| Show BERT MYBOULuS BOOK Councilmen Object to Paying For I the Auditors Dictionary p CHAIR SUGGESTS BIBLE II OJUEAJIAS ABSENCE D LAVS THE SALARY ORDINANCE AGAIN f I Hutter of the Lease ou the Warm Springs Property Comes Up But I Goc Over City Engineer Youiip I Asic That the Standard of Meas I arcmcnt Bo Removed From Lili I er < y Park to the Joint Building I Reports of Varions City Officers tl Other Business of the Council City council proceedings were enlivened enliv-ened last vening by a short debate on dictionaries lit appears that some months ago tho city council concluded for reasons best known to the members thereof to provide pro-vide certain of the city > offices in the city haIl with dictionaries Four large tomes containing all the words in the English language and a goodly portion of the principal id usitatisslmums of several other tongues were purchased at a cost of 510 or 512 each and from thait time henceforward a noticeable improvement in the pronunciation of i syllabic expression was remarked on the part of all the city employees who enjoyed the possession of an unabridged I una-bridged < < S I A knowledge of heraldry on the part of the same people was also apparent i I It was noted too that the boys could i distinguish between the Hags of several i I nations and that yacht signals were I familiar to nearly all of them Of course ithe significance of all thIs will j 1 be appreciated when Jt is stated that i the illuminated plates in the dictionary i contain all the information referred to i BUt City Auditor Raybould was not I included in the deal He was left as IIi I II-i were So after attempting three or J four times to spell and pronounce iII i ichthyosaurus and philiprogenitiveness j J i II without avail Bent went to the chairman chair-man of the committee on enrollment and told him that he and Theodore could not get along and audit bills a single day longer unless they had a dictionary I dic-tionary I Mr Hardy the member appealed to informed the auditor that he could go I ahead and get 0 dictionary of course Hardy knows when a man wants a dictionary dic-tionary and when he does not and so I Bert went the crowd one better and bought a volumo half a large again a I the others with gilt letters on the I kiver and more plate inside representing represent-ing maple leaves dried in the sun recent re-cent discoveries in bugology diagrams I I of anthropological discoveries in Albuquerque II I Albu-querque and BorrioboolaGha than 1 were contained in any of the other fel 1 ows onehorse books I cost 1 and ii I is undoubttdly worth it I But when the bill came in last eveni ing Councilman Clawson objected to its beIng paid saying that he protested against buying books for the city employees S em-ployees One might just as well buy J Bibles as dictionaries I Alt this point the chair suggested that I perhaps a Bible would foe better tan I a dictionary whereat several of the I naughtier member laughed I Mr Hardy explained the position of the committee and said the council authorized au-thorized the first invoice of dictionaries and that as the auditor was left out he thought i no wrong to tell him to help j I himself to the dictionary I After some little discussion on the I part of the members they dej I cided to refer the bill to the finance j committee I t committe The ordnance fixing the salaries of I I the gentlemen who will be elected on Tuesday evening next was called up for passage but Councilman Cohn I 1 arose in his place and remarking upon I the aibsence of his colleague MrS Mr-S OMeara who was absent fixing the I fences around the pasture so the cow I could not escape said that OCSIeara would like to be heard upon the matter and that he would ask that the bill go over until the next meeting This was agreed to and accordingly Mr OMeara wtill dedlare after election whether the salaries of councilmen should be reduced or not The otiher business of the council was of a nature calculated to make a spectator spec-tator reach for his hat very routine as it were The matter of the lease on the Warm springs came up on the report re-port of the committee on public I I grounds which recommended that the lease be extended five years that the S balance of the time of the present lease te rental be 100 per month and for the five years additional the amount fee fixed at 150 per month l Cohn in explaining this report i said that the previous city council in granting a franchise to the Sanitarium company had reduced the revenue of the Warm springs by more than two thirds while the expenses had remained remain-ed the same In addition to this the firm of Barnes Byrnes had expended nearly 25000 in Improvements of a substantial character and that it was entitled to some consideration for the treatment received Some opposition was manifested to the extension on the part of the chair and Mr Young not because they did not favor it but by reason of the fact that the report which must become I a part of the record is not complete I enough By common consent the matter went over Reports of City Officers S On the calm of Gertrude Y Hampton Hamp-ton for damages done to a well or spring by the construction of the gravity grav-ity sewer the city attorney reported adversely which report was adopted Similar action was taken on the request at10n QUet imiar Mary Ann Taft for a rebate ol her taxes On the petition of E B Ayers et al residents of Indiana to redeem certain property on payment of S450 the at rp r ttorney reported favorably and the report re-port was adopted i Standard of Measurement City Engineer Young asked that the standard of measurement be moved from Liberty park to the joint building build-ing grounds at a cost of 5150 The engineer ing S gineer made a verbal statement showing show-Ing thp economy of the proposed meas ure and Its importance The matter was referred to the committee on public pub-lic grounds The CUJntolo lc Congress S Dr Dalby reporting on the matter I of holding the convention of the Worlds Congress of Medical Clim atology in tbis city said the chamber I of commerce had guaranteed the 5500 asked and notice had been sent the I chairman of the congress The report was filed fle Petition Major Dailey reported that the reservoir reser-voir in Parleys canyon needed rip ireDping1 and referred a letter from the Utah Central offering t furnish an 1 engine and carp to haul material provided I pro-vided the Salt Lake Fort Douglas line was given credit o account of I raveling This matter was referred to the committee on waterworks with power to act Chief Devines letter announcing the coming of the next meeting of fire and filed chiefs was read fe Oacar Groshells petition for a ex teiision of water mains on Eighth iWest 500 feet a denied on report of the vatervrorks committee L E 3 Halls request for a rebate on water tiax water used in sprinkling I bving taken from the hydrant when L whe ditch was djy was denied T I Liquor licenses were granted the I I i I f L I Onyx Stole Bank Wilson Jr E Busby itulvey Barnhart Bill 99 for establishing the width of I roadways and sidewalks was then read first time and laid over for correction cor-rection Farrells claim was again laid over on request of the committee I Among the petitions read and referred ferred were the following Hlsccnnneou I I rthur Parsons secretary N P Irrigation Ir-rigation company claim for 12 damages dam-ages caused by break in canal William White fo permission to lay Iron water pipe down private alley on Seventh East between Second andS and-S Third South Mrs Laura Cast Peter Glem G M Lowe and H H Pollock for relief from relef II tax sales Councilman Newell introduced a petition pe-tition from citizens living in the region of Ninth East and Tenth South pray I ing for an electric light which took the regular course |
