The Beaumont enterprise. [volume] (Beaumont, Tex.) 1904-current, 1904-10-01
MUNICIPAL MATTERS
MAYOR LANeHAM is AFTER THE
PLUMBERS.
WILL HAVE THEM IN COURT
Commissioner Walsh Repairing Pearl
Street Pavment-Pay Day Is Due.
Still Talking Charter.

The corporation court was short hut
full of business yesterday. Thee
were five cases on hand, and in three
o, them pleas Of guilty were entered
and fines assessed In the usual amounts.
In the other two postponcmcnts were
asked until this morning at s o'clock,
ana they were granted.
After the Plumbers.
Mayor Langham was rather warm
yesterday morning about the way the
plumbers are tearing up the streets
and leaving them TON up. lie came
over 10 the court room himself and in
CURED into the matter 1t seems that
they are becoming impertnent in
their disregard of the city ana ltS
rights, and the result is that two OF
the plumbers will be before the cor
uOration court this morning. One Of
the cases is that ont on Wall street,
near the Catholic church, where the
street has been left in deplorablc
condition. When the sewer pipe was
put in the dirt was not tampcd, wet
down or even packed, and the great
pile of it stands out two feet or more
above the grade of the street. Thls
is but One instance Of many. Plumbc $
are required to give bond for TINS sort
Of thing, and the mayor makes them
come up with cash when the pavement
| is broken into, but they do trench
dous lot of damage on other streets,
according to the charges made by the
city authorities, and the mayor is after
| them.
Repairing Pavement.
Street Com missioner Jack Walsh was
busy yesterday repairing the Cd Pearl
| street pavement. The old bricks We're
being removed and new sand placed
underneath, above the concrete. the
trouble with the pavement is that the
people who were allowed to tear it up
to place underg ound piping did not
do a good piece of repair work, and left
u uneven and bunglesome. The street
commissioner has several blocks in
which the pavement must be evened
up. There is one block on Pearl
street where he will probably have TO
go three feet down to get Il foundation.
This pavement is now FIVE years old,
and considering the fact that II Stan;is
the heaviest traffic in the city ii has
held up remarkably wei, except where
il has been ton up and abused.
Talking Charter.
One of the aldermen expressed him
self to an Enterprise reporter yester-
dav about the new charte. as follows:
1T seems to me that we must either
raise the tax rate or cut down eX-
pcnses. am not making up my mind
now, and shall not until the committee
has made a full and complete report
to the council. | shall not favor ra!s-
ing the tax rate to more than $l5O in
any event, possibly not that much, o.
maybe not al all If il isn't raised,
though. | know enough right now to
t, know that expenses must be cut OFF
somewhere All officers ought to he
on salaries The city could save there
do not favor the idea of abOlshing-
in CffCct--tho treasurer'S office.
think the treaSu cr ought to get Sl0o
4 - $50 per month. would fix the taN
col. cctor's salary at about $50 pei
month. and allow him a deputy. The
CITY attorney ought to get a salary, the
marshal and all the rest ought to get
salaries. The question of who is fill
Ing these Offices should he entirely cast
aside i'm figuring Oh the new charter
/. is not personal matter at all.
Several of the city officials have
been watching the work that is to be
done by the government pcop,o with 4
keen interest They are going - Sc
cure an the points possible. and Street
Commissioner Walsh seems To be more
/ $50 utinous than any of them. lie
laays that hp expects to get an idea oI
two from lhom. and hopes he rest oi
1.-THE city government that has anything
tu do with street work will take n
Grand avenue daily.
Pay Day 1t Hand.