The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-03-02
COUNCIL DECIDES
TO GRANT FRANCHISE
Street Railway Extension to
Calder'S Park.
REQUEST OF FIREMEN
WANTED FREE RIDES OVER
COMPANY'S LINES.
REQUEST OF FIREMEN

streets and municipal laws agreed last |
evening on the form of the ordinance !
to be recommended for passage grant |
ing to the Salt Lake City Railroad !
company a franchise to extend its Sew |
enth East street line from Ninth South |
to the southern boundary of the city, |
the project being to run the line to
Callers park. The usual terms and |
conditions IN street railway franchises |
will be included in the grant to be |
made.
Fire Chief Devine appeared before |
the committee meeting TO urge a rider
to the draft of the ordinance. whereby |
uniformed fremen viii be accorded the
right to ride free on all street car lines |
of the company. Because the police !
men have enjoyed and still enjoy dead !
head rides when they are in full uni
form, the firemen are of the opinion |
that they should not be Disseminated |
against, and the chief declared that
after years of waiting now is the pro
per time to bring the street car COM
pany to terms before granting the
franchise.
Replying to Chief Devine's argument.
Superintendent Read of the railroad
company said he could see no reason
why any class of the city employees
more than another should be given free
rides going and returning from their
meals He also declared his inability
to see how the municipality could reap
any advantage from the requirement
proposed by the fire chief.
Attorney CritchloW, counsel for the
street car company, ventured the OBJ
servation that to accord free transpor-
tation to the firemen would be going
only step farther from the privilege
given the policemen. A precedent es-
tablished like Chief Devine would have
would make it an easy matter for the
men of the water department to de-
mand deadhead favors, then the street
employees, then the license officials
and finally the cOunciimen could with
equal consistency claim free rides by
virtue of their Office. To the company
directors the proposition appeared like
the thin edge of a, wedge whose broad
est dimensions no one could apprehend-
In executive session Inc joint COM
mittee quickly decided to not load
down the franchise to be granted with
any such eXactiOn as demanded by
the firemen. but it was voted that a
| recommendation would be made to the
| council that the street car company be
| requested to accede to the deadhead1ng
| of uniformed firemen. inasmuch as the
! policemen enjoyed this favor.
Want Wider Street.
Previous to taking a vote on the
/ franchise question, Lee Goetchius ad-
| dressed the councilmen on behalf of
/ the petition of residents along lower
! Seventh East street to widen the thor
| oughfare adjacent to Liberty park by
| taking d twenty-foOt strip off the east
side of the park so that the people in
| that vicinity may have ample sidewalk
| room after the car line is extended
down the narrow street south of Ninth
| South.
To test the sense of the committees.
| a vote was taken on a, motion to grant
| the franchise. The only negative votes
| were those Of the three cOuncilmen
! from the Second precinct, and their
/ reason for going on record against it
! was that the street car company had
| not kept its promise to give a half
| hourly service instead of hourly runs
on the West Temple street line. This
| objection was overcome, however, by
! a requirement in the franchise to run
cars on the Seventh East street eX-
tended line as often as cars are run
on the cOmpany'S other lines where the
service is as frequent as every thirty
| minutes.
It was practically decided to recon-
mend TO the council the taking of a
strip off the east side of Liberty park
to widen the street, and 1t was agreed
that the company would be required to
! lay it's west rail to within five feet OF
the west curb line as now established
! leaving the east half of the street for
wagon traffic
The franchise will require that it be
accepted within thirty days after the
council grants it, and that the extended
line shall be in operation within ninety
days thereafter.
The city attorney was directed tc
draw a bill for an ordinance for the
| franchise in accordance with the terms
stated, and including in the bill al
provisions usually found in similar
franchise ordinances.
Water Extensions.
The waterworks committee wrestlet
with the problems of how to recon-
mend the granting of the petition fol
a larger distributing pipe in Perkins
addition, TO afford better fire protec
ton in that locality, and how to gram
the petition of the Hubbard Investment
company for an extension of the pip'
system to Oakley subdivision, in the
extreme northwestern part of the city
In the first case it was suggested tina
it would be cheaper if not better t
run a six-inch pipe from Eleventh EaS
street to Ninth East down Eleventh
South, instead of down Ninth East.
longer distance, and for the purpose o
determining the rights of the petition
erS to have the Improvement mad'
(. without levy of a special tax, the mat
ter was referred to the city attorney
and the superintendent of waterworks
With reference to the Oakley subdi
vision extension, which failed b6cauS
of the mayors Veto the leading peti
toner announced that he would submit
;, q new petition agreeing to put up tn
necessary $1,000, taking water scrll
/. non negotiable until Jan l. 1903, am
guaranteeing the city per cent on tn
investment in water rates until tn
section to be supplied with water /
sufficiently settled by water takers I
. make a guaranty no longer necessary
e The committee or improvements me
l,with General Manager Campbell of IN
Utah Light & Power company an
:, ! agreed to the amendments made in tn
proposed renewal contract for stree
lighting to meet the mayors Objec
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$ / company stiH demands the right {
work into the plan of substituting tn
2 indirect current lights, instead of tn
! old direct current arcs, and to this tn
committee acceded. The contract is t
} commence March 1, instead of las
, September, and is to run for tire
: ! years, with the privilege of renewal 70
| two years.
: The finance committee took UP tn
petition of Henry Barnes for a reduc
, ton of the monthly rental of the War;
! Springs the remaining FIVE years of til
lease to 500, the sum now paid, in
! stead of $50. Before considering tn
petition the committee viii require
, statement of the lessee's revenues an
7 his financial condition, and this Mr.:
Barnes promised to furnish. Her hus
| band is i'll with paralysis.
Mexicans Fight Indians.