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Show CITY AND NEIGHBORHOOD. While Postmaster Thomas Is cast he will endeavor to secure additional pay lor men in the Salt Lake postal service. serv-ice. . ? Between 1.000 and 1,500 people spent last Sunday at Saltair. The concert attracted many music lovers, and those who are fond of catchy airs were agreeably entertained. A few brave bathers ventured into the water, but ' the coolness of the day prevented many Irom indulging in this sport. The assessment of water rates on the r East Side, which is that part of the ' city east of Main street, has been con cluded, and shows a handsome increase over last year. In 1901 there were 5,002 ( water takers on the east side, whose ' assessments aggregated $43,824. 'This year there are 5,382 water takers, whose assessments aggregate $47,855, an increase in-crease of 380 water takers and $4,023. Manager J. H. Mitchell of the Salt Lake Floral company states that his firm is putting in some heavy improvements, improve-ments, and that by fall it will be able to compete most successfully with eastern supply houses. He also announces an-nounces the employment of V. V. Morris Mor-ris of the B. C. Morris Floral company, as manager of the cut flower or retail department. A woman appeared before the county " '-, lioard of equaliation yesterday with a healthy protest against an increase in her personal property. "I don't understand under-stand it at all," she said. "Last year 1 was assessed $200 for personal property, prop-erty, and now the assessment is $350 on the same property. 1 can't see through it, unless," and here she point ed to an infant which she carried in her Chairman Anderson told her that he ; ; considered tha baby a valuable im provement, but the $150 increase was cut off. The Elks' executive committee met j Monday night at headquarters and took up for consideration a number of minor matters, without acting definitely upon any. The place of holding the band contest was considered at some length, and while Liberty park was favored by ; : most of the' members, no action was j taken regarding it. . ,1 Uncle Sam is in need of young men in seven different branches of his service, . i according to reports received yesterday ' i by Secretary Williams of the local r board of civil service examiners. Ap pended is a list of the departments, the date of examinations, salary and number of vacancies to be filled: July 11 and 12 Examination for aid in the roast and geodetic survey. Salary Sal-ary $720 per annum. Twelve vacancies. vacan-cies. July 15 Examination for assistant in road material laboratory, bureau of chemistry. Salary $600 per annum. July 10 Examination for laboratory assistant in the national bureau of standards. Three vacancies at salaries of $900, $1,000 and $1,400 per annum. J-iily S, 9 and 10 Examination for deck officer in the coast and geodetic survey. Salary not given. Four or five 8 Examination for Finnish interpreter, in-terpreter, qualified to speak Russian and Swedish, for the immigration service serv-ice at Ellis Island, N. Y. Salary $1,200 per annum. July 15 and 16 Examination for assistant as-sistant (piece work computer) in the naval observatory and nautical almanac alma-nac office. No salary given. July 8 and 9 Examination for watch officer in the coast and geodetic survey. No salary given. Four or five vacancies. vacan-cies. Despite the fact that the municipalities municipali-ties of Salt Lake and Ogden have refused re-fused to grant franchises to the Salt Lake & Brigham City Electric railway for. the occupancy of streets, the project pro-ject of building the road has taken a fresh' impetus. Now it is declared that the chances of commencing construction construc-tion work on the road this summer and having it ready for operation early , next spring are more encouraging than ever before. In. view of the declared readiness of the eastern promoters of the projected interurban electril railway rail-way to demonstrate their good faith in every way demanded by the city councils of Salt Lake and Ogden, the motive for refusing to grant the desired de-sired franchises is not in evidence, it is claimed. After looking over the situation here and driving from this city to Ogden. C. H. Lawrence of the Guaranty Bond company, which has undertaken to j fioat the electric railway company's ', bonds, has returned to his home in Detroit, Mich., fully satisfied that the bonds will be easily sold and the funds for the road's construction and equipment equip-ment forthcoming without delay. While in this city and Ogden. Mr. Lawrence was under the ciceronage of Gideon A. s Gibbs, the Salt Lake representative of the Detroit promoters, and last evening even-ing Mr. Gibbs declared that there could no longer be any doubt that the Salt Lake & Brigham Electric railway will be built and operated within the next Jen months. For a year or more past the officials of the Consolidated Street Railway : !j company have been searching' for a i ! suitable fender that can be used to advantage on the cars of Salt Lake ; but, according: to the statements of Superintendent Read, they have been able to find no patent that could be I -worked here. The trouble, according to Mr. Read, is that with the poles in the middle of the street there is not room enough for the fenders to be operated on the cars, because they project some distance t,o either side, and they would come in contact with .the poles. Mr. Read made a trip east a short time ago to look at several styles of fenders, but he states that he found thein all to be impracticable for the . -ars here because of the poles. F. C. ! Lawton, the division superintendent of the company here, has a patent which is in use on the Golorado lines, but Superintendent Read stated last night that it, too, was not suitable for the cars here. "We are looking for a fender that can be used,", said Mr. Read, "and when such a one can be found, fenders will be put, on all the cars here, t don't know that there is-any special necessity for them ,but we want, to be up to the times and will adopt them if someone will produce the right kind." The adoption of these fenders would no doubt prevent many accidents on the cars ind the women of the Ladies' Literary club have already taken -.steps to have a law passed requiring the adoption of fenders. John Q. Packard, the veteran mining operator, returned Sunday from a long trip abroad. He left here last October, Octo-ber, and after spending some time on the Pacific coast he sailed for Honolulu. Hono-lulu. From there he went to China and Japan and had it not been that cholera had broken out there he would have visited the Philippines before his return. Mr. Packard said he had never been in that portion of the world before, be-fore, and he, therefore, enjoyed it immensely. im-mensely. Asked what headways was being made with reference to plans for the library building he is to give to Salt Lake, Mr. Packard said his proposition to the city gave him plenty of time and he was not hurrying matters. "It is a subject that I have not considered con-sidered much during my absence." said he, "but I assure you that I intend to carry it out. I am more than pleased with the site selected and I note with a great deal of satisfaction that substantial sub-stantial improvements are being- made in that neighborhood. It begins to look as though I should have to revise my first ideas concerning the library building build-ing to make it conform more closely to the splendid structures that will no doubt one day surround it. I shall give I the matter attention before a great while." |