Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-05-04
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ANONGA|L!D|:|.E||:RM|| N.
no IF coun1Ic'lii|men1 Discover is g q
Joker in Contract Awarded
Pat Moran.
uoW RESTS WITH COMMITTEES y Il ! ::
..a,troyersy over FootWay at Harrl-
nan Depot VIII Probably be
settled This Week.

man Depot VIII Probably be
settled This Week.
when several councilmen learned for
~ arst time last night that the con-
,,..ct awarded to p. y. Moran, the Of
ss,ol ontractor, for the paving 70 of
uayentl, East street, provided for a
%. ,oot park in the center Of the street,
/, nrecpitated an ton. Coun-
.,,nen Fernstron, Hall and Martin de-
dared that an attempt had been made
q sneak something into the contract
and II was otherwise characterised as
misleading After considerable Jang-
i've the contract was rejected and tho
~. liza other contracts awarded to Mo-
- !, we're laid over n week. The :coun-
ain,en objected to the z!g-zag water
a,,,verts III tho Intersections. They
stnn M with gravel and 1t costs the
s;t,. several thousand dollars each
vear 10 keep them cleaned out.
Moran was present when the coun-
c,i,i,an went out on 4 rampage. Several
~ them kicked over the traces before
he would pull them into line. The con-
trncts5wil be takenSup Thursday night
n committee meetings and 1t Is PROB
+ Able that the kinks will be straig htened
out at that time The property own
crs on Seventh East street are de-
s;ro,,s of having the street parked.
The curb and gutter We're put in two
years ago at the cost of $500 between
sorth Temple and Third South streets.
The street is 70 feet wide from curb to
c,,rb. which is about 20 feet too wide.
Z IN order to cut down the paving ea-
nense the property owners asked for a
park in the center OF the street. This
was granted in preference to having
the curb and gutter taken out and re-
placed at the expense of the city to
narrow the street. In the other con-
tracts the water fumes across the in.
tersections are placed at different am
giles, The council authorized the city.
engineer to change the plans and speci-
fcations to make them run as nearly
straight across the intersections as
possible.
WILL SETTLE DIFFICULTY.
A settlement of the controversy over
8 the location OF the foot viaduct at the
Oregon Short Line depot will probably
Black. Fernstroul, Holley, Martin and
Raybould were appointed as a commit
tee to meet Wednesday with the rail-
road officials to affect q ompromise.
Although the details of the arrange
ment have not been made known, 1t is
understood that an anlicable ADJUST.
ment of the matter will be reached.
The contract for the Waterman ex-
tensions for 1909 was awarded to Doyle
Bros &, Schwartz. The amount is $155,-.
1906.
The city teamsters and the 5anitors
in the city and county building asked
for raise in salary. The t.ea,msters
want an increase Of 50 cents o day,
making their wages S. per day. The
janitors ask for an increase from $50
+ to so a month.
Two petitions for the parking and
paving of Third East street were pre-
santed to the council. The first was
presented by A. F. Doremus and the
other by Henry G.. Hoffman. They
were referred to the engineering COM
mttee.
Samuel Newhouse dedicated Cactus
street and Exchange place to the city
in e communication last night. The
two streets will be opened to the pub
lie as soon as the paving Is completed,
which is being done at Mr.. Newhouse's
expense. The streets We're accepted.
The Utah Health league sent a COM
lnunication to the council asking that
body to adopt the rules and regulo-s
tons If the national bureau of animal
Industry covering the inspection of,
meats. 1t was sent to the sanitary
committee.
The Salt Lake Building company was
given "A hours to remove the adyer-
Using placed on n fence in front OF the
new Holmes hotel on south State
street Several complaints have
reached the city council about it. When
It was taken up by Building Inspector
Hirth the contractor refused to do any
thing. so the council took d hand III
the matter. Unless the order is COM
piled with, the street department will
be authorized to tear the fence down.
W. Mont Ferry will act as mayor
Of the city. He will leave for Los
Angeles today where lie will remain FOR
week or ten days on business.
LIQUOR LICENSE HELD UP.
!. Heatl, Bros. application for a liquor
license was referred TO the license COM
mittee. 1t is charged that the amuse-.
ment company proposes to establish a
saloon In an outbuilding which will
make the place a little better than a
doggery Councilman Black urged the
w Sloll MIC Is bSLSAS
the license was taken up.
me report Of the fire committee rec
commencing the purchase of 4,G00 feet
oi New Jersey Car Springs & Rubber
company fire hose at TIE cents per
loot was adopted, but Councilman Mar
IN gave notice OF reconsideration hold
ing up the matter for another week.
1, David Keith. Thomas Kerns; B. Fl. (
tiiieyWood. NJ. n Walker. Col. Z. a.
wan and w. S. Mccormick protested in
n communication last night to the city
council against the leasing of the
Warm springs for fifty years to q COM
.anY for $500 month. They claim
INA! 1t is very valuable property and
mat better arrangement can be made
IN leasing the property.
Df. M. II. Stewart sent his report TO
the city council last night in regard to
me result of the investigation into the
:, ~ hteaf! conditions of the slaughter
houses; The filthy condition of four
was told in Very plain terms. 1t was
auopted with comment from Council
man Black that 1t was not strong