Putnam patriot., 1930-02-13
TO FORCE LONG TIME
 PARKERS TO VACATE
Two Hours Limit Proposed to Make Room For Out-of-
 Towners
Only Three Merchants at Mass Meet
 ing Tuesday Night

To get local business men to park their cars somewhere besides in the business section of the city was the objective at the mass meeting Tues day night, called to discuss the park ing problem. In a count of automo- piles occupying parking space up and down Main street and on some of the side streets. made on two occasions, the minimum count was twenty-eight and the maximum was forty-four. This, incredible as it may seem. was by actual count. And. it is assumed, many of these same business men have been deploring the lack of park | ing space for those coming from out of town to trade.
 If this substantial number of cars can be forced from the business sec ton to some more remote quarter. it will go a long way toward solving the perplexing problem. This was told to those gathered in the meet ing, Tuesday evening.
 Adopt Two-Hour Plan
 It is at once apparent that class legislation is unconstitutional. A law forbidding only business men or local people to park their cars for a limit ed time can not be enforced Any l legislation must apply to all alike. The only sure way to remove these everyday and longtime parkers is by placing a time limit on all park ing. Three hours was first suggested This was thought to be too long a period and was voted down. Two hours was proposed and was general ly endorsed. If was declared to be the sense of the meeting. Alderman Robert Chadwick. chairman of the ordinance committee of the common council. who presided, stated that the committee would recommend two hours as the limit for parking in the business section of the city to the common council.
 Parking of automobiles, which has been discussed by hundreds of people privately failed to draw more than handful of citizens when the sub feet was up for open, public discus sion. Only three of -sose present were retail merehants-store keep CTS in the congested area. Only one man who signed a petition to the common council for a one hour park ing limit on the west side of Main street. from Pomfret street south, was present in the meeting to support | the petition. He made no remarks.
 One Way Streets
 The subject of making Livery and Canal streets "one way" streets. was discussed. This proposition did not meet with general approval. It was suggested, and the suggestion was we'll received, that cars should not | be allowed to park near the inter- section of Front and Livery street and Pomfret and Canal streets. The same suggestion was made for the corner of Main and Bridge streets and at other more or less dangerous corners
 The discussion, Tuesday evening, was frank and open; also good natur- ed. Although the attendance was small those who were there appeared to be working earnestly for solution of the problem that has been perplex- ing and vexing the citizens.
 Those present at the meeting were Aldermen Chadwick, Dean and Mig nault. F.. C. Rogers, Alfred Bodo, F.. L. Kelley. Ray Bosworth. Howard Shopf, manager of Grants, Samuel Rich, Byron D. Bugbee, Frank Jarvis, Frank K. Haines, Arthur Tourtellotte, Arthur l.. Duvert. President King of | the Chamber of Commerce. William | P. Warren and newspaper reporters.