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Show GLAS11 nous ABOUT BOND VOTE Makes Exaggerated Plea to People Peo-ple in Communication to City Council. Special to Tho Tribune. OGDION. Aug. 22. A communication was received by tho city council from Mayor Glasmann this evening containing a letter from George W. iLawry, secretary secre-tary of the Pacific Board of Flro Underwriters, Under-writers, regarding schedules of rates of Insurance on buildings In Ogden City. It was explained that bettor rates could be given if moro than one conduit led from the water supply to the distributive lines, and the mayor advised that Mr. Lawry be asked to wait until after the bond election to fix the rates of Insurance. Insur-ance. The mayor said that tho people of this city can save the $100,000 every three and a half years on Insurance rales alone if the eloctlon carries. The mayor also suggested that the "lire chief be instructed in-structed to prepare a system of alarms and that the coum!ll pass an ordinance requiring evcryono to turn off their water in case of fire and leave It turned off until tho flro Is put out. The communication communi-cation was adopted. Another communication was received from tho mayor calling attention to tho auditor's report, which shows that the city's indebtedness is $i:t8.G7G.35, which, the mayor duclarcd, is Slfi.OOO more than it was a year ago, notwithstanding the fact that considerable money had been collected from the merchants' license ordinance. He asked that the auditor give a detailed statement showing why this was so. The communication was adopted and the finance committee was Instructed to sec the auditor and have the report made. The city recorder reported that Mrs. T, A. Newman, who had been chosen as one of the judges of the special bond election In the Second ward, had Informed In-formed him that she could not serve, and upon the recommendation of Councilman Coun-cilman John Larson, Mrs. J. Zimmerman Zimmer-man was chosen. The city engineer reported that he had cheeked up the amount of property represented rep-resented by the protestants against the sewer system on Eccles avenue and that the council was without jurisdiction to act. because the protestants represented more properly than the petitioners. On the recommendation of the waterworks water-works committee, a six-inch water main extension on Washington avenue to Second Sec-ond street and thence to the stalo Industrial In-dustrial school was adopted. A petition signed by a nunbcr of residents resi-dents on West Twenty-eighth street objecting ob-jecting lo smoke coming from the burning burn-ing of city rubbish, which It declared to be a nuisance and asking the clly to have It stopped, was referred to the mayor and the board of health, with power to act. |