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About The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903 | View Entire Issue (May 14, 1898)
THE COURIER. reception by the money lenders would paid $13.-15, itemized as follows: $980 be a irood illustration of the financial standing of the two places. It is very doubtful therefore that, considering the disproportion between the debt and the assessed valuation of Lincoln If money can be borrowed in New York for 4 per cent. J Editor Cockier: There seems to be some misunder standing about the controversy over the sewer before the council. Last September an appropriation of about $2,000 was made to put in a storm water sewer from Twenty-seventh and Vine street west two blocks to the for lot I, Lawrence's addition; per sonal tax, li.co; poll tax, fioo. In spite of all the efforts of the children and women and a few men the streets of Lincoln are still dis figured by papers and fruit rinds, not to speak of the disgusting corners which the loafers make almost im passable. The policemen who have apparently nothing to do but be, mjght be instructed to enforce the ordinance against throwing papers and rubbish into the streets. It is not an infrequent sight to sec a well dressed man walking along the street draw which runs thence northwest engaged V5"1" a. piece of pa?e.r to the Missouri Pacific railway, and a further appropriation of about $1,000 was made to extend the If street sewer by an open channel straight west to the new channel of Salt creek. Mayor Graham vetoed Loth and they were passed over his veto, Webster and Schroeder alone voting to sustain the mayor's veto. The water has made a regular channel from the end of the N street sewer to the old channel of Salt creek and from there has unre stricted How to Salt creek's new chan nel, so there is no pressing need for the N street extension. Whnn Twnnt.v-sovpnt.il street was graded and paved the engineers un- sioner's duty to see that the bill post- dertook to make the grade so that all into bits and scattering them with one careless sweep of his arm over the sidewalk to add to the untidyness. Then the bill posters, whose business it is to tear the old posters off when they stick new ones on leave the old ones on the ground to be collected at some future time "when the wagon comes around.'' Before that time ar rives the wind has scattered half the load into the street. An examination of the rubbish in the street discloses the fact that most of it is theatrical paper, with paste on one side and black and red pictures and letters on the other. It is the street commis- water south of R street would turn west on R street to the Antilope. This did not do the work very well and the people complained and the sixth and seventh ward councilmen said if a large storm water sewer was put in at Twenty-seventh and R witii proper catch basins that it would carry off all the water east and south that comes in at that point, but no sooner was this completed than a new cry was raised by the Seventh wardcouncil- ers conform to the city ordinance but the piles of paper near the hill boards show that he docs not do it. Then the Italian fruit venders who have stalls on many corners of the city leave banana stalks and decayed fruit at the end of the stalls and their custo mers drop banana peels and peanut shells in the vicinity until they be come most offensive to the eye and the nose. Possibly the street commissioner has duties which prevent an examina tion of the constant breaking of the -i-l ! no tiswtc? rtoccn1 fi Im mi pncn rt men that we must have a storm water "'y i.u .. t.- i sewer at Twenty-seventh and Vine restraining the selfish and disorderly street. Now to fully understand this from dumping rubbish into thestreets we must remember that when that but a litt,e examination by him into portion of Twenty-seventh street was causes of disorder might greatly paved the grade north of Vine on improve the aspect of the city. The Twenty-seventh was raised and alow ladies of the City Improvement asso place or dip was made clear across ciaon are loinK what they can for Twenty-seventh street so as to turn neatness but the.r efforts will bo in the water west on Vine street to the effectual unless the oilicers who are draw two blocks west that drained Wia t0 enforcft tue ordinances of the this territory before Twenty-seventh twyaomeirauij. street was paved. The people of that part still complained of the water at this point and wanted something done. Hence their councilman succeeded last year in getting the appropriation mentioned before. How they want the sewer built clear through to the Antilope at a cost of 81,800 more than was appropriated for that purpose and to get this money they propose to use money that was appropriated for other purposes, which is in plain vio lation of the charter. That the people suffer some inconvenience at thes points I do not doubt and so do they all