The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-06
THE PIONEER SQUARE,
1T WILL BE FORMALLY DEDI-
GATED AS A PARK.
Ceremony To Take Place On Sunday,
July "a, In Celebration of the
Fifty-frst Anniversary Of Its oc-
cupancy By Pioneers.

! In celebration of the fifty-first ami
versary of the settlement of the valley
of the Great Salt Lake BY the Utah pio-
neers and of the earliest occupancy of
the historic old fort grounds Pioneer
square, or rather Pioneer park as it
will hereafter be known, will he formal
ly dedicated and opened to the public
on Sunday, the oath inst. This action
was made possible by the city council
last evening in the enactment of an or
dinance reserving and setting apart
forever Pioneer square as and for a
public park, to be known as Pioneer
park. The time for the formal opening
was in blank, but on Councilman Rob-
ertson's motion the very appropriate
date of July oath, Pioneer Day, was
fixed. The vote on the passage of the
ordinance was unanimous. The old
square has twice been coded for depot
purposes, conditional upon the con-
struction of a railroad to Deep Creek,
but each time the projectors failed in
their undertaking and the square re-
Verted to the city. Now that the reser-
walton of the square for public park
is guaranteed, the residents sof the
southwestern part of the city have rea-
son to rejoice, but the grounds will
have to be very much improved before
Pioneer park will be a park worthy of
the name.
TELEPHONE LICENSE TAX.
The recent decision of the supreme
court affirming the legality of the ordi-
nance enacted by the Ogden city coun-
ell, moved Callister to introduce bill
fer an ordinance requiring telephone
companies to pay an annual license tax
OF S. for each instrument in use. to be
ascertained from verified lists of SUBJ
ScribeTs to be furnished quarterly to
the city treasurer. The bill provides
that the maximum rates for rent Of
telephones shall not, exceed the rates
now charged. Action on the proposed
ordinance was deferred for one week
The proposed license tax will yield the
city revenue of nearly $4,000 per year.
STREET SPRINKLING COM
PLANTS.
Complaint was made by Fernstrom,
Callister. Barnes, Robertson, Buckle,
Wallace and Siddoway of the unsatis-
factory manner in which the street
sprinkling is being done, especially by
contractor Griffin. Finally, a motion
offered by Fernstrom was adopted re-
curing that the contractors be notified
to render better service. under pain of
having their claims disallowed
A resolution by Fernstrom for the
sprinkling of additional streets in the
Third precinct prompted Callister to
move that all petitions and resolutions
for extra street sprinkling be referred
to the committee on sprinkling, with
power to act. The motion was adopted
The mayor submitted the appoint
ments Of Byron Crosby and J. A. Eard-
'0v 10 suoc0 81 Fire1nen James T. Nc
CURE and Robert Vint, resigned, and
Niiuam r. CahOon TO succeed himself
in the fire department. The appoint
ments were referred to the committee
on fire and police.
Jacob Bender, by his attorney, Will
lam r. Hall, prese-ted a claim in the
sum OF $4,000 as apensation for in
juries alleged TO have been received on
June l, by reason Of an obstruction in
the road. causing his team to run away
Referred to the committee on claims.
Clerk Diehl reported that during June
24S cases had bsen disposed of in the
police court, yielding an aggregate of |
81, 307 in fines and fOrfeitures.
On recommendation of the water
works committee, the petition of J. T. |
Strong for the extension of a service !
pipe to Strong's court, was denied, for |
the reason that the avenue in question |
is not of the required width, being less
than four rods wide.
The business in hand being quickly |
of, the council adjourned early /
for a week.