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KING WILLIAM STREET NOT NAMED AFTER KAISERIResidents Soys Thoroughfare Now Known.as Pershing Ave Is in Honor of Conquerer.Confuted witli the .question of whether a San Antonio- street. shall . be “naaieil after” William the Conqueror, wli0 took possession of England in 1060 A. P., or after Gen. John J. Pershing, cummander in chief of the American Expeditionary Forces In France, WUlnm 0- Kledeu. Ccun-mlBffloner of Streets, is turn Jus to residents of Pershing Avenue, pcc Kin* William Street, and to the city records for information, 'he declared yesterday.A petition request I ri j-; that the nuuie bo chanced back ro Pershing Avenue yjflu preRented at the last meeting of the CHy Council, and was turned over to corn-missioner IUedcn. •who will rotor It to the council again on Mnnday wb a-'recommendation for ucllou, provided he can gather sufficient information in themeantime. ,On July 23, I9l In what now in the light of sober second thought appears in have been the enthusiasm, of war, citizen* of then King William Street petl- j tinned the City Council requesting that . King William as the name of the street:be abolished and that'Pershing' Avenue bo substituted. On bcptember 1C, ini*. Louis Heaerinan, Commissioner ot otreet«, referred the petition to the council ngain with the recommendation that it ongrNowdthe residents of that street declare that the name ho* nothing whatsoever to do with former Kaiser William end the German Empire. On the contrary. th*y state that It was named after the conquer* or of England by « nran named .Nelson who lived on the street at on* time. t i« pointed out further Jn the petition addressed to the council that there are oni two Kins William Streets in tb* worm— one In Canada and the other in this city. Agnln, tbu residents of the street are . greutly annoyed by mall and packages being delivered there through mistake l1^ another street of the same name.Mr. Hieden said yesterday that be would trv to got the attitude of every*property holders on the street before he made h.fl recommendation. The. petition ts signed
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San Antonio Express
San Antonio, Texas, US
Sat, Jun 18, 1921
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