The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1922-04-05
WITH THE CITY COUNCIL
CITIZENS DISCUSS PAVING
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showed that the singing had not caus-
ed him to miss a word or an express
sion that had passed since the meet
ing began. DR.. Peek objected to the
council making an decision as to the
type of paving because it would les
sen the number of competitive bids.
If the city spends part of it's money
in building an experimental street it
will so lessen the amount of money to
be spent with contractors that it will
cease to be attractive and we will lose
the advantage of hotly contested bids
Mayor Peek also urged that we start
as soon as possible to save the inter-
est that we are paving daily on the
bond money. He could not help but
express his opposition to the two paw
ing ordinances that had been intro
duced for the paving of Main and
Second streets by city forces. He said
he was strongly opposed to these two
ordinances and would give his reasons
when they were placed on second read
ing.
Mr.. Martin then asked Mr.. Brumby
if he had anything to say on the paw
ing question. Mr.. Brumby first refut-
ed Mr.. Taylor's statement about his
former home town having all brick
streets. He told of much concrete
street work that was being done there.
He advocated a unit paving for Ocala,
either brick or asphaltic block because
Ocala's underground work was in
such a condition that it would have to
be torn up many times. He expressed
himself as being first and foremost in
favor of giving the people what they
wanted and would not consider spend
ing the peoples money for anything
that they did not want. He gave as
his reason for desiring an experiment
with brick that Ocala needs a pave
ment that can be most easily taken
lup and replaced and that he was capa-
BILE of laying this pavement himself
and thought that by doing so with
city crews he could lay it much cheap
er than contractors would. He said
it would help the city to learn how
near the bids are in line if it was first
to build one short street and thereby
learn the cost Mr.. Brumby express
ed his qualification at this public ex-
preston of the wishes of the people
land assured them that their wishes
should be considered in the matter
His answer to a question of Mr.. Tay-
lor's as to the quality of asphaltic
block pavement was that he could not
be certain because it was not as wide
ly used or discussed in trade journals
as other types of pavement but that
he did know of several cities that were
=, well pleased with it. Mr.. Brumby end
ed his talk by mentioning the fact
that patched asphalt street is very
unsightly and that was his reason for
desiring some type of unit pavement
because he knew that the streets of
Ocala would have to be torn up many
times.
Mr.. Martin then thanked the crowd
lpresent for its interest in civic af-
, fairs and promised that the council
would give its best consideration to
this matter, but remarked that he
; would have to rely upon the advice of
: experts when it came to paving be-
cause he was not a street man and
, closed his remarks by stating that he
considered the opinion of Mr.. Brumhy
! excellent in such matters and that if
the city could not afford to listen fav-
orably to his advise it could not afford
to pay him to manage it's affairs. He
said that it was useless to pay a high
ipriced man to run our minor civic af-
fairs and that we must use Mr.. Brum.
by in the larger deals if we were tc
n realize anything upon our investment
: in manager.
Most of the visitors then filed out
and the regular order of business wa.
: resumed. Andrew Goldwire asked il
the new state automobile license Law
u relieved cars for hire from paying the
city tax of SIS and was informed
) that it did not.
All bills were ordered paid wher
approved by the city manager.
5 Mr.. Brumby then made his report
He first spoke on the matter of new
water mains. The plan is at present
> to run a II" main from the plant
down Osceola street to Washington
/ street, west on Washington street tc
Main. At Main street the II" main
will stop and an s" line will extend
e north down Main to May street ano
south to the courthouse square. This
plan will carry the much needed
: larger water supply to the square ane
to the Ocala Iron Works and Taylor's
mill without tearing up but one block
of brick pavement in laying it. This