Show COUNCIL DECIDES TO GRANT FRANCHISE Street Railway Hallway Extension to Calders Park REQUEST OF OP FIREMEN 4 I WANTED FREE F RIDES ES OVER COMANS LINES IRENES LS The city council counci committees on streets and municipal laws agreed last evening on the form of the ordinance to be recommended for passage grant granting grantIng ing lUg to the Salt Luke Lake City Ci Railroad company a franchise to extend tend its it Sev Seventh Seventh Seventh East street line from Ninth South tb the southern boundary of the city the project being eing to run r the line ine to Calders Cald rs park The usual usua terms and con conditions in m street railway franchises will 1 be included in the he grant to be made Fire Chief Devine appeared before the committee tee meeting to urge a rider to the draft of the ordinance whereby uniformed firemen fremen will wll be accorded the right to rie rr fre free on all al street sr et car lines of ot the company Because B caUse the police policemen policemen men have enjoyed and enjoy dead deadhead ded deadhead head rides when they are in full fuI uni nfl uniform form for the firemen are of the opinion that they should not be discriminated btu that against and the chief declared after years yer of waiting now now is the pro proper proper proper per time to bring the street car com corn company company pany to terms before granting the franchise Replying to Chief Devines argument Superintendent Read of the railroad company said he be could see no reason why any class of the city employees more than another should sho l be given free rides going and returning from their meals He also als declared declare his inability to see how the te municipality could reap any advantage from the requirement proposed by b the fire fre chief Attorney Critchlow Crichlow counsel for the street car company ventured the ob oh observation that to accord free transportation tation to the firemen would woud be going Ing only a step given the policemen A precedent es established established Aike Chief Devine would have would make it i an n easy matter mater for the themen themen themen men of ot the water ater department to de demand demand mand deadhead favors then the street employees then the license officials and finally the councilmen could with am equal consistency claim free rides Tides by virtue of their office To the directors the proposition appeared like the thin edge of a wedge whose broadest broad broadest brad est dimensions no one could apprehend apprehend In executive session tile tiie t e joint committee com coin quickly decided to t not load down the franchise to be granted with any such exaction as demanded bythe by bythe bythe the firemen fremen but it I was voted that a recommendation would be made to the council counci that the street car company coman be requested to accede to the deadheading of uniformed firemen fremen inasmuch as the policemen enjoyed this favor Want Wider r Street Previous to taking a vote on th the franchise question queston Lee Goetchius Getchius ad addressed addressed dressed the councilmen on behalf beh lf of f the petition petton of residents along lower Seventh East street treet to widen the thor thoroughfare thoroughfare thoroughfare adjacent to Liberty park prk by I taking a strip oft off of the east eastside east eastside side of the park so that the people In that vicinity may have ample sidewalk room after the car line lne is extended down the narrow street south of Ninth South To test the sense ense of the committees s sa a vote yote was taken on a a motion moton to grant the franchise The only negative votes were ere those of t the three councilmen from the Second precinct and their reason for going on record against it i was s car company not kept its it promise to give a half hoI hourly service senie instead of hourly runs on the West Temple street line lne This I objection was overcome however by bya a requirement in the franchise to run I I cars on the Seventh East Eat street ex ox extended tended line lne as often ofen as cars are run on the other lines Jnes where the service is as frequent as every thirty minutes I It I was practically decided to recommend recommend recommend mend to the th council counci the taking of a strip off of the east side of Liberty park to widen the street and it was wa agreed I that the company would be required to tolay tol tolay lay l y its Is west vest rail rai to within five feet of ofte the te west curb line lne as now established I leaving the east half of the street for wagon traffic The franchise will wl require that It be accepted within thirty days after the council grants gant it I and that the extended line lne shall be in operation within ninety days thereafter The city attorney was directed to draw a bill bil for an ordinance for the franchise in accordance ac with wih the terms stated state and including in the bill bl all al provisions usually found in similar franchise ordinances Water Extensions Et The waterworks committee wrestled wrested with wih the problems of how to recommend recommend recommend mend the granting of the petition petton for fora a larger distributing pipe in Perkins addition additon to afford better beter fire fre protection protection tion ton in that locality and and how haw to grant gant the petition petton of the Hubbard Investment company for an extension of the pipe system m to Oakley subdivision in the extreme northwestern part of the city In the first case cae it I was suggested that it would be b cheaper if not better beter to torun torn torun run rn a pipe from Eleventh East Eat street to Ninth East down Eleventh South Instead of down Ninth East Eat a longer distance and for the purpose of determining the rights of the petition petitioners petton ers to have the improvement made without levy le of a special tax the mat matter matter matter ter was wa referred to the city attorney and the superintendent of waterworks With Wih reference to the Oakley subdivision subdivision vision extension which failed because of or the mayors mayors veto the te leading peti petitioner pet petitioner toner announced that he he would submit a a new petition petton agreeing to put up the necessary taking water scrip nonnegotiable until Jan 1 1903 and guaranteeing the city 6 per cent on the investment in water rates until the section to be supplied with wih water is sufficiently settled by b water takers to tomake tomake tomake make a guaranty gart no longer necessary The committee on improvements met with Ith General Manager Campbell Campbel of the Utah Light Power company and ad agreed to the amendments made In the proposed renewal contract for f r street st lighting to meet mayors H ii i ta tf Hi w o ii h i e cr the company stilt still demands the right to work into the plan of substituting the indirect current lights instead of the theold theold theold old direct current arcs and to this the committee acceded The contract is to commence March 1 instead of f last September and is to run for three years with wih the privilege of renewal for two years The finance committee took up the petition petton of Henry Henr Barnes Bares for a reduction reduction tion t n of the monthly rental of the Warm Springs the remaining five years of the he lease Spring to the sum now paid In Instead Instead instead stead of 50 Before considering the petition petton the te committee will wil require a statement of the lessees revenues revenue and his financial condition and this Mrs Barnes promised to furnish Her hus husband husband husband band Is ill I with wih paralysis Mexicans Fight Indians Idias Mexico City March 1 There has been another Melco battle n a the rebel IndIans batte and the federal tr tree os ts near nea nea Tab rabi The Mua were found wet weh entrenched ngn jd d but tIle the Mexican troops rushed their thUr petition Jc and the Indians fled ted Sn In pani |