Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 86, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 August 1923 — Page 7
TUESDAY, AUG. 2\! 1923
MORE OPPOSITION SHOWN 10 SMOKE ABATEMENT LAW Expense and Difficulty of Enforcement Are Chief Objections, Farther opposition to the smoke ordinance as finally drafted and introduced in city council Monday night was evidenced today as councilmen considered its various phases. Added expense to the city and impossibility of effective enforcement were cited as chief objections. The measure will come up for consideration at the regular meeting, Sept. 3. Salaries of smoke inspector and two assistants total SB,OOO annually. A $300,000 street widening and resurfacing program was proposed in an ordinance introduced and referred to the finance committee. The measure operates under an act of the 1923 Legislature, requiring the city to pay 76 per cent of street resurfacing costs. Phone War Aided Immediate steps by the city in the | phone rate war were assured with passage of an ordinance appropriating SI,OOO to be used by Taylor Gron- ; inger, city corporation counsel, to em- : ploy engineers. The ordinance passed ; under uspension of rules on Councilman Claycombe’s motion. An ordinance providing that motorists dim their lights when passing other cars was introduced by Councilman Bernd and referred to the committee on safety. It will supplement the State law on glaring lights. An ordinance asking $55,000 to meet current expenditures of the park board was introduced and referred to the finance committee. Policy of Annexation An attack on the policy of the city in annexing territory and not giving service to taxpayers was launched by Councilman Buchanan when an ordinance to annex territory at FortyNinth St. and Arsenal north to FiftySecond St. and west to the Monon railroad was introduced. "People are tired of being promised city advantages and then not receiving them,” said Buchanan. “All we do is to raise their tax rate.” The motion for annexation was lost 3 to 5, but Councilman Claycombe changed his vote in order to make reconsideration possible next meeting. Residents of the neighborhood present, represented by E. O. Snethen, urged passage of the ordinance. Public hearing on annexation and zoning will be held at the next council meeting. A plan of the Polar Ice ad Fuel Cos. to build a plant in the neighbor hood is causing residents to desire annexation, and residential_ classification under the zoning law. Contract Policy Attacked Councilman Wise attacked the pol- | Icy of city departments in making contracts and then coming to council for approval. An advertising contract made with the American Cities Service Corporation of Dayton, Ohio, for 150 combination waste baskets and police phones caused the attack. The company will pay the city ssu for each one installed each year for advertising privileges. They wllj be placed on ail downtown corners. The ordinance requiring hedges and shrubbery to be trimmed at street intersections was amended on motion of Councilman Wise changing the height to five feet, and providing that it be cut twenty feet from the curb instead of street intersections. A second step on the phone rate war was taken by the city with introduction of an ordinance rat’fying a contract made for purchase of an automatic switchboard in city naif. The cost of the board is $3,962.31. It will eliminate extra phones and operators. Regular Firemen A measure making substitute firemen regular firemen after one year of probation service was introduced. Streets specified in the $300,000 improvement ordinance: Widening and resurfacing—Senate Ave. from Tenth to Sixteenth St., Boulevard PI. from Sixteenth to Twenty-First St., Central Ave. from Nineteenth St. to Fall Creek, Illinois St. from Jackson PI. to Sixteenth St. Streets to be resurfaced —Thirteenth St. from Park Ave. to College Ave., Shelby St. from Prospect St. to Southern Ave.. Ohio St. from Alabama to East St.. Cornell Ave. from Massachusetts Ave. to Twenty-First St., Fletcher Ave. from Virginia Ave. to Noble St., Prospect St. from East St. to Madison Ave.. Massachusetts Ave. from Cornell Ave. to Tenth St. ANSWER IS DELIVERED British Get French Reply to Reparations Note Hit United Pre* PARIS, Aug. 21.—The French reply to the British reparations note was handed to the British charge d'affaires here this morning. The text will not be published until tomorrow morning. Traveling Bag Taken Police watched today for a traveling bag stolen from the auto of Robert Miller. Chicago, while it was standing in front of the Severfn. The bag contained haberdashery valued at s6l.
Meetings Here Wednesday Federated Patriotic Societies. Luncheon. Hotel Sever in. r Purdue University Alumni. Luncheon. Hotel Severin. Real Estate Board. Luncheon. C. of C. Buyers’ Club. Luncheon. C. of C. Lions Club Luncheon. Hotel Lincoln. Kiwanis Club. Luncheon. Claypool Hotel. Delta Upsilon. Luncheon. Hotel Lincoln. Officers of American Legion. Luncheon. Spink-Arms. Sigma Nu. Luncheon. Board of Trade
Forty-Ninth St. Crossing of Monon Dangerous
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The grade crossing at Forty-Ninth St. and the Monon Railway is rated by persons living in the vicinity as an extremely dangerous one, for the reason that FortyNinth St. is paved straight up to the right-of-way, and because factory buildings on both sides are very close to the tracks, not only obscuring the view, but serving to deflect the sound of locomotive whistle or bell, it is declared. There have been many accidents and numerous narrow escapes, but so far no fatalities in recent years at this crossing, according to the neighbors.
