San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-07-21
PARTLY TRUE.
BUT ON SOME POINTS THE WRITER
rs NOT POSTED.
The cart-o-crats are Happy But
Mr.. Burns Bid Too Cheap
For the Work.

means lucrative business in view
OF it's dearth OF money.
This propensity for plugging in
TO lawsuits arises from the notion
entertained by the city govern
ment, that its will is law. 1t an
nuls contracts with the utmost
sang froid.
1t removed Mr.. Micklejohn from
Office by mere resolution and had
to pay him his salary for being so
hasty1and arbitrary in ejecting
himfrom Office.
1t has annulled the contract with
Mr.. Burns for removing the garb-
age, and so far as the public can
Judge, this step was taken on &C.
count Of the noise and fuss made
by the cartocrats, who were dis
gruntled at losing fat job.
Mr.. Burns has removed the gar
bage just about as we'll as 1t had
been done previously. The garbage
was not regularly removed, in all
parts OF the city, prior to the
awarding of the contract to Mr..
Burns.
The carts visited the principal
residence and business streets, in
the center of the city, regularly
every day, but the remote streets
were in good luck if the garbage
was removed two or three times
week.
Had Mr.. Burns pursued the same
plan, there would have been far
less cutlery, but the cartocrats
and their friends were just bound
to hound after Burns till the coun-
ell annulled the contract and rein
stated the ancient system.
1t looks very much as though a
sort of a snap judgment and
dirty trick was played on Burns
by the drivers of the carts en-
ployed by Mayor Elmendorf. Last
week the wagon Of Burns came by
my premises, and all the trash was
removed in the morning. That
evening, a BART came along and
took away a small quantity of
trash, that had accumulated after
the wagon passed and the driver
of the cart handed me a sheet of
paper, on which there were about
a dozen name/ and asked me to
sign the san FS to show the trash
had been wed.
Supp0 Burns had fallen on
thiG BAD off the outcry of
l signed my name
but afterwards l re-
Q carts were not en-
rms.
he drivers OF all the
llowed the same plan
les and, as the carts
ng under the orders of
br his interest, they no
Feled over the same
red by Burns wagons
hing, and so produced
on that Burns was not
le barbage properly.
is jewel of priceless
hs had contracted to re.
arbage for $4,000, just
BIT had been paid the
,gon had called in the
my place and taken
rash. / saw and talked
of the wagon. In the
he same day, the cart
and the driver asked
paper in order to
ash had been removed.
was going over. the
d, which Burns wagon
in the morning. 1t
cen customary with the
rove trash, twice in one
The same street. Here
conspiracy againstMr.
ly got in it's work;
SO trash has been re-
10 morning by Burns's
n the cart came along
ing, signed the paper
m by the cart driver,
|eeented, to show the
cen removed from their
myself signed it I'M
! !; !: !" !:
poyession that it was
- not had fair play.
20 began their hue
ann moment he was
avn contract, and kept
nscientiously say that
Mr.. IL has removed my trash
more klarly than it ever was
removed prior to his obtaining the
contract. His wagon has come
around daily, which the carts did
not do under the old system.
1t is essentially wrong to hound
a man down in order to get his job
taken from him. Burns has not
had fair play, nor fair chance.
The cutlery made by the cartocrats
was selfish and interested, but it
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