Arizona republican., 1915-04-20
WOULD WIDEN
 MONROE STREET
Movement Is Presented to City Commission and Committee Named to In vestigate-O Other Matters of Importance Discussed

| That Monroe street from Seventh avenue to Seventh street could be
 widened from a fortysix foot road
 way ito a fifty-two foot roadway without cost to the property owners. i except between First street and the i middle of the block between Second i and Third avenus, and without dam 1 age to single one of the shade l trees bordering the sidewalks on 1 either side of the street, was shown at a meeting of the city commission yesterday afternoon.
 That the establishing of district within which no corrals could be i maintained. it was contended by business men, would be an act of favoritism to merchants in the outly- ing districts, particularly at Five Points and would drive the farmers away from the downtown business
 houses. Committees were named to investigate both questions, the corral committee to meet this afternoon at
 2 o'clock at the city hall and to re-
 port at the next meeting of the city
 commission to be held tomorrow af-
 ternoon at l o'clock.
 The matter of new city hall DullufIS dS dlSO pIVhSilb lOiIIelliS
 before the commission in the form
 of a resolution providing for the
 erection of a city hall building, whicf
 together with the site, shall not cost
 less than $250O0O nor more than
 S50O,O00 There was no action upon
 the resolution which may be calico
 up at any time Mayor Young an
 nounced that he did not expect i'm
 h,,t that ha wished
 the matter to be given d start during
 the fife of the present commission.
 He announced that there was a method which could be adopted by
 which the city could erect the pro- posed building without a bond issue and without conflict with the state constitution.
 Before the discussion of the pass 1 age of a proposed corral ordinance l came up, a substitute proposed ordin- ] ance was introduced to take the | place of the one then pending. This ! brought the opponents to the corral ! district to their feet Dave Goldberg | spoke forcihly and clearly, pointing { out that the farmers needed encour- l aging rather than hindrance such as l they would be subjected to if they l were forced to leave their rigs on the | outskirts of town and that the big ! business houses would be the suffer | CTS He said that there could be | regulatory ordinances without driving | the corrals out of the business dis i trict He intimated that favoritism l was being shown in making jog in I che proposed district so that it would i not affect the corrals at Five Points. l The corral committee which will | meet this afternoon at o'clock is 1 as follows
 George H. N Luhrs. Selim Ackel, H. O. Ramsey. J. H. Rhodes, J. L. Gust Peter Corpstein. George D. Christy Dave Goldberg, P. H. Will Hams, L. l.. Steward. Miss Blanche Burnett w. H. Lount. two repre- sentatives of the Civic League to be named by the league. and two mem bers of the Merchants and Manufac- turers' association selected by Dave Goldberg Commissioner Cope is to be chairman.
 The matter of the widening of Monroe street was discussed at con- siderable length by H. B. Wilkinson. Dr. w. C. Ellis and pr. o. A. Turney. It was while pr. Turney was city engineer that an ordinance was adopted making the sidewalk line seventeen feet instead of fourteen. Dr. Turney said that he had plated the street at that time and mapped Ill of the trees. He said that in the roadway and narrow ng the sidewalks three feet on each side of the street he did not believe single shade tree would be af- Tected. Dr. Wilkinson. pr. Ellis, pr.