El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-08-27

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To ROUND ABOUT:-You asked me
why L voted last night against the or
dinance to impound all cattle, ETC.,
found running in the city limits, 10
which l answer:
First-Because it has always been
customary to refer an ordinance, before
the approval of the council to the Or
dinance committee.
Second-Because the lapse of time
between the finding of an animal and
the selling of same is too short, for this
reason: A thief or mischievOus person
might steal valuable horses thirty or
fifty miles from the city and turn them
loose in city limits, the owner will not
know where his horses are; the scaven-
ger will catch aud sell then after the
lapse of five days; an animal worth
500 he sells for So. The notices plac-
ed for the public in the city limits will
not be read oy the owner OF the horses
living thirty or fifty miles away; not
being published in the city official pa
per.
Third-Several poor widow women
own a COW or two and having no place
| in her yard, she turns them IL some
empty lot to feed on fresh grass and
have a little recreation; according to
the ordinance that it is not allowed
any longer, therefore the poor woman
earn living by selling the milk.
| Fourth-The city limits are very ex-
tensive and an animal turned loose on
the pasture of Bassett addition, Cotton
addition or south of Eighth street. in
my opinion will do no harm to the pub
| lie.
Fifth-A burro worth $3.50 is not
worth claiming or redeeming as the
amount of the expenses charged by the
ordinance is S3.45. The poor man can
not afford to pay more than the animal
is W orth. He is also deprived Of the
animal by which he earned a few
cents. FRANK DEL BUONO.
The street sprinkling war still
RACES. People in all parts of the city
are kicking about two sprinklers being
| sprinkle the business portion OF town
and one to sprinkle the streets in front
of the houses of the favored few. A
gentleman said to Round About last
night. "Af:e- the HERALD came out
this afternoon I took a bicycle ride
down the streets that have been favor
ed by the sprinkler. [ found that San
Antonio street was sprinkied as far
east as w. II. Aus,in'S place; Magoffin
avenue was sprinked down to the car
| track and Myrt e avenue was sprinkled
| down all the way down. By queer
| cOincident only one cross street was
sprinkled and that's the street running
along side of Mr.. Morehead's property"
Another party said. ''Tnere is San
| Francisco street. 1t needs spripkliug
worse than any other street in town,
| because when a wind comes up there
| is where the dust starts and it is then
distri buted all over town. San Fran
cisco street is receiving very little at
tentiOn from the city and 10 places the
sand lies four inches deep that washed
there by the late rains" A Mesa
avenue citizen then spoke up and said:
| 9Th re is a 8 much tax paying p operty
on our avenue as there is on Magoffin
avenue and are we just as much entitled
to ,hs stree sprink iers rs the favored
ones down there and we are going to
roar and ok until we get our right"
Louis Behr collector for the Water
Works company said: Mr.. Wal IS is
mistaken when he states that two
street sprinklers are taken Off on the
first of September every year. Las
year the two sprinklers were laid off
about the fifth of October. Some
years the four sDrinklers have been
run until December. In 1892 or '93
two street sprinklers were pull ed Off on
the first of September but the Water
only time they were pulled off so
early" Thus the kick goes on. Pep
pie say the city is trying to economic
ID the wrong department and that the
street expenses above all Others 5 ouid
be the last pla e in which to attempt
economy.
There is something materially
wrong somewhere" SAID prominent
citizen this morning. 1.-The city is now
getting the sire ITS sprinkled for about
one-haif of what it used ID cost and still
street sprinkling is cut down. The
city has been improving l the time,
and more taxes have been collects d
but still in the face of these facts the
city is running behind. Nobody can
charge dishonesty in the city g affairs,
but it looks very much like there Is
ia competency somewhere. Every adj
ministrati n for the past four years has
been Iut in on reirenchment plat
form and, there has been retire nchment
adopted in most all the departments,
and this with the increased taxation, it
looks like, would bring the city out of
debt, but. it is sad to say the city is
deeply in debt and is now trying to
retrench in a department which should
always be kept up to specific stand
ard. 1t looks penny wise and pound
foolish to cut Off the street sprinklers
as after awnil, it will cos. more to
repair streets that have not been
sprinkled than it would cost to run a
street sprinkler over them all the
time"
Mr.. Bloom got hard fall last even
ing at The corner of Ell Paso aud Sec
and street He was putting up au
owning on building when he slipped
and lost his hold ana fell to the street
twelve feet below. Besides hard jolt
ing up he was unirJured.
"When the sprinklers were first put
on the Streets" remarked City Clerk
Catlin this morning, 1T cost the city
somewhere in the neigh borhood of
5000 a year for axle grease for the
sDrinklerS The citv "A then Davinp