The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1907-01-12

Splendid Account of its Stewardship-Som
Of the Good Things and Reforms Carried Ou
/ Good Suggestions For Bay St. Louis.
They have reduced the water rem
from $3.50 to $3.50 per year on each re-
sidence or business house.
They have put in an electric fire alarm
system and pumping station at an ex.
pense of $4,000, for which bonds hav,
been issued.
They have increased the number O.
electric lights over the city by at leas
twenty-five per cent.
They have re-issued the $4,000 worth
OF market house bonds, lowering the rate
from seven per cent to five per cent ant
saving the city thereby s240 a year.
They have made an extension of the
waterworks system out Fayard street,
thus furnishing water and fire protection
to large number of homes which were
! without il before.
They have issued bonds in the sum of
$25 900 for the laying of water main OF
not less than eight inches in diameter
from the Baratarla Canning Company's
plant west along the bench to the west
line of the Camp Grounds, which will
immensely strengthen the present water
system and furnish fire protection to a
very large number of expensive resi-
dences.
They have purchased two chemical fire
engines at p cost of 50, $50.
They have assisted in building two
engine houses, one for the West End
Hose Company, and have assisted in
equipping the different companies with
hose, furnishing in all 1900 feet.
They have provided keeper and a
greed to furnish the feed for team of
horses purchased by the West End Hose
Company, and have put the city on rec
ord as being willing to do as much for
any OF the other fire companies who shall
purchase team of horses.
They have contracted for three fye-
hundred pound fire bells and automatic
strikers, one each for the East End,
West End and Back Bay Hose Compa-
nies at total cost of st,975.
They have done more in way than
any previous administration to improve
the fire companies of the city, to encour-
aso uhe nremen in their efforts, and to
provide protection to the property hold
ers of the city, and they have, as it
were, set the ball rolling for further i'm
proyements with view to better pro-
lection and lower rates of insurance.
They have spent between $500 and
si0O0 in effacing the effects of the great
storm of September last, in clearing away
debris and putting the beach drive in
passable condition.
They have opened up a number of
streets and haye begun the very necessa-
ry extension of Division street, the mat
ter being IN the hands of committee
and the city engineer when the admin
istration went out.
They have employed at regular sal
ary city engineer.
They have extended the city limits
more than mile further west and, un-
less litigation which is now on should
result unfavorably to the city, the limits
will be extended to much greater dis
tance still, more than doubling the size
of the city.
They haye been instrumental in hay
ing Congress pass an act whereby the
city of Biloxi has acquired park lands
covering an extent of $50 acres.
They have purchased the Back Bay
Artesian Water Company at a cost of
5000 and added over so subscribers to
the list of city water consumers.
They have extended the franchise
granted the Biloxi Electric Railway Co.
from twenty five to fifty years to facili-
tate its absorption by the Gulfport and
Coast Traction Company and
bring in the inter-urban line from Gulf
port.
They successfully maintained a rigid
quarantine during the yellow fever cpl
demic of 1905.
They have granted franchise to the
Gulf Coast Gas Company, bringing in
to Biloxi for the first time gas for heat
ing and lighting purposes.-Biloxi Her.