing that about, this Committee on Communications, la_~t year, by<br />
order <strong>of</strong> the Intern, aticnal Executive-Board, was instructed to be broadened to include<br />
the National Board <strong>of</strong> Fire Underwriters, the National Fire Protection <strong>Association</strong>,<br />
the Signal Men’s <strong>Association</strong>, and all <strong>of</strong> the other related groups that might have a great<br />
part in approving ..and adopting this Manual.<br />
Is that clear? That is what we want. You see, at the present time, it would not<br />
include, and it wculd not have the support <strong>of</strong> this group, which is most important to us.<br />
CHIEF WELLS: That is very clear, Roi, and thank you very much.<br />
At this time, I should like to <strong>of</strong>fer a motion that we endorse the request <strong>of</strong> Roi<br />
Woo!ley.<br />
This motion was duly seconded, and was carried.<br />
PRESIDENT MOLLOY: Is there any other unfinished business that should come before<br />
this meeting?<br />
If not, the next thing cn the program is the Selection <strong>of</strong> the Place <strong>of</strong> the Next<br />
<strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Conference</strong>.<br />
CHIEF KIMBALL" Mr. President, I move that the 32nd <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Conference</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
the <strong>New</strong> Englan d <strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs be held at The Wentworth Hotel.<br />
This motion was duly seconded by several <strong>of</strong> the members present.<br />
SECRETARY O’HEARN ¯ Mr. President,, I believe that as a matter <strong>of</strong>. courtesy, and<br />
for the record, you should permit me to, read from whom I have received invitations<br />
for the conference.<br />
We have had letters <strong>of</strong> invitations, from the following:<br />
Under date <strong>of</strong> June 12th, we received an invitation from the Poland Spring House.<br />
Under date <strong>of</strong> June 18th, we received an.-invitation from tiff’ Equinox House, at<br />
Manchester, Vermont,<br />
Under date <strong>of</strong> June 23rd, ~we received an invitation from J~mes Barker Smith,<br />
to meet here at The Wentworth.<br />
All <strong>of</strong> these invitations, in general, outline what their facilities are. We know a<br />
lot about the. pgland_ 8p~.i.=gg House, and from what we can read in their invitation,<br />
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the Equinox House could not accommodate us, as they do not have the facilities to<br />
handle our grc.up, either in the matter <strong>of</strong> meeting place or dining facilities.<br />
CHIEF MILLER Of Auburn, Maine: I know thatthe Poland Spring House would<br />
like to have you consider their invitation, and ! k~0~,):hat they can accommodate us.<br />
SECRETARY O’HEARN: I did not refer to the Pol~tnd Spring House as not being<br />
able to accommcdate us. I only referred- to ~l~"Equinox House, from reading their<br />
letter, as they admitted in writing that they could not take care <strong>of</strong> the crowd; the most<br />
they can seat in the banquet hall is 400. We had, 700 people in the dining room last<br />
-night.<br />
A MEMBER: Would it be in order to have the letteri read, i just, the same?<br />
’CHIEF THOMA8 Of Hartford: May I suggest that the Secretary give his usual<br />
courteous answer, in response to those kind. letters =o,f information, and that we proceed<br />
with the question on the motion.<br />
PRESIDENT MOLLOY: I am ’sure that that will be done. Now, on Chief Kimball’s<br />
motion that we hold the 32nd <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Conference</strong> at The Wentworth, here at <strong>New</strong>castle.<br />
Are you ready for the ,question?<br />
VOICES : Question! -<br />
¯<br />
PI~ESlDENT MOLLOY" All those who are in favor <strong>of</strong> the motion will please signify<br />
by saying "aye." Those opposed?<br />
There was a chorus <strong>of</strong> "ayes" and the motion was carried unanimously,.<br />
PRESIDENT MOLLOY: We now come to the election <strong>of</strong> <strong>of</strong>ficers. I shall entertain<br />
a motion for nomination for President <strong>of</strong> this <strong>Association</strong>.<br />
CHIEF COTE: Mr. President, I should like to put in nomination the name <strong>of</strong><br />
Henri E. Fortier <strong>of</strong> Manville, Rhode Island, for the <strong>of</strong>fice <strong>of</strong> President <strong>of</strong> this <strong>Association</strong>.<br />
~<br />
A MEMBER: I move that the nominations cease, and that the Secretary cast one<br />
ballot for. the electic.n <strong>of</strong> Chief Fortier as President <strong>of</strong> this <strong>Association</strong>.<br />
This motion was duly seconded and was carried.<br />
SECRETARY O’HEARN" I have cast the ballot.<br />
PRESIDENT MOLLOY: By your ballot, you have elected Henri E. Fortier as President<br />
<strong>of</strong> this <strong>Association</strong> for the ensuing yea~:, and I am going to ask the Sergeant-at-<br />
Arms to conduct ’Chief Fortier to the pl’atform.<br />
PRESIDENT MOLLOY" I am going to take this opportunity, Gentlemen, to tell you<br />
how much I have appreciated your cooperation, and your help, not only to myself, but<br />
to my wife, during my term e.f <strong>of</strong>fice and this <strong>31st</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Conference</strong>.<br />
Thank you very much. (Applause.)<br />
,.<br />
PRESIDENT FORTIER: I want to thank you, gentlemen , for electing me to the Presidency,<br />
and. I assure you that with the help <strong>of</strong> the <strong>of</strong>ficers and all mdmbers, we can<br />
make it a success.<br />
Thank you, again! (Applause.)<br />
And to you, Tony Molloy, it is an honor for me to have the privilege <strong>of</strong> pinning<br />
this President’s badg~ e,n you, and that you may wear it with pride, wherex, er you go.<br />
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Telephone 271<br />
PAIGE.KIMBALL<br />
INCORPORATED<br />
456 MAIN STREET<br />
INSURANCE<br />
AGENCY<br />
ATHOL, MASS.<br />
ATHOL COAL COMPANY<br />
IOHN W’. CAMPBELL, Treasurer<br />
575 SOUTH STI~EET ATHOL, MASS.<br />
Telephone 268<br />
MECHANICS SAVINGS BANK<br />
HOLYOKE, MASS.<br />
I. E. SAWYER, President W.J. BROWN, Treasurer<br />
H. P. KELLEY, Asst. Treas.<br />
Phone 8209<br />
PALMER<br />
PEOPLES SAVINGS BANK<br />
INCORPORATED 1 885<br />
HOLYOKE, MASS.<br />
"A Little Out <strong>of</strong> the Way. ¯ ¯ Much Less to Pay"<br />
OCTO’S FURNITURE MART<br />
Everything Jor the tlome<br />
CORNER HAMPDEN AND WALNUT STREETS, HOLYOKE, MASS.<br />
THE PALMER NATIONAL ,BANK<br />
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation<br />
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PAST PRESIDENT MOLLOY: Thank you very much, and I want you all to know<br />
that I am very proud <strong>of</strong> this Past President’s Badge! (Applause.)<br />
i CHIEF ’THOMAS <strong>of</strong> Hartford: Mr. President and Fellow Members <strong>of</strong> the <strong>New</strong><br />
E, ngland <strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs, and Guests. It is my very great privilege to be<br />
invited to come up here and say a word about our retiring President.<br />
The Chairman <strong>of</strong> your Co.urtesy Committee, this morning, in presenting his report<br />
<strong>of</strong> the Courtesy Committee, .spoke about the benefits that we all have received<br />
from this conver.tion, as we have from others, It has been most ed.ucation.’.l and instructive,<br />
and I think that we can take back to o=ar respective communities a great deal<br />
<strong>of</strong> value.<br />
The social part <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Conference</strong> has been, as usual, very successful, and once<br />
again, a President <strong>of</strong> the <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> <strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs has served this<br />
organization through a year <strong>of</strong> tension, a year <strong>of</strong> tension <strong>of</strong> our country and cur<br />
community, and the tire service has, during the past year, and particularly the <strong>New</strong><br />
<strong>England</strong> <strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs, has again proven itself worthy and ready for any<br />
task, which was exemplified in the Worcester disaster.<br />
I think that this <strong>Association</strong>, and all <strong>of</strong> the members <strong>of</strong> this As~ocia.:ion, are aware<br />
<strong>of</strong> the tensions <strong>of</strong> our country, the responsibilities placed upon us, and the need for<br />
preparedness.<br />
Perhaps I could best express it this way. The great truths <strong>of</strong> our times, as written<br />
in the <strong>New</strong> York Sun not long ago, are thatit is crystal clear that world civilization<br />
cannot exist, without the acceptance and practice <strong>of</strong> the brotherhood <strong>of</strong> man. He<br />
further stated that the emphasis is one practice.<br />
Very few things are accepted, more and practiced less. That dire warning <strong>of</strong><br />
Abraham Lincoln one hundred years ago, when he said that if this nation is ever to<br />
be de:troyed, it will be from within and cot from without, was never mere true than<br />
it is today. "VVe must be doers and not hearers.<br />
I am sure that we will all agree, unanimously, that our Retiring President, our<br />
beloved Tony Molloy, has been a doer; he has not been just a speaker <strong>of</strong> what-to-do,<br />
but he has devcted his time and efforts to the furtherance <strong>of</strong> the fire service through<br />
the medium <strong>of</strong> the Presidency <strong>of</strong> the <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> <strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs.<br />
So that as a slight token <strong>of</strong> our appreciation and love for Tony Molloy, I have<br />
been delegated by you to say to Tony:<br />
"Please accept as a slight token <strong>of</strong> this <strong>Association</strong>, this little envelope, Tonyl<br />
togetF_.er with that badge, and we want to say that those, in a very small way, Tony,<br />
express our love and appreciation for what you have done for us! (Applause.)<br />
PAST-PRESIDENT MdLLOY: Thank you very much! (Applause.)<br />
PRESIDENT, FORTIER: The r.ext c.ffi.cer to be elected is our First Vice-President.<br />
Nominations.. ~re now open for the <strong>of</strong>fice <strong>of</strong> fir.st Vice-President. " .<br />
i=~ Chief CHIEF George KO*.TONSKI: Graham <strong>of</strong>. Mr. Bristol, President, Ccnnecticut, I~k~"~great in nomination pleasure as in First placing Vice-President the name<br />
the <strong>New</strong> .<strong>England</strong> <strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs.<br />
CHIEF STUART POTTER" I rise to seccn-d that~."o~r~ation,- M~. P~esid~nt, <strong>of</strong><br />
Chief George:Graham.<br />
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¯<br />
FRANK A. HOWE, President<br />
STANLEY A. STOWELL, Cashier<br />
EBENE GRIDLEY, Vice President<br />
ORANGE NATIONAL BANK<br />
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.<br />
ORANGE MASSACH USETTS<br />
ROBERT MAC GREGOR, JR.; President WILLIAM H. GIBBS, Vice Presiden~<br />
RICHARD C. SWAN, Treasurer<br />
ORANGE SAVINGS BANK<br />
A Mutual Savings Bank<br />
DEPOSITS INSURED UNDER MASSACHUSETTS LAWS<br />
THE L. S. STARRETT COMPANY<br />
ATHOL,- MASSACHUSETTS<br />
World’s Greatest Toolmakers<br />
THE FIRST NATIONAL,-BANK<br />
ATHOL, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
...... Member Federal Deposi’i Insurance Corp.<br />
ATHOL SAVINGS BANK<br />
: ~t, ,~.~’<br />
A Mutual Savings, Bank<br />
¯<br />
U.S.A.<br />
444 MAIN STREET ATHOL, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
MacDONALD & JOHNSON,<br />
INSURANCE<br />
..<br />
INC.<br />
THIRD NATIONAL BANK BUILDING SPRINGFIELD 3, MASS.<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
LOUIS SILVERMAN, President Marblehead 4173W<br />
American Lumber & Supply Co., Inc.<br />
Doors and IVindows . Lumber - Mill lVork . Building Materials<br />
51-61 BENNETT STREET LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
LYnn 8-3672<br />
DAVIS & FURBER MACHINE CO,<br />
Textile Machinery<br />
NORTH ANDOVER MASSAC H USETTS<br />
CONTI & DONAHUE<br />
Engineers - Contractors<br />
Z39 COMMERCIAL STREET LY 2-6237 N LY 5-6204<br />
PAUL F. DONAHUE<br />
CLOVER CUTTING DIE CO., Inc.<br />
Manufacturers <strong>of</strong> Fine Cutting Dies<br />
LYNN, MASS.<br />
459-467 -UNION STREET LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
JOHN<br />
1 CITY HALL SQUARE<br />
10 MORRILL STREET.<br />
E. MOULTON & SON<br />
Real Estate and Insurance<br />
Telephone LYnn 5-2424<br />
A. R. TRUE, Inc.<br />
BOATBUILDER<br />
Designer for Over Forty Years<br />
Telephone Amesbury 890-~vV<br />
279<br />
LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS-<br />
AMESBURY, MASS.
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
THOMPSON BUICK COMPANY ~<br />
.<br />
1790 CENTRE STREET<br />
~<br />
BOSTON 32, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
PArkway .7-4700 - 4~oi - 4702_<br />
~/EST ROXBURY<br />
OAKLEY MOTOR COMPANY<br />
.70 TALBOT AVENUE<br />
<strong>New</strong> E~gland~s Largest Mercury Dealer<br />
Phone-GEneva 6-4323<br />
,,<br />
DORCHESTER, MASS.<br />
RUSSELL PONTIAC COMPANY, INC.<br />
LEE W. RUSSELL, President<br />
Sixes - Eights ~ Sales and Service<br />
1780-1782 CENTRE ST. BOSTON 32 (WEST ROXBURY) MASS.<br />
Telephone PArkway "7-6400<br />
Chrysler Airtemp -- Authorized Dealer<br />
BUTLER ENGINEERING COo<br />
Heating and Air Conditioning<br />
Complete Line <strong>of</strong> Packaged Air Conditioners - Room Air Conditioners<br />
Year ’Round Residential Conditioners<br />
26 WALNUT STREET<br />
Tel. WOburn 2-316"7<br />
280<br />
WOBURN, MASS.
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
Eas~:ern S~:M:es S~:orm Window Co.<br />
Distributors oJ Storm Seal Combinations<br />
1010 MEMORIAL AVENUE WEST SPRINGFIELD,<br />
Tel. 7-5394<br />
MASS.<br />
OUR BANQUET GUESTS, left to righl~ REV. MICHAEL F. COLLINS, CHAPLAIN; HIS<br />
EXCELLENCY GOVERNOR HUGH GREGG, NEW HAMPSHIRE; CHIEF ANTHONY<br />
J. MOLLOY, TOASTMASTER; HON. JOHN H. GRIFFIN, EDITOR IN CHIEF, THE<br />
BOSTON POST, GUEST SPEAKER.<br />
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NEW ENGLAN , ASSOCIATION OF TIRE CHIEFS<br />
Triangle Screw Machine Products Co.<br />
40 CROSS STREET<br />
44 FIRST STREET<br />
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.<br />
18 CLARENDON STREET<br />
Winchester 6-3386<br />
Temporary<br />
Heating<br />
& Drying<br />
Equipment<br />
Rented for<br />
Use After<br />
Fires<br />
P’hone<br />
KI 7-2700<br />
PETER R. PREVITE, Inc.<br />
W,bolesale Florists<br />
At Warren Avenue<br />
WINCHESTER, MASS.<br />
Oil Burners<br />
BUCKLEY AND SCOTT UTILITIES,<br />
60-70 ARSENAL STREET<br />
WATERTOWN, MASS.<br />
SCOTT BROTHERS<br />
Pumps for /ill Purposes<br />
. ¯<br />
._<br />
BOSTON, MASS.<br />
Distributors Goulds Pumps - lVorthington Turbines<br />
60 WATER STREET<br />
Moulton Ladder Manufac~urin9<br />
Established 1839<br />
Fuel Oil<br />
INC.<br />
CLINTON, MASS.<br />
Co.<br />
2-40 HARDING STREET SOMERVILLE 43, MASS.<br />
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Ex-CHIEF JOHN S. PACHL: I move that nomination, s :be closed, Mr. President, and<br />
that the Secretary cast one ballot for the election <strong>of</strong> Chief Graham a,s our First Vice,<br />
President. .’ ~ ~ ’<br />
This motion was duly seconded and was carried:.<br />
SECRETARY O’I--IEARN: I have cast the ballot.<br />
PRESIDENT FORTIER: And I declare Chief George Graham duly elected as our<br />
First Vice-President. (Applause.)<br />
(The Sergeant-at-Arms then. escorted the new.ly elected First Vice-President to<br />
the rostru~ .<br />
FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT GRAHAM: Thank you very much, gentlemen, for the<br />
honor, and I can assure that, God-willing, I w.ill _work to the best <strong>of</strong> my ability for<br />
the good <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Association</strong>, and its. <strong>of</strong>ficers, during the coming year.<br />
PRESIDENT FORTIER: Nominations are now open for the <strong>of</strong>fice <strong>of</strong> Second Vice-<br />
President.<br />
EX-CHIEF W. H. CLIFFORD: Mr. President, it gives me a great deal <strong>of</strong> pleasure<br />
to place in nomination the name <strong>of</strong> John E. Keefe <strong>of</strong> Bellows Falls, Vermont, for<br />
the <strong>of</strong>fice <strong>of</strong> Second Vice-President, for the ensuing year.<br />
’CHIEF SCANLON <strong>of</strong> Lynn: I second that nomination. ,<br />
Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was VOTED: That the Secretary<br />
cast one ballot for the election <strong>of</strong> Chief Keefe <strong>of</strong> Bellows Falls, Vermont, for the<br />
once <strong>of</strong> .Second Vice-President.<br />
(The newly elected Second Vice-President was ..then-escorted to the rostrum,<br />
after the Secretary had cast the ballot, by the Segrdant.at.Arms.)<br />
SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT KEEFE <strong>of</strong> Bellows Falls, Vegmont :. Gentlemen, I want<br />
to thank the members <strong>of</strong> the <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> <strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs, for the honor<br />
which they have bestowed~ upon me and the State <strong>of</strong> Vermont, and I pledge my support<br />
to the <strong>of</strong>ficers and members <strong>of</strong> this <strong>Association</strong> during the coming year. (Ap,<br />
plause.)<br />
PRESIDENT FORTIER: We now come to the election <strong>of</strong> the Secretary-Treasurer.<br />
Whom do you wish to nominate as your Secretary-Treasurer for the ensuing year?<br />
CHIEF SEAMAN Of Wellesley: Mr. President, I should like to put in nomination,<br />
the name <strong>of</strong> the man who has been with us since the <strong>Association</strong> was organized. Then<br />
I move that nominations be closed, and that the President cast one ballot for the<br />
election <strong>of</strong> John W. O’Hearn as our Secretary-Treasurer.<br />
This motion was duly seconded by Chief Graham and others preset.t, and was<br />
carried.<br />
PRESIDENT FORTIER: I have cast the ballot, electing John W. O’Hearn as our<br />
Secretary Treasurer for the ensuing year, and I declare him duly elected to that <strong>of</strong>fice.<br />
SECRETARY O’HEARN: Thank you all, men. I am going to carry on as long" as<br />
I can and as long as you want me to. carry on, a r.d I will do the best I can.<br />
It is time, now, to say thanks for what you have done. And let us make the<br />
membership 1,400 next year. It can be done. We have secured 9.8 new members at<br />
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I Edamco [<br />
Electronic Development and<br />
Manu{acturin9 Co., Inc.<br />
.50 AUSTIN STREET<br />
Winchester 6-3386<br />
DANBURY, CONN.<br />
K-V TRAN~SFORMER CORPORATION"<br />
Telephone DAnbury 3-5531-2-3 .-,<br />
20 EAST FRANKLIN STREET DANBURY, .CONN.<br />
DANBURY<br />
DANBURY<br />
BARDEN CORPORATION<br />
DORAN,.:BROTHERS,<br />
Manufacturers <strong>of</strong> Hat and Special Machinery<br />
,.<br />
CONNECTICUT<br />
....<br />
INC. ~ ’<br />
, ~:: .. : CONNECTICUT<br />
FEDERAL ~WELDING SERVICE, ,Inc..<br />
¯Standard & Special Truck Bodies,<br />
General rVelding & Steel IVork ~ Fire Escapes<br />
