The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-09-13


Iprowls the streets for the purpose OF
discovering opportunities TO purchase
for a few dollars, ancient landmarks
which have outgrown their useful
ness In other capacities. and are en-
titled to respectable buriel, to be
moved some times a mile, entailing
an Inconvenience and loss to the pub
lie that can not be measured by ten
times the value of the particular ark
on wheels, and after few dollars
additional expense for patching, to be
set up as a negro tenement. or other
equally unsightly eye-sore. and SO far
as attention or exterior decoration Is
concerned, abandoned to the wind AMI
weather In a mad scramble to make
the investment net % per cent on the
Iorigina outlay. | by no means refer
to every removal of buildings but
think the type | have drawn will be
readily recognized by you all | have
personally experienced the effect
such buildings have on the investi-
eating capitalist who Is considering
the possibilities of Cairo as q home
when in search of new site for his
factory and residence for his family
THE inability to sleep soundly at
might unless ones money is turning
Con fu nc urh nlnpf.
cal disease as much as the length to
which it's subject will go is an of
ifense and am not sure that the fault
fer such conditions should not moro
properly be laid at the door of any
ioasy going city administration that
permits the promenade Of ancient fire
traps through the main streets of a
! city instead of condemning and
promptly razing such structures.
Water Pressure Deficient,
The section referring to "a dis
tinct understanding and agreement
with the water company to maintain
a constant pressure at hydrants in
business section Of not less than s.
pounds, certainly expresses ITSELF
clearly enough but am unable to es-
innate the difficulty Of compelling
the water company to comply with
such requirement when it is fact
that only very indifferent attention
appears to be paid to its present |
agreement as expressed in section : |
Of ordinance No lSS. approved Oc-i
tober /, 1885. and which provides that
an average Of sixty-hve pounds I
pressure per square inch, with a |
minimum Of not less than forty.five |
pounds per square inch" shall be |
maintained at all times for instant |
|use. 1t is a fact, however, that the
same section provides that said |
pressure shall be increased whenever |
required to meet the future demands |
CT the city, SO as TO at all times give |
efficient service As to whether the |
demands of the city in this respect |
have grown since the passage OF the |
ordinance quoted just twenty-thrce |
years ago. you are all as good judges
as myself, but it may be a matter Of
information to YOU that the pressure
required by the ordinance Is not being
today have taken the
trouble TO get reports on this press
IRE for the past FIVE or six days. Sc
lecting time in the morning when
the demands on the stand pipe are
not heavy. and the result of my inves
tigation places me in position 10
state that not once Of the five or six
times when the gauge at city head
quarters has been examined has the
pressure shown forty i've pounds.
This matter Is so entirely in the
hands of the city authorities that fur
tier comment on the subject seems !
superduous
Railroad Street Main. II
The laying OF an ) inch main on
Ohio street. from Second to Four L
tenth. has been amended to permit T
such main 10 be laid on Railroad II
-treet. in Difference to the trouble h
and expense of tearing up brick pave. q
rnent. The object for such main arose Ic
from the fact that there We're. az the b
time this recommendation was made, L.
lead ends only on Ohio street. h
Fire Alarm System. h
The installation Of an approved L
fire alarm system is, in nay opinion, L
RI Importance second to none among j
the various requirements eNacted. l.
Our present method of reporting freS i
over the telephone is good as far as b
il goes but il does not reach any dis 'c
lance If my Judgment is sound. :
can cite case in point OF fire that
occurred in the Heighborhood IN IN
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