The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-06-06
FRIDAY, :
The City la Brief.

FRIDAY, June 6, 1890
The City Ia Brief
Nels MCCARTHY is doing the scavenger
work under Sanitary Inspector Lewis
supervision
The streets have been quiet. Every
thing is lying dormant till the carnival
stirs up the monkeys.
The carnival is all the talk. And all the
work. Everybody speaks Of 1t and thinks
Of it and not few even pay for it.
The city council meets this evening. I'm
portant business is on deck. VIII the
solons meet so as to form quorum at the
regulation tilne2
Our nights and mornings are so cool that
the call of the ice cream vendor appears
hollow mocl1ery and the soda water fiend is
beating an ignominious retreat.
William Van Dyke, once our own, now
yours. spent Thursday in Ogden. He does
not seem to have lost any flesh since he
has been dwelling on the banks OF the
Jordan.
Miss Addie Hunter, of Elko, New, is in
town, the welcomed guest of Mrs. Adolph
Schansenbach, the able taXidermist anna
teur. Miss Hunter is greatly impressed
with the fine appearance of Ogden.
These cold nights are not conducive TO
either health or comfort. They're about
stand off for the heat which prevails dur
ing the middle OF the day. A heavy white
frost covered the ground in the valley yes
terday morning.
Reports about our great boomer, c. q.
Mayne, are to the effect that he is in San
Francisco still, under the weather and on
d bed of illness. He is rustler. Why
fshould he rust!
ExCavating for our new opera house
about opposite the city hall on Washing
ton avenue, is going on with a MOTTO be-
mistaken energy. Itmeans business from
the word go. Eccles, Clark and the
Brownings mean it.
This evening the Ogden academy boys
and girls will give fine entertainment, it
being the official close of the school year
A very entertaining programme has not only
been intelligently prepared but assiduously
rehearsed.
Improvements are all the go Albern
Allen, one of our leading citizens, though
of an unpretentious nature, is having his
OLD house on Lincoln avenue, south of
Twenty fifth street, pulled down, to make
room Tor a three-story brick residence
wherein to enjoy life hereafter in more
pleasant manner.
One of the finest set of club rooms in the
city are to be opened on Saturday evening,
Major James Griffin being in control Of
that new accession to our society comforts.
They will be most delightful headquarters
for our business men wherein to entertain
themselves. one another and their friends.
Last evening the health commi3Sion, q
creation of the new city council, met again
for elaboration of ways and means. The
commission is composed of the. mayer, the
chairman of the sanitary committee of TIE
council and City Physician Powers, with
Prof. w. S Lewis as Secretaru
Dr. Corey is at the hot springs, taking
care of the hundreds of sick who are daily
and weekly visiting that popular health re-
sort, which viii be still more numerously
frequented as soon as Colonel Swans motor
line extends it snortingness thereunto A
grand race track is thing Of the near
future.
Yesterday morning, in Central addition,
a southwestern suburban annex to our
overly annexed city, a fire of unknown
origin devourei a new residence structure
of n. Tanner, jr., former city attorney,
alderman, etc. He is absent just now. The
new fire boys did the best they could to ex-
tlnguish the flames, but twas too late.
= Besides the advent, in few days, of q
<new evening paper, by the Messrs Nc
1 Daniel, the publishers of the Inter Mountain
1derehdnt. there is talk of some mutability
about the Union office, as everything has
not been running with al the smoothness
which golden path would insure Truly
newspaper business in Ogden is uphill
work.
H c. Wardleigh, whilom music and
sewing machine dealer in Ogden and lead
ing fraternal society man, is back from
Butte, Montana. He will see the numer
bus 1 O. o. F. and other friends in Sal
Lake city next week. But his chief at.
mill hn HauOta1 m b;c off
on the organization Of new post of the
G. A. R. to take effect in your city on The
18th instant.
Registration is progressing at lively rate
Every legal voter should see that his name
is on the list before the registration officer:
go out OF business. The list is to be an en-
tirely new one so far as Ogden city is con-
cerned. No names will be transferred
from former lists. Be sure to call and see
that your name is registered, if you desire
TO vote at the August election.
a prohibition club has been organized
the ministers Of the various Protest an
churches taking principal part in thi!
laudable movement. which is of great neces
sity, even though it Is likely to result only
.fn a checking, but not suppressing, OF tn,
Iiquor affection. Revs. Bailey and Barney
both earnest workers, are eminent in The
work of regeneration.
Long strings of impatient applicants foI
mail are still infesting the alleged post
Office building from morning till night, anC
there is no telling when the afflietioH viii
be abated. Our postal service is, to say
the least, eminently execrable, although
Postmaster Kimball is only to be blamed
for having accepted the gift from Presi
dent Harrison (once his Subaltern in the
army The general is too old and feeble t.
cope with the duties of an office that woult
break down an able-bodied, young and Wig
orous man, with its miserable provisions
and opportunities.
The military academy boys are campin,
up in Ogden canon, having good time o
il, though the evenings are cold and tn
mornings are cold. But Wednesday even
ing was warm; intact, itiwas hot. Scarcel,
had they laid themselves down TO those
sweet slumbers of innocent obliyiousnes
that are the monopoly of the good boys be
tween ten and twice ten years, when fizz
whizz bang, the caflon sides reverberate,
with shots as of q kidnapping party O
Arapahoes, Navaioes, or other hoes. TIL
militaries returned fire into the brush. bu
hurt no one 1t was the Eden lads ana tn
Huntsville youths who were giving the blue
coated city chums q nocturnal surprise I
test their vigilance.
The news that Ogden is to have the ben
efits of the free postal delivery is receive
with universal satisfaction. Too long hav
the affairs of the postof1ice been misman
aged, greatly to the detriment of the public
Not day passes that complaints are no
heard of inefficiency and gross carelessnes
in the handling of the mails that are nc
ceived for delivery and sending away. Onl
a day or two ago a gentleman received
Sonsignment of goods over the Central Pa
cftic and was at once notified of the fact O
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