El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-05-20
The Council Renames Those
Changed by Kelly Council;
AUtoists File Protest.

I The work Of the Kelly administration
! in changing street names was partly
undone when the city council in regu-
{ lar session Thursday morning restored
the original names Of a number Of
streets renamed by ordinance passed on
April 10. The amended ordinance
passed under the emergency clause on
first reading
The following streets were restored
TO their original names: Frutas, Find
ley, MADEIRA, West Main, Manzana. Orc,
Pera, Rivera, Rosa, Tularosa, Tornillo.
Mundy avenue. TObin boulevard,
changed April 10 to Bassett avenue,
was renamed Pera street. Orient street,
changed TO BrOokline, was renamed
East Overland, was renamed Findley-
The street in block 81. Campbell addi-
ton, between Santa Fe and FL PasO
streets. was named White street
Longer Waits for Autos.
A petition, signed by 81 business
men, was read, asking that the pres
cnt traffic ordinance limiting the park
ing Of automobiles to 20 minutes at a
time in certain parts Of the business
district be amended. It was claimed
that the time limit is unnecessarily
and unreasonably short 1t was further
submitted that the parking Of automO-
biles within the district between san
JacintO plaza and san Antonio street,
on Oregon street and Mesa avenue, and
between OREGON street and Mesa avenue
on Texas and san Antonio streets, is
not so Objectionable as the parking Of
machines on Overland street, where
there are many wholesale and retail
houses that use the curb for receiving
and shipping goods The petition was
5000 More for Fairgrounds.
A subcommittee from the Fairgrounds
and recreation committee of the cham
Der OF commerce, composed OF Raobl
Martin ZielOnka, DR.. J. A Rawlings and
II. D. Slater appeared before the council
to ask that $4,000 more be definitely
promised now for Fairgrounds Tor the
year ending April, 1916 in addition 10
the $4,000 appropriated by the old ad-
rninistrat ton for use in the maintenance
Of the Fairgrounds and recreation cen
ter system
A letter from chairman A L Hawley,
of the finance committee OF the school
board, was read, asking that the $4,000
already appropriated be transferred
from the city treasury to the treasury
of the city schools The petition from
the school board and the request Of the
chamber Of commerce committee were
referred to the council as a committee
Of the whole
Weekly Re~Orts Made.
The weekly report OF the sanitary
commissioner showed SIS, zee pounds Of
garbage handled The weekly report
deaths. Of which u were Americans,
- were Mexicans, one a Chinaman, and
one a negro. Births numbered 81, OF
which four We're American, and Is were
Mexican. There were total OF 90
contagious diseases as follows Measles
IS. scarlet fever eight, smallpox four
typhoid fever four, dlphtheria %
chickenpOx four a total Of 415 pounds
condemned
Petitions Are Granted.
The following petitions were grant
ed: Property owners on West Nevada
street. for 80 foot pavement and to
have street parked; r. n and Frances
Moore Dudley. Lee H Orndorff and
Frank Wells Brown and others to va
cate alleys in the Alexander addition
Franklin Fuel q Feed company for
sewer extension to block 80, East Fl
Paso; trustees Of the Spanish Metho-
dist Episcopal church for freedom from
taxation, Geronimo Porras for two
electric signs at 603 South FL PasO
street, Groom * Grabbing to extend
sleeping porches over alley on knick-
erbocker apartments; NJ Cruz to erect
tent theater at Santa F'e and Second
streets; F. y. Baca for quit claim deed
TO lots 81 and %. block So, Franklin
Heights; Mayield Building & Realty
Co. to establish alley grade in block
Sc. Alexander addition.
Petitions Denied
The following petitions were denied:
H. d. Smith, to run push cart and
fruit stand at Broadway and san
Antonio streets; Mike Julian. for news
stand at Oregon and Mills street; r. A p
Harris, for salary Of s25 for April; John .
ConnOrs, for reimbursement for auto
mobile fixtures purchased while park
commissioner.
Hawker's licenses were granted to
Luis PadiIla. ". H. Avery and z
Ornelas.
To Pave AIamOgOrdO Street.
The petition Of property owners to
pave AlamOgordo street. from Piedras
street to Stevens avenue, was filed
The following petitions were re- 3
ferred: r. E. Aston, for gasoline fill /
ing station at $50 AIagoffin avenue; /
Houston Ice and Brewing association, (