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J. H. MADDOX
CHIEF

OFFICE AT
HEADQUARTERS
STATION

W.E. BIDEKER
ASS'T CHIEF

FIRE WORTH
FIRE
DEPARTMENT

TELEPHONE
NO. 26

FORT WORTH, TEXAS, Jan-30th-1905.

To the Honorable Mayor and City Council:

Gentlemen:-

There are three peices of apparatus in the Department which
in my opinion should be protected with fire insurance.

Our switch-board and battery which cost $2,250.00 and our
four circuit repeater, which cost $800.00.

This apparatus is part of the fire alarm system and all in
Central Fire Station.

I am informed that the risk can be carraid for about three
per cent, for five years.

Trusting your honorable body will consider this matter,
I am,

Yours Respectfully,

JH Maddox
Chief Fire Dep't .

We your
Committee beg to
recommend that sufficient
insurance be taken out
to protect the property
above named.

W.R. Parker
John F. Lehane
W.H. Ward

FILED
MAR 17 1905
Jno T. Montgomery
City Sec'y