Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 290, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1920 — ATTENDED STATE FIRE COLLEGE MEETING [ARTICLE]

ATTENDED STATE FIRE COLLEGE MEETING

J. J. Montgomery returned from Indianapolis Saturday . evening where-he had attended the six days meeting of the state fire college which was held at. the, state f ai * grounds. There were two hundred fire chiefs from Indiana present at the meeting in addition to several of the best known fire fighting authorities from various parts of the United States. Commodore Longfellow, recognised as the peer of all fire fighters; Leon Wolfe, of Cincinnati, a fire fan. State Fire Marshal Friedley, of Indiana; and State Fire Marshal Fleming, of Ohio, were among the notables pressent. Joseph F. Joseph and Mr. Townsend of the National Underwriters were plso in attendance and gave addresses, giving statistics on the fire losses each year. They stated that the fire loss in the United States amounted to $2,000,000 daily and that in 1919 tHe loss of life by fire totalled 23,000. Ninety per--cent of this toll could have been prevented according to their statements. . .

A session of* the Indiana State Fire Congress was held daily, commencing at ten o’clock and continuing throughout the remainder of the day. These sessions proved very, beneficial and instructive, to the firemen and should tend to reduce the fire loss in the state the coming year. * Leon Wolfe gave- an exhibition of fire fighting Saturday afternoon with fourteen members of an Indianapolis fire departmfent and a stream of water was placed on the roof of the Lincoln hotel in a period of forty-seven seconds. Another interesting feature of the weeks meetings was the Red Cross, or mut aid work, instruction. .Various other phases of fire fighting were among the day s exercises engaged in and proved a pleasant feature of the • a Chief Montgoinery was delighted with the work and believes that a great deal of good will be derived by the fire chidfs of the state. It is his intention as soon* as the new fire department building is eompleted to teach the members of his company some bf the lessons taught him at’the Indianapolis session, and also to co-operate with the school faculty in giving fire instruction in the public schools. , Howard M. Mills and daughter, Dorothy Jane went to Chicago Sunday for a visit with Mrs. Mills, who is at the Hahnemann hospital, where she recently underwent /an operation. She to getting alogg quite well now, but her condition had been quite serious. ' « . • I n—w — ~ -r Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gallagher were in Lafayette today.