East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-05-02
PAVING PLANS
ARE OPPOSED
Remonstrances Against Every Piece
of Work Contemplated Are Filed
With City Council.
MAY END IMPROVEMENT
One Petition, However, Urges Carry
ing Out OF Original Plan Regarding
Court Strect-Want Bids for Sweep
ing.

Last night was remonstrance night
with the city council. Five new re-
monstrances against the proposed
Improvement of streets were present.
ed and four of the ones which had
previously been filed were accepted
as bar to further proceedings. With
the new filings last night, the i'm
provement of every block of street
under contemplation by the city
council has been protested and the
indications are strong that the great
budget of work planned by the Com
mercial Club and the council will die
aborning.
The new remonstrances presented
last night were against the proposed
paving of Raley street from Perkins
Avenue to Arc, College street between
Alta and Court, Johnson street be-
tween Court and Water, Main street
from the north end of the bridge to
Jackson street and Webb street be-
tween Main and Garden streets. All
We're literally signed and were turn
ed over to the street committee to
undergo an examination. They will
probably be reported back to the
council next week.
The street committee last night re-
ported that they had examined the
remonstrances against the improve
ment of Water street, Perkins Ave-
nue. and Vincent street and had found
that the first contained signatures
representing 81 per cent, the second
over so per cent and the third prac-
tically 100 per cent of the total pro-
perty effected. A recommendation
was, therefore made that the remon-
strances be accepted and proceedings
on these streets stopped which recon-
mendation the council adopted unani-
mously.
Jackson street Held Up.
Regarding the Jackson street re-
monstrance, the committee reported
81 per cent of the property affected
t. be represented on it but no recon-
mendation was submitted. Then fol-
lowed a discussion as to whether the
wording of the remonstrance made it
also a petition for macadam improve
ment, the drafters having included
clause declaring the signers in favor
of the macadamizing of the street.
However, City Attorney Carter de-
clared a number of the signers had
notified him that they had no inten-
ton of petitioning for macadam and
wished their names removed if their
signatures could be construed as an
endorsement of such form of i'm
provement Upon the expression OF
an opinion by the city attorney,
Chairman Brock, presiding in the alb
sence of Mayor Matlock, declared he
would recognize the signed paper as
! remonstrance but not as a petition.
Upon motion then it was accepted
and the proceedings on the street
thus stopped. 1t is thought, however,
that residents of the street will short
! ly circulate another petition for i'm
provement with some less expensive
| pavement than bitulithic.
AS an offset to the discouragement
Of a series of remonstrances. a pc
tition was presented last night signed
by a large number of property owners
on west Court street asking that that
Highway be improved between Main
and Ash with Dolary pavement. City
Attorney Carter raised the question
as to whether or not the city can ad-
vertise for improvements with the
specific kind of pavement under the
recent Judge Bean decision. He will
make an investigation and report at
the next meeting.
The matter of sweeping and sprink-
ling the paved district also came up
last evening. Following a discussion
as to whether or not the newly paved
streets should be swept daily or semi
weekly, a motion was made to adver-
tise for bids for the daily sweeping OF
all of the paved streets and carried
without n dissenting voice