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Show f ILL NOT PAVE BRIGHAMSTREET Protestants Outnumber Applicants. Thoroughfares In Western Part of City May Soon Be Improved. Republican Aldermen Censure City Health Commissioner Wilcox J During- Debate I BRIGHAM street will not bo paved this year or, at least, it will not be paved with asphaltum. The ctntiia rf tlif nrnro.if1 linnrove- mcnt Is even more complicated than at any previous time. The protests received re-ceived against thc paving show that out of the 11,751 linear feet of thc proposed pro-posed extension there are owners of 5132 feet against thc Improvement under un-der any circumstances, while o2S0 feet are in favor of paving the street with macadam Instead of asphaltum. This gives a total of 10,712 feet opposed to thc paving with asphaltum, which defeats de-feats the Improvement by 2C7S feet. John N. Sharp, Jr., in behalf of John Sharp, the estate of John Sharp and the estate of John and W. G. Sharp, representing 5280 feet, appeared before tho Council and explained that he was in favor of the improvement of the street, but was opposed to asphaltum on thc ground that the cost was extortionate. ex-tortionate. The cost to his family, he said, for the paving would amount to $-19,400. The life of the asphaltum paving, pav-ing, he 3ald, was about live years. He advocated that the street be paved with macadam, urging that the cost was mucli less and thai (he life of the ...n i. ,1.,. 11,.,., .... 1 .. - I asphaltum. As a member of the National Na-tional Association for Good Roads he advocated the use of the macadam paving. The entire matter was referred re-ferred to the streets committee. The first step toward the paving of certain streets in the western part of the city was taken by the Council when the recorder was instructed to advertise adver-tise notice of intention for the creation of a new paving district to include the following streets; Third South from West Temple to between Third and Fourth West; First West street from Second to Third South, and Plerpont avenue from First West to West Temple Tem-ple street. The signers of the petition asking for the new district represent 2582 1-3 front feet of the property abutting abut-ting on tho streets to be paved. This is 242 feet more than is required under the ordinances to have thc improvement improve-ment made. City Health Commissioner Wilcox was more or less censured by certain of the Republican Aldermen during a protracted discussion on the advisability advisabil-ity of retaining or discharging four of the five special sanitary Inspectors. Dr. Wilcox recommended to the Council that the four Inspectors be abolished after today. His communication was referred to the sanitary committee, which recommended that all of the Inspectors In-spectors be retained during the pleasure pleas-ure of the Council. When the leport was read last night Fernstrom Jumped to his feet and said this was the first lime that the head of a department had asked to get along with fewer men and the Council had Insisted that ho must keep them. Black next got the floor and explained that the city had not been thoroughly inspected and that the inspectors were especially needed during thc warmer months. He said It was most inconsistent incon-sistent for the health commissioner to state in one letter that health conditions condi-tions were such that the services of sanitary Inspectors could be dispensed with and in another communication say that conditions were such that he needed an assistant. Hobday thought tho commissioner was laboring under a misapprehension of the facts and said that although he might prescribe for a natient by telephone he could not in spect back yards by the same method. Upon motion of Fernstrom. the report of the sanitary committee was laid over until July 1. which means that the inspectors in-spectors will be retained until that time at least. By unanimous vote Mayor Morris was sustained in his veto of the Fernstrom ordinance, which would permit of thc selling of liquor to women during the present restricted hours at the Salt Palace resort, but not elsewhere In the city. Councilman Fernstrom said that he intended to prepare another ordinance ordi-nance on the matter and voted to uphold up-hold the Mayor. Upon thc recommendation of the sewer committee Plumbing Inspector W. J. Leaker was given authority to employ an assistant at $1 50 a day for a period of ninety days. No action was talcen upon the Mayor's veto to the bill of O. H. Skldmore for $150. Tho bill was vetoed for the reason that no action has been taken by the Council upon Mr. Skldinore's report of his work. Superintendent F. L, Hlncs of the waterworks department was granted a leave of absence to attend the convention con-vention of tho American Waterworks association, to be held at St. Louis on June S, and an appropriation of $150 was made to defray his expenses. A proposition from the Utah Independent Inde-pendent Telephone company to put In long distance telephones in the police patrol alarm boxes and connect them with thc fire department and the company's com-pany's exchange for $55 a month was referred to the finance, police and prison, pris-on, and fire department committee.-5, To the street committee was referred a petition from A. F. Doremus and twenty-five others asking that Second West y street between South Temple and .Second North streets be Included In the restricted bicycle district. Rcck-i Rcck-i less riding upon the street was the ground given in the petition. The City Attorney has not yet prepared' pre-pared' hi? report upon the proposed contract with thc Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone company, whereby the city would receive free telephone service In lieu of collecting a license, and nothing was done with, tba-matter. |