Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1912-07-02

End 81 Controversy I'm Matters Per.
tanning to Municipal Affairs.

allow me space IN your paper to re-
ply to some Of the charges you make
in last weeks issue of The Courier
in Past, Present and Future?
"City Hail. being out on the side
walk: 1t seems to me that you have
absolutely failed to show the Coun-
Gil, or the public, any evidence to
lead them to believe that you we're
In any sense justified in making the
broad assertion that you did in
Public improvements" You set out,
In very positive terms, that the City
Hall Is three feet and seven inches
out on the sidewalk, and in last
weeks issue you set about in some
way to prove this assertion, and say
that you found certain irregularities
existing at this place, and that
knew Of these Irregularities, from
the fact that ! went to you and Got
you to help ME to establish my lines,
both on the front and on College
street, and tina, we moved the line,
or found that it liked about two feet
and OF course you gave me the two
feet. And then you say "Is 1t not
strange that he did not break forth
with criticisms Of gross negligence?
10 this wish to say that Mr. Harri-
son was there at the time, and If the
editors memory has not played him
another of those mean tricks he will
remember that we did not move my
line one bit, but decided that the
old fence was about as near right as
we could get it, and If it was two
feet short why did you not give me
that? That was mine, and especial
~ as ] was newcomer to your
town., and should have had a fair
deal.
And as to the breaking forth with
criticisms: ! did not know how to
criticize until the infallible editor
got on to the Council with both feet,
and you can make most any one kick
little If YOU put your heel down
hard enough. But think the edi-
tor lets the cat out Of the wallet in
the next few words. You say: "Was
his attention called to the matter?
Knowing his profound fondness for
me, and the fact that our ideas on
some subjects were SO widely diver
gent, | hesitated to make a sugges-
tion, and instead OF going personally
to him, requested a mutual friend to
do So" Here the editor unwittingly
shows the clOven foot. If we were
not friends, whose fault was it? Who
made the breach? But for all that,
l am surprised that the editor would
make such a llimsy excuse, when I
have gone, on two different occasions,
into the editors office and talked
over matters pertaining to the inter-
ests Of the town, and why should he
fear to approach me on any subject
that he felt was for the best interest
of the town? Talk about timidity
and modesty, but this is the finish Of
the LIMIT.
Then this mutual friendi Wonder
who he was? Surely not a mutual
friend, for If so, when you requested
him to see ME and. not let me ruin
both mysCi3 E,nd the town, he surely
would have done 50. But no one
came in my hour OF distress, 40
one came To Say jh0t was ,nrY
Kindly hHnE remembered by he
good editor. TOO bad, ism. IL?
Now let's see about how you ar
rive at the corner so correctly: Let's
see. Three feet and seven inches
out on the street! Well, that's pret-
ty close for guess work I had al
ready measured the block on which
the City Hall stands, and thought
that | was about right before put
the paving down on College street.
and thought that | was doing about
as we'll as could. Since you have
called my attention to the matter and
have made so much stock OF it T
much mistaken about the way you
say the blocks measure out. The
block on which | live measures it's
full 42O feet. SO YOU see YOU were
good to me after all. and the block
east, and on which the City Hall is
located, measures out 41S feet This
is the block that was three feet and
seven inches too long; hence, the
necessity for moving the building.
(Hadn't YOU better retract this state
ment, as well as the statement that
we should follow your grade line
established gradeD
You have misquotcd me by saying
He lays to my credit, or to my dis
credit, the making Of the sidewalk
near the Blue Ridge railway right
Ofway." This Is a mistake. I did
not say that YOU built Cor made)
sidewalk, for have long past found
that you are uncOnditiOnally opposed
to either building up or cutting down
the walks, but are content to just let
them go along right easy, except
when you had the wall put up that
mentioned in my answer to "Public
improvements" There was some
arbitrary cutting Of trees then. I
say "arbtrary"! | say that because
some one came very nearly sliding
down the brccch Of the editors nose,
and | guess he did not have any per-
mission, or at least not from all the
people. But we did not hold this
against the editor, for in that par
ticular case | think he did right, and
had he done more Of that kind Of
work | rather think he would have
been better satisfied with his past adj
minstratiOn.
NSbb my friend Stcck touches o.
the 'uad condition of the sidewalk IA