Arizona republican., 1913-11-12

keeping constantly at it, have an 1 ordinance passed with a fee attached, l approved and enforced by our build 1 ing commission; also provide in this ordinance the restriction of all bill boards within a certain area in the downtown district. An appeal should be made to our local merchants to refrain from taclling their ads on trees. One need only to have half &p eye open, the whole length of Grand avenue, to see how one mer- chant is mutilating our trees He uses the trees to advertise his busi- ness. It doesn't cost anything to mutilate d tree, but it would cost him a few hundred dollars to put up a post for every sign. Why do not find this condition of things OF the Roosevelt road? It's govern ment property. Billboard agents and local merchants don't dare put up their ads there. Do you miss them as you go by?
 some day the supreme court of thc United States will regulate the billboard nuisance. The signs of the times are bringing this about. There has lately been passed in Chicago an ordinance requiring that no bill beard on a residence street or pleas Ure drive shall be erected without the consent of three fourths of the front age on the block. Do you realize what forward movement this is? The billboard nuisance needs only one argument against it which ought to be sufficient in this day of the city beautiful. Its elimination or it's restriction is necessary to any con s;stent plan of civic improvement and public sentiment is the power be- | hind the throne
 Mrs. Tafel urged that the Phoe- nix merchants follow the example of | the Columbia thcater of Chicago, which has discontinued the use of bill posting and bill boards as means of advertising and confines it's publicity work to the newspapers The disposal of sewerage and gar
 ba Se was fully explained by Mrs
 Frank AIllire. Mrs. AIkire received her information directly from Avery | Thompson. the superintendent of
 streets and alleys and the city water department, and Griggs Carr. com missioner of streets and alleys
 The entire city can now connect 1 every city block is prepared for such
 arrangements and there is an ordin-
 ance to compel all property owners to connect with sewer ana the time has i expired for such action except in
 one ward, and by the middle of this
 month the entire city will be com
 pe!Ied as fast as possible to connect with the same. Sixty per cent of
 the property of Phoenix is now con
 nected with sewer"
 An insight to the present situation
 Was given and the details of the work
 of the department described. Excerpts
 from Mrs. Alilirc's paper on garbage
 disposal follow:
 We have only seven wagons to
 haul garbage for the entire city
 There is an ordinance requiring
 garbage cans but il cannot be on
 forced because of lack of public de
 nIand."
 The garbage wagons are unsani- ! tary beyond a doubt"
 "Thcle is no arrangement mad.
 fer separating the house waste at tn,
 dumping grounds, making it impos-
 sible to entirely burn the garbage. a. it is all hauled and dumped. together Mrs. Alkire concluded her articl, | N4llI q regret bI present unClc3n con
 ditions of various vacant lots. Clean drinking water for Phoenix 2 constant supply-d perennial strcan
 Was the plea of Miss Bertha K
 McKnipe. Miss Mcknipc told of ta, | splendid water system of New YorI and declared that there was no req. , son why Phoenix could not have on, equally good.
 The present water system of tn. } city of Phoenix consists of a groul
 of deep driven wells located on tn, corner of Polk and Ninth streets These wells have been drilled ant cased to q depth of from 15O to 21l feet. No water is received from les han 100 feet Below the surface 0 5 tho water. These wells are not flow ? ing wells, the water is pumped an, 5 about 3.500,0 900 gallons have been dis
 t~ibuted every day during the pas six months. This is just about hal
 enough water. A mineral analyst has been made. There are about I3 7 parts of solids to 100000 parts o
 water Good spring water contain 2 about g parts in 1000, 900. The bac ! teriolOgist at Tucson declares th water drinkabIe This does not mea, ] that it is absolutely free from bac