Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1916-03-09
Council Kills
Rest Room Plan

INC CITY udll at tuesday evening
council meeting.
Chairman Lamb OF the buildin
committee, which was instructed t,
investigate and find the approximate
cost OF the rest room, handed in al
exhaustive report and specification
of the work needed to provide nea
rest room. The specifications includ
ed tearing out the two-by-four We
neering on the walls which served tC
rebuke freedom-loving prisoner.
when the room did service as a city
Jail, putting in front to correspond
with the police office next door with
plate glass windows and door. Plas-
tered walls and ceiling, fir floor, ce-
ment floor at the rear, plumbing, two
toilets, and lavatories. The probable
cost Mr. Lamb said would not exceed
1850. The interior would be fin
ished, the walls and ceiling calci-
mined a cream tint and the wood
work stained a dark oak.
Councilman Banta then got the
floor and stated that according to
the city charter the finance COM
mittee should have charge of the city
hall. The mayor stated that the build
ing committee was for the very pur-
pose of building and he believed the
rest room came within the scope of
their duties.
Mr. Banta stated that he had taken
the matter up with what he con-
sldered the most influential men and
women in town and found all bitterly
opposed to the establishment of a
rest room in the city hall. Mr. Banta
contended that the present Jail is not
large enough and that more jail room
was needed and advocated putting in
steel cells and keeping prisoners in
the cd Jail instead of providing a rest
room for ladies.
He stated that already Enders,
Vaupels and Beebe G. Kinney had
installed rest rooms and that the Ho-
tel Oregon would soon be available
for the use of the public Mr.. Lamb
this by saying that he had
talked to many of the ladies who OBJ
iected to patronizing these rest rooms
because they felt that it put them
under obligations to the stores.
Mr.. Banta stated that the location
Of the proposed rest room was OBJ
noxious to him, that it's being next
10 the police office and just in front
of the present Jail, ladies might be
bothered by the prisoners in the Jail
and having prisoners led from the
police station in front of the rest
'oom to the jail, also that language
)f prisoners would be heard in the
'oom tle stated that he had per-
mission to use the names of two
aides, Mrs. E. D. Briggs and Mrs.
;. B. Lamkin, who were opposed to
he proposition after making an in
He called upon Mr..
4amkin who was present to back him
lp in this, and Mr.. Lamkin said that
Santa was right. Mr.. Banta stated
hat although his wife was absent
nd he could not have her assistance
n gaining the opinions of the ladies.
g had talked to men who had wives
t home" Mr.. Banta also hinted that
e had been informed by good legal
uthority that the new Jail was liable
, be condemned at any time because
was not fit place to confine a
ian.
Mr.. Lamb stated that he had had
to do with the building of
le new jail and from the amount of
orseshoes and old iron which he
ad put in with the cement in the
Ill wall, he did not think any pris-
ner would have a chance to bother
le ladies.
Mr.. Banta got a little heated at
lis and jumped up objecting to Mr..
amb's intimating that the prisoners
ould get out and saying that he
cant language. +
Mr.. Banta on a query from the
ayor admitted that he thought, next
oor to the police station as it would '
}, that the rest room would become
rendezvous for streetwalkers who
ould watch for men going up into
e park.
Mr. Nininger said that ever since +
,yhood he had repulsive feeling
henever he approached the jail, and
, did not think that even Brussels '
rpets could remove the old asso-
atoms.
Mr.. Ashcraft said that he had
ught the establishment Of the new =
il from the first, giving several rea-
ms and also said that he did not
lieve that the proposed rest room
ould be good enough for the ladies g
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Mr.. Lamb made plain his situation .,