Indianapolis Times, Volume 33, Number 75, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 August 1920 — Page 17

MAY GO TO COURT TO PAVE STREET County Council Refuses Action Because of Tax Muddle. The connty council, by refusing to appropriate $13,000, is facing a possible lawsuit seeking to mandate the council to make the appropriation with which to pay for the paving of a part of Emerson avenue leading to the Big Four railroad subway. The council will consider this appropriation at the September meeting as the result of an agreement made yesterday with E. S. Huggins, attorney for the citizens asking the Improvement. Three years ago the public service commission ordered the Big Four railroad to raise Its tracks and to make changes in the subway, which has been done, Mr. Huggins states. At the same time the county was directed to provide for a better approach to the north and leading over to Emerson avenue as well as to pave the approach. The county has acquired the right of way. but no appropriation has been mude to pave it. "In the meantime," Mr. Huggins states, “the postal authorities have abandoned certain portions of the mall route and the traveling public can not use the road because it Is nearly Impassable.'' Mr. Huggins states that there is a 1,500-feet gap remaining unimproved on Emerson avenue and if paved it would provide a north and south paved road nine miles long from Thirty-eighth street to a point south of Beech Grove. An appropriation of SIB,OOO is needed, but the councllmen state it is impossible to make the appropriation at this time because of the serious condition facing the taxing officers as the result of the threat of the County Farmers' fed. eration that the legality of the TuthillKiper curative act will be tested out in Ik* courts. '•Mr. Huggins informed the councilman he dH not care to be placed in a threatening attitude but stated that unless t le council made the appropriation to carry out Ihe order of the public service commission probable mandatory action would be taken in the courts. The council deferred all action until the September meeting.

WOMEN ASK FOR MAYOR’S ACTION (Continued Fr*m Page One.) vitation at the council meeting Monday night, said they were disposed to do everything possible to give the women of the south side a decent market place. , bat there were the mules. WILES JUST MUST SSE TAKEN CARE OF. The mules, the forty street-cleaning and j wh-hauling mules, for whom Mr. Riley and Mr. Miller fear there can be found no new borne Tery soon, since it Is impossible to the municipal yards because of the Goodrich tax law muddle. t The board of works members bad been Informed that the women wished the part of the barns for their market, mules or no mules, and Mr. Riley asked them If such were the case. "Well, we should say not!” was the chorus. ‘‘That Just shows what you men think -of us women on the south side. Would you like to eat butter which had been stored In an atmosphere like this?" The board members, and everybody else present took one sniff of the muleladen oaone and promptly agTeed there would be no further argument on that point. All except President Gus Schmidt, that la. ‘Til have to take your word for It : ladles," the gracious president said. "I can't smell.” Commenting on the nuisance which . the barns constitute, one of the club women remarked that the place must i have been cleaned ud recently for “It’s a credit today to what it usually la." "Why sometimes In the winter the snow and slush would pile ur, in from of the barn until we could hardly get * through and you could come along here s almost any time and see five or six mer : sitting Id here with their chairs propped up on two legs,” the coming voter said 5 -Tb that what the city uses our money for? “I*ll bet you there are twenty-five men ; In these city barns that don't earn their | money , clftvEb old STROKE. WHAT? Mr. BOey said that as a member of the f board of public works he did not believe 5 the women of the south side would wish ‘ such an nnsightly place as the barns as a market. v "My position Is that the south side is * entitled to something better," he dels clared. | He said that the city wanted to move the mules out of the neighborhood and put them in the new municipal . when they were built The women wished to know how soon this could be accomplished and when the board members replied it might take , a year or more there was a chorua of: * ‘Yes. and where will we be by that - time?” M i*?l tdl yon what,” Councilman Brown 6 interposed. "Let's get rid of the mules E altogether and buy tractors to clean the streets and haul the ashes." “Tt can’t be done,” Mr. Riley quickly answered. "You couldn't use tractors in aome of these alleys, the way ashes have to be collected. - ‘‘You have to have mules because the wagons have to be stopped every few feet to load on the ashes.” “They do?*’ a woman replied. "Well, they don’t do it that way in our alley. “They drive to the middle of the block IS and then carry the ashes to the wagon S from both ends and if they spill half of - them it’s all the same.” - Mrs. E. E. Kuhn, 1019 Dawson street, president of the South Side Women's club, said that when a delegation bad called on Assistant City Attorney Harry * E. Yockey and asked If a curb market I conld be established near Fountain * square they were told they could not be- : cause It was illegal. SOME ONE SPILLING TRUTH HERE. "Then we told him.” she continued. ’ * "that if a curb market for ns was illegal that he'd better lake Taggart's * bread boxes off of the sidewalk and take the central market off of the courthouse : ; square. “You don’t mean that yon told him to take Taggart’s bread boxes off the sidewalks” asked President Schmidt in high glee: Mr. Schmidt’s dislike for A. L. Taggart. president of the board of public safety and head of the Taggart Baking Company, is no secret. Mr. Schmidt's distaste for the baker is admitted by him to be based on his belief that the safety board’s head was instrumental in arranging the booze and poker party at the connty Jail in 1918. at which the Jewett administration - sought to involve members of the city council in a scandal which could be used as a club to compel the municipal fathers to follow the mayor like sheep. How the famous party reacted as a boomerang on Mr. Jewett and his associates is history. In reply to Mr. Schmidt's gleeful question, Mrs. Knbn replied: “Yes, we do.” Mrs. Martin Reiffel, 1019 Dawson street, made the final ultimatum: “There’s just this much about it; we’ll have markets If we have to scatter them on vacant lots all £ver this city.” The conference broke up with the board of works members promising to try to find a place to move the mules to. George Williams, executive secretary i>f the board of public safety, who also Was invited by the council committee, aa interested spectator.

Two Women Are Hurt When Autos Collide As the result of an automobile accident at Forty-fourth and Central avenue today Alice Yeung, 649 East Forty-fourth street, and Cora Willis, 1637 Rembrandt street, are suffering from slight injuries. Miss Young, with her father, Edward H. Young, were riding west in an automobile on Forty-fourth street and War-

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11 Negroes Are Held in $15,000 Bank Robbery GARY, Tnd., Aug. 6.—Eleven negroes were arrested here yesterday and are bfld as anspefts in the Moline, 111., hank robbery of Tuesday, when the Commercial bank was looted of $15,000 after two citizens had been shot In a run. ning battle with the police. The negroes stopped at a local hardware store, left two new cars standing outside and, entering, bought eleven re

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