El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-02-15

The secretary then read the follow
ing which was received and fled and
the committee discharged by rising
vote.
Ell PASO, Tex, Feb. IA, 1900.
Mr.. President:-It does my heart as
= much good to be appointed a commit
tee of one to get new gsvel for the
FL PasO fire department as ii to receive
a valentine. 1t calls my memory back
to the early days When Ell Paso was
only side track competing with ST.
Louis, Chicago and New York. and
even Ysleta. But they are too far
from US now to ever amount to much.
But it also calls back to memory when
you, our worthy president, were a
young man full OF vigor and vitality,
the same as our worthy Vice-Presidents
S. Fl. Buchanan and Joseph Sweeney
now are, and also onr worthy ex-Chiefs
@. G. Keller and W. 81. Tuttle.
Those were the days when our pres
ent chief came west to grow up with
the country and our worthy seer etary
was barefoOted boy somewhere in the
uucivilized east. But how time marks
tue change; today when the fire bell
rings we know it means fire. But in
our early days it was signal for three
duties-to protect our citizens from
rustlers, Indians aud fire. Everything
seems to have put on new aspect.
Even our river. which Col. Mills still
insists is navigable, has changed.
Brother Fireman, we old HAS
beens" are fast leaving you and If our
landlord does not repair our present
habita,ioDs we will soOu have to move
out and make room for the coming gen.
GRAFTON. But we will always wish to
be numbered and our names called as
long As Ell PasO has a volunteer fire
department.
Yours Respectfully,
~ TnNEc
President Julian in a neat speech
acknowledged the receipt of the gavel
aud thanked Mr.. Jones for his SER
vices.
Chief Powers said that he and Mr..
Hixson had been appointed COM
mittee to investigate gas bills and they |
had called upon Mr.. White in regard |
to them and he insisted that they were
all right. He said the new compa-
ny's new rates would be 81 for all night
and IS cents for II O'Clock lights and
the department had estimated that it
would cost about $500 to wire the
building, and he thought it would be |
economy to put in wires and connect
with the old company's plant but with
out making any contract with
them.
The recomm endation was adopted.
The question of the fire bell was
taken up and Chief Powers read the
several letters he had received from
the different manufactures Offering to
furnish bells. There were two offers
to choose between and q long discus
sion ensued.
J. B. Badger made radical sugees-
ton. He said that in many cities the
use of bells had been discarded al
together and whistles adopted instead.
He thought arrangements could be
made with the electric COMPANY for q
whistle that could be heard all over
town. Whether or not the directors
saw fit to adopt it he thought it worthy !
Of consideration.
T. II. Springer thought the sugges-
ton was a good one.
Chief Powers said he had already con- I
sidered the matter of a whistle and he
thought it could be done. Ia
After some further discussion where {
N no opposition TOT the plan developed, !
he m after was referred to the chief
or investigation.
President Julian announced that the J
,ext meeting would be a quar- terly