Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-11
A LIVELY PROTEST.

Citizens of the Eighreenth Ward Demand
That Their End of Stanton Avenue be
Repaired-HnIft the Appropriation Asked
For-Red Hot Resolutions Adopted.
A meeting OF citizens of the Eighteenth
ward was held last night in the McCandless
School, Butler street, to consider the repair
ing of Stanton avenue and check, if posi-
BILE, the alleged unjust application of the
$44, 900 appropriated for the repaving of the
avenue. About 40 were present. The meet
ing organized by selecting James H. Lynch
for Chairman and Henry Gram for secre-
tarv.
The Chairman announced the purpose of
the meeting, stating resolution had been
introduced in Councils bv a member from
the Eighteenth ward, providing for an ap-
preparation OF S44. 900 ior the repairing of
Stanton avenue, from Butler street to High
land avenue. The resolution was adopted
and it was stated, Chief Bigelow proposes to
commence work at the Highland avenue
the money is exhausted. The money, it is
claimed, will be expended before the
Eighteenth ward end of the avenue is
reached, and as it was intended for an
Eighteenth ward improvement they object
to that mode of procedure. Secretary Gram
presented the following resolutions:
WHEREAS, Whenever officials and their
friends acquire wealth during the time they
pretend to be the servants of the people, and
through the means of acquired power succeed
in holding the re1ns of government to crush
every effort that is made to antagonize their
autocratic acts, it is time that the governed as
sert their rights and complain of their oppres-
sion. The citizens and taxpayers of the Eight
eenth ward of the city of Pittsburg have been
and are paying their taxes into the city treas
laA 20 s.,sk @sz
for the same. We, as citizens and taxpayers
of said ward, are grossly neglected. and our
voice and repeated appeals through our Coun-
cilmeu have found no hearers; therefore be it
Resolved That we petition the City Councils
to instruct the Department of Public Works to
apply SO 900 of the S44, 900 appropriated for re-
pairing Stanton avenue, for the purpose OF re-
paving said avenue from Butler street to Wood
bine avenue instead of applying the entire
amount of said appropriation for paving the
avenue from North Highland to Clearview
street, and thereby carry at least partly into
effect the resolution introduced by Council
man Mark Lydon. Stanton avenue from Butler
street to Woodbine avenue is almost impassa-
BILE, and a number of persons and animals have
been seriously injured within the last few
years ON account OF its bad condition. The
houses abutting from Butler street to Nc
Candless avenue and about 1900 yards back,
are the homes of industrious and law abiding
citizens, while the property on the east end has
about one-tenth the population, and is partly
owned by specializing syndicate that seems to
dictate how and where the taxpayers gmoney
should be appropriated.
Resolved, That we appoint the following
named Councilmen committee to aid us in
our demands and labor to check an unjust and
partial distribution of the fund for repavi az
Stanton avenue; ]. NJ. Henderson. VI. W.
O'Connor, Miller Elliott, George Metcalfe,
Hugh Ferguson, William Mckinley, Z. Evans,
Samuel Warmcastle J. c. O'Donnell, R. B.
Carnahan, A. Z. Robertson and W. A. Magee.
The resolutions were adopted and COM
mittee appointed to present them to Coun-
ellis.