The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1912-03-26

Passage of resolution for improve
mcnt by paving Of the alley running
north and south from Farming street
TO Mark street between Main and
state streees-action which Attorney
John II. Clark representing a few
property owners, termed zone of the
greatest outrages that has ever been
| perpetrated upon the people"-was
the marked feature of regular ses-
sion of the city council held i'm ehe
council chamber Monday night
The Improvement appcared in the
form Of a resolution which was read
three times after the suspension of
the rules and adopted with but one
dissenting vote, Councilman w. y.
Strayer answering mo" to the roll
call Butt Attorney Clark and Presi-
dent e. II. Smart had they been vot-
Ing on the Improvement, would have
registered "Nos" with gusto.
After the resolution was read for
the third time, Attorney Clark was
given the floor and he vainly sought
to defeat the resolution in a strong
! speech. In part he said:
A Lost Cause.
Tim mere tonight reipresenting sally
! Barker, who does not have a barn or
horses on this alley. 1t appears that
I am here representing a lost cause
but | have the merits on my side OF
I. the case.
There never was an instance in the
stGfe of Ohio where an alley, within
/ five or six squares of court house
has been paved from one mud hole "a
another mud hole" Clark continuCl
referring to the condition of lrarminu
and Mark streets. "The people who
want the Improvement have barns and
horses on the alley hut the peopl,
! whom ! represent haven't horses OF
barns. Although under the law 1t fl
a public Improvement In reality II Il
nothing more than Il private improve
ment If this resolution is passed. /
is one of the greatest outrages eve
pcrpetrated upon the people"
A remonstrance againd. the i'm
provement bearing the names of Mrs
Electa Barlow, Mrs ID. 4. Mcndenhall
George Guy Mary Green, Sarah II
Barker Matilda Barker and Mrs
Burns Barker was read by Clerk El
mer e. Blazer.
Councilmen II. c. Krause, Joscpl
Sneckenbergcr \. j. Clary and l.. Il
Nebergall spoke in favor of the i'm
provement Seeing that the majorit,
or the councilmen were in favor o
the passage of the resolution, Presi
dent Smart vacated the chair tool
the hoor ana enterCl an impassionat
lplea for the defeat of the measure.
Special Privilege.
when you pave alleys or close al
alleys you want TO go slowly" he said
1t shouldn't be necessary for prop
erty owners to hire lawyer To com
down here and protect widow womel
ana other poor people who are no
able to pay for the Improvement O
thls alley It's wrong. Why shoul
these people help Med Paddock an
others who can well afford such i'm
provement? Nothing but force. Spe
cal privilege is doing 1t. This ha
been one of the great factors in GU
city politics Special privilege perhap
luidnt send you men here but o. di,
deteat two men who opposed this i'm
provement. want to go on recor,
as saying that special privilege /
lushlnS this work through"
President Smart called the council
mems attention to the fact that tn
old council, free from outside innu
ence, had voted down this same i'm
provement. He also stated that coun
ell was establishing a bad preceden
by paving alleys so far from othe
paving and that 1t would cause othe
citizens to ask for improvements ia
from other paving. TO this remarl
several councilmen answered. lie
T them bring in their petitions" Th
petition for the improvement unde
discussion was signed by the major
ity of property owners adjoining tn
J alley. When the roll was called Coun
Gilman Ssrayer voted mo" Council
man Sauuter hesitated a few moment
then answered Yes" and all other
voted favorably.
improvements.
a resolution to pave Pearl stree
from Columbia street to Prospec
street was read three times an
adopted.
A position for the construction o
a sanitary sewer and cellar drain o
Barnhart street beginning at the in
ltersection OF Mark and Barnhar
streets, running south in the center @
Rarnhart street and connecting WI
a sanitary sewer and cellar drain o
the south boundary line of the C, {
G. & st. l.. Railway company's righ
of way a resolution for the wor
was read for the first time.
An ordinance TO proceed with tn
( onsisru stion of a sanitarNn ua.Ver A