The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-12-15
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BUTTE, Dec. 1A.-The hre committee |
which went tn Salt Lake 10 inspect the
O'Clock thisa afternoon. A soon a. IL he |
came known that they were hack ran
ments were made for n special meeting of
the city council for the purpose of decid-
ing mt once whether the Gaynor or Came
wen system should he adopted. Alderman
Mulville, chairman of the fire COMMITTEES.
reported that owing to the suddenness
with which the meeting had been called
he had not time to prepare n written r-
port. The performance at Salt Lake
was most satisfactory and he had
never seen ftner mechanism in
all it's details. No city could
The committee was not disappointed. He
was thoroughly convinced that tho Gaynor
agent had told the truth i'm every particu-
lar. Mr.. Mccormick. the banker, had
told him IL was the best system i'm the
United States. Only n few boxes were zap,
but enough to satisfy him that everything
was las represented.
Mr.. Mullville read letters from Chief
Ottenger Of Salt Lake and Chiefs O'Brien
and Thomes respectively of the paid and
volunteer departments of Butte, COM
mendinG the Gaynor system as the best.
Alderman Olsen. who had also been to
Salt Lake, agreed with Mr.. Mullville and
Thought the aldermen were under obliRa-
tGf GaSn ssid system" h,,,a Fire .o,, Mnr" hal
it had better wait until il can. He had
compared the Helena and Anaconda sys-
Ss he had ns seen ~i IN SS aa1 Lake. pr In an Is, ~ra to
Questions by the aldermen, Mr.; O'Brien
f ia sa tsr fa .hins ss, wef They nof hn an p pct Sne er Sos
up to test the system. The cabinet had
arrived the day before the aldermen
reached there. The bell striker was not
DE you know any more about il than
when You went there? 2" asked Alderman
~ don't Claim to know all about it,
said Mr.: o'Brien:
you ever had anything to do with?" Al
derman McDermott continued, speak
G ian strongly The i" G fsyss Of svs, .4s
has only been adopted i'm six places inciud-
ing Salt Lake, where the system is not yet
i'm. Chiefs of departments in Denver,
San Francisco, Chicago aud milwaukee,
had telcgraphed o adoi I the Gameweii
couidn't know himself whether the sys-
tenn would work or not. He didn't see as
s sare G%% %sns d knew , any more Th than m be,
moi, satisfied; He aossn,t want a dollar:
anything crooked. 1 understand that
while 1 was away there was a job put up
system before the a"mnm;s,ee res% %nned l.
should bc shown more respect than to
nnxs ''f Mr" %, up for in n, %s
water. III my report is rejected, all right;
brigands to tarnish my sharac.er.-~.
is concerned" said Alderman -Wynne,
lit was voted here u week ago Wednes-
day night To adjourn settlement of the fire
alarm system for one week. The night
Others left for Salt Lake, just in time te
escape action. 1t looks AS If they had put
MIR. Thomes, chief OF the volunteer de
|, partment, said he had seen something
perfectly grand in Salt Lake and was as
. Mayor Kenyon asked Mr.. Thomes if the
l Gaynor company had an automatic sys
!, MIR. Thomcs said he didn't know. II.
: said he had been four years in the Boston
fire department and the Gamewell system
, didn' give salts faction there.
: "Have you seen the Gaynor system i!
full operation anywhere? asked Al
"No; but 1 have n gentleman's word fo
!, it,"
8 "Mr. whitacre's, I suppose"
"Yes, and also his guarantee"
!. in 800 Clues" said Alderman MciterInott
Crosse is the largest. Salt Lake is not We
Y tried. Not a man here has ever seen TIN
= Gaynor system i'm operation. In tin
Gamewell system you can send in al
v alarm from two boxes Oh the same wire
q hut a confused alarm would result in tn
a n man opening n Gaynor box to press til
box. That would make n confused alarm
N They speak Of the guarantee OF the Gay
y nor The GamewelI offers tn
i same guarantee. but the Gamewell offer
o to put in the system which is recognize,
by the big cities of the United States a
the best, for $3.50 less than the Gaynor."
m Chief Thomas said he had been to An;
conda and bad been told by John Tooe.
n Pete Hale and others shat the Gamewe
# system there was no good. Ii wouidn'
Il work.
r. Alderman wynnc said that Chic
Richcy, of Anaconda, told him the boxs
Iy never failed.
Il Alderman Pinkham said: "Iour fiji
% committee has three times reported |
n. favor of the Gaynor. II the system Is M
ly satisfactory, no money lis asked. .Th
n company il only four years old, which n
ii counts for the fact that il ia not i'm use
is old cities" He moved to adopt the Ga
nor system. Alderman Mulville sc
m onded Il.
a Mr. Pinkham doesn't know any mo
to about either system than he does h
AZ Heaven" said Alderman McDermott. "E
al is always ON the opposite side. IL Il
n. Gaynor is getting the best contracts no
i'm why didn't IL get Ogden z"
st Alderman Mulville said that the Gam
At. well had not yet got u contract Tor Ogsie
IT, and prophesied that the Gaynor won
as yet get IL.
Alderman McDermott offered tn bet tn
the Gainewell company had a contract 4
Ogden. but Mr.. Mulville declined.
an Out of IA aldermen 13 were prescr