Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1915-05-21
NTNEY BUS
SCORES one
Council Kills Section Of Or.
dinance Forbidding Stop.
at Street Corners
DECLINES STEWART ROAD
CITY Will Condemn to Connect
B Street With Wishkah
as County Desires

Drivers Of jitney buses scored at
Wednesday nights city council session,
Final enactment was given an ordin.
ance eliminating from the jitney ordi.
nance the section under which jitneys
are forbidden to stop within 40 feet OF
street corners. Mayor J. M. Phillips
has not signed the new ordinance as
yet, however, and it remains to be seen
II the triumph of the jitney men prove
. real one.
Passage Of the ordinance was secur.
ed through the absence of ]. M. Bowes
and the detection of E. C. Mcknight
from the councilmanic ranks that have
been friendly, or that at least have
not been unfriendly, to the Grays Har.
Dor Railway & Light company's inter.
ests. The new ordinance carried by
the votes Of Councilmen e. E. VIE
land. e. A. Milette, Anton Pista, J. w
Fraser, A. ]. Grant and e. C. Nc.
knight; Councilmen J. D. Walker, A.
8. Brecht. w. J. Egerer. ]. H. Empey
and w. H. McWhinney voting no;
Councilman J. M. Bowes. absent.
+ Upon the introduction Of the ordi
nance Councilman Egerer, seconded by
walker, moved that It be tabled. Coun.
Gilman Wieland, declaring that he had
introduced the measure, opposed the
motion and urged that the jitney ordi.
nance. a. respects section 13, which
forbids machines to stop within 10
feet Of street Intersections, is unfair
to the jitney men. Motion to table
was lost by the same alignment OF
votes az later carried the ordinance.
Argue Over Majority Rule.
Wieland moved that the rules be
suspended and the ordinance be given
al three readings and final passage
The motion carried by the same solid
dix votes. Egerer. however. asserted
that the motion had lost as a two.
thirds vote was required to suspend
councilmanic rules. The mayor con.
fessed himself at sea a. to the point
and asked what had been the rule.
Fraser declared the rule to have been
plastic.
TITS been worked both ways" said
Fraser, Ito suit the interests Of coun.
cilmen. When they" with a suggest
i've hunch of his shoulder at the west
end Of the council chambers-"wanted
to put saloon over in South Aber-
deem, six to six vote was good
enough to carry suspension of rules.
At other times it has been two-thirds. F"
W.eland opined that, If the two
thirds rule be sustained. huge num-
ber Of ordinances had been passed H.
legally. The mayor declared the two
, thirds rule out Of order and that the
motion had carried. That left a clear
na3ority at liberty to pass the ordt-
Aence. under which the property line
instead of 40-foot zone. becomes the
Jitney's stop limit at corners.
City Engineer L. D. Kelsey acted as
city clerk In the absence of City Clerk
Peter F. Clark, who 10 confined home
By illness.
viii Repair Finch Building Alley
A report from City Attorney A. E.
Cross declared that he had investigat.
q the situation regarding the alley
n the rear Of the Finch building. which
= In bad condition, had been informed
BY former City Engineer Ewart that
10 had never accepted the alley for
the city. and recommended that alley
be repaired and the meeting Of the
expense therefor be referred to him.
self. The report was adopted.
A communication from E. M. Faulk
asked permission in behalf of logger
out Of work, to remove few spruce
trees from streets and alleys OF Ho'
Quiam addition to the city OF Aberdeen.
The request was referred to the street
committee, the mayor apprising that
body of the fact that he had been be-
sought by woman resident of the
aeishborhood to deny the request. as
the work would harm her property.
Mrs. A. NJ. Pike, proprietress OF the
Pike lodging house ON West Heron
street. registered a complaint against
ne double-deck billboards on w. Her
q opposite the Hotel Washington, de-
eiaring that they hurt her business
10th as respected steady roomers and
uansients whose view was obstructed
councilman Grant. of the Police con-
1ittee, said that their removsl e.
seeedy had BEEN decided uron by his
SNemmittee. and at his motion, the
s@etter was referred to the street com
! tssioner with power to act.
To Open II Street
The council adopted a report Of the
eHeet committee recommending the
seeming Of H street to q" 6o-fooi