The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-09-20
THE LADIES TAKE A HAND
WOman's Club Declares War on
a Paving Plan
NOT SYMPATHY BUT SENSE
Arguments Advanced by the Fair Ones
Who Think and Act
"A santa Barbara Councilman Who Is Inter.
ested In the Asphaltum Business and
Wants AsphaItum Streets

SANTA BARBARA, Sept. 19.-The
"oman's CLUB is the latest organization
10 declare war against the paving scheme
which J. M. Holloway and A.. s. Cooper
seem determined to inAict upon the city.
The members Of this club are prominent
and influential ladies whose husbands
or brothers are enterprising BUSINESS men,
while many of the women own much
valuable property in their individual
right. Their opposition is most system
atic,s but shows thorough study of the
subject. Seven of the ladies yesterday
and today.circulated protest whiou wa,
numerously signed and which will be-
presented to the council this afternoon
when the election ordinance comes I'M
for final passage.
Mrs. John P. Stearns' position is,
briefly, that during heavy rains the place
between the sidewalk and the asphalt
will be pudding beds, at times almost
impossible for man or beast to cross,
while in hot weather. with hsavy loads,
wagons and horses will often stick fast IN
the soft roadway. In many cities where
1t has been tried, it is being removed to
give place to something more serviceable.
Mrs. Mary z. Ashley declares that we
should know what we want before we
run in debt for 100000 or any other
amount. If the eastern extension of the
boulevard is fair specimen of Mayor
Holloway's plan we don't want it, 1t is
far from being a thing of beauty and
center of asphalt may be all right, but it
has not yet been subjected to the test of
heavy heuiing to prove it SO.
Mrs. W. M. Eddy says that our streets
can be made ideal with proper grading
and plenty OF sprinkling: Asphalt, on
sticky when under IA hor sun, becoming
soft in warm weather and causing great
loss of force in hauling loads. Horses
dislike it exceedingly. Many days OBJ
servaton has shown that nine-tenths of
the travel on the beach road has been on
the sides and not on the pavement. Our
one need is water. We have the sea at
our door and can sprinkle the streets
with its waters at moderate expense,
but better to have fresh water for flowers
and grass and to change our plazas from
deserts into verdant lawns. There are
many objections to asphalt in this
climate, and of the quality used in our
pavements. First Of all let us have
water.
The member OF the council who has
been foremost in pushing this PROPOSE
ton is himself largely interested in the
asphaltum business. When the idea was
first introduced, there ensued great
of emporarily stopping proceedings and
causing the appointment of a committee
on water. The Woman's CLUB favors and
encourages all substantial provements
and Its fight on bonded Indebtedness for
questionable paving is solely on the
grounds of public policy.
Mrs. Helen Buhrenheim. the German
lady capitalist. whose strange actions in
connection with the fire at her residence
were duly reported, still languishes in
the county jail with remarkable Guinness
and composure. Her mental condition,
however is not improved, and Marshal
W. W. Hopkins has made complaint
formally charging her with insanity.
pleasant circle of intellectual people
was formed today in the drawing room of
Joseph Towards residence for an hour
with Scott. The entertainment was given
by Prof. John Murray. the famous elocu-
zionist. and proved to be a literary treat
Threshing is under way IN Carpinteria,
the great lima bean valley. While the
crop is somewhat light, quality more
than offsets any loss.