Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1906-08-08
Leading Business Men Petition The City Council to Install a Municipal Plant and Subscribe the Funds to Purchase the Equipment.

mayor stating he was favorable to the proposition. hut wss desirous that Councilman Brown should have further time to tiyate 1t in sil It's phases.
 This closed the electric light business, but there was other important busi. ness before ,he meeting.
 Improvsmsnt Club.
 A delegation of the Pleasant street Improvement club appeared, headed by K. x. Fr-sericks, who, after ex- rl"ining that the object for which the club was organized was the improve. ment of Pleasant street between Cur. Icy and Carleton streets, explained to the mayor and council that the club, understanding the financial condition of the city, had agreed to meet the expenses of grading the street itself by nsstssing the property owners in a neighborly way, pro rata, according to their holdings, thereby avoiding all unpleasant feeling, friction, and con. fentio. He further stated that the club had already removed all the stnnrps, shrubbery, and loose rock from the street, and had a survey made for the grading, eurbing, and guttering. which it was desired to have approved by the mayor and council. He also stated that the club, in outlining these improvements, had in mind, not only the benefits 10 be derived by the prop. erty owners along this street, but in es. tabIishing n precedent that others might follow aud De the cause of erecting . friendly rivalry among others, which could not but be helpful to the city. He also referred to the fact that Prescott wss the next meeting place of the Rough Riders, and it was expected that the city would then be filled with wis itofs, and that all should endeavor to have the city then present as clean, tidy and up-to-datc appearance as pos ~ible. The plan of the grade was then considered by the council and es- tal,lished.
 Hetnt Vernon Street Petition.
 F. l.. Wright then presented \ pcti. tion signed by large majority of the property owners of Mosnt Vernon street, south of Gurley, asking the council to establish x grade on that block, and n curb put in on each side sf the street, 2j feet distant from the property line.
 Nls, he explained, would leave the driveway of the street 30 feet in width, snd allow the different propevty owntw 10 beautify that portion in front of their holdings by the planting of trees and shrubs and the building of cement sidewalks. The matter was referred to the street committee, with the usdrrstsnding that similar petitions from ota'er property owners on other portions of the street would come be- 
 fore the eouncil for consideration at osee. | Essp 0G the Grass.
 Supervisor B. II. Smith presented . copy of an srdinnnce passed by the board of supervisors earlier In the day and stated that the county authorities were desirous of having the city coun- cil adopt the ordinance so that the chief of police snd his deputies would have authority tc enforce 1t. After reading the orlinsnee to the council, the mayor, with the permission of the other city fathers, instructed the chief of police to enforce it's provisions, which psohibits all persons from lounging, walking, sitting, or tvespsssing upon any of the grass plots of the city plazs, except between the hours of and 10 o'elock on Sunday afternoons under penalty of the payment of t50 fine os Imprisonment in the county jail for . period of not less than 10 nor more than 90 days. "r
 | New Ysuntaihs. v Y 1 Citt EnSinesr c.,c. Glass. rss ip. ntfueted to superintepd the instsllstios of tho two drinking fountAins recently purchased by the bossd Of supeTyiHry so be ,plseed os the portl apd. wet sides of the plsxa, .s,s ,,. ] erstNs. Of 4sss tsSess. l., Il !. V. Borh, of the srn Of Cq'bin