The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-04-06
SUNDAY, April g. 1890
The City In Brief.

The City In Brief.
Great preparations are being made for
the chamber of commerce ball next Friday
night
MIR. A. G. Lewis relieves Mr.. Ship as
night clerk at the Broom hotel, The latter
gentleman goes on the day shift.
The scarcity OF houses for residences
Rnd for business purposes continues. 1t is
Impossible to supply the demand.
VT rained a little yesterday, but not
enough to wet the ground and keep down
the Loose real estate which the wind raised.
The amount of the real estate transfers
recorded last week was 1885, 1888. Other
sales were made, but the deeds were not
filed for record. Probably the actual bona
hide sales reached S500,000.
Secretary McWilliams, of the Ogden
Clay company, has received encouraging
news from President Carruthers, who has
been east purchasing machinery. He saws
She plant purchased is the best in the
country
There is a large hole on Twenty fifth
street. opposite Murphy's store, that ought
10 be filled up or have the water pumped
but of it. The sanitary committee should
get the fire steamer to pump it dry. 1t
will soon become stagnant if not removed
The funeral of Mrs. A d. Shakespeare
will take place to day from the church of
lhe Good Shepherd. The services will
commence at 2 o'clock pm. The inter
ment will take place in Mountain View
cemetory. Friends are invited to attend
he funeral.
The volume Of real estate business done
asst week was not equal to that of the two
previous weeks, although the number of
actual transfers was quite large 1t is the
opinion Of well posted dealers that the sales
Of the present week will be heavier than at
any time during the present season.
Towards the last of next month there
will be fencing tourney between the Og-
den and Salt Lake knights of the foil at
one of the watering places on the inland
Sea. The Ogden men are now being
coached up by that able master, Prof
Andre, of Salt Lake. The betting here is
heavy that Ogden will win. Most of her
champions are cadets of the military
academy.
About 1880 a. N. yesterday the city hall
0el sounded a fire alarm and soon the
whistle OF the yard engine began to toot
People rushed down Twenty fifth street in
she direction Of the depot, but the new paid
IRE department didn't leave their snug
quarters. 1t was reported that the brave
aremen were busy Furnishing up the
steamer, and made no move to go out until
hey received a telephone message saving
that the fire was extinguished. The cause
Of the fire was the burning of clotn shanty
IN the rear of the Corey lot at the foot of
Twenty -tifth street. The damage was in
considerable.
A petition is in circulation for the abate-
ment of the railroad tracks crossing Tween
~ fourth street. on the ground that they
are nuisance and dangerous. This may
all be true, but 1t Will not be an easy matter
20 compel the companies to take up their
tracks although they may be compelled to
take precautions to reduce the danger to
persons who find il necessary to cross the
tracks. At any rate, it will not be very
long before the Thirtieth street bridge will
be completed, and there is no reason why
those who live on the other side of Weber
river should not then use that bridge If it
1ad been the intention to use the Twenty
fourth street entrance to the city perna-
nently, the tracks should have been bridged
over.
The injunction by which MAYER q
Stoeltzln sought to prevent Mrs. Rebecca
Stayner from tearing down an old and
damaged building on Washington avenue
\ belonging TO herself, having been dis
golved and the suit dismissed 1t will not
De long before Mrs. Stayner will erect a
magnificent building on the site of the
Did ones The location is one of the most
desirable in the city, being on the west side
Of Washington avenue, midway between
Twenty-fourth and Twenty-tifth streets
MessrS. Barratt & White pleaded the
cause of Mrs. Stayner, and 1t was upon the
good showing made by these gentlemen
before Judge Henderson that she was
enabled TO win. The next thing in order is to
get the Observation-Disclosures out OF the other
little building adjoining the one that has
been demolished.
Joseph Brinker, the courteous agent of
The Rio Grande Western railway, extended
IN invitation TO number of distinguished
gentlemen OF this city to visit the new gas
works which the Rio Grande Western has
lust completed. Two of the most elegant
ears on the line were appropriated to the
Use of the party, in which were noticed be-
tides representatives of the press and mem;
bers of the chamber of commerce. E. J.
Courier, trainmaster of the South
ern Pacific; w. r. Swan. of the
Ogden Street Railway company. and
number Of other gentlemen whose
aan-es cur reporter coulo not learn. The
party left at 80 last evening. and were
shown the process through which pure
petroleum is put to make gas
First, the retort distributing pipes. puri-
her, and even washer and scrubber of
gas. Then large gas meter and 10-horse
power engine TO condense seven cubic feet
Of gas into one and into two powerful
cylinders twenty feet long by four feet in
diameter, made of three-quarter inch steel
In which not rivet or seam is to
be seen, the welding having been
Zone in Berlin, Germany, by an
electric process. The gas goes into the
tanks under the coaches which have four
Aass globes with four jets each. The
coaches have all the modern improvements,
are beautifully carpeted and richly vel
reted- Enough gas is stored to last thirty
Dix hours and owing to the condensation
no explosion can occur. The plant cost
25,eoO, and all agreed that it was a master
piece, and Joseph Brinker was voted one of
;he most courteous and wideawa agents
10 the west.
First District Court
Mayer & Stoltzing VS.. Rebecca A. Stey-