The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-04-26

Gossip INDUCED in by Everybody Who
Is Interested. i
TO COOL OFF THE STREETS
The Mayor-Eleot Daily Greeted
With a Shower OF Applications
May q the Old Council VIII
Step Down and Out.

BUTTE, April 25.-Under the resolutions
adopted at last nights council meeting
the sprinkling ordinance. which was re-
ferred tothe Judiciary committee, in order
to have the names Of oil streets that were
sprinkled last year and omitted in this
years ordinance added to it, will be
amended SO as to take in Wyoming street
and Utah avenue from the B., A. d p.
tracks to Front street, and Arizona street
from Second to Front street. The addi-
ton of this territory will probably pre-
woke lively discussion at the next coun-
ell meeting, as it is claimed that the resi-
dents and property owners on the streets
last named are opposed to sprinkling and
will petition against It, while their repre-
sentatives in the council are in favor OF
sprinkling.
There are aldermen who claim, on the
other hand. that as the people on the
other streets in question were taxed last
year against their will for the purchase of
the sprinkling carts thcy should now be
given benefit of them. If the sprinkling
ordinance is passed as ordered amended
il will cover practically all of the streets
that were sprinkled last year, as was
shown by the streets in the two districts,
as published in this mornings STANDARD,
and will also take in a little new territory.
Front street will be sprinkled block
farther east, Main will be sprinkled as far
south as Gold street, taking in one more
block, and Woolman will be cooled down
between Main and Wyoming, Ohio
avenue will be sprinkled from Park to
Mercury, and Quartz street, which only
received the attention OF the watering
carts as far west as jackson street last
year, will this year be sprinkled as far
west as Missoula gulch. Montana street,
which was watered last year from Copper
to Platinum, will this season be sprinkled
only between Silver and Quartz, which is
reduction of two blocks on the south
and one on the north.
The city now owns IL sprinkling carts
and the indications are that they will all
be in constant use after the LIST OF May.
A subscriber to the STANDARD on South
Montana street has registered kick be-
cause that street is only being sprinkled
as far. south as Mercury street. This
condition of things is due to the fact that
there are now only four sprinkling carts
in use and they are operated by the city
IN the business portion and the expenses
are paid by those who derive the benefit.
The contract for the seasons sprinkling
will be awarded next Wednesday even
ing, and after that Montana street will
be regularly sprinkled as far south as
Silver street.
The present city council will hold two
more meetings, one next Wednesday
evening and their final one on the after
noon of Monday, May 6, when they will
receive the annual reports of the heads of
departments and wind up their affairs.
The new mayor and aldermen will take
their seats on Monday evening, but the
fun will probably not commence until the
regular meeting on the following Wednes-
day night. The various city officials are
all engaged in the preparation of their
annual and biennial reports and some of
inc ha rIar than fhau ha a
for long time.
Mayor-Elect Thompson is spending a
good deal of his time just now wading
through the oceans of applications and
pstitions of Office seekers with which he
mas bee n deluged ever since his election,
and is making up his slate of appoint
ments. He is silent as the grave as to
VINO his appointees will be, and with two
exceptions the applicants for Office are as
much at sea as they were on the day after
election. The two exceptions are Il. j..
Tebo and Andy Daum, who IL is generally
believed are certain of appointment as
marshal and chief of police respectively.
Mr.. Tebo has never had any experience
in police work, but this has never been
considered q necessary qualification in
the appointment of a head to the police
department of Butte, and never will be
as long as the present Anticipated system
is in vogue. Mr.. Tebo has sufficient
knowledge of the world and good COM
mon sense, however, to make him ca
pablo officer as soon as he gets ION to the
ropes" -. 4. 49,
Mr.. Daum has the advantage of previous
experience at the head of the police de-
partment. where he proved himself to be
an honest and efficient officer.
From outward indications il would APP
pear that Mr.. Thompson is looking care.
fully into the qualifications of each appli-
cant, and that he is paying little attention
TO the walls of chronic office seekers and
professional politicians. Ii is said that he
will neither appoint a building inspector
nor an assistant city clerk, as he believes
these officers are unnecessary. IL is also
said that he viii advocate a reduction in
the police force by increasing the length
of the beats in the heart of the city on
night shift, which can easily be done.
1t Is said that Mr.. Thompson has 20 APP
plIcations for city attorney and 157 for
jobs on the force. The rush for Office is
accompanied by many amusing features,
one of the funniest of which rs the sudden
and complete change in the utterances
and expressed feelings of a number of
policemen in regard to Mr.. Thompson
and his forces since election day. III
every man who now claims to have voted
for Mr.. Thompson had really done so, the
other two candidates would not have re-
ceived 50 votes betweou them.