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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-08
CITY ENGINEER
GETS INCREASE
Salary viii Be $1,000 After
ian. 1-Doings of the
City Council.

City Engineer L. P. Kelsey will, after
Jan !. receive $1,000 a year. instead of
81 400. as formerly. This Christmas pres
ent was given him last night in an ordi-
nance passed by the city council The
only opposition TO this increase in salary
came from Councilman Holley. who
moved an amendment making the salary
$500 instead of $S.60G The ordinance
passed by a vote of l. TO ,. Hall and MUIR
doch voting in the negative
The council unanimously passed a resO-
luton requiring the Campbell ConstTuc-
connecting the interceptinG sewer and
the gravity sewer on the west side. The
repair work must be commenced within
two days.
After some discussion the Salisbury es-
tate was denied a rebate of SS1.S1 side
walk tax for walk put in front of their
property on South Main street.
A communication from Rudolph Alff.
city auditor. asking that the petition of
Hewlett Bros. for an abatement of a
merchants tax be denied was referred to
the license committee Hewlett Bros, in
their petition. claim exemption from tax
on the ground that they are manufacture
ers not merchants The auditor takes
the position that they are coffee blenders
not coffee manufacturers.
The action of Chief Pitt in removing
Desk Sergeant Silas T. Smith and APP
pointing A. c. Sears in his stead was con-
firmed.
BY his resignation and reappointment
as chief clerk of the waterworks depart
ment z. c. Kneass receives the increase
in salary from $50 30 per month to 800.
His resignation was in order that he
might come under the provisions of the
ordinance. which require that this raise
shall not apply TO the sppointees then
holding office. but to those to be ap-
pointed in the future.
The reform ordinances regulating the
sale of liquor ell went over for another
week on motion of Councilman Black
who said that he had been out OF town
and wished to examine the ordinances
that he might get in on the reform move
ment.
A new clerk. to serve for thirty DAYS at
s. a day for the city auditor was author
lied.
The case of Tedesco & Co. saloonkeep-
ers. who were to have been given a hear
ing on the revocation of their license be-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-08
BETTER TIMES
IN NEAR FUTURE

Washington Dec 7-Greater activity In
transportation lines end in the building
trades of the country during the month
OF October are indicated by returns re-
ceived by the bureau of statistics
Grain receipts at fourteen leading Ia
terror markets showed a total of S5,SN, 59l
Bushels divided as follows: Wheat A.,
631, 499 bushels; corn. S651.e92 bushels;
oats, ISIS 953 bushels; barley. II, 44l-91
bushels, and rye, 1,244 1O7 bushels.
Shipments Of packing house products
from Chicago aggregated 23S. AS le6
month. Livestock receipts at four prin-
head. At these four cities the total re-
ceipts of flour and grain were 24.600, 3l3
bushels.
Other important statistical data for DC
tober movements are given by the bu-
reau follows:
Arrivals of redwood lumber at Califor-
MIA ports, 51.712.52 feet; lumber ship
mentS from Portland. Ore. 10.O97. s21 feet.
A heavier freight movement than was
recorded during previous months is indi-
Gated by the total number of cars hauled
by thirty-one car service associations and
demHrrage bureaus in different parts OF
the country. The number of cars nan
died reached a total of 3. 7S6, $40, about
100000 more cars than were reported dur
ing the previous month.
Building operations in the larger cities
have taken upward turn. the value of
permits granted in fifty cities aggregat-
ing $3.50, s44, New York. Chicago and
Philadelphia leading in building activities
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UNIVERSITY NOTES.

