The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-09-09
IRREGULARITIES
ARE CHARGED
City Cemetery Employees Accused
Of 0Vsrcharging.
PUBLICITY is DEMANDED
PROTEST ENTERED AGAINST
SHOOTS ELECTRIC ROAD.

Charges Of irregularities among the
city employees at the City cemetery rela-
tive to sOdding burial lots. are to be in
vestisated upon the floor Of the city
council chamber if Chairman SEArp of the
cemetery committee does not. within the
VestgatiCn which the committee made
into the charges alleged. The entire mat
ter was last evening taken from the
n2COS of Mayor Ezra Thompson and the
members of the committee pending the
submission Of the report next Monday
night IT was done at the instigation OF
Councilman Robinson. who complained
that he had been treated unfairly by the
committee IN not making its report long
before this.
Some four months ago Councilman Rob
insOn introduced resolution demanding
an investigation. 10 was referred to the
cemetery committee and the mayor assO-
ciated.
Employees Pocket Many Dollars.
tt was said by Councilman Robinson
last evening that charges had been made
TO him that city employees at the Gene
terry. during the hours they were supposed
to be working for the city. would sod lots
and then charge the buyers of the lots
Tor their idborS. and put the money IN
their own pocket. He said where lot
should only cost SO. that 50 extra would
be charged for the sOdding. and that
money would go to the men who CId the
work. He stated further that people
were forced 10 pay the money whether
they wanted TO or not; that il they did
not pay the extra charge they could not
get a lot in the sOdded district
In the past a number of men. not city
employees had been i'm the habit of maxi
ing a living By soliciting jobs OF sOdding
from people who did not bury their dead
Ia the sOdded district It was not long
according to Councilman Robinson s
statement. before an effort was made by
thc city employees to prevent those OUT
slders from doing any work at all. Va
rlOuS scheme were reSortcd 20 TO keep all
Ia HsH~ H. nf
being done at the expense of the citys
time It was through the friction be-
tween the two classes that the charges
were made to Councilman Robinson.
He stated on the floor of the council
last evening that he would demand that
the money taken I'm for the sale Of lots
be turned into the city treasury
Mayors Side Of the Matter.
Mayor Thompson, when seen about the
matter last night, said that the difficulty
was simply an objection to the employees
at the cemetery working after reguiSr
hours to sod lots for private individuals
The objection. he said, was made by those
VINO made sOcCtng business, and
claimed that as the cemetery employees
wer0 paid by the city 20 do certain work
there they had no right 20 interfere with
work belonging TO outsiders and doing il
after their own regular working hours.
THE matter. said Mayor ThOmps IN,
was referred to the cemetery committee
for Investigation. This committee met
with me before the council went to Port
lard, and they were to make investiga-
TONS and hand in a report. have not
received any report and know nothing
further about the matter.
Protest Against Shoots Road.
Joseph +. Smith, by Julian L. Smith:
Lewis T. MiNs. state Engineer Boremus,
Sister NJ. Alexis. superior St Mary's
academy; Arthur Barnes and Mae vii
lams. submitted a petition protesting
against the council giving Senator Reed
SmOot and others franchise to oDeratc
MS proposed Springville-LOgan electric
railway along First West. First North
and Second West streets.
Through the fundamentally of COUu-
Gilman Black the council rescinded its
former action to insure the new city jail
for S20.e0e Ii was finally voted to in
sure it for 5000 and place 5000 upon
the new isolation hospital.