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STATE'S FLEE DEPARTMENTS.
Interesting Figures Showing Amount:
Invested in Various Cities and
Towns.
Columbia, May 19.-In the official
list of returns to letters sent out by
Insurance Commissioner McMaster,
Charleston's fire department is placed
at a valuation of $152,630. On the oth-'
er hand it is shown in the reports that
some of South Carolina towns that
really ought to have fire equipment
have none. The reports are not com
plete yet, but when they are all in
they will show the towns in this State
that will come under the provisions
of the "Firemen's Pension Act" re
cently passed by the general assem
bly. Those towns having $1,000 ori;
more fire equipment will be affected
by the act. Under the attorney gen
eral's opinion, the act goes into effect:
immediately and last year's business
of insurance companies in such towns
are to be assessed a 1 per cent. fee
on the premiums in the towns.
Rock Hill has fire equipment of $3,
250, divided as follows: team engine,
$1,000; chemical engine, $300; hook
and ladder, $150, and hose wagons,
$1,800.
y he Charleston's Department. o
*The Charleston equipment is set outE
in detail in the report from that city
as follows:
Two steam fire engines.. ..$ 10,000
Nine steam fire engines.. ....27,000,
Seven hose wagons.. ....... 2,800
One combination hose wagon 1,500
Four carriages .......... 200
Chemical engine.. .. .... .. 2,000
One aerial truck and equip
ment.. .............. 2,500
One truck and equipment.. 1,500 1
One automobile .......... 2,000
One buggy... .............,.200
30 horses... ............ 7,500
12,450 feet of hose.. ....... 7,225
600 feet hose ............ 240
800 feet chemical hose.. 200
Five wagons and carts .. 625
Fire extinguishers.. .. .... 670
Beds and clothing. .........1,000
Harness.. .............. 2,050
13 engine houses, water works,
etc.. .................,57,000
Fire alarm system, etc.. .....6,000
Drills... ... ... ... ....... . 420
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$152,630
This is frpjn the report ending De
cember 31, 1909, and is inclosed in the
report made to Commissioner McMas
ter by Louis Behrens, chief of the
Charleston fire department. There
are nine or-ganized companies and
$58,400 is the equipment pointed out
in answer to the questions of the com
missioner. The~ larger amount rep
resents the total equipment.
Other Towns.
-Ridgeway, Denmark, Pickens are
among the towns that have no equip- r
-*- ment at all, as shown by the reports g
sent in here.c
Yorkville's equipment is ,valued atC
$600, as to the value of the wagons,
etc. Ridge Springs has- no equipmentI
at all.
Greenwood has $2,000 equipment.
Sumter has $10,000 in equipment, as
* fo.llows: Two engines, $5,500; two
hose wagons, $1,100; hose valued at
$3,000, and horses $1,000., Sumter has
the Gamewell fire alarm system.
* Kingstree has $1,250 equipment.
Tinmmonsville has $3,160 equipment
Spartanbuirg has $5,179. Anderson
has $3,700) Orangeburg has $6,270
worth of equipment.
Other cities and towns have not yet
been heard from by Insurance Coin
missioner McMaster.
The Pension Aet.
The following is, in part, the "Fire
men's Pension Act," which Attorney
General Lyon says goes intQ effect im
~ .. mediately, and affects last year's busi
ness:
"Section 2. Every fire insurance
company, corporation or association
incorporated under the laws of any
other State, or of any foreign govern
,ment or country now or hereafter de
siring to engage in or carry on busi
ness in this State, shall return to the
true account, verified by oath, that the~
same is a treacutof all pre
miums received from fire insurance
business done during the year ending
December . 31, in any incorporated;
city or town of this State, having or
that may have a\regularly organized
fire department under the control of
the mayor and council or intendant
and council or said city or town, and
having in serviceable condition for
fire duty fire apparatus and necessary
equipments belonging thereto to the
value of one thousand dollars ($1,
000) and upwards. Such returns must
be made by said companies, corpora
tions or ,associations within 60 days
after the approval of this act, and~
thereafter within 60 days after the
31st day of December of each year.
