Arizona republican., 1914-05-29
WOULD
 HOLD PART 0F
 THE FIRE FUND
Says Adequate Equipment May Be Secured for Pres ent Needs Without Spend ing All the Money Now 1 Available

Present fire protection needs in Phoenix do not require the imme- diate expenditure of the $75,O00 avail able through the recent bond issue sary to come within the requirements ef the board of fire underwriters and sufficient of an extension of the fire alarm system for present needs can be installed at far less expenditure than sl5,000. leaving tidy balance in the fire equipment and extension fund for future use
 This is the opinion of City Mana ger w. A Parish who opened bids yesterday for twenty five new alarm boxes and who has advertised for bids for three combination automo- bile chemical and hose wagons and an engine tractor With the proba- bility that new city hall building may be erected before many months upon some other site than that oc- cupied by the present structure and that in selecting a site for the new building provision will probably be
 
 fire station. Manager Parish believes that it would be ill-advised to spend any considerable sum in the erection of a new central fire station OF the improvement of the present structure
 These views have been commun- cated to the fire underwriters who have given assurance that the eX- tension of the fire alarm system as planned, the equipping of three houses with combination hose and chemical autos. each carrying lad der equipment and the affixng of tractor to the engine now standing upon the floor of the fire house in the city hall plaza would place the Phoenix fire department in shape to combat practically any fire that might occur in any part of the city.
 Unfortunately for Mir Parish and his desires to give adequate fire pro- lection at the minimum of expense opposition from various sources has been created. Strong pressure is be- ing brough to bear to convert him to belief in the necessity for new auto pump which would cost in the neigh borhood of $10,000 Offsetting this pressure, MT. Parish points to the pressure almost instantly available whenever an alarm is turned in. ade- uuate--for fires in the residence dis trict and generally adequate for fires in the business section. It is nearly three months since the present steam CT has been required to give aux hot. L,- h.. mains.
 Then. too Mir Parish points to the lack of wisdom in consigning the steamers of the present department to the junk heap. when new steam CT would hardly do more than the old and would cost many times over what 1t would to attach tractor to one of the engines now owned by the city,
 The opening of bids yesterday for twenty-five box extension of the fire alarm system carried out the con- tention that less than $5000 would give to Phoenix adequate fire alarm protection and would leave money available for the construction of still more improved system when the central station. problem shall have been definitely solved. These bids are being held up until today in or der that the representatives of the Gamewell system and the Star sys- tenn, the only concerns bidding, may be enabled to give practical demon- strations of the efficiency of their goods. The figures were not made public yesterday but it is known they were considerably less than $5000.
 For the present twenty-f five addi-