Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1890-11-27
OUR NEW CITY GOVERNMENT

On Tuesday next the citizens of Aber-
deem will be called upon to select a new
administration for our municipal affairs.
In this connection it were well that we
reflect a little on our present needs and
what we shall require at the hands OF
those men to whom we shall award the
sceptre of authority. Aberdeen, as the
chief city of the Grays Harbor country,
is in the midst of an era Of prosperity
and progress. Her advantages have been
heralded far and wide. She is being
rapidly filled up with class OF energetic,
hustling people, who will expect to re-
ceive at the hands of the incoming adj
ministration careful needing of their
desires.
The retiring council, in the matter OF
expenditure, shave, we believe, fully car
ried out the idea Of progression. They
have limited their appropriations only in
accordance with the condition of the
city's exechequer, in fact, have perhaps
exceeded their authority in making dis
bursements. But the money has been
we'll spent in most instances. The prin-
cipal criticism offered by the HERALD is
that they have entered upon certain
plans for Improvements without due con-
sideration of the necessities existing
therefor, or how the money to pay for
them was to be had. Much of the work
also laid out by them remains unfinished,
and their successors will be charged with
its completion.
A position on the new board will be by
no means a sinecure. Each member
thereof must of necessity familiarize him.
self with the work of the retiring board
assist in pushing to completion the work
already undertaken, and lend his best en-
ergies to secure for Aberdeen certain inn
provements, the pushing need of which
is uppermost in the minds of all.
The most important in our list OF needs
is that of a sufficient water supply. We
have voted $65 600 for the purpose, and
to float said bonds and see that the
money received therefor is properly ex-
pended will be one of the duties that will
devolve upon the new council.
Next we need a new school house in
the second ward The one we now have
is entirely inadequate to our present de-
mands, and will become still more SO
during the coming year. Crowding many
pupils into small space renders the work
of the teacher very laborious and ineffect-
ual. OF course the city council cannot
appropriate money for a new school
house, but little wholesome agitation on
their part will have a tendency to cause
the powers that be to move in this mat
ter, thus giving us this much needed I'M
provement.
Incidentally, We demand a city hall.
Asst ie VOW Il : stranger has business
With our city officers he is perfofee com
PEELED to resolve himself into a walking
interrogation point, study the signs over
doorways, and at last dodge into some
structure where, by the courtesy of the
proprietor thereof, the city official is al
lowed to stay in out of the rain. If oul
board of trade should at any time resolve
to eject the city's lawmakers, the latter
would be obliged to hold their next ses-
-sion on the sidewalk with their only shell
ter the canopy of Heaven.
These needs and others are apparent
to every intelligent voter. And every
Aberdeen citizen owes it to himself and
to his neighbor to go to the polls next
Tuesday and cast a ballot for the men
who will carry out his desires, giving us
a careful but progressive government,
thus keeping Aberdeen where she be-
longs, the most prosperous town west Of
Puget Sound.