St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-29
The SIGNAL SERVICE.
The Company Claims 1t Was
Not Given a Fair
Show.
a Threat to Enjoin the Build
ing of the Bloomington
Bridge.
The Usual Monday Grist Of a
Reform Sundays After
math.
Coroner's Juries Pass Upon
the Death of Two Un-
foptunates.

At the next meeting of the city coun-
Gil vigorous protest will be entered by
the Brewer & Smith Signal company, OF
New Haven, against the city of Mime
apois. awarding the contract to Bos-
ton company for the new system of pa
troll calls which a majority of the com
missioners have recommended. The
Brewer & Smith company offer
10 put in the sixty boxes needed
DOC, while the commission has
recommended a system which will cost
El7,OOO. Commissioner Gjertsen. who
favored an extension Of the system now
in use, favors any system which will do
the best work for the least money.
while Mayor Babb and Commissioner
Guile want the Boston system or moth
ing. Following Is the communication
in full which will be referred to the city
council at its next meeting:
To the City Council Of the City Of Mime
spols, Minn-Gentlemen About the mid
die of July, 1889, our company received no
nee that his honor Mayor Babb, Chief OF Pc
lice Bracket and Police Commissioner Guile,
Of yOur city. would visit New Haven about
the middle Of August TO investigate the work-
iugs of our police signal system, which Is IN
service in this city. On the 9th of August,
1889. our company met Chief OF
Police Bracket ana Commissioner Guile
Oh their arrival from Boston, Mass, where
thew together with Mayor Babb, had been
investigating the municipal system. Chief
Bracket said that ''the mayor after eXamln-
ing the municipal system did not think II
necessary for him to further investigate, and
went from Boston 10 Bar Harbor, Me, to see
rnNa ffr-faT1 Jnf q
und Commissioner Guile remained with us
Only two hours and expressed themselves as
veTy much pleased with the workings Of our
system and said thai III about a month or
SIX weeks they would advertise for bids and
would give us notice, so that we could sub
nit bid.
We have received no notice to bid, and
knew nothing of the action OF the commits
gioners, until We learned of the majority re-
port of the commissioners. We understand
that the price agreed 10 be paid by the city
for sixty signals Of the system which they
have concluded to adopt is seventeen thou
sand tSI7.nOl) dollars.
The Municipal Signal company in July OF
this year contracted with the city of Fall
River, Mass, 10 furnish the city with sixty
six signal boxes for nine thousand nine
hundred eigbty-six dollars, eighty mine cents
so. 9S6.S9), the wiring included; and an ex-
animation Of the records at Fall River Will
verify what we say in this respect.
The signals manufactured by lis are con-
ceded to be the best i'll use by all who have
used them. and we will put into your city
sixty signals, wiring and all complete, for
sum not exceeding in the whole Fourteen
Thousand (SI4.OOO) Dollars, the exact price
we would not be able to give without an OPP
pOrtunity to estimate the price of wiring.
We suggest that behind the majority report
there may be some other motive than the de-
sire TO procure the best article in the market
for the price paid, and our object in making
this communication is that the city council
OF Minneapolis and their constituents may
know that the proposed contract is not rec
commended after fun and fair opportunity
for all parties to compete upon an equal foot
ing.
THE BREWER & SMITH VISUAL SIGNAL Co.,
By JULIUS c. CABLE, Treasurer.
New Haven, Conn. Oct. 50, 1889.