over the city at a time of a very heavy rainfall, but until the property owners in this district bring their lots up to grade they ought not to expect the city to impoverish itself for their especial benefit. O. W. Webster. May 10, 1898. Note by Editor. The first appro- free from such places may be success priation was secured by the council- ful The place, opposite the exposition men from the second and seventh . , r. , ' .. , ., x , ., wards by promises on their part to gates, selected for the location of the vote for their colleagues' measures jf saloon is where the crowds going and the sewer appropriation was voted for coming will meet. To subject the Anomer violation oi me city ordi nances is in pasting and tacking signs on to the telegraph and telephone poles. Some time ago the city paid a man to remove all advertisements from the poles but for the last week there have been men employed in cov ering the poles as far as they can reach with advertisements of soaps and medicines. The city has broad streets and hand, some blocks and residences and about three hundred days in the year the sun covers our dwelling place with a glory we are apt to forget. All this is more apt to be overlooked because our feet stumble and slip in things which belong in the rubbish heap. All good people hope that the Omaha men who are reckless enough to oppose the establishment of a saloon in the heart of a residence district heretofore t 4? . In itself it was never a popular or necessary measure. As for tue coun cilmen who are trying to secure this appropriation, one of them has ad mitted that the eventual cost can not be less that from- fifteen to eighteen thousand dollars but that the city will be forced to complete it. when nnre begun. Mr. Mockett's disregard for the amount the people are taxed & women and children who visit the show to the sights and smells and sounds of a saloon, surrounded and filled with the customary low types of humanity found in such places is on the part of President Wattles and Secretary John A. Wakefield, who, in the name of the exposition corporation to pay for his schemes can be under have applied for the license. The stood when the amount which he turns Vl into the common treasury is consid- temperance organizations of the state ered. For 1897 Mr. J. H. Mockett, Jr. have taken the. matter up and the "! & A f Allegpetti Chocolates Rlectop's PfyaFmacV. Mr 4 .te . ' ' m CgXS)'gSXa)0 A full line of A De VOES' Pure Paints and Varnishes The Bat Geods on the Market. W. A. BAULKY, 1S40 O street. S) THS SflOE CMOj is fine vici kid; vesting1 top, turned soles, new tan BROWN OR BLACK $4 .oo. THE FOOr FORM STORE 1213 O Street. s s y H. W. BROWN Druggist and Bookseller. Fine Stationery and Calling Cards 127 S. Eleventh Street. PHONE 68 first invaluable ten minutes. But there is little hope of his doing this. A tire chief is a good deal like an In dian chief. lie has been "big injun'' for eo long that he has no suspicions whatever of any imperfections How ever Malone is probably the best chief we have ever had. TO MODELS. directors may be induced to see that it is bad business policy to outrage the feelings of so many people. The tem perance cranks more than any other sect are accustomed to self denial for the sake of the cause and if word went out among the prohibitionists that the trans-Mississippi show was under the influence of saloonkeepers they would stay away. It is the plain, good people whose patronage makes the fortunes of a show. There are a few rich but they do not count. It is the millions of the middle class, among whom there are many prohibi tionists whose boycott against the exposition would be seriously felt. It is hoped that if the moral consid erations have no weight with the directors the dangers of sharing in the antagonism against the liquor traffic which for nearly half a century has been increasing, may induce them to withdraw their request for a license. Mr. Malone has the making of a good fire chief. If he would follow the ex ample of the best doctors who occa sionally leave their practice for the purpose of entering a city hospital and learning the new methods of treating old diseases as well as the names of the latest diseases, and work for three months in the Chicago or New York fire department, he might learn what no other Lincoln chief has ever known, that is to find the heart of a fire and direct the water on that spot in the Tknow the time of the chaiakss whccL And the wireless telegraph Of smokeless powder and boneless cab. Of the stockingless foot and calf; Of bloodies duels, pfnitm dukes, Of childless kings and earls; And now as ever while lovers love Tis the time of heart lr girls. The Cynic. Mazie-The West Point soldier boys are true to the instincts of their profes sion, aren't they? Daisy How's that? Mazie They're all just killing! Subscribe for Thk Courier f 1 a year. 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