Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-11-18
COUNCIL PUSHING
BEAUTIFICATION
OF REST-SPOT
Too Much spoOning There in
Summer Time, Citizen Tells
City Fathers at Meeting
Last Night.
RIO IRON AVENUE TO
BE DAMNED, rs PLAN

The development OF Highland park
was the big feature of the council
meeting last NIGHT aside from the
wator works question, a large dciega.
ton OF Highland residents coming
down to urge the council TO act on
the matter As the meeting wore
along, item after item of work done,
/ estimates made or other matters in
I connection With the park attended 90
gradually convinced tho representa-
+ tives present that the council was re-
ally going 10 do something 10 the
Z barren purk and when an oppOrtuni-
I ~ was given each Of those present 20
speak. most Of them found nothing
( 10 say.
The matter was referred TO Chair
/ man NOa 1lfeld. Of the park com
mission, at the last meeting Of the
council. Mr. .Ilfold, the mayor ana
the city engineer went over the park
q few days ago. They estimated th
amount Of grading and filling neces-
sary and the amount OF piping nee
ossary. which Is the first step toward
getting Il done.
A letter was read Ia the council
last night in which John u. Wood
ward offered 60 donate 500 shade
trees for use la the park, provided
the city would pay for their raislns
and planting, No action was taken
on this. hut the general sentiemtn
was TO accept the arees with hanks.
Park Too Busy summer Evenings.
r. ~ Wnkerson, who lives on East
Central avenue. not far from the park,
declared he thought the greatest need
at present was an arc light. lie said
SO or 90 couples seemed 90 make a
practice OF settling la the park on
| SUNNI evenings and from their
conversation he judged there were
things going on that belonged In the
segregated district" He thought an
arc light would stop such practices.
lie declared the couples remained In
the park until from 1 TO 3 o'clock
every morning In summer.
Chairman Clarke, OF the liquor
license committee. reported that the
committee thouRht there should be a
difference IA the amount Of license
Z paid by those who sold only malt
liquors and those who sold spirituous
liquors He said. however, that he
thought this matter should hc gone
into carefully and tho liquor license
question settled once for all, not hast
lly. as had been the case before, OF
temporarily
! Councilman sherwood presented the
Vlnccnts academy was CONSIDERING
the installation of new modern ARE
escape, as demanded by city school
building ordinances.
DcIinqucnt Sidewalks.
MIR. Wilkorson brought up the quos.
ton OF the delinquent sidewalks on
West Coal avenue. In reference TO q
petition from those IN that section
who pctitionod the council some three
weeks ago 90 compel the delinqucnu
90 put Ia the missing strips Of walk
and the council took up that phase o
the evenings business. The engineer
had "a report showing all the delin
quents In tho city and the missinl
walks all over town were ordered IN
The city attorney was instructed e
take tho necessary steps 10 get then
put IN.
The bond Of Harley Mont, as auc
tioneer, In the sum of $1,000 was ap
! proved. 4 bin Of about 5000 for
car OF oats was paid. The application
~ the Manzano company for fam
MS liquor license, for some place OF
South Second street not named, wa
denied. A petition for au arc ligh
al seventh street and Marble avenu
was referred 30 the light COMMITTEES
Paving Work Accepted.
The city formally accepted the paw
ing work done this year, reports be
ing made by the city engineer rec
ommending that act. a separate re
port was made for each district paved
a These were on copper avenue, irot
the west side Of fourth street To- IN
] east side of Central avenue; on Jon
street from the south side OF Centra
j. avenue 10 the north side Of Gold ave
nue.: and on second street, from On
north line of silver avenue Go IN
north line OF Coal avenue.
The city engineers report on IN
b grading OF East Central avenue lroi
b Hll street 10 the city limits, Shove
p that il would cost Sl0,997 10 grad
out an so foot street, and St,9sS.s
q To grade out O. A0-foot street. IN
20 mayor remarked. "Mlght az well ,
million" and the grading Idea wa
+ dropped rieht there.