Municipal Building
Plans Approved by Council; Jitney Ordinance Passed
Members of the city council last night had their first view
of the proposed municipal building and it looked so good to them that they
ordered Architect C.C. Hook of Charlotte, who submitted plans, to draw up
working plans and submit them as soon as practicable. The building will cost
around $100,000 and will be complete in every detail.
In addition to quarters for the various city officers, the
building will house the fire department, contain court rooms, fire station,
police station, a rest room for ladies and a semi-public toilet. It also will
provide for a lobby in which will be a placed a table or tablets commorative of
the Hickory soldiers who lost their lives during the war. The idea submitted by
the local post of the American Legion appealed to the board and it was believed
that the lobby leading from the entrance to auditorium, which will seat about
1,000 people can be made a place of beauty and pride.
So great is the need for an auditorium in connection with
the municipal building and anxious have the people of Hickory been for such an
assembly room, that everybody will wait with impatience until it is completed.
Mayor Elliott, who is a contractor, and Mr. Hook thought the building if begun
early in the spring, could be completed next year and would be ready by the
first of 1921.
Mr. Hook showed the plans in detail. The Record has ordered
a cut of the building, together with a brief description of it, and expects to
present it as soon as the architect can submit the sketch to the engraver.
Council met last night in its temporary quarters over Deitz’s
barber shop, having been forced out of the old room to let the express company
occupy the much-needed space. For the time being the new location will serve.
The first matter acted upon by the board last night was the
passing of the ordinance held in suspension a few weeks ago requiring jitney
cars to keep off Federal street between the railroad and Ninth avenue. The two
telephone installed in front of the sun dial in the park sidewalk also were
ordered removed and jitneys may approach the depot on the south side only when
trains arrive. Much complaint, it was stated, had been heard on many sides and
the ordinance went into effect at noon today.
The sun dial has been ordered removed from the sidewalk in
front of the depot park and the city manager will have it carried to the
cemetery and placed at a suitable spot there.
Hickory firemen, in accordance with an ordinance on the
books, will not be permitted to respond to fire alarms outside of the city
limits in future. The matter was brought up by Chief H.E. Whitener, who said
that he wanted to know what the department must do. Inasmuch as none of the suburbs
has sown a disposition to assist in equipping the community with apparatus, the
board felt that they were not entitled to the services of the truck, and no
alarm out of the city will be answered. Should the manufacturing plants or
towns in the outlying districts care to take the matter up, the city will be
willing to meet half way in an effort to agree on terms. Otherwise, the city
will attend to its own fires.
No comments:
Post a Comment