Show CITY COUNCIL f the council met us as a board of equalization firby and liste listened tied to the reading of the following gentlemen your special committee to whom was referred the case cas of fred simon and ten others beg leave to report that in answer to a summons sum mois all the parties appeared before your committee excepting mary nixon arid and emma N davis and after having examined examine ct into the merits of the several cases referred to us we make the following recommendations ions regarding the same viz that the assessment against fred simon on personal property be raised from to that the following sums of moneys assessed against the following parties be abated they having satisfied your committee that the moneys so assessed against them have been expended in real property that has been assessed once fur for the current year claudius V spencer john mcdonald L E Snell 2500 W A needham joseph H haslam 70 E B critchlow and J 1 I beless 2000 that the 2375 assessed against B S young be abated if mr young can satisfy the assessor that he had baj disposed of the mortgages which this money represents prior to the date ot oi the assessment emment ass levy that the assessment ses of 2100 against mary nixon and against emma N davis da vis be confirmed respectfully submitted M K PARSONS S JAMES W H H SPAFFORD committee the report was adopted which action wound up the business of the board of equalization the council then resolved itself into a municipal legislature and transacted the following lowing lol business wm burke and others asked to have established the grade of a new street extending from main to west temple between rhind and fourth south the city attorney said the council had no control of the street until it should be deeded to the city and the matter was referred to the committee on streets the sun vapor company presented an amended proposition to furnish street lights reducing the price each referred I 1 fid edthe the committee on improvements W N cook requested action on his claim for damages sustained by his wife who tell fell in a trench along which no DO warning lights were placed referred to tho the ommittee committee on claims A communication from sarah regarding a claim previously presented by her went to the sarno same committee A communication from police justice j ustice laney urged an inar increase me in the compensation of the police court clerk referred to committee on police E 0 bissett wanted to rent a house in the ward which belongs to the city referred to committee on public grounds aurelius miner presented a demand for damages for false arrest and imprisonment on july bah referred to the committee on claims T E gregg and others asked to have second south street near twelfth east graded referred to committee ou on streets phe utah central railway company iri informed formed the council that it was ready to lay its track on fourth west street and asked that a om com cittee be charged with locating the same the union pacific having taken up much of the street J 11 young eeb made a brief address in which he stated the situation tersely and comprehensively the matter was referred to the committee on streets with instructions to report as soon as possible peter romney put in an amended bid for a lease on the warm springs property for five years he offered to pay 75 per month during the first year per month for the second year and per mouth month for the balance of the term and he also agreed to expend immediately in improving the place and additional during each year ot of the lease committee on public grounds alfred solomon and others asked that the license of the eastern oil company be revoked giving reasons for the request referred to the committee on licen licenses VS the city engineer reported that to make a good job of the bridges proposed to be built at liberty park they should be supported by masonry which would cost 30 adopted the same officer reported that the sum of was drej S morse co for work done anthe emigration pipe line file i the same officer reported that the utah artesian well company had bad completed another 8 inch well on the 10 acre lot near liberty Lii berty park and the company auder under ite contract was entitled to filed the same officer reported that a plat at of harrington donnelly M ells subdivision had been made and he asked fur for authority to approve the same granted the city engineer reported that the sum of was due hollahan griffith on their capitol hill reservoir contract filed marshal young submitted a report showing ilia hio receipts during ter ending august 31 21 were while the disbursements were the same game committee on police tile the committee on streets made the following recommendations that the petition of B R hickon and others asking that the city accept a street through block 13 plata benot be not granted that the petition peti tion kofl F kutak kulak asking that the earth removed from lot 5 block 82 32 plat F be restored oe granted hat that the petition of simon bamberger for permission to construct and operate a spur track from the main track on the county road across gem street aeneas eighth and ninth north streets to a point near the pits of the utah lime cement company be granted that the petition of J B R walker and others asking that main street between eighth and ninth south be graveled be granted that the utah central railway company be instructed to gravel and put in condition fourth west street between eighth south routh and south temple streets for a distance of forty doity feet on each side of their track that the report of the city engineer showing a profile of the street and sidewalk grade on east temple street between south temple and third south streets be accepted and that the estimates of the cost of grading graded 92 C urbi curbing and guttering and paving with asphalt first east street between bf south temple and aid fourth south was approved except the estimate for gutters to carry off irrigating waters water that the petition of frank kunkel for permission ta to unload stone from a switch near the gravel beds be not granted that the request of B K R hickon and others for an electric light on OD the corner of seventh south and seventh east streets seventh south and eighth east and seventh south and ninth east be granted adopted henry deiter offered to lease the warm springs for 99 years on