The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1919-12-14
Too Many of the Local
Thoroughfares Are
Misnamed.
IS A CHINESE PUZZLE
First Street Known as Hodge
After Madison; Second
Also Has an Alias.

I ,turesSm an, tNe ufhyHiah, MO N'ic
,hone man. the taxi driver. tho so
ncl,or. the collector. or the messen
sr boy what Tulsa needs most tc
! Make ii real city and he will tel
,oD very emphAtically that the stree
names and numbers should DO re
ysed imm ediatcly.
Amos, any pedestrian. except per.
hans the oldest inhabitant," wht
kpows by instinct every nook and
Garner of the city. has experience
lhe trying difficulty one has oi
REACHING any gwen destination In
rulas netted maze OF mls-named
renamed and unnamed street with
b,it Chinese puzzle like system OF
uumbera
Revision Of streets and numbers
,vayS becomes necessary In a grow
lag Young city like Tulsa. just as II
Always becomes necessary for girl
10 begin doing her hair up" In
yead OF letting II dangle down her
back In braid. or for a boy to dis
ard his knICkerbockers some day
lnd step out In his first long pants.
II is something that Is Inevitable,
And as a speaker said at n civic
club luncheon last week. -it has be-
poms a custom for these Inevitable
things to happen sooner or later"
b Problem FAced Other Cities Too.
Other cities that grew less rapidly
shan Tulsa have had to solve the
same problem that is now facing us,
Kansas Clty completed her street re
tsons not more Than two years ago.
Today her difficulty In over but II
eoN far more In time and money
lhan would have been the case II
he had made the revisions when she
vn city the size Of Tulsa
Memphis and other cities have fol-
Owed tho example OF Kansas City.
Real estate men in Tulsa have long
been awake to the same need here
Tor some time. as have all classes
Of people who are In position to be
zone familiar with tho streets and
numbers as they are today in all par ts
t The city. II you are an average
,l'iAen YOU are perhaps concerned
'aly with going from your homo to
rour place OF business. Tulsa 4
downtown district Is easily learned,
eui anyone who has the task OF find
Ing given address in the residence
sections OF the city is unfortunate.
Imagine the plight OF stranger
IN the city trying to find hls way
about the city. Street signs are so
scarce that he must depend almost
entirely on asking the street names
of fellow pedestrians. who in most
cases know less than he regarding
the city
Beginning on First street, II ne
goes east without veering from his
course he soon learns to his surpr rise
mat he Ia on Hodge street Going
In the same direction on Second
sreet his confusion is increased
when he finds that X soon becomes
Burnett Likewise Third becomes
.olllns; Fourth becomes Query and
Auh becomes Cedar.
"a When Is Elcven Tn?
Moving south on Quincy the bewii-
'ered stranger finds that although
me houses are numbered in the T0Ds
mere II no Seventh street. When he
racnes what the city map shows as
tenth street he finds that IL Is
saoNn IN the nelghborhood as Ninth.
suvct car conductors and residents
ne helghhorhood declare that the
Ip engineers were wrong and that
.nat the map shows as Eleventh is
A.y tenth. although they concede
va me street one block south IL
Twelfth street
"heh ne goes east to what ID com
monV called Kendall addition he al
's deuots his own sanity when
" nnds that Third street west OF
Ns three blocks north OF Third
.set 800, east OF Lewis In Capitol Hu
uiuon, some streets that are but
blocks long have as many as
u,ee names. One street has the
hns Newlan, Haskell and Cham
~, Another IL called both Rock
hhn Osccola, Walton. Wing and
Ntahu are the names applied TO
ouer street. other similar com
aaIons In the addition are Easton
nli- @ Sdams and Council. Jasper and
oma A.. So thoroughly mixed up
r,e he names that one Newton
hst three blocks east and
,,s nor'h OF another Newton street.
,n,,t one walton street Is four blockg
dtion =" 'ho same au
| e.ty the longest street In the
4 a, called Raird and also Barton
eastern end. Park place. which
4, rom Lawton to the Yves, linn
Nm. me city. and is the dividing
49,, oe'ween the north and south
nsPhs but one street bearing
n,r name Park street is also the
e applied TO the southern exten-
oi Trenton street
. dIt Oh Past Runn. Yrg..- l. ..tt-a
,pNoL Quaker, on the soutbern e
.,S|.hslon, is called Olive. Ouincy ia .
Trnos, ~ PIE, Rockford is Jasmine.
.ovth ~ iercival and Victor, At IT'S .
nv 80, - fortcr street Scarcely .
shl,s ~ Knows of st Louis street, .
0CS,I's. ~ commonly knosn az Forest .
"a, IONS are almost as bad TN .
Va. iulNN There First and Second .
~, run north and south, while In .
Be-. ,htoper they are east and west
en- I0.sh the names are consist
ns e. s.uo 90 not change as do First
Ela ohd streets I'm Tulsa. West
H. uA hoin street running
n. shd south As on this side OF
q. NJ but II Is IS Socks west OF
H. street in Tulsa proper.
M, numbering all over the city
mr.. confusing as the street
~, "a, 10 Para Hin addition num-
$50 ahd 500 are found next door
R,,s,. o'her. Al Fifteenth and
=, rnr' 1 streets one residence bears
hs,S inner 500 and is in the 1900
Lsi, Vne block east between 81.
t,s itAa Trenton may be seen 1900
sshi. N the same a60epfn0Unss Z,
\ ,,v amples sirue5ar to fhsse can \
c.Id all over tHeNcity.