The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1909-02-26
FAV0RS COMMIS-
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SION PLAN.
Citizen Endorses Sentinels Plan
To Handle Water and
Light Plant.
Grenada Miss, Feb. "a. 1909,

Grenada Miss, Feb. "a, 1909.
Editor Sentinel l noticed in
your last issue an editorial headed
"A Commission to Handle Water and
Light Plant" l want to say that /
most heartily endorse the idea ex-
pressed in same. 1 know from long and
close study OF municipal affairs that
a Water and Light Plant, sufficient
to meet the present and future needs
OF our prosperous and growing city, is,
and will be, OF such magnitude that
4: can never be successfully handled
by the city council. Admitting for
arguments sake that we will bi-an-
nually elect city council composed
Of the best business men In nhe city,
which we cannot hope always to do.
When Installed In Office they will be
inexperienced, and, owing largely to
the limited time they will have to de-
vote to the study Of the various details
necessary to make the plant success,
it would take them IL or 18 months
to get The city affairs, including the
Plant, well in hand, SO that they can be
controlled and operated as they should
be- When they are able to do this it
would be only a few months, until
there would probably be an entire
chanHSsn the council, and the same
system and management would never
suit the new officers. With new
management there, always follows a
change in the system and frequently
for the worst, therefore the commits
sion form as suggested in your editO-
rial composed OF men appointed
by the city council to serve at first one
two and three years respectively all
subsequent appointments for three
years each.
will say in reference to the pro-
posed bond issue that :! think the city
council eminently right in submitting
the proposition to the voters. While
it may seem to some unwise, yet II
anyone will only look at the PROPOSE
tion from a health and business stand
point he can arrive az but one conclu-
sion, and that is, We must have the
improvements to meet the growing
demands.
We have the best and NEST desir-
able residence town i'm north Miss.
Why? because we have modern i'm
prOvements, nice clean streets and
twelve miles Of splendid, granolithic
side walks good church and school
facilities and tie heaithieSt city in tie
state Now TO maintain our splendid
record for heaI tn and grow th we must
provide ways and means to preserve
our health and continued growth 1t
is true that the main portion OF our
is well severed. 1t IS also time thai
there remains only a very sew vacant
lots on our sewer lines. and those lots
are 50 high in price that a man by
moderate means cannot bug and build
on them. There fore iG is absolutely
necessary to have a new sewer line
outlet and this line, when con-
structed, will Immediately become
scource Of revenue TO the city f'r on
the proposed sewer line there is alreay
43 houses occupied by white people,
that at present can not get sewer con-
nectiOn, that co3ld connect with the
main sewer lines, and quite number
or others that could be connected by
running short lateral lines to this
main sewer. These lateral lines could
be run from the revenue as collected
without the futher issue OF bonds,
therefore l feel that the sewer lines is
an absolute necessity.
In regard to the bonds for the en-
largement of our public school and the
improvement and enlargement OF our
power plant extension OF electric wires.
think can say, without fear of con-
tradiction, that it is not a debateable
question from the fact that we have
the school and power plant, and II we
did not wish to do so, we are com.
PEELED to keep and operate them,
hence, neeaing both improvement and
enlargement there is only one thing
to do, and that issue bonds to get the
necessary money. Now in reference
to the proposition to build a new city
Hall. There is no doubt that we are
sadly in need OF better and more COM
modious quarters both for the City
officials and the city records. Our city
records are just as important aud It IS
just as necessary that they be pre-
served as it is necessary that the
county and state records be preserved.
Were our present city quarters to-
burn, we would not have a record left,
not even map or plot Of our city, for