Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-08-20
MAY BE A BOND ISSUE
TO EXTEND SEWERAGE
Council May Put Matter
UO to Voters.
Important Matter Is Up
for Discussion By the
Mayor and Alder :
men.

The question of bond issue for the
extension of the sewerage system OF
the city may be put UP to the voters
in the near future. Council is evj-
IDENTIFY inclined to give the matter So
rious consideration and it is likely
that City Engineer Ansley will be di-
rected to prepare plans and approxi-
mate estimates to present to council,
as a basis on which it can act intel
ligently in putting the matter before
the people of Americas.
There is no question that is of such
vital Importance as that of sewerage.
Several large sections of the city az
without sewerage ana conditions pre-
judicial to health are created A
Mayor FEEDER stated to council at its
last meeting, Any section tat is lef.
withou. sewers, no matter whether il
is occupied by negroes or whites, be-
comes a menace to the rest if the city
and can be the means of spreading dis
ease all over the city
At the meeting of council on Wea>
nesday night the city engineer pre-
sented a map and estimate of cost
for an outlet from south Lee street
to the creek. He placed the cost OF
this outlet at $500. Through this al!
the unsewered section of Elm avenue.
Fielder street, Lee street and arouns
Rees' Park-all in that section of tha
city, in fact-could be drained.
The $1,000 would merely provide az
outlet and the connections would then
have to be built on the several streets
That on Lee street would cost approx
imately $500. the engineer stated. H.
did not give estimates for the other
streets.
The report brought up the question
of sewerage generally. Mayor Fielder
stated that in his opinion the proper
way was to bring in reports and est
mates for general sewering. go Il
the public with it for a bond issue
and then eNpend the money to the vecc
best possible advantage He did no.
believe that a bond issue could be Sc
cured for a piece o. sewerage WORK
that covered only one small district.
While every bit of new sewerag,
helped to improve health conditions
the mayor felt that the time had com,
for more extensive addition to tn,
sewerage system than rnat contein.
plated in the report presented for the
South Lee street neighborhood. Eas
Americus. Brooklyn Heights and otha.
sections wanted it also.
The mayor believed, too, that the
negro sections should ,be provided
with sewerage, as otherwise they re-
mained centres of contagion for the
rest of the city. You can't keep dis
ease inside unsewered limits" SAID
the mayor ''It spreads from them to
other parts of the city that are sew
cred -
- VI man 1NiiCH dSlttu IudL IL WOujt
be impossible to get a bond issue fl,
one small section and that it wou2
be necessary to incorporate E4v
Americus and Brooklyn Heights 0
other unsewered territory in the
plan
Other aldermen seemed to think that
the matter should be gone into thor.
oughqy and that conditions might be
propitious for an extensive addition to-
the sewerage system through the me
dium of bond issue.
This is the first time there has real
ly been an earnest effort to get TIL
matter of sewerage extension up to a
definite point in several years ri
council continues of this way of think
ing it is not improbable that a bond
issue may be voted on for this pur-
pose before the year has passed.