The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-07-05
COUNCIL MEETING
A MERE WOROFEST
Several Subjects Discussed,
but Nothing Definite
Accomplished.

by tue meeunS Oh council on MONDAY
night. when the city fathers talked
about the street car situation. The sem
ator came along on horse and MOTTO
ed little fellow digging potatoes.
Son." said the Senator. what do
you get for digging the rotatoess"
Well" said the boy. its nothin' IL
do and H if don't
About six weeks ago one OF the
declared that the street
ears so SO slow that one must hold up
a pencil to ascertain whether or not
the cars move. Monday night Council
man King declared that the street cars
so tearing down the street endanger-
ing the lives of the pedestrians. and.
according to Mr.. King. causing the
death of an aged woman at the west
end of Main street bridge"
The speed limit of street cars il
something l wish to talk about" de-
clared Mr., King, introducing the sub
ject. The death of that woman on the
west side was a good example. The
motorman did not have the right con-
troll over his car. It's about time We
tell EN- to head in. Are We going to
run the company or is 1t going to run
us?"
Mayor to the Defense.
Mayor Zimmerman came to the de-
Tense of the company with this state
ment:
The accident on the west side was
no fault of the street car company.
The woman got confused on the track.
The cars have to maintain a schedule
and certain speed.
Well" said Mr.. King in a sarcastic
tone, I've lived in Richmond several
years. There are number of fast dri-
vers including yourself. but you have
your machine or your horse under con-
troll. The street cars ought to be able
to stop in ten or fifteen feet Don't
they have an emergency brake? We
don't get anything but the cast-off Jim
crow cars from Cincinnati and Indi-
annapolis. Haven't We any rights?"
I'VE have not" said the Mayor.
1t was explained that the west side
| accident was chiefly due to Oil on the
car tracks. The brakes failed to work
and the car slipped past the corner. It
care ARE no good" Councilman King
was informed that the company's fran
chise runs for 80 years longer. He said
he would live long enough to fight the
company then. The speed limit for
cars is IL miles per hour. and VIOLA
ton provides fine of SO and costs.
Location Of Fountain.
On motion of Councilman Williams
the fountain to be donated by the
Daughters of the American Revolution
will be placed in the South Tenth
street park. The D. A. r. society want
ed to place it at Eighth and Main
street
Another fne example of nothing II
you do and H ii you DON'T" was in
the alley cleaning situation. Council
men have been complaining that the
alleys are not kept clean. The board
of works got busy and ordered all of
them cleaned, giving persons 4S hour
notices. Councilman King entered
complaint Monday evening that one of
his constituents was ordered to clean
up his alley "by a savage, dirty-looking
little man."
| Councilman Evans reported, as he
has been doing for the last two
months. the alley between North Sew
enth and Eighth street. running from
B to c streets. The board suggested
that it be made cement and probably
petition for. this improvement will be
gotten up.
Next on the program was a discus
sion of the sidewalk abutting Egge-
meyers grocery, which Mayor thinner
man declares he will tear up in max
ing the improvement of South Fourth
street, with cement walks. The Egge-
meyers say they will take the matter
to court and have retained Attorney j.
F. Robbins. In council Mr.. Weishaupt
said he thought the Eggemeyer walk
was the best in town and shouldn't be
torn up. The Mayor said it was not the
best, and If any body said 1t was they
were not telling the truth When asked
why the city didn't remove the stone
side walk in frcnt Of the city hall.
when cement was placed on Fifth
street, the Mayor replied 1t was better
than cement
There was considerable loud talk
ing occasioned in council, when petit
ton was presented to change the
name of North street, where it runs
South of the Pennsylvania railroad,
near Twenty-Second street, to Park
place. North F is north of the rail-
road to Nineteenth street. The street
ends there, and is again continued at
lTwenty-second street, where 1t reap
pears on the south side of the rail-
road. A majority of councilmen spoke
in favor of changing the name as de-
sired by the property owners, but
Mayor Zimmerman declared that he
would veto such an ordinance He said
the next street to E should always be
r street He was stumped and hastily
continued the roll call when council
man remarked that there is a railroad
street Immediately north of North e.
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