Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-08-06
WOMEN ASK FOR.
MAYORS ACTION

vitation at the council meeting Monday
night. said they were disposed to do
everything possible to give the women
of the south side a decent market place,
bat there were the mules.
MULES JUST MUST
BE TAKEN CARE OF
The mules, the forty street clear ming and
ash-hauling mules, for whom Mr.. Riley
and Mr. Miller fear there can be found
no new home very soon, since it is i'm
possible to build the municipal yards be
cease Of the Goodrich tax law muddle.
- The board of works members had been
informed that the women wished the part
Of the barns for their market, mules or
no mules, and Mr.. Riley asked them II
such were the case.
wen, we should say notr' was the
chorus.
THAT Just shows what you men think
of us women on the south side. Would
you like to eat butter which had been
stored in an atmosphere like this:"
The board members, and everybody
= else present took one sniff of the mule
S laden ozone and promptly agreed there
: would be no further argument on that
point.
All except President Gus Schmidt, that
il
8 .Tn have TO take your word for 1t
: ladies'" the gracious president said.
8 II can't smell"
s Commenting on the nuisance which
s the barns constitute. one Of rhe club
women remarked that the place must
q have been cleaned uD recently for Its
3 credit today to what it usually is
'sWhy sometimes in the winter the
s snow and slush would pile W. in front
IS of the barn until we could hardly get
s through and you could come along here
s almost any time and see FIVE or six mer
sitting in here with their chairs propped
m on two legs" the coming voter said.
''Is that what the city uses our money
Horl
eIu bet you there are twenty Eve men
8 IN these city barns that don't earn their
money"
S CLEVER OLD
q STROKE WHATe
Mr. Riley said that as member Of the
= board Of public works he did not believe
s the women Of the south side would wish
such an unsightly place as the barns as
8 q market
my position is that the south side il
3 entitled to something better" he de
S clsred.
He said that the city wanted to move
the mules out of the neighborhood and
put them in the new municipal yards
g when they were bUllt.
8 The women wished to know how soon
e this could be accomplished and when
the board members replied it might take
a year or more there was a chorus Of
g Yes. and where viii we be By that
ttmel"
in tell you what" Councilman Brown
e interposed- LET'S get rid of the mules
g altogether and buy tractors to clean the
s streets and haul the ashes"
ut can't be done" Mr.. Riley quickly
answered. You couldn't use tractors in
some Of these alleys, the way ashes have
to be collected
You have to have mules because the
wagons have to be stopped every few
8 feet to load on the ashes
'sFhey dOP a woman replied. We'll,
s they don't do it that way in our alley,
They drive to the middle of the block
= and then carry the ashes to the wagon
from both ends and if they spill half of
them it's all the same"
Mrs E. e. Kuhn, 1913 Dawson street,
president of the South Side Women's
club. said that when a delegation had
= called on Assistant City Attorney Harry
r. Jockey and asked if a curb market
s could be established near Fountain
2 square they were told they could not be
= cause it was illegal.
SOME ONE sPILLING
TRUTH HERE.
- "Then we told him." she continued,
s. that if a curb market for us was lille
3gaf that he'd better take Taggart's
e bread boxes off of the sidewalk and take
s the central market of of the courthouse
square.
aYou don't mean that you told him to
take Taggart's bread boxes of the side
walks" asked President Schmidt in high
glee:
Mr.. schmidt's dislike for A L. Tag
CART, president of the board of public
safety and head of the Taggart Baking
Company, is no secret.
Mr.. Schmidts distaste for the baker is
admitted by him to be based on his be-
lief that the safety boards head was
instrumental in arranging the booze and
poker party at the county jail in 1918
at which the Jewett administration
: sought to involve members Of the city
council in a scandal which could be
used as a club to compel the municipal
fathers to follow the mayor like sheep.
How the famous party reacted as a
boomerang on Mr.. Jewett and his asso-
ciates IS history.
In reply to Mr.. schmidts gleeful ques-
ton, Mrs. Kuhn replied:
"Yes, we do
Mrs. Martin Reiffel, 1919 Dawson street
made the final ultimatum:
50 There's just this much about it; wei
have markets If we have to scatter them
on vacant lots all over this city"
The conference broke up with tbs
hoard of works members promising to
try to ind a place to move the mules to
George Williams, executive secretary
of the board of public safety, who also
was invited by the council committee
- an interested spectator.