The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-16
SUNDAY,
March l6, 1890
The City in Brief.

yesterday was real spring Jay, Iut
first one this year.
There will be double the number OF
buildings erected in Ogden this season than
were built last year.
1t is almost as good travelling on the side
walks now as in the middle of the streets,
owing to the sun having dried up the mud
little.
In the probate court yesterday, in the
an order granting permission to sell real
estate was made.
The street committee will not give up the
idea of parking the streets in the residence
portion of the city. They will revive the
matter later in the season.
Last night deputy marshal M. D. Hoge,
sr., took down to Salt Lake one Michael
Standby, convicted of adultery and SEN
fenced to eighteen months Imprisonment
in the penitentiary.
The police court matinee yesterday was
attended by five DRINKS, who were pre-
scribed for as follows: Joseph Carr, Fritz
Rivach and John Donahue were fined and
paid 50 each, and Tom Quinn and Tom
Doyle went to jail for ten days.
Union Pacific train No. Z brought in from
Evanston yesterday two miners, both i'll,
and one, named Fink, suffering from pneu-
monia, who came here for the purpose OF
entering the hospital Soon after the train
arrived Fink died. The body was taken TO
Preshaw's undertaking establishment and
cotlined. The other man was taken to the
hospital.
Real estate has been moving at a pretty
lively rate during the past week and a
large number of good sales have been made.
Nearly all the dealers in dirt have done
something, and many of the curbstone
brokers have gathered in some ducatS. The
sales of Ogdens leading real estate firm,
Reed & Burgitt, were eleven in number
and the total consideration amounted to
S56,S12.
For three or four days past the COM
mittee on public grounds have had a force
of men at work on Lester park. They have
ploWed up the pedestrians paths which
cross the square diagonally, have graded
the ground and made ready for crawling
the same. The sides of the walks have
also been prepared for the setting out of
shrubbery and plants. The Improvement
is a commedable one.
The Ogden city council would do well to
go little slow in the granting of valuable
franchises. There are several public i'm
provements needed which may be carried
on by private corporations, such as street
railways, electric light plants, etc. 1t is
the intention of certain parties to apply for
franchise for street railway on which
electricity shall be the motive power. Such
franchise when asked for by responsible
parties should be granted. And so with
the corporation asking for franchise for
putting up poles and furnishing electric
lighting.
There is no doubt that it was wisdom on
the part Of the committee having in charge
the bill to allow Ogden to borrow money
and issue bonds, to leave the matter to a
vote of the people after ''the amount and
purpose for which such bonds are to be is
sued shall be distinctly stated in the proc
lamation calling sucn election" 1t is
doubtful whether majority of the citizens
of Ogden, regardless of party, would be
willing to leave the question of the dis
bursement of this immense amount of
money entirely in the discretion of the
present city council. OF course, it is prob
able that majority of the citizens will be
willing to bond the city, but they are enti-
tied to have voice in deciding how the
money shall be used and that it shall be
used only for necessary public improve
mentS
On Friday night, at their regular session,
the city council took the responsibility OF
acquiescing in the violation of city ordi-
nance by permitting the repairing of an old
ramshackle building on Washington ave
nue.. There has already been too much of
this kind of thing done, either with or with
out the consent of the city authorities.
especially on Twenty-tifth street. 1t is
time the thing were stopped, and if the
members of the city council have no mind
of their own, then they had better throw
open the doors and leave every body to ex-
erclse their own sweet will. The patching
up of old and dilapidated buildings is not
calculated to give people who come to Og-
den for purposes of investment or pleasure
a very exalted opinion of the good taste, en-
terprise and public spirit Of the inhabi-
tanfS.