The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-05-31
THE NEWS IN OGDEN.
A House Robbed in Broad Day
light Yesterday.
STREET RAILWAY EXTENSION.
The Decoration Day Exercises - Ogden's
Building Boom The Water Supply
Question-Brief News Notes.
STREET RAILWAY EXTENSION.
THE SALT LAKE HERALD BUREAU,
No. 242l WASHINGTON AVENUE,
OGDEN. NAV 81 .


OGDEN, May 81.
The streets were thronged with people
yesterday, notwithstanding the large mum
Der who went TO Lake Park and other re
treats.
The public Offices and courts did not
transact any business yesterday, hence NC
deeds We're filed for record in the county
recorders Office.
TIE HERALD correspondent gratefully
acknowledges the many courtesies cX
tended to him by the county recorder and
mis- obhginc assistants.
Some person is erecting number OF
sheet iron barracks on Young street, be
tween Twenty-third and Twentyfourth.
They viii be more useful than ornamental.
In the matter of an adequate supply Of
water for this city it will be well TO go
slowly. No plan for the future should be
adopted until after thoughtful cOnsidera-
ton.
T. C. Morris. Of this city, brother Of the
late w. c. Morris of Salt Lake, has re
ceived the contract for painting the elegant
new pavilion at the Syracuse bathing re
sort.
Thework of cutting down and grading
Twenty fifth street hill will be completed
in ten days, and Immediately thereafter the
track Of the Ogden street railway company
will be laid thereon.
Upwards of two hundred carloads of
lumber are now in the railroad yards here,
and more is on the way. This Indicates
building boom beside which all others in
this city heretofore sink into insignlhcance.
Yesterday was periodically given over
by the people OF this city TO an observance
Of Memorial day. All places Of business
except the sin mills, gambling hells and
brOthels were closedA and they ought to
have been.
The corpse Of the 3-year old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. {. II. Jenkinson, Of Poca-
tello. Idaho, was received by Undertaken
Preshaw at p. II. yesterday. The de-
ceased was niece of w. p. p. St Clair.
1.-THE funeral took place last evening at
O'clock.
The procession yesterday was nearly four
blocks in length. the largest Of the kind
ever seen in this city Itmoved TO its des-
tination without a hitch or jar, led by the
marshal Of the day, Captain Z. 7. Hulan
ski, ably supported by his efficient aides
de-camp.
E \. Reed. therustling real estate man
whose ''ad'' appears in TIE HERALD, in
tends to erect at an early day magnificent
building on his fine lot. corner Washington
avenue and Twenty fifth street. 1t viii
cost upwards OF one hundred and twenty
five thousand dollars.
SHOWN Dul surely Nllt bAtt NOpNOH lOOh-
cries on Twenty-fifth street are being re
moved and replaced by better class Of
buildings. and soon that thoroughfare will
De pleasant TO look upon and before the
close of the present year, It's transforms
ton VIII be complete.
Our home gardens and greenhouses were
unable TO supply the demand for flowers
yesterday, and large quantities were
ordered from California. Nearly every
hot 40 1x-nC
fusely decorated with these beautiful en-
blems of love and remembrance.
Captain C. L. Hollingsworth, OF. this city,
has oeen commissioner as inspector OF cus
toms. II is his duty TO eXaming the seals
GEARS containing bonded goods in transit
etSssing through Ogden. The position is a
sinecure. and Captain Rollingsworth is a
deserving man, having earned a good rC
ward for bravery on the field Of battle |
during the dark days Of the rebellion.
The various civic societies turned out in |
coOdlv numbers TO honor our noble dead, |
VINO died that the nation might live. The |
odd Fellows mustered forty, the knights |
Of Pythias and the Select Knights twenty |
each. while twenty-five battle SCARED |
veterans of the Grand Army marched in |
the procession ID the cemetery.
Work on the street railway extension |
was begun Tuesday last and has since been /
pushed with vigOr. The line already eX-
tends sonthward from the city hall dis
lance of over two miles on Washington |
avenue. The extension viii be up Thirty
sixth street eastward through the MethO-
dist university grounds, thence to the Mob
Hill addition ana westward on Twenty
fifth street to Washington avenue, thus
forming a belt line around the entire south
eastern part of the city and the several ad
ditions in that direction.