Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-09-21
bTNEY LICENSE IS
RAISED TO S25 FOR
STATE FAIR TRAFFIC
Ali Dogs Must Be Kept Within
Terms of Ordinance
After October |


by the city council last night for all
autos carrying passengers for hire and
the city recorder was authorized to no.
tify all dog owners that after October l
all Of the terms of the dog ordinance
will be strictly enforced. II was stated
that the reception rooms for unclaimed
CANNES had been completed with q room
adjacent where unclaimed animals
might be treated with gas and after De-
tober | all dogs must be accompanied by
their owners of custodian on chain.
The city engineer reported that the
remonstrance of property owners
against the paving of the Fairgrounds
road was sufficient to prevent the paw
ing of this drive and the street commits
sioner was authorized to purchase 100
yards of gravel to repair the street for
fair time. When it was shown that all
of the autos in the city that could pos
sibly spare the time and many from 9TH
er cities and towns of this valley were
intending to go into the iitney business
during the state fair it was decided to
raise the license fee from $40 to $25.
The jitneys on the regular fairgrounds
run and other autos doing a passenger
carrying traffic for hire in this city
all year deserved some protection in
the minds Of the council and the IL
cense fee was raised for this purpose.
The ordinance had been prepared but
was without the emergency clause and
the council resolved itself into com,
mittee of the whole and prepared the
council resolved itself into a commit.
tee Of the whole and prepared the
emergency clause which put the ordin.
ance into effect upon its passage.
Payment of rs per cent of the cost of
the pavement on Seventeenth street was
ordered
Speed Cop Varney was reelected for
the remainder of the year upon motion
Of Councilman Won Eschen, of the DO.
lice committee, it was stated that dur.
ing the last six months that Varney
had been employed he had made 81 ar
rests for speeding alone and that the
fines had totaled sos and he was not
only paying his own way but that it
was a good investment for the city as
he also served in other police capacities
There was no vote east against the re-
tcntion Of the speed officer
The heads of the departments of the
city government were instructed to
bring in before October and file with
the city recorder an itemized statement
of the needs of their department for
the coming year in order that the bud.
get might be prepared
II was suggested that an ordinance
be presented to require all shade trees
to be trimmed to distance of at least
10 feet above the pavement so that the
city sprinkling wagons might pass un-
der the trees without the limbs rakinp
the driver. 1t was stated that the park
board had the power 70 require this TO
be done and the matter was referred to
the park board for action.
An ordinance was presented to make
1t unlawful to SET hose or sprinkler
so that the water fell upon the side.
walk in sprinkling lawns or partings,
its provisions, however, not to apply
to sprinkler held in the hand and
turned aside as pedestrians pass. The
fine to be from $3.50 to 500 for violat.
ing the terms Of the ordinance. The
matter was referred to the fire and wa.
ter committee.
Councilman Mills suggested that au.
tos drive directly in to the curbs instead
OF backing in when parked along the
eurbs of the streets. He said in de.
tehse OF his suggestion that occasionally
an awkward driver would take up too
much room or smash bicycle or some.
thing, Mr.. Mills also said that amateur
drivers sometimes forgot to relieve the
reverse when they backed into the curb
and that when they cranked up the
machine would climb the curb and
threaten pedestrians. He said he knew
OF Just such things to happen in this
city. The matter was referred TO the
ordnance committee for revision.
The Salem Elks lodge, No. 33G, was
gwen permission to hang banner
across the street in front Of the cmb
rooms on Elks' day OF the state fair
Inc banner to bear the inscription
" Welcome r. p. O. H."
The resolution Of the light committee
recommending lights at the crossing Of
Broadway and the 0. Il. track, at the
intersection Of Eighteenth and Belmont
ana at Twenty.fourth and Marion was
adopted The monthly pay roll for Sep
tember was adopted, and the second
nalf Of the appropriation for the park
tund was ordered transferred from the
general fund to this fund.
The city attorney instructed the coun
cii that under the terms Of the franchise
OF the Salem FIGURING Mills company
thlS company could be required to cover
the mill race from High street to Front
street. This would require an amend
ment to the ordinance, he said, and wa.
then instructed to bring in the required
amendment A sidewalk was ordered on
we west side of Liberty from Oak I,
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