Show CITY TURNS DOWN AUCTIONEERS AUCTIONEER'S PLEA When a recent ordinance passed by the th city commissioners commissioner governing the tho tb tee fees to bo be paid to the tho city by auctioneers a n clause was apparently overlooked by the auctioneers This requires that thal auction houses can operate onlY between t a and 6 S o'clock P H Newman appeared before the tho th com com- commission commission commission mission this morning and asked that the tho ordinance be b changed chanced Ills His request however met with little favor from Mayor George Geore E Browning and other members of the board who Informed Mr Air Newman that the tho th ordinance would stand IlS as asit asit It Is is Newman explained that auction houses usually made their best sales soles after 6 C o'clock In the tho e evening The board members told Newman that the tho present ordinance permit permit- permitted permit led ted auctioneers to compete compel In bus bus- business business iness with established merchants during their hours of ot business and they were noi not In favor tavor of allowing any concessions to auctioneers a They also said that the th auctioneers had ample time to study the th ord- ord ordInance ordinance ord before It was adopted and It if Its lis provisions pro are ar not satisfactory satisfactory satisfactory tory to the th auction houses housos It was it-was It was not the th fault of ot the th commission as the auctioneers expressed satisfaction satisfaction tion when It came cam up for tor discus discus- discussion discussion sion slon go 00 |