Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1893-05-15

would take it all off; only, IN such case,
there would be the tempt a tion for me to
say Il am working for not hing and may
do as please. say to you all, to the
citizens of Ashe vile, you are my masters
and to you 1 am accountable"
Regards 10 N1r. Leach.
Mayor Patton then struck a humorous
vein in considering some statements
made here during the campaign by ]. M.
Leach of Waynesville. "He charged"
the Mayor said, chat 1 wore knee
breeches-somethingI 1 never wore in my
club-a fact that am proud of; he says
L wear eyeglasses-I do. for could not
be able to read this statement of the
city's condition If did not wear them.
L wish 1 could not read it.
"But. gentlemen, let me warn YOU
against the danger Of false economy in
the ma tier OF salaries 1 would not re-
duce The salaries of tho police. believe
an upright. good policeman should not
| he paid less than 60 month, and a
| c, m, petent chief Of police should not be
| asked to serve for less than SIS a
month"
| street inspectors, Messrs. Murdoch and
Murray, and advocated the plan of the
| city doing it's own paving. with the
| workmen under these inspectors both
] of whom he believed to he efficient men.
He spoke sorrowfuly of the rmark often
| made on the street, "L.'nk at The black
crows hanging on the court house fence
| looking over the cornield." By crows"
| was meant the idlers on the square. He
| was inclined to change the expression to
| Look at the damnable black buzza rdS
| from South Carolina getting all the sus-
| tenance that should go to Ashevi1le
| workmen," He was for home laborers
all the time.
Police Depar tnnent.
The police department received consid-
cradle attention. Mayor Patton showed
| that some $4,000 of fines assessed by
Recorder Miller had been either uncol-
| iected or unaccounte,l for to the city
| treasurer He hoped and believed Chiet
Mcdowell would account for every dol
| lar that should be put down to the credit
| of his department.
The city's style of bookkeeping was
| ridiculed mildly by the stateme that
| on the books City Tax Collector Rey-
| no1ds was the city's creditor to the
| fact the collector should have been
charged with the full amount OF the tax
| list, perhaps 7O,OOO. and then credited
| with the $32 900 paid in
| On the water question Mayor Patton
| laid considerable stress. He thought the
water reuts should at least be made to
| pay the n.erest on the cost of the plant
| Instead of this being a fact, the coilec
| tiOns amount to only 81 ,315, while the
| in terest is some 81 8, 900.
The Mayor then touched upon paving
topics. He pointed out that the Depot
| street paving cost $2.37 cents a square
yard, while that on Haywood street
cost about ST. less square yard. HI
also said another $500. 900 worth o
bonds must be sold, at par, with which
to improve streets such as Woodfin
| w hich needed Improvement badly. II
proposed to be one person t. take $40,
600 of the bonds at par within the mex
80 davS, and believed the bonds wOulC
be sold.
l ssTR,A
A letter from Northern man to tn
Mayor was read, in which the write
congratulated the city and the nev
Mayor on the turn Ashev vile had takcr
in municipal affairs. The letter referre,
to THE CITIZEN as 1.-The partisan bu
OF thcrwise very excellent paper. " and sal,
Mavor Patton could, in the light of hi
own overwhelming majority, afford t.
forgive THE CITIZEN for printing poetr.
| charged to him.
| The inaugural closed with the declara
. | tion that the load was upon the peopl
, | of Asheville, well as upon the new ao
ministration, and the Mayor asked th
; support of every citizen. He then e1
tended his thanks to the officials of th
, suburbs. as we'll the people of Asht
. vile. who had come out to witness til
inaugura ton.
Il The Joint Board was then convened
= when Alderman Jones. of the FRS
. | moved that the Mayor be requested t
appoint necessary committees and rePol
, | m, as the Board wanted to get down
| work. The motion carried and tt
, meeting adjourned to the nour stated.