The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-08-06
Councilman Will Ask That
Court Street be Abolished.
Suggests Kentucky Street" or Some
thing Similar-The Cow
Catchers.
NOTES FROM THE CITY HALL

Councilman Joe Fowler, who for
many years has lived on the east end
Of Court street, stated this morning
that at the next meeting Of the coun-
oil he will introduce q motion to
change the name of Court street.
Captain Fowler will probably retire
from public life at the end OF his pres.
ent term in December, and he desires
to accomplish this much more before he
steps down and out. Doubtless ia.
miliar with the slowness with which
the present boards do things, he has
decided to begin now so as to succeed
by the end Of his term.
81 think the name of Court street
should be changed-most anything
else would do. The declared this morn
ing. "Of course things might not be
any better with a new name, but 1t
would take just as long for the new
name to become as synonymous with
vice as it took Court street itself,
which is something like 80 years.
This would give us SO years start in
new deal. The fact is, Court street il
q name that doesn't sound very pleas
ant. 1t has become notorious, and /
think il would be very advisable to
change it to something else, by which
the thoroughfare might lose its iden.
tity for q while, and with outside peo-
pie, at least. Any kind Of avenue
would do, but l think Kentucky
street would sound pretty well.
THE name originated about 30
years ago." continued Councilman
Fowler. ~ remember when the court
house stood ri III. on the Court street
end of the market house and from the
fact that IL was the courthouse square
the street leading out of 1t took the
name of Court street, and such il has
been ever since.
Councilman Fowler does not antici.
pate any objection to change Of
name.
Chief of Police James +. Crow re-
turned from Cairo last night with Joe
Davis. colored, whose sobr,quet is
Pistol" Davis was arrested on a
charge OF robbing an old man here
during the carnival two years ago.
Davis says he is innocent and that he
was brought before Judge Sanders at
the time and the old man robbed failed
to identify him. Still, he did not
want to return TO Paducah.
As they left the patrol wagon at
the depot at Cairo, Davis said
"Missa Grow, please sab shoot me
rat heah. I'd heap ruthah be shot den
fetched back tow Paducah, sho |
would. Please kill me, sab"
Chief Grow was not used to having
such requests made, but realizing that
the prisoner must be quite desperate
TO want to be shot in preference to
leaving Cairo, and warned him that
he would do nothing that he wouldn't
shoot unless he had to. He put plenty
of harness on the prisoner and didn't
have to shed any blood. Davis case
was this morning continued.
1t is the general opinion rbout po-
lice headquarters that the effort to
keep stock of the streets by having
two men walk about and run them
into pound is about the most absurd
idea ever evolved. Two men on
horseback could accomplish little or
nothing, and the officers now employ
ed, II has been decided will not even
be mounted. They cannot cover much
territory and can't get half the ami
mails they find run in successfully.
There have been many complaints Of
cows and horses running at large. es-
pecially the cows that wear bells, and
as the council repeatedly refuses to
pass law requiring people to keep
them of the streets, the only thing
left to do is TO take mp those caught
running at large.