The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-05-23
ALDERMEN HAVE NO LOVE FOR
SWEET SOUNDS.
DEAF TO MUsIC'S CHARMS
Will Vote None Of city's Funds for
Employing a Band
Leader.

From Wednesdays Daily Gazette.
Either they considered it as too sug-
gestive of the paternal in government
or else their souls are not to be STIR
red by a concord of sweet sounds"
for not n of the other members Of
the board would as much as second
Alderman Bennighoff's motion last
night that the city council employ a
bandmaster during the summer
months at $50 a month.
Mr.. Bennington made an ELOQUENT
plea for consideration of his PROPOSE
ton and vainly sought to arouse in
the others the embers of latent love
for music supposed to lie slumbering
in all human souls. They remained
deaf to his eloquence and pleading
and he was compelled to subside and
nurse his disappointment.
He met with no better success when
he next sought to awaken the fires
of patriotism in the aldermanic
breasts. In his characteristic forcible
and telling name he sought to con
vince the rest of the council that it
would be a great thing if the city
were to ~unloosen it's purse strings and
donate $500 toward a proper celebra-
ton of the Fourth Of July. From APP
peals to patriotism he shifted his
argument to IN appeal to the selfish
side of the question and showed the
benefits all would derive from a cele-
bration of the kind that would tempt
the strangers for miles around to
come to town on that day. But again
he talked to men who would not listen,
or listening would not be convinced
and again no second was to be heard.
V. ]. Salisbury and E. w. Keene sub,
mitted their bonds as policeman and
street commissioner, respectively, and
they were approved and accepted.
The street and sidewalk committee
submitted a voluminous report, which
was accepted. Numerous new walks
were recommended and the owners
of the property involved were to be
notified ODE present at the councils
next meeting and make protest if
they have any to offer.
The usual batch Of bills were audit
ed and ordered paid, and the reports
Of various committees accepted.
A defect being reported in the new
sprinkling wagon, the clerk was in
structed to communicate with the
manufacturers in regard to the mat
ter. 1t was decided to extend the
cement walk in front of the north
side of the public library to the cor
ner of Twenty-eighth street and build
a crossing from it's terminus to the
north side of Montana venue.
Acting on the recommendation con.
tanned in the report of the chief of
the fire department, the council in
structed the clerk to advertise for
1000 feet of cotton, rubber lined, hose
and also for a trussed combination
chemical fire engine and hook and
ladder truck with a 5O-foot extension
ladder.
1t was decided to order an enlarge
ment of the vault of the clerks Of
flee in the new city hall and to do
away with the passage way between
the Offices Of the clerk and mayor.
The bill board in Minnesota avenue
south Of the Northern Pacific passen-
ger depot, was declared a nuisance
and it's removal ordered.
The matter of improving the city
parks was taken up and resulted in
the adoption Of a vote appropriating
the sum of $500 to be used in their
improvement and Identification.
BY this time the remarks previously
made by Bennighoff anent q Fourth of
July celebration had begun to have
some effect. A motion prevailed for a
call for a citizens meeting at the
court house next Friday evening for
the purpose Of taking action in re-
gard to a blowout"
WHITE HAS RESIGNED.