Show USHERED OUT IN the city councils last appearance hacht OF speechmaking SPEECH MAKING hie old council praised by the new councilmen to be and the new ones buoyed up a hope that their bed will be of roses but vitt less thorns after two acara continuous performance for mance the city council of 1898 9 made their farewell appearance as a legislative body and caretaker 0 the affairs of ogden ct they made their exit in a manner and the evening was given up mostly to speeches from the mayor and mayor elect and the old and new councilmen it was a case of ring out the old and ring in the new and as the late hours of the speech making drew 41 nigh councilman jones of the fire committee invited all the old and the new officers to come with him and the fire department gong would ring and all would see an exhibition run and in the excitement of that they would all be glad they were councilmen the session was called to order at and there were present a large number of the city officers as well as the newly elected ones as follows mayor boyle councilmen drowning woolley jonkins shaw drower jones and watson and chiy officers chief davenport of the police department chief riser of the fire department part ment engineer parker sanitary inspector moyes peterson and street foreman sanders of the officers elect there were mayor browning councilmen emmett powers cross parry brown flygare abbott and thomas jones of the secand and carr of the first being the only councilmen elect who were not present there was also chief justice joseph hall now police justice elect and he occupied a position in the council chamber with the dignity of his office recorder elect bluth was also present but then that has happened often during the past four years and he Is no new fixture there may havo been office seekers here innumerable but the spectators we many and there has been little talk of who will be who after the new administration takes charge the end has come tor one set ot men as to their labors as city officers and the people say well done thou good and faithful se nant which was the tort of the talk among the spectators and tho other side said may your path be and more pleasant than has ours at p m president browning rang up the curtain on the old city for the last time there were members present browning brewer jeakins jones pingree Pin grce shaw watson and woolley cullen and williams both of the second were absent the recorder road in a funeral tone of voice the minutes of the last meeting which were approved the committee on public buildings and grounds reported recommending that 25 bo refunded to M II 11 wheelwright on rent of city hall square tor rink the settlement was made by agreement prior to the flooding of the grounds adopted special committee on the matter of the payment of back pay and funeral expenses at the burial of the late captain of police brown reported recommending that be appropriated in full of all such claims adopted unanimously ani recorder andersen reported the following warrants which are uncalled for and which havo accumulated during the past four years chy meat market 50 peter jensen C 8 litzenburg B F shepherd R vine R D baker 75 H lot enstein enst eln W S rider W S stone V H wadman wm ahlden 80 jas P bache 1000 thai morley alq T II 11 chason 40 A lund frank davia B M robertson Q 0 D bowen T G lamport standard pub co T J moody 10 J S corlew halge Helg caen philip ford II 11 kinsman W beckman i francis tanner ben lewis Q ogden and elev co fred J II 11 brown x 90 T dels 75 sam dial seo dan 75 C H stevene i 0 o chas duton I 1 ga thos blunden 10 of the above warrants payable to actor jeneen W S stone ana ogden and elevator co are duplicates and were ordered covered into the city treasury jonea moved that the list of warrants be officially published woolley said there was no necessity ot ro doing aa it would bo published anis 1118 report ot tho coonc the mouen ana lost and the stand j vf s 1 ard publishes the list for the benefit 0 the public the report of the city attorney E M All teon was read showing the number and etyla of cases now pending or having been tried during tho past two years filed poll tax collector poulter submitted bis report with claim for 78 for balance due on collections for november and december tho claim was allowed and the report was filed report of street foreman saunders was read and filed the report chewed an expenditure of flash in the sum of as com pared with in poll tax expended 60 was appropriated to the mayor s contingent fund mayor boyle was called upon and sald it the incoming council feels as happy over the coming two years a do tho outgoing council then they have certainly great pleasure ho commended the council and its president and thanked them for their kindness and courtesy extending during the past two years they had worked tor the good of ogden the move mc ats ot the council bad been for economy and honesty and for the credit of ogdan city he congratulated the city upon the men who would conduct abo business of tho city for the next years he spoke very highly of the police and fire departments and spoke to some length of the great and good condition of all city affairs c the old officials now go on our way as private citizens and it Is our duty to uphold our successors in their new relation arto the city president browning tor several minutes on the matter of the city affairs and especially of the legal matters now in the courts mayor elect browning said he came not to make a speech he looked for popping of corks and then looked at ted abbott of the fifth who demanded to know for what he was looking at him he thanked tho council for asking him to talk and then congratulated the council and the mayor upon their administration of city affairs during the past years he was pleased to seg the harmony which prevailed and hoped to aeo the same an tHUon prevail two years hence J W abbott councilman elect from he fifth was called upon and sold he expected to do the best he could during the next two years ho looked with fear upon some of the business before him but the raw recruits would get in and drill E T woolley spoke to thank the mayor and members of the council for their friendship and said that the associations had been pleasant throughout he had looked upon the work as an education and ho had benefited by he work ho knew the members of the ng council would bo just as audetat gable and would make a better record than the old the city was to be congratulated upon the fact that there had been good men elected the good of the city Is what Is to bb looked for and the city affairs are safe in their hands job pingree said he had served under civo mayors farr herrack Herr lck peery ec and Boyle and this retirement from the council would not be the first time he had walked out he was get ing used to it I 1 believe the present administration will compare with any of those tor some time past and Is bc ater than some when wo go out were forgotten but it will be blied as john A boyles term two years ye ars ago ten men were elected and if we had looked about we would not have selected S P ash as the one to pass away but he was stricken and it Is with a feeling of loss that we look at what he was to us he complimented ted president browning on his rulings spoke of the efficiency of recorder anderson and spoke feelingly of bis relations with the members of this council joa parry councilman elect from the third felt to congratulate the outgoing council and hoped tho new council would make as good a record ho knew the newly elected council had a labor and he trusted they would be successful in the work ho had lived in ogden tor 47 years and he was here to stay he also had emad five terms as a city official I 1 am called again to aitho harness and I 1 will serve the people of osden with an purpose and to the best of my may all the comlus officials have a hanny new year councilman jones said ho felt pleased with the labors of the outgoing council they had labored for the rood of the city aigid they had been supported by the mayor speaking of tie late councilman ash ho calleia to mind a remark by bilm to uio effect after the council adjourns everything Is tort rotten and that the of the members of the council he felt pride in oie fact that ho had presided over tho city cemetery cem otery the records were now complete the bamo could be said of the city affairs in tho whole ho snorre of the different departments denart ments and their condition and invited all to an exhibition run by lie ire department doc powers elect from the second said the neonilo of ogden wore well encased incased with the mavor and the council and congratulated on their conduct of tire city affairs taftt naw council would do their duty as men A committee composed of waton and brewer appointed to approve the minutes and the council for a few minutes to recorder anderson who said he bad enjoyed ats work and had with hla meetings with tho council he wished the incoming council might have great success he congratulated the council on success all the beet results to the new administration the council then adjourned |