New Britain Herald Newspaper, April 1, 1930, Page 12

Youth Who Once Pestered Firemen 7o cuiepy o o Now Head of Bristol Department; | Recalls Early Fire Fighting Days i %55 Skl Chief John H. Hayes Fre~’ quently Evicted From, recently sold the building to the will be relocated on |avenue. Zealot Company Organized In 1872 the Zealot Hook Terryville and Relates Rapid Progress of Station — Tells of Pro-j_ |and a horse-drawn truck and sov- {eral ladders, the longest of which | was 40 feet, were purchased. The | building occupied in those days by {the Zealots is now being used by lan automobile agency. The horse- | drawn truck has been convertel . |into a horseless affair, now havin: Bristol Fire Dept. NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, TUESDAY, APRID 1, 1930. Jeremriah E. Sheehan was involved |rett was involved in the accident. Wilson will -be called to the stand at the reopening of pyblic hearings tomorrow. He has béen implicated in testimony as receiving large sums of money from the proprietor of a notorious hotel and his sudden sum- mons has given rise to the belief that he will be questioned concern- ing those charges. He has previous- ly refused ‘“to dignify a lie by a denial.” Interest In Auto Accident The scope of the investigation has widened with the interest of the at- | torney general's office in_an auto- mobile accident in which Policeman several) months ago. After being found guilty of serious charges by a police board and his dismissal rec- ommended, he was found not guilty in municipal court by Judge Charles L. Carr of charges of driving an au- tomobile while under the influence |Sheenan was formerly one of Gar- rett’s raiding squad. Harvard Senior Marries New York Girl of 18 New York, April 1 (® — A ro- of liquor and with negligent opera-|mance aboard a transatlantic liner tion of the machine. Wants Facts on Crash Police Commissioner Wilson found him guilty of three minor infrac- | more, socially ‘scnior and college athlete, and Miss |last June resulted in the marriage here yesterday of William T. Wet- prominent Harvard tions of police rules. The attorney |Joan Deery. general's office said ysterday they Wetmore, who is 23 years ‘old, is were interested in knowing if Gar-|a member of the school football | team and is a crack hockey player. His bride is 18. They plan to re- side in Boston until he completes his college course. Wetmore is a son of Mrs. Charles D. Wetmore of New York by her first husband, Frederick Watriss. Miss Deery is a daughter of Arthur Deery, New York investment broker. Canada Plans to Tax Trawler Caught Fish Halifax, April 1 (M—A tax on trawler-caught fish landed at Ca- adian Atlantic ports went into ef- fect at midnight. Under the new regulations, all trawlers not built in Canada must pay one cent per found on cod, haddock and halibut, while traw- lers built in Canada must pay twoe thirds of a cent. The tax will not apply to “scrod,” that is small cod or haddock weighe ing less than two and one-haif pounds. Also nt will not be efs fective during the months of Janue ary, February and March. USE HERALD CLASSIFIED ADS FOR BEST RESULTS a motor truck to pull it, and housed at the Welch station Forestville. The residents of Forestvilie Jouglit: assteat’ eneme and ainose| carriage and organized a company, (Specialsto a | 4 _known as Weleh Steam Fire In- Bristol, March 31.—From a merc | | gine and Hose Co. No. 1, in 1851. The steam fire engines were util- boy, who loitered about and | i time and again put out of the oll e | introduction of a system of wate: 1f t E 5 3 7| | works in 1885, when engines wer | rendered practically unnecessary because of the presence of wa | pressure at the hydrants. Rota:: engines followed the old steam af- fairs, which were sold. One hand | engine was retained as a relic. Men Paid 20 Cents An Hour The first board of fire commis- sioners, consisting of five members, was named in 1871 to have a gen- | eral supervision of the department and to appoint a chief engineer and assistants. In 1875 a compensa- tion of 20 cents an hour was voted the members of the department | for services at fires. The number of commissioners was increased to six in 1881 The “History became a | AbOut the department in ear o ere| Gays: “The department by its | promptness to respond to alarms, S in gress From Bucket Bri- gade to Autos. NEW - BRITAIN'S GREATEST DEPARTMENT STORE Vs lizcd by the department until Tongine and Hose Co. No. tion on School street to the position | Y% N AN of chief of the fire departmen | - % that is the story of Bristol’s head of | 7 the fire fighters. Fire Chief John H. Hayes, now 36 years o frequently evicted from the d of the smoke-caters in his young- er days for being present too often. According to his story, ho had al- ways been interested in the routine ot a fireman and, “kid fashion,” as he explains it, visited the School street station, then nothing more | than a wooden structure, very often. The fircmen, apparently, d'd not wish his presence and prompt- 1y turned him out-of-doors. But ro- gardless of the harsh treatment ac- corded him he would bé sure to re- turn again on the next evening. When Chief Hayes Mr. Hayes has been chief of the | member of the local local department for the past ten|was only one picce Of aPParatus|yyener in summer's heat or win- vears. In previous years he hadland two regulars. The department| . i"colg, at noonday or dead of served as a deputy chief, then|now boasts of five fire stations and | iy "Gl and tenacity of pur- termed a first assistant engincer, |36 regular men. 