San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-07-11

manager did not lie awake o'nights
and lose flesh in an effort to consult the
interests or convenience of the bun
coed citizens of Lakeview when he or
dered the service discontinued
Now that the sewers are about COM
pleted, and citizens along the line will
be compelled to effect house connec-
tons, it is reported on seemingly good
authority that the lordly barons who
thrive and fatten on bursted water
pipes and frozen hydrants have COM
bined together to make "a good thing"
As the rumor goes, the master plumb
ers, with possibly a few exceptions,
have agreed upon a price to be charg-
ed, and it is by no means modset or
moderate, and will endeavor to secure
some legislation through the city coun-
Gil which will enable them to control
the work and exact their own price.
1t is unnecessary to say that it would
be an act of infamy upon the part of
public servant to lend himself to the
carrying out of such a nefarious
scheme. The public health demands
that the work should be done in a first
class, thorough way, but to say that
only few men should have a monopo-
ly of the right, and that, too, at their
own price, would be little less than
winking at down right robbery. The
authorities should see to it that the
work is performed in proper manner.
but every man who desires to COM
pete for it should be permitted to do so
at whatever figures he may elect,
whether they conform with those es-
tablished by the master plumbers or
not.
Aren't it about. time for little Sam
mic Gray to bob up? II the Callaghan
administration does nothing more, 1t
observes well of the taxpayers for
looping off that little creature, whose
gluttonous appetite severely strained
and well-night bankrupt the sewer
fund.
Whatever may have been the motive
or cause for the recent wholesale
changes in the management of the In
ternational and Great Northern rail-
way, one thing is assured: Mr.. George
Gould has stirred up a hornets nest,
the effects of which in all proba bility
he will have cause to remember for
some time to come. With tom"
Campbell as a member of the Texas
railway commission; John NJ. Duncan
as attorney general of the state and
James stephen Hogg as Casey at the
Bat" Mr.. Gould will have three very
active, intelligent and tireless ex-em-
ployes on his trail who will see to it
that none of his duties and obligations
| to the public are sighted. Especially
can the attorney general make it inter-
esting to a delinquent or derelict rail-
| road corporation, and as Judge Dun
can is not credited with belonging to
that sect which turns the right cheek
when smitten on the left one, his cleo
ton would mean a merr- go round for
the Gould interests.
| The law reducing the fees of county
officers has not yet gone into effect,
but it is not seriously apprehended
that any one of our present admirable
and efficient corps of officials will take
advantage of the opportunity and re-
sign when it does. However great
be their chagrin and disgust, they'll
not resign; no, not a mothers son of
'em. 1t cost them too much to get
there.
The eX-Hon, N. Wright Quincy is ru-
ralizing in the neighborhood of Boerne;
but, come to think of it, there is no
municipal campaign or election in pro-
gress in San Antonio just at this time,
which of course entities the ex-Hon.
N. Wright to a merited vacation.