The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1911-04-05
PAVING QUESTION
BEING CONSIDERED
Committee From Commercial Club
Met City Council Monday Night
to Talk Paving Matters.
MAY PAVE SOME THIS YEAR
Not Thought Advisable to Pave More
Than Few Blocks in Business
Section at This Time.

The paving question is uppermost
in the minds of the people OF the COM
munity at this time. After the junk
eting trip of the city council
and some prominent citizens, the
matter of paving the streets OF the
city at once became a live question,
and when the committee from the
Commercial club made their report
on Friday night, number of the
members expressed themselves on the
question of paving and the character
Ct paving to be used.
Almost everyone favored paving
to some extent this year. There was
a division of opinion as to how much
should be accomplished this season.
Those who were on the junketlng
trip naturally favored the bitulithic
kind of paving, while in some other
instances other kinds of paving were
commended. AS a result of the dis
cussion committee was appointed,
composed of Sears McHenry, j. P.
Conner, G. L. CasWell, w. G. Rollins,
George Naeve, e. Gulick and J. 7.
Carey. This committee, on call OF
the chairman, held meeting in the
club room on Monday afternoon, and
fully discussed the paving situation,
with a view of arriving at some plan
of action before the meeting OF the
city council, held On Monday evening
The committee inclined to recommend
10 the council that the best course
of procedure would be to employ an
engineer and to have the grades
changed where necessary, in order to
enable the paving to be done after
the streets should be put in condition
for paving. The committee appeared
before the city council at eight O'Clock
on Monday night and reported their
decision. Several members Of the
committee addressed the council and
pointed out tnat perhaps it would be
better to have an engineer employed
and to have the grades changed and
established and the expense OF paving
not only to the property owners, but
to the city, determined, before a reso
luton of necessity was passed by
the council. The opinion seemed tC
prevail with the council that the
passing OF a resolution of necessity
would not in any way commit the
council to paving any certain streets
or blocks, and that time could be
saved by passing such resolution
The principal objection to passing
the resolution, on the part of mum
ber of people, seemed to be tha,
while the city did not commit itself
to any particular streets or blocks
where paving should be done, it did
however, commit the council to the
kind of paving to be used.
Evidently the bitulithic people hat
made favorable impression, not
only upon the council, but upon {
number of people who claimed to have
investigated the different kinds o.
paving, and if the resolution hat
passed, the probabilities are that i
would have favored this kind of paw
ing. We think, on the whole, that i
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so further than to pave few block:
in the business portion of the city
and certainly, in no event, to go be
yOnd paving the streets leading to thu
two depots. We are still inclined t.
adhere to the suggestion that it wOult
be better to have the work of the en-
sineer completed before any resolu
ton of necessity is passed, but we re
cognize that this is a debatable ques
ton, and one that people can reason
ably differ upon. We hear the council
adjourned without passing any resolu
night, when the subject will come VI
again.
1t is safe to say that large portion
of the business men of Denison ar
in favor of taking up the work of paw
inc this year, and making substan
tial beginning, but we do not thinl
there is any considerable number o
people in favor of going into the bus
ness in wholesale manner.