| Show I CITY HALL I AND ITS AFFAIRS I I WEST EST SIDERS ROAST I CITY HALL llAU CROWD Want West Side Aqueduct to Prevent City Creek Overflow I I BLUNDER OF AM Citizens Also Discuss Other Matters of Improvement A Affecting Them The rite present m cit city administration was held over o burning coals given hen a n thorough thor thor- ough roasting turned over ovet roasted on the other side a and then thrown into the fire nr h by some of tho the residents of the tho northwestern part of or the ell city who fiC In mass maR meeting in th the Si Sixteenth Six ward meeting hou house Friday night The fhe purpose of or the meeting was to appoint a committee to 10 confer with the cil city council In an nn effort Tort to get an nn aqueduct or 01 at fit lea least t a better channel for tOI the thC waters of or City cr creek et from Fourth Wc Vest e t to Ninth e West est strict streets A After tel a It thorough h and amI spicy tl r review lt w of or conditions which have hae existed exist exist- ed II In relation on to the creek for Cor some seine sometime time past liat la t the th committee was appoint appoint- appointed 11 ed and empowered to act The Tho overflowing o of or CIl City cr crook creek in th the tho western part parlor of the thO ell city has eau caused NI considerable damage and aini much trouble to lo property owner 1 and rc residents there ther several elal times in the thO past mist The trouble I ha has been especially especial had bad lIlting during the times of hl high h water this spring owing to the fact tart that recently the tho grade of I the street was lowered h by the street department and amI In tn tho alterations the bank halll of or the tho creel creek were wert cut down from on ono one foot to eighteen Inches at several sc places alon along Its courseS course permitting per per- perI I an nn overflow that Hooded flooded 11 much of oC the property In the district entailIng entailIng entail entail- Ing Ins lo loss los s to the tho owners as well as to toK toI I K tj tover tf for or t tho llio extensive hc re repairs repairs re- re I pairs m made necessary r Citi Determined These Those conditions and the part which I Ithe the city administration Jn has Im taken talen In connection with them were severely se criticized h by some seine of oC tho speakers ers at atthe the tho m mooting meeting eUng a C few of whom spoke 1 I without rc reserve cr their opinions in re relation relation re- re lation to the matter Although some somo of oC f the tho speakers wei-J wei more conservative remarks with a and md their 1 spirit of oC mercy an atmosphere r of 01 determination de de- de- de termination pervaded the meeting and I will vill doubtless go o with the appointed 1 committee to th the tho city council Accor According ln to the tho statements mEnts of several sevraI sev sev- e eral raI of oC the property owners In thi neighborhood of or North Temple Tempe street the flooding of the tho surplus water has has been only a small malJ part of oC th the tho damage that has hias result resulted d from Crom the tho loath inadequate equate provisions pro made for CIl City Cily cr creel creek e The seepage water according to their statements statements state tate ments which has hns hl come from the tho creek cree has hal almost almot completely ruined d th the tho greater part of the land In that part r roC I of oC the cSt city so o far tar as gardens or oi vegetation vege vege- ge- ge taU tation n Is concerned This condition i Is I taken as t warranty warrant for Cor the asking that thal the new now cour course coure e provided for the creek be well cemented 01 OT the bottom ottom and I Ibe closed 1 course cours will willbe tides sides An n entirely co e be he e asked for by the committee whIch consists of oC the following G. G H H. Back Bach man George R. R Emory Emery E E. Rich W. W J J. J Newman and E. E II H. Davis DaI G G. H H. meetIng meetIng meet meet- Backman hackman was chairman In Ing and E. E I. I L. L Foiling Felling secretary City Cily t JIu-t Pay Por The committee p went out cd d. d except in that it was not to coni consider con con- would mean sider i cr nn any proposition that thal the he payment of or money on the part of the property owners in the tho vicinity affected by In the It was the consensus con con- of or opinion that City GIty creek h bo- bo lon longed ed to the city and that the city take tae care cro of or H It Two of oC the city fathers Cather Councilmen Fernstrom and find Holley Hohley were WE're present at atthe atthe atthe the meeting In n the ur c-ur course e of oC remarks remarks- made h by the former It developed that just before theo the administration came Into power in the city th the board hoard of oC public works was ordered to make the Improvements which are nrc- now being asked ased for anti and that was wo appropriated appropriated for the purpose Since th the present prel municipal authorities too took char charge nothing has beer er done in the matter mailer r Although the committee o was author authorized to 11 act only onh on en the matter mattel of or procuring procuring pro pro- curing the desired aqueduct other questions of oC municipal improvement the mass mall a at veLSI discussed l ed with vigor Igor meeting Pr Prominent among those these was of ot the the construction and azul operation Oregon Short Line viaduct on North orth T Temple mple street street- tJ t. t It t was vas all alleged gd that the viaduct Is a most inconvenient and dangerous hit bit of oC highway Numerous instances of or narrow escapes escape from in injury injury In- In jury jUl and death on the part parl of people cros crossing the tho viaduct were r reviewed The viaduct is not provided with lights and ui It was alleged that th t owing to this I people a assemble oil It at night to do I things which they ate aie afraid to lO do 10 Inthe in inthe inthe the JI light h t. t |