Robert Forester. the seologist and min
ing engineer. has donated TO the museum
of the university "A most extensive and
complete set OF fossils. The collection was
made by Mr.. Forester from the Rocky
mountain district after years OF careful
and continuous effort. The fossils are
mostly from the secondary and tertiary
periods and as most of them are from
nearby localities they Will prove lnVal-
liable TO the department of geology Ac-
couapanying each specimen is accurate
data concerning il which has been COM
piled by Mr. Forester with the assistance
and notification of specialists.
Governor-elect William Spry was Vlsl-
tor at the university YESTERDAY He was
conducted through the buildings by Pres
ident ]. T. Kingsbury and a lunch was
room. Mr.. Spry was made acquainted
with the needs of the Institution and he
made a thorough inspection of the build
ings and equipment of the school.
Dr. Ralph Y. Chamberlin. formerly dean
of the medical school at the university
and now head of the department of b.
ology at the B. Y. L. of Provo, viii deliver
for the advancement Of science. which
meets this month in Baltimore Later he
will speak before the American Associa-
ton of AnatOmists.
The kindergarten rooms at the univer-
sity were the scene of a delightful af-
fair Saturday afternoon when Miss
Fox, Miss Fenton and Miss ShOles enter
tain the senior and junior girls.
A committee of the university profess
letin that the university issues. The bull
letin will contain information regarding
the expenses and incomes of students at
tending the university
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Building
Heado

the next twenty years and for a city of
half million people This fact shows
Mr.. Groshells faith in the National Cash
Register company's future, and also mis-
faith in Salt Lake as the coming city.
The top will be Surmounted by an electric
sign with the initials IN. c. r." and will
probably be the largest sign of its kind
between the Missouri river and the Pa
cific coast. The front of the building will
be of terra Gotta and white enamel
brick. Work will be commenced in the
early spring, as soon the present leases
expire. and Will be completed some time
during the summer.
Mr. GrOshell has beeen established in
business here for the past twenty-one
years. nineteen of which have been spent
in his present location in the Kenyon
building. When he first entered the cash
register business his sales averaged two
per month. Now they average forty per
month. Ninety-seven per cent of all the
cash registers in use in the ntermountain
country have been sold by Mr.. Groshell
or through his agency When he takes
up his quarters in the new building ne
iii have the distinction of being the first
National cash register agent In the United
States to occupy his own office building.
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for the company, some weeks ago, Mr..
KieTan has been occupied in making
personal visits To various Catholic in
situations in order to explain the con-
ditiOn of the company and the circum-
stances surrounding the sudden and un-
expected appointment of the temporary
receiver. The application was made
under circumstances which Mr.. Kieran
regarded as a breach of faith by GER
tain banks and trust companies which
are creditors of the Fidelity Funding
company, and notwithstanding the con-
troversy which arose over the appoint
ment of receiver between larger cred
itors and the president and officers of
the corporation, Mr.. Kieran's efforts to
rehabilitate the company and secure all
parties from loss have been constant
and untiring."
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Oscar GroshelI. the cash register man,
will put up a three-stOry building at 249
State street, the ground floor and base
ment to be occupied by him as National
cash register salesroom, and the two up
per floors to be rented as offices. The
location is an ideal one, being four doors
north of the Knutsford hotel and one
door north of the new Lyceum theatre,
which Will be completed on Jan l.
The building win be e2xl50 feet. The
basement rs to be cemented throughout
and will be used to store cash registers
and cash register supplies in original
cases, and the rear will be used as
packing room. The first floor will be ar
ranged to provide accommodations for
cashier and boOkkeeper, private office, Of
flee for city and out-of-town statesmen
and demonstrating rooms for the different
models of cash registers
The rear of this floor will be occupied
by the repair department and will be fit
ted up with all latest improvements 1t
will be unusually we'll lighted. as the rear
walls will be built of glass and iron. The
floor space occupied by Mr.. GrOsheil will
be about 5000 square feet and will pro-
vide accommodations for his needs for
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CHIEF PITT Is 0USTED
BY MAYOR BRANSFORD
Continued from PAGE I


