The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-03-22
Final Action On Application
May Be Taken by Commit
tee of the Whole.
BYH0WER is CONFIRMED
SUPERINTENDENT OF PARKS
Heath Bros Request for Liquor
License at Salt Palace
Refused.

chise and the matter was referred TO the
council, sitting as committee Of the
whole, and will he taken up for final
action on Wednesday night. The Jesse
Knight franchise for an interurban
road from Salt Lake to Provo is a thing
Of The past, as Mr.. Knight notified the
city recorder on Monday that he had
abandoned the project. so there will
be no further action on the matter. The
special franchise committee had COM
pleted the consideration of the fran
chise and had it ready for final action
by the council, and had requested Mr..
| Knight TO meet with the committee
| Monday afternoon and go over the
amended franchise, but Mr.. Knight re-
| fused to meet with the committee and
sent a letter, saying that he had aban-
doned the project The letter from Mr..
Knight was read to the council and
was filed.
Another petition for annexation to
the city was submitted by A. j. Weber
and other property owners asking that
the territory between Fifteenth and
Seventeenth East streets and from Mar
| tin avenue TO Tempest avenue be ad-
mtted TO the city. The petition was
referred TO the municipal laws com
mittee for consideration.
Byhower Is Confirmed.
After Il delay of several weeks the
council finally confirmed the appoint
ment of Nicholas Bybower as superin
tendent of parks, rs recommended by
the board of park commissioners. The
board sent in a communication. saving
that it had submitted the appointment
of Mr.. Byhower some time ago and
asking that tho appointment be con-
firmed. The communication was re-
ccived and filed and the appointment
confirmed by vote of II to 8, Council
men Mckinney, Reed and Wood voting
against it,
Mr., Fernstrom made a desperate cf-
fort to stir no trouble about the stock
adc. but aside from making little
political speech. he was unsuccessful,
He introduced resolution appropria
ting $500 to the use of the city at
torney In employing detectives to pro
cure evidence of the violation of the
city ordinances. He explained that the
council had granted the petition of the
people of the west side asking that the
stockade be closed. but that the police
department had done nothing whatever
to that end and he wanted TO give the
city attorney authority to employ de-
tcctives to get the neccssary evidence
upon which to base complaints.
Fernstrom' Scheme Nipped,
Mr. MuIvey said he did moi think il
necessary TO create a new department
of the city government as contem
plated in the resolution. as the police
department was doing its duty and its
action had been entirely satisfactory.
He was of the opinion that the mayor
and chief of police could handle that
matter and moved that the resolution
be referred to the police and prison
committee. His motion carried and the
resolution was so referred.
A free information bureau will be
established in the city for the benefit
of tourists visiting the city. E. +,
Cummings and p l.. Symons asked the
council for permission to locate an in
formation booth on East Second South
street. near Main. and their petition
was granted, The booth for the bureau
will be five by eight feet IN dimension
and will be on wheels. so that ii may
be moved TO any locality desired. For
the present it will be near Main and
Second South streets.
The matter Of handling the water |
proposition, street lighting and sprink
ling in the new territory recently an
nexed to the city came up before The
council in several different ways Mon
day night. Two petitions were re-
ceived from Kimball 6 Richards asking
for water mains on Thirteenth East |
street, from Twelfth South TO Stratford |
avenue, and to Kensington avenue.
They were referred to the water works
committee for action.
Then the Utah Light and Railway
company notified the council that the |
county commissioners had discontinued |
the street lighting In the district re-
Gently annexed TO the city and asked |
what the council wanted to do with |
reference to street lights This matter
was referred to the Improvements and |
finance and salaries committees for con.
Street Superintendent Raleigh sent in
a communication stating that the coun-
ty commissioners had offered to sell |
two water tanks Mt Twelfth South and |
Fifth and Sixth East streets and also |
fifty rods of iron water pipe for 5000. |
AS 1t is necessary TO have these in or
der to sprinkle the streets in the new
ly annexed district. the street super
visor recommended that some action be
taken in the matter. The city attorney
and street committee Will consider the
Salt Palace License Refused.
The report Of the license committee
to grant liquor license to
Heath brothers for the Salt Palace was
adopted.
The same committee also denied the
application Of w. T. Smoot and Smoot
& McPhie for saloon license In the
Sugar House district and the report
was adopted The committee recon-
mended the granting of liquor license
to the Clark drug store in the Sugar
House district, but this report was laid
over for week upon request of two
and it looks as though it
would be defeated at the next meet
ing Of the council
The council adopted the report of
the waterworks committee recommend
ing that the bid of the Marion Steam
Shovel company of Marion, o.. for the
new dredge to be purchased by the city
be accepted. The dredge will cost the
city $3.50 laid down here. A bid was
also received from the Silver Brothers
Iron Works company for $7645 for the
dredge, but this was fled and the Ma
rion company bid accepted.
petition was received from George
Romney and other property owners ask
ing that Third avenue be graded,
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