The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-08-16
LYONS SENT MESSAGE
NEW MAYOR MAKES MANY PATRt-
OTTO SUGGESTIONS.
Advertiser Bureau,
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Mobile, August is.
At a meeting OF the General Coun-
ell tonirht. Hon. Pat Lyons submitted
his first message as Mayor of the city.
which reads as follows:
.'To the Honorable General Council of
the city Of Mobile:
"Gentlemen-Having become the
Mayor Of. the city Of Mobile by virtue
Of the iamentable death of Hon.
Charles q. Mclean It becomes my
duty to recommend to your honorable
body from time to time those things
which seem to be desirable for the
progress Of the city In order that those
who participate in our municipal at
fairs may work in unison to some
common purpose.
1T seems to be manifest to every
one who has observed anything Of the
recent growth of Mobile or who has
at all considered the causes which
have given to It such impetus. that
Mobile 10 destined rapidly to become
. great city and that this 10 as we'll
assured a. the building Of the 18TH
milan canal Is certain. It therefore be-
hooves those who must conduct tho at
fairs Of the city to prepare for its fu-
ture necessities as well as to provide
for those Of the present for 1t 10 as
unwise for a city to live from hand to
mouth as 1t 10 for an individual.
In city no larger than Mobile II 10
hard to realise that the question of
free air will ever become a problem
difficult to provide for but 1t Is di1icult
in city Of any magnitude to under
stand how such a necessity could ever
have been doubted. 1t cannot be a
great many years before the necessity
for public park of greater magnitude
than anything which has as yet been
provided for will be seriously felt and
recommend that your honorable body
take up this matter for serious consid-
Grafton and investigation. Mobile IL
perhaps better known for its Bay Shell
Road than by any other possession and
the Importance of preserving this lux
ury to our people cannot be over esti-
mated. The resident portion OF our city
is rapidly moving towards the west and
the approaches to the Shell Road which
have heretofore been used are rapidly
becoming ill-adapted. In the first
place the conversion of Frascati into a
railroad yard and its rapid develop
ment as railroad terminus promises
to make that crossing unsafe and in
the next place St. Emanuel Street Is
SO far from the center Of the residence
portion Of the city that the approaches
to the Bay Shell Road by that route is
entirely too long for practical pur-
poses.
1T seems to me that matters would
be vastly improved by opening Broad
Street SO that 1t will intersect Wash
ington Avenue, and by improving that
street at least by Smelling between
Government Street and Washington
Avenue. This could be done at a COM
paratiyely small cost and would fur
nish to the citizens a vastly improved
route to the bay. This would make
the route to the bay more available to
citizens living above Broad Street and
also improve the route for those citi-
zens living below Broad Street as Gov
eminent will soon be asphalted az far
as Broad.
Broad Street would run into Wash
ington Avenue just below Virginia
Street and as Washington Avenue runs
Into the Bay Shell Road at Arlington.
the County will doubtless extend the
Smelling Of the Cedar Point SO that the
road suggested would furnish a drive
without toll so near to the bay as to
furnish a substitute for the Bay Shell
Road for those who are not In a posi-
ton to pay toll.
1t seems to me also thatk we may
reasonably hope that the County will
at no distant date take over the Shell
Road open 1t to the public and extend
1t further down the Bay. Surely no
community such as ours should continue
to permit its greatest public blessing
to be tolled out to the citizens by
private enterprise.
At the time of the construction of
the city water works although but a
short time ago 1t was thought that
any water pressure which could throw
stream as high as the Battle House
would be entirely adequate for the
needs of the city. Even now 1t seems
strange that we did not realize how
soon the people of Mobile would begin
to erect structures of much greater
height. There are now in process of
construction several buildings six or
seven stories in height and others still
higher will shorty follow. The water
pressure is not now sufficient for the