The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1911-05-20
BOND ISSUE HEALTHY
SIGN.

! At special meeting of the Board OF
! Mayor and Aldermen of the City Of Bay
! St. Louis, held at the City Hall on
Monday night, by motion introduced
by Alderman C. c. Gray, the distin-
guished gentleman from the third ward,
and seconded by one not less distin-
guished in the person Of Alderman
Robert w. Webb, the Honorable Mayor
Robt. w. Toulme casting the deciding
vote, it was ordered that the munich
pality institute the preliminary and sub
sequent final work of issuing bonds to
the amount of $4,000.
While the motion was not as specific
in it's declaration as to the purpose and
employment of the money as Messrs.
McGinn and Genin, aldermen respect
lively of the second and first wards,
would have it, as amended by the latter,
yet it is clear enough to make the OBJ
jects it has in view understood-namely:
to improve and restore the streets of
the city-front, rear and side streets
and for the maintenance of same; also,
for the erection of an additional white
school building, to be located either in
the third or the fourth ward, the latter
point to be determined later.
There was a time in Bay st. Louis
when the mere mention of bond issue
would conjure up in the minds of many
visions of all that was ominous for the
future of the city, and, fguratively
speaking, percentage of those con-
cerned, ands parenthetically, it might
be said, few not concerned,
would fall into "conniption" fits, and
harboring of the darkest forebodings
would be the order of thinking.
AS was Banquo in Shakespeare's
Macbeth, so was the bond issue their
haunting ghost.
But times and conditions change, so
do people; and today much Of the for
mer prejudice and erroneous impression
regarding municipal bond issue has
faded away, like the mist on the wings
of early morn at the approach of sun
light and warmth.
The proposed bond issue should prove
popular, inasmuch as the physical con-
dition and geographical contour of the
city have been SO distorted by the war
ring elements as to render the proposed
step not only necessary, but imperative,
if we would regard the future and con-
serve the present.
| The erstwhile beautiful front road ie
now nothing but tortuous line of its
former self and exposed not only tc
further destruction, but is also menace
to life, limb and property, while the
streets over the entire city need a com
plete rehabilitation.
When Claudius built the great Appian
Way, his achievement and it's beauty
were not only largely supplemental, but
i formed a living artery to the success
and splendor of Rome in its imperial
magnifcence and glorious splendor
Claudius built well, beautifully, SYM
metrically, and it behooves Bay ST.
Louis to take a cue from the ancients.
Remove from Bay st. Louis its drive
ways of majestic proportions, and you
sever the head from the body.
The Echo, in common with many,
favors bond issue at this time. We
have every confidence in the ability and
integrity of the Board of Mayor and
Aldermen, and know that every dollar
will be judiciously expended, and the
work intelligently and expeditiously
carried out. 1t behooves the majority
to work in unison towards removing
these dire conditions, and making the
bond issue consummate success.
The Echo grants every man the right
to his opinion, and we expect the same
to be vouchsafed to us by others. Every
man has right to his way of thinking,
but every opinion cannot prevail. This
is progressive age, and the general
tendency points that way. In fine, rele-
cation to the rear is the fitting punish
ment for the crime of retrogression.