The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-10-16
AUDITOR and
MAYOR ARE HOME
CITY OFFICIALS RETURN FROM
MEETING or THE AMERICAN
LEAGUE or MUNICIPALITIES AT
ATLANTA-oRcHARp TELLS OF
THE MEETING.

e. r. Orchard, city auditor, return
ed home this morning and v. r. Low
ell. mayor, yesterday, from Atlanta,
Ca. where they have been for some
time attending the meeting of the AM
erican League of Municipalities. Both
officials report splendid time and
state that the meeting was most in
structive and educative from every
standpoint.
There was good deal of discussion
regarding the commission form of gov
eminent" said Mr.. Orchard this morn
ing in talking with representative OF
The Forum "The sentiment of the
meeting was strongly against the com
mission form, and ] was particularly
impressed with what Mayor Haynes
OF Minneapolis had to say on the sub
ject. He gave an address on What a
City Can DO Under an Antiquated
Charter In his talk he said that It
was not so much the form of the gov
eminent of a city but the spirit OF
the people behind the government that
made it a success. He commended that
interest, with friendly criticism, that
the old form of government would
probably do better than the new one.
There was very little discussion
regarding the street paving, and as
Mr.. Lowell and were very much
interested in that subject. we made
special inquiries in that direction. Al
most all the engineers with whom we
talked, were of the opinion that In a
country where there is soil such as we
have here, the quality of the paving
would depend upon the base.
"A good deal of discussion was made
OF the subject of prisoners laboring.
In many states they have provisions
where in case of wife desertion man,
on being returned to his home state,
is compelled to go to work and aside
from the expense of his return, his
wages are paid to his wife and family.
1--WE visited the Atlanta filter plant
AMI I must say that it was fine ne.
The water turned out there was ele-
CANT.
"One OF the interesting features of
the meeting was a visit to the garbage
plant of Atlanta They are working
there under some German patents
which show remarkable results. Under
the system the sewerage Of the city
turns out to be SO per cent pure water,
after the sewerage has been treated
by the process. 1t is planned to dis
pose of the solids for fertilizer, but
1t is hardly probable that such can be
done as the engineers say that the
solids possess very little food for plant
after having been given such severe
chemical treatment.
1--WE secured may new ideas and
found the entire meeting most instruc-
tive 1 secured the plans for new
Office system which / believe can be
inaugurated here and after adoption
will prove a great help and time saver
1t is In the manner of an index and
reception book for filing systems, to be
used on every paper coming into the
office. When we get little time here
to work It out, I hope to see 1t being
practiced in this office.
'The meeting closed with barbe-
cue which was simply great. Some OF
the meats had been roasting for two
days and never tasted any better
roasts in my life. They treated US
most royalty and the entire city was
i very hospitable.
Fargo voted to have the next meet
ing at Winnipeg, which city secured
the largest number of votes on the first
ballot, but not enough to make q
choice. However, in the final vote, the
Canadian city lost out and the next
| annual meeting will be held at Buff.
| faIo."