Show FRANCHISE IS GRANTED 1 S Given to Salt Lake City Company I Com-pany by Council I tII L f t STREET FAIR AUTHORIZED Mlii D t Application of Street Car Company avt for Permission to Build on Scvcifth ctI East Street Below Ninth South on Route to Calclers Park Is Grantcd In Road Must Be Built In Few Jilonths Petition for Use of Streets I for Fair Is Granted Water Bight ICon I I-Con trovelsy III I I 1 II I The Salt Lake City Street Railroad company was granted a franchise I k4t the City Council last evening to lay a double street car track on Seventh East street from Ninth South street 1 to the city limits From the city limits to Caldcrs park the company desires to gel a franchise from the County board to complete tho extension By I the terms of the franchise granted by the Council the company is required to run cars on the portion ok the street I lI lor which the franchise is granted r1 every fifteen minutes from 6 a m to 12 p in every day The fare is nor to exceed ex-ceed 5 cents The life of the franchise l Is fortyfive years The franchise Is to j be accepted by the company within thirty days from the passage of the I resolution and the road is to be In operation within ninety days after such I acceptance The acceptance of the 1 franchise is to be construed as an v1 agreement to give a not less frequent n than a halfhourly service for at least vU1 six hours a day upon all lines operated by the company in tho city STREET FAIR AUTHORIZED I The Council concluded that a street fair for Pioneer week would be a desirable de-sirable thing and granted permission to 3o rash Young to use a portion the streets in the business part of the city for booths for the display pf r wares and merchandise and for the J presentation of shows free and other F wsQ > Streets to be used are Mlin from J J1ijl Brigham to Third South and First and I Secopd South streets from State to West Temple streets Both sides of the streets may he used from the curbstone 51 I curb-stone to the extent of the stone pavement pave-ment varying from ten to Jlftcen feet and the business men and stoiekeepers are to have llrst choice of the space I opposite their places of business fortho 1 display of their wares Mr Young Is required to give bond in the sum of I 55000 to cover any damage to the JJ streets The question the amount of the license to be exacted from the shows and other attractions was left r In abeyance to be bottled later1lr i Young has called a mass meeting oC I citizens for next Thursday evening for I the appointment committees on arrangements 5 I ar-rangements and tQ obtain an expression of views on the manner of conducting ed the fair BIG COTTONWOOD WATER P I A notification from the City Engineer L was received Informing the Council that George E Blair had filed a notice of appropriation of water rights in Big Cottonwpod creek covering the rights appropriated by the city last August Beatty said only two men were employed I em-ployed by the city developing the water appropriated lie favored putting on six more men with teams at once to show that the city w acting In good I faith and thus preserve thevaluable rights worth he said 5500000 it had acquired and which there was great e danger of its losing for lack of sufficient suffi-cient work being < l ne He thought a 1 m force of men should be put on at once IIUat before the new approprlator got his 2 men to work lie had already got too em much hold and the city might have ntu difficulty In maintaining its rights Fernstrom and Thomas did not see fi1 i I whore the money was to come from to develop the water nii Howe said If the citys rights had lapsed the putting to work of an army I Ii I I of men now would not renew them I On motion of Robertson the matter r was referred to the Committees ont on-t J Finance and Walerworlm with the Ialjc Mayor City Attorney and City Engineer ai Engi-neer associated with Instructions to K meet next Thursday evening IS SECOND SOUTH STREET PAVING ii The petition filed n few days ago Ir1I praying that Second South street from First West street to Sixth West street i I bf paved was lead The petition is tghli signed by James Ilegney and nine bi other propertyowners on the street Btli representing 1134 feet of abutting properly A prop-erly The total footing abutting on rl1 both sides is GGOO Ci AProlest againct the palng was received rtIIt re-ceived from J IL Almond who slated t that he was not financially able at present IIJI pres-ent to stand his share of the cosL He f J said he owned S2A feet frontage on the Jii H b I stiect I The matter was referred to the Committee j I Com-mittee on Streets and the City Engineer M Engi-neer JflIt The City Engineer handed In estimate of the cost of paving Third South fr i street between Stale and West Temple lm Tem-ple street placing the amount at J7 JtfJ 860 H per front foot and of paving i State street between Fourth and Fifth 1 l1t South streets at 2373675 nl per ot front foot Refened to the Committee r on Streets t I CANNING SWEARS IT JS GOOD The department n Jolis for the first half of the month of March