Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-08-05
CIVIC IMPROVEMENT
[By Rryan civic League

In one part of town, and there may
be others not noticed by the writer,
the poles for the new electric light
wires, instead OF being planted along
the sides OF he street, have been set
up in alleys. This certainly improves
the looks of the street, for the poles
are not objects of beauty and the wires
often pass through the upper branches
of trees, sometimes causing serious In
jury to them when the insulation Is
worn away. The city council, or who
ever is responsible for putting in the
background these ugly necessities
as they have been called, should re-
ceive from the citizens a vote OF
thanks with the wish that this be
done again wherever possible.
If some owners of handsome homes
would acquaint themselves with the
appearance, not of their back lots but
of what is back of their lot fences,
they might institute such local clean
ing up that would add greatly to the
neatness of their neighborhood. The
writer has in mind one OF the impos-
ing homes of our town, where a hired
boy is always employed, the stable OF
which Is across the street from one
of the most neatly kept homes In
town, where no hired man is kept. The
man who delivers corn at that stable
is not the only one responsible for the
heap of shucks that filters the race
of the earth in the whole neighbor-
hood. When cleanup day" occurs In
that stable 1t is known for blocks
around, for 1t Is transferred only a
few feet from the stable to the street
and carried on the breezes for blocks
away. and especially across to the
pretty lawn, which disorders it for
DAYS. if the mistress of the house her
self does not remove the shucks. Con-
slider the effect of carelessness on
your next door neighbor and on the
tidiness of the street on which you
live.
The much talked of trash can, in
stead of helping to make Main street
model of neatness for the rest OF the
town to follow, as its promoters
thought it would do, seems to be work
ing in just the opposite direction
Sometimes the can is full and papers
and trash are piled on the ground
around it. The man who takes up the
trash simply empties the can anc
leaves the rest for the wind to scatter
IIf word is sent to him to take up the
other trash, too (this is the actual ex
perience of a business man on Mair
street,. he sends word back: Nav
sir, Not since they'se got these here
trash cans! | only has to empty then
now. and doesn't take round rake
| and shovel to Scrape STUN Oh lhe
ground. Nav, sir isn't paid to dc
that" It seems that in this case the
women have done as much as the!
could. In the crusade for the trasf
can necessarily they had to call OF
each merchant more than once, ant
they have tried fervently to work uI
an interest in cleanliness and neat
ness. 1t seems now that it is time fol
the men to enforce these ordinance:
that are constantly violated. I am mo-
a suffragette, but believe that II the
women were intrusted with that par
of the city government and given the
actual power to enforce the laws re
Ilating to it, conditions would not be al
they are. Men, naturally, too, arr
thinking of business and expect some
lone elsa very indefinite someone
to do the cleaning up.