The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-30
CITY COUNCIL.
A Long Session Replete With Bust
ness.

ness.
The city council was in session last
night from o'clock until midnight
The first business was the reading of
the mayors annual message, which
gave brief summaries of the work of
the different departments, and a state
ment of the city's financial condition,
and recommended more liberal appro-
pria tons for the public library. Sug-
gested that bids for electric street
lighting be advertised for and also re-
ferred to the waterworks, giving a
brief history of that institution, show
ing that the company had not lived up
to its agreement and suggested a
method whereby the city might acquire,
own and control it's own waterworks.
He estimated that an improved system
could be constructed for less than
S250, 900, and thought that conditions
would Justify a bond issue for that
purpose.
The various sections of the report
were referred to the different commit
tees.
The committee on license recon-
mended that Thomas B. Grundy be
granted a plumbers license and that
his bond be approved, which was
adopted.
The finance committee reported in
tax collector, to the effect that they
would draft an ordinance dealing with
the matters in question at a later day.
The committee reported unfavorably
on the petition of Thomas Bros. for a
free license for their place of amuse-
ment called the Thomas hall, and the
report was adopted. A similar report
on a similar application of Joseph
Clark, manager of the Grand Opera
House, was also adopted.
The matter of the dispute between
the dog tax collector and the auditor,
in regard to the manner in which
credits in the collectors account were
made was settled by the means recon-
mended by the finance committee, pre-
scribing how the entries shall be made.
Two hundred feet of sewer pipe was
ordered purchased from the Denver
Sewer and Pipe company.
On recommendation of the commit
tee on streets it was ordered that the
locality about Wall avenue and Twen-
ty-second street and Thirtieth streets
between Pacific avenue and Wall street
be drained and graveled.
The committee on buildings and pub
lie grounds reported adversely on the
matter of selling to w. L. Porter a
piece of ground adjoining the city GEM
etery for 500. Adopted.
The recorder reported that he had
notified the Ogden Milling and Elevator
company to lower the mill dam and
put in a flood gate.
On recommendation of the auditor
warrant was issued to pay interest on
sewer bonds.
and others to have some riprapping
done along the river bank opposite the
tract known as Pebble grove, so as to
protect the land from the high water,
as the dam put in by the city above
the Plain City canal was forcing the
water on to the land in question, was
referred to special committee COM
posed Of Hill, Greenwich, Taylor, NJ. l..
Jones and Ash.
The petition to have an embankment
thrown up at the north end of Grant
avenue about Nineteenth street to pro-
tect it from the river was referred to
the same special committee.
The question of perfecting the title
to Sorrell avenue was also referred to
a special committee.
The matter of grading Twenty-first
street up to Jackson avenue was re-
ferred to the committee on streets, as
was likewise the matter of grading and
crawling Nye avenue between Twenty
eighth and Twenty ninth streets.
w. T. Beardsley, city auditor, sent
in a petition to be paid $500 for back
salary. The points in the petition are
similar to those made by Fire Chief
Binford, who recovered judgment for
the amount of his claim. The council
cut down Beardsley's salary as special
tax collector without authority of law,
which forbids the changing of salary
when once fixed for the officers term.
An ordinance was introduced by
Taylor repeating the dog tax ordi-
nance which was referred to the COM
mittee on laws.
WILL TAX TELEPHONES.
Councilman Rrownius introduced an