FEDERAL ROAD DANBURY, CONNEdTICUT<br />
Telephone 8-308"7<br />
DANBURY<br />
Ho McLACHLAN<br />
:.: ....<br />
.CON NEC.TIlCUT
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
this convention. Five out <strong>of</strong> that number are Chiefs. Now, there must be something<br />
wrong if we cannot get more <strong>of</strong> the Chief’s to. come in. Perhaps each one <strong>of</strong> you<br />
knows some person who does not belbng..<br />
I am quite proud <strong>of</strong> Massachusettsl We Mve about cleai~ed up, all but in the<br />
smaller places that have no Fire Departments, and where some <strong>of</strong> them are taken<br />
care <strong>of</strong> by ether towns. Do you know that we have only two cities .in ~Massachusetts<br />
that are not members. Why that is so, I cannot seem to find out. One fellow was<br />
in for a while. However, we do have every town <strong>of</strong> any size, .and with not more than<br />
one permanent ~member in _many. places. In some cities and towns, the whole Board<br />
<strong>of</strong> Commissi.eners or Engineers are in as members.<br />
Now, if the other States Will do a little missionary wor.k, I think that we will see<br />
results..I know that in Vermont and Maine, there are very many ~mall places, lik~<br />
we have in Massachu’setts. But that $3.00 is small, too. Some <strong>of</strong> those so-called little<br />
fellows can come to these conferences, and get something out <strong>of</strong> them for the benefit<br />
<strong>of</strong> the communities they serve. ..<br />
Some <strong>of</strong> the towns may thinl~ that some <strong>of</strong> the activties that go on, at these<br />
<strong>Conference</strong>s are not what they should be, but I have been following them pretty<br />
clc,sely; it is too bad to have it said that these are nothing but carousels, for I know<br />
tha~ each and every one <strong>of</strong> you sho.uld go home and feel proud <strong>of</strong> the company that<br />
you are keeping here; you don’t have to go home and bow your heads to anybody.<br />
Thank you again, men. (Applause.)<br />
PRESIDENT FORTIER: We ncw come to the election <strong>of</strong> our State Vice-Pr~sidents<br />
and, Board <strong>of</strong> Directors. Whom do you wish to elect from the State <strong>of</strong> Maine for<br />
your State Vice-President, to be also a member <strong>of</strong> the Beard <strong>of</strong> Directors?<br />
CHIEF BILL MummY., Cape Elizabeth: Mr. Presideat, I wish to place the name<br />
Oliver Sanborn. in nomination as the State Vice-President from Maine.<br />
Upon m6tion duly made and secorided, it was VOTED: That the fiominations<br />
be closeg; and that £1~e: .Secretary cast one ballot for the election <strong>of</strong>; Chief Oliver Sari)<br />
bo~:n <strong>of</strong> Portland, Maine as State Vice-President. ¯<br />
(The Sergeant-at-Arms then escortedChief Sanborn up to the platform.).<br />
i: PRESIDENT FOP, TIE~: Nc.minations are now open for a State Vice-President from<br />
<strong>New</strong> Hampshire. ’ . I, --~ ’=
~SW t~NGLAND ASS0ClATI0N OF FII~t~<br />
66 GALEN STREET WATERTOWN 72, MASS.<br />
Phone WAtertown 4.-7650<br />
Cable Address: ARDENTOE, BOSTON<br />
ARDEN.RAYSHINE CO.<br />
Manufacturers <strong>of</strong><br />
Agents Throughout the World<br />
FINE QUALITY BOX TOES AND SPECIALTIES<br />
WATERTOWN, MASS., U.S.A.<br />
Phone WA 4-3407<br />
THROUGH THE COURTESY OF<br />
Sherman. Paper Products Corporation<br />
Telephone.WA 4-7860<br />
NEWTON UPPER FALLS<br />
MORSE-SMITH & MORSE, Inc.<br />
Manutaeturers oJ<br />
Smith-Morse Meter Locks ¯ Firomatic V~dves<br />
"16"5 DEXTER AVE. WATERTOWN 7Z, MASS.<br />
286
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
HENRY W. SAVAGE, INC.<br />
ESTABLISHED OVER 100 YEARS<br />
REALTORS<br />
MORTGAGE LOAN CORRESPONDENTS FOR<br />
PHOENIX MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO.<br />
1397 BEACON STREET ASpinwall 7-1504 BROOKLINE, MASS.<br />
CLIFTON H. CURTIS, Pres.. Trg~3s PAUL R. TUCKER, Vice Pres.<br />
CHIEF THOMAS F. MALLOY, Brookllne, Mass.<br />
MONTROSE an.~ DUNVEGAN- 1648-1654 Massachusett~ Avenue, Cambridge.<br />
TWELVE SEVENTY-SEVEN Commonwealth Avenue, AIIston.<br />
INMAN BUILDING--.59-T65 Massachusetts Avenue, including 2 Inman Street,<br />
Caml~ridge.<br />
~4p~trtments Under Moilagement oJ<br />
CLIFFORD V. MILLER, Inc.<br />
R EA LTORS<br />
1394 BEACON STREET BROOKLINE, MASS.<br />
287
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
THE BEACONSFIELD HOTEL<br />
ARNOLD R. KERRY, Resident Manager<br />
17.-31 BEACO, N STREET<br />
COMPLI MENTS OF<br />
Tel ASpinwall 7-6800<br />
¯<br />
BROOKLINE ~6, MASS.<br />
BROOKLINE FEDERAL~ SAVINGS<br />
AND LOAN ASSOCIATION<br />
1299 BEACON STREET, BROOKLINE, MASS.<br />
Tel. LO 6-6380 ° i<br />
COMPLIMENTS OF<br />
TALLINO’S RESTAURANT<br />
CHESTNUT HILL BROOKLINE, MASS.<br />
Tel. BE 2-0941<br />
Nights and Holidays: LA 7-8250 2.4 Hour Service<br />
ICE CUBE VENDING MACHINE m 44 PEARL STREET<br />
BROOKLINE ICE ~x COAL CO.<br />
ICE ¯COAL . COKE . WOOD RANGEAND FUEL OIL<br />
RANGE ANDPOWER BURNERS<br />
Sales and Service<br />
Full Line oi Electric Appliances and Ranges Trade In<br />
213:: WASHINGTON STREET, BROOKLINE, MASS.<br />
PALMER RUSSELL CO.<br />
=<br />
REALTORS<br />
1320 BEACON ST., BROOKLINE, MASS.<br />
LO 6-6460<br />
FRASER and WALKER, Inc.<br />
Movers and Packers<br />
66 WASHINGTON STREET BROOKLINE VILLAGE, MASS.<br />
Telephone~AS 7-0310 Nights~TR 6-2033<br />
288
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIE!~S<br />
PRESIDENT FOP, TIER: You have heard the nomination <strong>of</strong> Alfred Koltonski <strong>of</strong><br />
Rutland., Vermont, to be_ our State Vice-President @bm Vermont. Are there any<br />
further nominations from the floor?<br />
Upon motion duly made an.d seconded, it was VOTED: That nominations be<br />
closed, and that the Secretary cast one vote for the election <strong>of</strong> Alfred Koltonski as<br />
Vice-President from the State <strong>of</strong> Vermont for the ensuing year.<br />
(After the Secretary .had cast the ballot, and the President declared Chief Kol,<br />
tonski duly dected to the <strong>of</strong>fice <strong>of</strong> Vice-President from Vermont, he was escorted<br />
to the rostrum by the Sergeant,at,Arms.)<br />
CHIEF KOLTO!~8KI: I can only say that I hope I can be around again next year<br />
to take your money away from you! (Applause.)<br />
PP,ESmENT FOP,TIEP,: We now come to the nomination o’f a 8tare Vice-President<br />
from Massachusetts. What is your pleasure?<br />
CHIEF KIMBALL: I wi’sh to place in nomination, the name <strong>of</strong> Chief Thomas H.<br />
Slaman <strong>of</strong> Wellesley to be the Vice;President from the State <strong>of</strong> Massachusetts, and<br />
I move that the nomination be closed and that the Secretary cast one ballot for the<br />
election <strong>of</strong> Chief Slaman to this <strong>of</strong>fice.<br />
This motion was then duly seconded by several <strong>of</strong> the members present.<br />
(The Secretary then cast the ballot, electing ’Chief Slaman to the<strong>of</strong>fice <strong>of</strong> Vice-<br />
President from Massachusetts; President Fortier declared him duly elected, and Chief<br />
Slaman was escorted to the rostrum by the Sergeant-at-Arms.)<br />
CHIEF SLAMAN: Mr. President and members <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Association</strong>. I want to thank<br />
you for this honor; I appreciate it very much, and I will certainly try to carry out<br />
the duties o.f my <strong>of</strong>fi:ce to the best <strong>of</strong> my ability. (Applause.)<br />
PRESIDENT FORTIER: We now come to the nomination <strong>of</strong> a Vice-President from<br />
the State <strong>of</strong> Rhode Island. What is your pleasure?<br />
CHIEF SAVAGE, Valley Fall, s: Mr. President, I should like to place in nomination<br />
the name <strong>of</strong> A. J. Cote, as Vice-President <strong>of</strong> this <strong>Association</strong> from the State o,f Rhode<br />
Island.<br />
PP,ESIDENT FORTIER: You have heard the nomination <strong>of</strong> .Chief Cote. A£e there<br />
any further nominations?<br />
Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was VOTED: That nominations be<br />
dosed and that the Secretary cast c,ne ballot for the election <strong>of</strong> Chief Cote for Vice-<br />
President <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Association</strong> from the State <strong>of</strong> Rhode Island.<br />
(The Secretary cast the ballot; the President declared Chief Cote duly ’elected as<br />
Vice-President from Rhode Island, and, the Sergeant-at-Arms escorted Chief Cote<br />
to the rostrum.)<br />
CHIEF COTE: Khank you all very much! (Applause.)<br />
PRESIDENT FORTIER: We now come to the election c~f a Vice-President from the<br />
State <strong>of</strong> Connecticut, and nominations for that <strong>of</strong>fice are now open. What is your<br />
pleasure?<br />
289
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF IFIR-E-CI-IIEF$<br />
NASH NORTH ADAMS CO.~ INC.<br />
Nash Authorized Sales and Service<br />
Telephone 398 51 West Main Street<br />
NORTH ADAMS MASSACHUSETTS<br />
At the Foot oJ the Mohawk Trail<br />
FLORINI’S GARDEN<br />
Italian.American Specialty Cooking<br />
CORNER CENTER AND HOLDEN STS.<br />
NORTH ADAMS, MASS.<br />
Telephonem739<br />
Products from Florini’s Poultry Farm, East Road, North Adams, Ma~.<br />
:BYRON WESTON COMPANY<br />
Mal~ers oj Papers jot Business Records Since 1863<br />
DALTON, MASS. ~<br />
WILLIAMSTOWN SAVINGS BANK<br />
WALLACE E. GREENE, Treasurer<br />
Compliments <strong>of</strong><br />
~/ILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.<br />
WILLIAMSTOWN NATIONALBANK<br />
MEMBER - F.D.I.C. ~<br />
W ILLAMSTOWN "" "MA~S..<br />
Greenfi,eld Ice l Trucking Co., Inc.<br />
RAYMOND C. PHELPS, Manager<br />
Artificial Ice<br />
Office and Ice Plant: 49 OVERLAND ROAD GREENFIELD, MASS.<br />
290
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
32 WEBSTER STREET<br />
DONOVAN CO., INC,<br />
"Plating on Electronics"<br />
WOburn 2-3079<br />
WOBURN, MASS.<br />
OUR ENTERTAINING MEMBERS: left to right, Lorton C. Walden, Supt. Protective<br />
Dept., Worcester, Mass.; Chief Thomas P. Gorman, Quincy, Mass.; Chief Robert A.<br />
Devlin, "The Candidate," The Monsanto Chemical Company, Everett, Mass.; Chief<br />
Walter R. Messer, Keene, N. H.<br />
291
MILFORD<br />
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
~OXBOROUGH SAVINGS<br />
INCORPORATED - 1855<br />
CORNER SCHOOL AND SOUTH STREETS<br />
FOXBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
BANK<br />
MILFORD SAVINGS BANK<br />
I NCORPORATED 1851 ~<br />
ARCHER RUBBER CO.<br />
MILFORD, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
FOXBORO COAL CO.<br />
LUMBER and BUILDING MATERIALS<br />
HARDWARE - BLUE COAL - FUEL OIL<br />
MASS.<br />
29 WALL ST. FOXBORO, MASS.<br />
Telephone Foxboro 336<br />
The Shortest Thing in the lVorld Is PUBLIC MEMORY!<br />
YOU MUST TELL THEM TO SELL THEM<br />
Advertise ~Vhere Results Are a Realization<br />
THE MILFORD DAILY NEWS<br />
MILFORD, MASS.<br />
THE FOXBORO COMPANY<br />
FOXBORO, MASS.
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
CHIEF THOMAS: Mr. President, I should like to place in nomination the name<br />
<strong>of</strong> Chief Francis Dagon <strong>of</strong> Ea’st Hartford, to be the State Vice~President from Connecticut.<br />
PRESIDENT FOR-TIER:Gentlemen, you have heard the nomination <strong>of</strong> Francis<br />
Dagon <strong>of</strong> East Hartford. Are there any further nominations?<br />
Upon motion duly made and seconded, it was VOTED: That the nominations<br />
be closed, and~ that the Secretary cast one ballot for the election <strong>of</strong> Francis Dagon <strong>of</strong><br />
East Hartford, to be the Vice-President from the State <strong>of</strong> Connecticut.<br />
(The secretary cast the ballot, and the President declared Francis Dagon duly<br />
elected as the Vice-President from the State <strong>of</strong> Connecticut; the Sergeant-at-Arms<br />
then escorted him to the rostrum.)<br />
PRESIDENT FORTIER: That completes the election <strong>of</strong> <strong>of</strong>ficers, gentlemen. _<br />
The next item <strong>of</strong> bu’siness is,to set the salary <strong>of</strong> our Secretary-Treasurer. What<br />
is your ,pleasure?<br />
it is<br />
CHIEF KIMBALL: I move that the Secretary’s salary for next year be the same as<br />
this year, $1,~00.00.<br />
This motion was duly seconded by many <strong>of</strong> the members present and was carried.<br />
PRESID~.N~ FORTIER: I have a few appointments to make, here.<br />
As Sergeant-at-Arms, I reappoint William J. Dooling.<br />
As Press Photographer, I reappoint Andrew P. Palmer <strong>of</strong> Woon~ocket.<br />
As Technical Consultant, I reappoint Roi B. Woolley <strong>of</strong> <strong>New</strong> York.<br />
As the <strong>of</strong>ficial photographer, I reappoint Lieutenant Edward J. Carroll <strong>of</strong> Brookline.<br />
As Chaplains, I appoint Reverend Michael Collins o.f Dorchester and Reverend<br />
John P. Fit~simmons <strong>of</strong> Belmont. -<br />
Now, just before we close our meeting, I see that Major Smith has come into the<br />
hall here, and I am going to ask him to say a few words to you.<br />
MAJOR JAMES BARKER SMITH: Mr. President and members <strong>of</strong> the <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong><br />
<strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs. Your Sergeant-at-Arms has just conveyed to me the welcome<br />
news that you will be back with us next year, which, <strong>of</strong> course, is about the happiest<br />
information that I could get on this wonderful day.<br />
I don’t think that I have to reiterate the close bond that we feel we have with the<br />
Fire Chiefs.<br />
But do you know it is interesting, the only way that I can tell that you have been<br />
here for eight years is, <strong>of</strong> course, because you fellows lock exactly like you did seven<br />
years ago, that my youngster is growing up. I can recall the first year thdt you were<br />
here; they put him up on a table and put a Chief’s hat oh him; however, the hat still<br />
fits!<br />
I just want to say that it is a grand pleasure to have you with us. Your <strong>Conference</strong><br />
here is something that we always lock forward, to and I was very much interested the<br />
ocher day, when I met a couple <strong>of</strong> Chiefs, ,sitting on the lower veranda, and one <strong>of</strong><br />
them said :<br />
293
SPRAG U E ELECTRIC ::CO MPANY<br />
NORTH ADAMS<br />
ManuJacturers oJ Electrical Components<br />
NORTH ADAMS, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
WALL STREETER SHOE<br />
M.nufacture,s <strong>of</strong>MEN’S FINE SHOEs<br />
FOOT PALS for MEN ~ STYL-EEZ for MEN<br />
Esleeck Manufacturin9 Company~<br />
Thin Papers<br />
TURNERS FALLS, MASS.<br />
ARCHITECTURAL STONE CO.<br />
TURNERS FALLS<br />
CAST STONE<br />
Montague Rod and Reel Company<br />
MONTAGUE CITY<br />
JAMES T. HUNTER, President<br />
JAMES H. HUNTER, Vice President<br />
Greenfield 5453<br />
MASSACHUSETTS<br />
MASSACHUSETTS<br />
RICHARD A. HUNTER, Vice President<br />
CARL W. KEMP, Treasurer<br />
JAMES HUNTER MACHINE COMPANY<br />
NORTH ADAMS MASSACHUSETTS<br />
Telephone 6 .....<br />
294 -
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CttIEFS<br />
’"The hotel looks very nice this year."<br />
I said I thought it did, and he said to me:<br />
"You know, I always drive up here sometime during the winter, to take a look<br />
at it, because it reminds me <strong>of</strong> the good times I ihave had here."<br />
Gentlemen, I wish you all the best <strong>of</strong> luck, and I’ll see you all in June, 19~4!<br />
PRESIDENT FORTIER: Thank you very much, Mr.Smith.<br />
Is there any further business to come before this meeting?<br />
If not, then a motion is in order to adjourn.<br />
CHIEF KIMBALL: Mr. Presid’ent, I move that we adjourn.<br />
This motion was duly seconded and was carried.<br />
(Whereupon, the <strong>31st</strong> <strong>Annual</strong> <strong>Conference</strong> .c,f, t_h.e <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> <strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
Fire Chiefs was adjourned at 11:30 o’clock in the forenoon, on June 2~, _19~3.)<br />
COMPLIMENTS OF<br />
JOSEPH L. MURPHY<br />
Fire Fighting Equipment<br />
SCHOOL STREET BRIDGEWATER, MASS.<br />
Telephone Bridgewater 92_0<br />
AMERICAN bv#OOLEN COMPANY<br />
IN~:OP, PORATI~I)<br />
WEBSTER MILLS<br />
WEBSTER MASS.<br />
~95:
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
ROBERT GILLI:::SPIF::: COMPANY<br />
ManuJacturers oJ Cranes, Hoists, Dumbwaiters, Ash Hoists<br />
Phone Ware 151 -W<br />
WARE, MASS.<br />
Best Wishes jrom_<br />
S~:anley Home Producf.s, Inc.<br />
WESTFIELD-EASTHAM PTON, MASS.<br />
~Originators oj the Famous<br />
Stanley Hostess Party Plan"<br />
WARE FOUNDRY~ INC.<br />
Gray lron~ Semi.Steel and Special Alloy Castings<br />
COMPLIMENTS OF<br />
WARE<br />
WARE, MASS.<br />
JANE DRESS COMPANY<br />
WARE, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
WARE MILLINERY CO.<br />
ManuJacturers oJ Ladies’ Hats<br />
Vitrified Wheel Company<br />
GRINDING WHEELS<br />
WESTFIELD, MASS.<br />
296<br />
MASSACHUSETTS
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEF~<br />
MAINE<br />
.&dams, Philip S., Chief, 11 East Broadway, Lincoln<br />
A!den, Elton D., Asst. Chief, Gotham<br />
Allen, Curtis S., Chief, Sanford<br />
Allen, Earl J., Chief, S. D. Warren Co., Cumberland Mills<br />
Anderson, Edwin A., Chief, Thomaston.<br />
Avery, Fred R., Asst. Chief, Brewe~<br />
Benn, Lewis F., Chief, Easton<br />
Black, George W., Ex-Chief, Easton<br />
Blanchard, Donald N., Fire Hose and Equipment, Winthrop<br />
Bonney, W. L., Ex-Asst. Chief, Bath<br />
Bragg, Harold M., Chief, Cumberland Center<br />
Byers, Henry C., Eastern Fire Equipment Co., Portland<br />
Carll, Willis G., Chief, Gorham<br />
Chadwick, Albert, Chief, Augusta<br />
Chaples, Henry F., Chief, Belfast<br />
Clifford, William H., 3rd., Morse, Payson ~ Noyes, Insurance, ~7 Exchange St.,<br />
Portland<br />
Denison, Clifford D., Asst. Chief, Harrison<br />
Dodge, Harold A., Chief, 19 West St., Boothbay Harbor<br />
Doucette, Reginald, Deputy Chief, 127 Horton St., Lewiston<br />
Drouin, Z. F., Chief, Lewiston<br />
Dulac, Donald A., Chief, Brunswick Naval Air Station, R.F.D.. 1, River Road,<br />
Brun, swick<br />
Eldridge, John S., Asst. Chief, Naval Air Station, Brunswick<br />
Eldridge, William F., Firefighter, U. S. Nav. Air. Sta., Brunswick<br />
Elms, William, Captain, Naval Air Station, Brunswick<br />
Emmons, Arthur M., Chief, Saco ~<br />
Fay, David L., 23 Boody St., Brunswick<br />
Finch, Ralph B., 466 Woodford Street, Portland<br />
F1ynn, Joseph A. P., State Fire Marshal, State Capitol, Augusta<br />
Frates, Richard, Chief, 12 North St. Bath<br />
Freeman, Harlan D., Chief, So.uth Wind,ham<br />
Getchell, Russell, Chief, Caribou<br />
Gibson, Ralph S., Chief, York Beach<br />
Good, Garth L., Ex-Fire Marshal, Aroostook Couty, Mars Hill<br />
Goold Henr~r D., Chief, P.O. Box, West Scarboro<br />
Haddock, La-~ir~nce E., Eastern Fire Protection Co., Lewiston<br />
Hall, Allan W., Eastern Fire Equipment Co., 121 Main St., Yarm’outh<br />
Jones, Stephen R., American LaFrance -- Foamite Corp., 16 Denny Road, Bath<br />
Jose, Horace S., Chief, So. Portland<br />
King, Arthur, Chief,_Biddeford<br />
Kittredge, Russell, Pier Rd., Cape Porpoise<br />
Knowles, Charles E., Chief, Westbrook<br />
Lang, Harold D., Box ~48, Portland<br />
297
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
G. SPALDING & BROS.<br />
INCORPORATED<br />
