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Show PARK BOARD " NEEDS MONEY The city' dads mot Tasa night In regular reg-ular hcsslon. they not having been together to-gether for a couplo of weeks, due to political conventions and the. Four-State. Four-State. Fair. Tho report of the sidewalks committee com-mittee that tho same sort of crossing should be put In on Twenty-fifth street near the Ogden steam laundry as has been established at the Intersection Intersec-tion of Twenty-rifth street and Canal alley, was adopted and tho expenditure expendi-ture of $225 was authorized for that purpose. ' Tho public buildings nnd grounds committee was sustained In their thought that Thomas & Stone should be given the contract to furnish coal to the city at $3 10 per ton, they being be-ing the lowest bidders. The report of Chief Browning recommending rec-ommending that the council do not pass upon the applications for liquor licenses until he bo given further time to investigate certain alleged Infractions In-fractions of the city law by some of the saloon men, was adopted The matter of replacing a wood culvert across Washington avenue near the Rapid Transit car barn with vitrified pipe as recommended by the city engineer, was acted upou favorably favor-ably and the- engineer was instructed instruct-ed to proceed according to his suggestions. sug-gestions. The following estimates for city work were allowed: J. P. O'Neill Construction company, for curb and gutter, $1,015. J. P. O'Neill Construction company, for sidewalk, $278. C7. McKay & Read company, for sewer, sew-er, $2,351.03. Moran Construction company, for sewer, $5S2.47. Moran Construction company, for 6ewer, $808.38. Moran Construction company, for sewer, $32S.PS The report of the law committee that the duplicate warrants akeJ for by the J. G. Read Brothers company be Issued If the company furnish an accurate list of the warrants and furnish fur-nish a bond to tho city to reimburse tho municipality in case of loss, wus approved and the recorder instructed instruct-ed to make a settlement. The report of the sewer committee that the tax assessed on property owners In sewer district 105 had been regularly made and that it should bo paid, was adopted. The report of the waterworks committee com-mittee was to the effect that the city board of education should pay $602 for water used up to date, and It was adopted. The Ogdon Rapid Transit company represented that they could not place their trolley poles along tho sides of tho highwaj leading from Second street north on the Harilfivillo road until the telephone companies hau been compelled .io raise their wires far enough on their poles to permit the trolley wire to be placed at a height which would warrant tho operation op-eration of the road. Without liability on the part of the company. The transit ,company asked that the telephone tel-ephone companies be Instructed to raise their wires to the proper height and it was so ordered. The reports of" the sexton and the sanitary Inspector were accepted and ordered filed. A special pay roll from tho waterworks water-works committee, amounting to $34S.-40 $34S.-40 was allowed and ordered paid. A communication from James Mc-Kenna, Mc-Kenna, asking that the council allow two mouths' license on the Crystal saloon because of the opening of Hudson Hud-son avenue, the petitioner stating that he owned a saloon on the avenue known as the ' Blue Ribbon'' saloon, for which he had p.iid license .for a quarter year and had exeiclseil the ramo only one month. The matter was referred to the license commit tee. The Commercial National bank petitioned pe-titioned the council to establish a sewer district between Grant and Lincoln avenues, 1G feet north of Twenty-fifth street The question was handed to tho sewer committee, the engineer and the city attorney. A petition from property owners, asking that the city dumps of garbage gar-bage on lower Twenty-ninth street be removed farther from the city, was referred to the sanitary conimitte and the mayor. The city engineer was instructed to advise tho Ogden Rapid Transit company com-pany as to the exact place where their trolley poles Rhall be placed on the Hariisville road. A communication was received from the city park commissioners that they need $500 more to defray expenses for the balance of the year, and that If they do not get It they will have to let the parks go unkept. The commissioners com-missioners also stated that they could not understand why they were not allowed $1,500 instead of $1,000 some time ago. This question was turned over to the finance committee lor consideration. Mrs. S. P. Carlson presented a claim against the city for personal damages in tho sum of $100. She claimed that she was driven Into the excavation made by the Salt Iake & Ogden Railway company for Its track on Lincoln avenue, between Tweuty-loqrth Tweuty-loqrth and Twenty fifth streets, the buggy upset, and she Injured. Tho claim was rc-ferrcJ to the city attorney at-torney and the law committee, and the city recorder was Instructed to advise tbo Bamberger people that they must either lay the track where the excavation ha9 been mado or elso fill the excavation with dtrL The claim of the county clerk for the city's part of the expenses of assessing as-sessing the property of tho city for this year's taxes was ordered paid. The council adjourned for one week. |
