| Show SIX HUNDRED MEN r I City Council Will Furnish Idle People with Work ONE HUNDRED EACH WEEK I REGISTER WITH THE WATER 3IASTER THIS 3IOIUVT5TG Wages Twenty Cents per Hour EIght Hours Per Day Teams 250 Five Thousand Five Hundred on Ditches Half n Thousand on Cemeterj Married Men Given Preference Urlntr Shovel Otlier Committee Mutters Wanted Six hundred men to work on irrigation ditches and in the city cemetery Apply after 9 oclock this morning with shovel at Watermaster Wilckens office basement floor of the joint city and county building Married men and heads of families given the preference Wages 20 cents per hour for eight hours per day The above paragraph Is a condensation condensa-tion of the action of the city council as a committee of the whole last night I is the result of three hours labor and is probably the best that could be done under the circumstances The committee met to devise ways and means to expend the 16000 appropriated ap-propriated at the last session of the council and many and varied were the plans proposed I was suggested at one time that 1500 be spent on streets but the chairman of the street committee suggested that as poll tax would soon be coming in that his department de-partment could wait Some members of the water works committee intimated mated that a wise expenditure could be made there but Mr Lynn remarked that the water works could get along for a while So it wa finally decided to use 5500 in repairing and cleaning irrigation ditches and waterways and 300 on the cemetery How to make selections to worthy men was next considered Mr Clawson wanted appli cants to produce a tax receipt for 1894 while OMeara suggested that an unpaid un-paid grocery bill would answer all purposes I pur-poses or perhaps a dog license receipt re-ceipt Mason opposed the tax receipt mater vigorously There were many worthy men of families who owned no property who were as deserving of employment I em-ployment a those who did Clawson hung to his proposition tenaciously I however and maintained that the man of property was entitled to work In preference to those who owned none I But the tax receipt does not go a motion to that effect prevailing As regards compensation the rate I was first fixed at 150 per day but was afterwards changed to 20 cents per I hour for eight hours Men with teams will be paid 52 50 per day I Six hundred men will be employed I one hundred at a time for six weeks The reason for calling them to the watermajjters office today Is that they I may register In order to be sure of I getting employment one must be a I resident As n matter of course the ipse dlxit or the applicant will have weight dIxi it is n poor kind of a man who will not say that he has lived here six I months at least Watermaster Wllcken will distribute i the 90 men per week in his charge I through the various precincts while the remaining ten will be employed at the cemetery In doing ditching for the protection of the streets and flower plats against probable heavy rains The old canal ana other waterways in the eastern part of the city and ponds of stagnant foul and disease breeding water In the west will receive special attention ntentonCnU Firemens Pay Councilman OMeara presented a resolution making the pay of call firemen per Instead of men 5250 per day o 1 as at present This of course for actual service Mr OMeara explained that these wen were not called into service except in cases of emergency and that the compensation received did not pay for the wear and tear on their clothing The other members mem-bers thought so too and the resolution was adopted Citizens Light Company Attorney Critchlow George Y Wallace Wal-lace and S F Walker of the Citizens Light company were present to adjust the perplexing pole question but the lateness of the hour prevented action |
