The Cairo bulletin., 1910-05-20

modations in which to conduct and
care for the business of the city.
The present very inadequate and in
i secure provisions for guarding the
city's prisoners also demand your at
!, tention. | therefore, at this time call
!, upon you to consider the urgent ne
cessity of providing better place
in which to transact all the business
of the city. and recommend that The
/ proper committee or committees con-
slider the Importance of building a
city hall with all necessary ac.
/ eessories, and present some feasible
plan to your Honorable Body at an
| early date, by which this much
needed Improvement can be secured.
/ Public Service Corporations.
The efforts of the City Council and
of the present administration to Sc
cure for the people OF Cairo the best
transit facilities possible from the
Street and Interurban Railway Com
| panies. as we'll as to obtain from all
| the public service corporations cheap
| err and better gas, electricity and VT
ter, have, am glad to say, met vita
a eommendable degree OF success.
The Cairo Railway and Light Sys-
TEN will give the best street car SER
vice that our city has ever enjoyed,
as soon as the paving on Walnut |
street, which is now being pushed, |
Is completed; and very substantial |
reduction has recently been made in
the cost Of gas and electricity to
both the city and the individual con-
sumers, and by the recent contract |
entered into with the Cairo Railway
and Light System, the lighting of the
city offices, fire stations, public H.
brary and the armory is to be fur.
nished at merely nominal cost,
while st. Mary's Park. Halliday Park
and the Eighth street arch are all
to be- lighted In GREATLY Improved
style without any cost whatever toll
the city In view Of the present IN
creased price of labor and material.
this new arrangement Is a very con
siderable saving to the taxpayers
and will greatly add to the utility AMI
appearance OF the parks and city
generally. Work on the interurban {
depot at 9th street and Commercial
avenue has been commenced and
when finished will be a substantial
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and much needed improvement, great
W facilitating the most excellent {
movement now being pushed by our !
merchants and bu iness organizations I
to bring trade to Cairo by furnishing |
out-of-town shoppers with free trans
portation from their homes to Cairo {
and return, and comfortable wait
ing room. with inexpensive lunch !
while in the city. q
The new ordinance regulating wa !
ter rates has only recently gone into I
effect but when fully understood and
enforced, will, it is hoped and ex- /
pected, give cheaper water to the {
consumer. The rate for a single /
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reduced; while many of the owners I
Of houses having a number OF rooms t
are finding that they can obtain quite r
a gratifying decrease of their water /
rates by putting in meters which can f
now be done for a small outlay Of a
money. 1t may become advisable a
hereafter. however. to make some fur '
Their changes In the ordinances re- /
Gently enacted in order to give the b
consumers more uniform system OF {
rates and to carry out the original y
intention of giving the people sub 2
5tantial reduction In the cost of water a
As suggested in my last message a
i will probably become necessary, at II
an early date, to consider the matter 2
n the extension of the franchise of e
the Cairo Water Company, which a
viii expire in the near future, with r
he view of securing much additional t
fire protection for the public. and c
such permanent concessions to waterl Il
consumers as may properly be asked "
n view of the extension of the valu. |,
able franchise the company now en-
Joys, and which with the prospect Of
! rapidly increasing population and
growing city, is bound to become
more and more valuable in the I'M
mediate future. The State Fire I'm
lerwriter's Association has already d
Indicated to the city authorities what Il
additional fire protection will be re- u
lulred 10 secure substantial retiuc- u
ion in the rates of fire insurance q
transferring Cairo from the Az class y
Q the elias, which means a rednc
ION OF 30 l-3 per cent in insurance U
premiums. | again urgently request d
he committee on Police, Jail and e
fire to give this matter their prompt W
md forceful attention. y
Police, Jail and Fire Department.
Attention was called in said last
Message to the improved Fire Depart "
nent, and gratifying additions have 9
'ince been made In that direction. o
The new uptown freastati6n has..been u
completed and is now being furni:h he'd g
with ample hose and other necessary D.
equipment, which will consist of a m
hose and chemical wag- o.