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Show A Si'iI.ITi.i) ltEl'LY. 0. IT. Zane Eiplalot Mliy Hit City Council iranlrd Ids UnljnatloD. Th following letter explains lUtlf: 7b fAo hiUur e Me Jleralil: I notice In th 7VtoMite Ihla morning ihelutervlewtof certain membera of thu several commllteea in which one, 1 forget which, but think It wat that jrofound scholar and gentlemau of great attaliiment. In the art of pen iuanshli, Mr. W. II. H.BpaUord, sayt that the opl In tb vicinity of the pump were complaining ol the manner man-ner lu which the sewage waa Ulng taken caro ol. Now Mr. HpaUord knout M-rfrctly well that lor me to have kept th tewagu out ol the river would hav required from tlileen to eighteen lioun work n day, At It waa I was working work-ing aliout fourteen hours a day. On thu first, or thereabout, of March, I had a conversation with Mr. Noble, who told me to let the tower into the river at Highland that on the 1st of April lie would give m an aulstant. On th lint of April he put me oil until tho lit of May. but upon the lit of May he tald that lis had talked with Mayor Hcott ami that a man ha I oiler ed to run the puw; for glial a month aud hire his own help. I told Mr. Noblo to tell Mr, Hcott that liu had lietlcr go and hire that man. Th next day after tholtepubllcau inirlliig lu the thcatraMr.VuniIoutoii,iUerlnteudeiil of sewers, enrae don n end tried lo llud outjuilhow 1 felt In regard to politic., I gnvu him no satisfaction, aa I did not regard 11 as any of his liu. Inns. Home lime lu April, aliout tho first, I told Mr. Noble aud .Mr, Van Houten that wn would keep ou running Iho lewer Into the river until theclty had ulawinltoii IU hands, and then they would throw th blame on me. Mr. Van Houten said: "You go over at tdghtalsiut ten and eleven o'clock nnd turn th sewer In thn river nnd no ono will know It," and as Mr. Noble, then chairman ol thn commltto, agreed, I tupimed It all right. The sewer haa been running lu tho river every night, wltli the exception of twenty flvalilghU In.May, slnco lait Drrelil-lair, Drrelil-lair, and this waa known to Van Houten, Hou-ten, Noble, th Mayorand Mr.Plckard. Van Houten eald In thn presence of Mayor Hcott and Mr. Noble, that the only man that would kick about tho iowg would le Fliher.the gentleman who rum th brewery below; and he would not dare makomuch fun, as he wat using using river water to make beer out of. It would lio tometlmet a month ortlx weeks between tho vlalL of Mr. Van Houten to the pump. Ho would gu away and not bilng what I would ask for, aud If 1 hail to have anything entirely necessary for tho running of the pumpl would hav to shut th pump down, go and camp at his oilier at the city hall aud wait forhlm. Hometlmca h would come, but luoru often 1 would have to go back without teeing him For over two months there wat not a bit of watt In tho pump liouso and I could not est Van llouten to get toy. On last Friday Van I louten and Hpairord came down to th iumi and Hpalfbrd waa very friendly and treated mo In u very pleasant manner nnd tald that he would get Mr. Partem and Mr. Young to com" dowu aud that they would arrang for an assistant and w would keep In sewage out of tho river. I told him about not hiving waste to clean with and (old Mr. Van Houten to send sum down th uext morning, morn-ing, Haturday. Van llouten brought Mr. Young down and laid lilt plans to that he would get Iher when I was over at breaklait, which he had tho good luck to do. Ho rushed Mr. Young nrouni aud was ready to leave before I got over to the jtump, and when Bpattord taya he advised in to clean tho jiump up aa lie would brlug down th other member of Ihn committee he knows that he It wilfully wil-fully lying. About the lit of June I went to Mr. Noble and complalued aliout th manner man-ner Mr. Van Houten was furnlihlng things I ordered, and about tho way the council wat treating me, aud told hliu that If my work was not snllific-tory snllific-tory I would gUdly resign, and liu kuowt ihat right In front of Itemtngtoti, Johnson &Cu.'s stor that h ha I no fault to find with my woik, and did not want nut to quit. There never waa a word said to me by any one i.f th council about my work, for there had been tioiin of them down for almost six months. Now, tlii-fe are somo ol Iho reasons for their Action: Flnt, tbey-th City Council thought It was best lo hav winiMine In tiler tint waa uuablu ti exist without a Mormon for breakfast overy mornliic; second, Mr. Noble felt very tore to think that hu had leivii re-celvlng some other gentleman's salary sal-ary for a year, and that tho Third District Dis-trict Court had so decided; third, Mr. Van Houten nnd myself have never liven able to get along since I have Urn working for thu city, aud hu has tried lu every manner to worry me; fourth, Bpattord remembered re-membered a llttls Instance lu the Third District Court where hit literary attainment, were nlred; and llflh, Mr. Hcott rcmemlicra how a year ago he gave a valuable prlvllig awayloj. C Watson without th kuowlede.uo. the council, and how I had on W. P. Italian put utlllon In lor thu tame privilege, that madu lilm feel rather funny, and I tupiote It must have licen with hit or heart thumping and rtralnlug against th act when ho asked lor my reslgoatlou. Also, Mr. Van Houten remembers how I Uughud ut hliu when he wat lulling In ordinary tewer pl;ie for thu pump discharge, aud ho also remembers when they were not more than half don jiulttng lu thn discharge lhat I told him It wculd not work and he replied that th money would lie well tent In proving th In-comiietency In-comiietency of the Mormons, at they had commenced the work. These are a few facia lu regard to till matter,and had tho gentlemen who did Hilt pleco of underhand work dropped th matter and allowed me lo go quietly lo woik at tomethlng else, that would havu ended thumatter. lluttheachemowaa hatcbed by Bpairbrd and Mr. Van Houten, put tli rough by them aud taken up by the Tri&unt, and a trio that would thamo the devil, dlsguit n dog, I aupiMlt would be th right thing to esy that I feel neither shame nor disgust for their actloni, but hardly fccijuitlficd In lowering myself lo tho position when I might feel contempt lor them. 0. W. Za.nk. |
