Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 22, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 June 1922 — Page 5

JUNE 6,1922.

COUNCIL CAME NEAR PASSING UP CRITICISMS Mayor Shank’s Measures Are Without Opposition Until Time to Ad journ. BERND SPOILS RECORD Until President Theodore J. Bernd loosened a broadside just b*Tore adjourn- ; ment, it looked as if the Shank city ad- ! ministration might escape the usual ] councilmanic “razz’’ at the regular meet- ' Ing last night. Kight ui> to the last minute the council passed measures backed by the administration without a single dissenting vote, even going so far as to suspend the rules upon two measures. But President Bernd spoi’* and the record when, out of a clear sky and with every one awaiting dismissal, he said: “Do you think there's any chance of buying Bull Moose Walker (John I. Walker, superintendent of street cleaning) a baby carriage to ride his family around in of nights instead of in his city ear? Another thing, we found city car Xo. SO on Ewing street laying around almost all night. Does the city furnish cars ami buy gasoline for such as that : IS Si KI’RISED AT CITY'S NEW ATTITUDE. “I want to say. too. that I was really surprised to ace an ordinance introduced here tonight for the city to help run an employment bureau. I was for that last March" and I went to Mr. Groninger (corporation counsel) and Mr. Hogue (city controller) and asked them to put in an ordinance to pay the city's share to cooperate with the State in the bureau. “‘No,’ they said. ‘We've got more expenses to meet than we have appropriations. We haven't got the money, its itllr to think of spending ail that money for an employment bureau when there, aren't any jobs for anybody anyway.’ “Then a few days later l got a letter \ from Mr. Hogue.” Here President Bernd produced the letter, whb'h repeated the above arguments against the bureau, and read it. “Now. it seems to be very peculiar, very pecularir, that they now want to be appropriating money to mu the employ- ' ment bureau, just simply to give a , cal worker a job, I don't know whether this political worker was discharged from his other job for Incompetency or not. but they said he was. MAYOR HAS KEEN TALKING ECONOMY. “Mayor Shank has been telling ns in the papers he would economize. Well, there's that SI.SBO appropriation for the employment bureau be <an be-r.n to economize on; that’s my candid op*n*on. “Now. we'll adjourn.' The ordinance Mr. Bernd referred to would appropriate sl,Sil.s* to pay the citv's share for the rest of lof the cos't of operating the employment bureau Id the basement of the city hall in cooperation with the State Industrial board. The city decided to help the State after State officials agreed to let A. M. Buchanan, Republican chairman of the l'irst ward, whom William 11. Armitage. political marshal at the city hail, had to find a job for, became an examiner in the bureau. Upon re finest of a delegation of citizens, represented by an attorney, the council suspended rules and unanimously passed an ordinance which the attorney said was designed to prevent a company he called the Tibbs-Bose Realty Company. from establishing a jciblic market house, for which he said the company is selling stock, at the southeast corner of Delaware and Thirtieth r-’t ■-r. Council- , man Walter W. Wis-, who introduced the measure, said the market would injure one of the finest r.sident.il sections of the city and if the ordinance was not passed immediately it might be impossible to stop its erection. ORDINANCE PROHIBITS UNWELCOME MARKET. The ordinance prohibits the erection or operation of a market hor.e within 500 feet of a private resider.ee or apartment house, declares such place a nuisance and gives adjoining residents power to abate it and collect the expense of the procedure frun the defendant. It defines a market house as “a

