Show CITY COUNCIL the city council met in regular session at april mayor scott presiding presiding P F ferrall errall asked for a peddlers license referred to the committee on license dallas hedges requested permission to pile building material at the corner of fourth south and west temple streets granted under the usual restrictions J E dooley and others asked that the central bridge at the corner of Seventh south and tenth east streets be changed as it was unsightly referred to the committee on streets J C mather and others asked that an additional franchise be granted to the rapid transit company referred to the committee on streets the heirs of ii E riter biter represented that some years ago the estate was taxed for an extension of the water cains nains and now a second tax for thy extension was levied they asked that they be relieved from this double tax referred to the committee on waterworks water works H brisacher and others asked that ba t t mhd h water mains in be extended along a 10 mgt ird south referred street as far as fifth I 1 ehst to the committee oh ob waterworks water works E D hoyle and others asked that an electric light be placed at the corner of B and third streets referred to the committee on improvements johnson and raymond baymond ask asked ed i permission W to pile building budding magerl material a f in front of their premises on second south street granted under the usual restrictions H J asked for a corrected deed for lot 8 block 33 88 plat D referred to the city attorney W H burton applied for the position of engineer to attend at the sewer p pump um P he had had bad 25 years epperle dge and was now engaged i by mr ivor a engineer at the sewer pump referred to the committee on sewers J stewart asked to be appointed to the position of plumbing inspector referred to the committee on sanitary regulations gu lations E H rush asked leave to withdraw his application app leation for appointment as plumbing inspector granted some ome persons who had an aversion to signing their names and who applied the signature of taxpayers 1 l sent in a protest against the appointment of or mr evans as plum plumbing bing ite ip they began by congratulating the council on the excellent measures already adopted and then stated that there should be no dog in the manger business busi 11 1 1 next s they gave the following grounds for their objections to mr evans ivans Jr appointment that he be was a relative of a plumber on first south street that he was now engaged in business for himself without a license that he had no experience that he is the soul and bone of contention and that he has learned all he be does know in the herald building they wanted some one who would be impartial and warned the council to exert ex eroe due care mr hall tb thought ought a petition peti tiou without a signature should not be received by the council on motion of mr pembroke the petition was laid on the table J M harvey informed the council that his deputy deput in the fourth precinct precinct W W foot owl 1 been stricken with paralysis so that he could not attend to the business mr harvey bad appointed james lawson as an his bis assistant in the fourth precinct the appointment was confirmed A number of residents of third south street between six and seventh baht streets asked for an extension of the water mains referred to the comm committee igee on waterworks water works A protest against granting a license for sunday entertainments was presented and read it endorsed ine iffe following which was presented by rev bev B R G and others as having been passed by a meeting badim held in n the methodist church whereat A blutt qt and orderly sabbath jig JB essential to the bt welfare of the cit yand whereas Whre ae such a day of ret reit cannot be preserved for all classes it if any one class is given permission to use the rest day for money making making purposes therefore reso kwo ved that T at this union meeting of citi zone zens does hereby earnestly pe petition the city council to impartially withhold licenses from every class that wishes to use sanday for moneymaking money making purposes both protests were refer referred ted to the committee on license but were afterwards laid on the table till the ordinance relating to the subject was called up street 8 I 1 u 1 pok visor paul asked instructions r creative 1 e to accepting poll tax time cri icks a issued for work done in 1888 and nd 1889 several had bad been presented present ld and aej he had bad refused to honor thea until the council had considered the matter city attorney merritt said the checks should not be received the mayor said many of them bad been taken by the parties in good faith and d they could pot be repudiated the question was referred to the committee on ways and means N 8 timpson and others representatives senta benta tives selected at a mass meet ir log or of residents and taxpayers alone north orth temple street presented the following calr DOLE alty april be it a resolved 1 I 1 hat we the residents and taxpayers living along and adjacent to north temple tm mass meeting assembled respectfully petition your honorable body to grant a franchise to the sat salt lake ake city Ral company along said north temple street from first bast to the city limits in the west your petitioners petition