Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-02-08
Finance Committee Lets the Con-
tract to a st. Louis
Firm.
NO ONE KNOWS COST OF 1T.
Martins Amendment on the Poolroom
Ordinance Acted Upon Favor
ably Last Night.

The finance committee of the city
council met yesterday afternoon and de-
cidcd 10 let the contract for auditing the
books of the various city departments
and installing a better and more mod
ern system Of keeping the city's books
10 the Westerman-Tr Trader company of
ST. Louis. Tho council several months
ago appropriated $4,000 FOR the purpose
Of institutlng new system of book
Keeping in the city's departments and
the finance committee was authorized
to act in the matter. Bids were re-
ceived yesterday from several eastern
firms and that of the firm named above
was accepted. Under the terms of the
contract the chief accountant win re-
ceive SIS per day and his assistant Will
receive $40 per day, No one knows how
long it will take them TO complete the
work and hence no one can tell what
the cost viii be. But that makes no DIFF
ference to the American" administra-
ton so long as it has its way about
tie matter.
POOLROOM ORDINANCE.
At meeting of the municipal laws
and license committee last night, the
Martin amendment to the poolrOom
ordinance, which forbids minors
from frequenting pool or billiard
halls of any kind whether liquor
Is sold in the place or not, was acted
upon favorable and the committees will
recommend to the council on Monday
night the passage of the amendment
GARBAGE CONTRACT.
The proposition of Herman Bamber-
ser to lease the city crematory and
handle all the citys garbage was con-
sidered by the sanitary committee last
night. Mr.. Bamberger said that he had
a company which would want a lease
on the cremaeory and which would ham
die the garbage. The company would
give a satisfactory bond to the city to
insure the faithful performance of the
contract. He would not disclose the
terms which he would make for the
reason that the committee might de-
eide to advertise for bids and then the
public would know beforehand what
his figures We're. There are two other
applicants for handling the garbage,
namely. Frank Raleigh Of this city, and
J. Hartman 4 Co. of Denver. The
matter was finally referred to special
committee, consisting of Mayor Thomp-
son, Health Commissioner Stewart, and
Chairman ODonnell OF the sanitary
committee, with Instructions 10 consid-
er the propositions of the various par
ties and decide whether or not II wou
ne adNlsaDle TO advertise Tor plds LOT
the removal Of the garbage.
NINTH EAST GRADING.
The matter of macadamizing Ninth
East street was again considered by the
streets committee last night and ar
guments both for and against the i'm
provement We're heard. The protestants
claimed that there We're not enough le-
gal signers to the petition to pass the
Improvement. but the committee had
Investigated that matter and decided
that there were enough sgners. Then
the protestants argued that the city
should stand at least half OF the ex-
pense but the committee did not agree
to that either. AS II is now the Utah
Light & Railway company will have to
stand a large portion of the cost of the
improvement for macadamizing be-
tween and on both sides of it's tracks
The committee decided to recommend
that the improvement be made on the