Evening journal., 1921-10-05
news GOSSIP
OF new CASTLE
Ordinance to Tax Buses and
Jitneys Gets First and
Second Reading
WOULD BECOME
EFFECTIVE JAN.
Special to The Evening Journal.

Special to The Evening journal.
NEW CASTLE. Oct. 5.-Busses
and iitneys operating within the city
limits on a schedule and charging a
fare. will be required to pay license
fee OF $50 per year. should the ordi-
nance that received its first and sec
ond reading by Council at its meet
ing last evening, be passed. The or
dinance. II passed. will become effec-
tive on January /, 1922.
While considerable opposition was
expected to develop against the or
dinance, only one change was sug-
gested, that Of making the license
fee Of the jitney less than for the
busses. City Solicitor Frank deli.
Janvier was present and explained
the ordinance. The cause of the in
PRODUCTION Of the ordinance was the
recently installed bus line between
this city and Wilmington, by Charles
williams of Wilmington. Many OF
the residents oppose the passing OF
this ordinance. as they contend the
busses favor the working man, as
the charge to Wilmington via the
bus line is only 10 cents. while the
fare by trolley is Is cents.
Many residents are planning the
circulation OF a petition requesting
the trolley company to grant special
rates for workmen.
The ordinance provides a penalty
Of $50 for each offense OF a bus or
jitney owner operating through the
r.sts oh Nr4fr
cense. It also provides a fine OF not
less than IS nor more than $40 for
the failure OF the owner or operator
10 display the license card on each
bus or iitney.
Compliance with the recently
passed billboard ordinance. that re-
quires the removal OF the billboard'
on Fifth and on Seventh streets, and
any other board over the erection OF
which complaint had been registered
at the time OF erection. seeming q
have been ignored by the companies
owning them. the clerk Of Council
was instructed to notify the compan'
les and owners OF the lots that the
billboards must be removed OF
prosecution would be started.
President OF Council Charles J
Dougherty informed Council tha
Mrs. James NJ. Abbott had requeste,
him 10 bring to the attention o
Council the fact that the last twl
weeks pay for the contract OF col
lecting ashes for the city, had no
been paid her late husband Tn
salary was ordered paid. Mr.. Alb
bott was taken ill during he las
two weeks the contract had 20 run
and had employed another man q
perform the duties. The matter hal
never been brought 10 the attention
. OF Council and therefore had no
been adjusted.
A communication from Mayo
e. Cramer, accompanied by a propose
ordinance, was received and hlet
The ordinance. which was read, wa
one for regulating the operation q
motor driven vehicles within IN
civ limits. II provides that wher
houses were less than 100 feet apai
the speed should not exceed is mils
an hour and at street intersection
and curves the speed limit is set
seven and one-half miles an hou
In other sections where he distanc
between houses is greater than lo
feet the speed limit is set Of 80 mile
Clerk Smith said a similar ordinane
was already in effect and counc
decided not TO take any definite az
tion al this time.
william F. Palmer, who has bee
acting as special police officer sin'
the resignation Of Adyon Jordan. 4
a member Of the local force, was o
hciaiiy appointed by Mayor Grant
and the appointment communicate
TO Council last evening and approve
by that body. The appointment
John Doris driver OF the Ahren
Fox chemical engine for the Goo
will Fire Company, as a special o
fcer. was reported by the mayor an
approved by Council.
The purchase Of 500 feet OF ne
fire hose for the Good VIII Fl
Company was left in the hands
the fire committee OF Council, wi
power to purchase.
At the requestof John McDevi
permission was granted the Ne