Arizona republican., 1912-01-20
Attempt to Secure Dis missal of Commission by City Council Was
 Failure. s
MANY MEASURES
 WERE DISCUSSED
Several Ordinances Were Up-City Market Will Soon be an Accom-
 plished Fact.

! An attempt to do away with the
 paving commission was made at last
 nights council meeting. The report of the commission on specifications | for additional paving had just been
 read and turned over to the commit ' tee of the whole and several had i spoken highly of the work of that ! body.
 Councilman Warren arose. and. aft
 CT expressing his belief that the com mission had done it's work well.
 moved that it be dismissed. As a citizen" said Dwight E. Heard. addressing the mayor. T would like to know just why such a motion is put I am sure it would
 be of interest to some of us here" T put the motion because I be- lieve We should have one head for this paving business" said Warren. The council acting as a committee Of the whole. is perfectly able to
 handle the affair. and I believe it
 "ould be a more efficient method
 than the way We have worked OH
 this first paving job" Councilman NlcE,rJy spoke briefly against the motion. and when the
 vote was taken Councilman Cisney was the only one tu vote with War ren
 This move came as a surprise. The
 plans and specifi' itions for the pro-
 posed additional paving were reviewed at the meeting. and a large number of property holders were in the cham
 Der to listen to the discussion. The sentiment expressed was unnistak- ably in favor of the sort of work the commission had been doing, and it was not difficult to gather from remarks made after the meeting that the idea of dismiSsing the commis- sion was not widespread. 10 say the least.
 The recommendations of the paw ing commissioners dealt only with three kinds of paving First, the bithulithic. which is now being laid: second. the Warrenite pavement: third the oiled macadam road. For the streets on which the heaviest traffic passes the recommendation was for bithulithic This section. ac- cOrding 10 those men who have made close study of the situation. will extend from the railroad tracks north to Van Buren street and from Fifth avenue to Seventh street Other thor oughfares. where there is consider able traffic. but of light nature. will be paved with the Warrenitc preparation. if the recommendations presented last evening go through. Warrenite is bitulithic. to put it roughly. without the concrete foun- datiOn. It has been tried in other cities and found to be a splendid pavement for residence streets. The third class-oiled macadam-is rec commended for streets where the property holders want a cheap pave ment' and where the traffic Is light.
 The commissioners also suggested that some of the residence streets be narrowed to g feet and the remain ing public property made into park ways.
 Charles A Stauffer. member of the commission who resigned last evening. suggested that the council handle the paving matter as quickly as possible. because many residents have requested that they be allowed to sign for paving m their streets to be laid in the near future.
 Mir Stauffer was forced to resign because of other urgent duties. His resignation was accepted and the council voted to extend its thanks for his services.
 The commissioners and those citi- zens who addressed the meeting were agreed that the work of the Barber Asphalt company has been SatiSfac- tory. and the hope was expressed thst that concern can be given future con tracts.
 The health officer was instructed to notify the Phoenix Flour Mill that water from their plant must be sent elsewhere than through the city's ditches
 An ordinance regulating the driv- ing of automobiles was adopted. lt provides for fines for those drivers of machines whose cars drip oil on pavements: prohibits boys and girls under Is years from driving auto mobiles. and explicitly states that muffIers must be closed while cars are being driven in the city. Hotel men were responsible for the last pro vision. arguing with the councilmen that their guests were often dis turbed by drivers of cars who in sisted on cutting out the mutfler.
 The ordinance providing for board of censors for theatrical attractions and licensing of amusement places was also adopted.
 The city market is almost fact. An ordinance providing for the site.
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