Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-22
Urge Completion of Whitehall
and Other Work Before Start
ing New Schemes.
BALK EXTRA SESSION PLAN
Woodward's Attitude Amuses OPP
ponents-CounciI Finance
Committee Criticised.

Aldermen opposing the passage OF
the budget issued a statement Satur-
day explaining their position and
pointing out that there is much that
is amusing in the attitude of Mayor
woodward and the Finance Com
mittee.
Plans of the Mayor to call special
meetings of the Council every day
until an agreement is reached, and
appeals from department heads that
they be given their apportionments
of funds, have not feazed the Alder
men.
They have been reduced to four by
the illness of Alderman John 5. Can
dler. but they are still able to pre-
vent the passage of the budget. They
have discovered that Mayor Wood
ward can't hasten matters by calling
special meetings, for the law provides
that when there is a disagreement be-
tween the Council and the Aldermanic
Board the matter of an agreement can
be taken up only at a regular meet
ing. The time of the first regular
meeting is the first Monday in March.
Calmly Stand Pat.
So the four, Aldermen John S. Ow-
ems, James r. Nutting, Albert Thorn
son and James w. Maddox. have an
nounced that they will calmly stand
pat
Their statement begins with the
explanation that they want the public
to understand why they have failed to
concur with their colleagues in ap-
proving the budget made up by the
Finance Committee in the Mayors
private office with the doors closed"
1t continues in part:
1--WE do not believe the positions of
street and sidewalk inspectors should
be abolished and the city turned over
to contractors without inspection of
their work.
Work Should Be Finished.
eve believe development work.
such as has been begun on Whitehall
street, West Peachtree and Cherokee
avenue, should be finished before any
new schemes are started Property
owners on these torn up streets are
greatly Inconvenience by the delay
Notwithstanding these unfinished
jobs, and with not dollar appropri-
ated to the Whitehall street improve
ment, the finance sheet carries SIS
900 to start another job, on South
Pryor street. south Of Georgia avenue.
This extreme south end of Pryor
street is a residential street and is
now paved with belgian blocks.
I'VE regret that the Mayor does not
favor the Cherokee avenue and White
hall street work The disobedience of
the Third Ward in re-electing Coun-
Hall after being so thorough
" instructed to defeat him possibly
deserves SOluS dlltnLioii' Jul w u"
opposed to having the spanking so
publicly administered.
Proctor Creek Boulevard.
1.-THE $4,000 appropriated for Lees
boulevard over the Proctor creek
sewer would be sufficient to just about
clip off the tail end Of one house that
might happen to project over on the
right of way Of this boulevard The
members Of the Finance Committee,
with the exception, we believe. of one
Lone Citizen regard this appropria-
ton and this project as joke, and
poor one at that.
1--WE are not especially opposed to
the city appropriating $4,000 for pur-
the right Of way for Spring
street extension between Fourteenth
and Psachtree streets, but do think
that, with big open trunk sewer
running full blast some 500 feet or so
west Of this extension and parallel
ing It for some distance, Spring street
would be of very little real service
were it opened.
Other Paving Urged.
I'VE think Lucille avenue--the main
street traversed by the street cars
from the city to Westview Cemetery
should be paved; and also Joe john
ston avenue, in the Seventh Ward. on
which street the public school build
ing is located, should be paved.
we have made every reasonable
overture to the Finance Committee,
and. Individually and privately, al
most every member of that committee
admits certain changes ought to be
made in the budget, but collectively
the committee refuses to make the
slightest change or concession