The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-08-27
WASA BARE QUORUM
Our City Fathers Show Exceed
ing Apathy.
PAVING FIRST EAST STREET,
Some Assessments Confirmed and Some APP
preparations Made-The New Electric
Ligbts-Swine and Cows.

The members of the city council were
low IN getting around yesterday and it |
was 8 80 before a member was present, |
Mayor Scott presided and the following |
business was transacted:
REPAIR THE FLUMEs.
Emma Smith asked that the bridges and |
fumes of the Jordan canal that are on her /
land be repaired. Referred to the water |
master.
WANT THE WATER.
The estate of S. S. Walker and others as
ked that the watermains be extended on JET |
ferson street from Eighth to Ninth South. |
Committee Oh waterworks
RAPID TRANSIT STEAM MOTOR.
The West Side Rapid Transit |
company asked permission to operate /
steam motor car over their track on |
Seventh South street from Second West to |
Main, for period of thirty days. Com !
mittee. on streets.
THE GROUND IN THE STREET.
Jennie ID. Thompson offered TO sell the
city a piece of ground through the Eagle
gate, running up to the capitol grounds for
$4,000. Committee On streets.
he WANTS THE SPRINGS.
Samuel Galeazzi asked the city to lease
him the Warm Springs property upon such
conditions and a. such rental as might be
determined upon. Committee on public
grounds.
TOO LATE IN THE DAY.
John Davies and others protested against
the sprinkling of Ninth East between
First and Seventh South streets. Filed.
ERB WANTS DAMAGES.
The following communication was read
and the mayor authorized to appoint COM
mittee:
TO the Salt Lake City Council, Gentlemen:
A claim is made upon the city by g. S.
Erb for damages done to books, wearing
apparel, etc, by water from the city pipes
in the basement of the Metropolitan hotel
! request committee be appointed to ap-
praise damage and to report whether, in
their opinion the city is liable for the same
or the plumbers who did the work which
caused the accident.
GEORGE NJ. SCOTT, Mayor.
PAVING FIRST EAST.
The following additional petition for the
paving of State street was referred to the
committee on streets.
The undersigned petitioners and prop
erty-ewners as hereinafter Indicated
respectfully petition your honorable body
and ask that State road, extending from
line of South street, be paved with asphalt
at the earliest convenient time
j. b. Westerfield, Is feet; j. G. Gray, 10
feet: G. E. Merriman. 81 feet; G. w. Alex
ander, 1917 feet; ]. w. Pitts, 495 feet;
Anna M. Lowe aud Clara Gle, so feet; L.
c. Karrick, 132 feet.
IL is respectfully represented that the
above petitioners were owners of, and have
signed for, 321 feet frontage within the
district asked to be paved in the petition
filed August %, 1890, thus showing 81 feet
more than half the frontage in said district,
favoring the pavement asked
MORE LIGHTS WANTED.
L. J. Williams and others asked that
electric lights be established at the corners
of Seventh and Eighth South and First and
Second West streets.
BIS BoHD ACCEPTED
HIS honor the mayor reported that in the
final settlement with Elias Morris for his
contract on cement sidewalk, he had &C
copied Mr.. Morris bond with o. II. Hardy
and j. w. Hardy as sureties, and had paid
him the balance due, s., S53.12. Adopted
THE ASSESSMENTS CONFIRMED.
Recorder Hyams reported that the lists
and plats pertaining TO an assessment for
sprinkling streets in district No. 2, and for
extending the mains OF K street, from
Office for ten days and there had not been
filed sufficient protests to defeat the work.
The assessments were confirmed.
FROM THE CITY ENGINEER.
The city engineer asked for authority to
approve the plats of Pitts and Smiths sub
divisions. Granted
The city engineer called attention to the
ordinance regulating the use of sewers,
private drains, cesspools, ETC., in this
city, which provided that all applications
for drain or other plumbing permits mus,
be accompanied by plan showing the loca
tion and size OF the drain and all branches
and fixtures connected herewith. The
object of the requirement was, no doubt
to furnish information to the engineer
which would enable the plating of all
plumbing work done in the city and SC
provide record of every detail of the
work connected with the sewer system
When the plumbing was designed by archi
tects the plans could be furnished by them
but when such was not the case
or when alterations were being made, i
was impossible to meke use of the crude
plans furnished by plumbers. He there
fore recommended that the ordinance be re
pealed or that a draughtsman from his offlc,
be detailed TO plat such work IS was beint
done. The engineer also represented tha
it was impossible for one man to inspect al
tho drain and plumbing work now beinl
done and that he be authorized to emplo,
an assistant Referred TO the committee
on municipal laws.
TIE OIL COMPANY GETS THERE.
The committee on municipal laws, {,
whom was referred the communication O
the Eastern Oil company asking permits
sion to build side track from the one bein,
built into the block where their warehous,
Is situated, recommended that the petition
be granted Adopted.
THE ENGINEERS SALARIES.
The city attorney reported an ordinanc,
fixing the salaries of the engineers of tn
sewer pump and steam roller at 500 pc
month each, during the time they are EN-
ployed. The bill was passed.
KEEPING SWINE AND COWS.
The ordinance regulating the keeping o
swine and cows within Salt Lake city wa
then taken up amended and passed TIL
bill provides that no person shall keep NOR
than two swine or three COWS within tn
distance bounded as follows: On the mort
by Seventh North street; on the south b.
Ninth South; on the east by the rcserva
ton; on the west by Sixth West A v iol
alton of the ordinance is punishable by
fine In any sum not exceeding $780, or b
imprisonment not exceeding thirty DAYS O
by both such fine and imprisonment Tn
ordinance will be in force in twenty days
THE NEW ELECTRIC LIGHTS.
Frank H. Dyer WAS granted permissio
to make statement. He said that OWN
TO the non arrival of machinery the electri
light company would be unable to furnis
the 150 arc lights by September lst a