Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-12-12
FIRE ALARM SYSTEM.
fhs City Of Iususia Is 1t LAST 10 Have
lGo)d 0;e.
The 6ameweli Company Expect TO segin
Work Herr In About Two Weeks.

Augusta 10 to have Ore alarm syssen.
one the, 10 consiasrd the bsst The CON-
mitses Of the city government reported
,ha afte. the iavestiss,ias the dnsrent
sysiem N. they believed the dsmsvsii ssssm
-. the one that should be adopted. Coua.
Gilman Corni.h explained {, the eoaael he
features of the sysiem, and the eonustt I
tha. the company you'd make With tie
ci,s.
NJ A. u Wheeler, the agent OF the
C ampsny, vas pre.ent. He SAYS the com
pAny i, pui'i the system ia At Bath, and
a. soon q. that 10 completed will come here,
10 about two weeks. and pu.h the werk.
W H Smith Of Gsriiaer sppeased be-
fore the Bosrd ef Alie'men snd explained
his sy.,em of Numbering houses Ani the
pso5able cost thereof.
Fhe foiio~ing tusiae" ~0 transacted
Rou Of scocaan NJ. ., sm msuatins to
s2sSi aS, wa. ordered 20 be pad.
Report of city treasurer for moath OF
October was placed on hie-
Petition of r. o V csery and others for
pumhtr ring hoa.e- within the free delivery
disricu was referred to comni' ties On high
ways.
Le.iie C. Cornish vas sppoinied to be .
member Of the bead u rusiess of LiIh'
gov Library.
The following orders were read ard
passed;
Ordered, That . street leading from
Bangor street cxstetls to the Soatn Il B'ifsst
road sb0u, l4o rods in iergh ami 40 feet
vide. tn. north line II which street shail
be the south line OF the Willlsms school
house lot ard iand Of Joseph II Williams.
b.. aud 10 hereby laid out and sccep pied,
provided the owners of the land will o.,
deed give the same to the City 90 log ~
she same shall be used ssa public street.
Said street shall be kuown ~ Qaimby
street
Ord red, That the mayer be authoIifed
and ln.tructsd 10 execute IN behalf CT the
cay. the acoa mpsnying contract with the
Gamewtn Fire Alarm Telegraph e.. for
the erect o. AID completion Of an electric
FIRE alarm ~ stem in I'M. city, consisting OF
IA n,n. Interfering boxes, tso towsr suik-
srv, With & mas tspp-rs, batteries, ~irrs,
aaivanometets, and all other eisc'ricai aod
mel hsnicsl appliances ss therein specified.
Said systsm % be eompistso 10 the ssis'
fscaon of the present committee GU n'e
dsrsr mpnt
Orisr,d. That the msyor he au h1r'ztd
l. draw his variant In favor OF the mem
hers uf Pine Tree Ho.e Co NJ sad
Vplu tesr Hose c. No. 8, in the sun OF
Forty (i0) ceo,s Ter h VI Tor sc,aai .ervio
a the h.. Of Nov Is, ls9i.
Odsrd. Tsst he may OF be and her, ! y
/, @utnorizei TO draw his -aIrant ior the
sum u ten dJliss IA favor OF the Mason
heirs In paynegt for a narrow strip of land
tskeu for the vids mig of the street leading
up Rtn.s hill the pteseDt season.
The committee on fire department mad
the following report ~b,ch vss ace p'ed'
Ttst The section IL q sstian on Mat.
nill ~ss -holly unpr liected from tre and
they hsve there fore caused tw1 hydtsrts 10
be erected, obe u.sr h- houss OF II. w
Wbliehouse, and ihe otbsr near the hau'e
Of Jan's Savage; thst tie distance run is
ahou, 1850 feet, OF three times the ooaifhct
dis'suce for single hyd,snt That the
rental for these t.o h, drants sill therefore
be the conusct price far nrse, but il has
oeen agreed .isb the Wsts' Company that
rental ,heref0r shall BDl b gn uaui Apfii
|, 1892