Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-06-26
its next meeting on the Garrison Green,
next Tuesday afternoon, at $50 o'clock.
THE TOWN COUNCIL.

reporter was informed, for the purpose
of considering matters in relation to the
bicycle ordinance" But the proceedings
were interesting, even more interesting
than those of the meeting of last Friday
night published in THE ENQUIRER of
Wednesday, and it is confessed here that
to present satisfactory account is prob
ably beyond the ability of the reporter.
When the meeting was called to order,
there was present Intendant Lowry, War
dens McElwee, Moore, Parish and Pc
gram, Secretary Love and the reporter
for THE ENQUIRER. 1t seemed that from
the very atmosphere one could tell that
there was something unusually chilly,
or, maybe, hot, floating around, and SUBJ
sequent developments proved that such
was the case.
Asking Warden Moore to take the
chair, Intendant Lowry said that he bad
a matter to present to the council. twas
whether or not Mr.. Grist should be ad-
mitted to the privileges of the room again.
Chairman Moore asked whether or not
the council had the right to exclude MIR.
Grist. Intendant Lowry went on to say
that at the last meeting Mr.. Grist had
misauoted the intendant in an outrageous
manner, as all the council knew. The
matter of excluding Objectionable people
from the meetings Of the council had
been decided in Atlanta, and he thought
there was no question as tn the right OF
the council to take such action as might
be deemed necessary for the protection OF
its members from misrepresentation.
There was further discussion, in which
Wardens McElwee, Parish. Intendant
Lowry, and Moore, took part. The "sew-
ing circle" rules, however, came in again
to such an extent that in the strained cir
cumstances, the reporter will not risk
statement as to what each member said,
except that the remarks were on the right
of the council to take the action indicated,
and Warden McElwee-this is verba-
tim-said: II have no objection to Mr..
Grist being in here when he sticks to the
truth. When he goes to lying 1 have ;
and he did lie."
At this juncture footsteps were heard
in the courthouse corridor. They indi-
Gated the approach of the expected COM
mittee representing the recently formed
bicycle club, and Intendant Lowry alb
ruptly terminated the proceedings with the
statement that the matter under discus
sion would he postponed until later, and
resumed the chair. The atmosphere of
the room seemed to gently simmer to a
more pleasant temperature, and upon the
entrance of the committee, a few mo-
ments later, the gathering storm had
been dissipated and all was placid and
serene.
The committee referred to was COM
posed as follows: DR.. G. NJ. Kuykendal,
G. H. O'Leary, D. w. Hicks, A. Y. Cart
wright, J. H. Riddle, w. NJ. Propst, o. E.
Grist, F. A. Gilbert, NJ. F. Jones, j. P.
White, S. L. Hobbs. DR.. Kuykendal
acted as principal spokesman, and, in
we'll chosen words, presented the case Of
the bicyclists along with the series of res
olutions adopted at their recent meeting
and the proposed ordinance. He assured
the council that the resolutions would be
lived up to, and asked the council to give
the ordinance careful consideration.
After hearing DR.. Kuykendal through,
Intendant Lowry asked as to what was
to be done with the papers submitted.
Several members Of the committee made
remarks, and Warden Pegram expressed
himself, in effect, as follows:
$50 far as I am concerned, stand
right where 1 have stood all the time. l
am willing to vote to allow them to ride
on the sidewalks all over town, or I am
willing to make them ride in the streets
all over town; but am opposed to dis
elimination Of any kind"
Warden McElwee asked if the resolu-
tions bound the wheelmen to report vio-
lators of the ordinance, and DR.. KuyEen-
dal assured him that they most positively
did. Each member Of the organization
YVES bound to report every violation of
the proposed ordinance that came under
his observation.
Warden Parish said he wanted to know
what Mrs. Hart said about the matter.
He had voted to put bicyclists off he
sidewalks on account of the petition of
the ladies, and he did not propose to vote
to allow them to 60 on again until the
ladies withdrew their petition.
:. Warden Moore said that he could see
nothing in the proposed ordinance which
struck him as discrimination. 1t was
proposed to keep bicycles off the side
walks in the business portion of the
town, because here most of the houses
opened upon the streets, and there was
danger of collisions with people as they
came out the doors. In other portions OF
the town, however, the houses were set
back from the street, and as the hicyclist
and pedestrian could see each other
without difficulty, there was no especial
danger.
Intendant Lowry said that he had prob
ably received more complaints on ac-
count of bicycle riding on the sidewalks,
than from any other one cause. These
complaints came from all parts Of town.
Some two or three weeks ago, he and his
wife were at Mrs. Hart's, and Mrs. Hart
had spoken of the danger to children on ac-
count of bicycle riding OH the sidewalks.
He had understood also that Mrs. Barron
was complaining, and he told Mrs. Hart
to submit to the council written petition
and get Mrs. Barron to endorse it; but
she had not done so. He had heard Of
Mrs. Barron's complaint through Mr..
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