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for preparing plans and specifications TO
the proposed municipal lighting plan
was referred to the committee on claim
and accounts.
The lighting bill of $729.7O for light
for September, less $4.5s for lights out
was referred to the some committee t.
investigate. Aid. Plymat explained tina
on looking up the contract he ha'
found that it has not been enforced, TO
| it provides that the entire night be de
Quoted when light is out at all, and {
81 penalty deducted. The council has
only been deducting for the hours out
At 3 a. m. that morning the city wa:
practically dark, so many lights were
out, so it had been told him.
To Protect Lawns.
The committee on ordinances present
ed one making it unlawful for any per-
son to allow any horse, COW or other
animal to walk on or across any boule-
ward in the city. The rules were suspend
ed and the ordinance was given its
second reading and was passed.
Judge Severance said that the ordi-
nance should 90 further and prohibit
persons from riding bicycles on any side
walks in the city, as the riders abuse
their privilege and ride across boulevards
and it is impossible to raise grass at the
street corners. The only way to prevent
this is to pass an ordinance preventing
anybody from riding bicycle on any
sidewalk. The riders want to destroy
the grass so as to show their power.
They tear up signs, etc, and had torn
up his hundred times.
Aid. Plymat said that the riders should
not be allowed to ride on the grass,
but that it would be a great convenience
to working people if they could ride to
their work in the morning before pedes
trains come out. The ordinance should
be amended, as it is altogether too strict
in certain places.
AID Kleinschmidt said that if the
streets were paved there would be no
trouble
1t was decided to amend the bicycle
ordinance so as to prevent riding on
boulevards.
The ordinance committee presented an
ordinance making it unlawful for any
owner or person in charge to allow cat
tie, chickens, ETC., to trespass on lawns
and private grounds. The ordinance was
passed under suspension of the rules.
Park Superintendent Blake reported on
some of the work that has been done.
He was authorized to engage celler for
the storage of plants for the winter, the
same as last year.
Aid. Plymat brought up the matter
Of a place where athletic sports can be
had. He said that the city should have
1 place where games can be played and
race meets had where charge for ad
mission can be made Other towns have
such places, as they bring people into
5he city. No court has ever held that a
portion of park cannot be set apart
or such purposes. He favored having a
portion of the park rented for the
games, for small percentage or nothing.
he moved that the mayor be requested
to do this, for football or any kind of
athletic sports, including horse races.
Park Superintendent Blake said that
Ill the gates would have to be closed if
pay was to be demanded, or people would
come in the back way free. He asked
if any alderman knew whether there
was a park in any city where pay was
demanded at any time to get into it, or
where there was a race track or ball
park. He thought that the people who
pay taxes to support the park should
nave the right to enter the park at any
time.
Aid. Plymat said that if no park has a
race track the city had better sell the
part of the park where the race track
is. He did not think that the people
would object to paying a quarter to see
a game It would be better to do this
than to have few posies and dry grass.
City Attorney Daley was asked by
Aid. Schroeder whether it would be legal
to make any charges, and he replied that
it would not.
AID Schroeder did not think that it
was well to close the park, as it had been
bought for public purposes.
Mayor Taylor thought that many of
the people would object to the park be-
ing shut up and charges made for en-
tering it. 1t would cause trouble.
Aid. Kleinschmidt said that this was
so, but it would be a good thing to have
a few improvements made at the ball
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