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Show ii he nm URGED CITIZENS Residents Along Thoroughfare Thorough-fare Want It Improved at an Early Date. Third avenue, from end to end. will bo .paved next year if tho cily commission lakes favorable action on a vigorous potition po-tition presented last night by residents of the avenue. The matter waB referred to tho committee of the whole for further fur-ther consideration, though members of the commission intimated that It would bo a noteworthy improvement and that at least part, if not all of it, probably would bo undertaken next year. A largo delegation of citizens attended the' meeting Professor Richard R, Lyman Ly-man and M. S. Woolley spoke jn favor of the proposed Improvement, outlining the need of It and tho vast benefits that would accrue thorofrom to all that portion por-tion of the city. It Is estimated that the city's share would be about $38,000. The protest of D. B. l-Iompstead and others ugalnst a franchise being granted to the Salt Lake Terminal company for tho laying of tracks on Plcrpont streot was referred to the committee of the whole. Mr. M. E. Pickett, for sixteen years an employco at tho city Jail in the kitchen department, waB awarded tho contract last night for feeding city prisoners pris-oners at 10 cents a meal. Mrs. Pickett succeeds Mrs. Glfford. who resigned several sev-eral weeks ago. A communication was received from tho city auditor in which he declined to lssuo warrants in favor of tho city sexton and florist for the differences in their salaries 6lnco the passage of tho now ordinances. The commission had authorized the payment pay-ment of theso warrants, but tho auditor. on tho advice of tho city attorney, Informed In-formed the commission that such warrants war-rants would be Illegal. Tho sexton had asked the difference between a salary of $1000 per annum and $1200 per annum for two months, declaring declar-ing that he had been engaged at tho largor figure, but had received his first two months' pay in accordance with tho smaller. The auditor sent another letter to tho commission asking for authority to hold tho December accounts, open long enough to charge tho payrolls for tho last half of the month to 1913 rathor than carry It over into tho new year, as heretofore. here-tofore. This was referred to tho com-mitteo com-mitteo of the whole. Tho auditor pointed point-ed out thnt an exponso Incurred during one year should be charged to the account ac-count of that year, rather than encumber encum-ber the new year with the amount |