The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-07-01
The report was received and filed.
THE COMMITTEE ON STREETS

1Q8 report WAS receiver anu
THE COMMITTEE ON STREETS
made the following recommendations:
That the profile of grade on which the
Salt Lake City Railway company has con-
structed its track on Fourth East street be
approved; that the petition OF b. +. White
more, asking that the plank walk in front
that the petition Of J. E. Butler, ask
Ing that the grade in front of his
residence on Second South, De granted;
that r. Kletting be allowed 10 use
q portion of the street in front Of the bath
house on Commercial street while erecting
new building; that the petition of j. K.
Walker, for the abatement of the special
sidewalk tax ON the Walker corner,
Third South and Main, be granted; that
the Stradamant Asphalt company be al
lowed to lay one block Of street pavement
on State street, from First to Second South,
subject to the conditions proposed by w.
II. Remington; that the petition Of z. NJ.
Ulmer and L. d. Young, for permission to
remove Q portion of the sidewalk and
put in sidewalk lights, be granted;
that the petition Of Schriner Brothers
and others asking that First and Wall
street be graded, be granted; that the pc
tition Of l.. NJ. Earl and others asking r
street, be graded ar d cleaned be granted;
that the petition OF the city street railroad
company for permission to extend its line
Of poles along Second East to Fifth South
be granted; that the petition of Mulrooney,
Morrison and O'Meara, asking permission
to lay their own walk on State street be
granted; that the petition Of property own
ers TO lay cement walks instead OF asphalt
in Second South street be not granted as
the contract was already let; that the petit
ton Of Emily Potts and others to have
Apricot street opened be not granted; that
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asking that the fences at the intersection
Of Sixth West and Fifth, Sixth, Seventh
and Eighth North streets be removed be
not granted: that the petition Of the
Mountain Ice company for bridge at the
corner of Ninth South and Third West
streets be not granted.
The recommendation as to the White
more sidewalk was stricken out and the
recommendation as TO the proposition OF
the Stradamant company was referred to
the city attorney. The report was adopted.
SIDEWALKS MUST BE APPROVED.
The board of public works represented
that under the resolution adopted by the
council on June Il, giving the board au-
thority to accept any sidewalk pavement
which in their judgment met the require
ments, there was an implied right On the
part of land owners TO construct that por-
ton of a sidewalk abutting on their land,
provided it met with the require
ments Of the ordinance. The board,
under these circumstances. could
exercise no arbitrary discretion
in the matter, and if the individuals were
not limited as to time in which they might
lay the walks, the board would be em6ar-
raised in advertising for bids and letting
the contracts, nor could they assure the
contractor as to the extent Of the work en-
braced in the contract to be let.
Councilman Parsons then introduced the
following resolution on that subject, which
was adopted:
Resolved, That any sidewalk which may
be or has been laid within any district Of
the city prior to the letting Of the contracts
within any district shall De subject TO the
approval Of the board of public works, and
no sidewalks be allowed to be laid in any
Of the districts by private parties, after the
contracts have been let for the construc-
ton of sidewalks in such districts, without
the consent of the city attorney.
TO DEFEND POLICEMEN.
Councilman Anderson offered the follow
ing resolution, which was adopted:
Resolved, that the city attorney be requested
suit now pending in the Third district court
commenced by the Salt Lake City Railroad
company.
APPROPRIATIONS. q
The following appropriations were made:
Mount * Griffin 200 20
Eagle foundry ------------------- SS 30
Joseph Silver NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. l32 10