The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-03-12

he wanted to hear from the people and
the press. He. now had heard from
both, therefore he would vote for the
resolution as presented by Dale.
THE ONLY PROTEST.
Before taking vote on Stewards
substitute. the clerk was instructed to
read the following protest:
Salt Lake City, Utah. March IL 1896.
10 the honorable President and City
Ceuhcii' Salt Lake City. Utah;
entlemen-The undersigned. citizens
OF salt Lake City, earnestly protest
agaln E granting the petition of the Utah
ing my mat the city present them with the
Floneer square fer railway purposes.
ana submit the following reasons:
FlrSt-Such action on the part of YOUR
honorable body would be without a pre-
cedent in the history of our CITY the
CITY councils of the past having refused
70 donate this square to any private cor
Poratlon and in but one instance was it
ever agreed TO sell it. and then only on
consideration that the petitioners nav
the city The sum of $4,000
Second-Ths Pioneer square was mr.
CHASED by the city in 1879 of 3. Norris
1oung, the understanding a that time.
ana Tor many years thereafter being
that the block should be preserved for a
pubic park. il is the only square. sft1,-
ated within the thickly populated dis
py the city corporation. and as Salt
Lake City grows and the demand for
puoHc parks increases, the possession of
tIls square, but three blocks away from
our main thoroughfare. will be Sf ines
unable value 10 our citizens.
Ih4ru-IO establish a railway depot
upon TINS square would result in The
InonopCllzing. of a number of streets in
ele vicinity by the railway company for
lts tracks and traffic, thereby not only
greatly depreciating the value Of pro-
Iery Tor residence CT business purposes
10y considerable distance below Third
west street. but also increasing the dan
ger 10 life and limb to our citizens
our petitioners submit that the I'M
guarded condition Of railway tracks NOW
operated on thickly populated streets of
tI1lS city Is q constant source of danger
10 the thousands Of citizens residing
west of those tracks. and is a blot on the
ialr name Of our municipality. The acct
dent which occurred a few months ago
on North Temple street, by which a cfti-
zen and his wife while driving TO their
home We're horribly mangied their chill
dren narrowly escaping a similar fate,
is an example of the result of this cOrdf-
ton of affairs
For these reasons and in view of the
fact that there are other vacant blocks
of land on the outskirts of the city that
ere opcn to purchase and can be used
for depot purposes without injury to the
public highways or to individual property
owners we respectfully ask your hon
cradle body not to grant the petition OF
the aforesaid company. nor any other
company presenting a similar request.
And Your petitioners viii ever pray.
The foregoing was signed by thirty
three residents around the square. just
half dozen being of the Butterworth
family. Clerk Reiser of the county re-
corder's office volunteered the infor-
nation that if the matter was not
rushed through he could have secured
thousands of signatures.
THE SUBSTITUTE LOST.
Stewards substitute was then lost
by a roll call vote, Stewart alone vot-
ing for il.
RESOLUTION ADOPTED.
After several amendments to Dale's
resolution had then been made the
rules were suspended and the resOlu-
ton in the shape of ordinance put
Through second and third reading and
passed, Stewart again being the only
one who cast the dissenting vote.
RECEIVED WITH APPLAUSE.
The result was received with ap-
pfause from a large number of spec
tators that crowded the lobby The
meeting then at 11:40 o'clock adj
jCurned-