The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-10-31
SIDEWALK TROUBLES.
.SamchO'' AgOnistng Over q Cost o.
POrtunity te Held WALKS and sis
tnapprecIa0ed HeniUs as u Writer.


a few days ago, we received commu-
nication, signed "Sancho." in which
member of a committee OF the Council.
a dealer i'm lumber, was "hinted at la q
very direct manner. and the City Fathers
abused for doing something about side.
walk letting disagreeable to ''Sancho. {"
The letter was u good one--but 1t ended
with Z. =. about as follows. "Since
writing the above I have ascertained that
the Council didn't do It," So we didn't
publish the scintillation OF "Sancho."
But "Sancho" was not happy. So at
his good lead pencil he rushed again, and
wrote the following:
CAIRO, ILL.,, Oct. 20, 1876.
j. II. OBERLY For the interest of
the taxpayers of Cairo, we again ask to
be heard on the sidewalk matter through
the columns Of your paper.
We claim that 1t Will cost the city
81 100 more to do the work ordered, BY
letting 1t to present contractors. than IL
the Council had let the furnishing of the
material aud doing the work, all to one
person, (the lowest bidder.)
To prove that there Is some foundation
for our statement, let us take Second
street from Levee to Commercial, and
Eighteenth street from Washington to
Walnut, rs an example. We offered in
our bid. to furnish all the material needed,
and do all the work Of reconstructing
these walks. for thirty cents per lineal
foot. This, our bid, was rejected, and
the job given to other parties to do the
work alone, city furnishing material.
Now, what we claim Is this: That
when this work is done, and the bills all
paid, that 1t will have cost the city double
the expense let the bills be carefully pre-
served and we will see If their aggregate
does not prove my predictions correct.
The people have right TO know how
their money is being expended.
You refused my other article, and con-
signed it to the waste-baSket, where, 1
presume, you will send this In hot haste,
to keep 1t company. Davis. Of the san,
consigned our similar article to q worse
place, but seeing the anguish of our
troubled soul, which was writhing under
the agOnies Of disappointment In missing
the golden opportunity for literary fame;
and installing 1t for the madenings of a
lost opportunity for revenge, kindly Of
fered. il We would furnish him the facts,
to write an editorial ON it. But We, hay.
ing little Of what +. V. Wilson has too
much oi-namely, egotism-and lauda-
Bile pride OF authorship-"a book Is q
book though there is nothing in tive.
with modey, grace. and dignity, declined
by saying we preferred to do our own
ink.slinging. Besides, we had other
reasons. We don't like Davis style OF
authorship. 1t is too vulnerable to be
preserve Tor future generations, unless 1t
be bottled and Theoretically sealed. II
compelled to choose between evils, we
would choose Oberly's. not for Its merit.
but a an antidote tor worse poison.
But, II: this respect. Davis Is smart, for
his editorials are given In very small pOr-
tons like Brigham's homeopathic pills;
hence they do not kill anything but time,
and 1t has been a long time since they
have killed it. SANCHo.
Accompanying the above was the fol-
lowing:
CAIRO, ILL. Oct. 20, 1875.
j. II. OBERLY-Dear Sri send this
article as a compromise, hoping 1t will
find favor in your gracious eyes.
Ii. +. LIVINGSTON.
OF course. a gentleman who is so anx-
ious to serve the Taxpayers, and is so de-
sirous that the editors of Cairo shall de-
clare that lumber merchant. ia the
Council are having sidewalks built in a
manner that will take unnecessary dol
lars out Of the treasury Of the city, and
put them into the pockets OF
the Aldermanic lumber merchants, does
not wish to hide behind a signature. We
therefore give Mr.. Livingston's note, SO
that he may have credit for his gallantry
in rushing to the defense Of the endan-
Kered treasury, and to assure him that il
he will sign his name to his illusions we
will willing publish them even if Inc does
say harsh things, or rather hint them,
about our friend Alderman Lancaster.
Indeed, he may denoucc all the Faith
ers" as rascals, and we will not even init
mate that nc is prompted to the denunci-
ations by the fact that he ought to be the
lumber-furnisher of the city of the
bursted levee.
To the Voters OF Alexander County.
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