"Sec. 3. Every fire insurance comn
pa.ny aforesaid shall, within 60 days
after the approval of this act, and
thereafter within 60 days after the:
31st day of December of each year,
deliver and pay to the State treasur
er the sum of $1 upon the $100 andj
a t ra upon the amannt of all
premiums written on fire within the
limits of such incorporated cities or
towns during the year ending Decem
ber 31, in each preceding year, or for
auch portion of such period as said
company, corporation or association
shall have done business.in this State.
Penalties Provided.
"Sec. 4. Every such company, cor
poration or association shall keep
%ccurate books of account of all busi
ness done by them on fire insurance
within the limts of such incorporated
,ities and towns, and in case fraud or
lishonesty in said returns made by
such company, corporation or asso
"iation, as provided for in Section 2
>f act, be apparent, it shall be the
luty of the insurance commissioner to
nvestigate such returns and collect
:he amount he shall find to be due.
"Sec. 5. Every foreign fire insur
mnce company which shall neglect to
ieep such books of account as afore
,aid, or shall fail or neglect to report
>r pay over any of the money due
>n premiums as aforesaid, at the
:imes and in the manner specified in
:he preceding sections of this act, or
-hall be found upon examination to
iave made a false return of business
lone by them, shall for each such of
ence forfeit .$300, to be applied to
,he same purpose hereinafter pre
,cribed in Section 8.
Method of Payment.
"Sec. 7. That the State treasuier
)hall pay over the amount collected
)n the premiums on business done in
,ach city or town from the foreign
nsurance companies, corporations or
Lssociations doing business within the
,ities or towns, having or that may
iereafter have a regularly organized
ire department, as aforesaid, in Sec
ion 2 of this act, to the treasurer of
uch city or town: Provided, that all
noney so collected from the foreign
rsurance companies, corporations or
Lssociations doiMig business with the
;aid cities or towns, shall be set apart
trd used by such cities and towns
;olely and entirely for the objects and
)urposes of this act.
Purposes of Act.
"Sec. 8. All money collected and
eceived under the provisons of this
Lct shall be held in trust and used as
fund for the purpose of rendering
nore efficacious and efficient the fire
[epartments of said cities or towns,
iy using the same under such rules
s may be adopted by the city or town
ouncil for the creation, maintenance,
upport and encouragement of a skill
ul and efficient fire department.
"Sec. 9. The clerk of any incorpo
ated city or town accepting the bene
its of this act by ordinance as re
tuired herein shall, on or before the
:1st day of October of each year, make
.nd file with the insurance commis
ioner his certificate, stating that the
mistence .of such dep'artment, the
umber of steam, hand or other en
jnes, hook and ladder trucks and hose
:arts in actual .use, the number of
>rganized companies and the. system
f water supply in use for such de
>artment, together with such other
acts as the insurance commissioner
nay require opn a blank 'to be fur
ished by him. If the certificate' re
tuired by this section is not filed with
he insurance commissioner on or be
ore October 31, in any year, the town
r village so failing to file such cer
ificate shall be 'deemed to have waiv
~d and,relinquished its rights .for such
rear in the~ appropriation provided
or."
REWARD OFFERED FOR AVANJT.
Eugitive Sends Letter From Atlanta
Saying He's "Running Away."
Georgetown, May 19.-D. W. Avant,
who is wanted at the penitentiary to
serve a sentence of three and a half
rears for the murder of Mrs. Ruth
idsp Bigham, received a letter fromn
~he missing man today, dated'May 17
~nd postmarked Atlanta, Ga., icad
ing as follows:
"Am in Atlanta running away.
(Signed), "W. B. Avant."
There was also a letter from Avan1
to his wife, which was at once taker
to her, three miles off from the post
office, at Harper's, the contents o1
which have not yet been ascertained
Avant's bondsmen are his uncle, D
W. Avant, and L. A. Parsons, his
brother-in-law. The amount of th4
bond is $3,000. These men are good
thrifty farmers. They have offered
reward of $100 for the apprehensior
of the fugitive.
.A Delicate Questton.
A prominent church worke:- of Bal
timore was delivering >ne Sabbath
talk to a cJass comprising pupils wh<
in ed in a rather squal section o:
the town.
The good man touched upon th<
quality of untruthfulness, and at ond
r. :nt in his address he said:
"I want entcry little ioy who has
netver told a '. to raise his hand."
Not a hanlc went up, ba a lad ir
iLe rear ross to ask a questioin.
