The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-19
Important Ordinance Passed BY the
City Council.
EQUALIZED PRESSURE
REPUBLICANS AS FILIBUSTERS
AND RECORD MAKERS.
Question of Placing Measuring Weir
In Canal Causes Exchange of Po-
htical Shots = Two Councilmen
Went to the Show = East-siders
Are Not Early Risers.

ulating the hours for sprinkling lawns,
gardens, fronts and sidewalks, as pass
ed by the city council last evening, it
VIII be to the advantage of every per-
son to familiarize himself with and to
abide by the new regulations. Hereto
fore it has been difficult to secure con-
victions for violating the ordinance reg
ulating the use of water unless the Of
fender We're caught in the act, but by
the terms of the new ordinance any
member of a family or any servant or
agent of another will be punishable for
using water outside of regulation hours
Hours For Sprinkling.
All that part of the city east of Sixth
East, north Of South Temple, and north
and east Of a line meandering from the
! Eagle Gate to the intersection of First
West and Seventh North streets consti-
tuteS the upper sprinkling district. and
all below the division lines is the lower
district
In the upper district sprinkIing NAV
be done only between the hours of 5
and a. m. and and D. M, and in
the lower district between the hours of
. and a. m and 6 and D. M. the
balance of the season. Thirty minutes
each day shall be allowed for sprinkling
1oo yards OF lawn or garden in the up
per district and twenty minutes for the
same area in the lower district.
AS a further measure to prevent the
use or water for outdoor purposes dur
} ing the day time, when there is a heavy
draft on the pipe system for domestic
and street Sprinkling needs, the ordi-
nance provides that the state capitol
grounds, Liberty park, the Joint build
ing square, the Temple block and other
public grounds shall be watered ONLY
during the hours of night at such times |
as the waterworks superintendent may
direct.
Pleas For Public Convenience.
Before the ordinance was passed both
Buckle and Diehl spared for time. the |
former desiring to have the bill laid |
over another week and the latter urg-
ing its reference to the waterworks |
committee. Only the three Republic |
can members supported these PROPOSE !
lions.
The bill was taken up for amendment |
and Diehl got through an amendment |
changing the sprinkling hours in the |
upper district from and 10 to and 9 |!
D. m Callister also was successful in |
getting the night hours in the lower
district changed from between Z and 10
to and Q.
demonstrated that no part of the city
is now suffering from inadequate water
supply because of imperfect distribu-
uon, and his declaration that it would
work an unnecessary hardship on his
constituents TO have to get up at 5
o clock mornings to sprinkle their lawns
was followed by an amendment to
make the time one hour later. on a
showing that too much of draft in
both districts at the same time would !
reduce the pressure so nobody could get
water, his amendment was voted down.
robertson also made an unsuccessful
effort in behalf of the late risers on
the east side.
Spooks In the Graveyard.
Diehl offered an amendment. which
was accepted, putting the Temple I
grounds on the night schedule. He
proposed that the Hebrew and Mt Cal
vary cemeteries be included with the
city cemetery on the night schedule.
This was agreed to. but a moment later
Calllster sprung the point that there
are no lights in the city of the dead.
and to sprinkle there after dark would
be mighty inconvenient, if not terribly
ing in its effect upon the sections la
borerS. The council thought so. too.
and struck out all reference to the
As amended the ordinance was passed
without dissent.
Improving Distribution.
On recommendation of Superinten-
lent Game of the waterworks depart
nent, and as suggested by the city en-
slneer, that part of the city between |
south Temple and Third streets and |
EAST of n street was ordered placed in :
he high line system, a four-inch pres
sure regulator to be installed, at a cost |
If SIG0 lot I
rider also 20 afford more adequate sup !
ply or water to residents in the vicin-
ty of Seventh and u streets, authority !
vas given to connect two dead ends of
pipe at cost of $500.
Proper Place For Weir.
After consideration of waterworks
ifairs had been passed over. the coun- !
NJ tackled the report of the irrigation +
committee, submitted last week, rec 7
that the measuring weir Y
placed in the city canal by Engineer l
Kelsey at the councils direction be I
AIKEN out at the point where il was i
packing up the water, causing damage '
o adjoining land from seepage, and I
eplaced at a point lower down and /
lear the Twelfth South street crossing. I
At this juncture Councilman Siddo-- c
way discovered the absence of Mar '
setts and Howe. members of the irri- S
,ttiOu COIIIultlSe, anu On Ills mo ZION
he sergeant-at-a was sent over to
he dog and pony show for the absent
members, but the officer returned with
,ut the objects of his search.
y motion to adopt the report '
Buckle to offer a facetious l
directing Watermaster t
seldom to resort to the old method of $
lsing sacks, hay. and grass to divide !
water, and to show that the admins
ration is opposed to modern weir /
Methods. a
Just add as commemorative of Re- a
publican rule" suggested Fernstrom U
III accept your amendment, with S
he addition, as carried out by Demo- /
ratio non-partisan administration, 5
vas Buckles rejoinder. Il
Citing the Record. Ii
Callister drove a clincher by saying T
he record showed that Buckle himself c
opposed the irrigation committees rec
to place measuring weirs =
n the canal. Callister added that the
question was as to where the weir
hould be placed, so as TO do the least
amage, and he challenged Buckle to =
how that the committee and the =
are not as much in favor
f weir measurements as are Engineer
Kelsey and the Republican councilman
rom the First precinct.
Robertson declared that he had found v
he seepage from the canal as great q
fter the weir in Sugar ward had been \
% objection. In his opinion the fault a
yas with the neglected condition of the G
anks.
Puckia's ridieulous amenduent re- n