The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-15
TRACKS To BE MOVED
Council Reconsiders Vote On
Western Appropriation.
ALLOWS COMPANY $4,000
SEVERAL COUNCILMEN CHANGE
THEIR MINDS.

The most interesting thing about
last nights meeting of the council was
the reconsideration of the vote by
which the lawmakers had refused tC
appropriate $4,000 to assist the Rio
Grande Western in moving its tracks
from Eighth South street to point
further south. After this action had
been taken the appropriation was
made with the proviso that the money
is not to be paid for one year.
Fernstrom, who had voted against
the allowance on the ground that the
citys financia, condition would not
warrant it. moved the reconsideration
He had been induced to take this
step. he said, when he found that the
cash need not be turned over to the
company for year. Cottrell second
ed the motion. There was no debate
Davis and Robertson were the only
members who voted against it. The
absentees were Beatty, c. r. Howe and
Hartenstein.
One Lively Bout.
A bout between Robertson, Canning
and Thomas enlivened the subsequent
proceedings. After an ordinance re-
quiring a whistle to be blown whenever
a fire breaks out for the purpose OF
warning people to stop sprinkling had
been read, Robertson moved that the
measure be referred to the municipal
laws committee. He was saying some
thing further when Thomas Clipped in.
I've got the floor and 1 don't need
Tp
Robertson.
Then Canning, who had been trying
to speak, broke loose with: Il OBJ
ject to being set down on in this way.
l had the floor when Mr.. Robertson
began to speak"
Mr.. Thomas Explains.
Here Thomas explained that he only
wanted TO say that the ordinance had
been given to the recorder by mistake
and that it should have been turned
over TO the committee on municipal
laws. The balance of the session and
the proceedings that had gone before
were tame. Toward the end Dick
Whittemore tried to liven up things
He wanted to read a report he had
gotten up on the subject of crematories
as a result of his recent trip to the
coast
He had the document with him, but
the other cOuncilmen thought it was
too long. So they voted down Mr..
Hewlett's proposition to allow White
more to read his literary effort In
stead, the report was referred to the
committee on sanitary rules and quar-
antine. In it Mr.. Whittemore urges
the Importance of immediate steps
toward the erection of a new crema-
tory to takes the place of the burned
plant. He told of his observations in
western cities and pointed out the ad-
vantages and disadvantages of the sys-
TENS in use there. In connection with
the report were some figures from
Health Officer King showing the cost
of cremating garbage while the old
crematory was still on earth and the
necessity of improving on it.
After G. A R. Encampment.
The next encampment of the c. A. R.
will be held in Salt Lake if an invita-
ton rendered by the council last night
is accepted. Twelve members signed
a resolution inviting the veterans here
and promising them the time of their
lives. The soldiers meet at Chicago
this year, but a strong effort Will be
made to bring them to Salt Lake in
1901
Hewlett gave notice that he would
at the next meeting introduce a reso-
luton changing the night for commit
tee meetings from Friday to Thursday
It was respectfully suggested to him
that the proper thing would be for the
council to request the Salt Palace
management to fix d different date for
the bicycle races. Hewlett SAYS that
nobody goes to the committee meetings
any more and he believes better re-
snits might be attained if the meeting
night is changed.
Benjamin H Hollingsworth and fiftv-
one other tTans-JOrdan residents asked
by petition that the council at once
provide a proper method of disposing
of the city garbage. The petitioners set
forth that the garbage at present is
scattered over a wide area and set on
fire. The smoke thereby created 50
dense and sitting. Much garbage is
causing great detrilnenc
to the health and comfort of residents
in that vicinity. The petition was re-
ferred TO the committee on sanitary
rules and quarantine
Demands More Water.
The Mountain Summer Resort com
pany, in a communication signed by
George r. Felt, vice president, demand
ed that Instructions which are pre-
venting it from using Parleys water be
removed. The company declared that
II was entitled TO the water for four
successive days and nights in each
week The city has diverted one-half
of the water TO its own use, hence the
complaint. The communication went
to the finance committee. with the
mayor and city attorney associated.
The agreement proposed by the com
mlttee on municipal laws between the
city and the Salt Lake City Water &
Electrical Power company, whereby
the latter uses Jordan water until Nov.
l, was approved.
On recommendation of the fire com
mittee the appointment of John NJ
as captain in the fire de-
partment. was confirmed.
The invitation from Chief DeVine To
inspect the new fire station in the
Fourth precinct was accepted by the
council, and the time for-the visit fixed
at 5 o'clock on Monday afternoon. An
by Thomas inviting the
public at large to be present was
adopted.
y h GilSOn's request to place a con-
centratOr for exhibition purposes on
Sixth West. between Sixth and Seventh
South streets, was granted.
Dredging the Jordan.
City Engineer Kelsey wrote the coun-