Show TO FIGHT PAYING PAVING IN THE COURTS Second South Street Property Owners Agree to Raise Fund for Litigation SCORE COUNCIL SEVERELY iNDiGNATiON MEETING BY PROTESTING NG TAXPAYERS S About fifty property owners on Second South street held a mass meeting in the Twelfth ward meetinghouse last night and pledged themselves to contribute 5 cents per front foot to a fund to be used in resisting in the courts the effort efort of the city council to pave that thoroughfare with asphalt instead d of macadamizing it as petitIoned for by over half the prop property property erty owners on the street The meeting was a warm one Charles Crane W V Me M McCrea and others handled the city council without gloves and Isi Isidore Isidore dore MorrIs introduced a resolution which lie le sUbsequently withdrew calling on A AJ AJ J Davis T R Black and M E Mulvey the councilmen from the Fifth ward to resign for having betrayed their constituents constituents W V J Halloran a property owner on the street and a member of the board of pUblic works woks attempted to as asphalt paving an and was made the target for many replies sarcastic and Crane Flays the Council Charles Crane presided over the meeting and S Kell Kelly acted as secretary In hIs opening remarks Mr Ir Crane ho headed a committee to s secure ure signatures for a pe petition petition for macadam Instead of asphalt told how owners of front feet 1001 more feet than on the street had signed for macadam He declared that Mayor layor Ezra Thompson had bad admitted that macadam was preferable to asphalt and andt t that at Chairman Fred J Leonard of the board of public works had said that It would be an outrage to use asphalt when the property owners wanted ma macadam macadam cadam Mr Crane then recited how the petition had been Ignored b by the council and re recited recited cited how a committee of the property owners who attended the session of the council last Monday night to make a final protest before the asphalt contract was let had been refused a h aring We Ve felt gros grossly ly insulted grossly out outraged outraged raged end nd grossly betrayed he said ald It ItIs ItIs Is no use to protest further to this coun ii U I n never er met fifteen men who seemed to be so utterly and hopelessly ignorant and helpless In the presence of a street contractor as these men The They seem to know nothing about municipal affairs ex cx except to stupidly vote money out of the taxpayers po Into the rockets of some contractor Hands One to Moran The question to d determine termine here con concluded eluded Mr Crane Is whether we shaH haIl let them continue to debauch the city and to betray we shall let Fat Moran revel reel In money rung from the taxpayers of Second South street streeL He advocated legal resistance and in reply to a question from Dr J M Dart said the expense of litigation would be he be between tween and W J Halloran spoke for the opposition He challenged it statement made by Mr Crane that 90 per pcr cent of the interested owners favor macadam He pro prE that macadam if adopted would prove a failure and said faid It would cost to keep it r repair whereas the contractor would be under bond to keep asphalt paving in repair foe t ten n years He said that ad streets were a failure in Chicago St S1 Louis and ald Los An guise Mr Halloran admitted that he had cir air circulated the original asphalt petition and defended the regularity and legality ot of the city action He declared I that it rae 88 too lAte to change and do any t I thing this year ear and predicted that no noI nomore I more street paving aviD would te cone in Salt I Lake for several years after the present contracts are completed Mr Crane retorted that macadamized roads had been a success almost from the foundation of the and cited th the old roads ot of Rome as well as macadamIzed streets in American cities Isidore Mor rIs nis sal I nobody but Mr Halloran had ever everI agitated paving He was opposed to pa pay I lug of an any kind on the street Mrs Irs E EI I Kimball s said ld she hd had signed the petition but had become becom converted to ml ma macadam cadam One for Martin Mulvey Hen Henry Colin Cohn charged Councilman M 1 E Mulvey with that he and his colleagues from the Fifth ward Black and DavIs would call a meeting of interested property owners and ascertain their wish Os before the contract was let t That J I romise he declared Mr Mulvey hai haci broken He roasted the council The members of he council dont care anything for the public he declared After the they are re elected they think are our bosses You should go down and see how your servants the councilmen d dc business ss There Is hardly a man among them who ever earned a dollar ex cx ept In the sweat of else bro broIn brow browIn In Los Ang Angeles les when the tte council WItS was going to do something the taxpayers did not net want the taxpayers wet went down to the council m eting wIth ropes and the they do it It be a had nad Idea kica to tr try tbt here A T Moon favored asphalt paving and Dr A Y V Sliver Silver spoke for macadam particularly onre id nce ts Isidore Morris after declaring that a makeshift nut seed good asphalt was all that ever hat had been ls d in Salt Lake Latto paving introduced his resolution calling on ve vey Davis aid ald Black to resi resiA resign A V advised against adopting the r as did W M lL McCrea fl Mr said however that Mr Halloran cid kt not have the nerve to say that as asphalt asphalt paving was a success in Salt Lake He resented what he termed was the at attempt attempt tempt oCa of a real estate agent meaning Mr to dictate to the people of a whole street what the they should do He was applauded after which Mr Ir Morris resolution was withdrawn Mrs Paul a woman property owner to crit critIcism of public officials Lets fiLets talk she said urd Id rather attend a womans meeting than one of your mens meetings Vote for Assessment After a few more speeches pro and con the c nt as assessment was was agreed upon the only votes ca against It being those of oC lIrA Mr Halloran air r Moon and Samuel I The ta tax levied for the asphalt paving Is 11 a front foot on the property between Third Sixth East streets and nd Sw 75 a front foot between Sixth and Tenth East str streets ts The cost of macadam is esti estimated estimated mated at 4 and 5 a front foot |