Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-15
CITY DEGORATES FOR KING
Council Orders streamers and Bunting
on Front Of City Hall.
NEWS AND SHINING STANDS TO 60
CounciImah zImman's Amendment TO
Sidewalk Merehsnaise law Acc
eePted in COMMITTEE Of
the whole.

The decoration committed OF the council
was ordered by the meeting Of the commit
tee Of the whole Monday afternoon to use
500 in adjoining the front of the city hail
with appropriate streamers and bunting Of
Ak-Sar-Ben colors. Designs were submitted
by the Omaha Paraphernalia company and
the committee was given free rein to use
its own artistic ability.
A committee OF citizens headed by ID. c.
Patterson appeared before the council and
protested against teh action Of a company
Of which DR. Porter is said to be a member,
which. according TO the story told by Mr..
Patterson. is plating out lots in a new
addition and asking the city to condemn
an dbuy a part OF their land to run a street
through the property. The fact that the
land could not be plated at all unless the
street was run through and that II has
been the custom for real estate dealers to
appropriate the land which they want for
a street was overlooked by the promoters
of the new addition, according to the story
told by Mr.. Patterson. 1t was decided to
Investigate the matter and TO require the
company to donate the land for the street
IL facts were as stated.
would Collect Bemis Judgment.
A. communication from w. J. Connefl and
W.. II. Herdman asking the city TO allow
them to collect b" suit from Armour &
Co. $1,000 alleged to be due because the
Armour company owned the billboard
which fell two years ago and seriously in
jured George p. Bemis, who afterward re-
covered that amount from the city, was
received and referred to the legal depart
ment for further Investigation. The COM
municatlon has been up before and was re-
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the whole for discussion. &
Councilman Zimman proposed an amend
ment to a pending ordinance requiring that
newsdeslers obey the Jews merchant
laws in which he asked that boot-blacking
stands and vending machines be also put
under the ban. A bill has already been
twice before the council and was delayed
in its third reading. A communicates was
received from the Gates News scompany
asking that this bill be brought UP for its
third reading and not allowed to die or, the
files. 1t provided that newspapers should
not be sold from permanent stands on the
| streets and as Mr.. Zimman's amendmen
was accepted when It is brought up the
bill will Danish all news stands, boot
blacking stands and vending machines from
the streets.
Backs Up on whip Factory.
A resolution of the council which was
passed to compel the Smith-Lockwood COM
pany, a whip manufacturing concern whose
plant is at Thirteenth and Casteller, to
move from the neighborhood was reseinded.
The residents of the vicinity had protested
to the council that the stencil from the
picking watts of the leather plant was ex-
tremely annoying. DIR. Cornell gave his
opinion that the odor was no more often
sive than that of many other factories and
the members Of the firm protested that al
though willing to do all in their power to
abate the. Nuisance they would not leave
their present location unless they accepted
an offer from the Lincoln Commercial
club to locate there. The council. with the
understanding the company would do what
: DIR. Connel1 advised in the way Of protect
i've measures, denied the petition Of the
residents. 'H
Comptroller Lobeck was granted SIS to
make a trip to Louisville as a delegate 10
the convention Of comptroliers and account
ing officers, which is to be held there from
September 70 to Is. Twelve. OF the dis
carded gas lamps which have been stored
In the basement were sold to the town OF
Broken Bow at 50 cents apiece. The re-
quest Of Ernest STUNT for the use OF the
council chamber for the meeting to dis
cuss alleged abuses by the water company
was granted