REALTORS PLAN VARIED PROGRAM FORJEEGATES Visitors to Be Driven for Fifty Miles Around City Streets. Every effort will be made by local realtors to entertain the thousand or more delegates who attend the tenth annual convention of the Indiana Real Estate Association, it was announced today by Henley T. Hottel. executive secretary of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board. The convention will be held in Indianapolis Sept. 13 and 14. with headquarters at the Claypool. Saturday afternoon, the last day of the convention, a fifty-mile auto tour I of the city will be made under the j direction of Fred C. Tucker. During j the trip important properties will be I pointed out and their cost given. An- ’ o’her feature will be an Inspection 1 ar.d 'noon luncheon at the Van Camp Packing and Products Company plant, -002 S. East St. Among the speakers who are on the convention program are: Judge William A Hough. State tax commissioner: A H. Schaaf, Ft. Wayne, vice president National Association of Real Estate Boards; J. D. MiltenbeTger, Muncie, Ind., president Indiana Insurance Association; Ivan O. Ackley, Chicago, II!.; A. R. Kroth, Akron, Ohio: Julian Kiser, vice president Meyer-Klser Bank, Indianapolis: W. T. Cannon, president. Railroad Men's
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—Photo by Koosier Motor Club. CHICAGO FLYER CROSSING FORTY-NINTH ST.
The Hoosier Motor Club safety bureau took up the matter of better safeguards for this crossing and has assurance from Frank B. Humston, division passenger agent, that a new' cross-arm signal is to be erected immediately. The motor club pointed out that the old warning was so badly faded It could scarcely be seen. An effort was made by the motor club to have an automobile bell signal erected, but the rail officials Intimated this action may be deferred for a short time. The photograph shows the
Figuring Backwards, Your Car Averages 600 Miles a Month
Your automobile, be it flivver or expensive benzine scow. runs an average of 600 miles a month, if figures mean anything and if it consumes an average amount of gasoline. Indiana’s gasoline tax will net the State approximately $400,000 this month, which means the consumption of about 20,000,000 gallons.
Building and Loan Association, Indianapolis. The convention program ts being planned by J. S. Cruse, general chairman; J. Edward Robins, secretary; Harry L. Mott, finance; William A. Brennan. registration; Walter T. White, hotels; Donald D. Goss, pub licity; Mrs. Harry I, Mott, entertainment for ladles; Frank E. Gates, entertainment for men; Thomas F. Carson. decoration; Harry G. Templeton, badges; Joseph J. Schmid, program, and Fred C. Tucker, automobiles. / Building Brings $27,000 Announcemeent was made today of the purchase of a business building containing several stores and n lodge hall at Bellefontaine and Sixty-Second Sts., from Emory C. Crawford by Mrs. John H. Holliday. Consideration was $27,000. The transaction was handled by Charles S. Maxwell of the real estate department of the Fletcher Savings and Trust Company. Mrs. Holliday said the building was pur chased as an investment. Embezzlement Is Charged James Carragen, 42. Lorraine Hotel, is held under $2,000 bond on charges of issuing fraudulent checks and embezzlement. Detectives Gaughan and Fields said the check on which Carragen is held was passed a year ago.
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crossing looking east on Fortyf Ninth St., with a Chicago flyer speeding toward the city. "One thing to the credit of the Monon is that their engineers use a lot of steam In sounding the gigantic steamboat whistles sls they are coming to this and other slmlar crossings. But for tho fact that tlie sound is often deflected or may be mistaken for a train on the L. E. & W. tracks, some distance to the east, this crossing might be considered reasonably safe,” the Hoosier Motor Club safety bureau states.
Your automobile should average about fifteen mijes to the gallon, which means that your car, with the other fellows’ cars, will travel about 300,000,000 miles this month. The secretary of State has registered 491,000 automobiles. The division will show that every car makes 600 mtlea a month, or about twenty miles a day.
MILLERAND WILL GREET AMERICANS Elaborate Reception Planned for Legionnaires. American legion delegates to the Interallied Veterans Federation convention at Brussels, Belgium, will be France, Aug. 27. In the presidential received by President Mlllerand of palace at Rambouillst, It was SBnounced at Legion headquarters here today. The party, headed by Commander Aivin Owsley, now crossing the Atlantic on the Leviathan, will arrive in Paris Aug. 26 and will be greeted by French government officials, members of the Paris post. The tomb of the I'nknown Soldier at the Arc de Trtomphe will be visited. Following the president's reception, the Americans will be entertained at a reception by the municipal council and a banquet by the French government. A short tour of the old battle front will be made before the opening of the convention Sept. 1.
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