The record-union., 1891-09-08
FOUGHT TO A FINISH.
"0ld Man" Carey Gets Away With the
Electric Car Fight,
The City Trustees Flatly Refuse g
Franchise for Railway on Q Street
Street improvements, Etc.

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on Sixth street, from j to @, and on @
street from Sixth to Twenty-eighth,
asked by the Central Electric Railway
! Company.
The Mayor did not think there were
enough restrictions in the ordinance.
| Mr.. Henry informed him that it was an
| exact copy of the franchise granted to Mr..
Carey a short time ago, with the excep-
ton of the routes and the names of the
parties to whom the privileges were to be
granted.
! Mr.. Mclaughlin smiled, accepted a
Havana cigar from Mr.. Henry, and said:
Pm just the same now as 1 always was
l want a railroad below Sixth street,
! G. j. Cross informed him that he had
Mr.. Carey's road now on Third street.
William Land said he did not want to
see the town divided. The Second Ward
had some rights, and they ought to be re-
| spected. He thought the people on X
street, below Sixth. would not be bene-
! fitted at all.
! Stephen Haynie thought it would be
| just the thing TO have a road on Sixth
/ street. Mr.. Carey is building a cross
! road on Third street, and has one on Tenth,
! ana 1t would be great convenience to
| u
| James Mcguire said he owned property
on Z street, near Sixth, and also on X
near Sixth, and he was opposed to the
franchise. He considered il an attempt
! to crush out Mr.. Carey, and the Trustees
! could not afford to do thing like that
! Mr.. Carey paid men to build his cars in
! this city, and in fact, had everything be-
| longing to his road made ut his stables.
! j. L. SiIler spoke in favor Of granting
| the Q-Street franchise.
| }. w. Wilson was opposed to the fran
chise. He thought all old citizens who
had lived here for forty years should be
respected. He thought a road across
! Third street and up o would be sufficient
to accommodate the travel in that por-
ton Of the city.
Mr.. Haynie thought the young tax
payers should be looked to as we'll as the
| old ones. Fish should not be made of
one and flesh of another. The franchise
! contemplated the greatest good to the
greatest number of people.
j. w. Hughes said there was one Ques-
! ton which should be looked to first, and
that was, ''What would best conserve the
interests of the city ?'' He agreed with
| Mr.. Land, that opposition was the life Of
trade, and he claimed that was a clear
argument in favor Ofgranting Mr.. Henry
the franchise. If it was a question of
Mr.. Carey's interests and the city's inter-
then it was the duty Of the Trustees to
say which side they would support.
Mr.. Henry said he did not like TO hear
! Mr.. Wilson make the argument that he
did and claim that an electric road on @
| street would injure Mr.. Carey Mr.. Will
son had stated to him Henry that the
| electric road injured his hack business.
y great deal of discussion ensued, and
upon the roll being called all three mem
/ bers voted mo" on the granting of the
/ franchise.
The Mayor explained that if the fran
chise had contained more restrictions he
would have voted in favor of 1t.
! JUVENILE NUIsANCEs.
! At the request Of Mr.. Henry and Mr..
! Carey, an order was passed instructing
| the Chief of Police to direct the officers
| to use their endeavors to prevent the
newsboys and street urchins from Jump
/ ing on and Off the cars when they are in
motion.
IMPROVING VARIOUS STREETS.
The matter of ordering Eighth street
! from Z to @ improved, was deferred until
next Monday. In the meantime the
/ Clerk will notify each of the property
owners TO appear and state whether they
/ prefer the basaLt rock pavement, or gravel
\ resolution was passed ordering +
street, from Sixth to Twentieth, improved
! by grading and graveling.
/ y communication was received from
/ W. c. Farnsworth, asking permission to
withdraw his name from the petition to
/ improve NJ street from Fifteenth to
/ Twenty eighth street.
No action was taken.
OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Harbormaster Joseph Wiseman re-
ported having collected Sl37 80 during the
month Of August.
The Chief Engineer of the Water
/ Works reported that during the past
/ week A, l6S,CO0 gallons of water We're
pumped. The Holly pump was operated
seventy-one hours and the Stevens ono
hundred and fifty and half hours.
Poundmaster Phillip O'Niel reported
that during the past month he impounded
! two horses, four COWS and ninety-four
| dogs. All but ten of the dogs were killed
! The cattle were redeemed. The sum of
Sl6 30 was charged for impounding the
/ said animals.
Superintendent Singleton of the CITY
! Cemetery reported as follows for the
month OF August: Number Of deaths in
/ the city, twenty-siX; still born, one;
! brought here for interment, Twenty-Five
! lnterments were made as follows: CITY
! Cemetery, twenty-nine; new Helvetia,
! ten; st. Joseph, six; new Masonic, one,
Sent one body each to Iowa Hill, Placer
willie and Sheridan. Collected for sale of
| lots, Sl32 70; permits, S7S; vault dues, So;
total, S2l5 75.
The applications of John H. Falstein
! and Yet Gma to conduct shooting gale
ries were granted.
sALOoN-KEEPERs' PETITIONS.
! The following saloon bonds were ap-
/ proved: Jacob Gebert, Twentieth and o
streets; a. J. Silva, 200 q street: H. p.
Bryding, J, Front and Second: NJ. s.
! Williams, 1880 Eleventh street; A. Ger
! Der, 422 street; Alois Ulrich, 1908 J
street; Dennis Sullivan, 60i l. street;
! Bertrand Ferant, Second and n streets.
WANTS AN ALLEY OPENED.
| a petition, asking that the alley be-
| tween Twenty-filth and Twenty-sixth, f
and q streets, be opened, was referred to
! the Street Commissioner.
MIR. CROSS HAS AN IDEA.
! a petition numerously signed was pre-
| sented by O. j. Cross, asking the board
to use the Perry Seminary building as a
City Jail 1t was placed on file.
THE AWNING ORDINANCE.
! The Street Commissioner was granted
/ two weeks further time in which to pre-
/ pare an amendment to the awning ordi-
nance.
CANNOT GET FOLSOM GRAVEL.
| J. o. Coleman, of the Street Improve
ment Company, stated to the board that
Ills SOhipaiiS was undDie at present 10
comply with the petition of the property
| owners on Sixteenth street, from B to r.
/ 10 improve the street by using Folsom
/ gravel. His company could not at pres
/ ent make terms with the owners of the
! Folsom gravel. He said he thought that
/ If the property-owners would examine
the two kinds of gravel they would pre-
/ fer the red instead of that which came
| from the Folsom pit.
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THE SALT LAKE CONVENTION