The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-08
CITY BUYS
 NEW HOSE But Much 0ratorY Pre-
 ceded Deal. BOUGHT FROM LOCAL FIRMS Question of Price Figured Heavy in the Debate. rour Thousand Feet in All Was Bought, one-Fourth From "E"- reka. Concern and Rest From Local Representatives.

Ia a meeting devoted largely to the consideration of the purchase or rour- thousand feet of fire hose for the clty. me mem bers of the council talked ana obiected for three and one-half hours last night
 The most important happening or inc eveninx was the adoption of the minority report of the fire hose com mittee which gave to local concerns the privilege of furnishing three tnou- sand of the four thousand feet of nose to he purchased. Through the adjust ment of bids adopted s7o0 less than the amount called for by the majority report will be paid for the hose.
 Alderman Sullivan championed the bid of the Eureka Fire Hose Company He found stubborn opposition among number of members of the council, ana President Gunter especially made a strong plea for the cheaper hose. of- ferei through a local business house. He believed. he said. that the cheap est hose was the best. But in com pairing the Eureka brand. recommend l ad by the majority report and the chief of the fire department, with oth- | CT cheaper brands he had no certain | knowledge that the former was the | best The Manhattan hose. at seventy | cents foot. for the purchase Of | which he spoke favorably. might not | be, he said. as good as the Eureka | hose at ninety cents foot but of this | there was no certain knowledge | Chief Browder, of the Are depart | ment had. he contended, not stated | that the Manhattan hose was not l good. He had merely stated that hs | knew nothing about 1t. President l Gunter therefore declared himself ir | favor of a trial of the Manhattan | hose.
 Alderman Sullivan arose after Mir | Gunter had taken his seat and spoke | at length. He declared that the man | ufacturers of the Manhattan hose had | adopted devious methods in presentina 1 their bid to the council and under thu l favoring mask of local house hae | attempted to introduce their goods.
 "That Company has sneaksd arouRt the corner" he said. They have sought to introduce their hose throuGi another order for fire hose. perhaps in five years"
 He censured the action Of the Man haitian Hose Company in fareically ap pealing to patriotic motives and spok sareastically of their methods of do Ing business.
 He bewailed the fate of Montgomer! between the devil and the blue sea. of the bitulithic pavement being laid ol | the Manhattan Company.
 Discussion was rife after Mir. Sulli van had given up the floor. Motioi and counters motion intended to vari ously modify the minority report wa made but without effect. The en, came when the minority report wa finally adopted by a large majority Q votes. 0-
 It provides that one thousand fee of the Multiple Are hose of the Man hattan Company. ninety cents foot one thousand feet of the DiamoR, Rubber hose. seventy cents a foot and two thousand feet of the Ohio Cir cle hose. eighty-five cents foot, shal be purchased for the city's use.
 The two brands last mentioned wll be bought from Alabama Maehiner, and Supply Company and c. w. Bar nett and Company. respectively.
 Numerous attempts to effect an al journments were made by members o
 the council at. different times. Finall
 after the transaction of much routin
 business this object was accomplish
 ed. It was. then 1l;so o'clock.