Athletic Goods Manujacturers<br />
CHICOPEE, MASS.<br />
Comp~ime,,ts <strong>of</strong><br />
HOTEL NORTHAMPTON<br />
AND<br />
WIGGINS OLD TAVERN<br />
NORTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
Traditionally Fine Food<br />
Compliments <strong>of</strong><br />
The Chapman Valve Manufacturing<br />
Company<br />
INDIAN ORCHARD, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
SPRINGFIELD<br />
Fire and Marine Insurance Company<br />
SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
Chartered 1849<br />
WILLIAM. A.. HEBERT, President<br />
Caslr C~apital, $7,000,000.00<br />
298
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~NEW ENGLAND ~.SSOCIATIoN OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
Maguire, Percy W., Maine Fire Equipment. Co., .21 Moody St., Lewiston<br />
Marley Jbhhi,F., Togus Fire Dept., Gardincr~ .. _ ¯ ~ .. ’<br />
Marshall~ Harry, Chief, Springvale<br />
Mercier, Solomon A., Chief, Rumford<br />
Miller, Arvflle, Firefighter, U. S. Nay. Air. Sta., Main St., Topsham<br />
Miller, J. Coleman, Chief, 1~8 Court.St., Auburn<br />
Moody Donald A., Chief, Wdl.s Beach<br />
Morse, Scott Ex-Chief, 1~ Andrews Rd., Bath<br />
Murray, Cl.inton H., Chief, Cape Eliz:abeth<br />
Murray, Gordon M., Chief, 8aco Lowell 8hops, Biddeford<br />
Nelligan, John J., Chief, Bangor<br />
Nickerson, Harold E., C’hief, Brunswick ................<br />
Noyes, Erlon. S., Eastern. Fire Equipment Inc., 403"4W Fo_re St., Portland<br />
Nutter, Robert, Deputy Chief, Pleasant Hill Fire’ Co., Scarboro<br />
O’Keefe, William Jr., Chief, Box 133, No. Vassalboro<br />
Paradise Wilfred E., Asst. Chief, 34 Ch, arden St., Skowhega,_n<br />
Payson, Allen F., Chief, Camden<br />
Perry, James. A., Firefighter, U. S. Nay. Air. Sta., Brunswick<br />
Peters, Edward L., Chief, Orono<br />
Picard, Allen M., Chief Millinocket<br />
Porter, Harry L., 40 East Elm St., Yarmouth<br />
Redman, Robert Gayland, Chief, Buck,sport<br />
Reid, Robert A., Chief, 31 Harlow St., Brewer<br />
Rochleau, Win. H., Ex-Chief, 66 Longly Rd., Westbrook<br />
Rogers, Roland D., Supt. Fire Alarm, E. Machias<br />
Russell, Van E., Chief, Rockland<br />
Sanborn, Oliver T., Chief, Portland<br />
Scott, Thomas J., Chief, Alfred<br />
8eavey, Clifford D., Chief, Kennebunkport<br />
81eeper, A. Eugdn.e, 49 Blake St., Presque Isle<br />
81eeper, David A., Chief, Bar Harbor<br />
Small, J. Bauer, Chief, Farmington<br />
Smith, Guy F., Chief, Houlton<br />
Smith, Luther M., 281 Wilson St., Brewer<br />
Strong, Albert.E, 16 West Elm, St., Yarmouth<br />
8turtevant, Roy W., Ex-Chief, Box 14, York Village<br />
Thornhill, Waiter P., Chief, 8kowhegan<br />
Treffery, H. H., Presque Isle<br />
Trefry, A. W., Hotel Eastland, Portland<br />
Tremblay, Edward J., Motorola, Inc., Mexico<br />
Turner, 8tanley C., Chief, Bath Iron Works Corp., Bath<br />
Verderber, Ernest, Deputy Chief, 107 Holland St., Lewiston<br />
Watkins, Albert, Chief, 8outh Berwick<br />
Whitman, Fernald D., Chief, Dover-Foxcr<strong>of</strong>t<br />
Whitngy, Raymond C., Chief, Wilton<br />
Woodward, Bradford, Forest Warden, York Beach<br />
,:..:-.~ Woodward~-Roy-T., Firefighter, U. S. Naval-Air Sta-.,:Brtmgwiek<br />
299
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
THE L. S. STARRETT COMPANY<br />
ATHOL, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
World’s Greatest Toolmakers<br />
U.S.A.<br />
UNION TWIST DRILL CO.<br />
S. W. CARD MFG. CO., DIVISION - MANSFIELD, MASS.<br />
BUTTERFIELD DIVISION - DERBY LINE, VT. AND ROCK ISLAND, QUEBEC<br />
Twist Drill~ . ~eamers . Gear & Milling Cutters . ltobs<br />
Taps . Dies & Screw Plates . Carbide Tools<br />
ATHOL, MASSACHUSETTS, U.S.A.<br />
CABLE ADDRESS "UNDRILL"<br />
Ground from the Solid<br />
JOHN BATH & COMPANY<br />
INCORPORATED<br />
Ground Thread Taps . Plug Thread Gages . Ring Thread Gages<br />
Super Internal Micrometers . Master Reference Rings<br />
Commercial Thread Grindings<br />
18 GRAFTON STREET WORCESTER 8, MASS.<br />
Loddin:~ Engineerin9 Corporation<br />
WORCESTER MASSACHUSETTS<br />
300
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
NEW HAMPSHIRE<br />
Alieff, H. Howard, Fireward, Tilton<br />
Bailey, Ralph, Asst. Chief, Rumney ~<br />
Bartlett, G. Herbert, Asst. Chief, !3 Harvard St., Exeter<br />
Belden, Theodore H., Motorola, Inc., Franklin<br />
Berquist, Oscar B., Chief, Berlin<br />
Boomhower, Leslie, Chief, Franklin<br />
Bort, Eoren Chief, Monroe<br />
Brown, Philip N., Captain, Fire Dept., Milford<br />
Butler, James H., Ex,Chief, 1~ Preble St., Dover<br />
Caron, Edward A., Ex-Chief, 21 Indigo Hill Rd., Somersworth<br />
Cass, Ralph W., Chief, Plymouth<br />
Clancy, Thomas W., Chief, Dover<br />
Clark, Paul W., Chief, 14 Kimball St., Leban.on<br />
Cogan, George T., Ex-Chief, Portsmouth<br />
Cote, Philip T. J., Chief, Gorh~m<br />
Cote, Victor, Fire Commissioner, 112 B!cssom Street, Nashua<br />
Covieo, Arthur A., Fireward, Tilton<br />
Coyle, Arthur W., 163 Myrtle St., Manchester<br />
Crompton, Frederick R., Chief, Portsmouth<br />
Crowell, Loring A., Former Chief Bremen F. D., 221 Circuit Rd., Portsmouth<br />
.Crowell, Wendell D., Ex-Asst. ’Chief, Hancock Fire Dept., Tilton<br />
Crowley, Roger, Ex-Chief International Shoe C., Manchester<br />
Daigle, Henry J., Asst. Chief, Lebanon<br />
Daniels, Arthur L., Deputy Chief, Amherst<br />
Dansereau, E. J., Chief, Claremont<br />
Deacon, Howard B., Nat’l Forest Fire Warden, Rumney<br />
Dodge, Fred M., Penacook<br />
Doudera, Cap~. Frank, Fire Commissioner, Dixville Notch .<br />
Driscoll, John J., Asst. Chief, ~ Messenger St., Lebanon<br />
Ely, Wm. B.., Chief Auxiliary Fire Dept., Pittsfield<br />
Follensbee, Lester A., Chief, Lebanon<br />
Foss, Guy L., Chief, Wolfeboro<br />
Fremeau, Edward F., Asst. Chief, Shipyard F. D., Portsmouth.<br />
French, Floyd E., Chief, Ru.mney<br />
Garner, S. Bronson, Ex-Fire Commissioner, Alton, Box 137, Wolfeboro<br />
Girouard, Robert F., Fire Commissioner, 11 Cedar St., Nashua<br />
Gray, William, Deputy Chief, ~37 Central St., Manchester<br />
Green, Clarence H., Chief, Concord<br />
Guevin, G. Napoleon, Chief, Manchester<br />
Guiggey, John H., 13 .Winnepesaukee St., Franklin<br />
Gunn, Theodore W., Engineer Board <strong>of</strong> N. H. Fire Underwriters, Concord, N. H.<br />
Guyette, Samuel J., Ca13tain, Keene<br />
Hale, Glenn H., Chief, Conway<br />
Harvey, Armstrong B., Chief, Plymouth<br />
Holden, John E., Chief, <strong>New</strong>ington ....<br />
Hollis, Guy O., Dist. Fire Chief, Antrim
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FItLE CHIEFS<br />
COOK BUILDERS’ SUPPLY COMPANY<br />
Dealers in Masons ~ Supplies<br />
8SO MEMORIAL IAVENUE,~ WEST SPRINGFIELD, MASS.<br />
T~lephone 2~3193<br />
ERNEST F,_~CARLSON, I-INC. ~<br />
~ENER~4:L CONTRACTORS ....<br />
SPRINGFIELD, MASS.<br />
Hart Top Manufacturing Company, Inc.<br />
Wool Combers and Scourers<br />
OFFI CE PLANT<br />
222 SUMMER STREET APPLETON STREET<br />
BOSTON 10, MASSACHUSETTS HOLYOKE, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
Liberty 2-1-/75 Holyoke 2-3414<br />
COMPLIMENTS OF<br />
W. A. FULLER<br />
LEOM I NSTER<br />
LUMBER COMPANY MASS.<br />
The Merchants National Bank<br />
o~ Leominster " "- "<br />
LEOM I NSTER ...... MASSACH USETTS<br />
Member<br />
FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM<br />
,. FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORP.<br />
LEOMINSTER<br />
Leominster Federal Savings<br />
and Loan <strong>Association</strong><br />
1302<br />
"" MASSACH{JSETTS<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
Howe, Harold W., Chief, Bow (Voluiateer Fi}e Department)<br />
Hutchinson, Paul N., Chief, Milford<br />
Hyde, Clare’nce E., Chief, Hi-Mar F. D., Webster, N. H., R.F.D. 1, Warner<br />
Jache, William F., Chief, International Shoe ’Co., 217 Rosedale St., Manchester<br />
Jenkins, Ernest A., Inspector, State Fire Marshal’s Office, R. F. D. 2, Manchester<br />
Jenness, Danel W., Portsmouth Naval F..D., 19~ State St., Portsmouth ~~<br />
Jordan, Roy A., Chief, Northfield F. D., 11 H!gh St.; Tilton -: ~ ....<br />
Lamott, George H., Chief, I-Ia.mpton Beach ................<br />
Lavoie, Henry, Chief, Allenstown<br />
Lessard, Albert M., Chief, 6~ Ma.p.le St., Somersworth<br />
Lessard, Richard A., 1~ Portland St., Somersworth<br />
Madden, James C., Deputy Chief, 6 .Moody St., Derry ,..:-’<br />
McLane, Ellingwood, Member Fire Dept., Milford<br />
Mercier, Moise H., Supt. Fire Alarm, 17~ Franklin St., Franklin<br />
Messer, Walter R., Chief, Keene<br />
Molloy, Anthony J., Chief, Nashua<br />
Morin, Arthur J., Chief, Derry<br />
Nadeau, Arthur J., Supt. Fire Alarm, Somersworth<br />
Norwood, Edgar A., Deputy Chief, Milford<br />
Nott, Carlton H., Chief, 22A School St., Hanover<br />
O’Neill, John J., Dep. Chief, Dover<br />
Page, Charles N., Post Road, North Hampton<br />
Pitney, C. E., Chief Fire Dept., U. S. Naval Base, Portsmouth<br />
Plummer, George E., Fireward, Tilton .....<br />
Priest, Leon W., Deputy Chief, East Jaffrey<br />
Putne3r, Philip N., Seagrave Corp., 208 Webster St.; Manchester<br />
Randall, Maurice F., Chief, Warner<br />
Reed, Fred W., Forest Fire Warden~ 22 Bridge St., Pittsfield<br />
Robinson, Aubrey G., State Fire Mar.shal, Manchester<br />
Robinson, ~Chester T., Ex-Chief, Suncook<br />
Robinson, George E., Sa.muel Eastman Co., Concord<br />
Robinson, J. Westly, Chief; Loudon<br />
Rochford, David J., Chief, Peterborough<br />
Sargent, Merle, Chief, Laconia<br />
Scott, Edward F., President Scott Machinery, Inc., 1 Railroad Sq., Concord<br />
Seavey, Ralph ’G., Chief, Rochester<br />
Sirnes, William G., Chief, Kingston<br />
Simpson, Henry E., Member Fire Department, Rumney<br />
Simpson, Ray M., Chief, 29~ Court St., Exeter<br />
Smith, Albert M., Asst. Chief, Collins St., Seabrook<br />
Smith, Lawrence E., Chief Vol. Fire Dept., North Haverhill<br />
Soucy, Ro’bert, Fire Commissioner,273 Lake St., Nashua .....<br />
Sprague, V. Albert, Chief, Meredith<br />
Stearns, D. Howard, Chief, Charlestown<br />
St. Peter, Leonder J., Chief, and, State Forest Warden, Harrisville<br />
Stone, Lloyd H., Chief, Webster Fire Dept., Warner<br />
Swain, Howard E., Supervisor, Trade & Ind. Education, Dept. Education, Concord<br />
Trem.blay, Philip C., Chief, East Jaffrey . ..... : ....<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
FARRELL & GREGORY<br />
Steel Erection. Rigging<br />
Crane Service -Electric and Oxy-Acetylene Welding - Millwrights<br />
814 EAST STREET PITTSFIELD, MASS.<br />
R. M. O’CONNELL, Inc.<br />
AuthorLzed Distributor o/ GE Oil Fired Automatic Heating<br />
10-/ SOUTH STREET PITTSF I ELD, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
Dial 7384 or 7385<br />
DODGE CONSTRUCTION CO.<br />
Mason and Building Contractors<br />
52 SOUTH CHURCH STREET PITTSFIELD, MASS.<br />
Telephone 4713<br />
THE PITTSFIELD<br />
PITTSFIELD<br />
CO-OPERATIVE BANK<br />
FRANK INDUSTRIES<br />
Manuiacturers o! Electronic Components<br />
MASSACHUSETTS<br />
19 JACKSON STREET WORCESTER 8, MASS.<br />
Telephone 7-6547<br />
WORCESTER MACHINE PRODUCTS<br />
Screw Machine Products<br />
19 JACKSON STREET WORCESTER 8, MASS.<br />
Tel. 6-6988<br />
304
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
West, Vernon F., Chief, North Sutton<br />
Whitney, Everett A., Fire Commissioner, 27 Burnitt Street, Nashua<br />
Whitney, Herbert L., State Fire Marshal’s Office, Concord<br />
Windhorn, Charles H., 6 School Street, Woodsville<br />
Woods, Her, m’an S., Deputy Chief, Peterborough<br />
Young, Lawrence A., Chief, Boscawer~<br />
VERMONT<br />
Bassen, Henry J., Chief, Pownal<br />
Baumann, William H., Commissioner <strong>of</strong> Public Safety, Montpelier<br />
Becker, Charles, Chief, South Shaftsbury<br />
Bell, Donald, Chief, Cambridgeport<br />
Blanchard, Ernest C., Deputy Chief, Bellows Falls<br />
Bristol, Fordyce W., Chief, 2f West Main St., Vergennes<br />
Brown, Eugene, Chief, Fort Ethan Allen Fire Dept., Ft. Ethan Allen<br />
Burrows, Leon, Chief, Brattleboro<br />
Burr, Earl C., Ex-Chief, Enosburg Falls<br />
Gaul, Harold A. Chief, 62 Seymour Street, Middlebury<br />
Duso, C. J., Chief, Enos.burg Falls<br />
Gunther, Paul It., Chief, 48 La Fountain. St., Winooski<br />
Hamilton, Joseph S., Chief, Veterans Administration, White River Jct<br />
Hartwell, Harry H., Captain, Bellows Falls<br />
Hoisington, Trafton W., Dep. Chief, Windsor<br />
Holmes, Richard C., Chief, Windsor<br />
Hoyt, Paul C., Rev., ~ Howard St., Brattleboro<br />
Jordan, Miland H., Chief; 96 Main St., Springfield<br />
Keefe, John E., Chief, Bellows Falls<br />
Kellogg, Charles G., Chief, Benson<br />
Kingsbury, Harold H., Chief, Norwich<br />
Kirby, Chester M., Deputy Fire Marshal, Montpelier<br />
Kokoras, Charles, Chief, North Pownal<br />
Koltonski, Alfred H., Chief, Rutland<br />
Koltonski, Patricia, 37 Crescent St., Rutland<br />
LaFrancis, Roy, Chief, Wallingford<br />
Lawson, Sidney F., Chief, Montpelier<br />
MacDonald, Roy, Chief, Barre<br />
Marsette, Henry G., Chief, ~ Marble Street, Brandon<br />
Ma~an, Walter V., State Director Civil Defense, Montpelier<br />
Miller, George B., Chief, Danby<br />
Mooney, Gordon R., Chief, 4 Court Square, <strong>New</strong>por~<br />
<strong>New</strong>ton, C. A., Four Wheel Drive Auto Co., 47 East State St., Montpelier<br />
Paige, Eric E., Chief, Woodstock<br />
Patch, Robert, Chief, Pittsford<br />
Raymond, Albert H., Chief, Stowe<br />
Walker, Francis, Asst. Chief, Bennington<br />
Whitney, Fred L., Ex-Ch{ef, Bethel, P. O. Box 94,-Ran-dolph<br />
Willard, Edward, Chief, Grafton
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
SMITH BROS. COAL & OIL CO., Inc.<br />
172_ VgEST STREET<br />
Dial 7-396 - 7-397<br />
PITTSFIELD, MASS.<br />
Berkshire Air-Conditioning Company, Inc.<br />
Division <strong>of</strong> Chrysler Corporation<br />
168 SOUTH STREET<br />
CHRYSLER AIRTEMP<br />
PITTSFIELD, MASS.<br />
EAGLE MACHINE AND TOOL CO.<br />
Too~s . Dies - Fixtures<br />
TWO-SEVENTEEN AND A HALF FOURTH STREET PITTSFIELD, MASS.<br />
Telephone Z-,3071<br />
KNAPP OIL CORP.<br />
Sole Distributors for Central and Southern Berltshire<br />
<strong>of</strong> Richfield Petroleum Products<br />
Distributors for Berkshire County <strong>of</strong> Lee Tires and Batteries<br />
PITTSFIELD, MASS.<br />
2-39 WEST HOUSATONIC STREET<br />
Mail Address: Box 229<br />
Telephone 2-_3189 - Nights, Sun., 2-1552-<br />
Hampden Na~:io,nal Bank & Trust Co.<br />
OF WESTFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
ROBBINS-GAMWELL CORPORATION<br />
PITTSFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
306
NEW ENGLAND A,S’SOCIATION ~OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
MASSACHUSETTS,<br />
Abel, Henry F., Ex-Chief, Westwood<br />
Adams, John F., Chief, Milford<br />
Adams, John S., Chief, 2 Ocean. Ave,. Marblehead<br />
Aikman, Lewis R., 43 Horne Rd., Bel,mont<br />
Al~-rting Systems, Inc., 227 California St., <strong>New</strong>ton<br />
Alger, Fred B., Seagrave Corp., 119 So. Main. St., Middleboro<br />
Allen, Edgar W., Chief, Medfielct<br />
Ames, Walter F., Dist. Mgr., Edwards CQ., Inc,, Norwalk, Conn., 10 High St.,<br />
Boston ¯ - "<br />
Anderson, Samuel A., 622 Huron Ave., Cambridge<br />
Andrews,. Milton. C., Chief, <strong>New</strong> Bedford<br />
Angler, Everett L., Gamewell Fire Alarm Co., <strong>New</strong>ton Upper Falls<br />
Arnold, Kenneth C., 101-7-Canterbury St., Roslindale _<br />
Atherly, Samuel W., Chief, Ipswich<br />
Atwood, Elmer F., Eggleston Supply C9. , 2~ 3 Franklin St., Boston<br />
Babson, Roger W., ~6 Whi’ting Road, Wellesley Hills 82<br />
Backman, HenryW., 160 Weston Street,-Waltham<br />
Bacon, F. S:, Jr.,. 24 Central St., Winchester<br />
Baggs, M. C., Ex_;Chief, Belchertown<br />
Bailey, Herbert L., 31 Ridge Road, Reading<br />
Baker, Clifton L., Jr., Chief, Hol’brook<br />
Barker, Horace R., 87 Sherman St., Springfi.eld, Samuel Eastman Co.<br />
Barnes, Harold A., 42 Ellis St., Brockton<br />
Barron, Robert W., Member Fire Dept., Tewksbury<br />
Bartley, Louis J., Chief, 35 Congress St., Ames,bury<br />
Basch, Bernard J., 210 Winthrop Shc,re Drive, Winthrop<br />
Batchelder, Fred M., Company, 120 Harrison Ave., Boston<br />
Bates, T. Drew, Chief, South Hanover<br />
Bean, Benjamin .M., Chief, Methuen<br />
Beaupre, Augustus J., 74 Central Ave., Hyde Park<br />
Be&with, Fred N., Executive Secy., Oil Heat Institute <strong>of</strong> N. E., 839 Beacon St.,<br />
Boston<br />
Belknap, Harry, 1110 Beacon St., Brookline<br />
Bel.more, Arthur, Ex-Chief, Webster<br />
Bemis, Raymond P., Asst. Chief, Medway<br />
Bennett, Arthur L., 1~2 D’al~0n Road, Chelmsfb}~t<br />
Betg;:J~hn U., Ttie Bete Fog Nozzle Company, 278---Main-’Set-eet;-Greenfield<br />
Bigelg~,:; goger G., Chief, Lunenburg. ¯ ¯<br />
Bills~L~i~sJ W., Supt. Fire Alarm, Lexington<br />
Bi~d,iRuF~gii.X,-Rhssell A. Bird6 ~ Corn)any, 608 Washington St., Abington<br />
Bishrop, Gl~ay.tot~W...; Chief, Onset .....<br />
Blake, William:~E., Chief Army Base Fire Dept., 600 Summer St., Boston<br />
Blatchford, Lorir~g B., Chief, Gl.oucester<br />
Bliss, William C., Chief, 61 Pine St., Seekonk<br />
]?lois, W. C., Ex-Chief, Westboro<br />
Blo,=o_d, Geo. Leslie, Ex-Chief, Great Rd., Littleton<br />
307
366 MERRILL RD.<br />
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
CLIFFORD M. GOODRICH<br />
Cabinet and Millwork - Textolite Counter Tops<br />
Telephone 80"]4<br />
PITTSFIELD, MASS.<br />
CARROLL, VERGE & WHIPPLE, Inc.<br />
General Contractors<br />
Engineers<br />
P ITTSF I ELD MASSACH U SETTS<br />
B~rkshir~ PlumBin9 & H~atin9 Company<br />
Guardians <strong>of</strong> I~our Health and Comfort<br />
Plumbing and Heating for Home or Industry - Home Appliances<br />
Designers and Creators <strong>of</strong> Distinctive Custom Kitchens<br />
300 TYLER STREET PITTSFIELD, MASS.<br />
Tel. 2_-621.7<br />
34 NORTH STREET<br />
STEVENSON & CO., lnco,<br />
ESTABLISHED 186"7<br />
General Insurance<br />
PITTSFIELD, MASS.<br />
AMERICAN ABRASIVE COMPANY<br />
INCORPORATED<br />
General Offices and Factories<br />
GARDNER, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
WESTFIELD, MASS.<br />
Permanent Exhibits<br />
CHICAGO, ILL. - NEW YORK, N. Y.<br />
Furniture Mart Furniture Exchange<br />
666 Lake Shore Drive 206 Lexington Ave.<br />
KANSAS CITY, MO. SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.<br />
Kansas City Mdse. Mart Western Mdse. Mart<br />
SEATTLE, WASH.<br />
615 Terminal Sales Bldl~.<br />
~08<br />
BABY CARRIAGES<br />
STROLLERS. HIGH CHAIRS<br />
IUVENILE FURNITURE
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
Boland, John W., Chief, Southboro<br />
Bona% E. Ralph, Special Agt., Nat’l Board <strong>of</strong> Fire Underwriters, 17 Howard St.,<br />
Belmont<br />
Borden, John W., Ex-Chief, Swansea<br />
Boudreau, Arthur J., Chief, Wilmington<br />
Bourgeoise, Mark J., ’Chief, East Longmeadow<br />
Box ~2 <strong>Association</strong>, Inc., Freelon Morris, Treas., 131 Upland Rd., Cambridge<br />
Bradley, George C., Chief, Mattapoisett<br />
Braga, A. M., Ex-Chief, Camp Myles Standish, 22 Lawrence St., Taunton<br />
13reck, Robert G., Chief, Longmeadow<br />
Brecken, John W., Chief, Marlboro ’<br />
Brennan, Ralph A., Dr., Ex-Fire Comm., Holyoke<br />
B~:iggs, Eben N., Chief, Duxbury<br />
Briggs, Loyed, Justin A. McCarthy Co., 176 Federal St., Boston,<br />
Brown, Lyman G., Chief, Natick<br />
Brown, Norman S., Farrar Co., Hopkinton, 433 Union Ave., Framingham<br />
Buchan, Charles E., Chief, Andover<br />
Buchanan, L. B., Ex-Chief, 10 Bennett St., Woburn<br />
Buck, Lawrence A., Deputy Chief, ~ Draper Ave., Mansfield<br />
Bugbee, Percy, Mgr. Director, N.F.P.A., 60 Batterymarch St., Boston<br />
Burgess, Warren L., Deputy Chief, Somerset<br />
Burke, Thomas F., Chief, Pittsfield<br />
Burton, Wesley Hi, Capt., Rescue Squad, Plainville<br />
Bush, James, Deputy Chief, Lee "<br />
