El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-06-08
HUNTING Wild Geese.

A few days ago, while HERALD re
porter was on his rounds, he was call
ed by q party of citizens that wer
standing on the corner, and one o
them said: "Now that you are com
| plimenting the city authorities abou
the better sprinkling service that w
are getting in the business part OF town
1 wish that you would get them to I'll
up tt csc holes that are in our Streets
| The reporter said the holes were being
attended to, sbut slowly; another tner
asked him why the work wasn't done
faster, and said, "How long do they
| intend to hold that $1,000 that they
have in the treasury? And by the way
why isn't there more than that there
now, as the collector has been collecting
taxes, and there ought to be more
street and grade funds on HAND
han $4,000"
The HERALD'S man was asked II he
knew the amount of funds .on hand for
street and grade work; not knowing he
started to find out. He first went to
Mr.. Robinson, who is chairman OF the
street and grade committee, and asked
him if he knew the amount of avail
said: mo, I couldn't tell you just
exactly, for haven't seen the treasur.
er's statement on this subject. So
dom know"
Mr.. Clifford, member of the com
mittee, was asked if he could give some
light on the matter. Mr.. Clifford ran
his hand down in his waistcOat peck
ct, and pulled out ne Wspaper CID
ping, which was the rreasurer's state
ment for the quarter ending or March
31st last. He said: 81 couldn't tell
ycu exactly, for 1 don't know. This
all have, and that is not correct now.
as there have been some funds coming
into the treasury from the tax collec-
lions. So for correct statement you
would better goIand get the exact fig
ures from the city treasurer, Mr.. Fas-
sett; he can give them to you, and they
will be right. You might say, though,
that there is something like five thou
sand dollars of delinquency in this fund,
and that we would like to have these
citizens who want their streets fixed
up, come and pay what taxes they owe,
and the city will be more in way to
do all these things that they want
DONE"
This all happened on the afternoon
of the 31st of last month.
The next person that the reporter
called on was Mr.. Fassett, the city
treasurer. He was asked for the
amount of the available fund in the
treasury that could be used for street
| 1mDrOVemenG anu IualaLeuduCc. AT.
Fassett said: 81 am pretty busy this
evening; come around in the morning
and I'll have more time.''
SO the next morning the representa-
tive of the HERALD called on Mr.. F'as-
sett for the Information that had been
promised him. Mr.. Fassett said, 81
can't stop to look up that matter now,
but I'll have it for you by dinner
time" When dinner time came, Mr.:
F'assett was nowhere near his place OF
business.
The reporter called again the next
day, and Mr.. City Treasurer said, II
haven't looked up that amount yet. "
So the reporter took the excuse ard
left, but called again the next day.
He had no better success than upon
the other occasions. so he asked Mr..
Fassett when he could have
the statement ready. This being
Friday, he was assured that he could
get the memorandum on the following
Monday, as by that time he (Mr. Fas-
sett) would have time to look up the
amounts and would surely have them
ready for him.
The HERALD IS man took all this in
good faith, and waited until Monday,
when he called feeling sure that the in:
formation would be waiting for him.
But he was doomed to disappointment,
as he was again put off. and Mr..
Fassett hasn't yet divulged the in.
formation that the gentlemen on the
street asked for.