| Show THE QUEST J ON our city fathers wrestle with the subject THEY ARE TO BE SET TO WORK ON OUR STREETS A team bandwagon and Wagon to be hired for the puarose Pu rrose from tuesdays DAILY alie city council met last night pursuant to adjournment alie absentee war councilor the petition of the city assessor praying for the remittance of the city taxes of a number of poor and indigent and doubly asbe sed persons was presented and with one exception remitted councilor brown read the following report of the committee on police and city prisons to the city council of prevo city artho committee on police and city prison to whom was referred the subject of recommending home mode of working the prisoners confined in the city jail report that we have given the subject careful consideration and find that there is now no system of working the prisoners we also find that there ia quite a edrye number of tramps being boarded at the expense of the city without any remuneration whatever J we find that for atie successful working of prisoners the city have a team we therefore recommend eliat a span of horses or mules be purchased also harness and wagon and that a man be employed to drive the sime A barn should also be erected and the marshal be instructed to peo eliat all persons confined in the city jail be required to work licurs liours per day and when necessary u man be employed to take charge of them the work to be done under the direction of alie supervisor JOHN A chairman mr brown moved the adoption of the report alderman alexander did nok think eliat under the present circumstances it would be profitable for provo city to purchase a team the prisoners only came occasionally alie present large number ia on account of alie discharge of men from the railroad mr brown considered it would be a proper to set these tramps at work they came along hero in large numbers and were committing petty of fences and eating good grub in the city without doing any work mr maiben thought we should be prepared for these emergencies as they might arise there is nothing eliat doe s a drunk as much good as a little hard work mr holdaway suggested that something be done but he did not consider that alie purchasing of a team the best thing to do ho did not think a prisoner should bd put out in campeti tion with a laboring man As a matter of economy the purchasing hasine of a team would be extravagant A man and team can be hired much clie aper mr bean rather disagreed with sir ay iy he would like to ibave seen the report of the road supervisor at all times of the year labor can bo performed with good effect on the streets I 1 have not bieard any of this dollar and a quarter team laire that mr holdaway referred to thia may be so at certain seasons of the year salt lake city uses teams very profitable they also use tramps to very good advantage if a man lias to go out and a team every morning for chiy tramps I 1 think it would require time and it is certainly not a very progressive method mr alexander was not prepared to say whether we need a team or not but we do not need one simply for alie tramps this winter is the first time that we have been able to make our tramps profitable mr scott was in favor of some kind of a move to secure a team the road supervisor should be hired by the year and ho could take care of alie team mr maiben referred to our street crossings during the last spell of muddy weather if we biad biad a man and a team these crossings could have been kept in order the report was adopted alderm en and alexander and councilor farrer voting against it mr scott renewed a former motion of his which biad not been recorded the motion read as follows I 1 move eliat the recorder be instructed to carry out the recommendations of a report of a special committee on which was adopted february 6 and that the treasurer be instructed ted to report to the council at its next regular meeting all notes or obligations ligat ions in writing in his custody also all warrants that have been paid and cancelled con celled un to alie monday in november of the year 1889 SCOTT chairman the motion was adopted alie fo lowing claim was allowed and amount appropriated to joseph 31 brown for hauling rock etc 1050 alie bill of pyne maiben for medicines furnished for quarantine case etc amounting to 1965 was presented and evoked considerable discussion as to whether pay alie bill or alie parties who had obtained the medicine alie claim was laid on the table to be 0 K by the quarantine officers alie claim of the P L M B co amounting to for lumber furnished for blumes flumes for west square was allowed aso the amount of 1043 for lumber for tank and for stakes for the use of the surveyor the council alien proceeded to the first second and t ard reading of a bill to provide for the erection of balconies awnings and signs thy bulj was passed by an unanimous vo ly A le solution was introduced by mr scott granting a franchise to A and others for power light and heating ea the bill passed its first and second readings on motion of mr brown alie further consideration of the bill was postponed until the next meeting mr scott stated that the committee on water borka had secured the ser vice i of mr sturgess to draft plans and for water works and that had selected aid of alie hurve tho cilc of alie proposed reservoir is alie mouth of rock cam on and gatei can be secured from provo river anil also from rock canyon alie committie asked for power to negotiate for the site and richt of way mr thought it was a little too previous to grant this request before the commit leeo had fully decided upon the site find profitable coat provo city is not hn anci airy prepared to baill buill waterworks water works at alio present pre sent time thu money ia not in the treasury and our successors be burth ened with something that must be prosecuted or alie city would J e alcober mr bean ivas in favor of taking more time to consider this matter lie was not in favor of authorizing alm purchase of a site at alie present time mr scott stated eliat if alie council did not decide to take athis site by tomor to mor row morning alio price would be raised mr bean referred to alie remark of a previous speaker regarding alie alie reservoir must bo tha gentleman gont leman did not think it would pinch as to alie exact height if it was investigated aie thought it waa all bosh alie gentleman agreed rather than eliat should be cramped to fur faish anh th pd they want ed on alie proper level when they needed it at a cost of not over an acre mr maiben as one of the heaired in this matter lie thought the first tiling to be con waa how to gel nater to the canal we did not propose to build a storage reservoir at this point but merely a distributing one mr H stated eliat lie had consulted meats me ats james sturgess and others and lie hal been informed that feet above the city level ouid be required to give the water the necessary force to extinguish a fire it was not practicable for the city to build a storage reservoir but alicy could build a distributing point after some further discussion without reaching a conclusion as to what should be dens the council adjourned for one weik 7 |
