Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-03-26
LIGHT PRIVILEGE
GRANTED AT LAST.
Property Owners ON East Side OF
Main Street Conceded Their
Original Petition.
Board OF Public Works. Says Attorney,
Has NO Right to Release Pcrri-
val From His Contract.

After causing a delay of more than
n month In an attempt TO induce the
petitioners to agree to the plan OF the
city engineer for the lighting Oh Matp
street between South Temple and fifst
South, the city council last night grant
ed the petition OF the property owners
on the east side of the block mentioned
and thew will now be allowed to In
stall light poles 80 feet apart and each
poIe will contain q cluster OF i've BE-
candle power lights. The poles VIII
be very ornamental and VIII cost about
$40 each. They viii be Installed ana
The lights furnished AT the expense OF
The business firms alons Iue p4ock. II
is expected chat a number OF other Pc
Iitions for lights 10 be furnished on
,in1ilar nIan will be presented to the
council as a result OF the public spirit
ed action of the business men on the
block mentioned
when the report Of the Improvements
commlttee was read last night recum-
fnending that the petition be granted
wells read letter from COL Webber OF
u c. NJ T., in which lie said that he
had consulted with all but one OF the
property owners on the block and they
refused to consent TO the lights being
placed 90 feet apart as contemplated in
the engineers plan and IL the petition
were not granted as requested they
would take no further interest in the
improV sment.
In the face OF tTis fact Crabtrec
moved that the report be at1ien ded by
recurring tho poles to be set SO feet
apart His amendment received very
little support and " as defeated by q
vote OF three ayes to IL nays Crab
tree Carter and Martin We're the only
ones who voted for the amendment,
HOLIDAY talked In favor of granting
the petition, He declared that the
over u month waiting for some uni
form plan 10 be agreed upon, but none
lad been submitted yet and there would
ro1 likely be one for some tirne to come
lie urged that the report be adopted
and the business men be allowed 10
go ahead with their impro vernent.
Black succeeded in getting In an
amendment requiring the removal OF
ali hltchng posts on that block when
the new potes are Installed SO that
there would not be- 80 many posts OH
the curb. The report OF the commit
tee granting the petition during the
pleasure OF the conRciI was then adopt
ed by a vote of II to g. Carter, Crab
free and Martin voting against It.
PERCIwAL MUST PROCEED.
The city attorney sent in an opinion
10 the council to tine effect that the
board of public works had no right 70
release j. w. Percival from his contract
on water main extensions last year
without the approval OF the city coWr-
Gil In view OF this opinion the water
works and finance committees submit
ted report recomm ending that the
board OF public works be instructed 10
no,ify Perclval to proceed at once to
complete his contract for 1906
II was agreed AT the special commit
tee meeting yesterday afternoon that
unless Perctval completes his old COLI
tract he Will not be awarded the con-
tract for this years work although he Is
about $4,000 lower than p. j. Moran's
BID. TNddenhan inquired II II was the
Intention to award the contract to Per-
cvaI III he completed his old contract
and President Davis informed him that
such WAS the intention, The entire mat
ter was finally laid over for n week.
The bids for public improvements for
this year approved by the council Sit
ting as a committee OF the whole last
Thursday night We're referred TO the
hoard OF public works with instructions
TO draw up contracts to conform to the
new Legislation providing for the pay
menS for public improvements by war
rants The bids OF Pereival and p. j,
Moran for the WaterworKS Improve
ments and also the bid of Johnson and
Beacon for sidewalk extension No los,
are still under consideration by the
finance, waterworks, sewerage and en-
eineering committees
Black Introduced resolution, which
was adopted. authorizing the city attor-
ney and city auditor to draw q form
OF warrant TO conform to the amended
script lew passed by the recent legis-
lature-
OTHER BUSINESS.
The sum of 81 900 was appropriated to
the credit OF the street department. TO
cover the cost OF repairing the damn go