The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-06-14
CITIZENS MANIFEST
NO CONCERN ABOUT
PROPOSED INCREASE
CITY COUNCIL TO CALL PUBLIC
MEETING FOR EXPRESSION
FROM THE PEOPLE.
TRAFFIC ORDAkcE ENACTE|
Regulates Travel and Parking Of We
hicles on Certain Streets-Stringcn
vagrancy Ordinance introduced
To Hold Registration.

CcTH one way Ut inc Otnef Oh the part
of the people of Columbia Friday night
when the Columbia Water & Light Co,
presented its petition to the board of
Mayor and Aldermen asking for an
approval Of proposed increase in
water and light rates said to have
been made necessary by the increased
cost of operation and production. The
board met in regular session and after
disposing of routine business, passing
on third reading rigid traffic ordi-
nance and on first reading stringent
vagrancy ordinance, the petition of
the Water & Light Co. was read by ].
s. Robinson, secretary and general
manager No action was taken on the
petition further than to refer 1t to
the joint finance and water and light
committees with instructions that a
public meeting be salled some time
next week for the purpose of hearing
an expression from the people. The
board adjourned until wednesday
afternoon at $3.50 O'clock at which
time the vagrancy ordinance will be
taken up ON second reading. ,ss.
The council met with Aldermen
Pigg, Adn, Chaffin, Cameron, Forgey
and Cherry, Mayor Dedman, Recorder
Erwin, City Marshall Mclean, City
Attorney Dedman, and Street Superin-
tendent Friel present.
Reports Of committees were heard
resulting in orders that the sidewalk
ON the east side of South Main street
for several blocks passing under the
underpath be constructed, that new
gate be placed at the entrance of the
old cemetery, and that a new drinking
fountain for animals be made where
the old one on East Seventh has burst
ed. All accounts and salaries were
approved and allowed. 3H,g sta6.,tf
The ordinance providing rules and
regulations governing the travel and
parking of vehicles and providing. q
penalty of 81 to SIS for each offense,
is made to apply to Seventh street
from the Square to High school; Gar
den street from i, Sixth to Eighth
street; South Main street from the
square to Ninth street, North Main
street from the Square to Sixth
street; Railroad street from South
Main. street to High street; and the
Public Square. The rules and regu-
lations do not apply to the vehicles
used by the city fire department, they
having the right of way at all times.
The traffic laws as adopted in the
ordinance follows:
/. Dummy officers with the words
Keep to the Right printed on the
same shall be placed at the following
street intersections, namely: North
Main and Square, South Main and
Square. Seventh and Square, Garden
and Seventh, South Main and Eighth,
South Main and Ninth, Garden and
Eighth, Garden and Sixth, High and
Seventh Railroad and Garden, Rail-
road and South Main, North Main and
Sixth, Seventh and High, and South
Main and Railroad. /
2. All vehicles travelling on above
streets shall keep to the right at all
times and any vehicle meeting an
other vehicle shall pass 1t to the
right; vehicle passing another ve-
hicle shall pass it to the left.
3. No vehicle shall turn In any block
but shall go to street intersection be-
fore turning and turn around dunn
my officer.
4. All vehicles shall stop with right
side to the curb.
5. No vehicle shall be left standing
or parking within SIX feet of fire
hydrant.
6. Parallel lines shall be drawn on
each side of West Seventh street
from the Square to Garden street Is
feet from the curb and no vehicle
shall be left standing for any time
whatever in the space between said
parallel lines.
7. No vehicle shall be parked with
In fifteen feet of the property line
running at right angles with the
street on which the vehicle is parked.
s. Vehicles may be parked on all
of said streets except on West
Seventh street from the square to
Garden street, parking on this block
being prohibited.
9. All vehicles parking on said
streets shall back into the curb and
there shall be sufficient space be-
tween vehicles when parked for
pedestrian to pass.
10. The words ito park" as used
in this ordinance are hereby defined
to mean to stand or store a vehicle
on the streets when not being loaded
or unloaded.
IL. Drivers of vehicles when max
ing a turn shall give the signal which
shall be made by extending the hand