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Show h 1 SALT LAKE ; ; CITY AND NEIGHBORHOOD. I , Enoch Smith, who Tuesday received j . ' ' ' the contract for the excavation for J j the new Packard - library, announces I , that work will begin the first of next I , eek. The. contract for the masonry I , -d other contracts will be let in ten I , i; vs or two weeks. The total cost I . - 11 be about Smi 000 I ; -4- !! , Chairman Xeauhausen of the Engi- neering- committee of the council was ..absent from the committee meeting , ' Tuesday night, and as a consequence -. j that committee took no action in re-( re-( gard to the Commercial club's com-, com-, f anunications regarding the pavement ; of sidewalks in the eastern part of ; the city. , ; The public library Saturday gave ojt I j ! 7t."- books to its patrons, which is the I t largest number ever given out by that j I institution in one day. The library is I j i kept open eleven hours a day. but t I books are given' out but for ten and t ; one-half hours of that time It will t ! ne seen that the rate of book distri-1 distri-1 ' tuition Saturday was about seventy- 1 ( ( five books an hour, or one and one- I j j Quarter a minute. 1 , j Chief Engineer J. B. Berry of the I j j Union Pacific, who is also consulting T ' engineer of the Oregon Short Line, I , 5 arrived in Salt Lake Tuesday to con- I , j for with Resident Engineer "William y Ashton. The principal topic to come ( '. tip was the Salt Lake shops. "Efforts i ( ;. , are to be concentrated on the Salt , y Lake improvements." he said al the - ; r ! Knutsford Tuesday evening. "We hope I 1.1 rrmril thorn nlntlir oc vor,MI. oo .,, j I , ; sible." The steam shovel started Tues- f r : day to help out the work of pre- I , paring the ground for the shops in I j. North Salt, Lake. ', ilt. is reported th.it two women have been out collecting' money on the pre- f text of raising a poor fund for the .j benefit of Mrs. Charles Smith, who has 'x ' been suffering- for the last six months ' ; with cancer, and who is in destitute I circumstances. It is said that they j! r hvae collected more than $40 'in the j last two weeks and it is believed that I f, the money is used for olher purposes, I ,, f01' none of jt h;s reached Mrs. Smith. I () Anybody who is desirous of aiding Mrs. I Smith should send all contributions to Attorneys Stewart Sc Stewart, who are 1 representing Mrs.- Smith. 'm J- 'W . Examination for engineering and j I (, fcydrographic aid and irrigation engi- il neer in the geological survey will be f held on April 19 at Salt Lake and Lo- f I f San, Utah, and Cheyenne and Laramie, Wyo.. and Boise and Moscow, Ida. if These examinations are practical in character and designed to test relative 5 ' capacity and fitness to discharge the ri duties to be performed. The age limit I t is 20 years and over. -.- j |