Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1894-02-17
RECONSTRUCTED.
The Council Rescinds- its Or
! der to the City Marshal
To Refuse to Issue License for the
Performance at the Opera
House Tonight.

The city council last night rescindse
it's instructions given to the CITY mar
shal at the meeting on Wednesda,
night to refuse to issue license for tn,
appearance of the Chicago Quartstts a
the opera house tonight and on Monds,
night.
This action was taken after an an
imatsd discussion between the archi
tects appointed by the council and thos,
selected by Sheriff Murphy, trustee O
the property, and after a strong prsssn
tatlon of the legal phases of the case b,
Judge Israel acting for the lessees.
He affirmed the right of the council
to issue such mandatory Instruction.
as had been given the city marshal, il
the event that it was palpab bio that the
building was unsafe by reason of danger
of collapsing walls. With inaIequac,
of exits the council, in the absence o.
any ordinance regulating that feature
of buildings used for public purposes
the council could have nothing to do
He mentioned the condition on which
the Chicago Quartette had been brought
here and the liability of the lessses in
case the receipts of the evening should
fall below certain amount.
The lessees would naturally look te
those responsible for such loss, and who
could be responsible but the city coun.
Gil, whose adverse action had created 8
distrust of the opera house which had
resulted in empty and improbable
chairs7
The report of Mr.. Murphy's commit.
tee already published in The REpUB.
LIcAN was read and specifications fol-
the Improvement of the building
based upon the suggestions contained
in the report were presented.
1t was at this point the debate
between the two sets of archi
tects began and they quickly arrived at
an agreement that in general way the
two reports were similar. The point
however upon which they stubbornly
and almost Indignantly disagreed was
the condition of the walls which the
council architects maintained were
cracked, not plumb and decidedly
unsafe. Mr.. Murphy's architects ad.
mitted the want of alignment of bricks
but said they were always that way and
that that irregularity was characters.
tic of Mr.. Patton's masonry which
though it was grotesqus in appearance
WAS none the less solid and enduring.
II. R. Leonard, the architect, said
that the work of bracing the walls with
iron rods would begin this morning and
would be completed today, Mr. Helm
leln said that it was preposterous to at.
tempt to make the building safe in q
single day. s:>
Upon the representation though that
the walls were to be strengthened and
that the audience would be confined to
the auditorium and the first gallery, q
motion was made to rescind the instruc.
tions to the marshal. City Engineer
1rott addressed the council and objected
to the adoption of the resolution on the
ground that it would appear that the re-.
port OF tho council committee had
had been passed over in the interest Of
the report of the COMMITTEES selected by
Mr.. Murphy. He was assured that the
council had the most implicit faith in
the first report and that the resembling
of the Instructions would be- based not
on any additional information recsived
since the first. report, but upon the
altered conditions proposed tending to
give greater security to the building.
Thereupon the resembling resolution
was adopted and the mem bsrs of the
subcommittee of the street committee
looked as if they would like to have an
other job examining buildings for the
city council.
This business having been disposed
OF the council took up the consider
alton of the specifications proposed by
Architect leonard for remodeling the
opera house. These involve a strength
ening of the roof. additional exit facili-
ties, prscaution against fire from the
stage lights, additional facilities for
suppresaing fire on the stage and re-
placing the paper ceilings and facings
by metal.