Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-06-11
COY CORNER CLUB MEMBERS
INDORSE ANTINOISE CRUSADE
Richmond Is Peaceful and Concntcd Community, With
No Desire to Grow Like New lork and
Chicago, Sense of Meeting

| 'ssarily accompanies heavy truck
loaded with debris ON it's way TO the
! dump. and man cannot drive Il
nail in a hard board without max
| ing Mt least some sound"
Aside from the noise" remarked
Buster Brown. II wish TO object to
tho pi!inr of largo piles Of clay and
mud along tho streets and side
walks. while men are cxCavating for
sewers and pas and water mains
We are a peaceful and c"ntrutcd com
mnnity. and do not want TO grow
lik" New York and Chicago. Why
10 not TIA" contractors got at the
h"tt"m of these things and dix their
llay out from the bottom If thcy
started at the bottom. there would
not b" any unsiEhrIy pilcs Of dirt
scattered all over the city"
! aGr"" with the brother" de-
''ar"d Chan Rusk"ll. Tame that big
jill" az mud on Ninth street II they
Had started In from the base n,cut of
the Federal bank. and ROT all tn.
have been no occasion TO take all tho
street cars often Ninth street. and
wc would not have To walk all the
way from Main street 20 Broad. It's
a. outrage"
Certify" agreed Joe West. They
could tunnel under the sidewalk. and
nobody would know nothing about
II. Just as easy as building the Big
TEND Tunnel. What they going to
do along Main Street when they COM
m"nce to lay that sewer"
Like IT, "Mnic "a Showing"
Il bet they Will pile the dirt up on
tho sidewalk. 50 Won have TO walk
TN tn" street 10 got by. instead OF
sut"ring from the collars of the
stores and tunnoling under the side
walk Thcs" directors just like to
rilc tn" clay up nli along the street
doing something. Makes m" tired"
commented Joe <ass. I'm almost
ready To run for "a director myself"
You fellows sound l!k" a bunch
II iconoclasts," the prrsidcm, re-
marked. Amt none of YOU go no
patriotic inclination. You'd walk
ont To Bryan park 10 zee a free
show. rather than pay car fare or 20
across tn" street and pay 10 cents
for a good show. I'm almost ashamed
10 belong to the same club with You
all. All you want is something for
nothing. and plenty or that. And
Scu have TO air yourselves IN kick
ing against the government and
x noCkiIE TN" men who are doing
their durnd"st to make US reach that
there 10000. Anybody with no
sense could see in a minute that YOU
can't dig q sewer through cellar
and carry the dirt out tho back alley.
iEocnUs" thcr" amt no alleys on .ha
north side 81 Main street. The only
reasonable and logical way to do IL
would be- to use the basement OF tho
Mutual Building as "A sort OF clear
Ing house. ana get rid OF the debris
10y sending IL up through the clc-
vator shaft TO the roof. Some pco-
pie a!n't got no sense ana always
was as Henry Ford might say"
G"t His Umbrella Bnrk.
IL agree with all that has been
said" pipod Fred Putnam. "Iut
what's all that got To do with my
ner last meeting night ANA amt saw
seucc? aint charging nobody. bu,
it's mighty queer. as see It. There's
and Ia just like 10 have
that umbrella back by the next
shower"
All hands looked at one another.
Wasn't me" asserted Billy Work
man. The last one | got pick cd
up at the BARRIERS and amt nobody
called for it yet"
II have mentioned no names" the
willy secretary said. but you all have
heard my uhasc. and. accordingly.
Gil OF you better beware
Then the club adjourned and the
members departed. Leaving six UNI
brcllas in th. corner. The secretary
took them ali.