The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-08-28
DR.. Grinstead Declares Cairo Has
Abolished MaIariaI Conditions
Changed Since Dickens
Time
Addresses by Chas. S. Carey, M. F. Gilbert and
Prof CIendenen and {. A. Smith on
Various Evils Which Afct the
City

10 all of these innumerable and small
things The legislative power Of the
city and the executive head must con.
serve and create ways and means, so
that all may become a harmonious
and systematic whole Is it com.
imonplace to name some of these small
and neglected things?
win the Commercial Club make &C..
! self unpopular by turning the search.
! light of public gaze upon these things?
Cannot a citizen fer the good Of the
cause be excused for speaking or
these matters in the hopes Of calling
attention of the powers that be to the
short comings of public service"
Getting down to details Mr.. Gilbert
referred to the need Of greater clean
illness of streets. particularly in the
removal Of garbage, mud and dust and
lrefuse paper, and general debris; the
obstruction of streets by contractors
and the neglect to restore streets
when torn up by the water company,
the gas company and telephone com
panies: the drainage and sewerage of
the city-the need of care that the
pumps were in good order when need.
ed Mr. Gilbert referred particularly
to the comparatively little defect in
the construction of the sewer outlet
at Tenth street, which had resulted in
such cnrio,tc noueapt,aunac
! L. A. Smith spoke of the removal Of
/ garbage as a subject of much import
ance to the city. He said it had been
| the custom for years to dump garbage
and dead animals at various points
: just outside the Mississippi leveo
Tons OF decaying vegetables and ami
mai matter had been thrown a few
hundred feet from the thickly settled
parts of the city in neighbor
hood of Fourth street. at Tenth
street at Seventeenth street and at
Twenty-first street. Recently he had
the carcasses of seventeen horses
buried, which had been dragged ont
Seventeenth street and left to rot a
few hundred feet outside the levee
He was having the ground cleared of
all brush and weeds. and would like
10 have il kept clear OF this nuisance
Prof. Clendenen called attention 10
the seemingly wanton destruction of
trees. He said he had counted 200
shade trees south of Thirty-ffth
street which were dead or dying by
reason Of electric or telephone wir,
ing through them OF these 43 were /
fine Elm trees and the other mostly /
Maple. Another subject which call /
ed for criticism was the miles oil
walks which were partly hidden from
view by weeds and grass and the |
acres Of vacant lots covered by 2
thick growth of weeds.
d. L. Marx moved that all electric |
and telephone wires should be pot /
under ground and called on Mr.. Hal |
Aisthorpe. of the Home Telephone /
Company, to express himself on this
point
Mir. Aisrhorpe said IT would be inn
to put wires underground /
In city Of this size, as the expense
would be too great and no company 4
could do business here. Further 4
more. the water in the ground during /.
high rivers would interfere with the \
wires.
Mr.. MARKS motion was laid Owe
tin the next meeting.
This closed the discussion AMI N
luncheon was then nartakau or. II
Under the above healing Cras. !
:. Carey spoke interestingly as fol.
lows.
Civic 5etterrent.
u is generally conceded that Cairo
IS good point for business and that
practically all lines Of business ea-
Jagged in here have proven profitable
or the past forty years.
It is a fact that a great number Of
.uf citizens have amasse1 fortunes
.ere iu that time ami many Of them
lave gone to other places 20 live and
NOV life on their money accumulated
b Cairo
70 i- unquestiCnabiv a fact that e.
afro is so situated geographically. 81