he was not responsible for this condi-
ton; that Sheriff Emery had inter
fered in the matter. had driven them
from Commercial street and was MAX
ing IT very difficult for the police to
control the women. / told him that
would arrange a conference with Mr..
Emery and the chief of police in my
office for Saturday afternoon.
Chief Pitts Manifesto.
Accordingly I called up Sheriff EN-
cry and made an appointment to meet
him at my office ON Saturday after
noon. 1 had intended comforting with
him and the chief of police and find
ing out whether or not the police de-
partment and the sheriff's office could
not agree on the best method of CO.
operation in restricting the vice TO a
segregated district. AS agreed, Sheriff
Emery came to my office, but Chief Pitt
did not come. l was busy in my inner
office and after waiting for some time
the sheriff went away.
THE following day l saw an inter
view with the chief of police in a morn
ing paper In this Chief Pitt is quoted
as saying:
The new red light district will never
open. I viii not permit a woman to oc-
cupy those houses for the illegal pur-
poses III view am hSSplnS III CLOSE
touch with all that goes on in the new
district, and the first woman that en-
tiers the place and receives guests is
going to be landed behind the bars
7 went to-Chief Pitt and asked him
whether or not he had given out this
interview. He evaded my question and
1 asked him if what appeared in the
paper expressed his views on the mat
ter. He said that it did and that he
would resign rather than consent to
the removal of the women to the pro-
posed district. then told him that I
stood ready to receive his resignation.
Then he said that-he Would not resign.
Therefore / sent in his removal for
confirmation by the council
with reference to the proposed new
district, the houses of which are in
process of construction. I wish to say
that ] am thoroughly in favor of il
and that it was at my suggestion that
the work was begun
Were it in my power I would prefer
10 see the city in condition whare
there would be no such houses at all.
That is. Of course, the ideal which. 7
am sorry TO say, is at present un-
attainable. This vice has ALWAYS ex
listed and it always will exist. There
is not a city in the United States. or
in the world. free from it,
Acting on the assumption that the
evil must exist, city governments the
world over have sought to regulate II
and 10. render il capable OF a minimum
amount of HARM With this in view
and with the power vested in me as
mayor of Salt Lake City. 1 propose to
take these women from the business
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the removal would be made. these people
Invested their money and have built the
buildings after my suggestions The build
lngs are now up and the removal of the
women to the new district will be made
very soon. There will be policemen sta
toned in the new district night and day
No young girls or young boys will be ad-
mitted within the new district. no matter
what their business may he. There will
be no business houses that viii require
going into or passing through the district
to reach. There will be a sub-station with
a small lookup in which prisoners may
he kept until the arrival or the patrol
wagon. | will say 10 you positively that
the new district viii soon be occupied and
that it will be one Of the very best reg
ulated district Of its kind in the cOun-
try
With reference 10 his removal Chief Pitt
had nothing to say last evening. He re-
ferred his interviewer to Lieutenant Dick
Shannon for statement in his behalf.
Lieutenant Shannon. however. declined to
say anything for publication.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-08
HERMAN BILLIK IN LUCK

Springfield. H.. Dec. Herman Billik.
sentenced TO hang in Chicago Friday next
has been reprieved until Jan. %.
Acting Governor J.. Y. Sherman granted
Previously Francis +. Hinckley of Chi
-cago, attorney for Billilx, had filed the
brief petition defining the case II was
set out in the petition that certain new
and vital matters had come to the atten-
ton of petitioner sine the presentation OF
his application to the governor last April.
The petitioner further stated that Gov
ernor Deneen asked that further reprieve
be granted until such time as the gov
ernor who is nowin Washington. can con-
veniently hear further proceedings.
Hinckley declares that new evidence VIII
vindicate and free the defendant
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MYSTERY CLEARING.

San Francisco, Dec Upon the report
made today by Theodore Kytka. hand
writing expert. that J. Warren Wilson
wrote the letter sent through the mails
TO Henry Boas with a package of pow
ders which the latter took for indigestion
as directed in the letter, and died in few
hours from strychnine poisoning. Captain
of Detectives Kelly stated that Wilson
probably will be charged with murder.
Wilson was arrested Saturday. He was
formerly employed by Boas.
After a careful comparison of the letter
received by Boas with the handwriting of
Wilson, Kytka unhesitatingly declared
that they were both written by the same
hand.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-08
ENDED HER TROUBLES.

