Arizona republican., 1904-03-05
MUST NUMBER HOUSES
Postmaster Says NOCarrierService Un- less Houses Are Properly Numbered.

"l have just returned from a con- ference with Colonel McClintock, the postmaster, and he has assured me ! that if property owners do not have their houses numbered in accordance with the official system he will re- fuse them carrier service"
 Such was the statement made yes terday by City Engineer Thompson and the ultimatum of Post Master McClintOck will bring to a focus the campaign for the proper numbering of houses which the city engineer has ! been carrying on for several months with but little success.
 The large tourist population in Phoe- nix, with the consequent everchanging of addresses, the moving in. and out of a constant stream of people makes the work of the local postofice far more strenuous than is ordinarily the case in a city of this size, and this, coupled with the faulty numbering or houses, has caused Colonel McClin- tOck to resort to strenuous measures to remedy at least enc of the evils and hence the ultima alum which follows the conference with the city engineer
 Phoenix, at the present time. has really an original system of house
  gins at nowhere and ends at the same place. One house may be numbered 7G0 and it's next door neighbor S51 Some blocks are limited to 100. while others swallow up 200 and 300 numbers. and some have no numbers at all. The result is confusion, and the person who suffers the most is the letter carrier and the people grumble because they fail to receive their mail.
 According to the system of enum- eration which has been mapped out by the city engineer it will be a simple matter to locate any house in the city. The system has been unohicially ap- proved by the city council and will probably be formally approved by that body at it's next meeting.
 The proposed system is simple. Tax ing Center and Washington streets as the basis. the numbers run north south. east and west at the rate of 1C0 to a block. never more and never less. East on Washington street, they will be l02' East Washington street and so on, and west on Washington street. 1O2 West Washington street and 50 on. with the same arrangements on all streets running east and west If the
 
 will be known that the house is five blocks south of Washington street If the number is 5O4 East Washington street, the house will be five blocks east of Center street, and so on over the entire city.
 The even numbers will be on the west and north sides of the streets. the uneven on the east and south sides. Ia numbering their houses will be slight. Suitable numbers can be secured at the average cost of GO cents per house. The correct numbers can be secured upon application to the city engineer, who can be found in his office in the city hall between and clock ev- cry afternoon. except Sunday.
 Since I first started the movement to renumber the houses, between 20 and 90 applications for numbers have gineer yesterday. C. H. Robinson has been canvassing the city for the past month putting up numbers and he has placed between 50 and 60 orders. but the people gre waiting to see what their next door neighbor is going to do and it has been awfully slow work. |"
 And' in speaking of improvements Post Master McClintock suggested an- other ore which is of considerable i'm portance. The postmaster believes that the city council should place signs at the intersections Of streets. giving the names of the thoroughfares This is especially important in the lately opened divisions to the city. It is frequently the case in the divisions that the residents scarcely know where they live. They can find their homes alright and perhaps tell the name of the street their house faces on, but to give the name of the nearest inter secting streets if often an impossibil- ity. The streets, perhaps, have names, but the names are of little use if no one knows them.