St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1908-05-02
A GOOD LETTER FROM INDIANAPOLIS

Indianapolis, Ind, April 25 1908
Editor St. Tammany Farmer.
After an absence of a year, / spent a few DAYS
IN your city. find much that is encouraging
IN the way of business blocks and residences
and efforts on the part of citizens to beauty
their homes, but find that enterprises termed
1 public enterprises have made no Roadway
4 such as WaterWorks and sewers.
These enterprises should not be longer DELAYED
because they will be a benefit to the country and
enhance the value of property in the city and
make 1T much more desirable place in which tc
1--we, as well as being more secure to life and
property.
j There also should be some. of your principal
sCreers mprOveu- WIN permanent Improvement.
such as vitriied brick or the long leaf pine
DOCKS, or both, laid on concrete foundation.
However, before the streets are made all water
and sewer connections should be made so that
the streets would not have to be torn up.
1t might not be convenient for the people to
pay all the money at once, and there should be
some arrangement by which they could pay in
instruments for number years.
learn that you have no vehicle tax. You
ought to have quite nice revenue from tax
upon Yehlcles--say for buggy, $1.00, and for
,o-horse carriages, $500 year; the same for
very Svag07s.a There is no more equitable
and just tax than this vehicle tax-wfenr the
money is appropriated to keep the streets in re-
pair or principal streets sprinkled. The owners
OF these vehicles save the annual tax in repairs
to their vehicles; besides the pleasure it adds
to driving, and streets in good condition ALWAYS
make good impression.
There is another source of revenue that ought
to come to the city, and that is the interest on
the public deposits. How much that would
amount to have no idea, but whatever it is. it
should be paid into the public treasury, and can
go to general expenses or to schools
whenever there is a willingness on the mart
OF the people to do things, much can be accom-
pIished
would suggest an inquiry to be made of the
Carnegie Library Fund, to ascertain what
amount OF money, terms and conditions could be I
obtained for building library, for there ought T
TO be pubic llbraryfor strangers and visitors
as we'll as the citizens, and there should be some
committee on parks p ascertain on what terms +
land could be obtained for public park.
During the past year you had railroad fur
nlshed from Baton RPuge to your city, and now
am told you have under construction an cleo
5ric line from Covington to Abita SPRINGS and
Vaudeville. This road, hope, will paw the in Is
yestors well, for it viii add greatly to the bust 81
less OF the town and pleasure Of the citizens. if
ne rates are such that they can take their farn-
leg frequently TO the lake coast to spend the /
Venlng. There is no more pleasurabIe way of :
ldlng than on an electric line, after hot dav. q
consider the building Of three good. substan .
al blocks and a beautiful hotel, within wear. Is
ne finishing OF one seam road and the building
an electric line as going some, and yery r
1t Was.an important event in the .
lstory OF CoVington when it was connected BY i
I'll to the Great Illinois Central Railroad system
puts CoVington in Eouch with almost the en- +
re country. r. A. w. DAVIS.