Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-02-06
STREET CHANGES.
II viii Cause a Whole '.ot OF Trouble.
But viii Prove a Good Move
In the End.

49, NH'ih wv q SNES
in the End.
The pre~disposition of the city faith
crs to facilitate and simplify the nam
ing of the city streets by altering the
names of long standing has received
comments from some of the citizens
and from others. who have
not fully considered the matter.
At a meeting of the city council
about a month ago, all the numbered
streets from First to Twelfth" were
changed from North" and South"
streets to Avenues and Streets"
Thereby naming a street with two
names instead of three. This change
met with the approval of so many citi-
zens, who are always in line for any
movement for improvement, that the
fathers decided that a complete change
of all the streets in the city would be a
most necessary and timely change.
Rendering the naming of the streets
more simple and eliminating the con-
fusion, which is continually arising
from the duplicate house numbers,
when the direction is o specified.
With the new scheme there will be no
conflicting of the house numbers. as
the northern portion of a street cannot
be confused with the southern portion,
as the northern will be known as ave
nue." inc the southern portion as
street" In connection with the num-
bered streets from First" to Twelfth"
being changed to avenues" and
streets" all the streets on the High
lands have been changed in the same
manner. as North Broadway to Broad
way avenue, North Arno street to Arno
avenue, North Edith street to Edith
avenue, North Walter street to Walter
avenue, and so on. taking in all the
north streets above Walter avenue.
The southern portion of these same
streets are called streets" dropping
the South" prefix; as, South Arno
street to Arno street, South Edith
street to Edith street, South Walter
street to Walter street, and all the
other southern portions are so named
with the exception of South Broadway,
which is changed to The Boulevard,
and Acequia street to John street.
Then taking up all the streets that
run east and west another change sim
liar to this has been made. The super
fluous prefix West" will be dropped
from all streets west of First street
and the suffix avenue" will be added
to the former street name. In most
cases this addition of avenue" will be
II ntnonaaapr NJ. th4 cf-aANn r,-nt-o
east n west were known as avenues;
as, West Railroad avenue to Railroad
avenue, West Gold avenue to Gold ave-
nue., West Silver avenue to Silver ave-
nue.. In all the western portions of the
avenues" the West" has been
dropped with the exception of the few
complete changes as mentioned here;
Tijeras road to Tiieras avenue, Huning
avenue to Iron venue Baca avenue to
Santa Fe avenue Nicolas avenue to
Cromwell avenue.
The eastern portions of these ave-
nues are changed to street, dropping
the prefix East" as, East Railroad
avenue to Railroad street, East Gold
avenue to Gold street. The exceptions
to the rule governing the eastern por-
tions, or formerly known as East
- avenue" are: East Carroll
avenue, ~lljeras Canyon road and How
ard avenue to Carroll street, Washing
ton avenue and Tijeras avenue to
Tijeras street, Highland avenue to
Hazeldine street, Simonds avenu to
Santa Fe street, Wheelock avenue to
Pacific street. Another important
change which will be worth mention
ing, is that the street between block 48
and blocks 40 and As of the Original
Townsite, extending east from Tenth
street to the junction with Railroad
avenue, is named Park avenue.
1t will take the people only a short
time to become familiar with the new
street names, and they will find there
ill be less trouble and inconvenience
in directing or being directed. This is
an %opportune time for such a change
as has just taken place, as the city
continues to grow there would be more
difficulty in making the change. And,
furthermore, there will be no more
chances for kicking and expostulating
by those who opposed the changes, as
everything has been changed where a
change was necessary. Whatever their
reasons were is not even a guess. But
the change has been made, now the
only thing to do is to stop saying
North" South" East" and West"
where it is not required. For, if you
say Yves Railroad avenue" you will
cause someone a whole lot OF trouble
by hunting for East Railroad avenue
when there is no such street, but there
is a Railroad street.