Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-04-06
NO RIDING ON
THE SIDEWALK
DILLON LAWMAKERS DEFEAT A
BRILLIANT SCHEME FOR
BICYCLISTS.
SPECIAL to the Inter Mountain.

SPECIAL to the Inter Mountain.
Dillon, Mont, April 6. 1901,
The regular monthly meeting of the
city council was held Wednesday evening
With Mayor Morse, Aldermen Price,
White. Knapp and Jones and City Clerk
Willis present. Little save routine BUSH
ness was transacted, and the most inn
rortant matter, or rather, the one of
most interest TO Dillon people that was
transacted was the turning down of the
petition TO have the ordinance prohibit
ing bicycle riding on the sidewalk repeal
ed. The matter was presented to the
.counch last september and at that time
the suggestion was made that bicycle
riders over the age of discretion be licens-
ca and that these favored individuals, by
The payment of 81 would have the privil
ese Of riding on the sidewalks and make
pedestrians jump sideways at their will:
the provision being made that the funds
derived from such licenses could only be
used for the urpose of equipping and
maintaining bicycle paths upon which the
bicycle should reign supreme.
The matter was referred to the judiciary
committee and that body made a report
on the matter at the meeting Wednesday
and the proposition was turned down
good and hard. The committee main
tained that sidewalks We're for the use Of
pedestrians; and that the street We're for
the uses of vehicles; that the sidewalks
were maintained by the property owners
and 1T was not fair proposition to COM
pei the said property owners to maintain
a bicycle path for the accommodate ton of
one out fevery ten Of the population
of the town. The report of the committee
was heartily concurred in and received
the unanimous vote of the members of
The council.
The street and alley committee report
cd that the Argenta road had received
thorough top dressing of gravel and ce-
ment and that 1T was now one of the best
thoroughfares in the county. AS soon as
the present bad spell of weather settles
men will be put at work raking off all
of the loose gravel so that good bicycle
path will be made as a sort of a COM
promise for prohibiting the riding on the
sidewalks of the town. AS it is the new
ly improved road forms one of the best
drives in the country.
The matter of the social evil was dis
cussed to some length and it was decided
hat, as long as it could not be suppress
cd it was the intention to keep it out Of
slght as much as possible and red lights
and red curtains will surely have to go in
the near future. 1t was also determined
TO keep the painted damsels within cer-
tain bounds and no parading or Haunting
their shame in public would be tolerated.
AS an additional means of keeping them
within bounds, the monthly fines will, in
all probability be raised, that Of the
n,adames being doubled.
George Breck of Mammoth Hot Springs
Wyoming, arrived in town Friday night
and will endeavor to purchase a number
Of horses suitable for stage purposes. Mr..
Breck is in the employ as manager Of the
National Park Transportation Co., and
has made several trips to this valley In
he past and purchased horses from our
ranchers.
AS a result of the cutting scrape in the
lower part of town last Thursday night,
Magistrate Jones Wednesday afternoon
sentenced John Mack, the aggressor. to
ninety days in Jail; Jack Shannon the
man who was cut, was given ten days in
jail.