The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-04-12
ANAC ONDA NE WIS.
lots OF DISSERTATION
With Great Perspicacity the Al
dermen. Discuss Questions.
SEWERS AND SIGN POSTS
Steam Wood Saw Form q Conspicuous
Part OF b Evenings rebate.
Plenty OF Talk, But Not Much
Business.

The council last evening erected sign
poles all over the city, and tore them
down again; then erected them over
again n knocked them down once
more, and finally left them all over
town. neither up nor down. After de-
m%olishing sign poles the council blew
up steam saws, and the evidence is con-
clusive that the explosion occurred
from the outside. and 1t was agreed that
an indemnity will be demanded from
the unlucky nan who has his wood
sawed and allows his sawdust to re-
main where the steam saw man drops
It.. There was enough sewer alb to
dig a canal from Anaconda to Stuart.
and the whole affair, resolutions, dis
tricts, ordinances INT all, were turned
OYER to the judiciary committee for con-
liberation. The mayors vote on two
OCCASIONS was required to break a tie,
and, herdidr It With an aye.
As a curtain raiser Clerk O'Leary
read the minutes of three preceding
sessions, and the dull monotony was
broken by the reading of a prayer by
Barber Stone for the erection of a sign
pole in front of his place of business
on Main street, opposite c. II. Williams
justice Office, where there is, BY the
decree of council, nj sign pole. Be-
fore the motion to grant the que
was put. Alderman Johnson moved to
reconsider, the vote of the last meeting,
which prohibited Judge Williams from
erecting a sign pole in front of his
printing Office. But as johnson was
not of the meeting that considered the
matter, his motion was out of order.
The Vnfa tn grant Stone the nrixiIaoa
of raising his sign on the walk result
ed in the following vote:
Ayes-Petritz. Schutty, johnson, Fitz-
Patrick, Gangner-5.
Nays-Collins. Devine, Davidson,
O'Brien, Dalton-5.
The mayor voted aye and the pole
goes up.
Then followed explanations of votes.
Collins said that he was guided by the
rule which prohibits the placing of
signs on sidewalks. He did not want
to appear as showing Partially. and
would. so long as he believed that the
rule was in force, continue to vote
against sidewalk signs. He said tina
petitioners never specified the size or
nature of poles they asked permission to
erect, and IL the practice continued the
streets would eventually be a forest of
v~ariegated sign posts.
Petritz thought sign posts the proper
thing in some cases, where the bust
ness man was at a disadvantage to
make a sign on his store front. and be-
lieved that a respectable looking sign
post was as good a thing. on general
principles, as a hitching post, jack
knitted out of all responsibility by the
street lounger.
Davidson voted nay because he I'M
derstood that the halt was called on
Williams petition, and thought it con-
sistent with the established preee-
dent.
Gangner thought is was a good plan
to treat every one alike-if a pole went
up, let all go up. If the council says
down, let 'em all go down.
The mayor believed i'm a uniform sys-
tenn of poles. that is, If it were to be
agreed that poles go up.
Devine said he didn't have to explain
his vote. He thought that If mer-
chants wanted to display signs they
could do so on or under their windows.
If we continue to grant petitions for
posts we will eventually revert back to
the days of the rail fence
Fitzpatrick was in favor of doing
with street signs. He has one
ly looking thing, and he would be will
ing to have it removed. He didn't vote
either way at the last meeting.
OBrien vas in favor of impartiality
in such matters.
After granting the Boyd brothers.
liverymen, permission to lay sidewalks
around their barn. corner of Third and
Cedar, the council gracefully fell back
into the pole erection controversy and
made a tie that the mayor broke with
an aye.
5 Jeweler V~erberckmoes petitioned the
council to grant him permission to place
a sign on the walk in front of his store
on Park avenue. The vote on his was
the same as h a on Stones request.
= Election and other bills were read
and referred.
Z The report of the finance committee
was read IND the following bills were