108 SPECIAL MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL: Austin, Texas. March 16.1923. The Council was called to order by the Mayor. Roll call showed the following members present: Mayor Yett, Councilmen Copeland, Eyres, and Searight, 4; absent, Councilman Haynes. The application of Roy L. Thomas, Architect for the Texas Hotel Company, to erect a smoke stack in the rear of the new hotel at the corner of Congress Avenue and East 7th Street, was read and Councilman Copeland moved that the permit be granted. Motion prevailed by the following vote: Ayes,..... Mayor Yett, Councilmen. Copeland, and Searight, nayes, Councilman Eyres, Councilman Haynes absent. The Council then recessed, SPECIAL MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL: Austin, Texas, March 17,1923, The Council was called to order by the Mayor. Roll call showed the following members present; Mayor Yett, Councilmen Copeland, Eyres, Haynes and Searight, 5; absent, none. The application of the Robbins Company for permission to close the sidewalk in front of 914 Congress Avenue for a few hours on Monday, March 19, 1923, was granted by the following vote: Ayes, Mayor Yett, Councilmen Copeland, Eyres, Haynes and Searight, 5; nayes, none, The petition of V. D. Fugler and other residents of Hyde Park to open a part of East 40th Street between Avenue "H" and Duval Street was read and ordered filed, The Council then adjourned. Co Nomly Minty Car