"What is it :my boy?"
"Well, sir. ;a "i I want to ask is, is
it a lie if nobody ever knowsf"-Hal
trs Weeklv.
DAYS OF BRAVE DEEDS.
Hampton, Butler, Gary, Heroes and
Patriots-Col. Brooks Grows
Reminiscent
"It has been 45 years since the Con
federacy sank behind the horizon ai
Appomattox never to rise again, and
those of us who have survived thE
waste of time should write something
to cherish the memories of our heroez
who fell in battle by our side and tc
recall the gallant deeds that werE
displayed on the bloody fields in the
war of secession. Whether the deeds
were crowned with success or conse
crated in defeat, it is to idealize prin
ciple and strengthen character, in
tensifying love, of country and con
vert defeat and disaster into pillars
of support for future manhood and
noble womanhood."
Thus wrote Col. U. R. Brooks, one
of Butler's immortal cavalry.
On the State House grounds, as a
fitting testimonial of the services to
his State of Gen. Wade Hampton there
stands a beautiful equestrian statue
of tht daring cavalry leader.
Statues to Heroes.
It is Col. Brooks's fond hope that in
a few years there may be erected up
on the State House grounds statues
to the memory of two other great
Southern leaders-Gen. M. C. Butler
and Gen. M. W. Gary., He has sug
gested that at the next session of the
general assembly a committee be ap
pointed from the house and senate to
look into the matter. At his speech in
Johnston on Memorial day, on the his
toric ground from which these two
great soldiers came, Gen. Brooks
started the movement for the erection
of suitable statues to two of Edge
field's sons.
"In 1861," said Col. Brooks today,
growing reminiscent, "when the
Hampton Legion was formed, none re
sponded sooner than Butler and Gary.
On Thursday morning, June 6, 1861,
M. C. Butler made a short speech to
the Edgefield Huzzars, at Edgefield
court house. "The time has come not
to talk, but to fight.' With these words
he rode off at the head of one of the
most gallant bodies of cavalry that
the war saw. This was Company I,
of the Second South Carolina cavalry.
"A few days later M. W. Gary
marched from Edgefield at the head of
a conipany .of cavalry known, as Wat
son's Greys. Both were among the
first to reach Columbia and Hamp
ton's Legion was soon organized. Of
four comi>anies of the cavalry, Butler
was made the ma.jor. He was soon
afterward made colonel of cavalry.
Mart Gary dommanded the infantry
part of the legion known as Hamp
ton's Legion
I"Hampton's Legion was soon bri
gaded with Hood's Texans. There
was formed a brigade consisting of
three Texas regiments, the Eighteenth
Arkansas and Hampton's - Legion,
forming Hoo,d's famous brigade..The
name 'Hampton's Legion,' was retain
ed throughout the war-.
Three Fine Regiments.
"In the spring of 1864 the Hampton
Legion was taken from the brigade
and was mounted here, after having
fought toward this State from the
West. Col. Mart Gary commanded the
brigade. Gary was immediately after
ward made brigadier general. There
were three very fine regiments, the
Hampton Legion, under Col. Logan,
now living in Greenville county; the
Seventh South Carolina, under Col. A.
C. Haskell, and the Twenty-focurth
Virginia cavalry, under Col. Robbins.
Gen. Hampton placed Gen. Gary on
the left of his army along the Chica
hominy, near Richmond, keeping Gen.
Butler and his celebrated cavalry ot
the right of his armiy, below Peters
burg.
"This showed how mucn was valu
ed the services of these distinguished
officers. They were his trusty lieu
tenants in war as well as in peace. Ii
'76 Hampton depended on these tw'
men, he advised with them on all cc
casions. y
"But for tilese three men - the migh
ty trio, Hampton, Gary and Butler -
the State miight not have been r6:leem
ed for years. I will continue to urg'
the erection -of monhments to c'n?
memocrate the great work of these
men who always offered their service:
for the good of their State."
It is a coincidence that Hampt9n
Gary and Btuler were all born in th
month of March, though in differen
years, and all three died in April. Th
dates are: Hampton, Born 28tl
March, 1818, died 17th April, 1902
Gary, born 25th March, 1832, die-1 9tl
April, 1881; Butler, born 8th Marci
1836, died 14th April, 1909.
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