Show RAISE SALARIES OF CITY GITY I I I Administration Retrenching i i in Queer Way Adding to Payrolls CHIEF PITT WANTS MOR MORE Demands Fifteen More Policemen Police Police- men men Jim Jim Taylor Dropped Without Charges After announcing a policy polley of retrench retrench- ment merit the city elt administration hi lie hns started st In to raise mise the salaries of cil cit in two departments TV Tw Two ordinances were passed by the cow cou coun cil cli last night which add 1020 to th the annual salary expense of the city elty r ri reo corders corder's office and 1680 to the sa salary sal sal- ary expense of the auditors auditor's office In Jn the face Cace of or a deficit that is th tho of or tho the cit greatest in the history these ordinances were wen through h the tho council under protestations protestations protests from rom the minority members thin that too much expense was saddle saddled upon tho the city In Iii addition to the raise in pay fo to for deputies and cler clerks s in the recorder and auditors auditor's offices the council passe pass cd cdan an in ordinance authorizing the employ employment ment of ot a clerk for the thc new park parle commission com coni commission mission at a salary of or 75 i a n month Th The three ordinances add to th the I payroll of ot the city I PUt PHI More Men In Chief of Police Polle Pitt Pit t sent lent in will wil for an ordinance which illow him to appoint 15 IB more policemen police police- non men to the force claiming that tin the I Is now inadequate to han hanlie lie dlo the situation In the city It is an absolute necel necessity It said saul thc thi hief that the thc new men be bp authorized C He I fe pointed to the fact that the tue fr fre soup Out houses had brought 1000 idle mento mer men to 0 Salt Lake while Ogden Oden and Prove I cere rere practically free from transients transient I H le fe said soup SOUl housos houses were ere a n good food thin thing rhen when all cities hall hail them but to ish them In Salt Lake Lae meant an Invitation tation atlon to the hobo class Jim Taylor mounted policeman Is Isow Isnow now ow out of or the department The coun- coun cil II h by a strict party vote refused to consider er the vote of or last Monday Mon n which confirmed Chief Pitts Pitt's discharge or i C Taylor Tames A. A Conyers was zip ap- to fill III th the vacancy Jim Jini Til III lor JO 1 Oil Out i. i Councilman Fernstrom charged the ty with usinG petty pelt politics in Us- Us dl char Taylor and said that he lie was one ic ne of the best men n the police de- de department Councilman also protested pro- pro tested sted a against the action saying that If any nn charges r es were preferred against a policeman they should be he presented to 1 the council The committee on engineering and wage sewage reported favorably upon the establishment of a pump at Camps Camp's lano no and Ninth North street to drain I f tho the overflow from Jordan river The 10 ho city under this plan was to share sharee the IC e expense of ot installation and maintenance nance ince pro rata with the property owners owns own- own ers s who would be benefited b by the iange The expense to the elt city would be 1000 In installation and about a year ear A. A P. P F Lawson one on of or tho in- in Interested rested residents said that tho the water would bo ho standing two feet teet all over overie the le ie nel neighborhood this spring an and that tile 10 IC Improvement was needed No action was as taken tal en because of oC the legality of ot eating creating a drainage district to enforce the ie IC payment of or the cost of maintaining the ie place Ask Aski for tor or n a Health Commissioner Stewart called to the fact that Fred Wheel Wheel- house nise DilSO an e of or the health department de- de claims that ho holds a contract con- con tract act with the city whereby ho he Is to toLVO have lye a perpetual Job He lie was injured at L First South and Main streets seval sev sev- eral al years ears ago by a collision with n a I bug iggy driven n by James Devine then chief ilef of ot oth h ho hie fire ire department A tacit was entered Into where where- b V Wheelhouse lse was to have hao a porma- porma ent job because of or the Injuries re- re ived Dr Stewart said that he is 15 nearly blind lind and of or no benefit to the depart depart- lent ment and asked that thai the city pension him Im lm and allow him to get a now man Tho ho lie case will he be investigated Thurs Thurs- Thursa da a y |