Show ilBOUTTHE CITY HAU His Honor Objects to Statements of Councilman Horn < REMARKS ON EXTRA PAY L The Members or the Fire Department Organize a Belief Association tt Eeport or the Health Department Nineteen I Nine-teen Deaths and Tweiil j Four Births Work of the Food Inspector The Weekly ranoll Mayor Baskin is not especially pleased with some of the criticisms of councilmen lor his veto of the appropriation of5 a day to the members of the board equal zation and review The mayor says hoI ho-I refused to sign the appropriation for no other reason than that it was illegal and he takes exception to the statement of Councilman Horn to the effect that during i dur-ing the whole of Mayor Baskins administration r admin-istration the equalizing boards have been paid precisely in this manuer His honor states emphatically that this appropriation d ap-propriation is the first of the kind that has ever come to him and to which his attention at-tention has been called The other boards i received pay by having the account sent to the auditor and a warrant drawn I When the council sits as n board the > members are in his opinion entitled to I I the pay provided by law but ho considers consid-ers this board assimply a committee of the council l 4 FIremens llelief Tnml The firemen of both departments held a meeting at headquarters yesterday afternoon after-noon and completed the organization of a 1 Firemens Relit fund by electing Chief Stanton president Assistant Chief Dono S van vicepresident Robert Connors secretary sec-retary and treasurer and Captain Foley Captain Sullivan and Frank Burt directors The object of the association is to accumulate II ac-cumulate a fund for the relief of sick and 11 disabled members of the department and of for other charitable purposes Chief Stanton has turned over to the treasurer about ISO previously received from fines etc I The Health Department The following report shows the operations opera-tions of the health department for the J past week t Number of loads of garbage and refuse disposed Sll Number of dead animals disposed of 6 horses f cows SBdogs cats 4S Numbered complaints received and attended to 31 Number r crises or contagious diseases reported re-ported diphtheria 0 bcarletfeverT h 7 Number of deaths from contagious diseases reported diphtheria 0 scarlet fever 1 1 Burial permits issued e 18 Shipping permits issued 1 Births reported males 1 i females 7 tIt l r t-It will be seen that scarlet fever keeps up its average of one new case per day I but it is a matter of congratulation that ported no new cases of diphtheria have been re I Inspector of Provisions During the week Inspector Kendall visited vis-ited 95 butcher shops 54 fish markets 78 grocery stores 42 commission houses 13 bakeries 41 restaurants 4 hotels 3 dairies and 79 fruit stands a total of 406 inspections He condemned as unfit for food 33 pounds of fish 44 pounds of game and poultry 755 pounds of fruit 145 pounds of meat and 7680 pounds of vegetables a total of 8666 pounds Iay Day at tho Hall The following sums were disbursed among the employees of the various city departments yesterday Streets ee hn S1WS 50 Water works 165320 Health n uen S07i5 z Bridges and repairs ire i5 Sanitary Inspectors nn 8850 Liberty park 15S 00 Crematory 65 50 Total 5414070 TValcrworks Department During the past week 131 men and seven teams were employed in this department de-partment the usual work of trenching back filling laying mains and repairs re-pairs Seven miles of Parleys creek bed was cleaned and a bridge was built iu tL Irrigation canyon |