Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-06-22
MAYOR SPIKES BILL
FOR FENCIBLES' DINNER
Executive Says City Does Not
Owe Money to Bellevue-Strat-
ford Hotel.

Mayor Blankenburr has vetoed m item
IN an appropriation tin that would pay
tho, Bellevue- e-suutrord Hotel siS9Si 20 FOR
adinner held on the io1th anniversary OF
the stats Fenclbles May q. 1915
The Mayor made no comment on his
veto. but will send a message TO Councils
tomorrow giving his reasons why the
cty should not pny the blll
II is understood that tho Mayor will
contend that IN appropratins 5000 toward
thu celebration the city has done it8
share from a financial standpoint The
fact that the bill was held for two
years before The Fencibles asked tho city
70 pay Il Is regarded as an argument
that it was not AZ first deemed a city
debt. even by the Fencihles.
The measure cannot be passed by Coun-
ellis over the Mayors veto because Il is
q deficiency bill Of more than two years
standing.
The Mayor approved the other Items
OF the ordinance and also affixed his
signature 10 n number Of other measures
Three Select Council ordinances signed |
by the Mayor affect awnings and awning |
poles on various streets lie approved |
an amendment 10 an ordinance that pro- |
hlbits awnings and awning poles on |
Spring Garden street between 9Th and |
Broad streets 20 allow the erection Of |
movable awnings in that section. The
permitted awnings must not extend more
than five feet and must be Mt least eight
feet above the pavement. The other Two
ordinances require the removal OF exist
Ing awnings and prohibit further awnings
on Broad street between the Boulevard
and Olney avenue. and on Wallace street, |
between 18th and 2lst streets
Others ordinances approved by the
Mayor provide for the following:
Opening oxford avenue TO full width
g.
section Of oxford avenue Barnes and
Loney streets.
Authorizing the erection of garages
facing cn alleys or driveways 10 feet or
more in width.
Opening unopened portion of Willow
Grove avenue from Germantown avenue
70 Cresheim valley drive.
Opening OF Hawthorne street from |
Meadow TO Plum street
Placing on city plan Addison, Alter.
Bambrey, Bonsall, Buclnell, Crowson.
Ella. Garfield, Royal. Garrett. Gray. {
Hope Kingston. Latona. Marshall Mars ,
ton, Norwood Pacific, Pickwck, Pulaski,
Russell Sparks. 10Th, Tulpehocken. Vic
toria and Wishart streets; Hazel. Usage
and Overlook avenues and Church road 9
Revising curb line of Abingdon avenlfe !
from Crefeld street to Roanoke street
Striking from city plan and vacating
Edmund Fillmore. oFulkrod. Tucker and
Glenlock streets and TO place on city $
plan Herbert street .
Striking from city plan Elwyn street o
from Kennedy to Frhley street; Fraley 1
street from Eadom to Ewyn street;
Kennedy street from Elwyn street south Il
west of Kennedy street to Elwyn street
northeast OF Kennedy street Y
Striking from cry plan West Springer
street from Wayne to Wissahickon
avenues.
Revising lines of Harrison street be- @
Iween Leiper street and oxford avenue "
md the north intersection of oxford
avenue and Harrison street
Changing the names of certain streets
Opening unopened portions of Black el
more and Matthews streets. from Stenton nj
venue TO Woodlawn street. OF
striking from city plan and vacating IN
seek street from about 9j feet east of II
III street 10 tile dead end thereof about W
90 feet east Of 9Th street 7