The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-05-27
PLAN FOR AN IMPROVEMENT
MEETING OF THE CITIZENS

At the Greater Cairo meeting in
the X. NJ. K. C. hall last night, attend
ed by nearly a hundred prominent
and representative business men and
property owners, plan was formulat-
ed for holding big public meeting ia
the near future, which all Of the prop
eriy owners in the city will be urged
to attend. Officers Of the Greater
Cairo movement were elected and ar
engagements made for the completion
Of the paving of Ohio street.
What the meeting lacked in attend
ance was made up for by the enthusi-
asm and public spirit which was mani.
tested
AS was printed in The Bulletin some
days ago. the new law which will go
into effect on the first of July, will
have a marked influence upon the
Greater Cairo movement and will
make it easier for the many improve.
monts to be made, az was shown by
the speeches and talks made last
night
While the new law does away with
the section providing that before i'm.
proyements could be made in cities
OF this size a petition to that effect
must be signed by the majority of the
property owners along the line of the
proposed improvements, 1t does not
restore the law to the shape 1t was in
1897, when so many improvements
were made. Under the new law, per.
sons who think that the improvements
not necessary, can 50 before a court Of
equity and show the jury that the i'm.
provements will not be Of benefit to
thom and il they succeed in convinc.
Ing the jury on this point, will be able
TO put stop to the improvement.
Hon. Reed Green hir the keynote Of
the situation when in an earnest and
enthusiastic talk he said that the new
law only made the Greater Cairo
Committee Of Twenty more useful.
The committee itself can do nothing,
so far as the improvements are actual,
~ concerned, but IL can work mp such
an interest and enthusiasm that none
Of the property owners viii OBJ
ject to the Improvements and 60 be.
fore the Jury and perhaps defeat the
Whole plan" said Mr. Green.
Mr. Green regretted the fact that
the meeting was not more largely at.
tended and said that perhaps the en-
thusiaam was waning. He suggested
fhat In o1,tfor r. xvcrI- ~, - .,,.r..,+ -,.n1.,
of public spirit, to convince the people
that the Improvements planned were
not for few but for the general good
Of the city and the property owners, a
large mass meeting he called and ev-
cry citizen and especially the proper
ty owner urged to attend.
This suggestion was taken up later
and it was decided to have the meet
ing in the near future TO be called by
The chairman.
Hon. NJ. f. Gilbert made a talk, tax.
ing very rosy view of the situation.
He said that while Che meeting was
not largely attended the men
present represented large inter
ests in the city and the
fact that they were present show.
e. that the enthusiasm had by no
means died out.
Alderman Walter Wood aid that he
believed Cairo was just a little be.
hind the times, as compared with 9th
or cities Of its size in this state, but
that he felt sure that with the spirit
OF improvement once aaame that what
Cairo has lacked in this line would
soon be overcome. Mr. Wood told Of
the plans that had been completed by
the engineers appointed to make esti.
mates as to new sewerage system
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