Business Statistics Organization, Inc., Charles J. McCullough, Treas., 90 Broad St.,<br />
Babson Park ~7, Mass.<br />
Calhoun, W. J., 403 Sherman St., Canton<br />
Callahan, J. E., Chief, Winchester<br />
Campbell, Luther B., Dist. Chief, 64 Archer St., Lynn<br />
Caoue~e, Ernest C., Chief, Fitchburg<br />
Carey, John H., Ex-Fire Commissioner, Bennett Building, Fall River<br />
Carey, Leo F., Anchor Post Fence Company, 40 Needham St., <strong>New</strong>ton Highlands<br />
Carpenter, A. Warrens, Chief Charlton Fire Dept., Box. 61, Charhon<br />
Carroll, Edward J., Lieutenant, Brookline<br />
Carroll, William J., President Rockwood Sprinkler Co., 36 Harlow St., Worcester<br />
Carter, Frank H., Depu.ty Chief, Box 1~7 Wayland<br />
Cartwrigh% Archibald, Chief, Nantucket<br />
Casavant, James F., Chief, Gardner<br />
Case, Arthur B., Chief, ’Granville<br />
Casey, John L., Ex-Chief, Abington<br />
Cavanaugh, George A., Chief, Amherst<br />
Chandler, William, Capt. Fire Dept., Tewksbury<br />
Charnock, P. C., Mgr., <strong>New</strong>. Eng. Fire Ins. Rating Asso., 89 Broad St., Boston<br />
Chisholm, Robert S., Boston Coupling Co., 293 Congress St., Bcston<br />
Church, George, Ex-Acting Chief, 1697 Cambrid~ge St., Cambridge<br />
Clapp, George V., Ex-Chief, Paxton<br />
Clark, Harold B., Chief, Foxbor0; Mass.<br />
Clark, Kenneth R., Asst. Chief, Medtleld<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
COMPLIMENTS OF<br />
P~tricca Construction Company<br />
Transit-Mixer Concrete Corp.<br />
General Sand & Stone Corp.<br />
PITTSFIELD, MASS.<br />
¯<br />
WYANDOTTE WORSTED<br />
PITTSF! ELD, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
ESTABLISHED 1835<br />
B~rkshir~ Mutual Fir~ Insurance Company<br />
PITTSFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
KARL GREENE, President<br />
310
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION ,OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
Clark, L. N., Lieut., 29 Richardson St., <strong>New</strong>ton<br />
Clark, Wm M., King St., West Hanover<br />
Clark, Wm. W., Ex-Chief, 9 Morris-Ave., Westfield<br />
Clougherty, Charles H., Fire Equipment ~ SuppLies, 39 Miller St., Mediield<br />
Clougherty, John E., Dist. Chief, B.F.D.,.94 Washington St., Charlestown<br />
Coakley, John J., Chief, Nahant<br />
C<strong>of</strong>fin, James A., O. B. Maxwell Co., 24 Temple St.,--West Boylston<br />
Cole, Frederick A., Jr., 56 Brookside Ave., <strong>New</strong>tonville- .......<br />
Cole, Howard H., 56 Allen St., Scituate<br />
Cole, Joseph B., Engineer Fire Dept., 135 Pond St., Sh"a~on<br />
Collette, Herman, Acting Chief, Hudson _<br />
Collins, John F., Chief, Cambridge<br />
Collins, Rev. Michael F., Chaplair~ N. E. Assoc., 100 Temple St., Somerville<br />
Colmer, William L., Asst. Chief, 42 Stedman Street, Chelmsford-<br />
Conror;, Harold J., Chief, North Reading<br />
Cook, ~Albert S.,-C0mmercial Supt.,-A:D.T~-Co., ’6-0 Sta.te Street, Boston<br />
Cook, Roy A., Chief, Lexington<br />
Corcoran, John E., Chief, 1164 Centre St., <strong>New</strong>ton Centre<br />
Cotter, John F., Fire Commissioner, 115 .Southampton St., Boston<br />
Cotterill,. Al’bert E., Lieutenant, 50 Hope St., Manifield<br />
Coughlin, Dennis J., Dep. Chief, Div. 3,. 73 Shepton St., Dorchester<br />
Cowles, A. Lee, Eureka Fire Hose Co,., 560 Atlantic Ave., Boston<br />
Creamer, Gordon H., Deputy Chief, Holden.<br />
Creaser, L. J.,-~America~ LaFrance Co., 28 Brighton Ave., Boston<br />
Creedon, C. Frank, Ex-Chief, 6 Carter St., <strong>New</strong>buryport, Mass.<br />
Crosby, Arthur H., i6 Hillside Ave., Everett<br />
Crosby, William E., Ch.ief, ~ Stoneham 80, Mass.<br />
Cullinan, Thomas J., Public Insurance Adjuster, 126 Mr. Grove St.. Lowell<br />
Cummings, Merrill A., Chief, Hamilton<br />
Curran, Bartholomew A.~ Chief, Scituate<br />
Curtis, William F., Chief, Carlton<br />
Daily, James F., 38 Elmwood Park, East Braintree<br />
Daley, Thomas J., Lieut., Holyoke<br />
Dalton, Charles G., £x-Chief, Northampton<br />
Dalton, Edward J., Dep_uty Chief, Bay State Fire Patrol, 14 Day St., Jamaica Plain<br />
Damon, Harold F., North Shore Fire Equip. Co., 143 Franklin St., Lynn<br />
Davison, Harry, Cl{ief, Mansfield<br />
Davison, William E., Ex-Chief, .Sudbury<br />
Day, Hardee G. V., 1 River St., Middleton<br />
Deane, David G., Maxim Motor Co., 100 Washington Rd., Springfield<br />
DeAngelis, Michael L., Dep. Chief, Bay State Fire Patrol, Pine Tree Drive, South<br />
Hamilton<br />
DeCourcey, Harold F., Chief Hanscom Air Force Base Fire Dept., Bedford<br />
Degnon, Phillip, Vice Pres., Mack Motcr Co., 75 No. Beacon St., Boston<br />
Delaney, James T., 2262 Dorchester Ave., Dorchester<br />
Deslauriers, Theodore, Chief, Ware<br />
Devaney, Deputy Chief, John J., 55 Emerson Rd., Watertown<br />
811
78 MAIN STREET<br />
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
JOHN :L. BANNER<br />
Insurance and Real Estate<br />
Telephones 351 - 3851<br />
NORTHAMPTON, MASS.<br />
NORTHAMPTON. MOTOR SALES, inc.<br />
Chevrolet Cars and Trucl~s<br />
135 KING STREET<br />
WESTFIELD<br />
Phone 2882_<br />
NORTHAMPTON, MASS.<br />
THE WESTFIELD MFG. CO.<br />
Columbia Bicycles<br />
OSLEY & WHITNEY, INC.<br />
Injectiorb Compression and Transfer Molds<br />
Precision Tools - Jigs . Fixtures<br />
MASS.<br />
165 ELM STREET %VESTFIELD, MASS.<br />
Telephone Westfield 1357<br />
VALLEY ELECTRICAL CO.<br />
I NCORPORATED<br />
Electrical Contractors and Home Appliances<br />
14 SCHOOL STREET %VESTFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
Telephone 235<br />
ROBBINS-GAMWELL CORPORATION<br />
Plumbing and Heating Supplies IVholesale<br />
PITTSFIELD MASSACHusETTs<br />
312
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
Dever, James J., Mine Safety Appliance Co., 30 Huntington Ave., Boston<br />
Devitt, William J., Fire Commissioner, 392 Prospect St., Fall River<br />
Devlin, Robert A., 8upv. Monsanto ’Chemical Co., Everett<br />
Dexter, Frederick W., Asst. Chief, i Lake St., Whitinsville<br />
Dickinson., Frank F., Ex-Chief, 27 Lenox St., Brockton<br />
Dieterle, C_liff_9_rd C., Dep. Chief, Attleboro<br />
Doherty, M. H., Ex-Chief, Lincoln<br />
Dolan, Win. C., 14 Holbrook St., Jamaica Plain<br />
Donahue, George L., Chief, 58 Pleasant St., Ayer<br />
Donovan, J. A., Ex-Chief, 49 Beaver Ave., Lynnfield Center<br />
Dooling, William J., Chief, Hood Rubber Co., Watertown, Mass.<br />
Dow, Walter W., 8ec. Met. Fire Assoc., 15 Fairmount Ave., West 8omerville<br />
" D-owd, Adrian P., Chief, Hull<br />
’ Dower, Harold L., 939 Main St.., Athol<br />
Downing, Dewey P., Chief, Fort Devens, Ayer<br />
Downing, Jeremiah T., Downing & Downing, 150 Upper King St., Holyoke<br />
Doyle, Francis J., Doyle Fire Appliance Co., 62 Broad St., Boston<br />
Dragon, Roland J., Chief, Eastham,pton<br />
Dreikorn, Otto M., Fire .Commissioner, 320 Park St., Holyoke<br />
Drew, C. R., Ex-Chief, 100 Summer St., Kingston<br />
Drew, George B., Chief, Saugus<br />
Driscoll, David I., Asst. Engr. <strong>of</strong> Motor Apparatus, B. F. D., 74 Harriet St., Brighton<br />
Drozek, Edmund P., Motorola, Inc., ~40 Main St., V~Tinchester<br />
Dubois, Rene H., Chief, 79 Oak St.: Ludlow<br />
Dyer, S. B., Ex-Chief, Whitman<br />
Dyson, Joseph H., Fire Commission~r,-Hudson<br />
Eames, Hugh L., Chief, 7 Village St., Reading<br />
Earle, Alonzo N., Chief, Norwood<br />
Earley, Charles G., Chief, Turners Falls.<br />
Eaton, Edgar E., 90 Kemper St., Quincy<br />
Eddy, Russell P., Chief, Main St., Swansea<br />
Edward, Warren L., Chief, East Main St., Avon<br />
Egan, John H., Ex-Chief, 66 Spruce St., Milford<br />
Ellis, Benjamin M., President, Ellis Fire Appliances Co., 195 High St., Boston<br />
Ellis, Lloyd A., Chief, Brewster<br />
Engborg, Herbert C., 33 Harvard St., Arlington Heights<br />
Erickson, Ru~ell E., Chief, Rutland<br />
Estes, A. Lincoln., Ex-State Fire Warden, Comm. <strong>of</strong> Massachusetts, 119 Tacoma St.,<br />
Worcester<br />
Fahey, John M., Chief Fire Dept., Cushing Hospital, Framingham<br />
Fales, Howardl A., Chief, 118 Lincoln. St., West Medway<br />
Farrar, Clarence, Fire Apparatus, Wood St., Hopkinton<br />
Farrell, James J., 7 Elwyn St., Dorchester<br />
Fearing, Alfred, Dep. ’Chief, 53 Taft Ave., Winthrop<br />
Ferris, George G., Deputy Chief, Retired, Woods Hole P. O~ Box 422<br />
Field, Sidney C., Chief, Melrose<br />
Fishtine, Benjamin, Wear-Well Uniform C~., 164 Washington St., Boston
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE, CHIEFS<br />
Northampton<br />
212 MAIN STREET<br />
Electric L,i~htin~ Gomp~ny<br />
NORTHAMPTON, MASS.<br />
Northampton G~s Light Company<br />
212 MAIN STREET<br />
NORTHAMPTON, MASS.<br />
H. S. GERE 6" SONS INC., Publishers<br />
DALLY HAMPSHIRE GAZETTE<br />
Established 1786<br />
The only Daily in Hampshire County<br />
NORTHAMPTON, MASS.<br />
MOUNT TOM FIRE DOOR CO., INC.<br />
Manufacturers <strong>of</strong> Metal Covered Doors, Etc.<br />
Underwriters ~ Labeled Doors<br />
EASTHAMPTON, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
Tel. 1665<br />
314
NEW ENGLAND A,SS0CIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
Fitz, Ro~bert W., 59 Shumway Circle, Wakefield<br />
Fitzgerald, George F., Asst. Supt. Operations White Fuel Corp., So. Boston<br />
Fitzgerald, James B., 679 Nantasket Ave., Hull<br />
Fitzsimmons, Rev. John P. Chaplain, <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> Assoc. Fire Chiefs, Belmont<br />
Flanagan, Joseph J., 21 Messenger St., Canton<br />
Fleming, Frank H., Chief, 24 Riverview Ave., Waltham<br />
Fleming, J. P., Quaker Rubber Corp., 51-61 Melcher St., Boston<br />
Fletcher, Albert P., 100 Fountain St., Medford, Bosco.n Sparks Club<br />
Floyd, William A., Chief, Winthrop "<br />
Flynn, Arthur C., Chief, Peabody, Ma~s.<br />
Flynn,,.~rt--hhr L., Chief, Salem<br />
Fogg, Lester, .294 .Washington St., Boston<br />
Ford, Dwight ’O., Chief, Shettield<br />
Ford, Joseph F., Chief, Fire Department Raytheon Mfg. Co., <strong>New</strong>ton<br />
Forsberg, Robert K., District Fire Warden, 39 Kosta St., Worcester<br />
Foster, Leonard L., Chief, 14 Elm Park, Groveland<br />
Frank, A. J. 43 Adams St., Orange<br />
French, Alton E., Chief, 6 Spring St., Plainville<br />
French, Archer W., Chief, Boxford<br />
French, Frederick, Chief, Phillipston<br />
French, Victor M., Chief, Palmer<br />
Frost, Clarence A., Deputy Chief, 40 <strong>New</strong>ton Rd., Acton<br />
Fuller, Albert W., 36 Colonel Hunt Drive, Abington<br />
Furbush, H. Flint, Chief, Littleton, Mass.<br />
Gallego, J. M., Captain Engine 5, Fourth St., Lowell<br />
Galligan, Frank E., Chief, U. S. Naval Air Station, South Weymouth; residence<br />
209 Harvard Street, Brockton<br />
Galligan, Thomas J., The Heil Company, 164 Market St., Brighton<br />
Garant, Joseph O., Fire Commissioner, 210 East Main St., Fall River<br />
Garant, P. M., Ex-Fire =Comm., 251 Corey St., Fall River<br />
Gaspar, Michael, Jr., Chief, Otis Air Force Base, Falmou.th, 260 Main St., Kingston<br />
Gaspie, John, Jr.., Supt. Fire Alarm, Nantucket<br />
Gassett, Oscar, Chief, Halifax<br />
Gaudette, Richard A., Chief, Norwell<br />
Gavaza, G. V., President, Siph-O-Products Corp., 275 Congress Street, Bc~st~l~<br />
Gearan, Leonard J., Ex-Aeting Chief, Gardner<br />
Gero, Frank J., Fire Headquarters, Holyoke<br />
Geyer, John, 17 Seaver Street, Chelsea<br />
Gibson, Edwin T., Deputy Chief, 22 River St., W. Bridgewater<br />
Gibson, James F., 693 Pace St., Stoughton<br />
Gifford, Stanley E., Chief, South Westport<br />
Gilbert, Robert, 30 Ingraham Rd., Wellesley<br />
Gilgun, Edward P., Woburn<br />
Girard, Arthur A., Chief, No. Adams<br />
Goodrich, Frank E., Chief, 63 Oak St., Bridgewater<br />
Goodspeed, George W., Chief, ’Chatham<br />
Gorey, Edward F., Chief, Taunton<br />
315 "
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
r:LECTRIC WIRE COMPANY Inc.<br />
Manufacturers o~ Fine IVire<br />
122 FEDERAL STREET NORTHAMPTON, MASS.<br />
Telephone 3964<br />
Cesco Container<br />
Company<br />
NORTHAMPTON<br />
MASSACHUSETTS=<br />
THE STEVENS PAPER MILLS, Inc.<br />
With Mills at Vv’ESTFIELD and SOUTH HADLEY<br />
Main Office at WINSOR, CONN.<br />
316
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION ,OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
Gorham, John J. E., Chief, Medford<br />
Gorham, Joseph T., Gorham Fire Equip. Co., 326 Atlantic Ave., Boston<br />
Gorman, Thomas P., C’hief, 47 Dysart St., Quincy<br />
Gorman, Reverend William J., Pastor, St. Joseph’s Church, Woburn<br />
Graham, Fred W., Dep. Chief Naval Ammunition Depot, Hingham<br />
Grant, Pro.f. Charles A., Holy Cross College, Worcester ’<br />
Grant, Walter H., Dep. Chief, Middleboro<br />
Grantham, Ward, President & Director, The Gamewell Co., <strong>New</strong>ton Upper Falls<br />
Gravelle, Charles L., Americafi Fire Equipment Co., 12 Marion Rd., Woburn<br />
Green, Arthur C., Chief, Malden<br />
Greenlaw, W. H., Supt. Fire Alarm, Beverly<br />
Guimond, Amedee R., Board cf Fire Engineers, Dracut<br />
Gula, Peter, Chief, Chicopee<br />
Gunther, Ernest H., Jr., Chief, Dracut<br />
Gutheim, Herman E., Ex-Chief, 612 Huron Ave., Cambridge<br />
Haines, William J., 122 Woburn St., West Medford<br />
Hall, C. Stuart, Chief, Upper River, Brookfield<br />
Hall, Charles A., Chief, Harwich<br />
Hall, Ralph S., 61 Plymouth Avenue, East Milton<br />
Hall, Richard W., Engineer, Graniteville<br />
Hallenborg, Arthur, Mass. District Fire Warden, 2 Boston Road, Billerica<br />
Hall~t, Joseph L., Ex-Deputy Chief, Tiffany Road, Norwell<br />
Hammond, Richard A., Chief,. Manchester<br />
Handy, Leo J., Chief, Norton Co., <strong>New</strong> Bond St., Worcester<br />
Hankins, Donald T., Fireye Corp., 720 Beacon St., Boston<br />
Harding, Harry J., Hutchinson Lumber Co., Lynn, Ex-Fire Comm., Revere<br />
Hardy, Clarence B., 643 Old South Bldg:, Boston<br />
Hardy, Leonard A., Chief, Oakha.m<br />
Hargreaves, James, Chief, No. Andover<br />
Harrington, F. D., Mack Motor Co., 7~ No. Beacon St., Allston<br />
Hartnett, John B., Chief, Dedham<br />
Harwood, Philip S., Holden Fire Protection Co., 12 Inwood Rd., Worcester<br />
Hathaway, Arthur H., Jr., Chief, 87 Orchard Street: Adams<br />
Hathaway, Cheney K., Chief, Williamsburg<br />
Haynes, F. Clifton, Chief, Wayland ~<br />
Heal, Leo A., Eagle Mfg. Co., Safety Fuel Containers, 1~9 High St., Boston<br />
Heath, Raymond B., Rockwood Sprinkler Co., 36 Harlow St., Worcester<br />
Hedlund, John A., Hedlund Motor Co., Inc., 330 Quincy Ave., Quincy<br />
Hemenway, Leland A., A~st. Chief, 40 Main Street, Whitinsville<br />
Henley, Richard H., 640 Chapman Street, Canton<br />
Hennessey, F. Maurice, Chief, East Bridgewater<br />
Henrich, George V., Chief, Athol<br />
Hewitt, Varnum, Jr., Chief, Pembroke<br />
Hill, Aaron H., Chief, 808 East St., Walpole<br />
Hill, ~Tilliam H., Chief, Belmont<br />
Hilton, Henry, Ex-Chief, 16 Alien St., Gloucester<br />
Hodges, Frederick J., 18~ Summer St., Boston<br />
317
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
THE FARBER COMPANY<br />
¯<br />
Steel Metal Work and Roo]ing--Ventilating Systems<br />
~ ~=~ Moriel Metal Equipment and Supplies<br />
47-53 DIVISION STREET<br />
303 CHAPMAN ST.<br />
~~~~ ~:"~ W. J. HALLORAN<br />
Trucking -, Rigging -- Crane Service<br />
Steel Erection .- Asphalt Products<br />
WILLIAMS 9100<br />
PAWTUCKET, R,<br />
WESTMINSTER MOTORS, INC:<br />
Studebaker Motor Cars<br />
618 W~,STMINSTER STREET<br />
PROVIDENCE 3, R. !.<br />
PROVIDENCE BUICK CO.<br />
-COMPLETE SERVICE ~ IVHOLESALE ~ PARTS ~ RETAIL ~<br />
25 RESERVOIR AVE. PROVIDEHCE 7, R. I.<br />
207 COUR-~ STREET<br />
Wllliams~3500<br />
==Rhode Island’s Oldest and Largest Buick Dealer"<br />
GOULD & SCAMMON, inco<br />
Manu]acturers o] Fibre Counters<br />
¯<br />
AUBURN, MAINE<br />
A. GREENHALGH COMPANY<br />
19 MENDON AVENUE<br />
318 .<br />
PAWTUCKET, R. I. -¯<br />
,
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION ,OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
Hollister, Dwight, The Game.well Cgmpany, <strong>New</strong>to~ Upper Falls<br />
Holman, Paul R., Chief, Volunteer F. D., Bolton<br />
Holmes, G. Palmer, Chief, Kingston<br />
Hope Rubber Company, Inc., 9~ Broad St., Fitchburg<br />
Horne; William D., Chief, Millbury<br />
I~otchkiss, Herbert F., Box E, Station A, Boston<br />
Howe, Norman, Chief, Dalton<br />
Hubbard, Charles, Chief, Princeton<br />
Hubbard, Herbert W., ~American LaFrance Co., 84 Hanscom Ave., Reading<br />
Hunt,William B., Chief, Haverhill<br />
Hurley, William F., 41 Rayburn Road, Stoughton<br />
Hutchinson, Oscar R., Chief, Lenox<br />
Ickrath, W. M., 1~ Glenham St., Springfield<br />
Inkley, Clyson .p4.Chief, Rockland<br />
Januse, Theodore, Chief, Raynham<br />
Jenkins, Stephen W., 103 Columbus Avenue, Salem<br />
Jones, Alan B., U. S. Plywood iCor,p., ~7 Mystic Ave., Somerville<br />
Johnson, Lloyd M., FireMarshal First Naval Dist., 49~ Summer St., Boston<br />
Johnson, Robert A., Arthur H. Curtis Co., Fuels & Heating Equip., 73 Maverick<br />
St., East Boston<br />
Johnson.,.-Robert H:, C-h~f, Holden .<br />
Johnston, L. S., Lt. Col., 46 Goss Ave., Melrose<br />
Jollimore, Elliot G., Chief, Mass. Fire Reserve, 206 Norw_ell St.,_D.orchester<br />
Joyce, Thomas F., Lieutenant, 23 Boyd Street, Watertown<br />
Kaler, Harold F., Deputy Chief, 12 Upton Lane, Lynnfield -<br />
Kane, Michael J., Chief, Woburn<br />
Kathan, Earl H., Fire Commissioner, 28 Summer St., Hudson<br />
Kavanaugh, V. T., 3~ Beechwcod Rd.; Waltham<br />
Kaye, A. J., Mgr., Wentworth-Forman Co., 21-23 Edinborough St.; Boston<br />
Kearney, Frank, 1.0 Milk St., Boston<br />
Kelleher, Francis J., Chief, 20 Forest St., Lowell<br />
Kelleher, Michael T., McLennan Inc., 60 Congress St., Boston<br />
Kelley, Joseph E., Chief, Danvers<br />
Kellough, Willard P., 233 Mass. Ave., Arlington<br />
Kempkes, Joseph J., Chief, Belchertown<br />
Kendall, Frank L., Deputy Chief, Canton .-<br />
Kendall, P. R., Motorola, Inc., ~40 Main St., Winchester<br />
Kennedy, Thomas W., 6~ Chelmsford St., Dorchester, Mass.- " ~<br />
Kenney, Raymond J., Dept, <strong>of</strong> Natur)d Resources, 1~ Ashburton-Place, Boston<br />
Kerrigan, Clarence, Asst. Chief, Hanscom Air Base, 6~ Winn St., Woburn<br />
Kidder, Allan, Chief, 20 Worthen St.; ’Chelmsfo~rd<br />
Kimball, Albert W., Chief, .Hingham, Secretary, Mass. Fire. Chiefs ’~ ;Club<br />
King, E. & F. Co., Inc., Industrial Paints, Chemical-Puttieg;640 Pldai~nt -St., Norwood<br />
’ ;:i ~?: 2, "<br />
King, James F., Chief Rescue,-:Mass..Civil Defense Agency, Spoon St., Natick<br />
Kingman, Stanley R., Box ~2 Assoc., 21 Gouldl Road, Arlington<br />
Knight, Richard A., Nre--Commissioner, Hudson<br />
319
345 TRUMBULL ST.<br />
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
EMBASSY<br />
RESTAURANT<br />
HARTFORD 3, CONN.<br />
PROGRESSIVE METAL TREATING, INC:.<br />
Het~t Treating o~ Tools and Dies<br />
Black Oxidizing~ High Speed Hardening<br />
PETER KOBER<br />
5 ROOSEVELT ST.<br />
S & E COAT SHOP<br />
Ladies ~ Coats and Suits<br />
Tel. 5-’7005<br />
BRIDGEPORT, CONN.<br />
140 JAMES STREET BRIDGEPORT 4, CONN.<br />
Phone 5-1974<br />
THE PORTER BOX & LUMBER CO.<br />
BRIDGEPORT<br />
CONN.<br />
RALPH A..MONACO, Pres. ROBERT A. MONACO, Treas.<br />
The Monaco Construction Company<br />
General Contractors<br />
Commercial - Industrial - Residential<br />
104 RESERVOIR AVENUE<br />
Telephone 5-1739<br />
BRIDGEPORT ~6, CONN.<br />
Producto<br />
THE PRODUCTO MACHINE COMPANY<br />
BRIDGEPORT 1<br />
Cable address "PRODUCTO"<br />
Telephone 4-9481<br />
320<br />
CONNECTICUT
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATI~.~ OF FIRE C~IEFS<br />
Knox, Earl W., Director, Plant .Protection, .Heywood-Waketleld Co., Gardner<br />
Kornicki, Peter, Chief, Bellingham /<br />
Kornicki, Wa.syl, EL-Chief, Ballingham<br />
Kuysinski, Edmund S., Chief, Lakeville<br />
LaFlamme, Ernest, Ex-’Chief, Chicopee, LaFlamme Oil Co., 89 Pennsylvania Ave.,<br />
