The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-02
The Fire Department.


The annual report of Chief r. S. Men
trum of the fire department was as fol-
lows:
Il have the honor to submit herewith
the annual report of the fire depart
ment of your city for the year ending
May /. 1899 The entire loss for the
year just closed. from May I, 1898, to
May l. 1899. is estimated by the insur-
ance companies which have sustained
the loss, at about $4,000, the greater
part of which was occasioned by one
fire the fire in the Losee & Maxwell
buildings on Main street, on the morn
ing of April II, 1899, where the loss was
about $1,000, and of this amount the
adjusters attributed more than half
the loss occasoned by smoke. where the
fire nor water either touched.
1.-THE total number of fire alarms
turned in during the year has been
So, to each of which the company has
responded with the results shown in
the above statement of losses.
THE equipment of the fire depart
ment at present consists of: One first
| class La France steam engine: one
first class hose wagon and one hook
! and ladder truck. which is now old and
| nearly worn out and rapidly becoming
| unsafe and unfit for competent ser
! vice
During the year just passed, the
| department has purchased four new
| horses at cost of $500. and has dis
posed of two horses, which were too
| light for efficient service, for the sum
of 800.
"The department also has on hand
| 1000 feet of first-class hose and 700 feet
| of Second-class hose.
During the year the department has
| responded to SO box calls, six telephone
| calls, three still alarms and five false
alarms.
1.-THE expense for improvements in
the department during the past year
while it has been rather heavier than
| will often appear, by reason of many
| improvements of permanent Kind
| has still been materially reduced by
| the assistance of the firemen in re-
modelling and repairing the department
quarters and in rebuilding our lines
throughout the city.
"The entire set of lines in the city
has been renewed, and in place of the
old naked iron wire, modern insulated
wire has been erected. and all work in
connection Herewith has been done by
the members of the department. eX-
cept about 90 days service by skilled
electrician All of the carpenter work
and painting in connection with the
remodeling of the department quarters
during the year has been done by the
members of the department: and all
repairs of an incidental nature and all
electrical repairs and adjustments
about the department quarters nave
been done by the members of the regu-
lar fire force
"And before closing. word about
the water supply of the city for fire
purposes: it has not been necessary,
at any fire within the fire limits dur
ing the past year. to call out the en-
CINE, as in every instance the natural
pressure from the water mains has
been sufficient to throw the necessary
streams with sufficient force to any re-
ouired height or distance, and in many
instances there was greater pressure
than needed, and always we'll sus-
tanned. go.
."The department made one run with
out the fire limits. when on the even
ing of March 20. 1899, an alarm came
in that there was fire in the old Mon
tana Union shops"
} The City Engineer.
Following is the annual report OF
CITY Engineer E. H. Macdonald:
''Sewers-There have been construct
ed during the year of 1898 sanitary
sewers in Improvement districts Nos
, 8, 4, 5, 6, I, s. 8. 10. II and II and
: main sewer in Fourth street. inVolv
) ing the use of 1896 feet of S-inch, 6,6S
| feet of 1O-inch and 100 feet Of 12-incl
pipe, a total length of 22.S65 feet, o
a little more than four miles of pipe
! and including 100 Miller automati
| flush tanks and Al manholes. leaving
S37 connections and giving service +
! the equivalent of 1,102.25 foot lots. TIL
| entire cost of this work was $40, 9SS.2
or about 90 cents per foot. OF thi