Show CHY COUNCIL james E daniels jr appointed city marshal THE ELECTRIC LIGHT GRANTED A FRANCHISE liht way given the bocky moun anin bell telephone company the city council mot in special tes sion last night mayor in i he chair the absentees vere alderman alexander aud councillors councilors Counci lors and daniels the petition of john liddiard asking tho privilege of erecting a verandah twenty two feet high abobo the sidewalk in front of their hotel on centre street was read councilor hansen moved that the petition be granted alderman A D holdaway was opposed to granting the petition he was opposed to giving anybody the privilege af obstructing the sidewalks of the principal streets of the city nothing looked more unseemly the exception of locust trees and signs than to see ver andaas extending across the sidewalks he would vote against garantine gr antine tho petition and would move to amend that it bo referred to tho committee on streets and alleys councilor braa thought there would be no mateal obstruction to the street in any chape at all in granting the petition alie verandah could bo made ornamental and add to the beauty of the building and for this reason he would vote to arant abo request councilor farrer considered eliat in view of this being the first petition presented to alie council on the subject it would be advisable to defer the matter until another meeting that the council have timeto time to consider the matter councilor maiben thought such a verandah as the one designed would be a benefit in many ways not only would it be ornamental to alie building and street but convenient to pedestrians in stormy weather were the verandah to be created in a unseemly shape ihen he would oppose it but such was not intended to be the case councilor dixon could not see the logic of the assertion eliat the verandah would be a public obstruction there were plenty of buildings in salt lake city and other places with verandah and he could not aee eliere they interfered with public travel alderman holdaway again arose in defense of liis motion to refer the pet tion there was no sense at all in granting a petition of this nature without proper specifications being made how i did the council know aliat kiad of a verandah the petitioners petition ers were going to erect the motion to refer alie petition to the committee on streets and alleys was finally put and carried by a vote of 5 to 4 hansen dixon bean and maiben voting in the negative A similar petition from J R Eo shard asking the earne privilege as that peti tinned for by john liddiard referred to the same committee councilor maiben presented a petition from H E rawlings and ten other property owners asking the council to construct a footbridge over the factory race on the south side of H street on motion of alderman holdaway the petition was granted with instructions to the road supervisor to see that the provo woolen mills company construct said bridge the report ol 01 the committee on streets and alleys to whom was referred the petition of the rocky mountain bell telephone company reported a bill granting said company the privilege of erecting their poles in the public streets of provo for a period of twenty years the report was adopted and the bill laid on the table to come up in its proper order the same committee to whom was referred the petition of J 31 keeler and others asking the council to open fifteenth street one block further east reported that the city had no right of way in that district and therefore recommended that the petition be not granted the same committee to whom was referred the amended report of the road supervisor for work expended on the public streets from Septem borl 1888 to january recommended that they had audited the report and found it correct and therefore recommended eliat it be accepted adopted the tiame committee recommended the petition of etal asking a street be opened from first to seventh streets ISO rods west of A street ba not granted as they did not deem it advisable at present to open aard estreet report adopted dop ted the claim of provo coop co op clothing dept for certain clothing furnished the sorensen Soren aen family diphtheria patients amounting to 24 was allowed the claim of mrs arrowsmith for services rendered unde directions of the quarantine committee amounting to 4 was allowed as also the claim of H osterloh Oste rioh amounting to for bread pies cakes etc furnished diphtheria patients the claim of S S jones for posts amounting to 2326 was referred back to come up before proper committee 1 they having been purchased on contract council farrer on of the committee on progress on the drain ordered to be made by alie council and for which 1000 hah been appropriated the drain was eight feet deep and had been boxed for about sixty rods and was already doing considerable sid erable good in carrying on the waste water but the work biad endangered a certain portion of the land adjacent owned by mr phillip beesley and lie would llie recommend eliat alie city in justice to mr beesley purchase that portion of his laud thus endangered if it could be done so reasonably mr beesley who was present was asked to state to alie council for aliat consideration ho would sell the strip of land endangered a piece twenty feet by eighty rods mr beesley stated that ho thought he could let it go for on motion of alderman brown alie committee was instructed to cither negotiate for the purchase of the land or make such repairs as would remedy alie difficulty councilor fairer invited the council to take a trip to the cemetery and in the improvements it v as agreed that the council go out afternoon at 4 tho application of mcewan rawlings asking a renewal of their license as retail liquor dealers was granted for a period of three months the resolution reported from the committee on streets and alleys granting a franchise to tho stocky mountain be 11 Telephone company to orect their colfs in the public streets of provo for a period of twenty yeara was taken ap the resolution in addition to granting i them a franchise protects the company from laving their poles wires or insulators damaged by imposing certain to be inflicted on those found guilty of destroying or damaging such ty the penalty is a fine not exceeding fifty dollars she y 11 went through its several readings and was an motion of alderman holdaway alie revolution reeo lution granting a franchise to abo provo electric light and power company was aiken up on its reading after a couple of amendments had been offered and adopted the bill passed its third re adine alderman scott moved that the council proceed to the appointment of a furrer put ini the lame E Daniels for the position C nominated william strong farrer thought mr danals would make a very good city marshai Mar shui i his name was up before the convention in 1688 and received a large number c votes showing the feelings of the i senta tives of alie people at the meeting he believed mr daniels was the right man for tho place in fact he was con aident of it bean said that his reason for placing tho name of mr strong in nomination was that the gentleman had been a faithful servant to the people on the police force for many bears past and it was nothing but just on the part of jhb council to favor him with the nomination As to mr daniels lie believed atiat he could not give his entire time to the of fice if it was given him as he was away do much alderman scott thought that mr daniels was the choice of the people as they had largely expressed themselves to that effect at the lust convention councilor david would support mr strong on account of the fact that that gentleman biad faithfully on the police force for many years past and always done BO to the satisfaction of the city mr daniels had attended but very few sessions of the council since he had been elected to the position of councilor for the birst ward and the hat he would continue tu absent himself irom his public duties this was something I 1 that the council should consider in voting for cit marshal i alderman brown stated that he would vote for mr daniels with the understanding that lie gave his entire attention to the position as the chiy marshal should be alie mos officer in alio city councilor farrer in defense of alie continued absence of mr daniels from council sessions stated that there was not pay enough in the position of city councilor to cause a man to neglect his general affairs councilor dixon considered it was due to mr strong that tho council should favor him with the position in recognition of his past faithful services alderman holdaway stated the fact that mr daniels unavoidable absence would not deter him from acting as city marshal he could easily bridge that difficulty by appointing a deputy to at tend to the business while he way away the vote was then put with the following result for mr daniels A D holdaway farrer maiben acott and brown 5 for mr strong D holdaway hansen bean and dixon 4 mr daniels was thereupon duly announced as city marchal Ma in place of john W turner resigned councilor farrer called alio attention of the council to the fact that certain parties had been opening alie cites dams and interfering with the cites water rights and he wanted to know if the committee on irrigation had power to prosecute these individuals for such actions the mavor informed lu in that they had councilor david holdaway pointed cut to the council the necessity of appointing a water commissioner to divide the water properly the matter bad been too long delayed councilor farrer who lias delayed it councilor holdaway 1 I do not know who has delayed it but it is delayed councilor farrer 1 I see you are not at all posted councilor holdaway was aboaf to retaliate when councilor dixon moved for an adjournment till next monday at 8 the motion was put and carried and the council thereupon adjourned jour ned |