Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1892-10-08
THE BOARD STICKS TO IT
AND WHAT 1T SAYS WILL CD
FOR AWHILE.
There Is some Talk of Paving to
the Rails on South NJ ain, but the
Board Votes to stand bV it's First
OrCer-YestertIaY Work.

meeting of the Joint Board of Aldermen
and Advisors yesterday afternoon
Mayor Blanton raped for attention
and proceeded to administer the oath of
Office to Recorder F. NJ. Miller, who that |
moment became full he'ged member
Of the Advisory committee. Every
member of the Joint Board was present. !
The attendance of outsiders was small. !
One Of the visitors was Poet Laureate
Gwyn, the Sweet Singer of Sunset Noun
tain.
Mr. Gudger presented petition from
property owners along NJ ontford avenue,
asking that curbing and sidewalk be put
down on the east side of the avenue. The
Board decided that the avenue should
come next in order after the completion
of the curbing of streets already decided
on.
The committee appointed to make a
recommendation on the ; per cent. re-
quest of W. q. Corpening & Son was
not ready for report and was upon its
request given another week.
Given Damages
The consideration Of the question of
damages to the property of Frank
Brown on Haywood street occupied
considerable time. The street is to be
widened a little at that point by taking
a crook out of the side next Mr.. Browns
property. Messrs. Green and Gudger, a
committee, recommended that Mr..
Brown be paid 5000 damages, that the
street be widened at that place, and the
! retaining wall rebuilt Mr.. Starnes
wanted the CITY engineer to examine and
| report as to whether a new wall would
be necessary, but a motion in accord
with the committees recommendation
was made by Mr.. Hunt. and prevailed
Ayes, Hunt, Bearden, Gudger, Green,
| Miller, Cummings; nays, Baird, Mellow
| ell Starnes. Leonard, Waddell.
MIR. Bcardcn for the committee report
| I'd recommendation that B. {. Trexer
be allowed 500 damages sustained by
reason OF the raising OF grade on South
Main street. The report was adopted
| on motion OF Mr.. Hunt.
The question whether the Joint Board
| should issue the rotes for sidewalk paw
ing to L. I. & '. 7. Belotc was sprung
by J. II. Tucker, and was referred to the
Finance committee.
rhat IS-Tnch Business.
Mr.. Starnes started large ball rolling
when he rose and remarked that he
wanted to enter protest against the
action of the Board in authorizing the
contractors to leave an unpaved space
OF eighteen inches on either side of
the street car track on South Main. And
| he made motion in effect that the con-
| tractors be instructed to pave to the
| rails.
Mr.. Gudger sprang to his feet as soon
as Mr.. StarneS sat down, and proceeded
to discuss railroads and newspapers.
There were, he said, partisans on both
sides of this question, end newspapers
that would say: IF you win the suit,
win it; but if YOU don't win the SUI t, you
are rascals.' He continued; 1T we have
the right to spend this money to pave
these eighteen inches, we have a right to
pave between the rails" And he pro.
ceeded to say that if he thought any
member of the Board was undertaking
to crush out the Ashevillc Street Railway
company which nobody has yet charged
openly he (Mr. Gudger would be
| ashamed of him the aforesaid crushing
member.l Mr.. Gudger told i'll tragic
way how the people had come up and
| snt1 tNJf (.nIfrnt her..fc ~, Go,
proper disposal" He avowed that il
left to his individual preference he would
vote to relieve Col Martin of the paving
OF the eighteen inches. The Improvement
act, he said, is an amendment to the
city's charter and an amendment to the
Farnholt charter as well.
Here Mr.. Starnes put this question to
Mr.. Gudger: but suppose a treshet
comes and ruins our paving ?"
81 am like Gen. Clingman," he replied,
Sufficient unto the day is the evil
thereof. Do your duty today and let to-
morrow take care of itself"
| Mr.. Starnes said that it required a
long time TO get cases through the
courts.
"We have to wait only the required
| luil ~ boNo, All. HuuECI, llltll II
the work is not done, we can do for the
track on South Main what we did on
Patton avenue and will vote to do it
in the face of all the decisions given"
MIR. Cummings saw the case as Mr..
Gudger did. "We've commenced the
fight" said he, land if we pave the
eighteen inches now, it will be virtual
surrender. The law provides that char
ters may be amended by the legislature.
This act is an amendment to Martins
charter and to the city charter, and
Martin is bound by it." The speaker
said the mortgage books show 5000, 900
in unsatisfied mortgages against the
Ashevic Street Railway company, and
said that tor the city to do the paving
in question was to give away Just SO
much money.
ut would be better to stop the paving
do none at all--than to do it the way
it is being DONE" was Mr., Williams
idea.
, Mr.. Miller couldn't see where the city
was going to make any thing by the
present style OF paving. Mr. Gudger
kindly informed him that the city would
get its streets paved YES, and at your
own expense, too" was Mr.. Miller's re-
tort.
X. p. Walker caught the Boards ear
for few minutes, and declared that the
enforcement of the lS.inch clause would
result in driving the railways out Of
: AsheviIlc, to which Mr.. Cummings re-
pl ed. "We'll have to do it, then, for
we can only carry out the law"
Mr.. WaddeIl, who up to this had kept
still said the manner in which the street
was being paved was simply patchwork,
and that every property owner had a
perfect right to enjoin the city from lay
ing another bit of paving on South
Main.
Then Mr.. Starnes, to whom it had
e been explained that the case would
come up in the Supreme court, November
Z and that the rnilyynv's thirty dave