| Show SITE SELECTED S FOR CREMATORY t Garbage Garnage Plant Plan Goes Go to Fifth West Street t i r S OTHER SANITARY MEASURES PLEASURES t ASHES A HS WILL WL NOT T BE E HULD AWAY t Councilman Beatty Betty was wu enabled at ats Mat lust s evenings meeting meUn of the te council t te to secure eur enough h votes yot to locate lote the site of the new nw garbage b crematory cl in hi inthe hithe the southwestern part of the city He leek eek further advantage of the opportunity to secure the passage of two or ordinances ordinances making Important changes in inthe inthe the u sanitary regulations re and the adoption of ot two resolutions relating to the public health At the close of the Dr Beatty Beatt said his hi achieve achievements achievements ments meats were but buta A beginning of 01 what he Intended doing dom for lor the betterment of sanitary measures before his term t t n of office expires a month hence Early in the session fon Beatty obtained unanimous consent to offer what at first appeared to be an innocent rose reso resolution lution It recited that the committee had after atter further investigation Investigation gation gatlon confirmed its judgment that the site selected for the erection of o the new garbage crematory at the corner of Fifth Firth South and Fifth West streets is i the best beat available for the reasons before set forth The resolution pro proposed proposed proposed posed to appropriate to the mayors contingent fund for purchase e of ot the site i Dr Beatty stated that in the matter malter of ot hauling the garbage a MO yearly could be saved and this would war warrant warrant warrant rant a vast improvement in the gar garbage garbage bage base collecting service without addi additional expense and there would b no expense to the city for hauling fuel because of the crematory being along alongside side id the railroad tracks Hewlett thought 1750 is too much to I Ithe pay for the land and in his judgment the site of the old crematory back of the Warm springs is 16 ideal ide l for all pur par purposes poses A further objection by Hewlett was wag that the crematory would be only a block from the Lincoln ln school and but a little farther tarther from the Franklin and Riverside schools Crematory a Good Thing The contention that a garbage garb ge cre crematory crematory crematory matory is a nuisance is not borne out by hy the facts Robertson declared If the garbage is property handled in closed ed carts he added there could be beno beno beno no reasonable objection to the crema crematory crematory crematory tory In any neighborhood as 88 the ex experience experience of ot larger cities has hu shown He charged that the prevalence of conta contagious contagious diseases in the southwestern part of the city Is due doe to the filth nith existing there and to the Indifference of the people to their surroundings p but with the new crematory close e by they will have h ve opportunity to keep their prem prom premises promises free from unsanitary nuisances Bul ances I He urged the selection of the site pro proposed proposed proposed posed on the score of economy and ef efficiency efficiency In the garbage collecting ser service service servIne vice vIne Would you consent con to have the cre crematory crematory crematory matory located on oa the block where you youlIye live asked u e l Hewlett of Ro Robe UJo tsoi t S No was as t t reply because the tae block block on which I live JIve is J worth six times Ume as much as the block where the tAe crematory will be built and pays six times as much taxes With virtuous indignation Cottrell arc arose e e to say that the protests of the 1100 1180 residents and property owners of the southwestern part of town against erecting er Ung the crematory on this location as M proposed is 18 entitled to consideration Moreover he said the protests prote ts should b heeded The long protest was he believed in the Ute hands of Councilman Canning and he insisted that the proposition preposition be tabled until the protest prote protestants t ants be heard Mard MardIt It Was Vas cited by Fernstrom that only three of the protestants showed up at atthe atthe atthe the time appointed by the sanitary committee and he believed that the objections of the southwestern were n not net t as strong as u has been represented Those Thoe whose Interests are sear Rear the Warm springs did not object to the old crematory in that locality he added and their disappointment that it is to tobe tobe be rebuilt elsewhere should convince the Ute Second precinct objectors that they arc are getting gettins a good thing Cottrells motion to defer action on the resolution was lost and the reso rose resolution lotion lution appropriating the money to pay for the site was carried by ten af at affirmative votes vote The opposition was confined c to Cottrell Whittemore and Hewlett Canning and were re the absentees After tie the meeting it was stated that the tM mayor would not veto the councils action a Removal of Ashes Ash Beatty secured the suspension of the rules rues ru es for the passage e of an all a ordinance changing the manner of collecting gar garbage garbage garbage bage Heretofore it has haa been the cue torn tOm of ot the health department to collect ashes ale and other rubbish not of an un unsanitary unsanitary Unsanitary sanitary nature