The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-02-22
THE FLORISTS OBJECT
TO SPECIFICATIONS FOR TEND
ING PUBLIC GROUNDS.
VIII Compromise With Sells For $500
-Wheelmen Want to Use the
Sidewalks-Utah Lake Water Reg
ulations = Grounds For a Fish
Hatchery.


ment P. ]. Moran's bid of $1,000 for a
suitable plant was recommended by the
fire and police committee for accept
ance and Howe spoke in favor of a
/ heating plant, giving figures to show
! that ii would be a great saving as COM
pared with the consumption of coal in
! the stoves now used.
The discussion assumed rather wide
range, and when the roll was called
! there were seven ayes and seven nays,
| Caliister, Patrick, Romney, Wallace,
! Weller and Fernstrom voting against
| it and thus defeating ii.
| Wallace, in explaining his vote, said
! that if Moran could put in the plant
now and wait six months for his money
the plant could be put in cheaper.
THE FLORISTS OBJECT.
! Some of the florists of the city are
/ evidently not satisfied with the specifi-
cations drafted bye the committee On
| control as basis for bids TO care for
the grounds on the city side of the
joint building. They sent in pointed
communication. stating that they would
like to bid. but were unable TO do so
/ for the following reasons:
First-That there is no necessity for
cutting the lawn once a week; a cut
! ting every ten days or two weeks would
be amply sufficient
SGCOHu-1ne above Is as often as II
has been cut in the past.
Third-Watering twice a day is not
necessary; there are days when rain
falls.
Fourth-The fact that the contractor
is required to keep the grounds in good
condition is sufficient without specify
ing any further details.
Fifth-The idea that weeds, such as
dandedions, must be pulled up by the
roots is ridiculous; ii is customary to
cut them out as deeply as possible.
SiXth-If the chairman of the COM !
mittee on control should discover that !
one dandelion had been missed by the |
contractor. the contract could at once
be revoked by him and the contractor
suffer loss thereby.
Seventh-The specifications do not |
clearly state whether the contractor is |
10 furnish plants, bulbs. trees and |
shrubs, or whether the city is to fur
nish the same.
Eighth-There is no man who could |
give a bond of $1,000 under the specifi- |
cations, because there is no gardener /
or florist who can honestly live up to
the conditions imposed.
Ninth-It is an outrage to say that |
the power TO say that the chairman of
the committee on control should have |
absolute control and should be given |
power to absolve the contract at his |
pltdSuIGs because SUCH Il InlIlS ODG1lS I
the way for pets and fayCrites, regard |
less of merit or knowledge.
The communication was signed by /
the Huddart Floral company, Walter 4
Williams, Parkes Floral company, Wal !
ter King, Hans Christopherson, Thomas
Gillespie and Z, j. Petty.
When the matter came up Robertson !
wanted TO know why the chairman of
the committee was constituted as sole /
judge to decide whether the contract |
was carried out or not.
Romney said he did not blame the |
florists for not wanting to bid because
the specifications were ambiguous, and /
that it looked like suggestion to pro-
tect the man who had already bid (Mr.
Madsen).
SiddOway resented the insinuations
directed at him as chairman of the COM
mittee on control and to show that he
had no fish to fry" he moved that the
matter be left to the parkkeeper-
After a good deal of discussion the
matter was left TO the supervision of
the entire committee as formerly.
WILL PAY SELLS.
City Attorney Hall recommended that
in the matter of the suit of w. ii. Sells
against the city, involving about $40
Griffin in constructing retaining walls
in Emigration canyon, the sum of $500
be paid by the city as a compromise.
In this case the court rendered Judg-
ment in favor of Sells for 500, interest
and 5000 costs, and the city attorney
thinks an appeal would only be Il waste
of money, as no points of law We're in
volved An appeal would cost about
500, which would be an unnecessary
expenditure of money. The report of
the attorney was adopted.
WHEELMEN AND SIDEWALKS.
Twenty-Five residents of the city sent
in a petition asking that the council
grant wheelmen the use of oil side
walks outside the paved district, with
the exception of the following: On the
north size of South Temple from West
Temple east to L street, and al side
walks on Canyon road The petitioners
alleged that during the winter months
there is so much mud in the streets
that it is a hardship TO confine wheel
men to the use of the walks outside the
paved district. not restricted. The pc
tition was referred to the committee on
streets. II
UTAH LAKE WATER.
5. NJ. It. Seldom, superintendent of
streets and irrigation, who was recent
~ instructed to place planks in the dam
at Utah lake, where il empties INTO the
Jordan river, for the purpose of IaiS-
ing the water in the lake, submitted a
communication in which he Informed
the council that the regulation of the
water was in the hands of a commits
sion appointed Tor that purpose He
also reported that al a meeting of the
presidents of the canal companies US
ing the water in connection. 1t was the
sense of those present that no neces-
sity existed at present for taking the
step ordered by the council, and that
the commission and other interested
parties were looking after The matter
in a satisfactory manner
The communication was placed on
fle.
The report of the committee on
sprinkling, recommending that the city
do its own sDrinkling this year, was
read, and under the rules, went over
for one week.
a FISH HATCHERY.
The committee on public grounds, re-
porting on the petition. of Fish and
Game Commissioner Sharp, recon-
mended that the city lease to the state |
five acres of ground. for the purpose of
a fish hatchery, for a period Of five
years, al $50 per annum, and that at
the expiration of the lease The builJ-
ingS and improvements revert TO the
city. The plot in question is at Seventh
East and Ninth South, where some i,
springs are located.
A motion to strike out the consider
alton was lost. and the committees re-
port was then adopted.
Mrs. L. Jeffs presented a claiTn for
800, for damages caused by the ever
flow early last spring, alleging neglec: {
on the part of the city watermaster. ]
The matter was referred to the COM Z