Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1892-04-22
panies afford us ample protection
against fire, An electric light plant

panies afford us ample protection
against fire. An electric light plant
furnishes the city and private individ
uals with an abundance OF light. In
fact cur city is we'll supplied with all
the necessities and comforts of life
excepting that of street cars and
sewers, which according to present
indications will not be long lacking.
was in hopes that the chiefs of the
several departments would have
handed in their reports to the City
Clerk by this time so that l could
have examined them with q view of
determining their efficiency. From
unofficial sources l have learned and
believe that the business OF every de-
partment in the city have been prop
erly conducted during the last year.
feel that in the death Of iStanislaus
Stoll and Joseph Diedrich during the
last year, both of whom were officers
in our fire department., our city has
lost two of her most energetic and
best citizens and their death is especi-
a1lya great loss to the fire depart
| ment of Little Falls. Their names will
long be remembered by the members of
our fire department with love and
respect on account::of their honorable
careers and many good:qualities.
Very little cause of complaint has
come to me during the past year,
therefore f1atter myself that my ad-
ministration of our city .has been
quite generally satisfactory. With
the small police force!Iat my COM
mand, l have been able to keep rea-
sonObly good order. know Of no
city that has so small police force
as ours according to itsI population.
In my opinion two more men should
be put on without further delay. I
believe our first duty is to provide
ample pro otection to the lives and
property OF our citizens, by provid-
ing an ample police force. I am
aware that by some mylpolicy is re-
garded as being to liberal. Amayor
that would try to please everybody
would stulify his own conscience and
in time find that he had really pleas
ed nobody.
/ believe it would be hard to
find a community where the
people on an average for
intelligence and honesty of purpose
excel the people OF this city. Yet there
is here to be found.exceptions to the
rule, men who would, if they could,
kill the goose that lays the golden
eggs.
All men that go to saloons are not
fiends, neither are all men that go to
churches saints. would advise the
man who cannot control his appetite
for liquor to keep out of saloons, a
drunk person isindeed a loathsome
object, besides being all object of pit
ty. am pleased to know that some
Of our saloon keepers, will not sell
liquor to a habitual drunkard and
hope that all Of them will adopt that
rule Still the man who has the
money to buy liquor with can man.
age to get it if it is in the market.
While mean to be lenient to persons
seeking and practiceing innocent
amusement, Ipropose to draw a tight
rein on those who wilfully and mali
ciously. annoy and.molest others.
There has been expended for run
ming the city the last year $l6,5S4,56
while the income has been but $11 1868,
63 leaving a shortage for the year of
81, ,62O93. This is not a good show
ing. The expenditure was not per-
haps much togreat, but the provision
to pay was too small. In order to
relieve, to some extent, the pressure
brought to bear on them the council
OF the past year resorted to means
that deemed unwise. l would re-
commend that all Expenditures ex-
cept those OF pressing necessity be
stopped until there is money in the
city treasur to cash city orders
when issued. The man who works
for rich city like Little Falls should
not have to sell the order he receives
for labor at a discount. From what
have said and more that I havenot
said. have no doubt but what you
and the public are satisfied, that no
other point in the Great Northwest
possesses equal advantages to that
Of Little Falls for building up a city
OF large dimensions. All of the es-
sentials are already here. IhavenOt
the time or space to enumerate every
thing in detail. Many men here to-
day regret, that they did not invest
in some corner lot several years ago.
The man who gets four corner lots
by the real estae deals now being
made in this city and holds them is as
sure to win fortune, as the player
at a game of poker who holds four
aces is to get tile pot. Thus far, dur
ing my administration as Mayor
extending over three years, our young
city has made rapid strides in popu-
lation and wcltl. do not claim all
the glory for myself. The various
councils we have had in the main
have performed their part well. Be
sides many private citizens have
lahored incescntly for it's prosper
ity, sparing neither time nor
money, and it is now great
pleasure for US all to know that our
labor has not been in vain ,and can
but indulge in the hope that our
official action will not only be har-
monious, but will result in the con-
tinued prosperity of our city, and to
the satisfaction of our confiding con-
stituents.
Respectfully submitted for your
consideration this 18th. day of April,
1892
N. RICHARDSON,
MavOr