the following terms within the first ten tea years he would expend in improving the property and more if circumstances would warrant for the first three years he would woud pay a rental of per month for the next seven years everylen every ten years thereafter tile property should be appraised and he would pay aj per cent of its value referred to the committee on public grounds the long petition for the preserve tion of eagle gate was read when the mayor fe remarked marked 1 I did not know we had been asked to remove it this is the first I 1 have heard of the matter spafford both street railway companies have petitioned the cou council a cil for its removal parlous I 1 dont recollect about the peth loDs to remove it but the question came up tip before tile the street committees when the franchises of tile the street railroads on that street were being considered and the understanding der standing was that the companies were to raise it up so that the cars could pass under it the committee never contemplated the removal of ther the gate for a moment on motion of pembroke the matter was temporarily laid hild on the table later it was brought up when cohn moved that the petition to preserve eagle gate be granted carried unanimously the supervisor of streets and city engineer reported that at the request of citizens residing on the south side of north temple street between fourth and fifth west they bad visited that locality and found the approach to the premises practically cutoff cut off by new tracks of the union pacific company on the east and by the north temple S reet aqueduct on the north and west to afford proper access to the property they recommend the erection of a combination wagon road and foot bridge across the aqueduct at a point on line with the west boundary of lot 7 block 82 plat A the officers also called attention to the almost impassable condition of third west street between south temple and second south streets caused by the construction of additional railway tracks and advised that arrangements range ments be made with the rapid transit company for the use of a single instead of a double track between first and second south streets in order to leave a wagon way between the east curb and the tracks all tracks east of the centre of the street should be planked blanked the entire distance from south temple to second south street to provide property owners a safe approach to their premises referred to the committee on streets the matter of constructing a high ferice fence around capitol hill reservoir was referred to ithe committee which had hitherto acted in the behalf in relation to the reservoir the committee on sanitary regulations to whom was re ferrei the communication of E B wicks in regard to the dense and sooty smoke that issues from the many chimneys of this city reported that they had investigated the matter and of offered flared the following draft of an ordinance on the subject section 1 the proprietor lessee or occupant engineer or fireman of any building in which boilers are used for generating steam who shall permit or allow dense smoke to issue from the chimneys of such building within the corporate limits of this city shall for every such offense be fined in the sum of not less than 5 nor more than 50 and each days on which such smoke knoke is so permitted to issue shall be considered a separate offense provided however that the penalty herein shall not dot apply to the fireman or engineer of any ady building the owner or occupant of which has not supplied a device for the consumption or prevention of smoke and provided further that this ardi ordinance ua nee shall be held to apply only to such building in which is used med or JAS in operation a boiler or boilers which either singly or in batteries are of the capacity of 75 horse power ot or over see sec 2 this ordinance shall be iu in force from and after nine dine months after its passage the report was adopted and the ordinance referred to the committee on municipal laws the committee on streets recommended that the profile for grade of first south street as submitted by the th engineer be adopted in the opinion of the committee it was waa not necessary to bring the street to the grade thus established at the present time and recommended that the suggestion of the engineer that io ila order to preserve the shade tre esthe north sidewalk be temporarily extended and by sloping the extended western bring the same down to the required grade of street curb thus allowing the sidewalk to conform to the natural lay of the land as nearly as possible inasmuch as it would likely be many years before this street would be paved they did not see sufficient lelent reasons for changing the material from cement to flagstone as suggested by the engineer after a long wrangle tile the report was cailton the table for one week the committee on sanitary regulations gu lations to whom was referred the petition of Z wood asking for a contract to receive and dispose of all garbage etc from the city after the same was delivered at his grounds over jordan the report A was referred refi back to the committee to ascertain if suitable arrangements for transporting the garbage could be made the following C appropriations were then made IL 11 S con I 1 s 3 67 mounta mount griffin 1 11 II monheim T K 1600 1 6 00 eans ross beoo waterworks Water works s 0 8 L B bam M compa company riv utah artesi aneson in well weil company J S morse co hallahan john smith CO igo carthy the ordinance regulating the practice of medicine in this city was amended by extending the time for the election of the board of examiners from september 10 to september SO 30 it was decided to proceed with the election of the examiners and councilman parsons nominated dr bascom councilman lynn coln nominated dr douglass councilman anderson andersen nominated dr foster and councilman cohn nominated dr pinkerton ilias 1 I his closed the nominations and the physicians named were elected the resolution granting a franchise to the salt lake city rail kail way company to construct and operate by electric or cable motive power n single or double track railway from elie die intersection of ninth sou south ali and seventh east streets south to the city limits and thence west on roper street to sixth east came up the resolution was laid over for one week and the council then adjourned |