Arizona republican., 1909-10-05
Council AppP0pPiates $500
 For Taft Entertainment STILL MORE SIDEWALKS
Bremen Ask For $850 for Their Races Fair Week, But Haven't Got It Yet City Time May Be Changed Bond Delay

The city of Phoenix will dig down into it's jeans like a little man and pay the expenses of entertaining the visit ing delegations and putting up for the cost of the presidents visit to Phoe- nix. At the suggestion of J. C. Adams, who went before the city council last night. $500 was appropriated for this purpose. At his suggestion also a committee from the council, consisting of the mayor, Councilmen Stauffer and Hackett, was appointed to act with the executive committee of the Taft reception to see that the money is properly expended.
 Mir Adams cited the visit of Presi- dent Mckinley as precedent. at which time the city footed the bills. He said that the entertainment of the delegation was of prime importance in a commercial way; that Phoenix draws its tribute from every mining town in the territory and should re- turn the compliment by treating the representatives of these towns with proper courtesy. There was no oppo- sltion.
 The easy way in which the council came through" with the money for the Taft entertainment seemed to in spire others to see what they could get. A representative of the fire de- partment requested SS5O for the en- tertainment of the visiting firemen of the territory during fair week. This money was itemized and included pay for fifteen men for ten days at S2. 50 a day while training for the races Then there was the item of sS0 for rubber" S25 for liniment and drugs, $50 for equipment and incidentals and $40 for a banquet to the firemen, be- sides others. There was some discus sion as to whether the firemen would compete in large numbers this year and a discussion of some dissatisfac- ton that was said to have occurred last year which would bar at least one team from competing again City At tornev Prescott said that the former fire chief of Tucson told him that they were not treated properly last year. The council referred the matter to a committee of the whole with promise to report in a few days.
 A petition for sidewalk on the north and south side of Adams street from Seventeenth avenue to Central avenue was read and approved. The date for the hearing on the petition was set for November l. The petition calls for a five-fOot walk.
 A motion was made by Councilman Cisney that the name of Center street be changed to Central avenue for the whole length of the street. The city attorney was instructed to draw up an ordinance to that effect
 Two other petitions for sidewalks on Ninth and Tenth avenues were re- turned to the petitioners because or the Vagueness of the language or the petitions.
 4 discussion of the long delay which the city has experienced in the mat ter of the bonds issued. and purchased by Bolger & Co, was started by Treasurer Diehl when he said he had been requested by the bond purchasers to submit his accounts to the city for auditing. A motion was then made and passed requesting the mayor to appoint someone to audit the accounts of all the city departments. The ap- pointment will be made at the next council meeting.
 In regard to the bonds the mayor said: When l went to Chicago l eX- pected to find the bonds all ready for my signature. I discovered they had not been sent to Phoenix at all. l took the matter up with MT. Bolger and he assured me that the money was then on deposit in Chicago banks. l had the bonds sent to Phoenix to the recorder. and when they came back signed them. That should have ended the matter, but it did not. The attorney employed by Bolger, Judge Webber. has the reputation of being second only to Judge Dillon for dis covering technical flaws in bond issues He discovered that the in structions he sent us fixing the method of procedure in passing the bond ordinance conflicted with one of the city's ordinances passed last June. He also paid City Attorney Prescott the compliment of saying that the ordinance drawn up by him was the best legal document of the sort he had