It had recently been reported that a new firehouse would be located in a park. That wasn't happening to the relief of some.
From the Arizona Daily Star, Saturday, August 19, 1916:
Fire Station Will Not Be Located in Park
May Be Built at Fifth Street and Second Avenue Instead
The proposal of the fire committee to locate the new firehouse for the northside in Catalina Park, situated between Fourth and Fifth avenues and First and Second streets, was abandoned yesterday when decided opposition developed among persons on the Northside opposed to the plan. It is believed that the station will be located at the corner of Fifth street and Second avenue where the city has a vacant piece of property.
It developed that when Catalina Park was dedicated it was set aside for park purposes exclusively, thus making it impossible to locate the fire station there. It was claimed by Acting Mayor Bernard and members of the fire committee that it was the intention to build such an ornamental fire station that it would add instead of detract from the beauty of the park.
The proposed location on Fifth street and Second avenue is claimed to be more central than the other side. The vacant lot is on the northwest corner of the intersection of the two streets.
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The police chief had been accused of threatening the life of a newspaper editor. His hearing was set.
Council Fixes Date For Hearing Charges
Chief Cullen, Denying Accusations, Has Employed Counsel
Charges against Chief of Police James Cullen preferred by F. J. Wharton, editor of the Tucson Signal, a weekly publication, will be heard at a meeting of the city council held August 23, according to a decision reached yesterday at a special meeting of that body called for the purpose of auditing bills.
The charges, which were published in full in yesterday’s Star, are to the effect that Chief Cullen went to the Orndorff hotel last Sunday and threatened to kill Wharton because he was fighting the chief in his weekly paper. They were first read at a meeting of the police committee Thursday and were again read at the meeting yesterday.
Copies of the charges will be furnished the chief and a formal hearing will be held a week from next Monday when Chief Cullen will be represented by counsel. Chief Cullen has emphatically denied the charges and also that he was armed at the time the interview with Wharton occurred.
The recommendation of the police committee that Sergeant James Sullivan be laid off the force without pay for 30 days was ratified by the council. It was recommended that he be restored at the end of that time without further action by the council.
It was decided that the time for the completion of the bridge across the Santa Cruz rover at Congress street be set for December 10.
Dr. Ambrosy, local veterinarian, was appointed deputy health officer for the special purpose of testing dairy animals owned by persons selling milk in the city.
The council adjourned to meet August 28, Monday.
A brakeman for the Southern Pacific railroad was fired for helping two stowaways stay on board after they were caught. One had agreed to marry him for his help.
Espee Brakeman Fired For Stowing Bride On An Eastbound Freight
Girl Repays Trainman’s Kindness by Promising to Become Wife
The appeal for reinstatement of Espee Brakeman M. W. Smith, who was fired several days ago for secreting two girl hikers, Joan Duvall and Georgia Carroll, in the ice box of a refrigerator car east of Yuma, was sternly denied yesterday by hard-hearted railroad officials. Smith represented that he wished to marry one of the girls who are now in Tucson.
Smith was “fired” several days ago because he secreted the girls in the ice box of a refrigerator car east of Yuma. The girls after many adventures arrived at Tucson yesterday and it appears that one of them promised to marry Smith in consideration of his gallant attention to them.
Smith then went to the Espee officials and asked to be taken back, but this was denied. Railroad officials stated that the whole matter might be investigated more thoroughly.
The Story as told in the Yuma Sun is as follows:
Misses Joan Duvall and Georgia Carroll, the two girls who were in Yuma Sunday on a hike from Seattle, Washington, to Iowa, were the means of getting an S. P. brakeman in bad and making him lose his job, in the meantime going through an experience themselves which will make interesting reading matter in the story of their trip which they propose to write for a western magazine when they shall have arrived at their destination.
M. W. Smith, a brakeman, let his tender mercies reach out to the hikers to the extent of providing them a birth on the soft side of a pile of lumber in a car on an east-bound freight train from Yuma Sunday upon which he was braking. Conductor H. L. Waite ascertained the girls were put not he train by Smith and ordered the “brake” to put them off. Smith, instead of obeying orders, transferred the wanderers from the lumber car to a refrigerator car. The conductor discovered the deception between Yuma an d Weldon, at which place he put not only the girls but Brakeman Smith off the train.
The three caught the next freight train which passed Weldon, and en route were discovered by Conductor T. E. Pryor, who bounced the gang at Mohawk. Here Smith and the girls caught a third train, only to be ditched again at Sentinel. Smith, evidently thinking he had had a still enough run for his money, deserted the girls at this place and went to Tucson to “cash in” with the company.
It would probably have been a mistake to base a marriage on an illegal activity anyway.
