Bisbee daily review., 1921-04-20

era1 hundred residents were present ed, at the regular meeting last night requesting that the one hour auto parking regulation recently put into effect be removed After wrestling with the question most of the evening the time limit was extended 10 three hours on all streets customarily used as parking places.
 In taking up the matter of parking on the city streets the city council found itself badly tangled up. In the first place it was discovered that the original city ordinance allows no ve- hicle to park more than one hour on any street in the congested district. Mayor Erickson opined that inasmuch as this ordinance was drawn some years. ago it was intended to apply to stage coaches. wagons and burro trains, and not to automobiles, but he was overruled by the city attorney.
 The city council. was perplexed. and the most recent ofdinances in the matter were brought from the ar chives, but their embarrassment was only increased when it was found that the latest statute prescribed a time limit of exactly 10 minutes. The city attorney effected a coup d'etat when he pronounced that the later ordinance abrogated the one-hour pro- vision of the eafher one. and that 10 minutes is as long as vehicle may lawfully stand on a street in the con gested district.
 The opinion of the city attorney left the city council in al bad way. Tax payers were present with petitions and it was evident that something must be done, but what should it be? The city attorney took a back seat when the mayor announced that it was clear that nothing could be ac- complished as long as he was refer red to. and that as it was apparent that the city couFil was going to have to break it's own laws the city attorney would consider himself as being temporarily absent The city attorney put his fingers in his ears while a resolution was adopteG ,n- structing the city marshal 10 extend the parking limit to three hours. Chief Kemptton asked how he was to keep tab on, car for such length If time and he was told to go and 5it with the city attorney.
 Matters had been thus peacefully settled when Councilman Hicks start ed the ball rolling again by moving that ordinance 125 (referring to au to parking) be repealed entirely. Councilman Rosok was opposed to tine .dea on the ground that under the or dinance the city marshall shall move sue vhehicles as violate it to the city pound, hold them until the owner thereof appears and pays S10 in cash, S2 of which the city marshal may xeep for his own use and purposes. lie declared that the city is neglect ing this source of revenue. Mayor
 Erickson retorted that under one or dinance he is entitled to take SEQ a month for his services, but that he has served for five years and has aever had cent yet. The members of the council and rne audience hay ing tired of talking it was decided to let the three hour resolution stand, not without some qualms of con science on the part of the city off cials.
 With regard to tho ,.arking place in front of the postoffice the mayor de- sired that the public be informed that cars will be allowed to park there as in the past except that they may park only one deep, Nand further ex- cepting that autoists who wish to get their mail may park two deep. ex- cept that they may so park only long enough to go in and get their mail.
 With regard to Howell avenue. all concerned agreed that they had ac- complished enough for one night, and that the intricate matter of parking on that narrow street Will be consld- cred in the future. The concensus of opinion was that in the meantime may go ahead and park.
 J. C. White, president of the War ren District Business Mems Associa- ton, having presented one of the pc titions with regard to parking, next notified the city council that J. C. has been appointed n:gnt- in place of Charles Thom- as, and requested that he be given a special police commission and pay Of S25 a month from the city. The re- quest was granted by resolution.
 The offer of W. D. Dortch To rent 80 acres of the city land near the cemetery at $1OO year was accept ed.
 Bisbee transfer men presented an- other knotty question when they ap- peared to ask that. their present li- cense of S5 a month be reduced They .ragnnfa1 latfarc from Dhnanf. The