Arizona republican., 1910-11-02
MEETING IF TAXPAYERS Phoenix Citizens Street Paw
 ing Association .CITYS YOUNGEST BABY It Was Born With a Whoop of Enthusiasm that Pre- sages a Life of Activity and Usefulness-NoW for City Identification.
CITY'S YOUNGEST BABY

The mass meeting of citizens called by the special committee appointed by the mayor to take up the matter of street paving, held at the city hall last night, resulted in the forming of
 the Phoenix Citizens Street Paving
 Association" which was joined by every man in the house but one, to
 the number of about seventy five.
 The one who refused to put his name
 down favored paving but gave as his
 reason for holding aloof. the fact
 that he wanted a sewer first. That
 question was discussed at some length
 later. The association then directed
 the appointment of an executive com
 mittee of nine members of which the
 chairman of last nights meeting
 should be be chairman, and two mem
 bers of which should be members of
 the council; directed the executive
 committee to maintain in office the
 various block committees appointed
 by the mayors special committee a
 few days before; directed it also to
 request the council in the name of
 the association, to allow it an expen-
 allure of not to exceed $1O0 per
 month, for the necessary expenses of
 the association, such as postage, etc:
 and directed the executive committee
 to be named at his earliest conven-
 fence by the chairman and announced
 in the papers. to spit on it's hands,
 take its coat off and never look back
 ward until the actual paving of the
 business streets of the city had been
 undertaken.
 The meeting was organized by the election of Councilman Hackett as chairman and I. J. LipsOhn as secre- tary. Mir. Hackett is therefore chair man of the executive committee also and before the meeting was over he announced that he was going to prove live wire or miss his own guess. He will appoint his fellow committeeman just as soon as he can and there after he says he will call the people together so often they won't have chance to forget what they have un- dertaken.
 After the organization of the meet ing a report was read, submitted by the mayors special committee. It is to reproduce the report, the substance of it being a recital of the need of pavements, which every progressive citizen almits, and also a recital of the wonderful enthusiasm that has been stirred up in less than a week since the committee was ap- pointed, and since when committees have been named for each block in the business section, for the purpose of taking up the matter of paving with the owners of abutting property These committees have nothing to do until the executive committee is nam ed and cuts out the work for them, but that it is expected will be very soon. Each committeeman will then be notified what is expected of him and he is directed to report progress at the first meeting of the associa- ton held thereafter, and keep report ing until every block in question is faced by pavement.
 There was only one sensational in- l cident, outside of the unusual enthu- siasm shown, and that was created l by Ezra w. Thayer, who branded | himself as an ultra progressive. He | moved that every man present sub- scribe ten dollars to the expense fund. 1 Probably most of them would have | been willing to do so had it been l necessary but it was pointed out that | the chairman would select some loyal | citizens who would do the work of | the executive committee as a matter | of personal and civic pride and that | the minor expenditures of the com mittee for postage. correspondence, | etc, could very properly be paid for | by the council. Finding nobody will | ing to take his ten dollars MT. Thayer | subsided.
 It was a fine meeting and though | 1t only lasted an hour and a half | there were a score of ringing i speeches. Eugene Brady O'Neill l Dwight B. Heard, George Purdy Bull lard, representing the automobile club, Aaron Goldberg. Barney Kersting, | Joseph Thalheimer, Councilman Stauf- | fer, Elliott Evans and numerous oth- | CTS addressed the meeting including | ! gentleman from Fl Paso, who rep | resents a company fUfnishing paving | His talk however was not | )n the lines of personal business. He | said that when the proper time came | ne would try and demonstrate to the | committee the Fupreme excellence of his material but that time had not | yet arrived so he spoke by request | n, tho hanafitc4 of r,a xinpr ppOprally a |