Bisbee daily review., 1910-09-29
CAPTAIN WILL
 BE IN CHARGE
 IF FIRE BOYS
Council to Grant Power En- lar9ing Jurisdiction of This Dosition-6onds Must Be Recorded

] The city council met yesterday afternoon in a special session to take action on several matters that required immediate attention. As the result of yesterday afternoons $ meeting two new ordinances will be drawn up immediately. one plac- ing the house captain in supreme command af all fires. and the other 1 ordinance will instruct the city clerk to have ai bonds of city officials and all deeds to property sold the city recorded in the records at the county seat
 When the council was called to order Attorney NJ. J. Brown repres- enting J. H. Jack appeared before ! the aldermen with a claim in re- lation to the moving Of the Jack lumber yard buildings He stated that fis client alleges that the foundations were not properly. built. ! lie proposed tn. the damages he claims be lowed to offset taxes due thu city from Jack.
 City Attorney Flanigan stated that | it is contrary to the law to allow an offset against the taxes due and { that the action open to Jack is to present regular claim against the city. The city attorney holds that the use of the buildings by Jack constitutes an acceptance of the work
 Assistant Chief Hoover of the | fire department asked that the council make . donation to the de [ partment to assist in defraying the : expenses of sending a hose team to i Phoenix to enter the races. He stated that the Bisbee department now has the territorial trophy and that there is every reason to be- ] lieye that il can be won again this year which would make it the prop erty of the Bisbee department No . action was taken on this matter. 1t to decide whether or not the coun- cil could make d small donation to the department for the purpose for which it is requested.
 Hoover stated that he holds two offices in the department and that he wants to resign one of them. ! He Is assistant chieT of inc de- psrtment and also foreman of Com i rany No. l. The council told him that hc had permission to resign either ohice.
 Hoover stated 10 the council that ho wanted to krow who is in charge at fires. the chief of the department or the house captain. He said that because of the fact that there Is now mucil dissatisfaction among the volunteers over the way | things have been conducted he 1 would like an answer from the council "yes CT no" on this matter. He also stated that the ordinance provides that the chief shall be ill | charge at fires. He said that it has been the practice for the paid fire men to 90 away from the fire house to a greater distance than is al lowed by the city ordinance with out getting the permission Of the chief He said that he has seen the members of the paid department at long distance from their head quarters and that they had not asked the permission of the chief to leave the house.
 Alderman Newman stated that the paid captain should be in charge at fires. Hoover replied by stating that the majority of the depart ment is very much dissatisfied with ! the existing condition Of affairs and he suggested that if any change was made in the ordinance which makes the chief of the department in com manh at fires that the council had better abolish the volunteers. The city attorney was instructed Io draw up an amendment 10 the ! present ordinance so that II will put the captain Of the paid de | pertinent in supreme charge Of the 6re department at all fires. This amendment will make the chief cf the volunteers nothing more than a fisurehesd.
 The question of whether to accept
 the s9,O00 from the Warren company
 on the street railway contract was discussed at length. The ordinance | provides that when the street rail-
 way has reached the city limits the 5000 is due. The company has ten i dered the money although the west
 ern limits of the city have not been
 reached by the car line.
 . The city attorney advised the coun-
 cil to accept the money from the com
 pany if the company will pay it with
 the understanding that the payment will not in an way affect the fran
 chise and contract and will not be
 made a reason by the company for
 refusing to build to the city limits
 when the city completes the 70 foot road to the limits.
 | The talk of the extension of the
 40 foot read brought on a dis
 cussion of the adyisability of open
 ing a park at the west limits of the
 city All of the aldermen were Tn
 favor of park as soon as the city's
 finances will permit the extension of
 the road improvements.
 The city attorney drew up re
 solution which will be acted on al
 the next meeting, to the effect that
 the council accept the money from
 the Warren company with the pro viso that the acceptance of the mon
 itey will not take away the power o'