The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1911-08-25

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suits and see what had been accom-
plished toward making this a city
beautiful and city sanitary
1t was very disappointing. What
was seen mostly was weeds and dirty
papers, tin cans, broken bricks; re-
fuse of all sorts, even to piles of scrap
! lumber.
To begin with, along East Pine
street, by the side of the Hotel Hat
tiesburg and the G. & S. |. baggage
rooms, the scrap paper was lined up
against the curbing, an inspiring view
for newcomer to the city.
On the next block, beyond the hotels
engine room and next to Komp Ma
chine Shop, is a large field, over
grown with weeds, and Uttered with
scrap iron and tin, old engines, etc.
A big dry goods box, with no top, was
used along here as a receptacle for
scrap paper, but the gentlest puff of
wind sent the papers flying back out
on the street. Such boxes were no.
ticed in several places.
The alleys, most of them contained
big open boxes full to overlooking of
| loose papers, which flew out and
around at their own sweet will. These
boxes, if they had tops to them and
were emptied oftener, might serve
their intended or pretended purpose.
The alleys; well they should have
looked much better, but they could
have been much worse.
Blackberries Grow on the Sidewalk.
A great hindrance to the city
beautiful idea is the lack of care
taken in the residence portions of the
city, of the sidewalks: streets like
West Pine, from the bridge, off and on
as far as Third avenue, being practi-
cally impossible on the East side, be-
cause three or four property owners
have let the sidewalk in front of their
property grow up in grass. One whole
block from Second avenue to Third
avenue is in this condition, plentiful
crop of blackberry bushes growing
there.
The Rich Lbr. Co. yard in full view
of passing trains and on one of the
principal thoroughfares of the city, is
high in weeds. This yard has not
been moved this year or last. 1t is
fine breeding place for mosquitoes
and malaria.
And Gordon creek, with its old
gnarled roots, logs, strayed pop boxes
and drifting wreckage, it's weeds and
dump spots of tin cans, goes on for
ever, though men may come and men
may go. No form of government eff
fects Gordon creek. If it only could
be cleaned out, its channel straight
ened and the water made to flow over
its white sandy bed unpolluted, shad-
ed as it is by pretty willows, and
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some of the home along its course,
instead of being an eye-sore and cess
pool of disease that It Is.
Rev. and Mrs. l. P. Trotter keep the
First Baptist parsonage grounds trim
ly cut and cared for; but all around
them are tall weeds and the creek
piled up with drift wood
A little farther on is Judge Hills
beautiful place, with its carefully kept
lawn and strawberries sloping down
to, what? Water covered with scum
caused by the wreckage in the creek
and the weeds and stopping up the
bed of the creek.
The West Pine street bridge is in
the same condition, the weeds there
sheltering more typhoid germs.
The Northeastern R. r. grounds
were being improved, but Agnes street
on both sides, as well as Buschman
street, being so near the depot and
business center, has bad sidewalks, no
pavement and plenty of weeds.
Hemphill and Forrest streets, of of
Hemphill and oFrest streets, off of
West Pine, also near the city heart,
has had sidewalks, i'll kept.
Mr.. e. L. Robins, who few months
ago bought the Bob Hemphill place,
was having sidewalk put down in
front Of his grounds, earning the graf
itude of the residence on that thor
oughfare, but the M. Hemphill hill
still stretched out, steep and full of