The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1906-08-18
THE LAYING OF CONCRETE SIDEWALKS.

THE LAYING .OF CONCRETE SIDEWALKS
/ The suggestions offered in to
days Leader by Mr.. VIM. Hay
ldock, it seems to US, are worthy
Eof favorable consideration, as fal
Las they 60, on their merits. by The
Mayor and Board of Aldermen
and by the property owners oi
Brookhaven. In fact, this is, ii
part, what was seriously contem.
plated by the Mayor and Board oi
Aldermen and favored by a lot ol
representative property holders
of the city at the regular meeting
of the board last May.
At that meeting the subject ol
concrete sidewalks on all of the
principal streets of the city and
a plan whereby they could be Sc.
cured in the easiest and least bur.
densome way to property holders,
was gone over quite fully. The
idea was that a plan should be
adopted whereby the city would
contract to have the work done in
a uniform and substantial way !, on
the cheapest basis possible by
letting the contract IN a bulk to
some capable contractor, and then
the individual property owner be
allowed the option Of paying for
| his sidewalk in cash or on the in
stallment plan, with a low interest
on deferred payments.
1t was pointed out that in this
way the city, both in its business
and residence section, could
secure substantial and attractive
sidewalks of uniform quality,
width and grade, at the cheapest
rate obtainable for good work,
and on basis that would not Inn
pose a hardship on the poorest
property holder. In fact, it was
well argued, that the city in this
way would obtain well-payed
streets Throughout, and that the
increase in property values aecru-
ing from convenient, handsome
sidewalks, corresponding through
tout the town, would more than
ioifset all cost of construction to
any Individual property holder.
The outline of this plan met
with such unanimous favor OF all
those at the May meeting of the
Board that Mayor Lanier was re-
quested to write to the Mayors of
cities in this State which have
CONSTRUCTED concrete sidewalks on
the large contract plan Green
vile, Greenwood and Columbus
being mentioned land get copies
of their ordinances providing for
same, with addresses of construc-
ton companies putting down such
sidewalks, and to gather all infor-
nation possible relative to plans
on which such sidewalks were
built.
So far as the record shows,
Mayor Lanier has never made any
report and the board has never
taken this subject psince in any
comprehensive sense, though it
ought to be one of the livest sub
|jects with which the city admins
tration has to deal. A good
many OF our progressive, enter
prisinfg citizens are going ahead
putting down concrete pavements
of their own Independent motion,
but it is noted they are lacking
in general uniformity, some being
wide and others narrow; some
thick and others thin, some cost
ing one price and some another
for the same kind of work, etc.
The longer general paving ordi-
nance is postponed, the more
difficult it will be to secure con-
cert of action and the best results
for the city, as whole, because
those who are going ahead inde-
pendently will object to changing
their sidewalks and the extra ex-
pense.
The Leader hopes the board
will take the subject up again
right soon and carry out the COM
prehensiye system it considered at
the May meeting.
Primary Election Managers in District
Four.
BY an oversight Of the printer
and proof reader certain omissions
land errors occurred In the pro-
tcoedinpcs of the ,annEy Dnma-