The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-05-06
MESSAGE TO COUNCIL
Concluded From Fourth Page)

all applications for saloon licenses
| during the year must be made upon
ithe clear understanding that saloons
must be closed on Sunday during the
year as directed by the state laws
This is the first time in the history
| Of Cairo that successful effort has
| been made to close the saloons on
| Sunday. The recent election endorses
emphatically the administration of
| the past year and it is fair and rea-
sonable for the people to expect
continuance OF the improved condi
tion of the city both physically aud
morally In this connection desire
to state that II is my purpose to con-
tinue the order given on the first Of
the year to close the saloons on sun
day and in other ways to use my best
efforts to correct existing evils so far
as 1t is possible TO do so. and recon
mend most earnestly that the mum
Der of saloon licenses be limited to
those that are now in force, and thai
applications for licenses be scruti- |
nized closely at all times, with the
view Of lettering the character and |
management Of saloons.
At no time has 1t been my purpose
to be radical in any movement in |
which the city is interested and | |
take it that the recent election en-
dorses this method of conducting the /
business Of the city.
] appeal to all classes of people to
cooperate with the administration in
handling all questions Of public in,
terest in broad-gauged and fair way.
for without such cooperation very
little progress can ever be expected
but with it great good can be accom-
0lished for all concerned.
Police Department.
The location of Cairo IS such that
| is difficult to control the different
classes of people coming into the city
leing as 1t is the most important
liver station in the Ohio and Missis
3ippi valleys, 1t attracts an unusually ]
~----~ trun OF what is known as
floating population. The efforts of
he police force TO control the trans II
ant visitors TO the city. as we'll as /
heir efforts in ferreting out crime =
nd Furnishing the offenders, is worthy q
t special mention at this time 1t is u
pleasure TO call your attention toI
he good work that has been accom- {,
lished by them in getting rid of un b
esirable persons and capturing VIC
ltors OF the law 8
lnterurban Railroad la
During the past fifteen months the e
natter of considering and adopting C
n ordinance for the construction and p
peration Of an interurban railroad IL
INNING into the city has been before v
ne council, and little more than a lei
ear ago, after careful and patient :
had been given to the liza
rdinance it was adopted and an. re
royed as presented by the parties in tr
crested in the interurban railroad "
nd 1t was afterwards learned that al
us ordinance was asked for by the re
OF the project without ahv. to
X secured a petition Of a majority Oh
~
required by the statute. In Sep be
'mber last. new ordinances provid. III
q Tor lnteurban service were pre.
anted TO the city council. and in
lnuary last these ordinances were th
shed through the council very hur. 70
eddy They in addition to being of
itremely broad in their provisions. eff
tn as to the time when the roads tn
ere to be constructed and the privil- co
es OF using the streets of the city o.
most without limitations. also tn
emed to be deficient in the neces ca
~ frontage Petition as indicated in &C
r Fischer's letter to me. dated col
nuary SQth last IN which he SAYS til.
VIII be necessary for us to ex. cai
line closely the frontage signatures ple
Sycamore street and other Tn