The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-13
FiREMEN KEPT BUSY.
Rather More Alarms, However. Than There
Were Connagrations.
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Rather More Alarms. However, Than There
Were Coaaagrations.
By the Standards Special Wire.
BUTTE, April 12.-The fire department
was given considerable exercise today for
q change after several weeks OF idleness.
Al II AS O'Clock this morning the blowing
OF steam whistles announced a fire. The
fire was In South Butte and there being
no fire boxes in that locality there was
no means of telling where the fire was.
The department did not arrive, therefore,
until the fire was pretty well out. II was
ON Front street, South Butte, I'm o restau-
rant kept by Charles Smith. opposite H.
L. Franks bottling works. II was not
known how the fire started. The damage
TO the restaurant and furniture was about
$50.
Al 2:l5 o'clock this afternoon
,ssre s VI; b : , blaze pu,. IN The
May at the Northwest corner OF Park
and Arizona streets. A can Of coal oil
had been spilled on the floor near the
front Of the store and a customer care
lessly dropped a lighted match OF the oil.
The blaze was threatening at first, and a
telephone alarm was sent for the fire de.
without catching on The wood work and
the services Of the flremen were not
needed.
No sooner was the department back
from this fire. h an alarm was sent in
from box 81, corner of Nam and Quartz
streets. II seems that the blowing Of the
Gagnon whistle led someone to think
there was a fire i'm that vicinity, hence the
alarm was given. But no fire could he
found.
In as much as the city is now in possess
sion Of an electric fire alarm system IL
might not be amiss for the public TO post
itself on the use OF b system. People
should remember that alarms should he
sent in only from boxes located nearest
TO n fire and not unfortunately. III n
fire is discovered in the southwestern part
of the city a box in that locality should he
used n not n In the upper part
n fire alarm telegraph may be IL would he
useless to expect that an alarm sounded
from q box on Broadway would indicate
at the station a fire OF Park or Galena
streets. As soon as an alarm Is turned in
IL registers the number OF In box mt the
fire house and the firemen in response to
the box is situated from which
the alarm was sounded. Nervous
and excitable persons should remember
this and not rush to The nearest box to
sound the alarm regardless OF where the
fire may be located. In other words. IL a
fire Is burning on West Park street an
alarm should not he turned in from a box
In the eastern part of the city. To do this
would cause the firemen TO go i'm the
wrong direction and thus lose much valu-
able time and create great confusion. An
ordinance exists, by which IL Is made a
misdemeanor punishable by n fine of so,
to turn IN a false fire alarm. When this
ordinance has been enforced a few times
the public will then probably become a
little more careful and save the "Jakics"
many hard runs and much display of bad
temper. The fire this morning demon
strated the necessity Of n fire department
for South Butte. and unless the citizens
of that hustling suburb do something IN
that direction they are very liable to find
themselves burned u of house and home
one OF these days. The town has plenty
Of water, but without a properly equipped
department its water supply IL useless.