San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-15

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down, for that matter, and bless him.
Take Pinto street. south of Commerce,
for instance. The street is thickly
populated, yet it is absolutely impass-
! able, in many places, because of over
hanging limbs, tangled undcrbrush
and mats of weeds. The sidewalks
AT least should be cleared and If Com
missioner. Micklejohn will give the
matter his attention he will receive
many thanks.
For some unexplained, but possibly
not unexplainable reason, no formal
proposition has yet been submitted to
dump the worn out and inadequate
water plant upon the city. But it win
come; it will come. In the fullness Of
time, and when the peach is deem d
to be ripe, it will be plucked or
sought to be plucked.
Speaking of water, comparison of
rates between those charged in San
Antonio, which does not own her wa
ter and light plant and those charged
in Austin, which does own her water
and light plant, is interesting, if not
instructive. In this city q hotel with
60 rooms is taxed $40 a month for
water and from $50 to $1OO month
for lights, or an average total month
ly, say, for water and lights of S12O,
In Austin the Avenue hotel, with 81
sleeping rooms, or one-third more than
the San Antonio caravansary has, is
taxed $3.50 per month for water and
lights, including power to run six or
eight fans in the dining room. If the
amount for running the fans, S125C,
be deducted from the gross sum, The
total cost would be reduced to $50 pei.
month for water and lights for the
Austin hotel of 81 rooms as against
500 for water and lights for the San
Antonio hotel with 60 sleeping rooms.
There's the figures, easily susceptible
of coroboration. What think you.
taxpayers and consumers? Should
not the city of San Antonio own and
operate the water and light plants?
Wisdom, seif-interest, common pru-
dence, to say nothing of sound bust
ness policy, prompts an uniquivocal
affirmative.
ind; L,
supposed to gain wisdom with age and
experience. The wooden block pave
ment, while possessing some advan-
tageS, is not likely to be further eN-
tended in San Antonio. Aside from a
very general and well grounded belief
that it is a menace and positive dan
ger to travel during the rainy and
frozen periods, albeit it must in can
dor be admitted that these periods are
infrequent enough.
The haly calm which at present
reigns over the erstwhile warning To-
cal political class pressages violent
disturbances when once the entente
cordiale is broken and the buried hat
chet dug up. The Red Chief main
tains a wise and solemn visage, which
those who know him best attribute
as foreshadowing coming plan of
campaign, which shall annihilate and
forever destroy his ancient ally, bur
present enemy, the Black Hawk of
the HelOtes.
The bond issuing epidemic has
struck the sacred precincts of the
county's temple of justice, and just
where it will end no man can foretell.
Taxpayers can only watch and pray
that it will not extend its visages to
the northwest and strike The city nall.
Water should be as free as the air
we breathe. Ergo, the city should
own, control and operate the c.ty's
water supply plant, and furnish every
citizen with an unlimited quantity of
pure, fresh, wholesome water at a
minimum cost.
The action of our white citizens in
deciding to let the law take its course
in the case of the negro charged with
having committed the heinous crime
on the little white girl, speaks well fol
their forebearance, federation and law
abiding spirit. But the white men
should not invite the committal of
such dastardly deeds and tempt the
black brutes by permitting their
mothers, wives and daughters to sit
and ride in a close buggy beside the
lecherous animals. Self-respectin3
white women should decline with en-
phasis to ride about the city or any
where else in a buggy beside one of
them.
yyIan tho yvotar comnanv is called