Show SINESS MEN tN UNITE IN DEMANDING hIAT SALT lAKE CITY BE 1 g Inaccuracies in Numbering and an Duplication m fI Street and Avenue Names Call Cail Forth a Krone troug Protest City Council May lay Take Prompt Mm ion in tie the Matter at Tonight's Session attention has been called by byrams I last tast Satur- Satur rams fn a eXtract from the new fleW city othe glarIng inaccuracies na In Inn n ot of houses o houses In Salt Sat Lake of ot otI also to the duplication meso mes I demand for the a. a strong at these evils eIther by the ther on theto the ordinance ot r a cW enforcement of the to L strict ws which seem to have been J for y ars and ad Js s General I of the letter-car- letter b baes es the directory com com- d 1 other persons in a oW the he ie real facts point out tor Lor a thorough overhauling hauling men demand hing hIn be done The I duncil recognize the need 9 willingness to do what- what ec vi sary though most of If VEO existing laws are op fly ly enforced gram am presents the facts andt and t- t Fot business ss men and others hat makes most forcible arb ar- ar behalf b half of prompt action in inI THOMPSON AND ANDRS ANDRS RS Or COUNCIL j DISCUSS QUESTION ts from Mayor Thompson members of the City Coun- Coun fc OMPSON I I am in favor of horseS of Salt take Lake City If the matter Kp uly to me from the Council voL the renumbering of the I COTTRELL IT of ot the City I that the dut duty of ot Cine the streets should be lithe the he building inspector inspectorS s s. s sTare re re verv verY light lIht any way that something ought to beard beard be berd ard rd correcting the evil of at Ia Tand d 4 defective numbering sI at h t I 1 am not prepared to Short hort noU notice e. e c N ROBERTSON Awhile I e ahLe to have houses cor- cor Limbered I consider that Tether ther matters before the thet t t which are much muchas as 55 ng and more worthy of i of ot money than the the streets Wan an ordinance covering the which of or course ought to d. d but then we have many which ought t to be bea tand and a d are more worthy of ot of ot money than this I 3 tha n Ordinance M l MN N A A. J J. DAVIS DAVIS I I think measure which would af- af regard to defective m would be worthy ln n the Council If It a reso- reso reso- reso Ter this point were intro intro- the Council I should vote Ie IAN N SHARP SHARP SHARP-I I would be ii in Jrr renumberIng numbering the streets lt It Is at present up to Its t tand nd if any expenditure of tl ds is required re to en- en h hJ an t O ordinance I I should O d dInst itS it S Pride ut-Pride- Prid In EARDLEY-In BARDLEY In In view a of f LUia tha a new city directory en n Issued I think It would ake to renumber the streets jilt It would give rise to conI con- con I think the proper time to uld iid be Just before the can- can JUhe the city for the 1903 uld therefore vote against Ordinance I should think make it a matter f p fo tobee o ee that their addresses directory are correct MAN AN AN HEWLETT The HEWLETT The be beet best St t et around the difficulty Jt Ito to appoint a couple of ot Int in- in t o around the city and if It they have on their houses and WhO neglect to malt malts make p s s. s I think that an ht be passed to this effect tl the responsibility on the e for or Ordinance S-I S I I am in favor of havin having ng nghe g straightened out and eltor an ordinance making Islon on if It presented JAi 3 Chairman Street ComI Com Com- I am aar not posted on the sub- sub d to express my Jore fore rore making an tl t should hould be seen that reg re- re g is necessary I would now what It would cost be be- laid i vote for tor such a meas- meas STROM-I STROM I would favor the he ii e tan fan ordinance framed to duplicate streets and in-i- in The matter Is should hould h U d be attended to NCE-I NCE I have made no In- In it I- I 1 ot the existing condl- condl want to do so be- be to say how I would discrepancies that exist sent system of ot numbering remedied Of or course there should be no streets with duplicate names S Sh ShAF Should Be Attended To A AF ARTHUR ROBINSON Where ROBINSON Where there is any confusion in names or numbering numberIng numbering number number- ing It should be removed remove but I will vill not eay cay that I would vote for an ordinance to this end until the costIs cost costis costIs is determined mined The principal question question question ques ques- tion is is can the city afford the expense ex ex- ex- ex pence pense J J. J S S. S DA DAVELER The VELER-The The proper authorities authorities authorities ties should be instructed to enforce the ordinances relative e to naming and numbering the streets Duplication cation of streets and id numbers should be voided avoided P POSTMASTER THOMAS URGE URGES URGES' THE NEED OF OP Il D SYSTEM I POSTMASTER