Bristol. r l.. Dec. Mrs. Emma Rus
sell Chesebrough. aged 80 years. wife of
Alfred S. Chesebrough. a well-known
yacht designer of this city who is now
in Scotland on a business trip committed
suicide yesterday by shooting herself
twice in the head. She had been troubled
with melancholia and insomnia
Mrs. Chesebrough was the daughter of
former Lieutenant Governor Jonathan
Russell Bullock. Two children. sister
Mrs. Samuel p. Colt. wife of the presi-
dent of the United States Rubber COM
pany, and her mother. Mrs. Emma West
colt Bullock. formerly of Boston, survive
her
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section of the city and put them in a
district which viii be one of the best,
if not the very best, regulated re-
stricted districts in the country.
when first became mayor, business
men of all parties and citizens of all
classes came to me and urged that |
do something to remove this vice from
the business district of the city 1
spoke to the councilmen about it.
Every one of them was in favor of the
removal of the district, but each was
somewhat puzzled as to what should
be done with the women and as to
where the district should be located
More than a year ago / went cast
with CounciImen Mulvey. Tuddenham
and Holley TO look over the various
systems of municipal lighting and
other questions of government in many
of the larger cities of the country. On
that trip we also took occasion to con-
suit with city officials with reference
to their methods of handling the ten
derioin problem and to examine into
these methods
Selection of Location.
ION our return we-examined the To-
cation of the present proposed district
and decided it was the place to which
TO move the district. Mr.. Tuddenham.
Mr.. Holley and Mr.. Mulvey all favored
the location Not satisfied with the
approval of the councilmen alone, |
spent DAYS in consultation with prorni-
nent residents of Salt Lake and re-
ceived their advice on the matter 1
took prominent business men of all
parties and former city officials in my
automobile TO the proposed site and all
agreed that it was the place for such
district.
ct ,.-ap+a5 the huiIdinoS Of +ba NO.,
constructed in a manner that would
cause them all 10 face the interior of
the block. so that the whole thing
would be kept within the block and
that there would be nothing on the
streets passing the district that would
indicate that there We're such a district
within / wanted, too, to have the dis
trict regulated IN a manner that would
abate the evil as much as possible. I
do not blame the people of the west
side for Directing to the proposed dis
trict; l expected that. The problem
was to find a location where there
would be the smallest number of peo-
pie injured by this removal. 1 believe
we have found that district.
oqden People Interested.
at asked Mr.. Mulvey to find some per-
sons or company that would consent to
the general plans and who would consent
to have the entire district under constant
police regulation and to Cooperate with
the police in this regulation. Mr.. Muivey
found some people who considered the
matter. but finally decided MOTTO under
take the project. Then 1t was that we
got into communication with the Ogden
people They agreed to my terms and i
told them that if they did as 1 wished
and followed out the directions l gave
them my word l would see TO it that the
women of the downtown district were re-
moved to the new location
Acting solely on my assurance that
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-08
TAFT WELCOMED
BY THE TAR HEELS
President-E Elect Addresses the
North Carolina Society
of Greater New York.

New York. Dec. 7.-President-elect VIII
liam II. Taft, who came to New York to-
day TO address the North Carolina society
OF this city. was given a tumultuous re-
ception tonight by members of the organ
ization ana prominent men from all parts
OF the south at the annual dinner of Nor<<
CarOinlans at the Hotel AstOr. Five hun
bred members and guests of the society
filled the brilliantly decorated banquet
hall. which was redolept of the pines of
the Tar Heel state, the cones and branches
of the resinous trees forming the back
ground for more fragrant blooms which
were scattered everywhere over snowy
linen and flas-draped walls
Mr.. Taft, in the course of an address,
which was confined entirely to the south
and its problems. did not hesitate to fol-
low up what he regards as the ADVANTAGES
OF his trip through the south during the
recent campaign. and urged again that the
voters OF that section should break away
from the outlived sentiment and traditions
OF their past political affiliations and cast
their ballots in accordance rather With
their economic and real political beliefs
Declares His Policy.
Mr.. Taft declared that nothing would
give him greater pride during his COM
ing term in the chief executive office than
TO so direct the policy of the national gov
eminent with respect 20 the southern
states as to convince the intelligent citi-
zens of the south of the desire of his ad-
satisfactorily the serious problems before
them and of bringing them and their
northern fellow citizens closer and closer
in sympathy and point of view.
During the last decade said Mr. Taft
''in common with all lovers of our coun-
try. ! have watched with delight and
thanksgiving the bond of union between
the two sections grow firmer. l pray that
1t may be given to me to strengthen this
movement to Obliterate all sectional lines
and leave nothing of difference between
the north and south save a friendly emu
lation for the benefit of our common coun-
try"
At the conclusion of practically every
one of his pointed sentences, Mr.. Taft was
interrupted by applause and cheering He
frankly expressed himself regarding the
se-called negro question" and declared
that neither he nor the Republican party
had any idea of forcing upon the people of
the south the dominance of an ignorant
class
Mr.. Taft declared that the north yearns
FOR a closer association with the south
and quoted statistics to show that the in
dustries of the south had grown and
prospered more during the past decade
than any other section of the country
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cause of alleged sale of liquor on sun
daV. will be heard at an adjourned SEES
sion of the council next Thursday evening.
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FINANCES ARE
BADLY TANGLED.
Fidelity Funding Co. Has LA
biIitieS to the Amount of
Nearly SIS, 900, 900.
CATHOLIC CHURCHES LOSE
ALSO SUMMARIES, COLLEGES,
PRIESTS AND NUNS.

