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Show 7CITY WIlTStlT" OUJBPITM. Tho sanitary committeo roported to the council last night that they had made a careful examination of tho Ogden general hospital and had also taken a caretul Inventory o tho fixtures fix-tures and furnltifre on hand, and that they had found it to be1n good condition. condi-tion. Tho committee report stated that the Ogden Hospital company, which had been using the place undor a lease from tho city, had done as the bad agreed in every particular. 1 and that ,the hospital had been turned baclto the city in as good, If not better bet-ter condition than when they took It. The committee recommended that the hospital be sold, inasmuch as it is altogether too largo for a detention hospital for' the city, and thai the expense ex-pense of keeping It up would be great er than the ends sought would justify The report was adopted and the committee com-mittee was instructed to advertise for bids for the purchase of the properly. The committee will tako up the matter mat-ter immediately The railway committee was instructed instruct-ed to take up a labor with the Rapid Transit company and ondeavor to prevail pre-vail upon them to extend their car line one block south on Wall avenue, and also make some changes in the grade on North Washington avenuo. It was said that the company had been importuned mnnv tlmgs to attend to these little matters, but that they had turned a deaf ear to ihe city and left things Just as they had been for a long time past. Attornoy DoVlnc reported that Merchants Mer-chants 'alley had been dedicated to tho city, but th' Mrs. Ida White and Carl Sorcnscn re se to gfaut the city the right to build an alley over their property from Hudson avenue to Merchants' Mer-chants' nllev He asked that a resolution reso-lution authorizing him to proceed with condemnation action In the court to gain the right of way be passed. It was reported, by the city attorney that ho had already begun an action at law on the Sorenson property. Mr. Soren-sen Soren-sen .commenced excavation work yesterday yes-terday for tho purpose of erecting a building bn the property in question. Protests against the opening of Ogden Og-den averinc were referred to the city onglneer for computation Tho sarno action was taken regarding the building build-ing of sewer district 115 It was- reported by Ihe city recorder that there are no protests against the building of sewer district 112 and tho engineer was authorized to advertise for bids for the erection of the same. Plans and specifications for a garbage gar-bage crematory, made by the city engineer en-gineer wore referred to the sanitary committeo. The euglneer roported that he had notified the Merchants' Llght't- Power cornpanj that its contract for the lighting of the streets of Ogden would go Into effect September 24, arrd that thoy would be expected to comply with tho agreement. The action of the engineer was approved. The' city engineer renortcd that the work on the South Fork reservoir damslte had begun and that good progress pro-gress is being made It was stated further that tnreo jilts hal been dug across the damslte and that bedrock had been found in each place. Tho enslnoer's report gave the assurance that within the next few weeks thcro 13 little question but that the entire damslte will be stripped and that bedrock will be shown tbc entire length. Tho William Doyle company's final estimate of ?61S.25 for the placing if the drain In the cemetery was submitted sub-mitted by. the engineer and allowed. The final estimate of the Mo ran company for tho concreting of the city fosorvolr for $3,270.10, was referred re-ferred to the waterworks committeo. It was reported that Jurisdiction had been gained for tho opening of Six- ' teenth street, between Washington and Adams avenue, and the clt attorney at-torney was Instructed to proceed with the opening of tho thorouglffare. Two parties In this district are protoKtlng against the opening and, It was said, the attorney may havo to enter into condemnation proceedings In tho courts. Tho following amounts were ordered paid; ' ' t Payroll" waterworks department depart-ment ? ?205.00 Care of patrol team IK'.. 00 Board for prisoners .. 243.00 Department payrolls for two weeks .. 2,918.59 The petition "of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Thom-as Jenkins, to tho effect that the Bell Telephone company declares they will abolish tho ?1 telephones October 1. was referred to the cliy attorney reconsideration. re-consideration. Mr. and Mrs Jenkirrs contend that the company has no right to abolish tho telephone referred to according to the terms of the franchise fran-chise with the city. The matter of repairing Lincoln avenue, av-enue, near Thlrty-flrst street, was given to the street committee with power to act; The samo committee was called on to look after the crossings cross-ings on Adams avenue and Thirtv-first Thirtv-first streeL Tho, petition of property, owners asking for a change oL the sidewalk suncy on Thirty-fourth street, between be-tween Washington nnd Adams av-enueB, av-enueB, to save certain shade trees, was referred to the city engineer Henry Bell petitioned the council to pay him reasonable damages for personal per-sonal injuries and the destruction of property, In falling into a hole -left 3n the street by virtuo of the -sewer trench sinking. He stated that he was riding a wheel when he tumbled Into the place The matter was handed to the city englneerHo lnvesti-gato lnvesti-gato as to whether the city Is responsible respon-sible for the deprosslon. Sidewalk rdlna'nces 111 and 112. curb and gutter 105 and .sewer 110 passed their second readings and were referred to the . law committee and the city attornoy. |