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Show PROTEST OF PROPERTY OWNERS CONSIDERED Objection Is Made to Allowing Use of i Lot in Business District for j Amusement Purposes. j Special to The Tribune. j OGDEX, June 30. Acting on a peti-; tion signed by more than twenty prop- j erty owners, the city commissioners this I afternoon instructed the city recorder to submit to them the applications of all circuses, carnival companies ' and similar attractions desiring to show on the lot at Washington avenue and Twenty-sixth street. The petition is one of strong protest against such attractions' at-tractions' being allowed permission to use the property in question, which is owned by the I). H. Peery .Estate company. com-pany. Residents of the neighborhood who signed the petition contend that the incessant in-cessant noises produced by carnivals and similar attractions are not only a public nuisance, but that the institutions institu-tions always carry a shiftless troupe of undesirable employees whose actions are suspicious. As a further arraignment arraign-ment of the practice the nrotestants assert that after each attraction has departed a large" amount of refuse is left on the lot. The commissioners held a special meeting at 2 o'clock this afternoon, at which time the petition was considered and the recorder authorized to refer further applications of such attractions for city license to the commission. |