Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1913-01-10
MUNICIPAL WATER
WORKS ARE URGED
BY MAYOR MOTTMAN
City's New Executive, Urging a
Gravity System, Says He Will
Furnish Necessary Data Soon.
FAvoRS CONCRETE WALKS
Suggests $500 Liquor License for
Clubs-Appointees Confirmed
With Little Difficulty.

sidewalks if the recommendations pre-
sented by Mayor George A. hoffman
in his initial message to the city coun-
Gil Tuesday night are carried out.
On this point he said:
"A good many of our wooden side
walks are in bad state of repairs, and
the council should pass an ordinance
limiting the width of walks in our
residence districts to six feet, and re-
quiring concrete walks in future in
place of wood, and thus do away with
the constant menace of litigation aris-
ing out of personal injury, real and
imaginary, caused by defective wood
en- walks. All walks less that SO per
cent efficient should be replaced at
once, and all walks more than so per
cent efficient should be repaired with
out delay"
Mr. Mottman's message was replete
with recommendations for the improve
ment of the city and the city govern
ment. Among them were:
A municipality owned water works,
preferably gravity system.
The payment of 5000 annual IL
cense fee by all clubs carrying state
and government liquor licenses, the
clubs to be under the usual police reg
ulations.
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draining storm waters into sanitary
sewers.
A petition of &C per cent of the
property owners before any street i'm
provements are undertaken, the city
to stop paying the cost of intersections.
Eleven-foot parking strips on all
residence streets.
Bond required Of the city engineer.
Establishment of permanent and
harmonious street grades, the engineer
and also his bondsmen to be. RESPONSE
BILE for any deviation unsanctioned by
the property owners.
Concerning his recommendation of
a municipality owned water works, the
mayor said In part:
"As soon as proper data can be OBJ
tanned to act intelligently on the sub
ject, l hope your honorable body will
assist me to obtain for Olympia q mu
nicipal owned system Of water works
and I expect to be able to lay before
the city council before long plans Of
gravity as well as pumping systems
that are calculated to do Olympia un
til she is a city of $4,000 to 100000
people. The gravity system, II within
the reach of our borrowing capacity
is the proper system because when yor
are through with 1t the expense Of
maintenance is small compared witt
any other system known.
1.-THE city is just in as good shape
financially as she will ever be to OBJ
tain system of water works and sup
ply its inhabitants with plenty o.
wholesome water at reasonable price
We can pledge the credit of our city
to obtain the funds needed for the pur
pose and within Is years we can pay
back every cent with interest and owr
the system absolutely, and get enough
revenue out Of it to nearly run thu
Icity."
The mayors list of appointees, chos
en- at meeting Of % business men o.
the city whom he said paid more thar
half of the city taxes, were confirmed
in toto, though two ballots were neces
sary to insure the selection Of J. B
Weddell as city engineer. Council
men Luepke, Wertheim and Taylor op
posed the removal Of Fire Chief Ray
mond and the appointment of Wed
dell. The appointees are:
Fire chief-Bert Barnes.
Police chief-W. P. Vance.
City engineer. B. Weddell.
Street superintendent-C John
son.
Police judge-Milton Giles.
Health officer-Dr. r. Kincaid.
Mayor hoffman also announced his
appointment of council committees as
follows:
Ways and means-Powe, Yauger
and Wertheim.
Accounts and current expenses
Luepke, Funk and ElWell
Fire. light and water-Taylor,
Powe and Wertheim.
Streets, wharves and bridges-Funk,
Powe and Taylor.
Health. police and public property
Wertheim, Yauger and Luepke.
Franchise, licenses, sewels-Elwell,
Funk and Luepke.