The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1888-03-07
THOSE CISTERNS.

ted to the peopl'. Tie Day, the Waco
Wster Company, Garducr Blades and
all the negroes in town then opposed
bonding for waterworks, but favored
bonding for sewers No such COM
muuicationa a. the one The Day now
prints could then have escaped it, tax
of twenty cents line. The course OF
the Day, Though charged rs to means,
is sill consistent in advocating the
in crest of the Waco Water Com
pany.
BY the election above referred to,
the council was reduced to the ncces-
sty OF contracting with some water
company for water. 1t was denied |
the authority TO build works. 1t is
strange that the DAY, which SO hum
tly bows to the sovereign Wi OF the
peopl. upon the prohibition question,
will not regard the Same III the water
question. Strange? No, it is not
etr Inge.
The liungerford proposition was
determined to be the proposition OF
the Waco Water company as soon az
presented. All are now satisfied that
| the Inman proposition was also in the
| interest of that company. 1t was merely
a fcint to keep the territory vacann
while the Waco Water Company Gov
cred the ground. We all remember
that the home company did not even
put in u bid. 1t had snaked the box
Finally the city council offered the
home company a contract. 1t was
called ali ultimatum II was unani-
mously so-caled. An utmatum
means, in plain English, the last prop
osit on, which refused, terminates all
negotiations The Waco Water
Company's attorneys said it was a
fair contract; moreover, that it was a
good contract for the company. In
it beth sides met, and compromise
and conciiation was the order of the
day. But the Waco Water Company
poremptorily refused it.
The council had nothing else to do
aud could do nothing elso but build
cisterns. The clstern so much abused
by "a Tax-Payer's wife" furnished
water to put out fires before the
Water Company pumped Brazos
| nj tnr ci,, l-, Il, ,
Oh the epidemic OF typho-ma-
lariel fever in 1879, 1t furnished the
water that fxtinguished the Lyons,
Solomon 81 Co. fire in 1877. 1t fur
ishCd the water to fight the fire at the
Live Oak house between Seventh and
Eighth streets 1t furnished the water
to check the fire on the square, when
the water works, with all their hy-
drants failed in broad day light, when
the court house was threatened and
all the prisoners were removed from
jall. Time and again have the fremen
been forced to ia Il back upon the two
cisterns in the Square, when that
fraudulent farce, known as the Waco
Water company failed to comply with
its contract with tins city.
The argument against covered un-
dergrUund cisterns on the score OF
health is anew one. 1t Is we'll known
that the best water we have ior
drinking purposes is furnished by
cisterns. The Day says that the "Tax
Payers Wife" is a lady known to
the editor of the EXAMINER: a lady
whom the editor OF the EXAMINER
respects. The editor of the ExAMI-
NER was never taught to caper
nimbly in h lady's chamber, nor to
phrase graceful compliments to the
sex. But he respects ladies and WON.
en-, too. He regrets, therefore, that
a lady should unwiltiDgly enter the
lists when her efforts, If successful,
can onl help the most grasping, soul
less, bowelass corporation that ever
seduced a press, corrupted munic-
= ip,ljty or preyed upon the necessities
OF apcopie.
HI" Waco water Company.