The Detroit times., 1916-12-06
Many Merchants Enter
Protest On Auto
Parking Ban
CALL POLICE
HEAD A GEAR"
Discrimination Alleged
Before Council
Committee

. Police Commissioner cOuzens, ID
now rattle regulation prohibiting
the parking of automobiles i'm u
/ downtown district was attack
/ Tuesday morning as measur
which robs merchants OF their trao
/ nd dcpriYes citizens OF their righ
. Business and professional men jol
ed in The protest. which was mad
/ I'M e meeting Jf the common CO
committees on ordinances and ira
/ ne regulation.
After he lad heard himself DC
! nounccd as cZ3r, Commission
/ Couzcns was called upon TO max
q trw remarks by Aid Frciwald
/ Who presided
~ haven anything TO say 10 Oh
proVl" who protested said Con
zons "but I VIII say a few things %
Jho aldermen
Talk 10 as, too was The heatec
protest from Few Of those Vl
/ tad attacked the regulation
"NTrc citizens We have as niue
.2ht To hear about this as the a.
Germen.
Couzens is Ieckled
The hccbl.ns apparently angerc
the commissioner He arose, hoIc
ing n his hand long list of nam
OF firms ON WoodVardayo and Grl
wo'a.st
u want TO say that the men vi
re protesting here are doing q
not in the interest OF public good
ult because they have some priva-
right an stake The Broadvay me
ch0nts are protesting because the
wan' parking permitted in front o
their places OF business 50 ihey CO
draw trade away from WaOdWar
ave merchants have list
frm names here and not one c.
+ these H-mf--thcy represent the biz
sr-t OF their kind in the ci.y-haye
/ made any pro ST. am not tryin
! 10 regulate traffic for any one cias
/ OF people I want 10 do the great
cst good for the greatest number g..
cur people
II could bring before YOU hur
drod OF letters that | nave receI,
cd indorsiug thc now regulation
some OF YOU people favor l5-minu
parking. others want one hor
parking How are YOU going 20 cr
force such measures II YOU ar.
going TO allow l5ninute or one
Luur 10 each automobile owner vi
drives up 10 a store 90 purchase kc
are not umplfyHg the tra Iic prob
/ lem one viii drive aNay, auG
there will be another automobi
waiting 20 drive in Our fguCa
show that between 10000 and I2.6#
automobiles drive porDhNard or
Woodwardaye IN q DAY Allow ou.
kind OF parking, and the street viii
be lined with automobiles as 70 usC'
10 be.
AS FOR the physicians who hay
complained. can show them LET
tcrs from many men OF their pro
fessiou approving o. The non parking
/ orders Permit parking under any
Circum .arcos. and they VIII no.
lave any better opportunity 10 dri,'
up TO a building than thoy have
row"
ereitmeyer Makes Protest
Former Mlyor Philip Bre'tmeyer
was among The most active Hrotes'
ants. lie declared ho did not pro
pose 20 follow lh" police rules b.
cases where he ccemcd COMPLIANCE
BEYOND All reason
You've got 70 give tho Worchants
q chance To deliver their goods into
the waiting cars Of their tom
ers.' he said That tent 'he only
complaint. Ny wife drove upro The
Harmonic the other day. s'lppeC in
Tor few minutes, and vhor she
came ont the officer told hen he
could not leave hCr car there
told her TO pay no attention TO any
complaint that viii be- made Tbats
stand. You're going &C. enforce
these rules of yours until YOU drive
va to do something We had not
ought TO do"
Calls Couzens Gear"
II y. Cohen. who is one OF the
merchants in the broadway market,
called Couzcns a "ezar."
business in the Broadway mar.
ket has fallen OH 30 per cent since
this new regulation went into ef-
feet he said ~ crippled woman
who used 10 deal with us can't come
90 our stand anymore because she
hasn't the means 20 employ a cbauf.
feur TO keep her car moving around
Willie she makes purchase At
hc same time, the members cf The
A. e can pack their cars ln
Madison-ave. from O'Clock IN the
iuorning until midnight. Just be
cause a ear comes 10 hero and says
we can do this ana We cunt do
that"
a representative Of The T p Rayl
company declared that the firm
would suffer if % could not let ia
patrons stop Their cars lonc enough
to take on q load which could not
De carried by a mai. He offered 10
pay the saldry of 4 police of1oer who