ASTER A. A L. L THOMAS THOMAS Any Any s scheme heme intended to obviate bad numbering or duplication in names of streets would be of ot inestimable benefit to to the postoffice Mall Mali matter matter matter mat mat- ter is frequently delayed in delivery because two different streets ts have havethe havethe havethe the same name and the failure to have numbers on every house Is another another another an an- other cause for frequent delays Persons Person frequently guess at a number number num num- ber her from the location of a house and often make mak pIg big ig mistakes 3 because because be because be- be cause the numberIng of the tha street is not systematic or correct The fact that there arc arG so many so-many many streets in the city with the same numbers Is Is one of the most perplexing questions ques to persons addressing mail to the city For nce instance we have East Sixth South West Sixth South South South- South Six East South Sixth West Vest and North Sixth West besides Sixth street proper In the Fourth precinct Any improvement over the present condition would greatly add to the efficiency of ot ofte the postoffice e. e MAILMEN TELEGRAPH AND EXPRESS COMPANIES ANIES MAKE STRONG PROTEST The superintendent of letter-carriers letter a at t the postoffice general managers of ot t the he Western Vestern Union Telegraph company C City ity Package Package- Delivery iVery company Bell T Telephone c company and Wells-Fargo Wells p company make mak tb these se protests against t the he defective o of numbering pg and n naming aming of ot street streets A Great Nuisance He Me Says C C. C C. SLADE Superintendent of Letter Letter- Carriers We We find the duplicate street names a great nuisance There seems to be no system whatever No one has any control over the matter apparently y Private parties are aie allowed to name nam their newly- newly opened avenues avenues with any name without any regard to the rest of the city Mail lall is often delayed twenty- twenty four to f forty eight hours If there are are two or three thre avenues a of ot the sam same sante name as is often the case the mail can mail carriers have ve no way of know- know Ing There should be a uniform system system tem tern of numbering established by the City Council or If there is an ordinance ordinance ordinance nance it should be enforced J J. J B B. TWIFORD Manager 1 of ot Western Union Telegraph Company We We We I I have difficulty continually in delivering ering mes messages ages on account of the lack of system both in inthe the numberIng number Dumber Ing of ot streets and in naming them The boj boya bors S often go out with messages and come back without delivering them because they icy could not find the people at the number or else could not find the number The worst trouble is in duplicate streets There iff IS' no way of ot knowing which street is 13 meant when the same name nane is used in several cases We have complaints made almost every day about messages delayed because the boys couldn't find the place Four Tour Lincoln Avenues E E. C C. FRENCH Agent of Wells-Fargo Wells Express Company ThIs Compano This matter of of- duplicate names of ot streets is especIally especially espe espe- daily troublesome to us in making the delivery of express packages When a parcel comes addressed No Na 8 R Lincoln avenue we dont don't know which street is meant as there are four Lincoln avenues In some cases avenues have haye been named of which we have no record and in iii such cases we can make male no delivery We also have in finding houses that are back from the streets and have no regular ular num num- bers I am very much in favor of abolishing these duplicate street names and having some system of numbering Retail Druggists Druggists' Association F. F A. A DRUEHL President Retail DruggIsts DruggIsts' Druggists Druggists' Drug Drug- Association I I think the mat matter matter ter should have attention There Is no doubt that there is great difficulty difficulty dim dim- culty in finding houses in this city on account of the lack of ot system In numbering and naming streets The merchants and others In this city who have deliveries to make every day are certainly entitled to a correction correction correction cor cor- in the city's system of num nurn- bering I should think the best way way would be for the Council to adopt aplan a aplan aplan plan which might be carried out in detail by the Street department Number It Any Old Way DAVID S S. S MURRAY General Manager Bell Telephone Company What Company What the city needs Is some one to have the supervision of ot the numbering of ot the streets I remember when I wanted to number my own o house I telephoned telephoned telephoned tele tele- phoned to the city street department |