The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-07-07

per year. & me " lpWN NUS no i'oa&ihS
s,Gh. ard tho wise town government
will not have any. The realty owned
by white people Is assessed for taxa.
ton at s1,oa27eo: owned by negroes.
s55,ssa. Personal property owned by.
whites. including banks in operation,
a1.S071SS; owned by negroes, sl0,ST2.
Comparisons are said to be odions.
but sometimes In order TO get fair
view OF things and do Justice MS we go
along 81 becomes necessary to be
odions to the extent OF making COM
PARSONS. Let the reader who loves
figures ana statistics get the census.
reports for 1900 and see where Suf-
folk stands by the side Of some towns
of this old Commonwealth that are
more pretentious 1t will be seen that
Suffolk ranks with Richmond and
Lynchhurg and is so far ahead Of Nor
folk as to make that city ashamed
OF it's poverty or of the moral status
of Its sworn taN-pnyers. glance
at the figures in the office OF the state
Auditor for the year 1906 will show
that Norfolk, in order to rank with
Suffolk IN the matter of the assessed
value Of person property. would
haze to have a total valuation Of sone-
thing over s16,oO0.0O instead of trifle
over ss,o0o,00o. as is shown by the
books of tho State Auditor.
Good Government.
Suffolk is perhaps one OF the bestl
governed towns In the state, and yet
the people want to improve on tn g
present conditions. When the next
Legislature meets a new charter for
the town will be asked for, and pro-
gressiye Suffolk is going to ask for
the abolition of the out-of-date Town
|. Council and tho numerous other Off
Gals that now burden the municipnli-
ties of Virginia, and go in for a strictly
business Board of Control' on the or
der that prevails in Houston and Gal
weston. Texas, and the order that may
some day prevail in Richmond.
However this movement is no re-
Election on the town government or
the men who have been at the head of
1t, for no officials In the land have
cleaner hands and have done more for
their town. An evidence OF this Is the
three and half miles of streets paved
partly with brick and partly with the
sbithulithic pavement, which is be-
-iieved to be superior to and more last
ing than asphalt. There are also
twelve miles of sidewalks made of
brick and of the granolithic material.
The fact is, that nearly every side /
walk in the town is well paved.
The town also owns magnificent
city hail. in which are offices of all
the town officials, and theatre room,
which makes a show room that is SUI
perior to that of most Virginia towns
of twice the size of Suffolk. On the
4 lower floor is the town market which
is kept in first-class style. The build
ing and the land upon which it stands
originally cost the town $S5,0OO but
so rapid has been the increase in
realty values here the building and
land with the improvements that have
y been added since the building was first
erected are now valued at $4,000.
First-Class Schools.
The town is also the proud posses
scr of a public school system with
suitable buildings, which put 1t in
1.-the front rank among the municipal
I promoters of popular education.
The three public school buildings
for white children are splendid struct-
ures for the purpose. and the schools
are OF the approved grades UP to the
nigh school. The course. of study and
the perfect arrangement for training
rare such that the Suffolk High School
<holds front rank position on tho ac-
credited list of schools whose grad
yates can enter the University of Vir-
gina without having TO undergo an
entrance examination. In all the de-
and $50 pupils, and the average SAL
aries PAID teachers is as high as any
paid IN the State The sessions of the
schools are of nine months dura :
ton uut
1t requires two buildings to accom-.
'hodate the colored public schools in
which there are five teachers ana 3oa
pupils.
me white public school property on
the corner of Market and Saratoga
Z streets Is valued at $4,000.
Does Not Want the Earth.
The town has completed a perfect
35isewer5 system, which it wns.and nner-
ttsates, and brides itself that 1T has the
g4pest sanitary arrangements OF any
-9toWh OF It's size in the South. ,rhe
s7ffi;.""h also maintains a splendid fire
and superb police force.
with all Of the necessary property 10
insure peace and good order
81, further than has been enumera ed
VIZ town owns nothing. AS strange as
~ may seem Suffolk sstates,nanshin. and
fbnsiness foresight have olwnvs NV NV
flieved it would be better and chca no
IN the long run for town to bny
I some OF TIE. things 1t needs than to
TmanufactprH .theIr' with whole str,n >
sfof igh-brced officers with nolit To-.
pulls to do the manufacturing. sur
Fio!h gets its light and its water fro,-
i II l. corporations, and she likos
i.hat way of getting these luyurias
f-aaybe Suffolk is wiser than som.
u other cities, 'o'n'
So Postal Facilities
g There are six white churcbes "a So,
Ss1olk and the seventh, a cathn,i,
sbchurch. Is soon to be erected nv,
akcontract for a " NJ c. A. bnrair,,
ssto cost 1000 ,ras been lot. and - !.
Sshoped that the building will BIO cor,
sIpieted by or near to the ond OF RI,
sySear- There are seven,coiored churcta
siwithin the town. - =
me post-office OF a town is sniy >
t3be It's business barometer. The most :
receipts, like everything else in SUI
folk, evidence growth. within ,he,nas
aelght Years the receipts rav
fnorc 'fhan doubled, and for the M
8lRelVe months the increase Is twent
( Iper cent Up TO 1895 the income fro,
fstamps was never more than ss.oo
ANNUALLY, to-day It amounts to ncar1
100000. Forty eight mails arrive an
ftdepart daily, and when the new Nj,
lfg'nlan Railway gets we'll In operatio
prom four to eight, more mails viii /
Saoded' About 10000 pieces OF ma