Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1902 — JUST WHAT WAS DONE. [ARTICLE]

JUST WHAT WAS DONE.

Considerable talk has been indulged in regarding just what privileges were granted the K. of P. lodge during carnival week by the city council, and The Democrat has been charged with misstating the facts. By request we .publish the entire petition of the redge to the council, and will say that all the privileges therein asked for were granted, and the license fee for shows, etc., not under the carnival management, was fixed at SIOO per day or night, precisely as stated by The Democrat last week. The said ordinance repeals all ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict therewith. The petition follows: State of Indiana) County of Jasper) ss Before the Honorable Mayor and City Council of Rensselaer. Jasper County. Indiana. In the matter of the Street Carnival to be held in Rensselaer, Indiana. To the Honorable Mayor and Common Council of the City of Rensselaer. Indiana. The undersigned would respectfully petition your honorable body herein acting:— That whereas it has been voted and ordered that a Street Carnival be held in the City of Rensselaer, Jasper county, Indiana, under the direction and management of Rensselaer Lodge No. 82 Knights of Pythias, and whereas it is necessary that certain streets should be turned over to the management for use and occupancy during said carnival, and whereas said management will need some lights and water during the said Carnival entertainment, which is to be held during the mouth of August, 1902, to-wit—from the 18th to the 23d of said month inclusive — The undersigned asks tnat the following portions of the following streets within the city of Rensselaer, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be turned over to the petitioner herein and the management of said Carnival during sajd dates which the petitioner asks control of during said carnival engagement, to-wit: Washington street from the east line of Front street to the west line of Division street: Harrison street from the west line of Vanßensselaer street to the east lineof Cullen street: Cullen street from the south line of Cornelia street to a point in said Cullen street opposite the south line of lot 8, in block 13 in the original plat of the town of Rensselaer, Indiana, and Vanßensselaer street from the south line of Cornelia street to a point in said Vanßensselaer street opposite the. south line of lot 9, in block 10 of the original plat of the town of Rensselaer. Your petitioners further ask that the rights to the use of said portions of said streets be regulated during the period of said Carnival entertainment by the undersigned, and that the undersigned have the exclusive right to sell privileges for venders of merchandise, stands of any and all kinds for the sale of any and all articles or things of value, or for refreshments of any kind; that the shows brought here under the direction of the undersigned have their licenses remitted during said Carnival engameineut, but that any and all other shows or entertainments not under the direction and management of the undersigned be charged a license fee as is now provided or as may hereafter be provided in such cases. The undersigned further prays for the use of electric lights during said Carnival engagement from 2 o'clock p. m. until 12 o'clock p. m., also some lead wires and four arc lights, and electric current, also the use of the city water from the water plant. Wherefore the undersigned asks that the prayer of this petition be granted and that an order be made and entered of record granting the rights and privileges petitioned for herein. Rf.xsselaek Lodof. No. 82 Knights of Pythias. J. H. S. Ei.LIS. Sect.. Carnival.