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While they 84 last, for Wednesday only, each ...... C prints with neat hem- stitch finish, including Under Chiel Englneee Harlan E. uorz]w.m.@_ on July 1, 1021, £r0m | 8ure safcty of life and property, has Norton and as a_common fireman. [a voluntcer to a pay department. | o' " ih iotion at home and the business for about 40 years, . old town of Bristol had no A AR : which includes his volunteer d sreteciion previous: to. iasy|Tiich tuey anednstly proud, having He w gaged in the c | other Gian ss Unoreamizeatbusker D SuucHi: besn, conpline (el for e was engaged in the capacity o i Gl Bana By successful control of fires in 5 ¥ o) HeEe Sen e | exceedingly School street, the place from which | denly awiked {o the fact that move] opjiions, and the harmeny which he had been cvicted s0 often, for a fpretection was nescssary in 1845, G proughout the department is period of about 10 years. | when the largest manufacturing es-| % &l e department s Gilet Hayeatvividly ls the|the sround. Three large buildings, e days when he was n [the property of the ( manager of the natlonally lknow | street, were demolished by flames, won a large number of prizes ai| 2 mests held in the different states|tir® plant to New Haven. About {the same time the Terry Clock try. The sport had become so popu e Daes ; o lar with followers that it spread o | 2§ totally destroved by fire and. [yp : = st =Pt 8] rottowins the excitement whicn nad WilDes§ Refuses fo Testily in| been aroused, a charter for a fire The sport died out several years : g0 when & journey of the loeal|Of Whom might be military sub- 7 jects, was obtained. No apparatus The chief related the story of onc v Boston, April 1 (P—The question of the greatest feats ever accom- |, After several attempts to organ-|of the legality of the hearings in the plished by the department during ize a company were l_\mdn.‘thr: mat- ter was dropped until in 1853 the|former police liquor raider, faced m=q Hattield from. & well about 1 the state supreme court today with seven nor cight years ago. Hatfield, | "eaded by Edward L. Dunbgr, Alan-|the appearance’in contempt procecd- % 4 | son Pratt, and Alphonso Barnes the incident but is still living, was | {C0K the matter in hand and raised |testify. Smprisoned in & well 36 fect in|@bout $2,000 by subscription. | Alfred H. Brissenden, brother-in- depth for thres hours and twenty | ; minutes. Ho was buried to is chest | Sc001 street. A hand engine, hose a dairy farm she operated, and his in mud, the suction of which held| and 500 feet of leather hoseattorney, William . Shea, have | were purchased for the organization |twice challenged the authority of At-| firémen were unable to pull him ach' ... outs Orin. Porter. mechanio of tha|tion. 1t was the nucleus of th|contended that the hearings violate Sach i " | present force, constitutional rights. who is now a resident of Spring- > i Tield were awarded Carnegie meq. | Goodenough were particularly pro-| The Garrett investigation was au- als for bravery and $500 apiece in minent in the acquisition of a new [thorized by the state legislature and s 2 fire house for the north side district [since hearings began a legislative I 00 Bed Spreads There have been several spectacu- | £ | lar fires, the chief averred. . smeq | Ne formation of Uncas Engine and |tional powers of summoning wit- | ] I i med : S the | Hose Co. compelling testimony F W d d 0 1 he assumed the executive roil of the | 7 (LR L SO TaSor of | granting immunity: ‘ or Wednescay Unly. ing tncluded the fires in the Tracy.|the board of fire commissioners| Police Commissioner Herbert woven color stripes, neat the Bristol Grain and Feed Co., ani scalloped 191"1 : Choil the old Gridley house. | scalloped finish. 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O CONGEREION a ; ‘rmw‘ Clock Co., loc: Bristol hose running tcam which Y {resulting in the removal of the en- of the castern section of the cou shop, located near Pierce’s bridge, all over to obt zes at meets. oy i ain prizes at meets | company to consist of 45 men, 3 Warner ]Hvesugau(m runners resulted in grim tragedy. = s provided for in the charter- investigation ot Oliver B. Garrett, Dis reign, that of the rescue of LId- | '°F business men of the south side, | who was quite old at the time of | lings of a witness who has refused to build a station at the south end on |law of Mrs. Garrett and foreman of him so tightly that a crew of four | day onl L 2vr fof the c first department sta- |torney General Warner. -Shoea has| Bl department, and a sccond firemei 43 a second fireMen | Tigiiam W. 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