El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-04-20
THE NAME OF
UTAH STREET
Shall Mesa Avenue Be Con-
tinued To Overland?
THAT is THE QUESTION
That Occupied the Attention OF the
City Council Last Night, Togeth-
er With the Usual 6rist OF Leg
iSIdtIOn.

lslatlon.
There WAS but a elm attendance at
the council meeting last night. Only
six members, viz Messrs. Badger,
Drummer, Burton, McDuffie, Ogden and
Stewart answered the roll. Messrs.
Clifford and Whitmore are out of the
city.
Alter the minutes had been approved
Mr.. Badger, from the street improve
meut committee, reported thst he had
examined the proposed cellar and rail-
ing at the Sheldon block aud while
some difference of opinion existed as to
the desir ability of allowing 1t to be put
In he was still of the same opinion as
before and was In favor of letting 1t
rest for another week. Motion car
ried.
BIDS ON SHELTER ROAD
Bids for improving the smelter road
were resd as follows:
w. K. Van Patten Fer grading,
filing, sprinkling and rolling, bid %
cents per cubic yard.
J. e. Terry bid "a cents; James Hib-
bert % cents; Goodwin q Wad ling ton
% cents; John Caldwell 81 cents; Ev-
ans & Scheffer 30 cents; A. L. Roy 81
censs.
TIE bids were all laid over for
week.
On recommends ton of MIR. Burton,
acting chairman Of the finance COM
mistee, the weekly bill OF the street
commissioner and one for repairing the
wagon injured by the hook and ladder
were allowed.
The assessors report was received
and filed.
Mr.. Brunner, OF the fire and water
committee, reported in favor of grant
Ing the petition of Mr.. Stafford to move
frame building. The motion was car
risd In spite OF Mayor MagofHn's state
meut that in his opinion IL was poor
policy, as the people were sure to OBJ
jeos wherever the building might be
taken.
T. J. Holland offered to furnish
screens for all the doors and windows
In the city hall, the same to be paint
ed, for S174S0.
Buchauau 81 Powers's bid for the
came thing was $50.
The contract was awarded to T. j.
Holland.
WANT EXPENSES PAID.
The following petition was granted.
To the Honorable Mayor and City
Council, Ell Paso, Texas.
Gentlemen: AT a regular meeting
OF the board of directors of the Ell Psso
fire department, held April IL, 1900,
was fns tructsd to request your honor
able boo to allow the customary con-
tribution of 800 each, TO one delegate
from each of the four fire companies
and the chief live in all toward their
expenses and dues TO the State Fire
mems convention to be held at Waxa-
hRchie, Texas, May 9.
Yours respectfully,
w. I. HIXSON,
Secy. Fire Dept
A communication was read from the
League of American Munich pslities
stating that tt e next annual conven
tion would be held In Charleston,S S. c., |
December 18th to 18th of this year,
and that the municipal ownership of
electric light plants and other i'm
portant problems would be discussed. !
1t was ordered 10 be received and filed
A bill for new fire hose was referred
to the fire and water committee.
Alderman Badger called the fire and
ws'er com mittee's attention to fire
Second streets.
THE NAME OPP UTAH STREET.
A petition WAS read from several
personal having business plans on
Z tah street between San Antonio and
Overland streets asking that the name
OF Mesa avenue be extended as far
SOuGn a5 overland street as the name
of Utah street, eavoring TOO much of
the reservation, injured their business
property.
AS soon as this was read Attorney F.
M. Hunter came forward and handed
to the clerk counter petition protest
ing against the proposed change. It
was signed by long list of prominent
property holders on Mesa avenue.
They said in substance that they did
not care continental what name the
council saw fit to call Utah street or any
part of IL SO long "a they did not call
1t Mesa avenue. They believe tba. if
the rame were given te any portion
OF the street it would Invariably
extend to all IN the popular mind and
work great Injury to people on Mesa
Avenue, and they called atten lion to
the fact that it was for this very rea
son that the name had been changed |
in the first place.
The matter was laid over for week. !
w. Il. Van Pstten was allowed to |
remove the city scales at at his own |
expense
City Engineer Wimberly's ofici al |
bond was approved snd Alderman !