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Show BUBUIIlff Masfei' Plumbers Do Not Like Vitrified Pipe for Sewer Connections. PETITION FOR A CHANGE PROMPTLY TURNED DOWN Claims for Damages Are Filed; Other Matters of General Interest. Master plumbers of Salt Lake want the ordinance, enacted a year or so ago, permitting per-mitting the use of vltrlllcd as well as Iron pipe in sewer houso connections repealed', re-pealed', but they will not. have their way about if If the recommendation of the engineering and sewerage committee la followed by tho city council. This committee com-mittee Thursday evening recommended the Ullng of tho master plumbers' petition peti-tion for the repeal of the measure. Some of the members of thi committee say that the master plumbers want the ordinance ordi-nance repealed because they can make more money on Iron pipe connections. It looks llko the Self-Winding Clock company will have to pay the tax of $2 a year on each electric self-winding clock operated by it, as the license committee commit-tee recommended that Manager A. Vv. I.ohg'a protest against paying the tax be tiled. The (docks bring In only $12 a year each, Manager L,ong says, and the ?2 tax amounts to 16 2-3 per cent of the gross Income. The company Is a subsidiary sub-sidiary concern of tho Western Union Telegraph company. On account of objectionable locations tho application of Blanco & Curran for a liquor license at 217 West Second .South street, and of Jlausc fc Co. for a license at J06 South Main street, were recommended recom-mended denied, but the committee recommended recom-mended the grunting of a license In the basement of the new mining exchange to Targetta &. Sutherland. The license committee also recommended recom-mended that Bates & Schulor be refunded $30S3.3, on the unused portion of their liquor license at the Buena Vista nice Bill for Damages. The public grounds and waterways committee com-mittee recommended that the city attorney attor-ney send the Denver Rio Grande Hallway Hall-way company a bill for damages by reason rea-son of Hres in Parley's canyon. The waterworks committee will hold a special session Thursday afternoon to hear representatives of tho temple, the Y, M. C. A. building and the schools on their claims for water tax abatements. "Whether the city can charge the. county for water used In sprinkling the lawns on the county sldo of the Joint building also will be considered. The public grounds nnd waterways committee drafted a resolution in relation rela-tion to gravel pits, providing that the council shall decide what suitable lands for gravel pits shall be leased. TJic city recorder, under this resolution, Is to advertise ad-vertise for bids for leases on these grounds, and may reject any and all bids. The claims, committee recommended that the claim of Mr. and Mrs. Edward A. Burley for ?2500 damages for injuries in-juries received in falling Into a hole In tho sidewalk at. Ninth South street and Williams avenue bo filed. A similar recommendation rec-ommendation was made on F. li. Preuss's claim for $500 for injuries received in a fall on State streot In front of the Empire Em-pire theater, owing to the unsafe condition condi-tion of the street car tracks. The claim of Benjamin J. Harvey, former city lire-man, lire-man, for $3000 for injuries received In the testing of a hose was recommended sent to the city attorney. Whcelhousa Asks Aid. The appeal of Francis "Whcclhouso, run down by the fire chief's buggy two or three years ago, for aid was recommended; filed by the sanitary committee. Wherr Wheelhouso recovered he was given employment em-ployment in the health department, but afterward was discharged. lie wanted similar aid this time. Tho fire committee recommended that tho lire chief bo authorized to advertise for bids on 5000 feet of new hose. Tho engineering and sewerage committee commit-tee recommended the passing of the first partial estimate In favor of P. J. Moran on paving extension No. 31, amounting to $18,801.19, the discrepancy In the contract con-tract price of 5G.804S8 a foot and the price In the estimate of $7.0478371 bein explained. ex-plained. The petition of Fred M". Schullzc and others that Brock avenue, with the water main and the paved sidewalk, be accepted ac-cepted by tho city and declared a public street was recommended granted. The engineering committee also recommended recom-mended the laying of sewers on Cottage coui-t from Sixth to Seventh South street, on Hawthorne avenue from Fifth to Sixth South street, on City avenue from State to Second East street, on Hazel court from Fifth to S'ixth East streets, and on Elm avenue from Fourth to Fifth East street. |