and to have It hauled away at the expense from the business district leaving the ashes and ami kindred rubbish to be hauled from the residence districts at the expense of tenants tenant and property owners The new ordinance as passed ed pas eliminates the requirement to keep ashes in recep receptacles separate from the unsanitary un garbage and liquid refuse but it con continues continues in force torce throughout the city the requirement on tenants and property owners to place their unsanitary un gar garbage garbage garage bage age in covered metal lit Ii vessels for collection by the city carts The passage of the ordinance was fol followed followed lowed by Councilman Beatty offering a resolution which was as adopted re reciting reciting citing clUng that the collection and hauling Of ashes by and at the th expense of or the city Is not required In the interests of the public health and that the expense of such work could be better applied in inthe Inthe Inthe the removal of injurious unsanitary bae thug thua greatly increasing the efficiency of the service The resolution ties tion directed that the health commis commissioner slon r no longer cause cau e the removal of ol ashes ashe by the city garbage teams that the ordinance relating to garbage receptacles Just ju t passed be strictly en enforced enforced forced forC d and that the burning of manure and other rubbish in the southwestern part of or the city be immediately stopped Another resolution by Beatty batty was adopted reciting that the method of ol hauling garbage In leaky and improperly Improperly Improperly erly constructed garbage wagons is un unsanitary unsanitary sanitary and offensive and directing the t ti mayor and sanitary commit committee commItte tee te eto to ascertain the cost of eight e bt garb garbage garbage garbage age dump carts and report at the next meeting The sanitary committee recommended the use by families of the domestic garbage garage burner a simple inexpensive attachment to kitchen stove stoe pipes for consuming all aU refuse refu e containing or organic organic organic ganic matter in a sanitary and Inoffensive In Inoffensive offensive manner Each of the mem mere members hers bers of the committee has tested the burner to his entire satisfaction Hewlett offered a re resolution w lution appropriating printing to cover th the expense of furnishing and renovating the th quarters for foi the civil division of or the new mu municipal court in the basement of or the I I I j i I I I I city and county building Objection was raised by Robertson that the com corn committee committee had let the contract without authority from the council and Hew Hewlett Hewlett Hewlett lett replied by saying sa he was out of the city last Saturday when Mayor Thompson and Councilman Whittemore the other members of the committee awarded warded a the contract A roll roU call showed only six votes for the resolution resolution resolution tion Robertson then relented and changed hanged his vote to the affirmative but President Buckle declared the resolution lieu tion stil one vote short of adoption The line defeated resolution will Mill probably be revived at the t th next meeting A resolution re by Robertson was adopted directing the mayor and the tho committee on enrollment to report a scheme for the revision revl ton of the city ordinances With reference to the prior appropriation appropriation tion thin by the city of all aU the surplus waters of Parleys canyon watershed as against the later appropriation by Nephi Bowthorpe and other land own owners owners owners ers of Mill MUl Creek bench Harrington attorneys for the farmers submitted a communication stating that the pretended appropriation a is la lanot not for the useful purpose contemplated by the statute since the scheme to flood the canyon bench lands with the surplus waters In the spring would be only a waste of the flow now and might re result re result sult suit in filling other subterranean water watercourses watercourses courses than those thoe Intended The com corn communication was wag referred to the com corn committee committee on finance and waterworks with the mayor associated S Speed of Railway Trains rains Robertson introduced an ordinance Ce repealing the ordinance regulating the speed of ot railway trains C to twelve miles an hour hur on Fifth and Sixth West Vest streets from Third North Norta to Fourth South and the bill was waa referred to the com coin committee committee on municipal laws The new or ordinance proposes to include Third West Vest street along which the Oregon Short Line ine and Lagoon trains run in the lim Jim limited limited speed district Chief Devines Delnes appointment of O 0 E B Maddy as a fireman and the promotion of Lieutenant John J hn to a cap captaincy captaincy were confirmed Chief Hiltons appointment of J W Bouton and C H Woodard quarantine inspectors of the health department as ass special s policemen without additional salary was confirmed Six hundred dollars was w s appropriated to the mayors contingent fund as the share of the expense to be borne by the Salt Lake valley an y canals of se as securing curing curins engineering data for submission with the petition pet tion to congress for an appropriation to make Utah lake a are reservoir re to fill fiU the greatest measure of benefit |
