The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-09
That Is the Cry Of Salt Lake
Laboring Men.
WINTER NOW UPON Us.
THE GRAVITY SEWER AND JOINT
BUILDING TO CLOSE.
And One Thousand Idle Men walk
ing the streets--No Soup Houses
Wanted--Work is What Is Re-
Guired-some Opinions on the
Matter.

The city of Salt Lake, and is the quer.
which he propounds to his fellow la
borers.
1t is a problem which merits seriou:
consideration, because, forsooth, It mus
be grappled with. The recent snowfall
brings it more emphati cally to the no
tice of the public, because with snow
comes visions of empty coal bins ant
the like. There is no use in attempt
q ing to disguise the fact that the labor
ling mans condition in this city as
well as in nearly every other in this
United States is serious Yea more
THAN serious, it is critical. With win.
ters Chilling frosts and blinding SHOWS
confronting him; with his wife and la.
bleS ciamoring for food and clothing.
what wonder taat THE poor fellow is
|perplexedl
Charity! He does not want it, Al
though in times of exigency he might
accept "a donation of food to stop the
appeals CT his innocent babies, yet
when he looks alt those two hardened
hands, Injured to toll, and surveys. in
his cheap mirror that robust frame
which has been trained to stand almost
any hardship, he feels that charity is
almost an insult.
( So does nearly every one else.
When man is willing to toll, OPP
portunity ought not be lacking.
The situation in this city is no
worse than in others 1t may not be
as bad. Perhaps it is even better.
But that there will be plenty of suf-
feriTlg as a result of lack of employ
menIt no one will have the temerity to
deny.
When Dickens wrote BLEAK House"
he put Trooper George RouncewelI per
Mr.. Bucket of the Detective, in prison,
ION the charge of numbering Attorney
at law and Solicitor in Chancery Tul-
bingham. Trooper George, after re-
viewing his unhappy condition re-
marked: These are the facts; this is
my condition. Now the question is,
how to meet it?''
The question, "how to meet it" is
what Salt Lake city and county has
to contend with.
In a few days the work on the grav-
/ ity outlet sewer will close down. So
Contractor Harkins informed repor-
ter yesterday. CAS- soon as we finish
up to the corner of Second West and
Second South streets we will close for
the winter said he, break up camp
and rest until spring"
So no hope may be anticipated in
that direction.
1.-The joint city and county building
will very soon be completed" remarked
Councilman Cheesmar yesterday
The force at work is now being mater
tally reduced
IS dissipated.
1--WE will employ about $50 or 200
men for a short time, until we get our
pipes into the city, remarked II. L.
Driver, Of the New American Natural
Gas company.
There you have the situation which
confronts the man of toll. About one
hundred and fifty men on the gravity
sewer to be laid off; nearly one hun
dred on the joint building and grounds
and nothing in sight.
A Herald man for the last few days
has been sounding public opinion in
his spare moments on the question
with the results given. The question
asked has been: What suggestions
have you to offer as regards employ
ment of deserving men this winter?"
experimenting this query was the
statement that the city had reached
its bonded limit, while the county has
no money in its treasury.
Jacob Moritz said-If it can be done
in any legitimate way, build sewers.
The city needs them badly. Put in
drains wherever asked for and give
the property owner a long time in
which to pay for them. Five years, if
need be. If necessary issue city war
rants. I know it may be said that the
city cannot exceed it's present indebt-
edness, but if / contract for a sewer
from my house on time, the debt bear
ing the same amount of interest as
the sum the city expends for the ma
terial, the city is not in debt a cent.
1t has, for instance, 5000 in bills pay
able and 5000 in bills receivable. The
debt is a lien upon my property and
the property is good for ten times the
debt. So is the realty of any man in
proportion to the improvements he
gets. Put men to work by all means
this winter. Better times will come
next year
Barlow Ferguson wants good roads.
Said he-The city has as much inter-
est as the county at large in thorough
fares leading from the country into
town. MacadamiZe State street from
Fourth South street to the county line.
Macadamize outside the city on lead
ing roads. Issue county script which
shall be redeemable in taxes and
which will be readily taken by ner-
chants and property owners at a.
slight discount At all hazards put
men to work.
amize State street from Fourth South
to Roper street. Macadamize the
streets inside the city limits leading to
the road built by the county court to
Garfield. 1t is a notorious fact that
the city has not a decent road to the
point of the county's beginning, and
that the west side farmer is. in WIN
ter, practically ostracised. There are
four or five streets that are in very
bad condition, and while the city's
finances are low, it is better to hire
men to build permanent and needed
improvements than to start soup
houses.
Councilman O'Meara-Macadan
State street from Fourth South to
Roper street and the streets around
the joint building. The city can af-
ford it and the cost would be trifling
as compared with paving. The city
has money enough to do this and the
working men should not be compelled
to suffer for the necessities of life
when there is work to be done.
Norman Erickson, of Murray-We
pay as much tax as anybody and are
in favor of employing men to build
roads. It can be done in winter as well
as in summer, difference in wages con-
sidered. Macadamize State street to
Sandy and compel the county to do
some work on the cross roads leading
to State.
Councilman NEWELL favor doing
some work at the head of Main street
and opening the way to the property
sold by the city, to which there are
no streets. That will help out in no
small measure.
Judge McKay--f favor matchmaking
or any other public work provided bona
rN. s1n;1anfo md, So1aY, re 70 Soai1ipc ora
employed. 7 want all employment kept
out of politics.
George Stringfellow-If bona fide res
idents, men of families, men who need
the work, are employed and the city
does not go into debt, then macadam-