The Detroit times., 1909-04-21
WALK PERMITS
CAUSE SQUABBLE
Council May Order Private Parties
To Furnish Bonds the Same As
Contractors.

Aid. Ellis stood alone against the re-
mainder Of the council ordinance com.
mittee, Tuesday night. in regard TO the
Detroit. Belle Isle d Windsor Ferry
Co. ordinance. The majority of the
committee reported that the Belle Isle
fare should he kept at its present rate
unless the company will agre TO attach
a five-cent stub TO its ten-cent tickets,
so that q one-way passenger TO Belle
Isle can make the single trip for a
nickel. Ellis turned in q minority re-
port urging straight ten-cent fare.
Both reports were laid on the table
and will come up next week.
About onc.half hour of the councils
time was spent in discussing the Gus
tom of issuing permits to property
owners to lay their own sidewalks.
Aid Heating got resolution through
allowing A. Reiser to lay his own walk
and the question arose as to the liabil.
ity of the city in case such a walk
were defective.
Aid. Watson introduced q resolution
specifying that no more such permits
be issued un,ess the property owners
give the city satisfactory bonds to
guarantee the character of the work.
U
as did resolutions from half dozen
aldermen giving various constituents
permits to law walks. The streets
committee will take up the whole mat
ter next week.
Then the council rescinded the Keat-
ing resolution. Some of the aldermen
got very excited over the matter, Pres
ident link and Aid. Field having one
particularly lively tilt Field object
ed to the immediate passage OF the
amendment TO the sidewalk ordinance
allowing contractors to give personal
bonds and IL went over week.
The charge has been made that the
permits to property owners to build
their own walks were frequently turn
ed over to contractors, the property
owner acting merely as a dummy"
A variety OF resolutions drafted by
Corporation Counsel Hally and look
ing to the preservation of the city's
rights in the streets where the ID. u.
Il. Is now laying new tracks wero
adopted. Aid. Heineman had the link
resolution, requesting the ID. u. X. 70
lay IT" rails on Gratiot-ave. rescinded
and new resolution adopted merely
requesting that the tracks be put in
condition. Aid. Reinhardt introduced
and had passed long resolution ex-
pressly warning the ID. u. r. that 1t
gains no new rights through laying
new tracks and warning II that the
council reserves the right to order
these tracks removed at future time.
Removal of dead and dangerous
trees was temporarily shifted from the
park department. to the ward foremen,
the cost to be charged to the ward.
street and alley cleaning funds.
Aid. Shapland put in two resolu-
tibns aiming at better service on the
Fourteenth-ave. line. one requiring
house" cars south OF the boulevard
to take on passengers TO the barns and
the other regulating transfers at War
ren-ave.
BY request OF Aid. Garvey. a resolu-
ton was put through excmptng the
Elks from the payment OF $500 IL
cense for their circus In the ID. A. G.
grounds. June 2S to July ..
A committee consisting OF Aid Fret
wald Vernon. HARPER, Heineman,
Field. Walsh and Deimel was appoint
ell TO act I'm conjunction with Mayor
Breitmeyer and Park Commissioner
Hinchman in arranging farewell TO
the Seventh infantry, which is soon 10
leave for the Philippines.
Aid. Heinhardt introduced an ord
finance To compel moving van proprie-
tors TO report all business done by
them in moving families from place
To place. to the city clerk, weekly, the
idea being to keep a record OF all per
sons moving for the benefit of mer-
chants.
Park Commissioner Hinchman repo
rted that the fund for running the
park phaetons is broke and asked
for $I,100 10 keep the vehicles running
to July l.
Mayer BrCitmeycr vetoed the rcsO
luton allowing delinquent TAX payers
I'm the Beaubien.st. opening district sc
DAYS Of grace I'm which TO LAY assess
ments. calling ii bad precedent.