The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-04-20
SUNDAY,
The City In Brief.

The City In Brief.
| Two or three light showers laid the dust
and purified the atmosphere.
A base ball game was in progress In Les
ter park yesterday afternoon.
The real estate transfers last week
| amounted to total of 1915, 561.20.
W. II. Hardy, the protector of the Mardi
| Gras carnival, has returned from New Or
! leans.
The second number of Taps was issued
| yesterday. 1t is good number and shows
a marked improvement over No. L.
In the municipal court yesterday, J. w.
Miller, convicted of running a gambling
house, was fined 500, including costs J
Messrs. Preshaw, Cross and Mcdaniel,
who have been to Boise city attending to
Knights of Pythias matters, returned home
yesterday.
The fifty $1,000 bonds authorized by the
city have arrived, and are to be sold to the
highest and best bidder. They will doubt
less all be sold in Utah.
The beautiful weather yesterday brought
throng of people upon the streets, includ-
ing the usual number of country people,
and the stores did a good business.
An asphaltum floor is being laid in the
basement of the new First National bank
building The furniture of the banking de-
The two asphaltum companies that were
operating here last summer are preparing
to go to work again. They will have enough
work to keep them busy all through the
season.
Rev. Tiff was in town yesterday. He
says there is plenty of money on hand with
which to resume work on the university
building, but that it is not possible to get
men to do the work.
The Ogdenite, Mr.. Pash, attorney, is the
latest Benedict to apostatize. Yesterday
he left for Kansas City. When he returns
home he will be accompanied by his bride,
nee Robertson. "The stars shine DER
their pathway"
AS soon as the gloves and helmets arrive
there will be dress parade at the Ogden
military academy every Sunday afternoon.
| The cadets have organized baseball club
and movement is on foot for the forma-
tion Of an athletic association.
! The Ogden street railway extensions on
the bench are progressing. Yesterday a
force OF workmen were engaged laying the
track from Jefferson avenue around the
| corner OF Lester park into Twenty-fifth
street. The road is pointed straight for
| Mob Hill.
| Don't forget the grand rosette ball in the
Third ward on Tuesday evening, April 80
Girls, this is the last dance of the season,
so don't fail to bring your rosettes and
your beaux. And now, boys, don't slight
the ladies. Admission IS cents and Pro
| lessor G. Christensen's full orchestra to
| dance by.
The auxiliary volunteer force of the fire
department will consist OF the following
named tried and true men of the old de-
partment: ii. and John Ford, Bert, Jack
and viii Greenwich, Joseph Wood, Charles
Empey, John Wallace, William Navey,
Frank and Heber Gale, Ike Randall Jack
Ballinger, w, Outright and Orson Riser.
There was little blaze yesterday forenoon
| which called for an alarm of fire Some
barrels, with bottles of beer packed in hay,
at the Anheuser-Busch bottling works on
Wall avenue, caught fire. The firemen
responded promptly and got water on the
| fire before it had got under much Roadway
There was right smart chance" for
great confagration.
Arrangements have at last been per-
fected for dividing block 25, the principal
business block in the city, into four blocks
The committee of the council to whom the
matter was referred, recommended the
condemnation OF the ground and the adjust
ment by correct assessment of the property
to be benefited, and that the necessary
steps be taken to open said streets in &C
cordance with the resolution offered by
| Councillor Douglass. The new streets will
| be eighty or one hundred feet wide.
| A petition from a real estate firm to be
permitted to lease the pavilion in Lester
park and fit it up for lodging house, was
presented to the city council Friday night
and referred to the committee on public
buildings, with power to act. The request
is cheeky one. to say the least. If the
real estate company are losing money be-
cause people who come to the city cannot
| find sleeping accommodations and therefore
| go away, let those who would be most bene
| fitted by their remaining do as has been
done in every other city under similar cir
cumstances, namely, invest some of their
profits on real estate in tents, instead of
| asking the city to grant them the use of
public building which was erected for the
use and benefit of the people and not for
transient guests. 1t would simply be an
outrage to turn the Lester park pavilion
into lodging house. These remarks don't
apply to the stable asked for.