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Fun for
the Kids
"We just wanted to see the horses run."
This is what 12-year-old Eddie Randolph (colored)
told Patrolman Leon was the reason that he (Eddie) and Pablo Wetmore,
a little Mexican boy, turned in a false alarm of fire from box 24 at
the corner of Alpine and Buena Vista streets, and then hurried away
toward school, form which place they saw the horses come tearing down
the street with the fire engine, sending a cloud of sparks and fire
skyward.
Of course there was a lot of maddened firemen when
they arrived on the scene of the supposed conflagration, to discover
that it was only a false alarm. Patrolman Leon was made acquainted
with the facts and he stepped over to the Castelar street school,
where he soon ferreted out the mischief-makers.
Sniffing audibly were both of the youthful
law-breakers when they were marched up before Judge Chambers.
"What made you boys turn in that false
alarm?" questioned the court, glaring down at the youngsters with his
fiercest frown, manufactured epic ally for the occasion.
"Wa-a-a-a-a-hoo-o-o-o-o!" blubbered the
frightened lads. "We--didn't---know--wha--wha--whaat we wuz
doing."
"Didn't know what you were doing? Boys as old
as you two? Hump! That sort of a story didn't go worth a
cent. Which one of you was it that turned in the alary?"
"I--I--borke the glass," confessed
Pablo, digging his fingers into his eyes.
"An'--an'--nen I pulled somethin' down," explained
Eddie, "An' nen purty soon we seen the horses a-coming' an' we
runned, we did."
"H-m-m-m! And now you say you don't know
what you were doing? This looks pretty serious," and his
honor looked savagely down upon the youthful offenders as though he would
eat them a la ogre style.
The mother of the Randolph boy accompanied him into
court. It appeared that her offspring had been arrested a year
ago for some offense and was rapidly tobogganing downward through his
malicious, mischievous pranks.
"That boy is old enough to know better," exclaimed
Judge Chambers. "He can't make me believe he didn't know
what he was doing. I am going to continue this case a week, and I want
you to keep that kid out of mischief meantime or he'll suffer the
penalty."
Grimy tears were coursing down the dusky cheeks of
the youngsters as they were led away. The court will meantime
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FIREMAN DISMISSED;
L. L. Amick, driver
for hose company No. 10, was tried before the board of fire
commissioners today on charges of insubordination. He was
found guilty and dismissed. Amick was formerly a hoseman
at $60. a month, but took the civil service examination for
driver, and although he admitted to the board that he knew
nothing about horses he passed and was promoted.
After he began driving he discovered that he did not like the
work and could not do it satisfactorily. Captain M.
McMahon, who preferred chargers against him, told the
commissioners that whenever he criticized Amick's work, the
driver retorted that he could get someone else to do it.
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ENGINE DRIVER IS DISMISSED
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Battalion Fire Chief
Prefers Charges of
Intoxication Against Fireman
Driver
O. J. Lambe of engine company No. 10 was dismissed from the service by
the fire commission yesterday on a charge preferred by John G. Todd,
battalion chief of district No. 2. that he was intoxicated Thursday
evening.
Complaint
was made to the chief by Captain McMahon of No. 10, who claimed that
Lambe reported for duty Thursday evening in an inebriated condition
and that when he was notified that he was suspended from duty became
boisterous and grappled with the captain, tearing his uniform shirt.
Lambe has
been before the commission on a similar charge once before, but as he
has always been a good fireman he was allowed to go with a reprimand.
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