ers living in the western part of the city have hare no facilities for street car transport transportation atio of any character and we therefore deem it but hai justice lastice to earne earnestly oUT request that you take immediate and favorable faro favo rable rabi e action referred to the committee on streets the west side rapid transit company asked for fora a franchise along first west street from north temple tempie to ninth south thence west along ninth south to second west thence south to tenth South thence west to the jordan river and thence westerly to the west boundary of the city also beginning at the intersection ter cf sixth south and first west streets thence west along sixth south to the jordan river thence westerly to the olty city limits also U along the county road from the point where the road intersects the route first described northerly to the point where the road intersects the route second above described the charter is to run for a period of fifty years referred to the committe committee 0 on streets city attorney merritt reported that the bill of dickson and van horne home for giving an opinion on the street railway franchise question was one half alf to edeh fe he also recommended that errors be corrected in deeds given to S A woolley and E F sheets the former representing both the error consisted in having the words salt lake city survey instead of big field survey the recommendations were adopted col merritt stated that the council had ordered that dickson and van horne home be asso slated with him in considering the street railway franchise question and it had oost cost the city he had had not asked for the assistance and believed he could attend to the ordinary bustness business fessand sand and if he needed help he would ask for it recorder hyams reported plate for the extension of water maint mains on second west first north and ninth streets the assessment on theme theae extensions was confirmed by the council recorder hyams reported the publication li of notices of the intention to assess assen a tax for the extension of water mains on south temple twelfth east second west second south tenth east fourth T F and B streets there had been but one objection filed bled and that was to the extension on twelfth east the extensions were ordered made J D H mcallister filed a detailed report of the cost of dredging dred in the 0 jordan excavating in UZ utah lake ake and repairing the dam in the river referred to the committee on salt lake and jordan canal the committee on fire department reported on the petition of major stanton chief of the fire department and recommended several additions to the present it fire to apparatus the committee stated that because of the new and large buildings now being erected in this city there should be an merw extension ladder and truck provided one fire steamer should be placed near the lumber lumberyards yards A two story engine house bouse should be erected in the west part of town on on ground either elther leased or purchased the present engine house was inconvenient and a now new one should be built the committee asked that they be authorized to employ an architect to make plant plans for the work they also stated that a new silsby heater beater and one thousand feet of hose should be purchased they recommended a reduction of the number of call men from 40 to 26 and the employment of an additional force of paid a id men U upon n the request of wai major lor stanton orr for an amendment to the ordinance to authorize him to cut electric wires in case of an ah emergency they reported that such an amendment was unnecessary as the provisions pro visions of cof the ordinance were ample they ask that the committee be given authority jo to carry out the recommendations made subject to the approval of thy council the report waft adopted and the necessary powers given to the committee the committee on salt luke lake and jordan bordan canal reported on the claim of john W young fur for for a right 0 of way for r the canal that they had bad agreed upon 1200 as the he price the report re was adopted the oo 00 committee cittee on streets reported favorably on the bill to grant the salt lake rapid transit company a franchise on the following streets first east street from first north street south to the city limits along eighth east street from seventh south to the south line of ninth south along ninth fast east street from ninth south to the southern limits of the city alon along tenth south street from ninta ninth east to the west line of seventh east and from the west line of fourth east to first east along third east from fourth south to the southern limits of the city the report rt was adopted and the bill was taken n up lip on its third reading mr pickard moved that first east street be stricken out from the number of streets on which it was proposed to grant a franchise franch le he thought that street should be kept clear of railways mr cohn you wish to kill the ordinance mr W pickard no sir air they may have second east I 1 only wish first east to be kept clear for travel mr Pic kanPa Is motion was lost the provision requiring a tax of 25 per car for three and if mills per capita on the passengers is carried subsequently was on motion of mr conn stricken out and a tax of if mills per