Willimansett ,.<br />
Lambert, Johr~ F. M:, :Ex-Cl~ief, High St., Salisbury<br />
Lambert, W. Harland, 1241 Highland Ave., Needham, Mass.<br />
Lampard, Charles H., ’Chief, Swampscott<br />
Lamoureux, 0liver, Fire Commissioner, 206 Maple St., Holyoke<br />
Landers, Thomas, Ex,’Fire Commissioner, 349~Iills..ide Ave,, Holyoke<br />
Lane, John C., Chief, North Brookfield<br />
Laurie, Ralph D., Ex~Supt. Fire Alarm,. Hingham<br />
LaWtoti;,’C. R., General Equip. Corp., 261 Franklin St., Boston<br />
Leary, Edmund J., American Fire Equipment Co., 717 Boylston St. Boston<br />
LeClair, Alphonse~J., Supt. Kuniholm Mfg. Co., 95 Waterford St., Gardner<br />
L-ehan, Joseph C., Vice-Pres. 3rd Dist. I.A.F.F., 185 Highland Ave., Somerville<br />
Lemieux, Daniel H., Asst. Chief, Miltbury<br />
Lemoine, M. Gale, H0~melite Corp., 267 Cambridge St., Allston<br />
Leonard, Morton, Chief, Marshtield .........<br />
Lewis, Edward B., Asst. Chief, 46 Union St., Nantucket<br />
Lewis, T. Julian, Ex-Chief, 348 Commercial St., Provincetown<br />
Liebsch, Elme~ W., Sr., 20 Winter St., Salem<br />
Liebsch,, Elmer W., Jr., 20 Winter St., Salem<br />
Lippman, Ernest J., Former ’Commissioner, Rockville, Ct., 27 Putnam Rd., North<br />
Andover<br />
Litchfield, Gordoh H:~ ~ Ami-LaFrance, 28 Brighton Ave., Bostor~<br />
Logan, Michael, Chief, Millville<br />
Lombard, Edwin H., Fire Commissioner, 7 DeWitt Road, Stoneham<br />
Looney, Daniel J., Sec. Mass. State Firemen~s Assoc., 448 Old South Bldg., Boston<br />
Loone~r;:David, Room 815, 10 Milk Street, Boston<br />
Lovell, Harry J., Pres. Harry J. Lovell Co., 894 Comm. Ave., Boston<br />
Lowell, Harold F., Chief, Hastings St., Mendon<br />
Lowkes, Joseph S., ,Chief, East Brooktleld<br />
Lucas, James H.~ ~:Exe.cutive Vice-President, Chamber <strong>of</strong> Commerce, Pittsfield<br />
Lunt, Burton T:,Ohief, <strong>New</strong>buryport<br />
Lussier, Joseph R., Chief, Somerset<br />
Lynch, Lawrence F., Chief, Brockton<br />
Lyons, C. W., Okonite Company, Room 1100 Statler Office Bldg., Boston<br />
MacDougall, George A., Ex-Chief, Amesbury<br />
MacGregor, H. S., Chief, 106 _Windsor Ave., West Acton<br />
M~ck, Alfred W., "Atomlite", Box 47, Needham Heights<br />
Macli, Alfred, Sr., President an:d Gen. Mgr., ~Alpurlite, 693 Highland Ave., Needham<br />
Heights<br />
MacWhinnie, Milton R. C., Deput~r ¢l~ief, Falmouth<br />
Madden, John H., Ambulance Service, 1774 Centre St., West Roxbury<br />
Magee, Richard A., Chief, Truro<br />
Magrath, Thomas S., Ex-Chief, Brimtield<br />
321
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
JAMES S. CASSEDY, INC.<br />
Engineers and Contractors<br />
133 AUSTIN STREET CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
111 SUMMER ST.<br />
READ & WHITE<br />
Dress Clothes Renting Specialists<br />
1 Block from South Station<br />
Liberty 2-7930 - 7931<br />
COFFEE ANN SHOP<br />
ABE RUNSTEIN<br />
A C<strong>of</strong>fee Service to Industry<br />
SAVE MONEY SAVE TIME<br />
Improve Employee - Employer Relation<br />
BOSTON 10, MASS.<br />
529 ATLANTIC AVENUE BOSTON, MASS.<br />
LI 2-0852 - LI 2-0853<br />
FRANK B. CURRY CO.<br />
Store Fixtures Manufacturers<br />
560 HARRISON AVE.<br />
BOSTON 18, MASS.<br />
ALBERT D. HOWLETT COo<br />
Paintlng~ D~coratlng and Hardwood Finishing<br />
Member Society <strong>of</strong> Paintin~ and Decorating Contractors <strong>of</strong> Massachusetts<br />
Member Painting and Decorating Employers’ <strong>Association</strong> <strong>of</strong> Boston<br />
Member Painting and Decorating Contractors <strong>of</strong> America<br />
Office : 110 WORCESTER ST.<br />
BOSTON, "MASS.<br />
Studio - 110 Worcester St. -- Paint Shop - 108-124 Worcester St.<br />
Telephone COmmonwealth 6-1 512 -- Connecting Office - Studio - Paint Shop<br />
ADAMS ASPHALT C:OMPANY<br />
Bituminous Concrete Construction<br />
53 BLANCHE STREET CAMBRIDGE 39, MASS.<br />
Telephones Klrkland 7-6972 - Klrkland 7-1064<br />
322
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
Mahoney, Ivon P., Ex-Chief, Walworth Co., 8 Haley Road, E. Braintree<br />
Malloy, Thomas F. J., Chief, Brookline<br />
Maloney, Walter .S., B. F. Goodrich Co., ~ Osborne Rd., . Br0oklin~<br />
Manion, Bernard M., Ex-Chief, 224 Main St., Milford<br />
Mann, Michael G., Club Library Co., 127 Castle Rd., Nahant<br />
Mansfield, George O., Commander, Security Supt., Navy Yard, Boston, 133 Common<br />
St., Watertown<br />
Martin, Bert L., Ex-Supt. Fire Alarms, 100 Union St., Mansfield<br />
Matta, Joseph E., Chief, Provincetown<br />
Maxim, E. L. Maxim Motor Co., Mlddleboro<br />
Maxim, Leighton L., Maxim Motor C~., Middleboro<br />
May, Robert M., Chief, Groton ’<br />
Mayers., Robert F., Deputy Chief, 412 Main St., Greenfield<br />
Maynard, Hermon James, A. F. Ro’binson Fire Apparatus, 200 Second Street, Cambridge<br />
McCarrick, Thomas J., Chief, Revere<br />
McCarthy Co., Justin A., 176 Federal St., Boston<br />
McDermott, George A., Director Civil Defense, Summer St., Tewksbury<br />
McDonald, Alton L., Oren Fire Apparatus, Machonis Rd., North Wilbraham<br />
McElroy, William C., Chief, 99 Main St,; Watertown<br />
McFadden, James H., Dist. Chief, Dist. 14, B.F.D., 14 Huron Circle, Dorchester<br />
McGaw, Geo. E., Chief, 414 Stetson St., Fall River<br />
McGonigle, Michael, 448 Old South Bldg., Boston<br />
McGowan, .Edward: H., Chief, William’stown<br />
McIntire, F. Edward, McIntire Brass Co., 377 Putnam Ave., Cambridge<br />
McIntire, Frank N., McIntire Brass Co., 377 Putnam Ave., Cambridge<br />
McIntire, Thomas S., McIntire Brass Co., 377 Putnam Ave., Cambridge<br />
McLaughlin, J. A., Amer. Fire Equip. Co., 717 Boylston St., Boston<br />
McLean, D. B., Motorola Inc., 18 Elm Street, Cohasset<br />
McLean, R. J., Chief, 22 Woodlawn, St., SharOn<br />
McLean, Walter E., Mack Motor Co., 7~ No. Beacon St., Allston<br />
McLeod, Ashton F., Ex-Chief, 1~ Mechanic St., Milton<br />
McNally,John C., Ex-Chief, ~2 Vinal St., Scmerville<br />
Melville, Charles R., Chief, Hampden<br />
Metcalf~ Melville O., Dist. Chief, Bostcn Naval Shipyard, 48 Dix St., Dorchester<br />
Meunier, O. J., Chief, Southbridge<br />
Miles, Chester W., Gamewell Co., <strong>New</strong>ton Upper Falls<br />
Miller, Irving D., Chief, Main St., Ashby<br />
Miner, Alfred N., Insurance Brokers’ Assn. <strong>of</strong> Mass., 40 Broad St., Boston<br />
Miranda, M. I., Inc., Flame Pro<strong>of</strong>ing, 34 Crafts St., <strong>New</strong>tonville<br />
Mitchell, Eugene F., V. H. Blackington Co., Inc., Attleboro Falls<br />
Mixter, Samuel J., Clay Brook Rd., Dover<br />
Monk, W. M:, Mgr. Atlas Syndicate, 32 Central St., Bcston<br />
Montgomery, Edward N., Dep. Chief, Fire Prey. Div., 11~ Southampton St., Boston<br />
Moran, William R., Ex-Chief, Malden<br />
Moriarty, Jeremiah A., Chief, Westfield<br />
Morrison, Sylvester F., Chief Plant Protection, Geae.ral~ Electric ~Co,.Lynn<br />
323
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
Compliments <strong>of</strong> ~<br />
BROADWAY CHEVROLET CORP.<br />
~o BROAi~WAY, SO~ERW"E., (.~<br />
SO 6-3700<br />
J. R. McHUGH<br />
W. J. GROSVENOR & COMPANY, INC.<br />
Plastic Laminates ~ Metal Mouldings<br />
270 CEDAR STREET SOMERVILLE, MASS.<br />
Tel. SOmerset 6-8883-~<br />
MIDDLESEX WELDING SUPPLY CO~<br />
Authorized AIRCO Dealer<br />
1655 REVERE BEACH PARKWAY<br />
EVERETT, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
Standard Duplicating Machines,<br />
.Corporation<br />
EVERETT MASSACH USETTS<br />
FRAMINGHAM MASTER SERVICE STATION<br />
AUTO REPAIRS<br />
Glass and Body Work - Painting - Radiator Repairs<br />
170 WAVERLY STREET FRAMINGHAM, MASS.<br />
Phone 8572 ~ ....<br />
Slattery’s extends . .<br />
ANNIVERSARY CONGRATULATIONS..:~ .... " ,i...<br />
to our Broolcline Fire Department ...<br />
We are proud <strong>of</strong> your heroic work throughout the years, and the valiant way you<br />
have r..espon, ded to both peace-t.ime and war,time emergencies in our town.<br />
E.T. SLATTERY CO.<br />
1290 BEACON ST., AT COOLIDGE CORNER BROOKLINE.<br />
BEacon 2-5740 ..,<br />
324
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
Morley, Lawrence, Chief, Simplex Time Recorder Co., 24 So. Lincoln St., Gardner<br />
Moulton, E. G., Ahren.s-Fox Co., ~ Admiral R&, Worcester<br />
Mowry, Joseph O., Chief, Attlebor0<br />
Moxham, Herbert G., Comm., Malden, Mass.<br />
Mullen, Albert B., Rockwood Sprinkler Co., Worcester<br />
Mullen, George, Chief, 7 Grafton St., Shrewsbury<br />
Murphy, Albert, Asst. Chief, 26 Bradford Ave., Sharon<br />
Murphy, Josepl~ L., Fire Equipment & Supplies, 1~ School St., Bridgewater<br />
Murphy, Russell A., Gen’l Detroit Ccrp., 238 Park Sq. Bldg., Boston<br />
Murray, Walter R., Chief, 17 Walker St., Weymouth<br />
Nardone, A. Thomas, Commissioner Bay State Fire Patrol, 287 Centre St., Jamaica<br />
Plain<br />
Nash, Earl, Chief, Bethlehem Steel Co., Shipyard, Quincy<br />
Neal, Bertram A., Ex-Chief, 23 Myrtle St., Waltham<br />
Neal, Ernie L., Ex-Chief, Box 331, Westway Rd., Wayland<br />
Nelson, Algot L., 209 Shute St., Everett<br />
Nesmith, Robert E., Ex-Chief, 116 Park Ave., Whitman<br />
Nightingale, William W., Wood Engineering Service, Inc., Topsfield<br />
Noone, Dominic C., Dep..Chief, Navy Yard, Boston, 1 ~ Essex St., West Medford<br />
Norton, Frederick Leo, Chief, J. L. Thomas Co., Waltham<br />
Normandin, Charles, Chief, American Optical Co., 29 Charlton St., Southbridge<br />
Nute, J. C. Jr., Dep. Forest Fire Warden, ~8 Linden St., Needham<br />
O’Banion, Albert Lee, Supt. Fire Alarm Division, ~9 Fenway, Bcston<br />
Obdens, Anthony, Chief, Tewksbury<br />
O’Donnell, Thomas H., Supervisor <strong>of</strong> Motors, Northampton<br />
Officer, Carl M., Ex-Chief Volunteer Fire Dept., Hampden<br />
O"Hara, James.H., Chief, 31 Leonard St., Somerville " ’<br />
O’Hearn, John W., Ex-Chief, 206 Mr. Auburn St., Watertown<br />
Oliver, Joseph L., Chief, Cohasset . ~-<br />
0liver, R. S., Gamewell Co., <strong>New</strong>ton Upper Falls<br />
Olsen, Bernard R., American LaFrance Foamite Corp., 68 Lowell St., Waltham<br />
O’Neill, E. J., Rep. Peter Pirsch ~2 Sons Co., 3 Colby Rd., Roslindale .<br />
O’Reilly, Aloysius, Asst. Chief Fire Dept., Army Base, 600 Summer St.i Boston<br />
Orienti, Hubert P., Chief, Lee<br />
Ostby, G. N., Ex-Chief, Harwich ’ ~<br />
Pachec 0, John E., Sales Mgr., The Parker House, Boston<br />
Painten, Alan, Jr., Alan Painten Company, Hanover<br />
Partel0, Lloyd, Chief, Monscn " ’<br />
Patingre, Ren.e J., Chief, Springfield<br />
Peckham, J. Austin, 23 Central St., Wellesley<br />
Perry, Emery,..~Chief, Harvard<br />
Pettengill, George H., 109 Bluehill Ave., Milton<br />
Philbrick, Burton S., Am-LaFrance Foamite Corp., 53 Odell Ave., Beverly<br />
Philbrick, F. B., ~4 Colburn Rd., Wellesley Hills 82 ,<br />
Philips, Lawrence W., Chief, 41’ George St., Whitman<br />
Pierce, Lester M., Chief, Montague<br />
¯
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
"A NAME SINCE 1914 ON THE NORTH SHORE"<br />
J. ~. CARBONE & SON-"<br />
Auto Body Work andP~nting<br />
Gas - 0il - Lubrication -- Acetylene Welding and Brazing<br />
5-/2. LINCOLN AVENUE SAUGUS, MASS.<br />
Office: SAugus 8-2_380<br />
COMPLIMENTS OF<br />
ACE WELDING SERVICE, inc.<br />
SAUGUS, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
D. M. CRONIN LUMBER CO.<br />
Lumber - Buildiug Materials<br />
430 CENTRAL STREET<br />
SAUGUS, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
Telephone SAugus 8-1800<br />
GIBBS OIL COMPANY<br />
Distributors o ! Tide Water Products - Gasolines.<br />
Industrial Lubricants . Motor Oils and Heating Oils<br />
TYDOL CASOLINE -- VEEDOL MOTOR OIL<br />
691 BROADWAY SAUGUS, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
Telephones: SAugus 8-0097 - 8-0098 -- REvere 8-4805 - 8-4806 - 8-480"/<br />
Address All Correspondence to Saugus, Massachusetts<br />
Compliments <strong>of</strong><br />
BINSAN GASS FUELS, Inc.<br />
MELROSE<br />
COMPLI MENTS OF<br />
LYNN PRODUCTS COMPANY<br />
Manuiacturers o] LYNN OIL BURNERS<br />
7 TO 17 WILLOW STREET, LYNN, MASS.<br />
Approved by-the Mass. State Safety Board<br />
326<br />
MASS.
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION ,OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
Pineo, R. M., Operating Supt., A.D.T. Co., 60 State St., Boston<br />
Pires, Antone M., Fire Commissioner, 1~74 No: Main St., Fall River<br />
Poeton, Josiah, Chief, Lynnfield<br />
Pond, Connor J., Chief, Franklin<br />
Pope, Samuel J., Ex-Chief, Boston, 68 Wells Ave., Dorchester<br />
Preble, Edward H., 16 Bay State Rd., Belmont "<br />
Priest, Lloyd W., Deputy Chief, South Acton<br />
Putnam, Edward E., Jr., 210 Dale Street, Waltham<br />
Pye, Frederick H., Chief, Stoughton<br />
Pyne, Joseph V., Chief, 101 Main St., Hopkinton<br />
Quinlan, Henry J., Room 81~, 10 Milk St.., Boston.<br />
Quinn.,. Joseph W., Chief, Navy Yar~t Fire Dept., 36 Rector Rd., Mattapan.<br />
Rafuse, Leander F., 7~ Brooks Rd., Weston<br />
Regan, Timothy, 12 Hazleton Rd., <strong>New</strong>ton Centre.<br />
Reinert, D. O., RCA Victor Division, 200 Berkeley Street, Boston<br />
Retelle, Edward A., Ex-’Chief, American LaFrance Foamite Corp., 63 Bailey Street,<br />
Lawrence<br />
Router, Herbert L., Dep. Chief, 41 Albion St., Methuen<br />
Richardson, Moody J., Deputy Chief, Millis<br />
Richmond, Everett. E., Chief, U.S. Naval Hospital, Chelsea, 32 Linwood St., Brookville<br />
Ritchott, Conrad N., Czptain, 41 Asin<strong>of</strong> Avenue, Chicopee<br />
Ritschel, Franklin N., Chief, Gamewell Co., <strong>New</strong>ton Upper Falls ¯<br />
Roach, Walter B., First Asst. Chief, Sharon "<br />
Roberts, G. LI, Fire Commissioner, 30 Perkins Ave., Reading<br />
Robertson, Ralph C., Chief, North Attleboro<br />
Robichaud, Philip A., Chief Hanson<br />
Robinson, Alfred D., Chief, Boxborough<br />
Robinson, Kenneth, Robinson & Company, 18 Granison Rd., Weston<br />
Robinson, Perce M., Marshfield<br />
Robinson, Stanley, 67 Chauncy St., Boston, Mass., Fire Prot. Co.<br />
Roeder, Harold E., Fire Commissioner, 6 Churchill Lane, Lexington<br />
Rogers, Edmund D., Chief, ~Vestford F. D., 61 Pleasant ’St., Forge Village<br />
Rogers, Frank, Chief, 91 Washington St., Fairhaven<br />
Rohan, John H., Chief, Holyoke<br />
Rohlfing, William R., Mgr., General Alarm Corp., 89 Broad St., Boston<br />
Roper, Paul H., Chief, Billerica<br />
Rosenquist, Jesse, 124 Frontenac St., Chicopee<br />
Rounseville, C. C., Jr., Fire Commissioner, 264 French St., Fall River<br />
Rowe, Benjamin F., Chief, Bay State Fire Patrol, 347 Main St., Charlestown<br />
Rowe, Walter E., Asst. Chief, ~2 Wilshire St., Winthrop<br />
P~owley, Charles F., Fire Commissioner, Brookline<br />
Ryan, James J. Rockwocd Sprinkler Co., 34 Harlow St.., Worcester<br />
Ryan, Timothy S., Mass. State Forest Fire Service, 62 Pine Ave., Brockton<br />
Salamone, Richardl M., Chief, Fire Dept., Needham<br />
Sargent, Herbert S., Charles Clougherty Co., South St., Medfield<br />
Sawtelle, Lyman K., Chief, 104 Linden St., Winchendor~<br />
Scanlon, Joseph E., Chief, 9 Armory St., Lynn<br />
327
NE~ ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
Mass. Gas & Electric Light Supply Co.<br />
BOSTON BROCKTON MALDEN NEW BEDFORD WATERTOWN<br />
INTERNATIONAL COOPERAGE CO.<br />
71 FULKERSON STREET<br />
Box 15 - Winchester, Mass. -- Box ]7 - Raynham, Mass.<br />
Complime, ts 4<br />
CAMBRIDGE, MASS.<br />
DREYFUS PROPERTIES<br />
50 FI~DERAL STREET BOSTON, MASS.<br />
Telephone Liberty 2=5818<br />
CANTER CONSTRUCTION CO."<br />
185 COREY ROAD<br />
BROOKLINE 46, MASS.<br />
ESTABLISHED 1914<br />
~¢HITE & HODGES<br />
I NCORPORATED<br />
Manufacturing Specialists Exporters and Importers<br />
Oils and Greases for the Leather Industry<br />
2 WELLINGTON.. AVENUE EVERETT 49, MASSACHUSETTS, U.S.A.<br />
Boston I~ostal District - Cable Address "Kimoil" Boston<br />
RANDOLPH<br />
CHASE & SONS, INC,~<br />
Manufacturers <strong>of</strong> Electrical Insulating-Tapes<br />
328<br />
MASSACHUSETTS
NEW IENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
Scanlon, Joseph E., Jr., Lieut. Fire Dept., 19 Dartmouth St., Lynn<br />
Schiller, Joseph F., Chief, Ashburnham<br />
Scott, Frank J., Na.vy Yard F. D., ~2 Francis St., Boston. 1~<br />
Scully, John F., American Fire Equipment, 717 Boylston St., Boston<br />
Sears, Harry T., Chief, 136~ Washington St., Braintree<br />
Sears, Stephen, Reliable Products ~d Service, ~32 Shawmut Ave., Boston<br />
Sennott, Clifford T. J., 668 Hyde Park Ave., Roslindale<br />
Shea, James R., 12 Silverwood Terr., South Hadley<br />
Sheehan, John J., Chief, Fire District No. 2, Dartmouth<br />
Sheridan, Thomas J., Fire Inspector Army Base, 2~ Patterson Way, So. Boston<br />
Sherman, Ed.ward D., ~ ~ Kilby St., Boston<br />
Sibley, Frederick H., Chief, West Springfield<br />
Silva, Antone M., Fire Dept., Edgartown, Mass.<br />
Silva, \Villiam P., Chief, Edgartown<br />
Simons, ,Edward S., Hyde Mfg. Co., 4 Cy.press St., Brookline<br />
Sisca, Louis A., Fire Commissioner, 10~3 Bedford St., Fall River<br />
Skeltor~, David W., Chief, Burlington<br />
Slaman, Robert A., 32 Damien Road, Wellesley Hills<br />
Slaman, T’ H., Chief, Wellesley<br />
Smiddy, Earl, Gamewell Fire Alarm Co., Turnpike Rd., Fayville<br />
Smith, Charles T., o~mewell )ire Alarm Co., 81 Coolidge Ave., Needham<br />
Smith, Daniel S., Chief, Hill Rd.o Suttdn<br />
:Smith, Fred F., Chief, Murphy General Hospital, ~Valtham<br />
Smith, Thomas B., Ex-Chief, 13~ Highland Ave., Winthrop<br />
Smith, Vincent J., Fire Dept., 67 High St., Everett<br />
Somerville, S~uart, ~47 Main St., Woburn ~<br />
Sousa, Antone, Chief, West Bridgewater<br />
Spalding, John D., Plant Supt. American Dist. Telegraph Co., 60 State St., Boston<br />
Sparks, Francis D., 78 Lin, coln St., Andover<br />
Spinney, Winthrop H., Chief, Westboro<br />
Stapleton, John V., Chief, Boston Fire Dept., 861 Broadway, So. Boston 27<br />
Stearns, Dwight S., Chief, Northfield<br />
Stetson, M. D., Co., Janitors Supplies, 64 E. Brookline St., Boston<br />
Stevens, Harold B., Chief, Templeton Fire Dept., 9 Pleasant S~., Baldwinville<br />
Stewart, H. C., 3 ~ E. Central St., Franklin<br />
Stewart, William E., 1436 Centre St., Roslindale<br />
St. Germain, Albert, ’Chief, Peakham Road, Sudbury<br />
Storey, Wm. J., Supt. Moto.r Vehicles, Holyoke<br />
Stowell, R. H., Stowell Uniform Co., ~ Briar Lane, <strong>New</strong>tonville ’ ; "<br />
Sullivan, John J., Captain, 66 Burr St., Dorchester<br />
Sullivan, Joseph P., Chi.ef, Boston Protective Dept., 4 Appleton St., Boston<br />
Sweeney, Wm. E., P. O. Box 132, Chatham<br />
Swim, Gren.fell A., Asst. ’General Sales Mgr., The Gamewell Co., <strong>New</strong>ton Upper<br />
Falls<br />
Tancrell, Wilfred J., Chief, 94 Elm St., U~cbridge<br />
Ta,p.pen, Robert M., Ex-~hief,. South Main St., Baldwinville<br />
Tartan, John J., Lieutena.nt~...Fire Dept., 384 Prospect St., Cambridge<br />
329
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
Eas~ Coas~ Cons~:ruc~:ion Corporal:ion<br />
Johns.Manville Certified Home Improvement Contractors<br />
36 SIDNEY STREET CAMBRIDGE 39, MASS.<br />
TRowbridge 6-6293<br />
Towne Manufacturin9 CO., Inc.<br />
19 PORTLAND STREET<br />
Tailored Sportswear<br />
BOSTON 14, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
Every Community Should Have a Good Fire Department and Equipment<br />
Every Individual Should Have a Good Bank to Do Business With<br />
THE MERCHANTS CO-OPERATIVE BANK<br />
Z4 SCHOOL STREET BOSTON, MASS.<br />
MEETS THESE CONDITIONS<br />
WILLEY-BIGGIN WOOL-SERVICE<br />
INCORPORATED<br />
ForeignmlVool---Domestic<br />
;Z46 SUMMER STREET BOSTON 10, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
HAncock 6-6434<br />
CUMMINGS MACHINE WORKS<br />
9 MELCHER STREET<br />
UPTOWN GARAGE<br />
Accessories oj Every Description<br />
10 GAINSBOROUGH STREET, BOSTON<br />
330<br />
BOSTON 10, MASS.
