Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-19
COUNCIL STANDS
PAT On PAVING
Ordinance Passed Over Heads
of Indignant Citizens Who
Object to Improvement
COVERS TWENTY. SEVEN BLOCKS
While Council Listens to the Reading
of Remonstrances, Also Giving Prop
erty Owners Chance to Speak on
Subject, They Prove of No Avail
Other Doines of the Council.

Subject, They Prove of No Avail
Other Doings of the Council.
Despite the entreaties, remonstrances,
pleas and threats of property owners on
the several streets on which paving
was proposed, the city council at its
adjourned meeting Monday night
various streets covered by the resolu-
ton of intent. This means the city
will have twenty-seven and one-half
blocks more paved streets. Only one
change was made in the original res
olution, and instead of paving with
asphalt North Second avenue and By
ron street, those streets will be i'm
proved with one course of brick over
concrete foundation. Asphalt will be
and the number of blocks of paving on
each is given below:
West Main street, end of paving to
Thirteenth street, one and one-half
blocks.
South Ninth street. Main to Boone
streets, three blocks.
Lincoln street, Second avenue to
Third street. five blocks
Byron street, First avenue to Sec
ond avenue, one block.
Grant street, First avenue to Third
street, four blocks.
State street, First street to Sixth
street. five blocks.
Sixth street, State street to Church
street, two blocks.
Second Avenue, Byron to Riverside
street five and one-half blocks.
North street, from alley between
Center and First streets to First street,
one half block.
Council Listens to Protests.
BY the time the council convened the
mayors office was well filed by those
having protest to make or remon-
STRANGE to file. Thru courtesy, altho to
the observer it was apparent the coun-
Gil was FESTIVE under the tediousness
of it all, over an hour was given up
to listening to the reading of the writ
ten remonstrances, or the verbal pro-
tests entered. Those written included
State, Grant and South Ninth streets,
while North Second avenue residents
preferred that if they must pave they
do so with brick. Messrs. r. Z. Sears,
]. F. Meeker, Delano T. Smith and f.
Aubery Smith presented reasons of
every conceivable nature why the coun-
Gil should not pave. claiming lack of
city funds; already excessive taxes,
high price of material and labor caus-
ing paving to be excessive in price; the
great burden to abutting property own
ers; lack of necessity, etc.
Paving Goes Thru.
After every one had had his say, the
council caucused on the situation, altho
it was a foregone conclusion what the
result would be. While they were alb
sent from the room the petitioners, who
must have felt their cause lost one,
made the air fairly vibrate with the
buzz of their animated conversation
On the return Of the council all the |
streets covered by the original reso-
luton We're ordered paved, the on.y
change being the substitution of brick
on North Second avenue and Byron
street for asphalt.
Water Committee Trouble Bobs Up.
The internal troubles of the water
works committee again appeared on the
surface, and while the ripple caused by
its temperance was slight. compared |
with that of the last meeting, it showed |
that contention still exists in the COM
mittee over the proposed reservoir |
The resolution providing for the en-
ployment of f. u. Mack by the COM
mittee to prepare plans and specifica-
tons for the erection of 100000 gall |
lon reservoir, was quietly buried by the |
resolution of Mr.. Webster, that called |
upon the water works committee to |
ascertain and investigate the best
method for securing a good. pure and |
sufficient city water supply. 1t gave
the committee authority to visit other
cities, If they deemed it necessary, to
ascertain methods others were using.
The closing clauses provided that until
his committee reported no reservoir
should be built and no plans for the
same should be drawn.