New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1853-07-21
THURSDAY MORNING. JULY 81, 1853
STREET COMMITS SLOWER JOLLS
AND THE BOARD OF ASSISTANT ALDERMEN.

THURSDAY MORNING, JULY Il, 1908
STREET COMMISSIONER J0LLS
AND THE BOARD OF ASSISTANT ALDERMEN.
Well, the Summer Solstice is upon US, the
weather grows warmer with each day; our
streets are in most filthy condition; the prop
4 er sanitary regulations have not been taken an
epidemic is upon us, who is to blame Listen
to public opinion. With the CITY oounch rests
the power to have the streets cleaned with them
rests the power to provide against sickness and
disease by adopting the proper sanitary regula-
lions; the people have placed them in power to
have these matters attended to; their first ses-
sion has been fretted away and nothing has been
accomplished; if an epidemic prevails, upon
them rests the responsibility. Listen to the As
sistant Board of Aldermen. In our first session
we have neglected most important duty-that
Of cleaning the streets The people are loud in
their complaints Something must be done or
our hopes of another election are forever blast
ed, Some body is to blame, who shall it be :
All! lucky idea, Jolls--Street Commissioner
Jolls. 1t is he who shall answer for our derelic-
tou for aside from other considerations he is not
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with the necessary number Of laborers, carts
and horses to perform as should be, that which
contractors have left undone, but who is aware
Of that fact but ourselves and Jolls. Daily
have we logged this man Jols from one street
corner to another, and called his attention to
nuisances foul, that he had not the power to re-
move and then above all considerations, he has
IL, ho1 tboo and nv m al usa ~
this body, and launch forth in blasphemous in
vectives against them, inveotives which modest
Alderman would fain blush to repeat in the
Council Chamber Then let Jolls be impeached
Prepare articles and bring the guilty man q
forth to be tried. Decapitate him and we are
safe.
Such are the relative positions of the Board
Of Assistant Aldermen and Mr.. Street Commits
sioner James Jolls. 1t is not our purpose to
defend Mr.. Jolls, at the expense of the Council
His task is Herculean one, and with the lin
tied aid furnished by the Council, it is not to be
expected that the full measure of his duty has
been filed as it might have been had proper
assistance been rendered him. Had the Coun-
Gil at an early day, when it was apparent from
the Street Commissioners weekly reports to
them that the street contractors were remiss
in their duties, placed at that officers disposal
an additional number IF carts and laborers, in
stead Of squandering the peoples money in lay
ing down plank roads where they were not
wanted, and other like useless expenditures,
the streets we dare say would now be clean,
and the Judiciary Committee relieved of the
task of preparing articles of impeachment
against an officer high in station.
We are inclined to agree with one democratic
Assistant Alderman, who proclaimed Mr.. Jolls
ss much sinned against as SHINING, that the
fault does not rest entirely with that officer.
Let the blame rest where it should and if MIR.
Jols is to be impeached and broken of his office,
let the members of the Council go through the
same ordeal, and we will see how many come
out unscathed.
But the head and front of Jols' offending is the
abuse he has heaped upon the Council Mr.
Jolls or any one else would require the patience
Of Job to deal with a corporate body of boobies
and retain his temper. Yet the offence is rank, |
it smells even to the Council Chamber, and !
therefore the offender must be impeached. By |
the way, this ticklish business of impeaching |
officers is favorite pastime with the Assistant |
Board, but the reader will agree with us that
they are by no means profcients in that line
In the early part of the session it undertook to |
impeach or rather inquire into the qualifications
of one Of its own members and after much time
lost in useless discussion, an adjournment
for the summer is had, and they are not whit
nearer the accomplishment of the object than
when the subject was first preached If the
of Street Commissioner Jolls suf-
fers the delay that the inquiries as to Mr. Pan
dellys qualifications did, that officer is likely
to retain his present post until long after the
Assistant Board ceases to exist as a corporate
body, and their own misdeeds are alone remem-
bered