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
Taylor, Arthur S., 2262 Dorchester Ave., Dorchester<br />
Taylor, George R., Chief, 1~ Park Rd., Ashlan~d<br />
Tetreault, Edmond, Dep. Chief, 203 Conway St., Greenfield’<br />
Thayer, Vincent R., Deputy Chief, Bellingham<br />
Thibeault, Guy A., Chief, Rockport<br />
Tiernan, Raymond R., Chief, Quarters, H: U.S.N.A.D., Hingham<br />
Tiemey, Daniel B., See’y-Treas. Int. Assoc. <strong>of</strong> Fire Chiefs, 8 Robbins Rd., Arlington<br />
Tierney, Richard J., Chief, Arlington<br />
Tighe, William A., Chief <strong>of</strong> Protection, Boston Globe, Boston<br />
Tracey, John P., Chief, 12 Church St., Great Barrington ’<br />
Travers, Herbert F., Chief, 6 Mercar~tile, Worcester<br />
Trevett, LeRoy, Chief, Framingham<br />
Tripp, Bertram, Chief~ Middleboro<br />
Turchon, Peter, ~9 Wachusett Rd., Chestnut Hill<br />
Turton, Roy S., Chief, Shelbume Falls<br />
Turtle, Harry E., Chief, Concord<br />
Tyler, Bartlett, 146 Summer St., Boston, Pres. Treas. Boston Fire & Police Notification<br />
Co.<br />
Ulm, Robert F., State Fire Marshal, 1010 Comm. Ave., Boston<br />
Upham, Mauri~e L., Ct~ie~, Weston<br />
Velozo, Joseph, Ex-Fire Comm., 46 Otis St.~ Fall River<br />
Vogel, Edward J., Motorola, Inc., 3 Conrad St., Braintree<br />
Voke, Charles G., Chief, Chelsea<br />
Wade, W. Morgan, Ex-Chief Eng. State Sanatorium, Box 186, Westfield<br />
Waite, Harry F., Ex-Chief, Boston Rd., Billerica<br />
Walden, Lorton C., ~7 Exchange St., Worcester, Supt. Protective Dept.<br />
Walker, H. S., 2 Thomas Circle, Marblehead<br />
Walker, Philip B., Chief, Northbridge F. D., Whitinsville<br />
Wallace, J. Thomas., Chief, Bourne<br />
Ward, John J., Chief, Millis ~ ’<br />
Warnock, William L., Supt. Operations White Fuel Co.., So. Boston<br />
Watson, Arthur, Deputy Chief, Millis<br />
Watson, CharlesA., Chief, Hopedale<br />
Weeks, Harold E., Chief, Barre<br />
Wells, Ray D., Chief, Falmouth<br />
Wheeler, Earle A., Ex-Chief, Berlin<br />
Whelan, Fred E., Chief, Milton<br />
Whitcomb, Jos. C., Maxim Motor Co., Middleboro<br />
White, Ralph H., Chief, Auburn<br />
White, Warren, Inspector Repairs, Fire Dept., 12 Lawson St., Lowell<br />
Whittemore, Dana H., Chief, Yarmouth<br />
Whitney, Bernard B., Dept., <strong>of</strong> Public Safety, 1010 Com’th Ave., Boston<br />
Whitney, G. G., Jr., Elm Read, Moors, Falmouth<br />
Whitney, George H., Fire Equipment~ 82 Chestnut St., Boston<br />
Williams, E. W., 33 B. Sweetser Ter., E. Lynn<br />
Wilson-, Norman L., North Shore Fire Equip. Co., 143 Franklin,-Lynn.<br />
Wilson, Philip A., Chief, 114 Summer St., Maynard ._-~
220 E i S:I’REI=T<br />
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
BORIS BEVERAGE CO.<br />
IVholesale and Retail<br />
~Vines~ Beers~ Ales and Tonic<br />
F. R. SCHREITER,<br />
Plastic Products<br />
SOUTH BOSTON 27, MASS,<br />
179 BROOK STREET CLINTON, MASS.<br />
ELLIOT--Earl L. Elliot Co.<br />
Complete Fuel and Heating Service<br />
16 HAMMATT STREET IPSWICH, MASS.<br />
Tel. 469<br />
: McKINNEY FUNERAL HOME<br />
124 HIGH STREET NEWBURYPORT, MASS.<br />
Tel. 850<br />
CENTRAL AUTO SALES<br />
DeSoto - Plymouth - G,M.C, Trucks<br />
11 HAMMETT STREET IPSWICH, MASS.<br />
Telephone 536<br />
9-I 1 MARKET STREET<br />
THE BARGAIN SPOT<br />
¯<br />
TRIANGLE SALES CORP.<br />
332<br />
LYNN~ MASS.<br />
, ,
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
Wilson, Waldo, Chief, .Carlisle ..<br />
..<br />
Wittenhagen, Frederick W., Chief, Beverly<br />
Wolfenden, John W., Fire Commissioner, Attleboro<br />
Wo~d, Everett B., Chief, Plymouth<br />
Wood, Philip A., Fire Equipment, 8 Chesnut St., Danvers<br />
Wood, Robert A., Asst. Treas. Wood Ehgineering Service,. Inc., Topsfield<br />
Woodman, Charles L., .Chief, 474 No. Main St., .Oxford<br />
Wright, Harold E., Asst. Chief, Main St., Westford<br />
Yoho, Elwood A., Ahrens-Fox Fire Eng. Corp., Taunton<br />
Zanieski, Stephen R., ’Chief, Greenfield<br />
Zimmerman, Joseph W., Box 18, Winchester<br />
RHODE ISLAND<br />
Ahearn, William P., Naval Training Station, <strong>New</strong>port<br />
Alletag, Otto J., Chief, 22 Dyer St, Warren<br />
Amore, Anthony J., Chief, Natick<br />
Andrews, Earl, Chief, 9 Gardner Ave., Saylesville -<br />
Armstrong, Clinton L., Chief, Rockville<br />
Arnold, Edwin, Chief, Western Coventry F..Di, Green<br />
Babcock, John E., Jr., Ex-Warden, 6~? Main St., So. Kingston, Wakefield<br />
Ballou, I. A., Jr., Ward LaFrance Fire Apparatusl cor. Dover ~d Allerton Ave., East<br />
Providence<br />
Barber, Edwin, Chief, Watch Hill<br />
Barker, James W., Chief,- Middletown<br />
Batchelder, Earl H., Ex-;Chief, 34 .Steere Ave., Centerdale<br />
Batchelder, George T., Sec’y, R. I. Fire Chiefs Club, 2227 Mineral Spring Ave.:<br />
Centerdale<br />
Black, Irving S., Chief, U. S. Rubber Prod. Co., 10 Eagle St., Providence<br />
Brewer, Alvan G., Ex-Chef, 132"Aborn Ave.,, Lakewood<br />
Brickley, Chester A., 100 Sheldon Street, ProvidenCe ~<br />
Broden, Norman D., Chief, Cranston<br />
Cappelli, Angelo R.~ Chief, ~7 Maple Ave., Johnston<br />
Carlow, Everett A., Dep. Chief, Apponaug<br />
Cavanaugh, Frank, Chief, Johnston Hbs4 Co. No. 1, Johnston<br />
Cesana, J. Domenic, Ex-Chief, 19 Lake Drive,. East Greenwich<br />
Charbonneau, Charles L., Driver F. D., 2227 Mineral Spring Ave., Centerdale<br />
Cipollone, James, Deputy Chief, 34 Majestic Ave., Norwood<br />
Comolli, Andrew N., 1st Ass.t. Chief, 6 Boylston St., Westerly<br />
Comolli, Claudio A., Asst. Chief, Westerly<br />
Connelley, Wiliam T., Chief, Pawtucket<br />
Connerton, Wm. H., Dep. Chief, <strong>New</strong>port<br />
Corey, Milton E., Chief, Georgiaville<br />
Corley, John T., Sr., J. M. ~Baker. PatteK9 C~., Inc., Fire Fighting Equipment, 68<br />
Sprague Street, Providence<br />
Corley, John T., Jr., 68 Sprague Street, Providence<br />
Cote, A. J., Chief, Woonsocket<br />
Cotter, Thomas H:, Ex-Chief, 1~2 Edge Hill Rd., Hoxsie, Warwic.k<br />
Cross, Henry B., Secretary, Gri.nnell Co., 260 ~.est. Exchange St., Providence<br />
~333
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
COMPLIMENTS OF<br />
MELROSE TRUST CO.<br />
MELROSE MASS.<br />
U-LIKE CONE CORP.<br />
DAINTY SU6AR CONES<br />
Manufacturers o~ Dainty Sugar Cones and Con~ections<br />
22 COREY STREET MELROSE 76, MASS.<br />
Telephone MElrose 4-’/270<br />
COMPLIMENTS OF<br />
MELROSE<br />
MELROSE SAVINGS BANK<br />
¯<br />
~ INCORPORATED 1872 ¯<br />
Telephone MElrose 4-2566<br />
BEAN<br />
29 ESSEX STREET<br />
MASSACHUSETTS<br />
R. D. Cole, MElrose 4-7382<br />
& COLE<br />
Plumbing and Heating<br />
_= MELROSE, MASS.<br />
MELROSE CHEMICAL CORP.<br />
Established 1913<br />
140-144 ESSEX STREET<br />
MELROSE 76<br />
PURITAN FURNITURE MFRS.<br />
Bedroom Furniture<br />
334<br />
MELROSE, MASS.<br />
MASSACHUSETTS<br />
,
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
Currie, Walter S., ’Chief, Bradford, R. I.<br />
Davis, Harold H., Jr., Lieut. Quonset Naval Air Sta., F.D., 50 Waverly St., Warwick<br />
Davis, Harold H., Sr., Past Pres. Conimicut Vol. Fire Co., 12 Henry St., Conimicut<br />
Dawley, Win. S. H., 8 Warner St., <strong>New</strong>port<br />
Denice, Rocco, Fire Marshal, 1198 Jefferson Blvd., Warwick<br />
DeSisto, John, Chief, Barrington<br />
Downey, Ho.ward T., Gen’l Supt. Lonsdale Co., 200 Bellmar~ Ave., Conimicut<br />
Duckworth, Thomas E., Chief, Cataract Fire Co. 2, Lakewood<br />
Dunbar, Paul M., Chief, Moosup Valley Rd., Greene<br />
Earnes; Richmond W., Sec’y No. Smithfield Vel. F. D., No. Smithfield<br />
Eldridge, Abel S., Chief, <strong>New</strong>port<br />
Ellis, Arthur W., Jr., Chief, 147 Pettaconsett Ave., Norwood<br />
Ellis, Joseph J., Comm. <strong>of</strong> N. E. Forest Fire ’Compact for R. I., 48 Adelaide Ave.,<br />
Providence<br />
Farmer, William F., Chief, Greenwood<br />
Fogarty, Michael, Tower Hill Rd., Allentown<br />
Forand, Arthur N., Chief, Albion Fire Dept., Albion<br />
Fortier, Henri E., Chief, Manville<br />
Oareau, Lionel P., ’Chief, 1298 Main Street, West Warwick<br />
Gladu, Alfred, Asst. Chief, Manville<br />
Hill, J. Richard, Coventry (Chief, Hill Farm F. D.)<br />
Holman, Waldo F., Dep. Chief, 2149 Broad St., Cranston<br />
Hull, Merton C., Chief, Jamestown<br />
Jache, Paul O., Ex-Ohief, 30 Becket Ave., Johnston<br />
Jones, H. LeRoy, Jr., 77 Rhode Island Ave., <strong>New</strong>port<br />
Jones, Norman, Battalion Chief, Providence<br />
Jones, Ronald 8., Lakewood Fire Dept., 47 Burrows St., Providence<br />
Jones Wilfred, Past Pres. ~ Chief, Conimicut Vol. Fire Co., Warwick<br />
Judd, Walter, 133 Samuel Gordon Ave., Warwick<br />
Kirwan, Joseph Page, Chief, Naval Base, <strong>New</strong>port<br />
LaFrance, Adelard J., Deputy Chief, Pawtucket<br />
Lajoie, Theodore P., Battalion Chief, Woonsocket<br />
Laughlin, John A., Chief, East Providence<br />
Lenihan, R. A. Treas. and Collector <strong>of</strong> Taxes, Westerly<br />
Linden., Oscar E., Ex-Chief, Vol. Fire Co. No.. 1, Greenwood<br />
Luft, I. Arthur, Midwestern Mfg. Co., 281 Washington St., Providence<br />
Maher, James C., Chief, Glendale Vol. Fire Co., Box "C", Glendale<br />
Marshall, Lewis A., Chief, Providence<br />
McGlashan, James S., Chief, Fairlawn-Lincoln F. D., 9 Cecile St., Saylesville<br />
McHugh, The,mas J., Sgt. R. I. Fire Marshal’s Bureau, Box 1338, Providence<br />
Merritt, Clifford A., Deputy Chief, 266 Morse Ave., Greenwood<br />
Mongeon, Edgar,. Asst. Chief, Woonsocket .<br />
Morrissey, Joseph, Chief, Fruit Hill Fire Dept., 1889 Smith St., No. Providence<br />
Murphy, John P., Chief, Centerdale<br />
Notarantonio, Joseph, Maxim Motor Co., 1703 Mineral Spring Ave., North Providence<br />
O’Brien, L. J., 667 Public Street, Providence<br />
335- -
80 SUMMER STREET<br />
20 JANES STREET<br />
Compliments<br />
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
NEtV AND= USED PIANOS<br />
HALLET & DAVIS<br />
PIANO COMPANY<br />
Established 1839<br />
Sales--PIANOS--Service<br />
HUbbard 2-8z~80 BOSTON 10, MASS.<br />
¯<br />
WALKER MF:G. GO.<br />
Automatic Screw Machine Products<br />
Telephone 263 - 264<br />
MEDFIELD, MASS.<br />
CORBETT CONCRETE PIPE CO.<br />
MILFORD MASS,<br />
COMPLIMENTS OF<br />
MEDFIELD CUSTOM LAUNDRY<br />
Starched and Flat lVork<br />
SOUTH STREET, MEDFI-ELD, MASS.<br />
T. E. PERRIN, Proprietor .. Telephone 14<br />
MAKE TODAY YOUR D-DAY<br />
XX<br />
BUY<br />
U.S. DEFENSE BONDS<br />
ARNCO AUTO SUPPLY CO.<br />
STANDOUT. HOME OF CHROME AUTO ACCESSORIES<br />
¯<br />
1.359 COLUMBUS AVE. BOSTON 20, MASS.<br />
Highlands 2-6420 - 6421<br />
336
N’EW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF. FIRE CHIEFS<br />
O’Connell, William V., Chief, West Hilton St., No. Tiv.ertc~n<br />
Palmer, Andrew P., The Woonsocket: Call, Woonsocket<br />
Pasetti, Columbus, Chief, Westerly<br />
Payne, Moses, Jr., Asst. Chief, Westerly<br />
Perry, Edwin S., Deputy Chief, Pawtucket -,<br />
Pistachio, Louis, Chief, Marieville-Pawtucket<br />
Renfree, Frank O., Sr. Chief, Conimicut<br />
R~ynolds, Adelbert J., Ex-Chief, Oakland-Mapleville Fire Co., Oakland<br />
Rhodes, Johr~, Chief, Saylesville<br />
Ricd,-Jose,ph T., Deputy Chief, Hose 1, Johnston<br />
Roy, Leo J., Dep~ Chief, Woonsocket<br />
Salisbury, George F.I Chief, Central Falls<br />
Savage, John A. Chief, 270 Broad St., Valley Falls<br />
Selley, Arthur H., Chief, North Kingstown. F. D., Wickford<br />
Sheehan, John T., Supt. State Police and State Fire Marshal, Box 1338, Providence<br />
Sholander, W. E., Fire Equipment Supplies, 98 Sefton Drive, Edgewood,<br />
Smith, Al_exander, Chief, Vol. Fire Assoc., Hope Valley<br />
Smith, Elphege, Chief, West Warwick<br />
Smith, Harold A., Ex-Chief, 271 Palace Ave., Greenwood<br />
Smith, John, Distributor Fire Fighting Appliances, 69 Granite St-., Westerly<br />
Tabor, J. Earle, Chief, Forestdal~: ::<br />
Trudeau, Emile, Dep. Chief, Greehwood<br />
Ucci, Luigi, Chief, Johnston Hose Co. No. 3, Manton<br />
Walsh, John D., Ex-Chief, Conimicut<br />
Ward, John, Editor, Firefighters ColUmn; Providence Journal<br />
Whipple, Nathan W., Jr., Chief, N~’rth Cumbe}land Vol. F. D., Valley Falls<br />
Wilkey, Henry W., Chief, Portsmouth<br />
Williams, Francis, Ex,Chief, 8~ Drum Rock Ave., Apponaug<br />
Williams, John T., Chief, 1~7 George Arden Ave., Greenwood<br />
Winsor, B. C., Asst. Chief, Crash Rescue, U. S. Naval Air Station, Quonset<br />
CONNECTICUT<br />
Andersen, Donald W. Captain, Wethersfi~ld<br />
Anderson, Nelson H., Chief, Cos Cob Fire House, 11 Cross Lane, Greenwi&<br />
¯ Antonozzi, Arthur M., Captain,~ Derby<br />
Barber, Irving R., Chief, Moosup<br />
Bartholomew, Russell H., O. B. Maxwell Co., 1 Easton St., East Hartford<br />
Beau&, Lawrence T., Asst. Chief, Co. No. 1, <strong>New</strong>ington<br />
gennet, Douglas J., Airkem Service <strong>of</strong> <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong>, Lyme<br />
Berger,. A. R., Chief, Georgetown<br />
Blake, Warren Edward, Member F. D., 19 Seminole Ave., R.F.D., Mr. Carmel<br />
Bowkett, Allan, Chief, 11 Terrace Road, Thomaston ¯<br />
¯ Bramble, <strong>New</strong>man B., Fire Commissioner,. 18 Wells Drive, <strong>New</strong>ington<br />
" Brome, Charles R., Chief, 200 Main Street, Suttield<br />
Buisson, Joseph L., Box 27, Mansfield Depot<br />
Burgess, Harold E., Lieut., Fire Dept.,.Danielson<br />
Bussman, Herman, Former Fire CommissiQner, 71 Orange Street, <strong>New</strong> Haven<br />
337: ~
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
INDUSTRIAL AIR COMPANY<br />
Special Sheet Metal Fabrication<br />
1116 GREAT PLAIN AVENUE NEEDHAM, MASS.<br />
Designers and Manufacturers <strong>of</strong> Co,mrnrUnlcoti~tg Equipment<br />
and<br />
24 HOUR MAGNETIC RECORDERS<br />
For Continuous Monitoring Service<br />
25 PROSPECT PLACE WEST NEWTON 65, MASS.<br />
Phone LA 7-5600<br />
TRADE VIM MARK<br />
REG. U.S. PAT. OFF.<br />
MacGREGOR INSTRUMENT COMPANY<br />
Surgical and Dental Specialties<br />
NEEDHAM 92, MASS., U. S. A.<br />
R. C. MUIRHEAD, INC.<br />
Kaiser and Henry ]. ~ Sales and Service<br />
207 HIGHLAND AVENUE NEEDHAM HEIGHTS 94, MASS.<br />
Tel. NEedham 3-2726<br />
LAMBERT ELECTRICAL CO.<br />
Residential and Commercial Electrical Installation--Main, tenance<br />
Frigidaire Appliances<br />
1241 HIGHLAND AVENUE NEEDHAM, MASS.<br />
70 CHESTNUT STREET<br />
Phone NEedham 3-4098<br />
FEELY CHEVROLET,<br />
Phone NE 3-2800<br />
338<br />
INC.<br />
NEEDHAM 92, MASS.
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
Carleton, Harry A., Chief, Shaker Pines Lake F. D., Hazardville<br />
Cavanaugh, Thomas F., Ex-Chief, 33 Lake St., Waterbury<br />
Chandler, Raymond F., Chief, Prospect<br />
Chapman£ Charles E., Chief, Judds Corners, Middlebury<br />
Christensen, Kenneth, Chief, Meadow Road, Wilson<br />
Clark, James, Ex-Chief, Glenville<br />
Coley, Richard F., Chief, Milford<br />
Collins, RobertH., Shelton, Conn.ecticut, Engineering Dept., Improved Risk Mutuals,<br />
South Broadway, White Plains, <strong>New</strong> York<br />
Collins, Thomas J., Deputy Chief, 38 Hervey St., <strong>New</strong> Haven<br />
-Confrey, William B:, Chief, 6 Broadway Terrace, Norwich<br />
Conklin, George C., O. B. Maxwell Co., Inc., 1462 Bagley Ave., Hamden<br />
Conrady, William, Ex-Chief, 22 Earl St., Rockville<br />
Corey, David, Lt. Fire Dept., Box 268, <strong>New</strong> Milford<br />
Cotter, Edward, Chief, Derby<br />
Couch, Charles D., Ex-Chief, <strong>New</strong> Milford<br />
Crawford, Henry P., Deputy Chief, Greenwich<br />
Cromack, Harold F., Chief Pratt & Whitney Aircraft F. D., Unionville<br />
Crombie, Peter A., Chief Enfield Fire Dist. No. 1, Young Ave., Thompsonville<br />
Culleh: J:~B., Grinnell Company, Inc., 27 Wv.odtand :-Park, Hartford<br />
Cummings, Edward, Fire Marshal, Bridgeport-Lycoming Div. AVCO Mfg. Corp.,<br />
Stratford<br />
Czine, John J., Chief,"Wallingford<br />
Dagon, Francis J., Chief,- ~6 William Street, East Hartford<br />
Darling, Edwin S., Chief, Shal~e~ Pin.e Lake, Hazardville<br />
Davis, R. K., Chief, Columbia-.<br />
Delamater Dist., Corp., 62 LaSa!l.e Road, West Hartford<br />
Densky, William J.,_ Deputy Chief, Stamford<br />
Dickinson, Fred W., Chief, Vol. F.D., Falls Village<br />
Disbrow, John O., Chief, Wilton F. D., Wilton<br />
Donlon, T. M., ’Chief, Plant Protection, Bridgeport-Lycoming Div., AVCO Mfg.<br />
Corp., Stratford<br />
Donnelly, T. H., Chief,. West Hartford<br />
Downing, J. W., Chief, Essex<br />
Duffy, Edmund T., Sr., Capi., P. O. Box 26, Mills Rd., Greens Farms<br />
Dunn, J. Franklin, Chief, Middletown<br />
Ellis, Earl J., Executive Chief, Annex F. D., 39~ Skiff St., Hamden<br />
Enos, George F., Chief, Soath Windsor<br />
Ensign, H. Y., Seagrave Corp.; Box 38, Old, Saybrook<br />
Finch, Fred L., Chief, Staffordville ._<br />
Foran, William J., Chief, 11 Pine St., Plainville<br />
Ford, Laurence M::Red’ding Center -<br />
Foy, Albert B., Ex-Chief, South Manchester<br />
Franklin, Edgar C., ~:,Ju.pt. Fire Alarm, 183 Calhoun St., Torrington<br />
Furey, Thomas J., Chief, Thompsonville<br />
Galvin, Edward A~,-Chief, Naugatuck<br />
Gardner, Lesl~e, Cl~i-ef, Ansonia "<br />
Gates, Frank N., Asst, C~ie.f, 117 Derby Ave., Derby<br />
339
1823<br />
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
NATICK TRUST COMPANY<br />
NATICK, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
Phone Natick I00<br />
Worcester Mutual Fire Insurance Co.<br />
WORCESTER, MASS.<br />
Oldest Massachusetts Fire Insurance Company<br />
]30 Years o~ Service<br />
1953<br />
PROVIDENCE BUICK CO.<br />
COMPLETE SERVICE ¯ WHOLESALE ¯ PARTS ¯ RETAIL<br />
RESERVOIR AVE. PROVIDENCE 7, R. I.<br />
WIIllams g~00<br />
"Rhode Island’s Oldest and Largest Buick Dealer ~"<br />
Quality By Randolph<br />
RANDOLPH MFG. (30.<br />
INCORPORATED<br />
Manufacturers <strong>of</strong> All Purpose Canvas Footwear<br />
~32 SOUTH MAIN STREET RANDOLPH, MASS.<br />
Telephone Randolph 6-1000 ~ 6-1085<br />
Boston Showroom: 155 Lincoln Stree:~ -<br />
Trimount Bituminous Products Co. ,.,<br />
Petroleum and Tar Road Products- Bituminous Concrete<br />
1840-1850 PARKWAY<br />
50 MYSTIC AVE.<br />
Asphalt Cutbacks - Emulsions . ,<br />
Telephone EVeret:t 7-3100<br />
EVERETT 49, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
W. F. LACEY & SONS ~CO.<br />
Builders <strong>of</strong> Fine Commercial Bodies<br />
,<br />
SINCE 1894<br />
Phone MY 6-2880<br />
340<br />
MEDFORD 55, MASS.
