Show CITIZEN REACHES HOME ON RAFT t to Sue City Unless Camps Lane Ditch Is Cleaned COUNCIL ORDERS RELIEF SETTLES ANOTHER CLAIM FOR CHANGE OF GRADE The council met last evening and that is that can be said for fort ft t from a squabble over the ex expenditure expenditure of which Isted half an hour was accomplished Tunes Storey a resident of Camps Lane which Is situated on the theother other side ot of the Jordan unsuspectingly caused all the turmoil James Is an an aged citizen who dislikes the way J JT JT T Raleigh takes care of the streets in his In a communication to the council he said My lly duty now is to inform you that nothing Is IB being done to improve the ditch In Camps Lane I have not been able to get within three and locks blocks of my home or place of busl busi business ness nesa except by raft since January 1 and it is my painful duty to say that If the ditch is not cleared out I will sue the city Councilman Carter who is chairman of the street committee arose to ex explain explain plain that the obstruction in the ditch which caused Storey to reach his home b by raft was of the limits and that the county would not clear It out thus the floods The part of the ditch is clear said Carter as we have spent On it Fernstrom Raps Raleigh ilman Fernstrom was moved to score ore Superintendent Raleigh for not stepping outside the limits and fixing things up He said It is a disgrace and a shame thame when a taxpayer er in Salt Lake has to ride home on a raft because the street su superintendent superintendent is afraid tl tn clear out a 1 ditch a few feet outside the city limits The rhe street department is not worth 5 cents Carter replied that Fernstrom did not know what he was talking about The whole fault Is that you vou dont know where you are at and n never ver did replied the doughty city father from the Third Fornstrom Fernstrom finally had his wa way and HOO was appropriated to clear the ditch outside the city limIts After finishing wrestling with this question the council tackled led another A certain Mrs Hug Hugi Ander Anderson son residing on North Main Iain street profiting by the recent supreme court decisions had bad threatened to sue the city for tor 2500 for change of grade In front of her property After a con conference ferenee ference the frightened city fath fathers fathers ers an agreement was made to settle for 1750 and this came up for raU rati ratification Mulvey opposed it He want wanted ed 1 to know under whose administration tion the grade change was made and just who was responsible L Let t them fI fight ht it out in the courts declared the stout member I 1 claim that we should make them fight Pounding his desk ht he cried out still louder These suits and nd settlements are holdups Let the decide who is to blame and let lethe letI I tiie he people know it After thus de dc Iring himself the appropriation was as passed with Mulvey alone voting no The famous garbage ordinance came UT last evening on reconsideration and the failed to carr carry the vote standing 7 to 7 It is now up to the tho mayor for sig signature signature nature Raleigh Gets His HisT T J T Raleigh also secured his usual appropriation This time however his champion Carter was only able to de deprive the treasury of 1000 for the benefit ot of the street commissioner Heretofore 2000 has been the regular sum ask asked d for This mone money will be used to aid in grading Second West street from Second North to Warm Springs Already 1600 has been spent on this project but Raleigh needs more money and the council let him have haveit it w a murmur H B Scott who has ras had the misfortune misfortune tune to live on one of the uncompleted sidewalk extensions and who trusted in th city by paying his 73 asseSS asseSSment ment asked for its return but the re requeSt queSt was not granted Instead Mr Scott was informed that the work would be done at the earliest possible possible ble moment As a mater of fact the extension Is not even contracted for forThe forThe The city auditor presented a report stating that on paving extension No 7 the actual cost exceeds the assess assessment ment b by This amount was ordered pad out of the dwindling street fund fuad The sewer ordinances recommended for passage several months ago by the thema since been ma mayor or and which have peacefullY sleeping In the pouch of the engineering committee were finally approved This was only after the mayor maor had bad asked the council a week ng ago to take some action The ordinances ordinances nances three e In number provide that all those living within feet ot of a sewer must make connections and that no building permit shall be Issued for any structure within feet of a sewer unless the basement has sewer con conne ne After thus deliberating the council adjourned meet again this evening to take up the He tax lev levy r |