The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1911-07-19
DENlSON'S DREAM OF PAVED
STREETS HAS RUDE AWAKEN'C
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who had won reputation in the star
for being progressive could find ampl,
reason for signing it in order to ge
the troublesome poles off the street
When someone was approached Wht
did not subscribe to the idea of plac
ing the wires underground he was
told that it made no difference, tha
the real object was to defeat the pay
ing and unless he was an advocat.
of paving, of course he signed TIE
petition. When this petition was pre-
sented to the members of the City
council, instead OF their being Over
whelmed by it, they told the commit
tee that signatures to petitions Were
easily obtained and that it was pre-!
cradle to have the signers appear be
fore the council and state the reasons
for the faith that prompted them &c
sign the paper, and four O'Clock on
Monday afternoon was fixed for ths
meeting at the commercial club, al
which all of the club members end
anybody else could appear before the
council. which was to meet informally
At this meeting quite a large number
of citizens appeared, but it was
noticed that large number of bust
ness men were not present. The pc,
tition was formally presented to the
council and a most animated discus.
sion enSued, and for an hour or more
several gentlemen made speeches, the
general tone of which was against
the proposition to pave. A motion
was formulated and presented by J.
w. Miller, Jr., as follows:
"That it is the sentiment Of this
assembled body to stand by the Pc
tition as submitted and not to pave
until these conditions can be met, and
If said conditions cannot be met now,
to reject the bids and postpone the
paving until said conditions can be
met and then pave"
This motion was carried with a
whoop and hurrah, after which the
meeting adjourned. The carrying of
this motion sounded the death knell
of paving. Every member of the city
council understood that it was an in
struction to reject all bids which had
been opened in the afternoon, and the
crowd in nassing from the club room
freely predicted there would be no
paving.
The bids of the several parties were
as follows:
M. Ford.
A brick with A curb ...... .$S6,2O4.69
A brick with No. 2 curb 80. SS,923.6O
w. M. Harrabin.
Bitulithic with class A curb $93,381.28
Bitulithic with class B curb 92,591.18
Brick with straight curb :. S9,2S9.4O
Oak Park Sand Company.
Bitulithic q, class A curb $95,262.69
Bitulithic b, class B curb 94,2S2.O6
Brick class A, class 2 curb 92,999.12
v. ]. SHREDDER & Company.
Bitulitbic A with A curb .$86,3S6.29
Bitulithic A with B curb ;. S4,915.16
Brick with No. 2 curb 80. 96,O14.O4
Some of the bids were surprisingly
low and perhaps lower than it will
be the fortune of the city to secure
for a long time if it should ever grow
impatient to pave.
Before the vote of the council was
taken at the night meeting, Mr.. Haugh
arose aud made a statement to the
council and those present to the effect
that the council had been all the way
through in favor of paving and was
then, and that the business men had
been enthusiastic in favor of paving in
the beginning, but had fallen by the
wayside, and now there did not seem
to be any sentiment in favor of the
proposition. Mr.. Christensen fol-
lowed Mr. Haugh and made few re-
marks, il which he expressed his
opinion of the situation. A motion
was then made to reject all bids,
which was carried, Christensen,
Haugh,. Green and Eggers voting in
favor OF the motion and Coon against
it. This was the end of the last chap
ter in the paving campaign.
1t must be said in favor of the city