The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-17
COUNCIL MEETING
IS RED-HOT ONE
Outlet Sewer Pipe Resolution Is
the Cause of All the
Trouble.
MR.. RAYB0ULD THREATENS
HIS BR0THER-C -C0UNCILMEN
Matter Is Now Up to the Board
of Public Works for
Action.

There were several oratorical passages
alarms and verbal Tits at the meeting
of the city council Monday night, and
several times the social amenities were
disturbed to the breaking point
The feeling OF bitterness and acrimony
reached It's height in the debate on Mr..
Fernstrom's resolution recommending
that the board OF public works be In
structed to notify the Campbell Building
company that unless the defects in the
outlet pipe for the west side sewage sys-
tenn be remedled within two days. tho
city council would take over the CON
tract. finish the work. and charge II 10
the building company's contract
The resolution was adopted by n vote
OF to G, Cowburn, Fcrnstronn. Hodgson;
Elolley, Hall, Murdock. Raybould and
Wood voting in favor and Ferry, Martin:
ODonnell, Reedall, Stewart and President
Almost white with passion, Mr.. Ray
bould. who lives In the district affected
by the delay in the completion OF the
pipe, looked over at Messrs. Martin,
Reedall and Stewart, and exclaimed:
You're against US, are you? We'll
we'll get even with youi'
Then Mr.. Ferry arose 10 the retort
courteous. In an even voice, unmarked
by any display Of temper mo said:
Mr.. Ferry Talks.
Mr.. President. I consider it petty and
undigDihed for a councilman from another
ward to so far lose his temper as TO de-
cause we happen TO have divergent
views; because We don't see as he does.
/ believe II is due to the board of public
works. which has had this matter under
charge and has repeatedly visited and
inspected the work, TO give It the privi-
)ege of reporting to the council the rea-
sons for any dereliction in the work;
would advocate that tho board be asked
TO give n full statement OF the progress
and conditions OF the work to tho council
at next Monday nights meeting. l there
give notice OF reconsideration, for that
purpose
When the resolution was presented and
read, Mr. Ferry and Mr. Martin spoke
against II, urging its defeat on the ground
that IT viii take some time TO connect
mp the laterals with the interceptlng
sewer and complete the pumping station
so that II will be ready 10 be put into
commission, and Mr.. Recdall said that
Mayor Bransford had visited the outlet
pipe with several of the councilmen last
week and promised to take the matter
UP with the board of public works. "Inas-
much as Mayor Bransford has promised
to do this, think il would be a slap
at him to adopt this resolution" said
iinsistent that the council walt few days
longer before taking any action,
Fernstrom Is Angry.
The whole southwestern part Of the
city has been waiting a whole year re-
torted Mr. Fernstrom, with considerable
heat. Tho city engineer made this same
recommendation to the board Of public
works somc time ago, but IL was ignored.
It is not right for an east side council
man to get up and try TO filbuster 1t
away when west side councilman wants
something
Mr. Hall charged Incompetence against
the contractor In the laying of the pipe.
and Mr.. Hodgson charged the board Of
public works with apathy and indiffer-
ence. He said: "On the west side we
have had to open our sewers and turn
cesspools. Already the city is threatened
with damage suits on account OF the
overflow sewerage. My God, We have
waited year. How much longer do you
Mr. Campbell. the contractor. who was
present. was called on and said that the
history OF wooden staye pipes was that
there were leaks for two months after
they were built. Mr.. Hall. he said, was
mistaken about the pipe being laid in
water The pipe was built according to
order In two davs You must have pa
tience with 1t" ne declared.
Under Water for Weeks.
Mr Reedall brought. the admission from
Mr.. Campbell that the pipe was under
MIR, Campbell insisted that II is not a
question OF stopping the leaks before the
pipe Is put into commission: the sediment
from the sewerage will completely do that
in two weeks after II Is put into use. he
asserted.
City Engineer Kelsey. when asked for
his opinion. said he visited the pipe Sun
day and that there were as many leaks
then as there were two or three weeks
ago. This brought fiat denial from Mr..
Campbell One OF the leaks, Mr.. Kelsey
said, was as large as his arm, The pipe
cannot be put Into commission for two
or three weeks, In the city engineers
opinion,
Mr. F'erry's notice Of motion TO re-
consider renders the resolution inopera-
tive until next Monday. In the mean
time. the board Of public works will
meet Friday, and II is understood that
Mayor Bransford Will get after II with
n sharp stick. The resolution follows;
Whereas. For about two weeks an at
tempt has been made - I'LL the wooden
stave pipe line between the intcrcepting
sewer and the gravity sewer with water
so as to test It's usefulness. and has ut
terly failed therefore, be 1t
Resolved, That the board OF public