Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-05-23
ALBUQUERQUE MAY PROFIT By EXAMPLE
Of Town Of CORNING NEW YORK
Albuquerque Man Points Out Advantages OF ? Placing Admins
tration in Hands of Men With Confidence of Public Whose
Civic Pride Achieves Results Never Reached by Ward Poll
tics System.

universal confidence and insured q
strictly honest administration on a
strictly business basis.
This board took charge Of the city's
public works May LIST. 1905. | had
hoped to give you a comparison Of re-
suits in accurate figures. but have
been unable to eeure them i'm time,
and so give them with substantial ac-
euracy from memory.
The board first laid out a plan Of
progressive municipal improvements
10 cover a series of years, a certain
part TO be done each year.
1t made an agreement with tho
AUDITING property owners on the hill
side streets for a sharing Of expense,
and a system was devised and put in
operation whereby the storm waters
were conducted harmlessly away, and
each Of these streets has now a
smooth, hard, rounded surface with
cement curbs and cutters, and there
is no erosion or danger of cloggcd
sewers.
The less than a mile Of rough stone
pavement has grown TO nearly SIX
miles OF smooth brick payemcnts on
eongle't D"9, handsomo rs II Is
durable. and more pavcmcnts are N
process Of construction. or planned.
a large concrete arch or storm
sewer covers and confines the creek
that annually inflicted damage on ad
iacont streets. Uniform concrete slde-
walks skirt the streets on an even
grade IN practically every part or tRe
eitv and none others are permitted.
In ono or two years more the entire
citv win be completely equipped.
The system has beer extend
Cd ana supplies every part Of the city
The park, q particularly hard sun
feet because Of It's grade and the char-
acter of its surface soil. has been en-
tlrely regarded, surfaced, t~erraced anu
sodded and beautifully lald OUT WIN
frees, walks and s~hrubpeiY' ui'lliiV''
q nauseating blot OF lWr"tS 49,
standing, it is one OF the cAiel
lions Of the city at4,ra
All this on the S'ln' ~
that formerly Plouoee" "y'ntta NJ
bond issue to cover !" "V.t.' -,
city has been paying on S',e'' a.
sand dollars Oh the p'',e'r"i 10
bonded Indebtedness '"cn 49, an
sides keeping up an nue. ? ~
ming expenses ana tHe t"N i"V
purposes is only a tfllle Oyer ~
cent
Instead ol e~NloIpiV'ht p''Ne7
public works the paving s'ue""'N
and other pubic WORKS are uoie on
the Same basis as for any otner 'a'se
corporation ana Tor nu'h less man ="
private Individual coulu secure '.enh'
A single incident VIII llustIaee.
legal question arose between inc New
York Central Railroad company anu
the city. as to which was naple ioi
maintaining a bridge over tlle ran
road tracks. extensive repairs "ei'
necessary and 1T was agreed thet inc
! tity would make them according I"
the specifications Of the railroad en-
%ginccr, ana settle the question OF ma
bility In "a suit 70 recover the eApeHse
The board made the repairs accorulhs
to the specifications of the railroad
| engineer and for about so per cent oi
his estimate of the cost
Telephone poles and wires that clog
sed and Uttered the business district
have given place to underground CON
-"tNHf NiNi WV NtA''NH N'N ~
unobstructod.
Tho duplicate system ol sewers
above referred to supplying the entire
city. was constructed boy "a commission
AZ "a cost of approximately 100000
Much the same problems were there
presented that confront us, Including
a large section of the city below the
high water Lowell of the river.
Two years ago. a thirty-ycar lease oi
.hc vatorworks owned by the city, OK
oircd. and tho city has since nearly
doubled the entire system. constructed
a new pumping station and built three
largo concrete covered reservoirs "a
considerably under thc engineers esti-
mates, and last year reduced the price
20 the nsumc and turned "a neat
sum into the city treasury. besides
aking care of the interest ana sink
ing fund.
Its dykes are more extensive for its
size than any other city i'm the coun-
~ similarly situated. and fear of high
water has become a thing of the past
AT the Same rate of improvement
row planned and i'm progress, in a very
'ew years. the city win stand at the
'ead of it's class for municipal im-