amounting amount-ing to 520320 were submitted by City I Auditor Reiser In this connection Robertson made some criticism ot the Auditor for being too technical In regard re-gard to payrolls and the affairs of his office generally In considering the payrolls Canning tJ chairman the Committee on Sprinkling i Sprink-ling was hauled over the coals by Rob 1 Lfi ftrtBon for having sprinkling wagons v7 wag-ons painted at a cost of about 5300 1 without authority from either the I committee il p com-mittee or the City Council J Conning admitted that he had ordered I or-dered the wagons painted and paid it p was the best d Job of painting ever done and he was willing to take all r the blame for ordering It I That however how-ever did not square the matter by any mcanr and Thomas and Roberton man both read Canning lecture and tqld 4 him not to do anything of the kind In II c < I ythft future je t 1 1 WANT TO COMPROMISE IOflCQ I N W Clayton and Charles S Bur jorii C t ton executive committee of the In r Brlgham Young Trust company submitted air 1 sub-mitted In writing a proposition to compromise P P com-promise the suit brought against the OJr trust company by the city to have I Commercial avenue widened from its n present width of thlrt one feet to rE 1 mtyslx f slx feet in accordance with sin IIlteft alleged agreement with the truSt com IL1 pany IL was slated the city would Ofl not be benefited by widening the street 1rp The company offered to pay 313 the ambunt said to have been remitted in f Ijavlngr tax in consideration of the leJ ie r company giving a strip of Its abutting 1mtl C property to widen the street to fifty ot Il 11 S feet Referred to the Committee Commitee t on Streets 1r t J i OBJECT TO CARPETCLEANING nJ S Lufe and thirteen other real I j eru of Third Fourth E and I L < I reels petitioned the Council t < cuuse 10 be f 1 I removed a carpetcleaning I I r l Y I < 1 lishment in tho vicinity on the ground thut it Is n nuisance and breeder of disease Committee on Sanitary In the matter of the proposition that I the city purchase the D A and 11 society grounds In the city the special committee recommenced that the CilY I make the society an offer of ZOO for I the square goc sum which the Legislature Legis-lature fxiuhdrlZed the society lo sell it for The committee also recommended recom-mended that the square be platted I I osiil oh n5 quickly as may be after J the city obtains possession of it The report was adopted j A notification was received from the I Salt Lake cato 1 railroad that its board of directors would soon consider the request of the Council that firemen In uniform be allowed to ride on the com i panys cars free Warden Dow of the State prison I asked that a few acres of land belonging belong-ing to the city along Parleys cr < k helwecn the Stale prison and Sawyers icohounes be leased lo the State for cc pamurago purposes Referred to the Committee on Public Grounds MANY LABORERS IN SEATTLE A letter wasreceived from the Building Build-Ing Trades council of Seattle denying statements which had been sent out to I the effect lhat from 0000 lo t lfc000 mechanics me-chanics and laborers were needed In Sealtle The letter l stated that although al-though building active In Seattle there were more men there than therNi Was work for and nren were arriving dally Fled A copy ora resolution of thanks passed by the Wyoming Legislature to the Union Pacific Railroad company the Short Line Railroad company the I Pullman Palace Car company the Western Union Telegraph company the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone company the Legislature of the Stale of Utah the clllzens of Salt Lake and others for courtesies extended to the Wyoming Legislature on the occasion of Its visit here was received and fed LEGAL EXPENSES rEGA1 The sum of 500 was placed In the Mayors contingent fund as a retainer to Richards Varian as counsel for the city in the trial of the Parleys canyon conduit case which will come up In the Federal court soon Five hundred dollars woe also appropriated ap-propriated for the payment of witness I fees In the Utah Lake and Jordan river water case the taking of testimony I testi-mony In which was completed before Judge Morse in the District court last Friday A resolution by Hewlett directing the I Street Supervisor to repair State street I was referred to the Committee on Streets A resolution by Buckle providing that the street roller be used to leVel the bicycle paths set apart for cyclists was referred to the Comml lee on Streets Tudclenham a offered a resolution directing di-recting that thc Superintendent of Waterworks discharge the walers of Emigration pipeline Into the Emigration Emigra-tion ditch at the head of First South street In order to supply the residents of the high lands of the Fourth precinct pre-cinct with Irrigation water Referred to the Committee on Waterworks The sum of 500 was appropriated tote to-te Mayors contingent fund to pay for eFght rods by five rods in the northwest part of the city through which the gravity sewer runs and I which the city needs |