The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-01
REAL ESTATE OWNERS
ONLY NEED TO APPLY TO TT FOR
POSITIONS IN ITS GIFT.
Competency Cuts But Little Figure,
But to Secure a Position Inspect
ing Street Pavement Repairs a
Man Must Show Receipt For Pay
ment of Taxes On Real Estate.

a salary of 81 so per day, VIII CONFER
favor on Street Supervisor Seldom ant
citizen Stringfellow by making know
the fact to the board of public works
on or before next Tuesday at a. m
The applicant or applicants must snow
a receipt for the payment OF taxes Oh
real estate The chief requisites arr
that the applicant be a long time anC
bona fide resident of Salt Lake city
If he knows nothing about the dutle!
of an inspector, has had no experience
in detecting and preventing dIshones
work by contractors and is deficient II
other qualifications-thes are of secon-
dairy Importance.
TWO APPLICATIONS HUNG UP.
The foregoing is the substance of the
sentiments expressed by the two gen.
! tlemen named at yesterdays meeting
of the board of public works. When
the matter of employing an inspector
! to supervise the work of repairing
street pavements by the Culmer-Jen-
nings Paving company came up, appll-
cations from r. o. Clancy and T. 2.
| Evans were read. Mr.. CLANCY has been
resident of this city since 1890 and
Mr. Evans has lived here since before
that date. They have families here and
! pay taxes on personal property, but not
on real estate, because they are not
among the fortunate or unfortunate
! land owners. Both applicants under
! stand the business of inspecting public
| contract work and in their frequent
employment heretofore as inspectors of
| sewer construction AMI cement and
stone paving they have, according to
| the official letters of recommendations
! they bear, rendered faithful and salts
| factory service to the city.
| THE REAL REASONS OBSCURED.
/ City Engineer Kelsey stated that he
had made inquiry to ascertain if there
were not some competent and trust
worthy person in the city who is thor
oughly familiar with asphalt paving
work. but he had been unable to learn
of any such person who could I'LL the
bill
Both Supervisor Seldom and Mr..
Stringfellow announced that they
wanted to give the preference to the
Oldest bona fide residents and real es-
tate owners, and in order to give an
opportunity for more applications for
the inspectors job to be considered,
they made a plea for postponement
of choosing an inspector until Tuesday
morning. Chairman Kelsey and Mr..
Hale evidently suspected that some
other and well understood though I'M
expressed. motive actuated their col
leagues, but they raised no objection
to the poStponement.
PUBLICITY OF THE FACTS COURT
ED.
Supervisor Seldom suggested that the
board advertise the fact that it wanted
an inspector. The newspapers charge
for an advertisement. but not for news
items. Mr.. Stringfellow appreciated
the fact and requested the reporter to
incorporate this feature in the pub
lished account of the boards proceed
ingS. From the statements made by
Supervisor Seldom and Mr.. Stringfel-
low. the fact is that the postponement
was sought by them not so much TO
give opportunity for a citizen expert
enced in asphalt paving work to apply
for the inSpectorship as to enable them
to select an old time resident who pays
taxes on real estate. ANY trustworthy
citizen who is otherwise skilled in paw
ing construction and repair work Suf-
ficient to enable him to properly inspect
the Culmer-Jennings Paving company's
repairing need not apply for the tenn
porary employment ii he cannot show
that he pays taxes on real estate. The
personal property tax qualification is
insufficient.
PERFECT CONDITION REQUIRED.
The chairman was instructed to serve
L
company to commence within As hours
the repairing of the asphalt and stone
block paving on Main and First and
Second South streets. and in all re-
spects to place the pavement in per
feet condition." preparatory to it's final
acceptance by the city, according to
the terms of the contract and the
guaranty clause, which took effect
nearly five years ago. The company
q
soon as the inspector for the city is
appointed.
POKING UP THE STREET CAR
COMPANIES.
1t is advisable if not imperative,
that the street car companies do their
respective portions of repairing the
stone block pavements before the as
phalt area is repaired Notice to this
effect was served upon the street car
companies month ago, but by mac
ton the companies have ignored their
obligations to the city The board de-
cided to call the city councils attention
to the neglect of the Salt Lake and
Rapid Transit companies to repair
their pavements, with the suggestion
that some compulsory action in the
premises be commenced against the |
derelict companies.
TO ROUGHEN SLIPPERY WALKS.
The city council has placed at the |
of the board the sum of 81 900, |
to be expended in roughening the slip |
perry sidewalk pavements in the bust |
ness district before frosty weather, but |
the council restricted the roughening
to those sidewalks which have been /
finally accepted from contractors. Some |
Of the SlickeSt and most dangerous |
walks have not yet passed from under |
the contract period of guaranty, and |
these could be roughened by coating I
them with cement and sand without !
injury to the payements or danger of /
the conditional and remain
ing part of the contracts. The councils
attention will be called to the effect of
It's restricting clause, with the sugges-
ton that it be modified so as to permit |
an elimination of the neck-and-limb-
breaking slipperyneSs without resort to
The bush-hammering process.
However, the board decided to call
'or bids for roughening the slippery
oavements, according to specifications
by the city engineer. Where
ever there is solid base, the pave
nents will be bush-hammered, and
lnsound work will be given a rough
coat, but the very slippery walks will
lot be roughened until the council
nodifies its restricting action relative
% unaccepted work on First and Sec
md South streets from State to West
Temple.
OTHER PAVEMENT IMPROVE
MENTS.
Bids were ordered solicited until Oct
4 for the construction of return curbs
md stone blocking, at the expense of
lbutting property, in lieu of the
lprons across cutters. These aprons