capi capita ta imposed for the passengers carried mr han hall moved that double tracks and switches and main tracks be not less than seven feet apart car tied lied mr jones moved au an iro ro viding that no fare should exceed ive cents this was lost the vote being 9 to 6 against it and the figure remained at ten aerts as the highest price that could be charged for a single fare mr noble moved to strike out the relinquishment of west temple street he said there was a petition signed by J R walker and 42 other property owners on tha treet asking ing that a street rall gallfly fly vOW be built there the petition was wab then read mr hall opposed the proposed amendment he wanted west temple and first east streets preserved as a drive where ladies and children could go out tiding riding without danger of having their horses frightened this was a matter of public interest mr noble thought west temple would become a business street and should have a car line mr cohn said it would not be fair to parallel the old I 1 line ine on loth both sides allies mr tames said that some of the principal property owners on the street were opposed to it as all the owners of the street railways had their business Interest inte reste uin in the east half of the the amendment was lost loit loi t ayes 4 nays II 11 mr james moved that the company should be required to complete the line on first east street within four months he finally changed it to six months and hi amendment was accepted the bill was then passed 13 to 2 the noes were mr pickard who was opposed to first east street being included and mr james who would not agree to more than a 4 maximum fare of five cents on the motion of mr hall the street supervisor and city engineer were instructed to examine the location of the IR rapid d T transit ran sit com pd banys railway 0 on n first east street and report the condition to the council the special coman committee attee on the application of the K R GW to use sixth west street and offering in return to gravel certain other streets reported favorably if the work was completed within six months adopted the committee on license reported adversely on the petition of susan A to have bave her dog tax remitted adopted the committee on license reported favorably on the petition of certain saloon keepers to nave bave their license transferred also on the granting of one liquor license adopted the committee on improvements improve menta rv reported ported that the salt lake power light and heating company had given notice that it could furnish additional electric are arc lights to the city for light lighting lug at a cost of 10 per month per laag lamp the committee recommended t that at the council order from time to time such street lamps as were thought necessary adopted the committee on salt lake and jordan canal reported favorably on the petition of moon and TwIt twitchell chall asking permission to flume a portion of the canal at their own expense adopted the committee on improvements made a report on the petition of cornelius green asking the city to sell him two acres of land which included a part of the old canal bed the committee stated that bat as the now new canal was not yet constructed it might become necessary to use the old one and therefore it would not be advisable to make the sale at present mr green wanted to establish brick yards and they thought he should be encouraged they advised that the ground be leased eased to him for this purpose Eur purpose pose upon the condition that he e would restore the canal to its former condition whenever the council deemed it necessary adopted I 1 the committee on public grounds reported adversely on the petition of H mccartney asking that the city sell him a certain tract of land adopted the committee on waterworks water works reported adversely on the petition of the trustees of the salt bait lake academy and sf of the ninth school district asking an abatement of the s special ecial tax assessed against them the he committee did this upon the advice of the city attorney that school property was not exempted from the payment of special taxes and that the council could not remit any of such taxes city attorney merritt read from some decisions in new york in support of his view mr hall wanted to know if the council had bad not dot the power to remit special taxes col merritt they have not the power mr hall I 1 am not a lawyer but I 1 do not agree with the city attorney on that proposition the committee on waterworks water works re wu arted r ted adversely to the petitions of ugh rh A anderson B R 0 savage T whittle WT W little ittle J C autler cutler and thomas J curtly curtis regarding the extension of the water mains the report waa adopted with the exception of that portion referring to the petitions of hugh anderson and others which was sent back to the committee for further consider aaion on the pet petition petetin itin cn of moses ludlow and others asking an extension of the water mains the committee on recommended that the petition be sent back for more signatures adopted the committee on waterworks water works reported favorably on the petitions of jacob weller weiler isabella brauker and wm langton adopted and notices of intention to extend the water mains 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