The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-07-02
NAY GIVE UP
ITS FRANCHISE
New Phone Company Says it
Can't Use Center Of Street.
ANOTHER coNcESSiON ASKED
NYE CRIMINAL LIBEL SUIT MAY
BE DISMISSED.

The Independent Telephone company
has asked permission Of the city coun-
ell to string its wires on the side instead
OF the center Of the streets. E. B.
Jones. the attorney FOR the corporation,
explained to the streets committee last
evening that III the request is denied
that the company will not aaempt to
use its franchise in salt Lake
he said that just as soon as his COM
pans. attempted 20 place its poles IN the
center OF the streets and string its wires
on the cross poles the opposition com
pany and the electric light company
would go into court and ask for an in
Junction on the ground that the new
company was interfering with their
wires. That would mean years Of liti-
cation, he said, which the Independent
company does not desire.
II. n. Hall, the cOmpany's engineer.
explained 20 the committee that the
company proposes to string it's wires
IN cables in the residence portion of
the city; that the cables would not in
any way affect the trees. He produced
number Of photographs showing how
similar companies erect their poles in
otter cities
This afternoon the members OF the
committee viii be driven about the
city that they may be shown just what
thu telephone people propose 10 do, If
permitted. with their sidewalk poles
Vice President s. f. Fenton and Di-
rectors George r. Oden and NJ H
Walker also attended the committee
meeting.
Criminal Libel Suit Discussed.
The Nye-C ottrell- Fernstrom criminal
libel suit came up i'm the finance COM
mittee. II was decided 70 ask the city
attorney to defer further steps in the
l. ~
principals TO get together and talk the
matter over and see if Il is not possible
10 effect a compromise. The PROPOSE
ton viii be laid before the city at
torney today by Councilman A. J. Da-
Wis
A score or more Brigham street
property owners appeared before the
streets and finance committees relative
to the pavement of that thOrOuRhfare.
Those present unanimously voted TO
accept a set of plans presented by John
j. DAILY. They provide for a retaining
wall in the center OF the street. with
an asphalt pavement thfrty-six feet
wide on either side Of the center. Then
comes a thirty-fOOt parking in which
IS the sidewalk. The street cars run in
the center of the street. The plan con-
templates the lowering Of the north
drive two feet and raising the south
drive two feet.
The widening of the parking and the
contracting of the asphalt will reduce
the cost of the Improvement to about
SO per front foot according to che esti-
mates of Mr. Daily. The lowering and
raising Of the driveways will reduce
the height of the center retaining wall
and cut the cost from about $4,000 TO
less than $4,000.
VIII Take Care of Parking.
II e. the intention OF the wealthy
residents on the north side of the street
10 form a pork association and at their
own expense to keep the parking in the
blocks laid this year in perfect cOndi-
ton. The abutting property owners
who refuse to enter the association will
have the parking in front of their
homes taken care Of by the association.
The scope OF that organization will
probably be increased year by year as
additional blocks are paved and beau
tilted
The Jordan canal committee. through
the fundamentally of Councilman
Black will recommend to the council
Monday night that the city construct
i brick conduit at the intersection of
Seventh East and Third South street.
The property owners agree TO share 40
per cent Of the cost. which will be about
81 400.
The request OF J. X. Shaw and the
other property owners on Main street
between Sixth and Seventh South
streets TO lay their own cement side
walk was denied. They claimed they
could lay the paving FOR about a quar-
ter less than the city would charge
them for the same work. The requesI
was denied on the ground that a con-
tract has been let TO one firm TO do all
such work during the year for the city
and that l the council permitted Mr..
ranff ion 10
the work The parties to whom the com
bined contract was let could, by legal
steps. force the city to pay them for
the work.