The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-03

ton. Against the skyline could be seen the tall and naked limbs of massive trees, from which the winds of winter mad blown countless hundreds of leaves. let In their nndeness there was cer- tam element of beauty and grandeur about the trees which lent a charm to the ideal Indian summer Sunday.
 But where the group of men stood talking about the beauty of the city there was a taint to that beauty. This
 taint% was plainly visible to the eye or every one who walked along the business streets and was the cause of the conversation. The question of ob- iiterating this "taint7 to the beauty of the city in the business district was principally the question at issue. This question was discussed from many diff ferent phases and 1t was finally settled that the only way for this to be done was for the city authorities to have the streets swept each Saturday night ait least.
 4 walk around the business part of the city showed lying around on the streets several cart loads of rubbish and paper which had accumulated from the preceding day and night In other places there were puddles of mud while here and there was heaped piles of ashes where the night before the negro porter at the store in front of the ash piles had set fire to a mass of trash which he had swept from the building. Everywhere there was scattered paper and paper boxes. and the streets re- sembled more the appearance of coun- try road In front of store than they did the streets of thriving and pros- porous city.
 How long has it been since the streets of the city were swept2' asked one of the gentlemen. No one in the nx. naA k.a kn ak a ntxreAr the question, or at least no one an- swered it, and 1t was left open. The streets Of Selma are not paved, it's true" said another, but [ think that they could be kept cleaner than they are"
 Another member of the group sug- gested that he thought 1t would be good Idea for the city to have the street hands to sweep at feast the bus mess part of the city every Saturday night He said that every ,sunday was spent in idIeness and the plotting of future devilment by the city prisoners, who were fed that day by lie city.
 True the day of rest was not taken from the number of days of their sen- tence upon the streets. He said he thought that it would be 8 good idea for them to work upon the streets each Saturday and that at about 10 o'clock or ii o'clock each Saurday night that they be put to sweeping the streets.
 This, of course, he said, fould figure as extra work, or overtime. As rec ompense for this work at night, he thought that the prisoners should be allowed day from sheir line, and in this way they would put in seven days each week insead of only six.
 Un Saturday nights. he suggested, when the merchants had their places of business swept out that they should be made to put this trash In a box which would be picked up by one of the city carts end not allowed to burn 1t upon the streets. Besides, it is said that these trash fires on the etreets are dangerous and is as likely to set a building on fire as anything else.
 With the streets Of the city in the business part swept each Saturday night they would present a ,dost pleas- ing appearance for Sunday. It would make the clty more attractive, ana would give visitors a better opinion of 1t than they have when they see paper and paper boxes ana trash of every description lying around on them on a Sunday.
 Some time ago a number of women of the city banded themselves together in civic improvement society. The object of the organization was to make selma Beautiful" They are loyal to this object and since the founding of the society, have done much work that has added very materially to the beau ty of Selma. They have not abandoned their self-impesed labor but are labor ing diligently with the int antion of in deed making Selma Beautiful" But their labors will go for ought and the ornaments which they erect will look unsightly if the streets of the city arc not kept clean.