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CITY COMMISSION VOTES TO RESTORE KING WILLIAM ABOLISHED DURING-WAR.f • ' '•••’■. The. final cpiKode' .stnigglfr be-'( tween King •‘VYiilinni and' Pershing aa the* officially teeognized.• bam©/ of one. of San'] Antonio*a streets, ended In a victory for [ King, WiUJam when, by at. vote of 3 to 2, j the City Commission yesterday granted the j petition of 32 resident*--of the. erstwhile r Pershing Avenue, that the name be changed J back to King. William Street- ....* Long and. dose bus . been .the struggle Vover: the question of -whether. King WiX-* Uam—-variqualy reported an • William.-tb*| Cdnqaeror. of-.BogUihil and as William1-of ! Prussia, :• grandfather of • ex-Kaieer, WU*I helm—ahalL rule as the name of this; street** tjo confusing. in: fact*, that ^ronalosloner ! VJlUnm Q, Kieden;. at the last minute cast.a vote. in dlree t ■ op position: to - hi s p w n - per-aonai view* in response to the second roll call of-his name, in the commission-meet-: lag yesterday. . ‘ ■' The - petition., waa • presented to tb® com-misaion .on. June 1C* bub was referred to . the’ .Commissioner of • Streets for- invest!-. jraUon and action. Xcsterday Mr* Kiedcii' brought the matter . before the/ consmis*: sion after careful research, .deciadng .that he did not .want-to'be responsible: for-the-decision, “Personally* - i am * against changing' the name—1 think 'it ,5s A slap at Pershing**' ho said. . “But for the good of the-dtoena Jiving on the street. 1-recommend that the petition be granted* though I think, most of the citizen® of San Antonio are against it and I mysolf am against Jt personally. ■ •. ■ ■ •Before Mr. Eleden b name was called It was evident that Mayor. Black and..Commissioner Pfeiffer were- aidll steadfast' In-their determination to; Jet the residents have . their .way, for both of them voted aye. wliilt .Commissioners Lambert and. Wright voted against', it. .s- ...Jn answer to. the second .calling or Jdfl-acme,-Commissioner Riedea cast , his vote with Mayor Black aAd-Commissioner Rie-dcu* bo the matter was'Settled by Z to. 2 vote,. *In his ‘presentation ;of. the . matter. : Mr-Eicilen said that 32 .of the 41. residents of the. street had signed the petition. One of the home-ownera of tho . street appeared in the interest of. the change and statedthat ho blmseif-had procured:the signatures to the petition,-and that the remain.-,. Ing nine, residents had not- been solicited1 to sign because he had cot bcea-. able to get around to see them. “Wg nro .not .opposed to Gen. PerBhing. hut. we Jove-tb* namo of King William-Street and/want it back,” ho- aald. • ;• • ■ ■. -- The; name wa*-cbfinK6d‘ to-pereaing. Avenue September 10.1013, at the rcqmatt of-these some residents* who presented a be-, itition to the City Commh»Ioo :requesting i such a change'on.'July 35« ISIS.* according ' to the minutes • of the commission meet-:•/
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San Antonio Express
San Antonio, Texas, US
Tue, Jun 28, 1921
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