The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1870-08-31
COMMUNICATED.
The Wharf Doings.

and extra doings of our Town Councli,
on last Friday evening. know you
are too easy as a journalist, generally,
with such antics, and frequently pass
them over in silence. Fearing your
usual course, in the matter in question,
must ask your patience for little
/ while.
The following modest and uascJfsh
petition to the Council, and the action
of the Council thereon is my text:
To the Honorable Mayor and Council of
Alexandria:
The undersigned citizens request
that Your honorable body pass an Or
dinanae giving to your Mayor the right
to lease to the new lessee of the ferry
the privilege of landing his boat at the
new town wharf for five years, he pay
ing a reasonable amount to the Corpo-
ration, say one hundred and fifty dol
lars per annum, and giving bond that
he will keep said wharf in good order
and deliver it to said Corporation at
the expiration of his lease in good or
der, the ordinary wear excepted: also
that he will in no way impede the de-
livery or shipment to or from any
steamer.
John Began, D & S. We'll,
| A. Heyman, j. M. Crandall,
Mires Rosenthal, TAFT 81 Laney.
Now, dear Democrat, 1 know you
are no umweaned chicken, have heard
it thunder before, but take issue with
you, and assert, without fear of seri-
!, GUS contradiction, that for cool and
high strung impudence, selfshness and
. speciality, unsurpassed in these unsur-
e passed days, that this memorial takes
: the rag off the bush. Just for mo-
e ment consider and ponder on the pat
ent fact that the town wharf sO-called
4 was projected and forcibly built by this
same unselfish clique, for their OWL
;, benefit and profit, out of the peoples
money, against their VIII, wishes OF
; consent. All this at a cost of ovel
e. twenty-five hundred dollars, whel
l. there was no immediate or earthly us'
TO for such wharf, even at central 10
h cality, or below every solitary store O.
J. place of business in the Town. For
# be it remembered, that the steamer
4 all land the Town freight up the hill
- into the very Front Street. Wha
~ more was needed9 What more coul,
J. be asked? Well, our pure and i'm
=. maculate clique must have all, mus
p grab all the chicken pie, and crush ey
3 cry body else to fill their own pockets
le So the wharf was built and the capa
d cious craw of the favored few for tn
T. nonce filed. l.'
~ But dear Democrat, like Oliver Twist
- our good oneswere not satisfied and hav
craved for more-and hence their actio
10 and the action of the Town Council, i
III the recent high-handed, petty and over
Is done act. You will wonder if I cor
slider the wharf building in such light
IN what have to say to the last act of til
Id drama. Well, the Council We're a
he cooked, primed and eager for the fra,
f. and put it through at once, but wit
i. pale and haggerd looks, plainly show
h ing they were doing a mean, unjn!
y and unfair act to betrayed people,
Lest should do injustice, l will Civ
y the result. Councilman Johnson move
that the prayer of the citizens be gran
ed for the sum of two hundred dollar
year, which was seconded by COul
~ Gilman Miller--it was put to vote /
,e- his Honor, the Mayor, with the follow
% / ing result:
~ Yeas-Johnson and Miller.
. Nays-Biossat and Levin.
- There being a tie, his Honor, tt
Mayor, cast his vote in the atfirmativ
uf thus carrying the sectional measure
Now, dear Democrat, these may
IL plain words and harsh terms, but
up know them to be justified by the &C
us of a majority of the Council. They {
he three acted and voted ON measu1
of in which they were all three direct
10 interested, more particularly the Ma
"a or, as he was elected by the who
: people of the Town and has betray,
VI his trust and furthered his own self
49, terest. 1t is well to note that the FIJI
II Ward is unrepresented, otherwise SUI
lpt measure would never have been co
in cocted or passed.
he Now, Democrat, will you please {
in fer up some excuse for a Board,
ow which you are a member, and tell 20
~ constituents of the Second Ward WI
=. you think of this for high7 I tn
Wv you will publish this and let our pc
JIG pie know the truth.
Since handing you this commune
Wd ton, Mr.. Editor, the Ferry has be
ng bid off for the enormous price of t
on thousand three hundred dollars for
RS term of five years. j. F. Graham,
:, long known as the manager, was t
bidder. Our patriotic clique have t
''o proud consolation of knowing, Il
''ii' though they failed signally in tn
oso projected job, they have at least stru
49, a hard and unenviable blow at &C