Source:Its-all-in-name
"A dizzy case: It's all in name and Council's all mixed up: Too many Highman Streets is problem." Pittsburgh Press, Apr. 10, 1946, p. 6. Newspapers.com 149687384.
"It's time to put on the boxing gloves!"
This warning was sounded at a Council committee meeting yesterday by Council President Thomas E. Kilgallen.
It was his way of advising his fellow Councilmen that the next item on the order of business was Westwood's name-calling quarrel.
Councilmen Puzzled
It involves the dizzy fact that Highman St. intersects Highman St., with a Highman Alley nearby to multiply the confusion.
The Councilmen still don't know what to do, although they have waded through a barrage of protests and pleas written by vexed neighbors, held a hearing and sent a sub-committee to the scene.
"Highman must be a good fellow," was the only answer that Councilman Fred W. Weir was able to give at yesterday's meeting.
Because he was in the middle of an even-sided argument, Mr. Weir has promised to visit the scene and cast his vote one way or another at the next meeting.
Here's the Situation
The neighborhood is split over the fact that Shadyhill Rd. swoops down a nicely-paved street, makes a bit of a bend and suffers a change in name, thereafter being known as Highman St. until it hits a dead end.
At the place where it bends is the beginning of a dirt road which has gobbled up the name of the paved street, and pats itself on the back with the fancy name of Shadyhill Rd.
Mr. Kilgallen said that he was ready to introduce a bill in Council to change the name of the paved extension of Shadyhill Rd. so that the entire length of paving would have the same name.
Suggests Another Name
Then he suggested that the dirt road below the bend, now known as Shadyhill Rd., be given some other name.
Councilman Walter R. Demmler agreed, by saying, "The continuous paved road should be Shadyhill, not as it is now."
Getting further mixed up, Councilman William Alvah Stewart started referring to Shadyhill Rd. as Shadyhill Drive, and arguing that to follow on the paved road with the same name would seem natural." He said it was only a petty neighborhood quarrel."
Wolk Enters Argument
After Mr. Kilgallen got down off the Council table (he had been sitting over in the middle of it, trying to draw a map of the dizzle-dazzle crossroads), Councilman A. L. Wolk leaped into the argument with coattails flying.
"I dont [sic] want to deprive the people on a dirt street of the name they have had for years," he declared.
Mr. Kilgallen insisted on drawing another map, accompanied by running remarks like a tourist guide. He said:
"Here I go down Shadyhill Rd. Now see how Shadyhill Rd. goes down an unpaved street. But here is a natural inclination to turn onto a paved street, which is Highman St. But there are two other Highman Sts."
Weir Promises to Settle
Councilman Joseph A. McArdle had been in the back of Council Chambers talking with a political friend. He came to the Council table, asking:
"What's all the argument about?"
Mr. Weir promised to settle it next week.