Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-10-19
Still NO FIRE ALARM.
The Council Again Defers Ac-
ton in this Very Import
ant Matter.

g SaIt Lake and Helena to b,
Visited by AIdermanic
Electricians.
REGULAR session Of the city council wa
held last night. Mayor Kenyon presidet
and the aldermen present were Messers
Mueller, Cowan, Olson, Ayotte. MulvilIe
Congdon, Wynne, Goo6ale, Shaw, Pink
ham and McDermott.
Under the head Of petitions the foIlowins
J communications were read:
F. B. Thomes ct al, TO allow T. 81
Mackie d Co. to put in q front in q building
on West Quartz street. Referred to the
fire COMMITTEES with power.
Verbal petition from James McCaig ct al
asking that the city grade grade Gold stree,
East Of Arizona street, so as to make il
accessible to the proposed Northern Pa.
cifc q Montana depot and warehouses
Referred to the street and alley committee
and city engineer to report at the next
meeting Of the council.
The usual number Of bills were reported
back correct by the finance committee,
and warrants Tor their payment were or.
dered drawn.
John O'Rourke and the First National
bank asked permission to erect two build.
ings On the corner OF Main and Granite
streets. Referred to building COMMITTEES
with power.
The committee reported having
advertised for bids for completion Of Ger.
tain sewer work. and asked that council
ratify the committees action. On motion
Of Mr.. Shaw the committees action was
ratified and bids receiv. d were opened.
Only n bid was submitted, that OF
Winters q Mcsherry, offering to do the en-
tire work for So, 145.
On motion Of Mr.. Goodale the matter
was referred to the sewer committee and
city engineer with power.
Mr.. Mueller Of the finance committee, re-
porte | that his committee had made ar
rangements with Clark d Larabie to carry
the city's o~ver-drafts at q rate OF interest
OF 1 per cent. per month.
The street and alley committee submit
ted q report OF work done in July, August
and September. Reading OF report was de-
ferred until some subsequent meeting. The
committee also reported that all OF the
work was going on satisfactorily and much
to the benefit OF the city.
Chairman McDermott OF the light com.
mittee, reported having ordered the erec-
tion OF an electric light at the corner of
Main and Platinum streets.
/ Tba x;-a n1zn skknn -or.~k,l - fr1, -
adopting the Gaynor electric fire alarm
system, and submitted q lengthy and we'll
worded report explanatory OF it's action.
The committee also reported having ordered
1900 feet OF hose from the Gutta Percha
company OF Chicago at 96 cents per loot.
Report OF the fire marshal for the month
Of September was reported PACK for adop-
| ton by the same committee.
A representative of the Gamewell com.
pany now addressed the council and apollo.
| gized for not having been able to show the
council specimens OF his company's
work, and also said that he
OF selecting an alarm with the council and
asked that the fire committee accompany
him to Helena to see the system he repre-.
sented in actual use, and closed by saying
that his system vas unqualifedly by the
best in the world.
MIR. Mulville of the fire committee said
that the committee had not been able to
investigate the actual workings OF the
Gamewell system al thad not been author
lied to visit Helena or any other city where
the Gamewi1l alarm was in operation. The
committee had, however, seen the GHynor
system and had examined it as had also
other persons and all had unhesitatingly
endorsed the alarm. Endorsements of the
Gaynor central Office syst,m by L.. B.
Moore, r. D. Ecker and J. A. Upper, all
practical electricians who examined the
system at the request OF the committee,
were read.
Mr.. Whittacre Of the Gaynor company.
then addressed the council and explained
the difference between the Gayner and
Gamewell systems and said that his COM
pany was prepared to submit bids for an
automatic system, but had refrained from
doing SO because it had been under the i'm.
PRESTON that the city Was DESTROYS II
securing q 1rst-class system and n not
out of date.
The Gamewell man vent to bat again
and proved himself to be a first class all
around talker, and seemed terribly afraid
that the wicked Gaynor agent would sue
coed in pulling the wool over the eyes OF
the council by leading the members to be-
lieve that tie Gaynor system was better
than the Gamewell. He said the GameweIl
was only not better than any other sys-
tenn, but also much more reliable; that the
Gamewel bid contemplated a system
equally as complete al the Gaynor; that
the automatic system wal far preferable
to the central Office system, and that the
Gaynor man knew it and made statements
that he could not s~ubstantiate; that the
Gaynor man vas trying to mislead the
council and knew it; that the central Office
station system was more expensive in that
ID needed the constant attendance OF some
one at the station TO sound the alarm
when sent in from q box. He took q base
The Gaynor man next grabbed the will
low and asked the Gamewell agent ii the
automatic system could at all times be-
| relied upon. The Gamewell man said it
could. The Gaynor man then asked him
how it was that. box No. 48 OF the Game.
well system, put in by the company at
Louisville, did not work last September
and thereby caused the loss OF five lives
and several million dollars, worth OF prop
erty. The Gamexell man didn't answer.
Mr., Whittacre next said that he had him.
| self notified the Gamewell company over q
| month ago that Butte was advertising for
| an electric fire alarm, and asked that q
| representative be sent here to compete.
II put in a box here" said Mr.. Whittacre,
land the Gamewell company refused to do
| it and also refused to send a man here.
| Everybody who has desired to do 80 has
| been able to test my box, and it q proven
to be successful. I told the council that l
| would introduce our system and allow the
| city to use it o year or any length OF
| time the council desired before the city
would be asked to pay for the plant. If at
any time our system failed to come up to
| tbc Guaranteed standard the city would
not have to pay for it. Does that look
like trying to mislead youf"
Mr.. Goodale then said that although he
had not made up his mind which system ne
favored, he did not consider the argument
OF additional expense to the city in casa
the central office system was adopted as
tenable, because the city had q paid fire
department and somebody would always
be- at the station to receive the alarm.
Mr.. Mullville: "Let the Gamewell 'man
being his apparatus here; the Gaynor man
did and we examined it."
The Gamswell man was again on deck.
He wanted the fire committee to 60 to