Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-08-05
GOODRICH
LAW HOLDS UP
MARKET PLANS
City Mules Homeless if Shelby
Street Barn Taken Over
for Project.

The bruised. bent and broken Good
:ich- tax law chicken may come home to
perch in a new position on the Mayor
Jewett administration roost.
Intermingled with the chickens re-
turn is n question which city officials
are pondering, namely:
Where shall we stable the forty
street cleaning mules IL the city
council decides to establish new
city market i'm the Shelby street
barns?
These are the mules rented by the city
from private owners under the same sort
Of a contract that Mayor Jewett de-
nounced as graft In his prediction
speeches.
A committee from the council met at
the barns with members Of the South Side
womens club this afternoon to have fur
ther discussion on the advisability and
possibilities Of establishing the market.
The council committee reported Mon
day night that the barns are the best
place for the proposed market.
TWO CITY BOARDS
ARE OVERLOOKED.
Since the council failed to pass q mo-
tion instructing the committee 10 invita-
representatives OF the board Of public
works and public safety 10 attend the
meeting, city officials are wondering
whether the council intends 20 take over
the barns for the market without giving
consideration 10 the pr@blem Of finding
storage space for the mules and street
cleaning equipment now stored there.
The question, What are we going to
do with those mules ?" recalled the mn-
nicipal yard project which Mayor Jewett
proposed more than a year ago.
This Project included the construction
OF new city barns, shops and warehouses
on land owned by the city at kentucky
avenue aud Drover street.
The plan reached the point last fall
where the engineering department pre-
pared sketches and preliminary plans
Just about that time, however. the de-
yastatiug blow "a the city's finances, due
80 the original troubles arising out Of
the aew tax law. struck full force aud
ofrfcials began TO woIder II they would
have enough money 70 pay salaries
through the fiscal year.
DROP THE MATTER
FOR TIME BEING
It was explained at the city hall that
the municipal yard bad not been talked
OF for some time because no one rould
figure how the money for it could he
obtained before next year.
So. In short. this Is one OF the stua-
tions Mayor Jewctt may ind facing him
when he finally gets time from private
analrs to peep into the city hall again
No municipal yard. no place to
move the forty mules TO.
No place 10 move the mules to,
shelby street barns not available.
shelby street barns not available,
no market there.
No market there. south aide women
on the war pafh
South side women irate, no soutb
side women votes this fall and Rt the
municipal election NEXT year.
II has been proposed, II was said, tnat
part OF the equipment be moved TO soma
site on the north side. but this Is not
IL accordance with the advice Of au-
thoriues on street cleaning problems.
who say the apparatus and animals
should be kept in one place, so as 70
be more efficiently supervised
The south side women would be par
ticularly glad to get rid Of the mules,
aside from obtaining the mAeket, accord
ing TO statements made by their repre-
sentatives at the council meeting.