Arizona republican., 1910-07-06
CITY FATHERS CONVENE
 IN REGULAR SESSION
THEY CREATE A BICYCLE PATH
 ON CENTRAL AVENUE.
Sundry Action Taken in Various Im-
 portant Matters.

The regular monthly meeting of the city council was held last night and proved an interesting session Hack ett was the only absentee While but one ordinance was passed, quantity of miscellaneous business, including the acceptance of the usual quarterly reports, was disposed of.
 The report of the finance committee was read and approved. The finance committee showed a disposition to dis allow certain of the bills presented and others were cut down, but in the main the bills as presented were ap- proved.
 When the detail work was finished, B. A Fowler, president of the Y. NJ. c. A, addressed the council in the in- tereSt of that building He said that now that the building is almost com pleted, it was found advisable to in stall running water in the dormitOry rooms. He asked the permission of the council to use what is known as the Durham" system, so that the plumbing might run about the base boards, thus avoiding tearing out the clustering. MT. Fowler believed that an ordinance prohibits this sort of plumbing and that a permit from the council was necessary for its installa- tion He stated that the Durham was used in the Noble block and supposed permit had been issued in that case
 Councilman Cisney said that the plumbing in the Noble block had been laid in spite of the ordinance and that no permit was issued It was the opinion of the city attorney that Ss. there waS>lno saving clause in the ordinance, the council could not au- thorize a violation of it's provisions A long discussion followed partici- pated in by l.. G. Knipe, the superin- tendent of the building, Mulrein, the plumber and the councilmen. It was undoubtedly the desire of the council to save the Y. M. c. A. the extra cost of tearing out the plaster and putting it back again, but they could not see their way clear to it till Cisney frankly showed them how. ''The Dur ham system,'' he said, is being in stalled in several old buildings in Phoenix. The ordinance refers only to new ones. When the Y. NJ C. .A building is done it becomes an old building, doesn't it?" MT. Fowler thanked him and said that was all he wanted to know
 The attention of the, council was called by the superintendent of the water department to the condition of water pipes as affected by the leaking electricity from the street car rails Superintendent Thompson stated that some of the rails have had to be replaced four times a year, indi- eating a deterioration of 400 per cent. He said this could be stopped by proper insulation of the rails. A sample length of destroyed pipe was placed on exhibition. It was estimated that S5,000 a year could be saved to the city if the street railway company will take measures to stop electrical corrosion. The city attorney was in- structed to take up the matter with Superintendent Mitchell of the railway company.
 Bids for the city advertising were opened and passed upon. There were but two bids presented, one from The Republican and the other from the Gazette. Councilman McDermott moved that The Republican bid be accepted. Cisney argued for the Ga zette, whose bid was one cent lower and would answer the purpose of the city just as we'll. McDermott then explained why he favored the Repub- lican bid.
 "The Republican" he said, "has al- ways stood for the bettering of con- ditions and the upbuilding of Phoenix, while the Gazette has used its influ- ence for retarding the upbuilding of Phoenix and of this territory" Stauf- fer seconded the motion. When the roll was called, McDermott and Stauf- fer voted aye" and Cisney and the mayor mo" Then Stauffer moved