The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-06
Residents Over Jordan Have, a
Kick.
CALLISTER MAKES A PLAY
POSES AS A FRIEND OF THE
PEOPLE.
Thinks Salt Lake City Street Railway
Should Be sandbagged Into oper-
ating One ofsIts Lines at Loss
Margetts Is Once More Exonerat-
ed By Special Water Committee.

| Councilman Callister, who serenely
aspires to the Republican nomination
for city recorder, saw a chance to
make a grandstand play in last nights
council meeting and promptly accepted
it. Like the woman who comes late to
church in order to display her bonnet
| to better advantage, SO Callister made
| his play. After that order of business
had been passed, Callister asked unan-
| imous consent to introduce petition
| The consent was granted, and he had
| the recorder read communication
signed by number of residents from
over the Jordan bridge.
| The petition recited that the signers
| had contributed to the building of the
Salt Lake City street railway out in
| that direction, and that the company
had lately discontinued their service
and torn up the tracks because the line
didn't pay. This the petitioners con-
sidered unfair, and they asked the
council to give them some kind of re-
| lief. CalliSter rose to the occasion like
balloon going up on still day.
Abused the Company.
| He didn't know just exactly how the
council could go to work to compel the
company to operate this line at a loss,
| but he thought it should be made to do
so. He didn't like the idea of cold dol
lars and cents weighing against the
comfort and convenience of possible
constituents. Then, getting off the sub
! ject altogether, the councilman began
| abusing the company.
| "Their tracks," he said, are dis
grace to the city, and they would be a
| disgrace to any city in the land. We
| have been very lenient with them, but
! if they don't resume that service we
| ought to make them toe the line. Well
make them live up to their franchise.
| Well give them sixty days in which to
take up their dead tracks. Well make
'em plank their crossings and put their
tracks down to the level of the streets"
Callister talked for fifteen minutes
longer, but didn't say much more. In
conclusion he asked that the petition
be referred to special committee to be
appointed by the president at once.
Then Buckle got his chance. '"The
Salt Lake City street railway is backed
by the only corporation newspaper in
the city, and it thinks it can get any
thing it wants." He moved a refer
ence to the committee on municipal
laws. The motion was adopted after
further debate.
/ Most of the cilmeu and speeta-s
tors thought Buckle referred to the
Tribune when he spoke of corpora
tion newspaper. He attempted to cor
rect this impression later by asserting
privately that he. alluded to- The Her
aid. = ~
Margetts Again Exonerated.
The special committee that has been.
Investigating the charges said to have
been made against Margetts by Water
masters Lund and Jensen, filed sup
. Elementary report. 1t will be remem-'.
fbered that Margetts was charged with
offering to trade watersto certain far
mers at ratio of 100 per cent of city
water for Is per cent of the water from
their ditch.
The committee originally reported
that there was no ground for the al
legged charges. Then affidavits were
fled and the matter. was reopened In
last nights report the committee said
it had discovered nothing to cause a
change in the first report. Buckle I'M
dertook to pose as censor of the COM
mittee.
Merely for information, he said,
with a sheer, II want to ask if this
committee has held any meetings late
ly?" He was informed that meeting
had been held and the matter gone
over. Buckle was proceeding to say
something else when Allen interrupted
him.
Did you desire to introduce any evil
dence before that committee?" he
asked, with smile.
That's question / don't care to an
swer," replied Buckle, confusedly and
so the incident ended. The supplement
tai report was adopted without divis-
ion.
Ordinance Adopted.
Under the head of ordinaces, the
measure prohibiting the befouling the
city's sources of waiter supply passed
its third reading. The ordinance pro-
vides fine of from SIC to $1OO for be-
fouling the waters within ten miles of
the intake pipes. Diehl introduced and
had referred to the committee on mu-
nicipal laws an ordinance making it
unlawful to allow dead trees or tree
stumps to remain ON the sidewalks in
front of premises or growing weeds to
remain on sidewalks or lots.
Consideration of the dog tax ordin-
ance, which had been made special
order for last night, was deferred for
one week.
The committee on public grounds rec
commended that the offer of r. NJ Bas-
kin to sell the city some land in City
Creek canyon be declined. The report
was adopted.
Robertson's resolution directing the
supervisor of streets and irrigation to
prevent people from ipasturing cattle
ON the Hardy lot, in Parley's canyon,
was adopted.
Salt Palace Free License.
On Callister's motion, the report of
the license committee recommending
that a blanket free license be granted
to the Salt Palace association, was
referred to the committee, with instruc-
tions to report the nature of the
amusements and enterprises proposed
to be covered by the blanket license
The committee on streets recommend
ed that the offer of the Western Loan
& Savings association to dedicate a
fiftyfoot street on Fifth West, between
North Temple and First North streets,
be granted, and the city engineer in
-structed to approve the company's
plat. In the discussion it was deveI-
oped that the proposed street runs
only half way through the block and
the report was voted down.
Robertson's resolution providing that
in view of the fact that the special
policemen employed for the day the
volunteers came home worked sixteen
hours, they be allowed pay at the rate
of $3.50 for each eight hours, was
adopted.
Object to Rescue Home.
Thomas A. Horne and others filed
protest against allowing the Woman's
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