Arizona republican., 1910-10-06

that the fight be adjourned to some slipped away and the municipal fath- CTS practically agreed that their for mer action should stand No final disposition of the matter was made. At their regular monthly meeting held Monday night. MT. Creighton appeared before the council and ap- piled for a permit to conduct a street fair on First avenue between Jeffer- son and Adams streets. He did not want the concession for himself, though the application was made out in his name. but explained that the commission desired to force any "Hassayamp" attractions to show on the fair grounds during the day In order to get the attractions of this nature to come here for the fair it was necessary to offer big bonuses or let them do nightly business down town. He also declared that a car nival down town would be an added attraction to fair visitors. giving them amusement in the evenings.
 After some little discussion the council granted the application. That
  picture. vaudeville and musical com edy houses to rise in arms. Last night they had their attorney on hand to present the matter to the council from their side
 Attorney Lyman declared that street shows of the nature that is proposed be brought here for fair week did not do a community any good; that they were demoralizing He also laid great stress upon the fact that the local theatrical men are here permanently and pay regu- lar license fees into the city treasury. On the ground of fairness he appealed to the council not to permit a bunch of fly -by-night' people to come in and cut into their business during a week when they had every right to expect packed houses. He declared that the four show houses represented there, not to mention the Elks' the later, were amply large to take care of all fair visitors.
 MT. Creighton. who had been hur- riedly summoned from his home. re- piled to Mir. Lyman deprecating the fact that he was not himself repre-
 
 there is a large percentage of fair visitors who do not care for moving pictures and amusements of the or dinary kind. Last year. he declared many walked the streets and com plained that there was no place for them to go.
 A general discussion followed in which City Attorney Prescott. Council man Hackett. Messrs. Lyman, Echlin, Creighton and A. H. Reeves. of the Coli scum took part Creighton declared that it was not the intention of the fair commission to injure local show men but to provide plenty of amusement for visitors to the fair He said that the commission was just as anxious to see the permanent theaters sue ceed as to see the street shows make money. To prove this he offered to permit the theaters to make an nouncements in front of the grand stand each day and also to send the fair band around to the show houses teach evning endeavoring to fill them before the side shows.
 Finally Councilman Cisney inter- 'rupted a rather warm argument be- tween Echlin and Creighton, with his suggestion that the battle be trans ferred to other fields. Everyone then laughed and acted upon the sugges- tion It seemed to be the concen- sus of opinion among the councilmen that there should be as much amuse- ment as possible during fair week and that the streets should have a gala appearance.
 s. H. Mitchell, manager of the street railway company. appeared before the council and asked that he be permitted to place the poles for the new Second avenue line, on the west side, foot and a half further to the east. since the original fran chise provides that they be placed at a distance from the curb which would put them right in the gutter | His request was referred to the