The Dispatch. [volume] (Provo City, Utah) 1891-1895, 1891-04-15
THE CITY COUNCIL.
Petition 10 Remove Chief
John A. Brown
And Assistant Chief Will
liam Hill of the Fire
Department.
The Council Goes Into a Com
n1ittee of the Whole and
Consider 1t.

The City Council met Monday night,
pursuant to adjournment, with Mayor
Booth in the chair.
A communication from S. S. Jones,
in behalf of Mrs. Altman, asking that
the city grant her "A more convenient
cemetery lot, was read and referred to
committee on cemetery.
Peters &. Stubs and John E. Ia lor
made applications for retail liquor
dealers license, which we're granted.
The following petition was read,
and laid on the table:
To the Honorable Mayor and City Cona-
Gil of PROVO City.
GENTLEMEN-We, the undersigr ed
citizens and taxpayers of Provo City.
would respectfully petition your hon
orable body to reconsider the appoint
ment of John A. Brown as chief and
William Hill as assistant chief of tile
Provo Fire Department, as we deem it
Of great Importance to ourselves and
to the city at large to have, maintain,
support and encourage a fire company
in this city; that under the existing
circumstances the company is in a
very bad shape in case of fire, and will
so continue as long as the present Off
GERS are in command of said company
and we further believe that at a fire
the place of a police officer is to protect
our property on the outside and not
act as member of any fire company.
We would respectfully suggest that
you would take the name Of S. F. Ker-
shaw under consideration for the office
of chief of the Provo Fire Department.
the support of all the old members of
En- inc Co. No. l, who are at present
not acting as firemen.
Your petitioners will ever pray.
The committee on irrigation, to
whom the report of ex Watermastcl
Thurman was refe red, recommended
that the report be accepted. Adopted.
The committee on streets and alleys.
to whom was referred the petition for
an electric light on E and Fourth
streets, on account of the financial
condition of the city recommended
that the petition be not gra ntsd.
Adopted.
The committee on fire department,
to whom was referred the question of
building temporary quarters for fire
department, the purchase of team
and hiring of a man TO attend to it, re-
ported that the house had been built,
the team bought at a cost of 1925, and
Oscar Ferry hired at a salary of $40
per month to attend to same. The re-
port was accepted.
The following claims were presented,
allowed and amounts appropriated;
William McCulloch, S2S; Jonathan
Buckley $40; Alma Brown s24; John
f. Johnson, S24; L. S. Glazier, 500, for
extra services as night watchmen;
S. S. Jones & Co., for blankets for Jas.
Nelson, diphtheria patient, SO; Fl. j.
Maiben, papering and painting mar
shal's office, s31.90; ex-Watermaster
Thurman, services as watermaster,
Sl22.25; Provo East Coop, S57.05; Dis
trict Court, for judgment rendered in
the case of Carroll VS.. Provo City, $50.
Councillor Maiben introduced a bill
for the storing of combus-
tible and infammable material, which
passed its first and was filed for second
reading.
Charles Smith, acting as a commit
tee from the Central Building Corpor-
alton, asked assistance in excayating
the large cellar, for the Central Build
ing, proposing to give the city the
gravel, if the taxpayers did the work,
said work to be credited on their tax
account. The matter was, on motion
Of Councillor Glazier, referred to the
on streets and alleys.
On motion of Councillor Glazier, the
Council went into committee of the
whole on the petition of Knight Bros.
1T al, asking the Council to reconsider
It's nominations of John A. Brown as
chief, and VIM. Hill as assistant chief
If the fire department
When Council resumed session,
Chairman Glazier reported progress
md recommended that the matter be
to the committee on fire de-
'artment, with instructions to call
Meeting of both fremen and signers of
he petition. Adopted.
Watermaster Scott nominated S. A.
PACE and James A. Gray, as deputy
On motion of Counselor Dixon the
were ratified.
On motion of Councillor Maiben
heir compensation was fixed at 81 per
lay.
Council adjourned for one week.
NR0A THE WAGL TGu