The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-19
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To the Editor Of The
$50 by your issue Of the 18th ins4. you
champion the cause OF the taxpaysrs OF
Butte in an able and commendable man.
ner. ! have been somewhat suFprised
that the papers Of this city did not take
this matter up and discuss 10 30 that the
people might have been informed Of the
observing persons quietly watching the
f~arcical discussion I'm the city council.
The fire committee Of the city council
Of this city without an Investigation of
the merits or de merits of the Gamewell
Fire Alarm syntesn reported in favor OF
purchasing the Gaynor system.
However. when Mr.. Rolfe came % this
city as q representative of the Gamewell
Company, he invited the city council to go
system i'm practical operation. II In need
less to say the invitiOn was accepted. the
with the working. OF the system. Il Was
then proposed TO go to Salt Lake, and
after six weeks waiting. three members Of
by pretty machinery. filled with Pomcroy
tative Of he Gaynor, they come back a
Now what did those of the council and
Chief O'Brien and Thomas see at Salt
aasra;;ou They sSe iS" mas a no system ys : . nasr,ly In IL
operation, so IT, was impossible To tell
whether or not the system was non-inter-
icTubl&. hsputte IecesstAry vO run
the Gaynor system successfully was not
in operation, SO 1t was hardly possible for
tn. committee To tell how il might work.
the trouble to investigate will find i'm re-
CARDS the GaInewell fire alarm system
the Chiefs OF iire de .na ssi IN nii si,i es
terferring system. II is worked automati-
the fire station at ali times. lastly Il is
1919 cheaper than the experiment., by
courtesy called the Gaynor SYSTEM.
nor. They do not claim Il to be non in
tcrferring. Ii requires n manual repeater
sr, f. o Ssesr y, ~o oTi,,. 2 I per rans to he h the c en-.
Who is il endorsed by? Chief O'Brien
and because the agent says il will work he
recommends il. How Chief O'Brien. who
worked for Chief S%canian, of San Fran
ago nearly lost his life i'm leading the fire
boys OH, can consistently place his opin-
ion ion against Isl sSsnlnn Il G, E mys;ery; HE
have had the Gamcwell system for ID
years, and consider IL the hest in use."
was rannine to fires when o'Brien was in
his mothers arms. Chief Thomes, who
is "a young man of certainly limited ex-
clearly shows, biased to an extremity in
favor of the Gaynor.
Alderman PInkham said i'm tho council
"6lat the Gaynor had been adopted i'm all
cities where an investigation has been
had." statement is undoubtedly
true IL the investigation i'm other cities
was no more fair or careful than the one
just finished.
However, there il yet a remedy. Mayor
Kenyon can veto the ordinance appro-
priatinR the money. II is his duty To do
so. Butte City has neither an over-bur-
dcned treasury or any money to waste in
experiments. The interests of the city
denand such q move and there is nC
doubt hut that Mayor kenyon will have
such they he. Mayor Kenyon, as u bust,
ness man. should see that il il am expendi
turc of 1915 needlessly and wholly un.
warranted. To him the citizens look foi
relief from such unwise Legislation of tins
city council. The next meeting Of thu
council will he watched with interest b,
an outraged public, to- see IL the public i'm
terests will receive the attention the,
should. JUSTICE.
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