The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-04-13
CITY OFFICIALS
ARE CHASTISED
BY THE MAYOR
After Conference With Brans-
ford the BelIigeTentS Decide
to Bury the Ratchet.
EXECUTIVE TALKS PLAINLY
TO THE WARNING FACTIONS
DIFFERENCES ARE FINALLY ADJ
JUsTED BY THE cAPITULA-
TON OF M'MILLAN.

Mayor Bransford yesterday narrowly
aVerted civil war between the city
council and the board Of works. BY
the same vigorous measures he also
disposed Of the possibility Of II. 6 Nc
MILAN, chairman of the board Of works.
ana l.. {. Kelsey. city engineer. coming
TO blows Kelsey was told to attend
10 his engineering and Mcmillan was
informed that he talked too much.
Tne mayor had the entire board Of
WOihs, with the city engineer and sew
eTal or the members of the city council
on the carpet I'm his Office for a large
part OF the afternoon. The doors were
carefully locked.
None of those present would talk
concerning the meetins but it was no.
ticeaDie that the city engineer was
somewhat subdued and that the chair
man Of the board of works FASTENED
from the mayors Office 10 hold a meet
ing Of the board downstairs and TO do
as the council ordered last ThursdaE
This latter came before the city council
in the form of communication from
I the board, which was promptly filed
The filing Of the letter was the only
reference to the intercepting sewer out
let pipe
Mayor Takes Action.
The trouble started last week when
/ Mayor Bransford began looking into
the work Of the Campbell Building
I company on the outlet pipe when
should have been finished a year ago.
lie saw enough 10 satisfy him that tn
city should move at once in the matter.
and called the council together or
Thursday. At the meeting he handed
out some plain talk. and the council
decided to take the work from the con-
tractor and finish it at the company's
expense or that Of the bondsmen if the
$4,000 yet due on the contract was not
enough. The city attorney was presens
and advised that only one step could
be. taken at a time, and that before the
work could be taken out of the con-
tractors it would be necessary to ter
inmate contract entered into in Jan
uary, b. which the pumps were started
to drain off the water and allow the
/ pipes to swell in the hope that the leaks
would stop themselves. The council
did this, or thought they did. by the
passage Of a resolution instrGcting the
board of works to notify the contractor
that the agreement was at an end
Instead Of carrying out the orders OF
the council. Chairman Mcmillan called
a meeting of the board of works I'm the
Office OF W. J. HallOran and had passed
2 resolution which was not strictly in
I fOnfOrnfance with the orders of the city
council, and called on the contractor u
get the work ready for acceptance
A Phase Of Quarrel.
This resolution was simple enough
and might have passed muster had Mr.
Mcmillan not given out a lengthy in
terview, in which he stated that the
board intended to accept the work
though the council had decided other
wise. He blamed the city engineer, and
said that the contractor was all right,
and also said that the plans and speci-
ficatiOns were all wrong. The con-
tractor. he said. had followed the speci-
fcations carefully.
This annoyed City Engineer Kelsey.
who said next day that he intended To
submit a statement Of his position to
the council. and who further said that
ne would stand by his speeifica lions.
Il also disturbed some OF the members
of the council who thought the subOr-
dinate body did not snow sufficient re-
spect for the city solons.
Mr.. Mcmillan heard that Mr.. Kelsey
. intended to submit a statement 10 the
council. and set about the preparation
Of d communication setting out his ~
sition and insisting that Kelsey didn't
know how to draw specifics tons for
wood stsve pipe, anyhow.
The intimation that all this trouble
was brewing was enough for Mayor
Bransford. He made the telephone
wires hot until he got the board Of
works. Kelsey and others together.
Then ne read the riot act.
That VIII be about an from YOU
gentlemen" was the gist Of his talk.
we want action. and If we cannot get
it we viii find some one who viii give
il TO US This chiId's play must stop
right here. The people Of the west side
are waiting for these sewers. and it is
up 10 us TO give them. We want no
more communications or interviews"
Some recriminatiOn was attempted
but as promptly squelched by the may
OF. who insisted on action and wantsl
il Immediately.
The Cspituistion.
The result was q meeting Of the
board Of works Immediately. when the
notice was sent to the CampbeIlBuild-
ing company as ordered by the coun-
Gil. This was drawn 10 and at once
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