The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-01-29

pear to the satisfaction of the city couna
ell that the Hcensee has violated the
law, either by selling liquor on Sunday
or otherwise. The difficulty which has
hitherto caused trouble in the execution
of the laws against illegal sale OF liquor,
prostitution and gambling, has grown out
of the fact that the police department
has assumed to exercise the power to
regulate these offenses, without attempt
ing in good faith to enforce the laws
Regulation leads. to favoritism in It's
most obnoxious forms.
AS, for instance, the leasing of houses
and rooms by or for the benefit of Of
ficials connected with the police and
other departments of the city govern
ment to parties VIGOROUSLY engaged in
the business of prostitution and gamb-
ling.
It seems only necessary to suggest
such a case in order to devise a remedy
whereby it will be impossible in the flu
ture for any official of this city to en-
gage in such disgraceful proceedings and
still remain in Office.
More than five hundred arrests for sex
UaI offenses were made by the police de-
partment last year, in which the defnd-
ants were never brought before the court.
They were arrested in the night time
and simply required to deposit with the
desk sergeant sums ranging from $3.50
to $50, ostensibly as bail. and then turned
loose again to ply their vocation and
earn sufficient money to renew these de-
DositS the next month. No attempt has
been made to put stop to this evil,
but simply to compel the payment of a
monthly license This city cannot afford,
and no decent person in the community
will approve, the raising of revenue in
this way. We ought not to demand a
share in the wages of sin.
l have taken the responsibility of di-
recting the city attorney to put a stop
to these practices and to treat and prose
cute these offenses exactly as he does the
violations of other crimes against the
state.
sioners. in their estimate for the cur
rent year. ask for the fire department,
S47, 562; for the police department, $50, go;
total. 1882.
I only need refer to the estimated re-
ceipts for this year, as shown by the au-
ditor's report, to indicate that these de-
partmentS. as well as others, must cut
down their running expenses for the year
1896 at least 80 per cent. otherwise. it
will not be possible for US to keep within
our income.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
! L do not concur in the recommends
tons of the fire chief and police and fire
board. in urging the erection of a sta
ton in the Fourth precinct. or in re-
| building the present fire station on First
South street. The cjty's finances will not
| admit of it.
ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT.
| The report of the city engineer con
! tains much valuable information as to
| the work conducted by tn department
! during the past year upon the gravity
| outlet sewer and the expenditures
/ thereon. l desire to call your attention
! to the advisability of extending the sewer
| laterals throughout the city, as rapidly
! as finances will admit. This matter is
one which affects the entire community
The catch basins should be removed OF
provided with proper connections.
| l commend to your perusal and action
: nf
! city engineer:
That. contracts for sewering grading
| paving, etc, be let in time to allow al
necessary preparations for beginning OBJ
| erations as early in the spring as the
weather will permit.
That the city secure strip of land
running from the outlet of the gravity
sewer to the Jordan river, on which t.
care for the city's sewage.
That the city purchase all the lands
around the shores of Utah Lake. which
are five feet or less above compromise
! level SO as to permit the lake to be useC
! as a reservoir for the storage of all sur
! plus waters.
That an exchange of Utah Lake water
for Big Cottonwood and Little Cotton
wood water be effected on the most ia
Vorable terms and at the arliest time
| possible.
That steps be taken that the public
Lake, in City Creek. Emigration, Par
ley's Mill Greek, Big Cottonwood ant
Little Cottonwood canyons be selected
as state lands so that they can be Sc
cured on favorable terms.
That thorough study be made of tht
following question: Would it prove ad
vantageous to the city to have two sys
| TENS of water supply, one to furnish
water for drinking, cooking, and genera
! domestic uses about the kitchen, and t
be brought from the best and pureS
source possible. the other to furnish
water for flushing sanitary appliances
fire protection. street and lawn sprink
! ling, manufacturing, etc.
This recommendation appears to me Il
be well worth further inquiry. The adop
ton of the method suggested would not
in my opinion, necessitate the construc
ton of an entire duplicate water pip'
system and even though such prove u
| be the case, the expense of system
sufficient for the domestic supply would
be slight in comparison with the invest
| ment in our present system.
wATERwoRKs DEPARTMENT.
The waterworks department should b'
given authority to replace the small
main now serving the northeast benci
! section of this city with larger pipe
| During the last dry season, this section
! of the city was at times almost withou
| water.
WATER RATES AND LICENSES.
A change in the method of collection
and payment of water rates is desirable
Assessments are now made by the water
works department and payment is re
! quired to be made to the city treasurer
| Where rates are delinquent the assess
| ment rolls are returned to the water
works department for the collection o
| these delinquent rates. More than 5000
| of last years water rates are now de
linuuent and the city will probably los
a large amount of this sum: | sugges