The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-05-07
WOMEN BEFORE
CITY COUNCIL
Petition is Filed in Relation to
the Leasing of the Warm
Springs.
WANT PUBLIC PARK
AND PUBLIC BATHS
Other Matters That Are Brought
TO the Attention of Council
Committees.

4 public park, with public baths, is
the latest use proposed for the city 8
warm springs property near st. Mark
| hospital. The proposition was made to
| the public grounds committee Of the
city council Thursday evening by rep.
| resentatives of the leading women
| clubs of the town and was favorably
received, although no definite action was
| taken.
The women IS clubs representatives
who appeared before the committee were
! Mrs. w. s. Mccormick. Mrs. w. Y. Rice,
Mrs. G. L. Allen, Mrs. Arthur Bird and
u, Mrs. Fitzgerald They were ably sec
| ondcd by George \ Lawrence and Al
bert Mccormick They also carried with
l-them 4 petition from the Mothers Club
for the converting of the property INTO
public park with public baths, instead
| of Leasing IL TO private interests rs has
| been contemplated The petition set
| forth the benefits of the carrying out
of such Il proposition. but VIII not bo
presented formally until it is moro gen
| orally circulated and more sisncrS arc
| secured,
| The women : clubs representatives
appeared backing mp inc protest .Gd of
| leasing of tho property 10 Roderick Me
| KcnZic and Maxwell Il. Brothers. the
present lcasec, for fifty years for 500
a month TO build n hotel and saDitarIum
upon. the walls of which would be of
brick or concrete and ihc floor OF white
tiles and cement; estimated cost, FloV,-
| 600
The Spokesman.
Mr. Lawrence acted as spokesman for
|, hn
! Keith aud The other business men, as
he understood il, he said, set out OBJ
| irc tious to the leasing of The property
| to private interests only from business
standpoint The women s objections are
on an entirely different bass. The
springs and grounds belong 10 the poo.
rlc. be said, and in his opinion it will
| bc far better To convert them 10 public
use than 10 lease them to private m
tcrcstS.
To give the women i chance to pre-
| sent their case TO the entire council,
no action was taken on the application
Of Mckenzie and Brothers other than
to defer the matter.
Tho engineering committee, adherluS
| TO its original stand, decided to re-rcc-
ommeud the paving with asphNt OF
Twelfth East street, with 2otoot
parle in the center. The street can not
| we'll he parked farther south than See
| ond South street, it is said, aud it Is
also claimed that il cannot be success,
fully paved between South Temple aud
Second South streets without center
parking, on account Of The heavy slope.
The council Monday night, following
It's recent stand against center parking,
refused TO approve the board Of works
| contract for the improving of this street
with tho parking included, and referred
the matter to the engineering com
mittee,
Out of Committees Hands.
Seventh East street property owners
| indignant at the council 3 refusal to
| approve the contract for the parking
and paving of that thoroughfarc from
South Temple TO Third South street ap-
peared before the engineering commit
fee with renewal of their plea for Il
% foot center. park. but the matter is
entirely out of tho hands of this com
mittee and the property owners Will
present their claim 10 the council Mon
day night probably.
The property owners say they are
unwilling to stand the expense of pay
ing for a I2foot roadway. They sub
mitted to the expense of curbing and
guttering the street two years ago with
the understanding that Il center park
was to be installed with the paving, but
il the park is TO 90 they want the
curbing and guttering torn out and the
street narrowed so that the expense Of
paving will not be so heavy.
A compromise agreement will be sub
mitted TO the council Monday night.
II is said the citizens will agree TO pay
for the park if the council will put it
in. P. j. Moran is The contractor.
Third East street property owners ap-
pearcd before the committee with re-
ncwal OF their petition for asphalt paw
ing with center parking from South
Temple to Third South street, but were
turned down, in conformity with couu-
cil's recent openly avowcd intention not
to park any more streets beyond Sixth
East street, which runs along Liberty
park.