Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-10-25
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cordance with his instructions from
the Mayor and City Council that he
has seen the makers Of the new steam
pump and that they refuse to consider
any proposition to exchange the pump
for motor driven pump or to cancel
the contract This report was re-
ceived by the Mayor and City Council
and spread upon the minutes of the
meeting October 23rd, 1911.
This shows that the Manifestation
faction have thrown the City of Ameri
Gus into law suit without waiting to
see if the conditions in the proposed
pumping contract could be carried out
Mr.. Taxpayer sit up and take notice.
Do you want the Mathis-Allen faction
to spend your money for lawsuits
just to give them an excuse to poll
tick on" They tried to make you be-
lieve last year that the City was in a
fine financial condition as an excuse
to solicit your suffrage. Now it is,
they try to pull the WOOL over your
eyes by saying that the present Coun-
Gil is going to try to turn the water
works over to a corporation. The
Citizens Club certainly thinks the
voter of Americas are very ignorant.
The real defenders of the water works
are the present majority in the Coun-
Gil who are doing their duty and taking
enough interest to put things on
paying basis so as to REDUCE WA
TER RENTS, without surrendering
any rights or control whatsoever over
the property not ABSOLUTE control
as advocated by the Citizens Club can
didate but ANY CONTROL WHAT-SO-
EVER.
The present Council was only trying
TO reduce water rates which are much
higher than other cities. Water IN
Americas is as dear as meat and bread.
According to Mr. Ansley the City
Engineer, based on his report for the
previous nine months, he only expected
$4,000 over the actual expenses Of
keeping up the water works. He
asked for an appropriation of $4,000
for expenses when the budget was
made up at the beginning of the pres
ent year and he and Mr.. Allen as
Chairman of the Finance Committee
agreed that they could only figure on
an income Of $4,000 and these figures
We're used in making the budget. At
that time the interest on the bonds
outstanding against the water works
was $2,S05.00, so Mr.. Ansley and MIR.
ALLEN expected the water works to lose
$4,000 in actual cash, with no allow
ance for deterioration and who ever
heard of machinery that did not de-
teriorate. Also there was at that time
$4,000 interest on the Sewerage
Bonds and Sewerage is an auxiliary
to the water works. Also Mr.. Allen
and Mr.. Ansley claimed at that time
that the Water Warks Were worth
$11774914. Don't you think it is up
to the Council to remedy such as this
Property that is worth $117,749.14 and
can't make interest on the bonds to
say nothing of a profit.
If you think that the Water Works
brings in any actual cash profits, the
kind of cash that will pay debt, reduce
taxes or water rents ask Capt. J.,
B. Fielder who was Mayor for nearly
twenty years, ask Col. E. A. Hawkins
who was Mayor for six years, ask Col
Crawford Wheatley who was City En-
gineer, ask Mr.. G. M. Eldridge who
was City Engineer and Chairman of
the Water and Sewerage Committee
Ask any man who has been connected
with this department and who is fair
and impartial and cannot be infu-
fenced.
The Council accepted Mr.. Riley's
report and so the pumping contract
is not to be made and the Mathis
Allen faction have thrown the city into
mess of dissension and lawsuit
without waiting to see what Mr.. Riley's
report would be. For some reason
they seem determined that the city
shall take this pump that would be
SO much junk the moment municipal
lighting plant was put into operation
a matter that the Water and Sewerage
Committee was not overlooking.
Give us men like Messrs. Bell,
Brown and Harris that are aOoye pea
nut politics" We cannot build a city
with perpetual wrangling and dis
scnsion and with no regard for the
taxpayer and this shown by squan-
dering the taxpayers money in use
less lawsuits.
Don't be fooled by the cry of Wal
kerr Walker is down and out and
gone Amen. Dodson is no longer
connected with the Lighting Company.
Amen. Let's get down to business.