The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-10-16
LATE NEWS FROM BUTTE
Letters Of Interest Which viii Come Up
in the City Council Meetins.
Ytrs Alarm systesns aaA the New Ctty
@aI1-Tho Bida for C0nstructing
Se-Wer-Other Notes and
GOaatp.

special Correspondence OF the standard.
BUTTE, Oct. 15.-The city council will
hold an important meeting Tomorrow
evening. Among the important items of
business will no the reception of the re-
port of the fire committee. The commit
tee will make n report OF interest regard
} ing the adoption of n fire alarm system.
II In understood that the committee will
depreciate the present methods of OBJ
taininG information OF the existence and
locality of fires, as being Guide and de-
fective. The committee will recommend
achange, hnd will mention four systems
that have made offers for improving the
fro service of tine city. The first
rs the automatic system of the
Gamewell company of New York,
represented by II. Somers. The Sec
ond il the central office system
of the Gaynor Electric company of Louis
Vile, represented by II. II. whitacre.
The third is the a%ntoInatic system OF
Fuller Il Ecker OF Butte. The fourth is
the district call box and messenger SER
vice of r.: D.. Ecker OF Butte, the service
will the central office sys-
TEN of the GaynOr Electric company as
the best one to secure the advantages OF
of fire. The Gaynor company offers To
put i'm the central Office system with com
boxes, bell striker, metallic circuits, etc.,
for the sum of $4,HO, the system tn he
complete i'm one hundred days. The coun-
oil will probably adopt the rocommenda-
sion of the committee. The fire COM
mittee is also contemplating the placing
new house. i'm case they desire IT,. The
Gaynor company has agreed to put that
i'm also.
council will be the question of receiving
two contempt ated additions to the city.
The committee On addisaons w,ai prona6,y
admission IL the Emmett addition which is
situated next west the Excelsior addition,
and beyond Missoula gulch. Tho other
addition awaiting admission is the Wei
come stranger tract, situated south OF the
city and west Of Main street. Parts of
these additions are now within the city
limits and part are without. Their admis.
sion however does not require a vote at
the inhabitants, the city having the power
ca extend it's limits at will.
A third subject of interest before the
council will o., the report Ths OF the @3m,n., wss
given power to sell the lot I'm east Broad
way to the Centennial brewery. and pur.
in Park street. The committee however
has found legal complication i'm the way
and has met with delay i'm the matter. II
will present the situation as ii stands
and ask for AN extension of power. But
for this delay ii is believed the work oi
been begun this fall. II is believed thai
another site will he selected than the one
proposed. The sites receiving the mos,
favor are corner lots i'm Park and Cour
streets. The sentiment i not i'm favor oi
building the city hall in Main street, hut q
Without an appropriation, the city coult
make considerable Roadway i'm the cres.
ton of n building this fall. The lot owned
by the city in Broadway next the Centen,
nial brewery can he sold at once for $1,000
The present city hall as il stand can In
sold for 5000 more. There IL also more
than $1,000 i'm The treasury, belonging Il
the city call fund. This aggregated
more than $3O,OOO which can he used a.
once for the new building. General senti
ment favors a building of fine proportion
that will he u credit and pride to the city
when it shall be triple its present size
There should be an elegant chamber fol
the use of the city council, seperatc from
the police court. Ii is proposed to hav'
the building large enough to contain
ample offices for all the city officials.
nothe item of city improvements IL
which the city is greatly Interested at pres
, ent, will come before the council
i'm relation To sewers. Sealed ropos
for the construction of sewers will ID
opened as follows: For the first section
OF district No. 1, from Washington stree
east ON Broadway to Idaho and south ol
Idaho to Park second, section No. 10 q
district No. I, from the dead end on Par
street east to Arizona, south OH Arizon
to Mercury and west oh Mercury Z
Wyoming; third, ON Dakota street from
the regulating south 800 feet I
the outfall and from the regulation chan
her $50 feet southeast to the storm waite
outfall. Bids will he made separately q
each system.