The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1907-08-01
A DISGRACE
Full I. Of Black Disease
Breeding Mudheles
= 49, 81 o.. :,."s.s. ( - =. I -,
HAS NO DRAINAGE

Say, Is Lee street, between Morris
and Bradford within the limits of the
CITY Of Charleston? If SO, can you tell
me why it has been~abandoned by the
authorities until it is the most dis
reputable street to be found anywhere,
as far as dts condition as a public thor
oughfare is concerned" said a resi-
dent OF the street to the Mail today. 1
To-day the street is full Of mud
holes, filed with black mud and de-
caying fetid matter, sending forth
horrible stencil, and breeding more
kinds of disease than Cuba, Havana,
or Colon, Panama, before the An1eri.
| cans took control I know nothing
that those mudholes, after. Pain and
| under broiling sun resemble more
than hog wallow. It's condition is
! disgrace to any community and to any
city administration.
/ &. There is no drainage AN attempt
I was made to- do some work on it some
! Tine ago. The ,iscraper was run, over
! 1T and one side. OF the street was
scraped,, the loose dirt being showed
pYer into the shallow bitches, stop
! Ping them up and preventing the lit
tie drainage that then existed from
, carrying: off what little water did run
| OF before Then, as if fleeing from
| the pestllence the authorities had pro,
| yided for by their unfinished work,
| the street was abandoned until lust
at this time it is in the worst condi-
tion that 1t has ever been in, and
successfully defies any other street in
the city to be. worse.
| is 1t not possible that the high
priced board Of affairs can be induced
81 go out and look at this street? Can
not the health officer pay it q personal
FYtslt? Can not the street commission
er do something? believe he. is will
ing to do It.. What, then, holds him
pack? Will not the counctlmen of the
city take some little interest in this
matter? Up to few years ago, owing
tofthe Noyes house on Morris cutting
OIL: traffic from lower Lee, this section
or Lee street was not travelled much,
and, While it never, did receive half
decent attention, it was kept in some
thing of a shape. Now that with the
opening up of traffic OIL upper Lee and
the Increased building on Lee further
tup, the street is used more, it's condi-
tlon, after a rain, is simply horrible.
: Il understand that q petition signed
by the property owners has long laid
before council for the paving Of this
street. don't know why it has not
been acted upon except, perhaps, ow-
| ing to the condition of the city's
| finances. But, If the city can not pave
II, 1t can at least drain 1t and keep 1T
drained. Certainly, neither the city
| nor it's officials should go there and de-
/ liperately, as 1t were, after making
pretense OF work, put it in much
| worse condition than before they went
! there
| IF the Mail can prevail upon the
mayor, the city council, the board of
affairs, the chief Of police. the city en-
gineer, the health officer, all to come
out and look at Lee between, Morris
and Bradford, especially after rain,
and all will bring their noses with
them as we'll as their eyes, perhaps
! something may be done and a disgrace
as we'll as prolific disease breeder
wiped out, and we may all get some
measure Of relief"