Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1916 — NEW NAME FOR RIVER STREET [ARTICLE]

NEW NAME FOR RIVER STREET

The matter of changing the name of River street to some more desirable name will possibly be put up to the city council at its next meeting. The matter is being discussed by the resident property owners who think that now is the time if ever to change the name before the new numbering and street name plan for free mail delivery is adopted. Miss Helen Mucray, daughter of former Postmaster G. E. -Murray, has interested herself in the matter and has talked to all the property owners on this street, and all seem favorable to such change, and it is therefore likely the question will be submitted to the city council. It is pointed out that, as a rule, in most cities “River street” is about the meanest thoroughfare in town, with poor,- crowded tenement houses and the less desirable class of citizens live there, while here it Is almost directly the opposite. Various suggestions for a new name for the street have been made, among which is Iroquois drive, Iroquois avenue, Park avenue, Riverside drive, Riverside avenue, etc. Either of the names w'ouid no doubt be acceptable to the property owners, but Iroquois (thus preserving the name of the river) drive, or Riverside drive strikes The Democrat as better than "avenue,” and we hope to see one of these names' adopted.