Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-03-12
FIRE BOARD MATTERS.
An Interesting Meeting of the Comm
sioners Held Last Night.

siOners Held Last Night.
|. The adjourned meeting of the board
OF ire commissioners was held last
evening at which every member was
present.
Chief Snagg recommended that Day
ton Lasher be appointed on probation as
permanent hose man at No 2's house in
place of William Christian, resigned.
The matter Of extending the fire
limits was postponed until the next
regular meeting, as the commissioners
desired to consider it further. The
committee appointed to visit the works
of the Municipal Fire and Police Alarm
company. at Newton Highlands, Mass,
reported through Commissioner Hart,
that they had not done so because q
judgment had been obtained by. the
Gamewen company restraining Mr.
Crane from using his name in connec-
ton with the manufacturing of any fire
or police alarm for period of ten years.
MIR Polglaise, the agent of the Munich
pal company, was present, and ex-
planned to the board that the suit was a
personal matter between Mr. Crane and
the Gamewell company. Mr. Crane was
the treasurer of, and a large stock
holder in the Municipal 3 ompany, but
he had resigned from that Office, and
no suit was pending between the
two companies, and consequently no
harm or expense could come to any one
dealing with either of them. He then
submitted the following proposition:
The undersigned respectfully propose
to construct and put in complete work
ing condition in your city the fire alarm
apparatus as hereinafter specified. One
five cruit mountaineering repeater, one
five cruit switch board, four battery
galvanometers, one test galvanometer;
taking your two circuit repeater, switch
board, galvanometer and stand and
1915 in full for the same. Should you
decide to retain your present repeater
1926. We will furnish you with twelve
of our absolute mountaineering fire
alarm signal boxes for the sum of $500,
and any additional boxes in the future
at $75 each. We guarantee the repeater
and boxes to be equal in the mechanical
construction and reliability of perfor-
nance to your present system and to
work in perfect harmony with the same.
We will furnish the machinery delivered
in your city, you to erect the boxes on
the poles or buildings as you may elect,
ready to connect into the system. We
to send men to connect repeater and
boxes in the circuits. We will allow the
same to remain on trial for sixty days.
Should any question arise in regard to
the infringement or any suit commenced
we will give the city an indemndying
bond to protect the city against all harm
or costs in the matter. Should the
above machinery prove satisfactory to
this board then the above amounts shall
become payable and If not satisfactory
as above represented, then the same
shall be taken out without expense to
the CITY,"
Commissioner Hynes moved that the
proposition be accepted and it was Sec
onded by Commissioner McAuliffe.
Commissioner Hart thought that it
should not be accepted at once, and that
it would be better to see some practical
tests made. Commissioner Hynes re-
piled that, in his judgment the best
practical test that could be made, was
offeredSwithout expense, by the propo-
sition. moreover its working could be
seen by the citizens who understood the
business and he thought that would af-
ford much satisfaction. Mayor Webster
thought however, that as the committee
had not been discharged and as the ex-
pense would be very slight they should
visit the shops of the company in New
ton Highlands and see the system in OPP
GRAFTON, and it was so decided.
Chief Snagg was appointed commit
tee to purchase chairs for both bunk
rooms in No 2's house and to sell some
old carpets and stoves belonging to the
city, after which the board adjourned.