The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-02-24
In
REGULAR
SESSION
REPORTS OF COMMITTEES RE.
cEIVED AND ACCEPTED.
Residents Of PInsrees Wall and Ste
vens Avenues Enter Petition
Against Bamberger Road.

The city council met In regular ses-
sion last evening. nine members be-
Ing present Deputy Recorder Miss
Hancock acted as clerk OF the meet
ing. owing to the absence Of Recorder
Brown.
The report of the license committee,
recommending that the petition OF
Ralph Guthrie for certain reductions
In the amount of brokerage office IL
cense demanded of him, be granted
to the extent of allowing the credit
for $50 paid In 1908 TO extend until
April, 1909.
The report of the sanitary commit
tee, recommending that the report OF
the sanitary inspector be accepted and
fled. was adopted.
The report OF the special water
committee, recommending that 5000
feet OF pipe and twelve Ludlow IRE
hydrants be purchased, was adopted,
on motion Of Councilman Thomas.
The special committee on the plac-
ing of city warrants at par, reported
that the Pingree National bank had
arranged to handle the city warrants
at their par value. The committee
was ordered discharged, with vote
OF thanks.
A recommendation from the street
supervisor, in the matter of new hoops
for the city. sprinklers, was adopted,
on motion of Councilman Thomas.
A reQuIsition from the street super
visor for lumber for completing the
city sheds for sprinklers, scrapers,
ETC., was ordered filed, on motion OF
Councilman Thomas.
The city auditors report was ordered
filed, and the pay rolls of the street.
engineering and health departments.
and the city sexton. amounting to
S816.6o. was allowed,
The recommendation from the city
auditor to pay the final estimate of
S6,925.61, due P. ]. Moran for paving
on Twenty-fifth street. WAS referred to
the street committee and the city at
torney. on motion of Councilman
Peery.
A request from the city treasurer
that the salary of the deputy treasurer
be raised from 81 900 per year to 500
per month, was referred to the finance
committee.
The report of the sanitary inspec-
tor, showing a total Of fourteen cases
OF contagious diseases existing during
the two weeks ending February 90,
was ordered filed.
A claim from the waterworks de-
partment for s625, due George Cross.
was allowed: also a claim of R. p
Paine, amounting to $40, for guarding
city prisoners.
A petition from residents on Thirty
third street, asking that the sidewalks
between Lincoln and Pacific avenues
be graveled. was referred to the side
walk committee.
A petition from the Knights of
Pythtas, asking for renewal of the
deed to their cemetery lot, the doc
ument having been lost, was granted
A petition from residents on Second
street, desiring the same to be re-
paired, signed by James Taylor ct al,
was referred to the street committee,
on motion Of Councilman Thomas.
A petition from Joseph Belnap ct
al. asking that the west side of Grant
avenue, between Thirty-flrst and
Thirty-third streets, be declared a side
walk district. was referred to the side.
walk committee, on motion OF Council
man Flygare.
A petition from residents In the Vi.
cinity of Seventeenth street and Wall
avenue, asking that certain work be
done to strengthen the banks of Ogden
river near that point. signed by Z.
Buchmiller ct al. was referred to the
street and law committees, the city
engineer and the city attorney. on mo-
tion Of Councilman Dana. H. w. Muir
dock addressed the council on the sub.
ject of overflows in that vicinity, and
explained the need for the work asked
for. Councilman Thomas announced
that those to whom the matter had
been referred. together with the
mayor and the petitioners. would meet
at 3 p, m. Wednesday to go over the
ground referred to and determine what
ought to be done.
A petition. signed by r. C. Carr ct
al, residents Of Pingree, Wall and Ste
yens avenues, asking that the Salt
Lake and Ogden Railway company be
prevented from building certain con
templated banks, trestles and other
railroad works In the vicinity of those
streets, which they considered detri-
mental TO their property interests, was
referred TO the railroad committee. on
motion of Councilman Flygare. The
council was then addressed by one
of the petitioners, who explained what
the railroad company evidently was
contemplating In connection with its
viaduct crossing of the Union Pacific
tracks In that vicinity. Councilman
Austin then suggested that the street