Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1908-03-05
THE COUNTY DADS TI[
T|DELAND SCHEME
IS KNOCKED OUT AT PUBLIC Meet.
Ing MONDAY night.
Special Meeting of the City Council
Hears from Property Owners in
no Uncertain Tone. Proposed
Plan is Found Almost Without
Defense.

The special meeting of the CITY
council Monday night, called for the
purpose of getting an expression of
opinion from the owners of property
in the district they proposed to fill
and they got it.
Mayor France announced the OBJ
ject of the meeting, and invited those
present to state their views. On mo-
tion OF Hart, each speaker was lin
tied to five minutes. The deep in
terest manifested in the subject was
evidenced by the auditorium packed
with owners of property affected by
the measure.
Throughout the entire discussion it
was apparent that no opposition ex-
listed to the inauguration of a policy
that would build permanent streets,
but the plan that began such opera
tions in the sparsely settled suburbs
was roundly denounced. In fact, the
meeting was almost unanimous in op-
position to the resolution adopted by
the council, which provides for filing
scores of vacant lots and omits the
streets in the fire district
The only defenders of the scheme
were j. II. Fuller, r. J. Hits and
Councilman Bowes. Mr. Fuller ad-
mitted he had no property in the dis
trict, but he favored the plan. He
thought the business district should
be included, and opposed making the
district any smaller.
Hits talked of the necessity of per-
manent streets, to bear heavy traffic
yet favored the plan that would fill
streets that have little or ~ traffic
and omits the district that is heavily
burdened to maintain planked streets
that, as he said, wear out in three
years. Mr.. Hits has been among the
strong advocates of this scheme, and
seemed totally unconscious of the in
consistency of his plea for street i'm.
provements.
Bowes was the only councilman
with courage to support the measure
that had passed that body without
a dissenting voice last August. While
Mr.. Bowes did not shed much light or
the subject in general, he took the
audience into the confidence of the
council SO much as to inform then
that it was the intention all the
time to fill the streets of the fire dis.
trict, AFTER the west end was tax.
en- care Of Just why the busy part
of the city was to be allowed to wait
and why this intention was kept Sc.
cret did not appear.
Among the speakers who opposed
the scheme were F. E. Jones, l.. B
Husche, Peter McNally, R. A. Wiley,
J. s. Coxey, J. H. Hemnhill and
others.
Councilman McDougal thought the
plan good one, but believed the
price bid was too high. Councilman
Maxey said he would like to see the
fill made, but it should include the
business district. He believed the
price too high, and favored re-adver-
tising for bids.
Councilman Parks did not favor
the present resolution, but believed
the streets between Michigan avenue
and the Wishkah river should be
filed Franklin thought the plan
should be abandoned and new dis
trict created, and that the bus were
too nigh.
Hart favored permanent streets;
had the impression that the present
plan included the business district,
still he was inclined to support the
plan.
Crivyea thought the expense toe
great on the people of the Sixth
ward and believed such matters
should be submitted to vote of the
property owners, He said that when
the question was mooted, it was
thought that a limited amount OF
filling could be had for 16 cents a
yard, and that the committee propos-
ed placing it in the business district
but that the Sixth ward had insisted
in being included in what was
thought to be cheap fill.
This brought statement from Nc.
Dougal that shed a sidelight on this
whole proposition, and which gives a
fair indication of just where the
push" comes from in the matter. II