New YORK, Dec - nat Iiie dLAdii >
or the Fidelity Funding company. in
stituted in 1894 to finance Catholic
building operations, and which went
INFO the hands of a receiver a few
,,.eals ago. are in an exceedingly tan
~loa condition was asserted by Receiv-
cr Thomas F. Gnroy, jr., in statement
today. ..,.
According 10 Receiver Gilroy the com
rauv's liabilities viii aggregate not less
tha.1 S4,5OOOOO. with practically no as
IS It's creditors include fifty
,burrbes. seminaries, colleges and many
PRIESTS and nuns. These are located
from the New England states to ore
con. Chief among the company's cred
irors are st. Mary's academy of Maui
VOC. III. which is involved for at least
sJ0O,0o0-
Books and Papers Missing.
81 cannot give even an approximate
idea of the cOnlpany's affairs at this
time said Receiver GilrOy, AS some
of the most important books and papers
are missing. ! understand that Presi-
dent Kieran of the company estimat-
ed them as his personal property.
Most Of the company's loans were to
run for twenty years. In addition TO
these loans the company also issued
life insurance against the lives Of priests
and nuns.
Tbe company. il seems. also sold its
. honde 10 representatives Of the Catholic
.bUrcb These are secured according
10 the receiver, by mortgages on prop
ertv. but how much may ne recovered
from this source il is as yet impossible
10 say.
In addition to the funding company
President Kieran also conducted num-
Der Of subsidiary companies, including
the Columbia Construction company,
Federal Construction company, Mcbride
studios company and the Western Hi
uois K Iowa Railroad company.
Small Amount Paid In.
The authorized capital of the Fidelity
Fundi-g company was $5,000,00O, and
s.. 800. 600 surplus. OF this amount not
more than about 100000 was actually
paid in. the receiver states, the buy
ers Of the stock being for the most part
priests and nuns.
Former Secretary of the Treasury
Leslie NJ. Shaw is down in the COM
pany's books as, having made a loan of
$4,000 10 Kieran and purchased $4,000
Of the company's stock.
The present heau OF the company Is
Duncan H. Sill, and among its former
directors were Father Lanigan, vicar
general Of the Buffalo diocese, and Fa-
Their Fletcher, pastor of the Baltimore
cathedral.
The receiver says he will bring suits
sgeregating $500. 900 against a number
Of banks and financial institutions on
the ground that heavy bonuses were
charged for loans made 10 the Fidelity
Funding company
Kieran Not in Hiding.
cambridge Colby of the law firm of
Colby & GOldbeck. counsel for P. J.
Kieran, president of the Fidelity Fund
ing company. issued a statement tonight
in which he said that there was no mys-
terry as to the whereabouts of Mr.. Kier-
an. There has been at no time recent
ly. he said, an occasion when Mr.. Kier-
an could not be reached by the receiver.
The statement says:
Since the sudden application for the
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