Arizona republican., 1898-03-10

south as occasion demands. The pip ing on Main street is to be 21a-inch, There will be five fire-plugs, and the pressure is calculated at 160 pounds to the square inch. The fire hose company has been organized with fifteen members, and Merchant M. w. Brookner has been chosen chief. AL ready a neat and complete hose cart costing $50 in St. Louis, and 400 feet of 21s-inch hose Of approved quality are located in the turret house, which was created out of a band-stand The iron water pipe is partly in from Ge- ronimo and fire protection is practi- cally settled now.
 Less than two months ago Rescue lodge No. 12 I. O. o. F., secured fifty feet front by 100 depth, opposite the $1,00O cash. They are advertising for plans on a building to cost $S,OOO, the brick to be burned here. Phoenix architects are bidding and one of their number is sure to get the job. The plan, as at present devised, means two floors, the ground floor for gen eral meeting purposes, dancing and theatrical entertainments, with per
 
 the entrance The building of this ed flee will be but beginning of bui d. ing boom. Adobes and frames TOW prevail, with perhaps three exceptions, one. the court house, being of stone construction. There are eleven per sons, mainly past grands, of the lodge who have decided upon visiting Je- rome at the grand lodge meeting on April Il, and all will be in Phoenix on the 9th of that month as well as upon their return. Those mentioned are Hon. G. w. P. Hunt, H. c. Hitchcock and wife, w. T. McNelly and wife, Eugene Middleton, H. Jewell and wife, Mrs. Louis Sultan, Alfred Kinney and wife and Secretary William Whalley. On April 26 the lodge will cut a big cake which has been prepared at Crampton's bakery by former Tempe and Phoenix artist, said to be the best in the territiry. The lodge is four ishing like greenboy- tree.
 Saturday was the anniversary of the fire that swept Charles Bankers Pina1 brewery. At the time the brew cry was in it's fifth year of existence In 1890 the opposition brewery was consolidated, then conducted by Banker & Sawyer. The latter died on the coast later. At depth of thirty feet good water is had and in a few weeks Banker will be brewing with malt brought in from the coast MT. Banker furnishes 200 electric lights in town, the dynamos having seen ser vice in Phoenix. In the Pinal noun tains Mr. Banker stored 800 tons of ice gathered the past winter from a in al mountains.
 Louis Jordan of Phoenix, who is here with his bride of a month, has secured a frame building opposite the Old Dominion commercial store on Main street and will order Tn his stock and furnishing goods at once Speak inf of Phoenix people reminds me that L. G. Coombs and family are here, except two daughters who are teaching in Phoenix schools. Miss Lauriette is private secretary to Judge Doan, but at present here; young H. l.. Coombs, who is secretary of the Com mercial club, is with Westmyers assayer. Mrs. Eliza Winslow (for- taurant, her son James assisting u1- til he secures a place. w. T. McNeil and Robert Goodwin, at Kellner's, are from Tempe. M. Borques and sons carry on a bottle house. W. O. .Kellner is making the postoffice an up-to date institution, while his brother, E. F. Kellner, is the head of a mercantile house, J. w. Ransom, a settler of 1871, being the active partner. I was told that fifteen young men om Phoenix came in during the past thirty days, nearly all looking for town To- cations as clerks, etc. If more are to follow soon they should have their pockets lined. PITTOCK.