The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-25
This Is Announcement of Mike
O'COnnOr, Superintendent
for Kennedy.
MEMBERS OF COUNCIL
MAKE AN INSPECTION
Mayor Bransford Replies TO the
Complaints of Property
Owners.

contract on sidewalk extension los, IN
the southeastern part Of the city, said
Monday night that he viii put force
Of men to work taking up and rclaying
the defective sidewalks in the district
the latter part OF this week
This announcement was made follow"
ing the visit Of inspection by members
of the engineering committee of the
city council, the city engineer. Chair
man Mcmillan Of tho board Of public
works, and Mr.. O'Connor, to the ex-
tension Monday morning The pr'-
mary purpose Of thc visit by the cngi-
nccring committee was 10 condemn the
bad sidewalk, but the full committee
was not present, and no condemnation
work was done. The committee VIII
visit the extension again soon and con
denim the bad work however.
| Those in the inspection party were;
Mark Rccdail, chairman of tho cngl-
ncering committee; Councilmcn Cow
burn and Hodgson, Chairman Mcmillan
of the board of public works; City. I'm
giuecr Kelsey, Chief Inspector Mike
! Fitzpatrick aud Mr.. O'Connor. The
members OF the party met at Ninth
| East street and Chicago avenue, where
| ~ was Jolncd by clghl or lcH pIolc7t'
| ing property owners.
Mr.. Rccdall estimates that in the
! ighborhood Of eight 10 ten blocks are
bad and will have 10 he taken up. The
| completed work, though. Will be gone
over block by block and condemned
where bad. Then the contractor Will
begin replacing it properly. Some of
The rclaying viii be hand work, while
the remainder Of it Will be machine
work.
Property Owners Protest.
There is u pretty general outcry
against considerable Of The work from
property owners, The Tribune on Mon.
| day receiving a protest from five or
| six reputable citizens in The district.
| These protestantS class the completed
work as mess Of mistakes and blum
| dcrs. Ono objection Is That IN ono
| place, on Emerson street. the sidewalk
! has been laid in scVcn-foot trench.
| Another is that where the ground was
already low and wet, the sidewalk has
! been laid in still lower and wettcr
| ground. In other places the sidewalk
has been built so far mp above The nat
ural surface Of the ground as to badly
damage adjoining property by partially
| destroying ingrcss and egrcss. One
iratc property owner asks: g How
would you like 80 have a sidewalk
built up TWO feet IN front of your
properly when il WASH I necessary !
| They could follow the natural surface
of the ground good deal Tor SIDE
walks and not try TO build for rail
road. -
From Washington avenue and
| Twelfth East comes a protest against
the replacing OF the old wooden side.
walk with new. In the nelghborhood
Of sevcnty.fvc trees werc killed. too,
| -. IN
one place, the sidewalk has been land
below the road level even. il is com
planned. Up near Thirteenth East
street the walk might just as well have
! been built in the middle of the fifteen
| foot sidewalk, II is asserted. but IN
stead it was put so close 10 the prop
ertv line that kennedv's ditch viii he
forced over onto private property, In
! this connection John Dudcr, one of tho
| city engineers assistants, is severely
arraiened. ignorance of his work being
! charged against him In some places,
| il is alleged. Mr.. Dudcr has run The
| sidewalk over the property Inc. One
lratc citizen suggests that Mr.. Dutcr
resign.
Mayor Bransford's View.
Mavor Bransford, Monday evening,
expressed the opinion that there is no
great amount of merit IN the property
| owners protests. In regard TO the
charge Of killing trees, he said that II
| down, for the reason that they were di-
rcctly in the way OF the sidewalk. In
regard TO tho charge that the sidewalk
| has been built over private property
| in some instances, the city engineer,
| Mr.. Recdal and Mike O'Connor unite
in saving that this is not true. Pri.
vate fences. in some instances, were
found over the property line and, OF
| course, had 10 he moved back TO the
line TO give room for the sidewalk,
thew saw As TO the complaint oi es
tahlishing high grades and making
deep cuts. they say that ths was nee
ossary 10 run ,he, sidewalk on q
straight line through the block. A
| sidewalk undulating with the surface
Of tho ground would be poor and i'm
proper improvement. they believe,
Said Mayor Bransford: ''With Mr..
Kelsey, | visited the work last week
and saw little wrong. True, some Of
! the work is poor, but Mr., O'Connor
| has from the first agreed 10 take IL up
and replace 1T properly, and this un-
| doubtedly viii he done as soon as this
part of thc Improvement is got 10. The
| rest oC tho work looks all right 10 me,
though. as good ms any sidewalks | ever
saw ] think the property owrers will
he thoroughly satisfied when we get
through with fine improvement -
In connection with the charges
against James j. Knox, inspector, and
Uarry Turnkey, the contractors fore
man, Of being in coIusion in giving
short measure in cement, Mr.. O'Connor
said Monday that no blame attaches to
TURNKEY. Tho man in charge of the
mixing machine, of which Turnkey is
! general foreman. with other similar ma
chimes, Mr.. O'Connor says, is to
blame. and he discharged hun Monday,
| he said,
Knox called at the Office OF the clerk
! Of the board of public works Monday
| and drew his timc-ninctceu days
amounting to S57. 1t is understood
| that Knox has declared that he is in.
! uoccnt Of the charges against him and
| that he will demand an investigation,
| that he may eyoncrate himself.
j. T, E. Thompson Dead.
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