Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-01-03 | Page 13 | As G Remember

Ask the average average pupil of the public public pub pub- lic Pc schools of Utah when the city of Salt Lake was sas Incorporated and he will look at you with astonishment Ask the average citizen the same question and he will be lost more than the pupil in the schools for Itis it itI itis I is upon the latter that he depends for loi 01 hi his Information H He is I t ed that his children do not know astonishment will be greater when he learns that such Information tion as this Is not taught In the public pub pub- tic lic schools He under the delusion that it was But when the he asked the question his children laughed at him They told him how many calories there were in his food tood what the vitamins meant how much sugar he should put In la a cup of ot chocolate for coffee is tabooed how he should wash ash his teeth and If a pain occurred In his big toe that he should immediately consult the family tam tam- ily lIy physician for his tonsils must immediately come out while a pain In his leg meant that his teeth must come out but when It came to tellIng telling telling tell tell- ing him or her when the city of Salt Lake was chartered what the boundarIes boundaries boundaries boun boun- daries were of the place where he lived or what the boundaries of ot the state of Utah were he was as lost as If in a wilderness ss Ask your children children children chil chil- dren the question and see what they have to say TIMERS OLD-TIMERS KNOW NOW Once In a while there comes conies along an old fellow who has In the long ago studied McG McGuffy's s Ct reader Webster's Websters Websters Webster's Websters Webster's Web Web- ster's spelling book grammar grammar grammar gram gram- mar and he can answer the question question ques ques- tion off oft hand as quickly as It Is asked but when the s same same me question is asked the children they are lost Therefore let the fact be mentioned mentioned mentioned men men- that Great Salt Lake City was granted a charter on January 19 1851 the general assembly o othe of the state of Deseret on that date granting the city a charter harter and the same being approved by Brigham Young governor of the state and antI thus was founded the city which is the largest In the intermountain country countr The charter ordained that all territory territory territory ter ter- Included In the boundaries as asset asset asset set forth beginning at the southeast southeast southeast south south- east corner of the church pasture about a al half haIC mile north of the Hot Springs thence west to the west bank of ot the Jordan river thence south up the west bank of the Jordan Jordan Jordan Jor Jor- dan to 0 a point in said bank directly west est horn flom the southwest corner of the five-acre five lots south of said city thence east to the aforesaid southwest southwest south south- west vest corner of ot said five-acre five lots and anti along along- the south line Une thereof thence east to the base of the mo mountain moun moUn- n- n tam tain thence directly north to a point directly east of the southeast corner of the church pasture thence west vest est to the e place of ot beginning including the prese present sure surveys s 's of said city shall be known and ind designated ted as Great Salt Lake City and the InhabItants in inhabitants inhabitants In- In habitants thereof are constituted a body corporate and politic by that name and shall have perpetual succession succession suc sue cession and may have a seal which s shall hall be common and which they may may lay change and alter at their plea plea- sure POWERS GRANTED The charter chartel authorized the city with power to sue and be sued to purchase and receive and hold real realand realand realand and personal property and to do all things In relation thereto as a's as natural persons A city council was authorIzed authorized au- au to consist of a mayor four foUl aldermen and nine councillors who shall have the qualifications of ot electors elec elec- tees tors of said city who were to be chosen by the voters of the city who shall hold office for two years a majority to constitute a quorum At Atthe the the first election after aCter the granting of the charter three judges were provided to be chosen viva voce yore Voters were wele to be ba 18 years yeal's of age and over Then followed rules iules and regulations which the council was to adopt and this included practically practical everything