The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-08-23


district, chiefly women. held a meet
ing the other day to consider suikable
designations. II Wide Hollow can be
satisfactorily translated into Chinook
or into the native Indian tongue. that
name may possibly be used. Chekola h
Is the name urged for adoption by
the Mothers CLUB.
The street railway company, which
carries on the front of Some of its
interurban cars the words "Wide
Hollow has been interviewed, it is
said, and has declared that it has no
hard and fast preudices in the mat
ter. The idea Of the sign in merely
to indicate to the passengers the des-
tination of the car, and If the Wide
Hillowites prefer to be known as
Expansive Subtereaneans.' Broad
Scenarians' or Depressed Agrar-
ians," the company is agreeable and
Will change its car label accordingly.
There Is Opposition
The sentiment in favor of a new
name seems not to be universal. for
there are ranchers pronouncedly in
favor of the old simple and descrip-
tive title. To them the Wide Hol-
low" has a distinctly poetic sugges-
ton, and in addition the quality of
old association. The old Wide Hol-
low road has recently been rendered
stylish by signs tackled along it's
course inscribed with the words "Nob
Hill Boulevard and the general
tendency to overlook or discard the
old name is decred by the people
who think that a name out to mean
something.
No City Street
The Mob Hill part of the new name
is not objected to, since the road runs
past the old Hubbard homestead,
which was the original Mob Hill, hav-
ing been so named by Mrs. Hubbard
after the fashionable residence dis
trict of San Francisco. The naming
was in the nature of a. joke. since
Mrs. Hubbard al the time was the only
white woman inhabiting the district
now famous for orchards. and since
all her friends at the old town en-
phatically assured here that it was
out of the question to get water to
the bench land which her husband
had chosen for homestead entry.
Inc WOTO DOulcNdTu is tue pOlHl
issue in the dissa tisfa ction, those OPP
posed to the present nomenclature
saying that, despite the rather good
work or the county commissioners in
road building, the street does not
come up to any of the specifications
for boulevard. A boulevard, ac-
cording to the dictionary. is either a
broad city avenue, especially designed
for pleasure walking or driving. gen
orally lined with trees or planted
with them down the center; or n
fortress. The old Wide Hollow road,
while serving its peculiar function
very acceptably, Is certainly neither
a city avenue nor a fortress.
Another movement which has for
aim the removal of an Objectionable
name is that looking toward the
christening of what is now known as
the Cemetery road" Hubbard ave-
nue." or Hubbard drive In this
case the change would be in the line
of perpetuating historic association,
since the road runs past the Hubbard
homestead and would be commemor-
ating a fine and sturdy old pioneer.
The granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Hubbard, Mrs. L. u. Karr, is at pres
ent living on the homestead. All of
the residents of the street. with one
exception, it is understood, are will
ling that change should be made, and
since the christening of highways in
the outlying sections seems to consist
largely in getting signs printed and
tackled up, it is quite likely that the
plan will go through. Since the side
walk has been laid from the car to
the east gate of the cemetery, along
Miles avenue, and since the extension
of the street car line to the cemetery
will probably be along that street,
there is no especial reason why the
funeral name should cling to the
road further west.
The people who believe that names
should have associations are pleased
that the street cut through the old
Holton homestead, between Eleventh
and Twelfth avenues, is called after
the old settler who was prominent in
the early history of the valley.