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Show j , : SALT LAKE 5 1 4- 4- -4- ------ I CITY AND NEIGHBORHOOD. I t The following were elected members I of the Commercial club at the regular I i meeting night: George W. Goddard, J. I .' O. Reber, James Farrell, Claude S. Wil- I ( i I liams; W. P. Read, Louis C. Kelsey. 1 I ' w. S. Cox of San Francisco has pur- I chased Ford's hotel on First South 1 i Ftreet from Henderson Green, the con- I I fideration being $4,500. J At a meeting of the University club I . a new set of by-laws was adopted and the following officers were elected: ! Frank Pierce, president; Frederick i Lyon, vice president; W. A. Gibson, i Fecrctaiy, and Walter C. Shoup, treas- ; urer. J. K. Tiernan was elected chair- ! man of the finance committee. Dr. La i . Motte chairman of the social eommit- f tee, and Judge C. B. Diehl chairman of ! the house committee. i The city council is advertising a i meeting of all citizens interested in the i ! paving of Brjgham street for Wednesday Wednes-day night at the council chamber. The , ' . council desires to meet the property i owntrs and allow all a free expression ! as to the project, reports having I reached the city officials that some ! were opposed to the proposition. A belt has been introduced by several of the conductors of the Consolidated ; Railway fc Power company to be worn i p.round the waist for the purpose of i facilitating the change of money which : is given by pasesngers as fares. The i belts contain special spaces for nickels, dimes and quarters and save the con-I con-I ductors the trouble of going into their pockets for the necessary change. The i belts are no innovation on the part of ''; ' the company, but were secured by sev-! sev-! ral of the men individually for their own convenience. ' The directors of the Utah Sugar com- i pany. the new corporation, met at the the offices of the company yesterday, ; adopted all the by-laws of the old cor- i poration and transacted other business Tionnf cossary to the change in the cor porate form voted by the stockholders : last Saturday. .About 1,000 shares of the stock were i brought in during the day to be ex- ! changed for the new stock. Receipts ' were given, exchangeable in five days I for the new certificates, and the clerks were kept busy even then getting I . straight the requests for cutting up the t 1 certificates. 1A meeting of the state kinde rgarten 1 , committee was held yesterday for the ,' purpose of preparing a resolution to be . presented to the legislature for the es- I ' tab'.ishment of state kindergarten j ' J schools. I County Treasurer Dale anonunced I , Tuesday that he had begun the sale of I property on which the taxes were.de- I i linquent, and was selling it rapidly. I Postmaster Thomas announced Tues- 1 day that the superintendent of con-I con-I i - struction of the federal building, Mr. I ; Asche, had started for Washington, I ; where he will take up "the matter of en- I j larging the building originally pro- i posed with the architectural superin- i I tendent, Mr. Taylor. A great many of j ; ! Mr. Thomas' suggestions have already j been adopted, and it is hoped that in , 1 the end the department at Washing- ! : ton will see the necessity of a more i commodious building than the one pro- i loosed. j j , The navy department is after more i recruits from Utah. Young men who ; have learned to make the port at Sait- air while three sheets in the wind, who i have served an apprenticeship tacking up Main street at 2 a. m. or tacking up signs, or who have otherwise gained j nautical preficiency in Utah, will have j a chance next month to enter the serv ice of Uncle Sam. A recruiting station i win be kept open in Salt Lake Jan. 3 ; to 17. The officers will then go to Og- den, maintaining a station there Jan. i : 19 to 21. Men are wanted for all branches of the navy. Landsmen, apprentices, ap-prentices, yeomen, machinists, mas- II ters-at-arms, seamen and others are desired, sea. experience not being requisite re-quisite in most instances. |