Show PiCKLE FACTORY CAUSE OF AROW A ROW Councilmen Councilman Wax Warm Under Collars Colars in Discussing an Alleged Nuisance SAVE MR BACON AMERICANS COME TO THE RE RELIEF RELIEF RELIEF LIEF OF THEIR ENGINEER A row as precipitated ted in the city council last night by a resolution in introduced introduced introduced by b Fernstrom providing that th t the methods and general conduct of the tho city health department be investigated by the council counci sitting in committee of the whole The resolution was as fol follows follows follows lows p Whereas Tho The sanitary conditions of this city have been and still sti are In a most deplorable state because it seems that the health commission does ilot Jot enforce the time laws and regulations at all U that there is now a nuisance permitted to exist on Eighth South between Third and Fourth West Vet streets which is an absolute menace to the health and nd Jye of the residents in that locality and ad although the health h ath department has been be n appealed to repeatedly for re relief relief lief lef nothing has been done therefore be belt it t te Resolved e That hat the city council meet as a committee of the whole to investigate why the health commissioner does not enforce the ordinances and take such steps as aswill aswill will wi relieve the public from the filthy and ins condition and now existing in our city Aimed Almed at Pickle Factory Fernstrom explained that I the particular particular ular nuisance referred to was aimed at Mounts pickle factory factor at South Third West street Earlier in the even evening evening evening ing a communication from Health Commissioner M 11 R Stewart notified the council counci that Ut t he had given the fac factory factory factory tory thirty days in which to lay a pipe connecting its factory with wih the Ninth South canal and to stop discharging water vator into the ditch dich in front of Its Is place of business A com corn communication was also road read from fr m the fac factory factory factory tory management offering to share haro Sare with wih the city the expense of lowering the ditch dich so that the waste discharge from the factory could be carried off of Fernstrom declared that the dis clis discharge charge in the tho ditch was wa an intolerable nuisance and that many people in the neighborhood had been ben made sick by b bIt It He declared the health department had no right to give a lawbreaker thirty days to obey the law Black Waxes Profane axes Blaik Bluck came to the defense of the fac factory factory factory tory I drove by that place Sunday he said and anybody who says sas there was an odor there then t en is the damndest liar lar larin in Utah Mr Carter disagreed with wih his Amer American American Amerlean ican lean colleague Mr Black and in de describing describing describing scribing the odor that arises from the fhe place used language that was unprintable unprintable unprintable able Fernstrom explained that the reason that Mr Black smelled no odor Sunday was as because the street depart department department department ment had cleaned out the ditch dich Satur Saturday Saturday Saturday day night Mulvey l admitted that the odor was bad but said the factory itself Isel was ex ox exceedingly exceedingly clean clen and in this every ever coun councilman councilman cilman ciman agreed wih with him All AU said that the odor arose from the fermentation of the th vinegar vinegar in the ditch After much discussion the whole matter was wa turned over to the sanitary committee with wih the understanding that the factory peo pie will wi appear committee Thursday night and see if some ar arrangement arrangement cannot be made to carry off of the waste Fernstrom said the people in the neighborhood were about to bring injunction suits and Hobday at attacked attacked attacked tacked Fernstrom for casting a slur at the health department in his resolution resolution tion ton r V Mr Kelsey Is Saved Fernstrom introduced 3 resolution aimed at City Engineer L C Kelsey who is doing engineering work in Idaho but Mulvey saved Mr Kelsey by moving to refer the resolution to the committee on municipal laws The text of the resolution was as follows Resolved That the city attorney be instructed ted to prepare preparo an ordinance that will wi make it i obligatory on the part of all aU city to devote all al their time exclusively to the positions to which they ther have been appointed pro provided vided however that this ordinance shall not include the health commis commissioner commissioner commissioner or 01 city chemist An effort will bd be b made by the Demo Democratic Democratic Democratic cratic members of the council counci to force the municipal laws committee to o report on this resolution and to compel ac action acton action tion ton upon it i Kicks on Meter Deposit i The council received a letter leter from George G orge Klenke Kienke calling its I attention to the fact that the laws of Utah Ut forbid any firm fin or corporation to require a deposit of money where a meter is in installed installed stalled staled Notwithstanding this law the wrier writer declared ho 10 was told when he applied to the city water department for a meter that he must put up a deposit of 25 The city of Salt Sal Lake he pointed out was wa wac a corporation and therefore a lawbreaker He asked the he council counci to define the policy poli of the city in relation to the matter mater The a communication was referred to the water vater works committee and the city attorney jointly Acting Chief of or Police J B Bur Burbidge idge bidge sent in the appointment of Peter Cottam to act as special policeman for forthe forthe forthe the Oregon Short Line vice John Har Hardin Hardin Hardin din the resigned and the council counci confirmed appointment The c paid 1130 wit witness wItness witness ness fees for Cor the defense in the case wherein Health Commissioner M R Stewart was charged with wih creating a nuisance Three arc lights were ordered placed In n each long block on Brigham Brigha street the lights to be placed alternately on each side of the street Franchise Is Granted The Utah Light Li ht Railway company was granted grated a franchise for a street railway on 01 Second West West street from te the present terminus of its it Warm Springs line lne to Ninth North street str et Assistant City Attorney H J T Din Dininny Dininny Dininny inny rendered a a written opinion to the council that the Rio Grande West Western Western ern em railroad has ha a franchise which is good for three years yet on Eighth South street between Third and Fourth West streets but that the road has no right t to use its track there for storing loaded and empty cars Residents of that section of the city have ha e been complaining about cars being left on the track and have asked that the tH be torn up Mr Mulvey moved that the chief of police pUce be Instructed to see that tat Mr opinion be carried out and that the railroad be notified of the le action acton of the council counci and the motion moton was carried carrie Councilman E G ODonnell ODonnel acted as president of the council last night in inthe inthe Inthe the absence of President Pr A A J Davis who is out of the city |