Show CITY coucL AT HOME E Holds Session and Bubblos Over With Good Humor SURFACE FREE OF FRICTION Greater Procaulions Taken to head Off Disease No mention Iffncle of the Trouble in the Board of Public Works Routine Business The members or the City Council were in such good spirits as the result of their Junketing trip to the coast that I only hiirmany and routine business characterized the special meeting held last nIght all reference tothe public works embrogllo apparently having been studiously avoided I Health Commissioner Stewart in a communication to the Council called attention to the necessity > occasioned by the typhoid epidemic of greater activity ac-tivity in the matter of cleaning the I city To this end the Commissioner asked that the number of garbage wagons on duty In the city be Increased from eight to twelve and that a sanitary sani-tary inspector be appointed for each pieciiKt lo serve until January 1st next The Council granted the increased service with the provision that it be in effect at the pleasure oC the Council Instead In-stead of for any stated period Another application III the same line was from the superintendent of streets asking for an apptoprialion of 400 for carrying on the work of cleaning the canals oC the Third precinct which was also granted I In response to a communication from the City Engineer calling attention to the urgnt need of the extension of the First street sewer to the east side of the intersection of First and State streets to enable paving to be done the Council authorized the Board of Public Pub-lic Works to proceed with the work at I once The Board of Public Works presented I Its final estimate for work of constructing con-structing concrete sidewalks made by City Engineer < Kelsey In favor of the City Street Improvement company under un-der its contract of May 23 J902 for 12120 > which was appioved with the exception of the item of 5S471 for extra work said to have been performed I without with-out proper authorization The report was referred to the Streets committee The following additional petitions were referred to committees From Mrs H L Anderson and other protesting pro-testing against any change of the grade of East Temple street between North Temple and First North streets from Edward W Hunter and others protestIng protest-Ing against the granting of a franchise fran-chise for an electric car line on First AVcst street on the ground that It would eventually be merged into a general freight traffic line from Phebe S Kimball Kim-ball and others that the city convey to I petitloncis all the title H 1 t may ho veto ve-to giound abutting on the west side of State street block na which ground I the petitioners have occupied and used for twentyfive years without protestor protest-or interference I The contract t for hauling hay from the citys lands < In Parleys canyon was awarded to Raleigh and Harmon at the rate of 220 per ton The Council received and accepted with ihinks an Invitation fioin the Federation of Labor to participate tIle Labor day parade The matter of appropriating 100 for I the purchase of a new team for the I police patrol wagon was referred to the Committee on Finance I The payroll of city employees for the month of August amounting to 10 I fi0770 was referred for approval I The report of the criminal division I of the City court for August showing 229 cases disposed of with fines and forfeitures for-feitures of SliJ was also referred I The Council adjourned to Monday night the regular meeting night lon l-on account of Labor day the only business I busi-ness will be that of adjournment to aIn a-In t r dale |