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
Gisborne, C. Carleton, Fire Commissioner, Greenwich<br />
Glenn, Russell A., St., Gamewell Co., 33 ~ Fairview A~e., Bridgeport<br />
Gordon, John S., ~ Chief, Hazardville<br />
Graham, George C., Chief, Bristol<br />
Graves, Charles P., Deputy Chief, $ Idlewild Manor, Greenwich<br />
Griswold, Henry G., Fire Comm., 7~9 Woodward Ave., <strong>New</strong> Haven<br />
Grote, James L., Chief, Chester<br />
Hall, Glen M., Motorola, Inc., 62 LaSalle Road, West Hartford<br />
Ha!!, Warren, Chief, Cheshire<br />
Hall, William’ F., Chief, Plainfield<br />
Hallgren, E. William, Deputy Chief, 66 Rosemcnt Ave., Wilson<br />
Hanson, Ernest, Fire Marshal, Mansfield Grove Rd., East Haven<br />
Hanson, Benj. S., Ex-Chief, Broad Brook<br />
Harford, D. W., Ex-Chief, 10 Chestnut St., So. Norwalk<br />
Harper, George H., Chief, 66 Grove Street, Putnam<br />
Harrington, Kenneth, ~1 Palmer Ave., Hamden<br />
Harris, Arthur E., Deputy Chief, Meriden<br />
Hayes, Thomxs J., Chief, 200 Main Street, East Haven<br />
Hearing, William G. Chief, Glenbrook Fire Dept., Stamford<br />
Heimer, Edward, Fire Dept., 212 Clement Rd., East Hartford<br />
Hitchcock, Charles, Ex-Deputy CMef, 73 Prospect St., Greenwich<br />
Hodges, Milton E., Plant Engr., Electrolux Corp., Forest Ave., Old Greenwich<br />
Howard, Thurston S., Chief,. Waterford<br />
Hunt, Clarence N., Former Captain, Marshall Lane, Derby<br />
Hunt~:::H_.ar.ns R., American LaFrance Corp., Pine Meadow P. O., <strong>New</strong> Hartford<br />
Hutchinson, John A., Jr., Ex-Chief, Old Greenwich<br />
Hutchinlsgn, Lea A., Chief, Simsbury<br />
Hvolbeck, Charles J., Chief, Riversville Rd., Glenville<br />
Ireland, John H., Chief, Danbury<br />
Jennings, Sylvester E., Chief, 247 Mid~dle St., Bridgeport<br />
Johnson, H: H., Deputy Chief, Middletown ~ ’<br />
Kaseli.nas, J0hnr Captain, Branford<br />
¯ Kehne@,"J0hia J., 246 Vine St., Bridgeport<br />
Kenneson, Ral.ph G., J. Frank Lynch Associates, 397 Washington St., Hartford<br />
Knapp, Albert L., Dep. Chief, Wethersfield<br />
Kupernik, Thomas, Deputy Chief, Kent Ave., Suttield<br />
Lally, Thomas C., Deputy Chief, 191 Milbank Ave., Greenwich<br />
Larkham, J. M., Ex-’Chief, South Windham, 116 Walnut St., Willimantic<br />
LaRochelie,’William C., Deputy Chief, 82 Whipple Ave., Norwich<br />
Leddy, V. Paul, Captain, 22 Cumpstone Drive, Hamden<br />
Locke, John F., Chief, Electrolux Corp., P. O. "Box 117, Riverside<br />
Lockwood, Theodore S., ~ Chief, Post Office Box 186, Stratford<br />
Lummis, John A., Engir~eer, R. F. D., No. Windham<br />
Lynch, J. Frank, Dunne Ave., Collinsville<br />
Mackewitz, Theodorel Chief Banksville Fire House, R. F. D. 1, Greenwich<br />
Maiko, John, Chief, 3~0 Delevan Avenue, Byram<br />
Mason, William C., Chief, South Manchester<br />
Matava, Andrew M., Chief, Unionville<br />
341
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
DONAHUE & CUMMISKEY<br />
Insurance --- Fire - Liability<br />
22 MONUMENT SQUARE PORTLAND 3, MAINE<br />
THE CARTER MILLING COMPANY<br />
BRANCHES---Fairfield, Gardiner, Bangor, West Farmington<br />
Manujacturers and Dealers in Livestock and Poultry Feeds<br />
74! MAIN STREET LEWISTON, MAINE<br />
Dial 4-7631<br />
Tydol<br />
Veedol<br />
JIMMY’S GAS STATIONS, INC.<br />
,AUBURN and LEW’ISTO,N,, MAINE<br />
"Service is our Business"<br />
Service Stations- Diners<br />
150 MINOT AVENUE<br />
Main Office<br />
Heating Oils Federal .Tires<br />
AUBURN, MAINE<br />
ANDROSCOGGIN DIE CO., INC.<br />
11 SUMMER STREET<br />
3 MIDDLE STREET<br />
Quality Cutting Dies<br />
CREST SHOE C;OMPANY<br />
AUBURN, MAINE<br />
LEWISTON, MAINE<br />
AUBURN DIE COMPANY, INC.<br />
Makers oj High Grade Cutting Dies<br />
61 WASHINGTON STREET<br />
Telephone 2-1961<br />
342<br />
AUBURN, MAINE
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
McArthur, John F., Ex-Chief, Round Hill Fire Dept., Greenwich<br />
McCray, J. Stanley, Ex-Fire Commissioner, 18 North Park St., Rockville<br />
McCue, John F., Chief, Wethersfield,<br />
McElvery, H. T:, Chief, Sound Be~ch Fire Dept., Old Greenwich<br />
Megin, Fred H., Sr., Chief, Munson Road, Wolc-ott<br />
Merchant, Donald H., Superior American Fire Alarm Co., 85 Tremont St., Meriden<br />
Miller, George .J,, Fire Comm., West Haven<br />
Miner, Edwa-rd, H., Engineer, Seagrave Corp., P. O. Box 402, Chester<br />
Monahan, H. J., 294 Nutmeg Ave., Bridgeport<br />
Md’ody, Clarence E., Chief Engineer, Hazard Ave., Hazardville<br />
Moore, Donald R., Chief, Deep River<br />
Morin, George J., Supt. Fire Apparatus, 72 <strong>New</strong> Haven Ave., Milford<br />
Mullin, John A., Ex-Chief, 31 Lincoln Ave., Old Greenwich<br />
Murdoch, Hugh, Chief Round Hill F. D., Roundhill, Greenwich<br />
Nelson, George S., Chief, Vol. Fire Dept., Andcver<br />
O’Brien, John J., Chief, Weston Vclunteer F: D., R.F.D. 2, Westport<br />
Oddy, Harold W., Chief, Noroton<br />
Ohmen, C. Robert, Chief, <strong>New</strong> Milford<br />
O’Leary, Robert M., Asst. Chief, 61 Pratt St., Meriden<br />
Patterson, G., Chief, Winsor<br />
Pelland, Oscar J., Box 15, Hampton<br />
Perley, R. L., Superior American Fire Alarm & Signal Co., Meriden<br />
Petrucelli, Leonard A., Chief, Meriden<br />
Potter, G. Donald, Easton Vol. F. D., 18 Austin Drive, Easton<br />
Potter, Raymond, Jr., Deputy Chief, Prospect St., SutSeld<br />
Potter, Stuart M., Chief, Greenwich<br />
Pradny, Edward H., Ex-Chief, Tcdd Road~, Woicott, Waterbury 12<br />
Richardson, R. W., Vice Pres., Superior American Fire Alarm & Signal Co., 85 Tremont<br />
St., Meriden<br />
Riordan, Daniel J., Fire Commissioner, Derby<br />
Pdtchie, Tom, Fire Marshal, Stamford Savings Bank, Stamford<br />
Rivard, J. L., Chief, Willimantic<br />
Rizzio, Anthony, Asst. Chief, Bank Street, Derby<br />
Rodgers, Winton B., Ex-Chief, Falls Village<br />
Roman, Tony, Chief, Burville, Torrington<br />
Rourke, Raymond, Fire Commissioner, 18 Kneen Street, Shelton<br />
Rutherford, Arthur N., Box 231, West Hartford<br />
Sanger, John Joseph, Ex-Chief, 1 Fairfield Ave., Old Greenwich<br />
Santy, Frank K., Asst. Chief, 209 Quinn Ave., No. Haven<br />
Sanzor~e, John J:, American LaFrance Foamite Corp., 87 Fern Circle, Waterbury<br />
Sawyer, Orville A., Lieut., Fire Equipment & Supplies, Old Greenwich<br />
Scarlett, George W., Sr., Chief, <strong>New</strong> Britain<br />
Schaffrick, Arthur T., Sr., Former Chief So. Dist. Protective Assn’ 21i East Main<br />
St., Middletown<br />
Schaub, James H., E~-Chief, 105 Highland St,,. South Manchester<br />
Schlissel, George H., Chief, West Shore F. D., West Haven<br />
Scl{olz, C. M., Wright Power Saw {.~? Tool Corp., 292 Longbrook Ave., Stratford<br />
.Scully, Francis, Chief, Waterbury<br />
343
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
GEORGE Ro .BASCOM "CO., Inc.<br />
HEATING ENGINEERS<br />
Zenith Automatic. Oil Burner Manujacturers<br />
Pressure Atomi=ing Type Residence-Apartment ~ Industrial<br />
Jobbers in Heating - ComPlete ~Systems - Burner-Boiler Units<br />
950 OLD COLONY PARKWAY BOSTON 22,. MASS. GEneva 6-4330<br />
GOULD OIL BURNER ~COMPANY<br />
ManuJacturers oJ Oil Burners . Heating Equipment<br />
Complete Line <strong>of</strong> Shell Head Burners<br />
107 TERRACE STREET BOSTON 20, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
Telephone Highlands 5-0583<br />
¢ATALYTI¢ JET’HEAD<br />
~ALTHAM OIL BURNER COo<br />
]214 BENNINGTON STREET EAST BOSTON 28, MASS.<br />
26 PARK STREET<br />
120 FULTON STREET<br />
OIL COMPANY<br />
Power Burners Installed<br />
CHARLESTO~VN, MASS.<br />
Tel. CH 2-0526<br />
ELEVATORS DUMBWAITERS FIREDOORS<br />
Residence and Hospital Elevators<br />
GEO. T. McLAUTHLIN CO.<br />
SINCE 1847<br />
CA 7-3760<br />
Over a Century <strong>of</strong> Service<br />
BOSTON, MASS.<br />
..<br />
SHERIDAN & FITZGERALD, INC.<br />
Wholesalers * Importers ¯ Wines ¯ Liquors<br />
940 COMMONWEALTH AVE. ,:! BOSTON 15,~ MASS.<br />
~ =<br />
Telephone BEacon 2-5550 ,<br />
344
NEW ~ ENGLAND’!,ASSOCIATION% OF:FIRE CHIEFS<br />
Shanaghan, Edward: Ex-Chief, Vol. Fire Dept., East Had,dam<br />
Shanaghan, John, Asst’. Chief, E: Haddam Vol.-Fire Co.’,. MooduS<br />
Shaw, William T., Ex-.Chief, 134 Columbia St., <strong>New</strong> Britain<br />
Shillady, Robert A., 3 Mountainview Drive, West Hartford<br />
Shipman, Thomas H., Chief, 21 Mansfield t~d., <strong>New</strong> London<br />
Shippey, Harold;~ Chief,; Westport ~ ~-, ~, ¯<br />
Short, Winthrop E., Chief, 25 Reynolds St., Danielson<br />
Sikor;kl; S~i-O., Plant Supervisor <strong>of</strong> Protection, ,Remington Arms, 939 Barnum Ave.,<br />
Bridgeport~ ’<br />
Skirba, Charles, 100 Ciineon Ave., S~amford ~<br />
Smith, Fred, Chief, Turn <strong>of</strong> Rivfir Fire"~Dept. ~, Stamford<br />
Smith, George L., Chief, Remington Arms:Col, 36 L)tkeview Ave., Shelton<br />
Smith, Hugh T., Jr., Superior American Fire Alarm & Signal Co.., Meriden<br />
Spencer, Raymon d C., Chief, Hamden<br />
Steff, Howard N., Seagrave Corp., P. O, Box 43, Hazardville<br />
Stoddard, William F., Leon R. Meaney ’Co., Greenwich<br />
Sullivan, Wm~ A., Detective Sgt., Conn. State Police, 165 Card~nal St., Bridgeport<br />
Swan, James W., Chief, 7 Swan Ave., Seymour<br />
Syme, David D., Chief, Scotland Dept., R.F.D. 2, Williman.tic<br />
Taylor, Carlton, Chief, Greenfield Hill, 147 Perry St., Fairfield<br />
Taylor, Kenneth F., Ex-Chief, Railroad St., <strong>New</strong> Milford<br />
Thoben, Theodore B., Capt., Shaker Pines Lake F. D., Hazardville<br />
Thomas, Henry G., Chief, Hartford<br />
Treat, Earl W., Lieut., F. D., 51 Wilder St., Watertown<br />
Troy, John M., Deputy Chief, Greenwich<br />
Tweed, John H. Jr., Asst. Chief, P. O. Box 4, Branford<br />
Urquhart, Ross V., Fire Comm., Marshal’s ONce, Hartford<br />
Veit, Victor H., Chief, Stamford<br />
Vinton, Arthur J., Chief, R.F.D 1, Coventry<br />
Volk, Chas. A., Chief, Norwalk<br />
Wallace, C. Harold, ’Chief, Windsor Locks<br />
Washburn, John A., Chief, Main St;, SuNeld<br />
Waterbury, Harrison, Chief, Cos ’Cob<br />
Wendell, William N., Chief, Ensign ~Bickford Co.; F. D., Old Mill Lane, Simsbur,~<br />
White, Herbert P., Chief, Groton<br />
Wildey, Charles A., Asst. Chief, Sound Beach F. D., Riverside<br />
Wochomurka, Edward, Ex-Chief, Tolland<br />
Wood, Ernest .W., Fire Marshal, Branford<br />
Zint, Frank M., Chief Plant Protection, Electrolux Corp., Fores~ Ave., Old Greenwich<br />
Zvonkovic, John, Chief, Branford<br />
Zygmont, Michael, Chief Gl~nville FifeHouse, Glenville<br />
NEW YORK<br />
Beardslee, F. W., Mack Motor Truck Co., 34th St. and 48th Ave., Long Island City,<br />
<strong>New</strong> York<br />
Bjorck, Nils G., Ward LaFrance Truck Div., Elmira<br />
Blowers, Ralph F., 53 Woodward Avenue, Gloversville
9 FRANKLIN STREET<br />
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
BRIDE, GRIMES & CO.<br />
LAWRENCE, MASS.<br />
JohnC. Tombar¢llo & Sons, Inc. - ~<br />
Dealers in all Types oj 1Vaste Materials<br />
"Good Feeling Goes with Square Dealing"<br />
Papers - Rags - Metals - Scrap Iron - Rubber - Batteries<br />
20"/ MARSTON STREET<br />
Telephones 2-1064 - 2-40"~6<br />
LAWRENCE, MASS.<br />
SPENCER A. McLELLAN, President HOLLIS FARROW, Treasurer<br />
GEO. E. WARREN HEATINGCORP.<br />
41 FARRAR STREET (Rear 202 Broad St.) LYNN, MASS.<br />
Service LY 3-3535 Sales<br />
Nights and Sundays--Emergency OnlymMr. Farrow LYnn 2-7003<br />
Prompt Oil Burne~" and Stoker Service<br />
-- Same Men Who Have Served You For Over 10 Years --<br />
HARBOR AUTO SALES CO.<br />
8./0 BROAD STREET<br />
4"/ EVERETT AVE.<br />
Used Cars - Parts m Bought - Sold<br />
Largest Display in <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong><br />
Phone LYnn 3-3344 :<br />
CANTERS MONUMENTS<br />
Drive Carejully--lVe Can lVait<br />
CH 3-1562<br />
LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
CHELSEA, MASS.<br />
JOSEPH W. CASSIDY, President<br />
JAMES COTTER & CO., INC.<br />
Insurance Contract, Surety and Probate Bonds<br />
30 CENTRAL AVE.<br />
Insure with James Co~ter ~ Co.<br />
Lynn 3-2332<br />
LYNN, MASS.
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
Calkin, John B., 500 Fifth Avenue at 42nd St., <strong>New</strong> York, N. Y.<br />
Case, I. H., "Fire Engineering", 24 West 40th St., <strong>New</strong> York<br />
Curtis, Dennis D., <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong> Sales Mgr., Power-Pak Products, Buffalo<br />
Dwyer, John T., Eureka Fire Hose, 195 Hudson St., <strong>New</strong> York 13, N. Y.<br />
Eckman, Wm. G., Jr., Scott Aviation Co~p.,~, Lancaster, N. Y.<br />
Geer, Howard S., Ex-Fire Captain, 83 Fremd Ave., Rye, <strong>New</strong> York<br />
Halligan, Hugh, Deputy Chief, <strong>New</strong> York Fire Dept., 1505 Metropolitan Ave., <strong>New</strong><br />
York<br />
Meier,~.~= :io..O., Fire Hose Division, Hewitt-Robins Inc., Buffalo, <strong>New</strong> York<br />
O’:Bri~i:;John J., O’Brien Rotary Cutter, 90-39 54th Ave., Elmhurst, Long Island<br />
Olson, V. Herbert, Four Wheel Drive Auto Company, 52 Sugar Maple Rd., Hicksville<br />
Smith, D. B. & Co., Utica, Thomas M. Burton, Rep., "Indian Fire Pumps"<br />
Smith, Jonas R,, Sales Mgr., Eureka Fire Hose Div., United States Rubber Co,, 195<br />
Hudson St., <strong>New</strong> York<br />
Stillman, Timothy G., Chief, Cornwall-Hudson, <strong>New</strong> York<br />
Sullivan, A. W., A.D.T. Co., 155 Sixth Ave., <strong>New</strong> York; N. Y.<br />
Tilley, Frank E., Eureka Fire Hose, 1230 Sixth Ave., <strong>New</strong> York, N. Y.<br />
Veit, John O., Pres., C. G. Braxmar Co., 216 E. 45th St., <strong>New</strong> York<br />
.Veit, John O., Jr., Treas., C. G. Braxmar Co., 21.6 E. 45th St., <strong>New</strong> York<br />
Walker, Hubert, American LaFrance Co., Elmira, N. Y. ’<br />
Whitver, Cliff, Federal Enterprises, 551 Fifth Ave., <strong>New</strong> York, N. Y.<br />
Wilb~rt, George H., Metcalf Bros., 45 East 17th St., <strong>New</strong> York, N. Y.<br />
NEW JERSEY<br />
Bilby, Arthur W., Chief, Montclair<br />
Cairns, Edward, Cairns & Bros., Firemen’s Uniforms, 854 Bloomfield Ave., Allwoo, I.<br />
Clifton, N.~J.<br />
Day, Gus L., Ex-Chief, Fire & Police Equipment, Mendham<br />
Ertle, Frank J., Ex-Chief, 262 Armstrong Ave., Jersey City<br />
Green, Freelan~ Chief, 11 Clinton St.., Morristown<br />
Gussner, Thomas F., Chief, Bloomfield<br />
Hayes, J. David, Chief, Millburn<br />
Hutch, Andrew, Chief, Nutley -<br />
Keenan, John B., Director Public Safety, ’City Hall, <strong>New</strong>ark, N. J.<br />
McGinley, Chas. A., Ex-Chief, 52 Ampere Parkway, East Orange<br />
Murray, Thomas J., Chief, Summit<br />
Priest, George-T., Chief; Curtiss-Wright Corp’., 24 Church St., Montclair<br />
Russoman, Joseph V., Fire Commissioner, 117 Liberty St., Bloomfield<br />
Short,. Eugene F., Ex-Chief, 32 Broad,ray, <strong>New</strong>ark, N. J.<br />
ALASKA<br />
Burns, George, Chief, Anchorage, Alaska<br />
OHIO<br />
Byrne, Emmet H., Battalion Chief, Cleveland<br />
Dryden,.C.R., B. F. Goodrich Company, Akron<br />
.Schellin, John C., 1574 Cleveland Rd., Wooster, Ohio<br />
347 ~<br />
" ’
NEW EINGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS-<br />
GAS Inc~<br />
Liquefied Petroleum Gas Service Jot <strong>New</strong> <strong>England</strong><br />
81-95 =EAST MERRIMACK STREET ~ LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
A~:lan~:ic Parachu~:.e C::orpora~:io,n<br />
750 SUFFOLK STREET LOWELL, MASS.<br />
COMPLIMENTS OF<br />
The Lowell Five Cen~: Savings Banl~<br />
Serving Lowell and Vicinity Since ]854<br />
34 JOHN STREET LOWELL, I~IASS:<br />
ARLINGTON TRUST COMPANY<br />
MEMBER FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORP.<br />
305 ESSEX STREET, 9 BROADWAY LAWRENCE, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
PARIS SHOE CO., inc.<br />
Manufacturers <strong>of</strong> Children’s Fine Footwear<br />
95 BRIDGE STREET LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
Telephone Lowell 2-4767<br />
WILLIAM L. COLMER<br />
¯<br />
: .<br />
ARTHUR J. COLMER<br />
COLMER MONUMENT ~WORKS<br />
Cemetery ~ork in Granite, Marble, Slate~ Bronze and Lettering<br />
1001 LAWRENCE STREET NEAR LOWELL CEMETERY-<br />
348
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
Smith, George L., Republic Rubber Division, Youngstown, Ohio<br />
Stevenson, Lester, The Seagrave Corporation, Columbus, Ohio<br />
MICHIGAN<br />
McGraw, Clarence T., President Circu.l-Air Corporation, ~7~ Milwaukee Ave,<br />
Detroit -<br />
Noyes, E. J., Sales Mgr., Fire Equipment Dept., John Bean Division,-Bbx 840,<br />
Lansing<br />
PENNSYLVANIA<br />
Ellis, F. Leonard, Mgr., Quaker Rubber Corp., Philadelphia 24, Pa.<br />
Lee, Arthur F., Quaker Rubber Corp., Comly & State Rd., Philadelphia<br />
Noyes, Russell L., Fire Marshal, Fourth Naval Dist., Philadelphia<br />
Penman, P. H., Mgr., Quaker Rubber Corp., 3125 Glenview St., Philadelphia<br />
Wood, R. D,, Co., 400 Chestnut St., Philadelphia<br />
IOWA<br />
McCarthy, E. J., 403 N. Frederick Ave., Oelwein, Iowa<br />
INDIANA<br />
Ashbaugh, Russell G., Elkhart Brass Mfg. Co., Elkhart<br />
Sellers, J. C., Asst. Sales .Mgr., Elkhart Brass Mfg. Co. Inc., Elkhart<br />
Voelkert, R. V., Asst Sec’y, Elkhart Brass Mfg. Co., Elkhart, Ind.<br />
CALl FORN IA<br />
Flanders, Everett I., Former Mass. State Fire Marshal, Lago Lindo, Rancho Santa Fe<br />
COLORADO<br />
Bryan, W. S., Asst. Chief, 2969 Foster Court, Denver<br />
VIRGINIA<br />
Oren Roanoke Corporation, F. S. Brigham, Gen’l Mgr., P. O. Box 264, Roanoke<br />
SOUTH CAROLINA<br />
Clayton, William B., Chief F.D. Marine Corps Recruit Depot., Parris Island, South<br />
Carolina<br />
FLORIDA<br />
Cobb, Gecrge F., Lew Boulevard, St. Augustine<br />
Cornwall, R. E., ~Box 362, Titusville, Florida<br />
Ricker, Eugene, Chief Fire Dept., Bldg. 727, Apt. E, Woolsey Court, U. S. Naval<br />
Air Station, Pensacola, Florida<br />
MISSISSIPPI<br />
Jagger, James E., 33 ~ Pa~e Street, Forest, Mississippi
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
COMPLIMENTS<br />
<strong>of</strong><br />
SERVICE BUS CO.<br />
REVERE, MASS.<br />
BEACH SUPPLY COMPANY<br />
W’HOLESALE<br />
Plumbing, Heating and Building Supplies<br />
203 SHIRLEY AVENUE REVERE, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
258 BOULEVARD<br />
REvere 8-1932 - 8-5591<br />
J. VICTOR SHAYEB<br />
REVERE BEACH, MASS.<br />
ARCHITECTURAL WOODWORK CO.<br />
Builders Finish. - Cabinetmaking - Store Fixtures<br />
3 LEXINGTON STREET WAVERLY, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
BElmont 5-6308<br />
WINSLOW CHIP COMPANY<br />
INCORPORATED<br />
<strong>New</strong> Process Potato Chips~ Pop Corn<br />
Vacuum Packed Potato Sticks<br />
MARBLEHEAD, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
Telephone 0228<br />
GEORGE H. GRISWOLD, inc.<br />
~Vegetable Tanning Extracts~<br />
PURE.TAN BRAND<br />
14. FRANKLIN STREET SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
350
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
CANADA<br />
Maitland, Geo. C., Chief Terrace Bay Fire Dept., ©1~tario, Canada<br />
Scott, XV. J., Fire Marshal, Toronto, Ontario<br />
Shepard, Jack, Chief Sutton Fire Brigade, Sutton, Quebec<br />
WISCONSIN<br />
Adams, John Q., Regional Sales Engr., Seaman Motors, Inc., Milwaukee, Wisconsin<br />
LIFE MEMBERSHIP<br />
General Electric Company, Lynn, Massachusetts ¯<br />
Winslow, Herbert H., 221 Market Starter, Lynn, Massachusetts<br />
HONORARY MEMBERSHIP LIST<br />
Reny, Edward A., Ex-Chief, Westbrook, Me.<br />
Spear, Charles O., Ex-Chief, 96 Goudy St., South Portland, Me.<br />
Sargent, Fred M., Ex-Chief, Sunapee, N. H.<br />
Hutchinson., Fred A., Chief, White River Jot., Vermont<br />
Chase, Robert R., Ex-Chief, 20 Depot ~Street, Cheshire, Mass.<br />
DeCourcey, D. H., Ex-Chief, 14 Westley St., Winchester, Mass.<br />
Fox, Henry A., Ex-Chief, 15 Alaric St., West Roxbury, Mass.<br />
Gately, John J., Ex-Chief, Hood Rubber ~Co., 45 Robbins Rd., Watertown, Mass.<br />
Gorman, John J., Ex-Chief, 1 Warwick Terr., Winchester, Mass.<br />
Haddock, Henry, Retired Asst. Chief, 65 Victory Rd., Lynn, Mass.<br />
Healy, D. Edward, Oper. Elect. Fire g~ Police =Dept., Retired, 1397 Main St.,<br />
Worcester, Mass.<br />
Jordan, William T., 23 Alden Road, Watertown, Mass.<br />
Lane, Edward B., Retired Chief, Box 96,.Wellfleet, Mass.<br />
Imring, Mason L., Former Deputy Chief, Hingham, Mass.<br />
McDonough, John F., Retired Chief, Boston Fire Dept., 122 Montclair Avenue,<br />
Roslindale, Mass.<br />
oands, William J., Former Chief, 112 Wet.dell Ave., Quincy, Mass.<br />
Small, Robert O., Retired Director <strong>of</strong> Vocaticnal Education, Commonwealth <strong>of</strong><br />
Mass., 70 Dane St., Beverly, Mass.<br />
8oper, Arthur E., Ex-Chief, Mansfield, Mass., 1814 Mid Rd., Colorado Springs,<br />
Colorado ¯<br />
Stackpole, Charles F., Ex-Chief, 25 Grace Street, Lowell, Mass<br />
Stratton, M. Norcross, Director <strong>of</strong> Vocational Education, Commonwealth <strong>of</strong> Mass.,<br />
11 Trowbridge St., Arlington, Mass.<br />
Sullivan, Col. Thomas, Police Commissioner, Boston, Mass.<br />
Warnock, James, Retired Chief, 179 Burrill Street, Swampscott, Mass.<br />
Booth, Charles L., Ex-Fire Commissioner, 40 Greene St., East Greenwich, R. I.<br />
Charlesworth, Frank, Retired Chief, Providence, R. I., U. S. Naval Air Sta., Quonset.<br />
Pt., 108 Pontiac Ave., Cranston, R. I.<br />
Bogardus, George W., Ex-Chief, So. Norwalk, Ct., ~27 ~th St., St. Petersburg, Fla.<br />
Carrigan, C. J., Ex-Chief, 10 Haase Ave., Terryville, Connecticut<br />
851
NEW ENGLANDASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
LOT PHILLIPS & CO, CORPORATION<br />
WEST HANOVER<br />
1Vooden Boxes<br />
RESEARCH MACHINE COMPANY<br />
Glass Grinding . Research V/ork . Engraving<br />
6"/ WHIDDEN AVENUE<br />
Telephone, Whitman 1256-W<br />
MASS.<br />
WHITMAN, MASS.<br />
AINSLIE ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS, Inc.<br />
312 QUINCY AVENUE<br />
Compliments <strong>of</strong><br />
SOUTH STREET<br />
HANSON<br />
ASSINIPPI P. O.<br />
Tei. Rockland 1488-W<br />
Telephone PResident 3-2284<br />
RAY, MIKE & DICK<br />
QUINCY 69, MASS.<br />
WALPOLE, MASS.<br />
OCEAN SPRAY .<br />
¯<br />
Cranberry Products . The Growers’ Brand .~ -<br />
N. BARNICOAT CO.<br />
. . Monuments .<br />
352<br />
ONSET, MASSACHUSETTS:<br />
MASS.<br />
Routes 3 and 123<br />
~ .
