The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-04-07
t2THE NEWS IN OGDEN.
The Real Estate Market Con
tinueS Active.
CHANGING THE STREET NAMES.
Changes in the Time Table-Numbering the
INSTRUMENTATION for Visitors
Street Railway Extensions.
SALT LAKE HERALD BUREAU,

MAIN STREET, OGDEN, April 6, 1889. J
The real estate market continues active
J The street faikers are becoming more
numerous.
A brisk trade was enjoyed yesterday by
all the retail dealers.
Now the electric light poles must go.
The city council have resolved to that
effect.
All trains are crowded between here and
Salt Lake city on account OF Conference
attractions.
Accommodations are being prepared for
500 eXcursionists from the coast, expected
about the 18th.
Two corn doctors, one to find the patients
and the other to treat them nave been
working the city the past week.
Ogden Typographical union No. 236 hold
their regular monthly meeting at 2 pm.
today, at the chamber of commerce parlOrs.
Owing to the great press for advertising
space the report Of the council meeting was
crowded out Of the Ogden column yester-
day.
The Street Railway company will extend
their lines east as soon as the grade on
Twenty-fifth street shall have been com
pleted.
Among the attractions at Salt Lake city
Tuesday will be The HERALD distribution
Dgden's citizens are interested.
y Owing to the absence of Judge Hender-
son there was no session of the First dis
trict court yesterday. The police court
also failed to convene, on account of the
absence Of prisoners.
The council failed to get through with
the accumulated business Friday evening,
so another session was arranged for next
Tuesday evening at which time the balance
of the work win be attended to.
Several Ogden citizens who visited the
presentation of 1.-The World" at the Salt
Lake theatre Friday evening, pronounced
it immense and will return on Monday to
see the same company Ill ''Pique."
The marshal's attention has been called
to the existence of house of ill shape''
somewhere on the bench. Several others
of like character are enjoying undisturbed
quiet in various parts Of the city.
The city engineer was yesterday making
preparations for improvement in the street
grade authorized by the city council. The
Grade, when completed, will be about six
and half per cent, or six and half feet
rise in 100 feet.
Subscribers of The SEMI-WEEKLY HER
AID continues to thrOng THE HERALD
branch Office all day yesterday. Receipts
viii be issued to day and tomorrow for the
drawing that comes off at the Salt Lake
theatre TUESDAY.
All Lowe has on exhibition at the depot
views of Ogden in 1865 and late view of
Main street in 1889. The latter shows Main
street looking north from point nearly in
front of the city hall. All buildings show
distinctly on both sides of the street for a
block or more, and the mountains in the
distance make an excellent background.
One hundred and eighteen Raymond
Whitcomb excursiOnists came in on yes
thule special from the west yesterday
morning and went down to do the capital
via the scenic route. After a short stay in
that city they will continue over the same
road to Denver, where their own train of
vestibule cars will meet them.
An ordinance numbering the houses and
places of business has at last been passed.
1t now lays with the city engineer to de-
termine what any property holders num-
Der is and then he-the property owner
MAS thirty days in which to secure and put
up the number, neglect to do so in the
specified time causes a liability Of $50 for
every thirty days delay.
One important feature about the ordin-
ances passed by the present council has here
tofOre been entirely omitted and that is the
time when they shall take effect. This is a
clause that should be appended to all ordin-
ances and without which they may be de
clared invalid. Few persons have com
piled with any of the conditions imposed
DIV any of the acts Of the council, and claim
as a reason for their negligence that they
don't have To-" as it does not state when
the law takes effect.