The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-08-18
PAVING DISPUTE
GETS An AIRING:
A LIVELY Scene
Friends of Both Brick and AS
phaIt Were There, the
Former Making Very Bitter
Denouncements.
STATUTE AN OUTRAGE
CITY ATTORNEY SAYS
Entire City Will Suffer as a
Result, But the T. H., |. &
E. Tractiog Company Is Hit
Hardest.

The paving of Eighth streAt came
up this morAing in the room of the
board of pubic works amid much con-
troversy. HE friends of both brick
and asphalt were there. The remon-
strators forSbrick were loud in their
denunciatiol of law in regard to
paving business streets which as Mr..
John J. Harrington said takes away
the right to have any 'say'fas to the
paving of the street in front of his
place of business, because he does not
happen to sleep in his store
Injustice, Says Study.
This City Attorney Study followed
up by saying, Il will agree with you
Mr.. Harrington, that as a matter of
justice the statute governing this is an
Internal outrage, but the statute is the
statute, and the law explicitly states
that the board shall do SO and so'
What the Law Is.
The law in question is the portion
quoted in yesterdays exclusive story
in the Palladium concerning the opera
tions of the Asphalt Trust in Rich
mond.
Briefly the s. S. Saxton company OBJ
tanned resident freeholders, who have
very little frontage to declare for as
phalt. The company took advantage
of the state law which reads as fol-
lows
''That the board of public works. af-
ter new bids have been received and
said preliminary order designating the
kind of paving to be used, shall name
the kind designated by any majority
petition filed within the ten day limit"
From this it will be seen that the re-
monstrance of the resident freeholders
overrules the majority of those prop
erty owners on the street who do busi-
ness there but who " do not sleep in
their stores"
City and T. H., !. & e. Suffer.
The Street Railway company is the
greatest sufferer and with it the whole
city, for this morning a legal tangle
arose by which the company will be
forced to asphalt its right of way.
This arose because the company had
been led to believe that the street was
to be remade with brick-the little jok-
er of remonstrance came along with
out the knowledge of the company,
therefore, because it did not file pa
pers as required by law it will be
forced to use asphalt unless matters
take another turn.
Even the men who signed the re-
monstrance for asphalt agree that it
will work a hardship on the traction
company and the town to put asphalt
between the tracks as the jar Of the
tracks by the passing cars plays hav-
oc with the asphalt and makes a
source of constant repair. Other re-
pairs to tracks also cuts up the as
phalt which cannot be put into COM
plete repair like a brick street
May be withdrawn. r.
As the asphalt demonstrators, not
even the S. S. Saxton company, did
not contemplate this feature Of the
remonstrance and did not desire to
put asphalt between the tracks. it is
possible. as DIR. Bramkamp intimated
to the board of works this morning,
the remonstrance might be withdrawn
SO as to put the streets in proper
snaps as far as the asphalting. of
tracks is concerned. It is pointed out
that everywhere as in INDIANAPOLIS.
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