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public or private place wherein stands or stalls are rented or leased for a valuabi consideration for the purpose of selling and displaying for sale any foodstuffs. food products, meats, fish, poultry, eggs or vegetables to the general public.” Another ordinance passed under suspension of the rules was requited by the board of public works. It orders permanent improvement of Forty-Third street from Meridian street to Central av rate over remonstrance of a majority 'of the property owners. None of the property owners who objected to the Improvement was present. No ail nice notice that the board was sending the ordl•icce to the council was given. It is said. ] The council smiled upon Fire Chief John J. O'Brien and unanimously passed an ordinance, which has been held up several weeks, appropriating to the lire department $21,130.13 to make up for money spent to pay bills inherited from the Jewett administration last year. Good humor prevailed as the councilmen without dissent passed the ordinance authorizing the board of park commissioners to sell the Christamore settlement house. COUNCIL GI'F.STS OF MAYOR ON JUNKET. Assistant City Attorney William T. Bailey invited ail the councilmcn to be the guests of Mayor Shank on the special train carrying citizens to Decatur. 111-, to see the' $3,000,000 artificial take June IS. Councilman Ira L. Brambleit moved the council accept, which passed. After the motion carried President Bernd remarked: “I suppose it s all right for those that want to go.” Bills Introduced and referred to committees were as follows: j Authorizing sale at public auction of obsolete city property appraised at $3,- ■ Annexing territory bounded by a line : starting at Minnesota street and South Sherman drive and following streets as follows: South Sherman drive. Raymond street. Bethel avenue, Camby street. Haymond Keystone avenue, corpor* ation line to starting point. This to Include in the city limits territory which will be assessed for the Keystone avenue . main sewer. Appropriating $3,702.09 to pay for appraisement of country land taken over in construction of the Washington boul evard main sewer. GRAND JURY IN PROBE OF BANK Wayne County Officials Look Into Dickinson Trust Matter. RICHMOND, Ind., June 6.—The Wayne County grand Jury has begun an investigation into the facts leading to the closing of the Dickinson Trust Company of this city, on order, recently, of the Stilt* banking department. It was alleged that the bank’s assets were seriously impaired as a result of the substitution of securities -.f doubtful value, tor good paper, by Edgar F. Hiatt, former president of the company. Hiatt resigned as president and his personal property and real estate were taken over by a committee fvm the trust company, which is said to have realized more than SIOO,OOO to lie applied to making up the shortage. Hiatt is n*>'v a resident of Chicago. Depositors in the trust company lost nothing, but stockholders were assessed inure than $2 for each SI worth of stock they possessed. Auto Thieves Steal Three Cars in Night Automobile thieves were busy last night and as a result three cars are on i the missing list of the detective depart - | ment today. Charles E. Pauley, No. 32. | Gladstone apartments, walked out of the east entrance of the p.istolTiee last night in time *•> see a thief drive away in his automobile. Charles E. Langen, 1014 Woodlawn avenue, reported his car stolen from the 3<* block on South Meridian street. J. 11. ; Druley, living at the Plaza Hotel, parked ! his automobile on Delaware street near Ohio street last night and a thief took I it. I Karl Burkhart. Rural Route Box I). ■ 130. parked Ids automobile in a downi town street and a thief stole a tire from j the car.

