Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-01-25
BOARD
TOSTOP TRAFFIC
IN STAND SITES
Old Custom Permitting Sale
of Leases Believed
Illegal.

Insisting that the traffic in stand sites
at the city market must be stopped,
the board or public safety at the reg
ular meeting Tuesday afternoon instruct
ed it's attorney, William 7. Bailey, to
search the municipal code for ordinances
governing the market which will back
up the board In its stand.
The board has been informed that
stand site leases have been sold for as
high as $1,000. The custom for twenty
years has been for the Shareholders to
lease the same site year after year un-
til they have become more or less or
fixture at their particular location. Then
when they decide to sell out they trans
fer their lease to the person who pays
them the most for their fixtures, stock
and location. The board believes, how
ever, that the Shareholder has absolutely
no title to the location. He merely rents
its from the city from year to year and
his claim upon 1t becomes absolutely
void when he Is absent from It for ten
consecutive market days.
CHANGE CREATES
MANY TANGLEs.
Adoption OF the rule prohibiting sale
Of leases at the meeting Of the board
week ago has resulted in q number OF
embarrassing tangles for some stand
holders. One woman told the board that
she has purchased a stand site late in
the fall, paying in cash, $1,000 for the
location and $500 for the fixtures. This
was under the Jewett board Of safety
which did not prohibit the practice. The
stakeholder from whom she purchased
the place, however, did not have the lease
transferred to her name, she said. She
asked the board what she was going to
do. The board members said they In
tended to hold to their rule OF not sane
tioning the sale of stand sites by stand
holders because the sites belong to the
city, but they referred the woman'S
problem to Mr.. Bailey.
IT was pointed out that most Of the
standhoIders In the market are due to
suffer considerable financial loss because
of the prohibition of sale Of leases, since
practically all Of them bought their sites
from their predecessors. The board ex-
pressed the feeling, however, that this
is the funeral Of the SHAREHOLDERS since
their predecessors had no right what
ever to take money from them for the
stands.
PURCHASERS NEVER
EXAMINED TITLES.
Board Member Edward G. Sourbier re-
marked: "They wouldn't buy piece OF
ground without investigating the title,
why didn't they look into the title Of
the stand sites before paying their
money!"
When II was suggested that stand
holders could get around the prohibition
Of site sales by refusing to give up their
places to purchasers until the purchaser
paid them enough excess for their FIX
lures and stock TO cover what the holder
had paid for the location, Mayor Shank
remarked that this could be effectively
blocked by the adoption of a rule by the
board prohibiting SHAREHOLDERS from
charging more for their fixtures and
stock than a committee Of disinterested
appraisers. appointed by the board, de-
eide they ere worth.
BUILDING COM
MISSIONER CHOSEN.
The board appointed Francis p. Hamil-
ton commissioner OF buildings. His sal
airy is 5000 per year. Permission was
given for the use Of the ground In the
rear OF fire headquarters at Alabama and
New York streets as a public woodlot
Patrolmen Jesse IL. STREET., Fred Gun
SOUS, Joshua Spears and Fireman Riley
White were retired on the pension fund.
Fireman +. G. Mccullough was ordered
to report for physical examination. pre-
uninary to possible retirement. Re-
tirement Of Carl Brown, electrical re-
pairman, was rescinded and the reSigna-
ton Of Fireman George r. Warford was
accepted sergt Mary N. Moore, of the
humane department was reduced to pa
trolman and ordered assigned to
the Terminal Station. Anthony Jones
was appointed police barn hostIer.
Police Chief Herman r. RikhofY recon-
mended twenty-five policemen for retire
ment on pensions because of physical
disability.
Traffic policemen wers ordered
stationed at Virginia avenue and Alabama
street, Meridian and Georgia streets,
Illinois and Georgia streets and Capitol
a nd Indiana ayenuea