The chronicle=news., 1913-02-12
REMEMBERING PLAN
DISCUSSED At MEETING

| Inc plan OF renumberinG the
streets and avenues Of Trinldad, rec
commended by a committee and hdopt-
ed by the city council. was discusscd
by business men aud taxpayers at q
mass meeting at the Chamber Of COM
mcrcc rooms last night. The system
which will result In the changing OF
all house Numbers in the city. did
not meet with general approval on
first glance but there were some who
became rcconciicl to II upon further
Investigation. The csicf objection
voiced was that the system wns'rcvo-
lutionary and would result in confus-
ion. After much explaining and Nucs-
tioning the chairman OF the meeting.
J. r. sherman. was empowered to
appoin, a committee 10 Investigate
the plan and report back.
4 large map of the. Sity. showing
all the numbered blocks was dis
played and W. II. Lewis. supcrintend-
cnt of the water works. and w. j.
ILlttlcton. city engineer. explained
the system. In the rcnumberlng
plan as explained the Intersection Of
Main and Commercial street is the
5000 block. BY this system II was
shown that all parallel blocks be.
tween given points are numb bercd In
the SAN multiple OF one hundred
The city engineer explained that the
old system would not work out and
that this system was tn. only system
that would make the numbers uni
form.
II was explained that under til.
old system there were u large num-
Der OF houses without numbers and
II great many that were Incorrectly
numbered ". r. Lewis expla Ined
tina, In his department there were
:.iUv water consumers. About 80
OF these had no numbers. :1J were
incorrectly numbered. On postoffIce I,
delivery routes there were 2.0ii
houses. 1871 OF which were not NUM-
bcrcd correctly. and $50 had no num-
bcrs. This. II was stated. was u COLI
fusion to the mail carriers and the
retail stores having delivery men.
Il. 3. Gregory. who was unable to |
see any benefit In the new system !
asked why the numbers In the down
town district could not remain the
same and the incorrect numbers In |
the residence district changed In con-
formiiy. The city engineer cx-
would not work out. ]. II. Cooley. /
who saw no merit In the plan. in
CURED II IL were not possible for the
council to enforce the ordinance that |
required all houses to be numbered
nnd thought that the miNup could be
remcdicd II all residents and property 1
ownCrs having the wrong numbers
would secure the correct numbers
from the city engineer. \. l.. Bran
son confessed that he could NOT
"savyy" the new system and could |
not see where II was any improve
men, over the present system.
Aftcr considerable explaining aud
discussion and suggestion. Joseph |
Sanders moved that the meeting rati-
fy the rcnumbciinr system OF the
city council. He declared that the
council had appointed a capable COM
mittcc and that this committee had
given the matter careful study. \. |
L.. Branson objected TO the motion on
the ground that there were so few
at the meeting sufficiently informed
10 vote intelligcntly and he thought
1t would not be proper to ratify It.
and that I, would be dIscourtcous to
the committee II n vote was taken
and the system was not approved.
Finally o. l.. Davis presented nn
amended motion empowering the
chairman to namo q committee to
thoroughly look into the system OF
rcnumbcring and report back.