LOCAL MEN ARE PARTICULAR IN ASPHALT CHOICE Will Continue to Protect Property Owners, How- . ever. Indications that local contractors accustomed to bidding upon Trinidad or oil asphalt and bituminous concrete do not Intend to let emulsified asphalt and Kentucky rock asphalt get a foothold on the streets of without a struggle, are contained in tabulations of bids received for the resurf ,'aing of Capitol avenue from Sixteenth street to Fall Creek, completed today in the city civil engineering department. also are that property owners, strange to say, will benefit financially. Several weeks ago City Civil Engineer John I*. Elliott proposed to the park board that emulsified asphalt ami Kentucky rock asphalt be tried out on s 'ltte pavement under control of the park department because he thought much cheaper bids could be received upon these materials than upon so-called common asphalt or bituminous concrete. The board agreed. The bids, however, show two lo* al contractors who are among those who regularly bid upon street improvements in Indianapolis, have far underbid on bituminous concrete those who submitted prices on emulsified and Kentucky rock asphalt. By comparison, the figures of the two who hid on bituminous concrete are rar less than local contractors have been laying such material-for the board oi public works, the engineering departments tabulation shows. Teh Emulsified Asphalt Company's bid on emulsified asphaltic concrete figures $1.30 a square yard; the S M. Timberlake Company's bid on Kentucky rock asphalt figures $1.52 a square yard, while the bid of the Mairon County Construction Company on bituminous concrete amounts to only sl.lO a square yard. The Indiana Asphalt Raving Company bid only a few cents higher than the Marion County Construction Company on bituminous concrete. No direct comparison of the low bituminous concrete resurfacing bid of ttie Marion County Construction Company on th Capitol avenue improvement with bids which have been made on the same class of work for the board of public works, can be made, since no bitutnl n ms concrete streets have been resurfaced by the board of works tills year. The board of works has let all of Its resurfacing Jobs on asphalt bids The lowest bid on asphalt resurfacing was $2 05 a square yard In general, bids on bituminous concrete figure ap proximately 20 cents n square yard less than asphalt, it is said. So offb ials in the engineering department, figuring on this basis, had not expected the local contractor* to bid much less than $1.83 a square yard on bituminous concrete. The difference between this expected figure of $1.35 and the bid of $1.19 which actually was received Is not quite so great as appears on the surfi.ee. The board of works requires u two-inch top surfac. and the park boar ! only one and one half inches. Thus, to fairly compare tin- bid that was received with that which had been expected on the basis of previous figures, it is necessary r. add about one-third of the price to th<- sl.lO figure. This gives an approximate pric,- of $1 i7 a square yard for two-inch surface on tiie basts if the bid on an inch arid a half. Figuring this engineering department officials said the Marion County Construction Company's bid was about 3s coots a square yard less than 'he#* had expected on the basis of bids for asphalt and bituminous concrete before the board of public works. The contract for the Capitol avenue improvement will be let Thursday afternoon. HEAD BANDS. Fancy head banns seem to havt# been restored to favor. Many of them are worn very closely over the forehead, almost covering the eyebrows. These are composed of jewels or metal cloth or floral bands.

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CITY ENGINEER CHANGES MIND ON RESIGNING Campbell Asks Board to Withdraw Letter Asking His Release. Henry R. Campbell, senior assistant dfy civil engineer, will not lenve the city’s employe June 10 as he announced he would several days ago. He wrote the board of public works a letter asking that his resignation be withdrawn and the board granted the request. Campbell w-.is a Shank worker in the Second ward during the municipal primary election In I**2l. Campbell and City Civil Engineer John 1,. Elliott did not get along together exceptionally well, it is said. Campbell's letter of resignation, accepted by the board last week, said lie w..s resigning to take care of Ills private engineer tig practice. His i<-rte r withdrawing the resignation is as follows: "On May 29 I wrote the board of works tendering iny resignation to take eff.s-t June 10 anti (lie same was aeeepted. Since then a nitniDw of Indianapolis citizens have requested me to continue In the employe of the city as seni.ir assistant city civil engineer and ns I have been successful ia getting ani ■ h -r engineer to take charge of my private business I respectfully request that the beard reconsider Us action and allow me to routine ns senior assistant city civil engineer of the rity of Inidanapolls. of which I hive been a resident for the last forty-four years.” When Camptiell's resignation was ao repted the board of works announced employes in the engineering department would be moved up to till the vacancy. LININGS. Very Interesting eff-'-ts are achieved by introducing fancy lining inside th* new skirts The uneven hem lines so popular now nro responsible for them Needless to say those linings are light In weight, usually being chiffon or georgette crepe.

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—Eremin* Concert#— 8:30-10:00 o'clock, Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. INDIANAPOLIS (AYRES-HAMILrON) WLK. —Dally, Except Sunday—--11:00-11:30 a. m., musical program. 11:30 a. m., weather reports and weather forecast (455 meters). 12:00-12:30 p m.. musical program, 2xlo-2:15 p. m., musical program. 3:10-3:15 p. m.. musical program. 5:00 p. m., baseball results. 10:00 p. m„ time and weather report* (455 metera). Steinkamp Burned in Auto Accident SEYMOUR, Ind., June o*—Edward Steinkamp of this city Is suffering from serious burns, sustained when his automobile turned over on the concnete road north of this place. He la said to have lost control of the car, which plunged Into a ditch at the aide of the road.

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