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
Clark, Horace B., Ex-Fire Comm., 21 Woodland St., Hartford, Conn.<br />
Downey, James A., Ex-Chief, 138 Long Hill Rd., Wallingford, Conn.<br />
Judson, Alien D., Former Chief, Stratford, Connecticut<br />
Lamphere, L. L., Former Chief, 2 Johnson St., Naugatuck<br />
Loller, Charles P., Retired Fire Marshal; 539 Pine Rock Ave., Hamden<br />
McPh~rsdri, Doriald S., Ex-Chief, Winsted!, .Cqn n.<br />
Meunier, J. Frank, EX-Chief, 738 Burnsid’e Ave., East Hartfor.d<br />
Noble, William Ji, EX-Chief, 67-Harrison St., <strong>New</strong> Britain, Conn.<br />
Pachl, Johh .S., State Dept.i <strong>of</strong> Education, 727 Woodward Ave., <strong>New</strong> Haven, Conn.<br />
Shepperd, Fred, Editor, Fire Engineering, 24 West 40th Street, <strong>New</strong> York, N. Y.<br />
Woolley, Roi, Asst. Editor, "Fire Engineering", 24 W. 40th St., <strong>New</strong> York, N. 5~.,<br />
Technical Consultant, N. E. Fire Chiefs<br />
Callahan, Andrew T., Ex-Chief, 714 Williams St., Harrison, <strong>New</strong> Jersey<br />
Hoy..t, Rev. H. Chester, Chaplain Emeritus, 833 W. 48th St],:R-t~ No. 2, Sarasota,<br />
Florida<br />
Bogan, Robert A., Chief, Baton Rouge, La.<br />
Delaney, Charles A., Chief, Lakewood, Ohio<br />
INSURANCE BROKERS SE:CTION<br />
Boston<br />
Estabrook, Harold M., Aetna Insurance Co., 40 Broad St., Boston<br />
Everett, Douglas. N., Ins., Broker, Morrill ~ Everett, Concord, N. H.<br />
Field, Eddy N Bulkley, 1200 Main St., Springfield, Mass.<br />
Fisher, Frank M., State Agt., <strong>New</strong> Hampshire Fire Ins. Co., 40 Broad St., Boston,<br />
Mass.<br />
Fitzhegbert, M. S., Insurance Broker, 21 Beacon Ave., Auburn, Maine<br />
Flanders, Haven E., Pres., By, s.e Insurance Agency, 63~ Main St., Laconia,! N. H.<br />
Haller, Julius, OBrion, Russell Co., 108 Water St., Boston<br />
Hartshorne, J..M., 3 Chestnut Street, Wakefield<br />
Hurst, ’Carl E., State Agent, Conn. Fire Ins: Cd., 40 l~road St., Boston, Mass.<br />
Johnson, Walter A., Engr. Employers’ Fire Ins. Co., 481 Pleasant St., Malden, Mass.<br />
Martir~; Edward J., Vice President, The Phoenix Insurance Co., 30 Trinity St., Hartford,<br />
’Conn.<br />
McWalter, John J., 34 Main St., Concord, Mas~.<br />
Thomas, Clyde S., 7 Rock St., Middleboro, Mass.
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF ~IRE CHIEFS<br />
W. S. CASSIDY, INC.<br />
~ontia~ ~ale~ an~ ~erl~ict<br />
415 FEDERAL STREET GREENFIELD, MASS.<br />
Telephone 4541<br />
GEORGE V. CORSIGLIA COMPANY<br />
Established 1898<br />
Plumbing. Heating and Sheet Metal IVork<br />
17 FEDERAL STREET, GREENFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
Telephone 6767<br />
Compliments oI<br />
Lamson & Goodnow Mfg. Co.<br />
SHELBURNE FALLS, MASS.<br />
Manujacturers oj fine Cutlery since 1837<br />
ESTABLISHED 1881 INCORPORATED 1896<br />
KIMBALL & CARY COMPANY<br />
Retail Dealers in<br />
TIMKEN OIL Hard and S<strong>of</strong>t Coals, Coke and Charcoal SILENT GLOW<br />
BURNERS Fuel, Furnace and Range Oil OIL BURNERS<br />
12 MAIN STREET Telephone 3500 NORTHAMPTON, MASS.<br />
COMPLIMENTS OF<br />
The Safety Fund National Bank<br />
358 MAIN STREET<br />
FITCHBURG, MASS.<br />
Incorporated ] 869<br />
The Friendly Bank<br />
Mansion House Block<br />
354<br />
GREENFIELD, MASS.
ASSOCIATION OF FIRE OI-IIEF~<br />
TOTAL MEMBERS, NOVEMBER, 1953<br />
(Includes Honorary, Insurance and Life Members)<br />
MAINE .................................................................................................................. 92<br />
NEW HAMPSHIRE .......................................................................................... 104<br />
VERMONT .................................................................. ........................................ 39<br />
MASSACHUSETTS ............................................................................................ 633<br />
RHODE ISLAND ................................................................................................ 109<br />
CONNECTICUT ................................................................................................ 205<br />
NEW YORK ........................................................................................................ 25<br />
NEW JERSEY ............................................... ¯ ....................................................... 1~<br />
PENNSYLVANIA .............................................................................................. ~ ~<br />
OHIO ..................................................................................................................... 6<br />
INDIANA ............................................................................................................ 3<br />
VIROINIA ................. . .......................................................................................... 1<br />
COLORADO ........................................................................................................ 1<br />
LO’UISIANA ........................................................................................................ 1<br />
’FLORIDA .............................................................................................................. ~<br />
MICHIGAN 2<br />
8OUTH CAROLINA ................................................................... : ...................... 1<br />
CALIFORNIA ...................................................................................................... 1 .<br />
CANADA ........................................................................................................... 3<br />
ALASKA " 1<br />
IOWA .................................................................................................................... 1<br />
MISSISSIPPI ........................................................................................................ ~<br />
1<br />
WISCONSIN ........................................ , ................................................................ 1<br />
TOTAL ......................................................................................................... 12~5<br />
WINSTON CO. OF MASS.<br />
Distributors o~ the MASTERFLAME<br />
Boiler - Burner~. Package<br />
128 ERIE STREET DORCHESTER 21, MASS.<br />
Tel. AV 2-4600<br />
355
Compliments oj<br />
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FII%E CHIEFS<br />
Westerbeke Fishing Gear Coo Inco<br />
o!<br />
BOSTON AND GLOUCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
ELI GLICKSON<br />
Oscar Gli~ksor~ Upholstery Corporal:ion<br />
Manufacturers o~ Upholstered Furniture<br />
63 ENDICOTT STREET, HAYMARKET SQUARE BOSTON 14, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
Telephones CApitol 7-0] 46 and 7-0147<br />
CI 7-7518 JA 4-3011<br />
KEOUGH’S EXPRESS<br />
Local and Long Distance Moving<br />
Goods Insured While in Transit<br />
Residence Office<br />
33 UNION AVENUE 4 CAMBRIA STREET<br />
JAMAICA PLAIN BOSTON, MASS.<br />
TREMONT-OLD COLONY PLATING CO.<br />
Barrel Plating<br />
Nickel - Tin - Chromium - Cadmium - Zinc - Ebonol - Silver - Brass and Copper<br />
Metal Finishing - Buffing and Lacquering - All Work Guaranteed<br />
J. F. HARNEY - W. H. HARNEY<br />
135 OLD COLONY AVENUE SOUTH BOSTON, MASS.<br />
Telephone SO 8-3784 - 3785<br />
O’HARA BROS. COMPANY, Inc.<br />
IVholesale FISH Dealers<br />
EXECUTIVE OFFICES---Z2 BOSTON FISHPIER, BOSTON, MASS.<br />
ESTABLISHED 1848<br />
ERNEST W. BRIGHAM<br />
CABLE ADDRESS: HILTWEST<br />
FERDINAND B. BRIGHAM<br />
CODES: A.B.C.Sth EDITION<br />
ARNO 1. DREW<br />
BENTLEYS<br />
BRIGHAM & DREW<br />
Formerly Farnsworth, Stevenson & Co,<br />
268 SUMMER STREET<br />
356<br />
BOSTON
N~W ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
CAPE COD<br />
Directly on the Ocean<br />
Excellent Cuisine, Attractive Appointments IVarm Sea Bathing<br />
Cocktail Lounge - Dancing Nightly Season m June 27th Thru Labor Day<br />
MICHAEL A. AMES, Managing Director Phone Falmouth 1200<br />
FALMOUTH AUTO BODY, INC.<br />
Gulj Products<br />
OIL and GAS m LUBRICATION<br />
All Kinds oj Auto Body Repairs and Painting<br />
294 PALMER AVENUE " Telephone 1095 FALMOUTH, MASS.<br />
CENTRAL CLEANSERS<br />
CERTIFIED CLEANSING<br />
Office and Plant MILTON, MASSACHUSETTS 12-14 CENTRAL AVENUE<br />
Phone CUnningham 6-3000<br />
GODFREY FUEL CO.<br />
COAL ~ OIL ~ COKE<br />
64 ADAMS STREET MILTON, MASS.<br />
BLuehills 8-0500<br />
"LET THE RED FLEET DELIVER THE HEAT"<br />
MILTON SAVINGS BANK<br />
MILTON, MASSACHUSETTS<br />
HODGES MILL NO. 2<br />
IVoolens - Cottons - Drapery Fabrics - Rayon Fabrics<br />
Mill Remnants<br />
BUSSEY STREET EAST DEDHAM, MASS.<br />
Phone DE 3-0550<br />
,
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
NEedham ~-2040 - ~- 1 zl. 15 Res. NEedham _q-2~81<br />
JOHN MUZI<br />
MUZI MOTORS, Inc.<br />
Chrysler.Plymouth<br />
CARS BOUGHT - SOLD<br />
RESERVOIR STREET NEEDHAM HEIGHTS 9Zl ., MASS.<br />
AGRICO<br />
Manufactured Only by<br />
THE AMERICAN AGRICULTURAL CHEMICAL COMPANY<br />
NORTH WEYMOUTH, MASS.<br />
PARK CENTRAL HOTEL<br />
FRAMINGHAM, MASS.<br />
Compliments oj<br />
BERSWORTH CHEMICAL CO.<br />
FRAMINGHAM, MASS.<br />
NATIONAL BATTERY COMPANY<br />
303 MECHANIC STREET MARLBORO, MASS.<br />
General Offices: SAINT PAUL I, MINNESOTA<br />
Pumps - Engines - Hydraulic Systems - Complete Brake and Electrical Service<br />
All Makes Fire Apparatus Repaired<br />
Telephone MAyflower<br />
HEDLUND MOTOR t20.,<br />
Authorized Service Engineers Jor The Seagrave Corp.<br />
:3~0 QUINCY AVENUE QUINCY 69, MASS.<br />
358.
NEW E~N’GLANY) ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
LIVE HIGH ON A LOW BUDGET<br />
Buy your Home Furnishings . Apparel . Appliances<br />
Gifts . Sporting Goods<br />
AT WING’S<br />
blew Bedford’s 78 Year Old "Friendly" Store<br />
Come in and open a .Charge Account Tomorrow!<br />
SULLIVAN FOSTER, Inc.-<br />
Building Construction<br />
NEW’ BEDFORD MASSACH USETTS<br />
COMPLIMENTS OF<br />
¯ NEW BEDFORD<br />
INSTITUTION FOR SAVINGS<br />
NEW BEDFORD MASSACHUSETTS<br />
BEETLE BOAT CO., Inc.<br />
Molders <strong>of</strong> Reinforced Plastics<br />
FOOT OF GRINNELL STREET NEW" BEDFORD, MASS.<br />
SAGMANCO, Inc.<br />
Manufacturers <strong>of</strong> Sportswear<br />
PROSPECT STREET NEW BEDFORD, MASS.-<br />
COMPLI MENTS OF<br />
SOUTH WEYMOUTH SAVINGS BANK<br />
SOUTH WEYMOUTH MASSACHUSETTS
NEW EN,GLAND ASSOCIATION oF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
CHESHIRE GAS SERVICE CO.<br />
Pyro~ax Bottled Gas<br />
Servel Gas Refrigerators - Water Heaters - Magic Chef Ranges<br />
Restauran~ Equipment - Gas Brooders<br />
P. O. Box 49<br />
Telephone 2_-392-R<br />
599 MAIN STREET<br />
KEENE, N. H.<br />
HOMESTEAD WOOLEN MILLS, INC.<br />
WEST SWANZEY NEW HAMPSHIRE<br />
DAVIS OIL COMPANY, INC.<br />
Phone 848 ~ J. EARL DAVIS, President<br />
Wholesale and Retail Fuel Oils - Oil Transportation<br />
559 MAIN STREET KEENE, N. H.<br />
TROY<br />
TROY BLANKET MILLS<br />
Incorporated J~n. 188"7<br />
NASHUA<br />
COAL- OIL- COMPANY<br />
INC.<br />
HEATING, E~UIPMENT<br />
NEW HAMPSHIRE<br />
Fields Point Manufacturing Corporation<br />
PROVIDENCE 5, R. I.<br />
860
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
ATWOOD-COSTELLO, INC.<br />
Chevrolet . Oldsmobile<br />
67 EVERETT STREET MIDDLEBORO, MASS.<br />
57 WAREHAM STREET<br />
ESTABLISHED ] 884<br />
LLOYD PERKINS-<br />
Plumbing - Heating<br />
SON<br />
MIDDLEBORO, MASS.<br />
LINCOLN GRANITE COMPANY, l.nc.<br />
Manu]acture~’s o] Memorials, Ma~soleums~ Mar~er~<br />
COR. LIBERTY AND QUINCY STREETS QUINCY, MASS.<br />
Office and Plant Telephone PRes:.dent 3-0207<br />
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WM. T.<br />
29 STATE STREET<br />
HUMPHREYS AGENCY, Inc.<br />
INSURANCE<br />
Phone 456<br />
NEWBRYPORT, MASS.<br />
IPSWIGH MOTOR GOMPANY, Inc.<br />
15-19 SOUTH MAIN STREET<br />
Telephones 870 and<br />
IPSWICH, MASS.<br />
A. RANANDO, Prop.<br />
Tel. REvere 8-7168<br />
REVERE AUTO~ EXCHANGE<br />
Automobiles Bought and Sold<br />
Used Cars and Trucks ~ We Buy for Junk<br />
- :- Our Aim to Satisfy You -:-<br />
1059 BROADW’AY REVERE, MASS.<br />
361
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
NEbV,/ BRITAIN IRON bv/ORKS, INC.<br />
Structural Steel~ Fire Escapes<br />
And All Kinds <strong>of</strong> Ornamental Iron Work<br />
(Rear) 211 NORTH STREET NEW BRITAIN, CONN.<br />
Telephone 9-2139<br />
THE ~ROGERS SASH & DOOR CO.<br />
Sash~ Doors and Finish<br />
Warehouses at Hartford and <strong>New</strong> Britain, Conn.<br />
189 CHESTNUT STREET NEW BRITAIN, CONN.<br />
BESSONI BROTHERS, INC.<br />
Contractors and Builders<br />
274 LAWLOR STREET NEW BRITAIN, CONN.<br />
Phone BA :3-7781<br />
THE, DONNELLY BRICK COo<br />
Manu]acturers <strong>of</strong> Pallet Face~ Sewer and Front Brick<br />
NEW BRITAIN CONN.<br />
THE SHERMAN SAND & STONE CO.<br />
PRODUCERS AND DEALERS<br />
Certified Sand--Gravel--Crushed Stone--Ready Mixed<br />
Concrete--Trucking<br />
614 W. MAIN STREET NEW BRITAIN, CONN.<br />
Telephone Baldwin 9-2095<br />
RADIANT-RAY RADIATION, INC.<br />
Radiant-Ray Brand Baseboard Heating<br />
900 WEST MAIN STREET NEW BRITAIN, CONN.<br />
Telephone 3-0322<br />
362 .<br />
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NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
GREEN TEXTILE ASSOCIATES<br />
INCORPORATED<br />
TEXTILE WASTE<br />
222 SUMMER STREET BOSTON 10, MASS.<br />
Rust aster Chemical Companr<br />
Massachusetts Limited Partnership<br />
CREIGHTON STREET CAMBRIDGE, MASS.<br />
Telephone UN 4-3200<br />
INTERNATIONAL, EQUIPMENT<br />
COMPANY<br />
LABORATORY ~:~ CENTRIFUGES<br />
1284 SOLDIERS FIELD ROAD BOSTON 35, MASS.<br />
"NACONTRACITE" THE IDEAL PAVEMENT<br />
PLANT, SOMERVILLE, MASS.<br />
NATIONAL CONTRACTORS CO.<br />
Bituminous Pavements<br />
1 10 WASHINGTON STREET SOMERVILLE, MASS.<br />
Telephone Connections<br />
363
NEW ENGLAND ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS<br />
WAy FOR<br />
ETER RUNs<br />
AUTOMATIC EMERGENCY LIGHTS<br />
All types and size~ from ~mall dry battery to fully automatic<br />
rechargeable that you ~rdly h~ve to look. at from<br />
year to year.<br />
RECOMMEND "CARPENTER"--THE BEST<br />
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CHIEFS, The most<br />
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cARPENTER-LIGH/b’<br />
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DON’T OVERLOOK<br />
THE<br />
CONNECTING LINK<br />
The connecting link between the private fire alarm system or<br />
sprinkler system and the City Fire Department is the Master Box.<br />
Your fire losses are beyond the curb line. And you aren’t getting<br />
100% value from your alarm system unless your city circuits<br />
are interconnected through the Master Box to industrial plants,<br />
schools and public buildings.<br />
Protect yourself and your citizens all the way. Close up the gap.<br />
Remember, you depend on industry u it’s up to you to protect it,<br />
THE 6AMEWELL COMPANY<br />
. NEWTON UPPER FALLS 64, MASS.<br />
In Canada: Northern Electric Co., Ltd., Belleville, Ontario
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