Show PLACE WINS OVER A AVENUE V ENU 4 I 1 I I II Court Renders Render Decision in Neighborhood Feud t BOARD FENCE ONE WEAPON I I WATER OFF AS ANOTHER MODE tObE OP OF 4 In the War ar of Washington place V VL avenue a a victory ory was won by the former The right of way and the UC ot of D a water pipe lIas ha long long the or of orthe the neighborhood was settled In cur court by Judg Judge Lewis in wa a decision rendered in favor or of the nt or of Wash Ington p Although the judgment amount to only OIly 3 they hI have v theIr latchet latchets and pence peace reIn between the thorough fare fa rea One ot of th land owners of Ya ton place cosed closed the narrow Dati patt be bet between t tween the streets by building up a fence and 8 a land owner Oer of Washington tn a venue avenue shut ot off the Ule water connection from their the fed fedI feud I It has al all been boen settled now at let anti and the aley alloy is still but the water has ben been turned on anti and an injunction made a Of Champion on on Each Side Tb FL enU c population of the wee were not brought directly IntO ourt but th they y were both put to con lence by the change a landowner from each ach thorough far entered court Mrs EU Emily F nu Gant n t or of Washington place wa was the arid and Oror L A HoUgh ton of Washington avenue was the de de fondant According tv h the testimony thc complaining wll S and amI the de defendant defendant own property which adjoins at a narrow alley which is four our fet feet And a half haIr wIde between the avenues s sa a place run runs east from 57 SOUth State street and Washington venue runs rung Wet west from Sout South Sec Second Second I ond East meeting nt at a narrow path pathway way connects the places This was closed by Mrs Gant making the people or of Washington aye e eTue Tue Tine walk around Ue bock to get tn tate state street Mr Houghton bunt built a twelve feet teet high which shut of off light from her hous house and lIe be a also o dosed the water connection h hi return For Many Yea Years From the time Washington avenue vas as opened by El Eli B Kelsey some y years ar ago he tried to run U it straight through h the block but Charles CharlesI J I who is i now deul dead and Wiled wd toe the property on the west half of the blok refused to let i It go got through t TU afterward op opened med up ton place from State street bUt lower down In the block and the avenues were connected by the narro lath h a few yards ards In length A permit was granted the people or of Washington avenue to brIng a water pipe up the at their their own expense The avenue wac only forty feet in hi width ad and the city refused to accept It Its itIs Is s city property because i it was not or of size The city refused tl tu kepIn repair the water system and nd th did It themselves When Washington W place was hed they hR I no water and were not granted a to take It from State street wk had nn an Id Idea a and cunningly a pipe to the Washington un lin and brought lown aown his court un to al anybody Secret Divulged Before Death Ju Just t how long the water system of two courts has ben been connected no CU knows but shortly hort before Tuck t deth death he toll told Houghton he had aol it secretly Mrs Ir Gant bought the to Tuck eld and HI fib it an old iron foundry She the foundry Into a hous house and i it hs has been occupied ever everill ill iII Son Soon after this chang change was she coed closed the p passageway and feud bean began For fifteen years the thet pith t I had ben been used by the public In ral and the Washington avenue lenue J objected on the ground It it la law Ily belonged to the public Matters have vae been growing WOl worse for some time ad td when the high bRn board fenc fence was wasP P pit J up and they finally entered court PI the HIe water waler was as shut hut of oft The TheA A avenue elue people think that they have ben been robbed and wl wili probably abl ably 1 the C case |