The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-12-10
HALL 0BSTRUCTS
NEWHOUSE LIGHTS
Believes Granting of Permission
TO Install System Would Be
Bad Precedent.
MARTIN HAS WORD TO SAY
ON "CHEAP PETTIF0GGER{"
Declares Adobe Shacks Ought to
BE Raced to Ground by the
Building Inspector.

Councilman Hall Of the Fourth ward
put a stop TO the plan of lighting the
Newhousc property streets after Sys-
tenn proposed by the persons who own
the property, and incidentally Mr.. Hall
stirred M a hive Of busy bees with
stingcrs on en-
The proposition came mp when n
petition was read from the Ncwhousc
Realty company asking that IT he
granted permission to install a system
of lights on Main. State. Cactus streets
and Exchange place The number OF
lights for which permission was asked
was fifty, and ihe plan was TO place
them ~ intervals of about tortY'two
feet, The majority of the improve.
mcnts committee reported in favor OF
permission to install twenty four lights.
The report was in far way or
adoption. when Mr.. Hall arose.
II desire 10 vote IN opposition, SAID
Mr.. Hall. 81 believe This would be
setting a bad precedent, and would be
= course which we would rue. In very
short time we would have 10 put in
ON every foot Of Main strcct-a thou
sand liChts-or i large number. at
least | do not believe Ii is a square
deal TO favor this property In the
matter of lights. or any other prop
crtv, and make our distribution with
such evident discrimination. | propose
TO vote No
And he did.
Calls 1t Cheap Pettifoggcry-
Councilman Martin, the chairman of
the committee, made y speech. 1T
seems Il very strange thing 10 me, -
began Mr. Martin, that this oppo'
sitiou should arise. Here is a man who
has put in Il million and quarter
dollars in real estate, expended three
millions in improvements, cut streets
and buildcd them, using therefor real
estate worth i hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars; did all the curbing, gut
tcripg. paving-and the city was not
out q dollar. This street he gave to
the city, without cent of cost, eX-
ccpt for j crossing across a sidewalk.
Mr.. Hall comes here and talks about
having to furnish lights for every build.
ing o0 Main street. Why. gentlemen,
if had my way d put 4 light every
ten feet in front of clcvcn-story build
ings, such us The Ncwhouso buildings.
Why. that mau is the only man who
had nerve enough to do ANYTHING, We
sec a lot OF fellows here who bought
inside real estate, and they re letting
il lie and rot, and they re rotting with
II.
'.This opposition is The cheapest kind
Of pettfoggery ] ever heard of
" Don Z talk to me about these
dobc shacks on Main street. They re
disgrace TO this city and would he
disgrace 10 any other city They re
so crazy that they re leaning against
one another 10 keep from tumbling
down. II ! were the building inspector
of this town d move heaven and earth
10 have every one Of them torn down
in sixty days"
Hall for Free Power
Mr., Hall still thought the granting
OF the petition would be mnwisc.
81 would rather watt said Mr
Hail. until the city can build a power
plant where Cottonwood emptics into
Farley reservoir, and TO furnish free
lights 10 every business man in the
business center of town. That s the
way it ought TO be done We ought
10 give every business house free light
for any number of lamps they want to
erect on the street, say, between South
Temple and Fourth South. and West
Temple and State
On the roll call tho report was lost
by both n lack of constitutional maJor-
lly and by actual voting strength. the
ron can showing nNc votes In the neg
ativc and four in the affirmative MIR,
Black aud Mr.. Martin. one voting in
the Affirmative and the other in the
negative. gave notice Of rcconsidera-
tios next Monday, because "A question
arose as to who had the power to
give such i notice, Anyway, the no
tlce WAS given, and the Ncwhousc light
matter VIII come up again,
Other Lights Jeopardized.
Meanwhile. there was a report on
the recorders desk authorizing new
lights. which was about as long as the
history of the decline and fall of the
Roman empire. Mr.. Martin asked that
This report be laid over
1t has been amended somewhat al
ready said Mr.. Martin, "and it will
be amended some more. 7 suggested
the addition Of fifteen or sixteen lights
myself that were not asked for bv Deti
tIon, aud a good many of these are in
the Fourth precinct. l really do think
the report will be further changed -
Don't Forget