| Show iillJfflJIPAL MA11TERS I I The Protest Against the Proposed Pro-posed Removal Grooving DRY BENCH WATER QUESTION The Meeting of the Council Tomorrow Evening May be Expected to be aVery a-Very Lively One The opposition t the proposed change of the site of the city and county building to the Eighth ward square has been strengthened streng-thened by the big protest sent into the city council on Tuesday night I is now certain cer-tain that if the agreement between the city and county as t the change is ratified the officials will be enjoined which means that the question will be in the courts for two or three years The form of agreement and the deed which were submitted to the council at its last meeting were objected toby to-by some of the members The agreement provides that the county shall sell its undivided un-divided onehalf interest in the old site and turn the proceeds over to the city and inconsideration in-consideration of this the city is to deed to the county an undivided oneHalf interest in the Eighth ward square Then the building is to be built at 3 cost not to exceed 400000 nor less than 300000 each party to pay half of tha cost that the building is t be completed within two years from the time it is commenced and is to be divided equally between the city and county that the building is t be used exclusively by city and county offl cials and the police court is not to be located lo-cated there That the portion of the square shall be dedi not occupied by the building sbal cated as a public park for all time that the control of this park shall be with the mayor and chairman of the county court There is also a provision that in case the city or county is restrained from erecting the building there and it is rendered impossible impossi-ble to carry out the plan then the original agreement for the erection ol the building at the corner of First South and State streets is to be again in force The council will hold a special meeting t further consider this matter tomorrow night interest and the result will be awaited with The North Bench Mains The action taken by the council on Tuesday Tues-day night in deciding to extend the water mains to the north bench is approved on all sides and will result in much good The propertyowners of that district are happy over the result and are a ready to commence com-mence scattering their money in improvements improve-ments as soon as the work which the council I coun-cil has decided to do is well under way I Engineer Doremus will get out the estimate esti-mate of the cost as soon a possible in order that there may be no delay He stated to a HEiuxp reporter yesterday that he could not get his report out by Tuesday night but expected to have it ready for the next meeting The Prohibition Bill No oneunless it be Councilman Hall regrets the killing of the prohibition ordinance ordin-ance I is generally conceded that it was altogether too radical to have done any good and it certainly would have caused a big fight The Parleys Canyon Scheme The contract of Hobson Wilkinson for doing the grading for the Parleys Gallon conduit has been approved and the contract con-tract of De Bois Williams for constructing construct-ing the conduit will be approved tomorrow tomor-row nl ht The contractors are a ready to commence work on Monday The Cement Tester The cement testing machine has been set tip and is now in the office of Engineer Doremus It has been tested and works satisfactorily Mr RemingtonS Proposition W H Remingtons proposition to lay stradamant mastic pavement is looked upon with considerable favor particularly by those who are opposed to brick pavements pave-ments Some of these pavement have been laid in Ogden and give entire satisfaction satis-faction Only a small percentage of the material is imported and it can be manufactured manu-factured here There is little doubt but that Mr Remington will be given an oppor iunity to have his paving tested He is confident that a majority of the property owners on Second South street will adopt it in preference to brick The cost is 20c per square foot and the pavement is guaranteed gar anteed for five years The License Inspector Resigns License Inspector May has decided to resign re-sign his office on April 1 to become the assayer of the Anchor at Park City There are already a number of applicants for the position The Assessment Blanks Out Mr Pearson reports that about 60 percent per-cent of the assessment blanks sent out by the assessor have been returned filled up as requested The Merchants License Idea Isnt it about time that some action was taken on the petition of business men and the recommendation of Treasurer Walden that the merchants license be abolished The matter was referred to the committee com-mittee some time ago and nothing has been heard from it since Lighting the Offices The various offices at the city hall are being wired for incandescent lights Mayor Pareono Rushing Things Mayor Parsons has shown that he possesses pos-sesses considerable back bone and he has the faculty of getting business through a is shown by the unprecedented amount of work done since he has been in the chair Streets Slfiewalks and the Old For Block To the Editor of Tar HERALD There seems t be a sort of I craze for paved sidewalks I have walked over them a large partof my life and I detest them for their monotony the concussion they cause to the feet and the spine and their dangerous slipperiness In winter besides their enormous expense They should be tolerated only where absolutely necessary The perfect sidewalk is one of fine gravel with sufficient drainage slope t keep it al ways dry The cost 01 makingandkeeping in order this kind of sidewalk is merely nominal These are the walks we meet with in wellkept private and public gardens gar-dens and parks and nothing can be better unless it be equally well kept shale But our city fathers are so very progressive and enterprising that they favor no improvements except those which I are of a burdensomely expensive kind running the taxes up to unbearable and ruinous figures in order to make partisans par-tisans often nontaxpaying rich at the expense ex-pense of the taxpaying citizens S A really good macadam or equally good gravel street except where there is excessive exces-sive traffic is far better and pleasanter than any kind of paving Everybody walker or rider wants to get outside of the paved districts when he walks or rides for pleasure When I speak of gavel sidewalKs dont mean bolder or cobblestones brickbats or clinkers I mean fine ocreened gravel not loose the walks nicely repaired with a thin coating of such fine gravel every year or two or when necessary to preserve a smooth surface Everybody can afford these sidewalks and they are most delightful delight-ful t walk upon Let us have the whole sixteen feet between the lot fences and the shado trees given up t such desirable sidewalks side-walks and then our city would be one of the most beautiful and pleasant t saunter ibout i of any in the world But never never let us have one more of those ugly abominations of street cross log such as were jut down very lowdown low-down at such enormous expenselast year along South Temple street east those horrible hor-rible slush holes hateful either in summer or winter I have never heard one person praise them not even the workmen employed em-ployed in putting them in Such crossings are a disgrace to civilization The man vhois responsible for squandering the peoples peo-ples money in putting in those senseless newfangled patent damphoolish crossings ought to be well rolled in them when the people who paid for them have to wade through the slush say on such a day as lat Tuesday 10 and at such delectable points a the Eagle gate or the corner cor-ner of exMayor Sharps ot There needs to be some common sense mixed with the crossing and sidewalks instead of squandering so many hundred thousand dollars in puerile scientific crankism The man who put those wretched crossings in ought to have his silly head scoured with a brick till his senseless scientific fads are all rubbed out and a little good sound common sense is rubbed in The people want ra foolish nor childish experiments in streets or sidewalks side-walks at their expense especially of such costly kind I the hundred thousand dollars squandered squan-dered in cutting the slight Dooley hill on South Temple street had been saved the assumed necessity for selling the Old Fork block would not have existed The street thereabout is not 1 better for all the vast amount expended and all the adjoining joining residents are disgusted with tha change The street was never in worse condition in the history of the city than it has been this winter and spring It has been a mere clayey slushpuddle much of the winter darn it Flatness may be all very well for a railroad road but for city streets and sidewalks its it-s a huge and costly mistake and the engineer who insists on such flatness is a fool Easy undulations are a long way the best for all roads but railroads and the engineer who does not know that has not learned half his business Neither man nor beast likes to travel on a level or flat road except for very brief distances As t selling the Old Fort block and especially es-pecially for railroad purposes I am teetot ally and inflexibly opposed to it The streot around ifll railroad blocks are a perfect per-fect nuisance to the community at large I the city sells that block which is semi sacred to tho bulk of tho inhabitants of the city I would favor the irreconcilable boycotting boy-cotting for all time of Mr Bacon his railroad rail-road and every member of the city council who voted or votes for the insulting sale CrrIEN |
