No. 4.] 



REPORT OF STATE FORESTER. 



315 



Inventory of Equipment purchased under the Reimbursement 



Act — Concluded. 



1 One-horse. 



Towns receiving Fire-equipment Reimbursement during Year 1912. 



Acushnet $143 22 



Ashby 



Auburn, ..... 



Avon, 



Bedford 



Bellingham, .... 



Berkley 



Berlin, 



Blandford, .... 



Boxborough, .... 

 Boj'lston, ..... 

 Brimfield, .... 



Chatham, 



Dighton 



Erving, ..... 



Freetown 



Georgetown, .... 



GiU 



Greenwich, .... 



Halifax 



Harvard, 



Holbrook, .... 



Lynnfield, .... 



Merriniac, .... 



New Braintree, 



Norwell, . 



Pelham, . 



Petersham, 



Raynham, 



Rehoboth, 



Richmond, 



Royalston, 



Rutland, . 



Shelburne, 



Shirley, 



Stow, 



Sturbridgc, 



Sutton, 



Wales, 



Westminster, 



Wilmington, 



Windsor, . 



Wrentham, 



Total, 

 Unexpended balance. 



Total appropriation 



$76 87 



193 87 



36 00 



202 55 



172 23 



250 00 



56 20 



9S 25 



250 00 



4 37 



139 50 



131 31 



116 45 



188 46 



236 77 



186 SI 



146 21 



150 00 



210 10 



$5,000 00 



While the work of this branch of the department has progressed fairly 

 well, it is by no means up to the standard. It is necessary that we have 

 at least twelve substations in order to completely cover the State during 

 hazy and smoky weather. We must have better fire-fighting organiza- 

 tions in many of the towns. Our forest wardens and their deputies must 

 be men who have the faculty of handling men; they must be e.xperi- 

 enced in fighting forest fires; they should have telephone communication, 

 so that observers can get them promptly in case of fire. Nearly all forest 

 wardens are paid only while actually employed, and in ordinary years 

 this means a very small remuneration. In order to secure good, desirable, 

 efficient men they must be paid. The type of man needed has the ability 



