Show WRESTLES WITH SMOKE Sweeping Ordinance Referred to Committee After Live Lively lively ly Discussion QUICK ACTION DEMANDED NOW IS TIME TO SETTLE PROS PROBLEM PROBLEM LEM SAYS BLACK The council committee on the fire lire de Ce department department will have a chance to wrestle with a new smoke ordinance which was presented to the council last night for consideration by that body bod The presentation of the document start started started started ed a small storm as there is already an ordinance supposed to govern the smoke nuisance but which has been ineffective As soon as the reading of or the ordinance was completed Councilman Fernstrom Ob Oh Objected Objected to It saying that the ordinance now on the books bool 5 would be all right if it were enforced by the police department City Attorney H II J Dininny was asked to explain the advantages possessed by bythe bythe bythe the new ness ordinance over the old He Ho said that the old one is not constitutional that it covers too great a range to be en cn enforced enforced forced forc d and that thit it restrains trade Councilman Fernstrom then moved for forthe forthe forthe the second and third reading and final passage Councilman Hobday opposed d this tit ordinance saying that if It were enforced of oC the small business houses of the tIn city would be put out of busI bust busIness business ness floss He lie said s id that cheap smoke consumers ers do not do the business and the small business man inai malt cannot afford to install the themore themore themore more expensive and effective ones Boilers Are Overloaded Councilman Tuddenham favored the or ordinance ordinance ordinance but said that more time than thai fifteen days das should Ife lie granted the tile ope operators operators raters of boilers to install a satisfactory device Councilman Martin cited cases where boilers in the city are being run nip at 1 per cent c nt more load than their true capacity and the owners of oC these could not make malte them carry the load if consumers ers erg were wre Installed He asked that the or ordinance dinan be referred d to a committee so that the responsibility of the enforce enforcement enforcement ment can be fixed upon the head of oC some someone someone someone one of the departments Councilman Fernstrom was in a hurry to have the ordinance passed Council Councilman man Black said that for five live years rears the council had been tampering with the smoke noko nuisance and had accomplished nothing He spoke of the necessity of having the soot and cinders done away awa with at once Councilman Martin ended the discus discussion discussion sion slon by moving that the ordinance be re referred referred referred to the committee on fire depart department department ment meat for consideration The motion was cArried by a vote of 9 to 4 two council councilmen councilmen men being absent The proposed ordinance declares the emission of thick black or gray smoke or cinders from smoke stacks or chim reys rys a public nuisance and providing for forthe forthe forthe the assessment of a fine of from 10 lO to lOo for violation of the ordinance Municipal Finances A communication was read from P J 1 Moran foran general contractor asking that the city cit enter into negotiations with him hini himas hinias as he desired to lease the Paso lime quarry owned by the city The communication ideation las as referred to the committee on streets The city reported that the casi receipts turned over to the city treasurer during November aggregated 1791 di dl divided divided vided as ItS follows Collow From the criminal division ou of the city cit court 1682 from state cases in the city court Q O from the civil division of the tIll city court 1 from the juvenile cour courand courand Sr and one automobile license 3 to City Attorney H J T Dininny reported that BUtt the suit filed filo l by James Tames Russell against the city for trespassing upon his property with the Big Bis Cottonwood con Suit Lilt had been settled out of or court and the suit disposed of upon the payment by the city of and costs The Thc amount was placed on the appropriation The conduit crosses Russells land and ana anith the th city has purchased ed a right of way Yay for or the sum mentioned The payrolls for the half month ending November 50 I aggregating were approved and placed on the appropriation list Ferrys Resolution City CIt Engineer I 1 L C Kelsey Kelse asked the council for a leave of absence for two weeks The leave was granted and he hem will m visit San Francisco Portland and Seattle The application of Chief of Police George A Sheets for the appointment of Robert Ellsworth as a special policeman to serve without pay at the Salvation Army barracks was granted A resolution Introduced bv by b Councilman Kerry Ferry provided that hereafter all requisitions requisitions requisitions for supplies or for help must be hI referred by hy the original committee to the finance committee before they are presented to the council This is to give the finance committee a better opportunity ity to closely scrutinize these requisitions before b Core they th y go to the e council and to pre prevent prevent prevent vent useless expenditures Crosswalks Ordered Councilman Holley introduced a reso reo resolution resolution lution ordering the board hoard of oC public works woks to instruct contractors to proceed with the lie placing of stone cross walks within the sidewalk paved districts The reso relo resolution resolution lution was passed Councilman ODonnell presented a reso resolution resolution resolution lution that the board of health be direct directed ed cC and amI authorized to notify owners of Pr private I vate ate alloys alleys in the business district that they th must be paved within four our weeks of I the time notice is given them to pave such alleys s or the alleys alleS will be lie declared a public nuisance by ly b the board and will willI I I be br b closed dosed until they tte are arc paved The ra r re I I was vas referred to the committee Ion on streets and the city engineer i The proposed ordinance dealing with witt j I doss dos was referred to the police pollee i committee The ordinance makes maltes it a I misdemeanor for any person to keep or own a vicious fierce or dangerous dog and empowers the chief of police to have such suh animals killed The committee was instructed to pro pre prepare pare par an ordinance which will do away awa with street corner comer and sidewalk lunch stands presented an ordinance which was referred to the committee on muni municipal munIcipal cipal laws Jaws for revision |