Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-11-15
CITY Commission
HOLDS LONG Meeting
REPRESENTATIVE OF differ
EMIT FIRE EQUIPMENT FIRMS
SUBMIT BIDS.
Appointment Of City Milk Inspector is
Confirmed - Much Business Tran
sacted by Commi ssioners.

sacted by Commi ssioners.
The city commission held the long
est meeting on record last evenin,
and spent the greatest part of tn,
time listening to arguments put fOrtl
by the various representatives of fir
hose and fire equipment houses wht
were present at the opening Of thu
bids, but they were all referred +.
committee consisting OF Commission
ers Marquett, jackson, Lucas and Pat
terson who will probably get 1ogeth
er today and award the contracts
Bids offered the City commission
for fire hose are as follows:
Bismarck Hardware Co.
Bismarck Hardware Co. 2l@ inch
frost quality hose with long staple
fabric and best quality lining, guar
anteed thirty-six months against de.
feet in material and manufacture, to
stand pressure OF 400 feet per square
inch, to weight not less than 1 ID
pounds per foot, for IS cents per
foot.
W. S. Mott Co.
Roman, 400 pound pressure; three
year guarantee, per foot, Csc.
Target, 400 pound pressure; three
year guarantee, per foot, soc.
Compass, 400 pound pressure, three
year guarantee, per foot, SOC.
Roman Double, 400 pound pressure,
three year guarantee, per foot, Csc.
Portal Jacket, 400 pound pressure,
three year guarantee, per foot, $1.05.
Arrow, 400 pound pressure, three
year guarantee. per foot, $l.O0.
Liberty, 400 pound pressure, three
year guarantee, per foot, Soc.
Grambs and Peet.
2H inch Bay State Brand, coupled
with polished brass expansion ring
screw, coupling 1917 OF. per foot, 80
cents.
Dauntless Jacket, same description
as above, Is o., per foot "a cents.
Harvard, heavy single hose, same
description as above. Is o. per foot,
&C. Dandy, medium, single hose,
same as above, "a cents per foot. ALL
400 pound pressure and three year
life guarantee.
Chicago Fire Hose Manufacturing Co.
Entered by French and WEIGH.
Heavy Special, $1.O0 per foot.
Superior jacket, IS cents per foot.
Excel, IS cents per foot. Same
guarantee as to life, weight and pres
sure as all above.
Eureka Fire Hose Manufacturing Co.
Paragon, $1.1O per foot.
Red Cross, $1.OO per foot.
Blue Diamond Jacket, $l.OO per foot.
Peerless Jacket, IS cents per foot.
Helmet, IS cents per foot.
All guaranteed for three years and
400 pound pre- ssure.
Bi-LateraI Fire Hose Co.
Imon, solid woven, IS cents per foot,
weight A pounds per section.
Red Star, solid woven, 9Oc per foot,
weight, az pounds per section.
Wonder, IS cents per foot, weight,
80 pounds per section.
Congo jacket, $1.0O per foot, weight
81 pounds per section.
The following are the bids for the
hose wagons and chemical engines:
Observation-Disclosures Fire Engine Co.
Hose wagon to carry 1000 feet of
2R inch hose and chemical engine OF
forty gallon capacity. Price $1,225.
Same outfit with steel frame, $1,42O.
Chemical engine and hose cart, with
forty-eight horse power engine, motor
driven carrying 1000 feet of hose and
a forty gallon chemical tank, $4,000.
Peter Pirsch g. Co.
Chemical wagon with forty gallon
tank, 200 feet of ply hose, three
acid recepticles, one shut-off nozzle,
one soda bag, one fourteen foot ex-
tension ladder and one eighteen foot
roof ladder. Price SLABS. Combina-
ton hose and chemical wagon, carry
ing 1000 feet of hose and forty gal
Ion tank; motor driven, with four
cylinder engine, $4,000
w. S. Mott Co.
Chemical engine and hose wagon,
carrying 1000 feet of hose and
thirty gallon tank, price $3.50.
Schumacher Wagon Co.
Hose wagon with capacity of 1000
feet Of 21a inch cotton rubber lined
hose. Price, $425, F. o. B., st. Paul.
seafrave Co.
Combination chemical engine and
nose wagon, motor driven. Price,
S4,575.
Webb Motor Fire apparatus Co.
Chemical engine and hose wagon,
motor driven by fifty horse power en-
zine, and speed of forty miles per
lour, carrying $500 feet of hose.
Price $4,000.
The appointment of DR.. Carl F. Raw
# as milk inspector was confirmed
md in that department he will work
nder DR.. Smyth, commissioner of pub
ic health.
Thos. Fortune presented an offer to
,eep the cross walks of the city clean
or $500 per year and to clean the
walks of snow for 5000 additional.
The matter was referred to Commits
ioner Jackson.
The North Star Lumber company
ent in a request to be allowed to
onstruct an Office and storage build
ng on the site of it's present lumber
ard east of Sixth street, the building
o comply in all respects with the city
ire ordinances. The matter was re-