The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1914-10-26

never stop advocating sewerage till
a system is put in or 1t is dead.
Street improvement is else great
ly needed. Nothing. will add more
to the attractiveness of the city than
good streets. We are now going on
buflding and rebuilding in a very un-
satisfactory and expensive manner
The principal opposition to improving
the streets ert present comes from
property holders who will have to
bear a disproportionate amount of
the expense, and feel that they are
not now able to meet it. Ut must
he rememb that the enthusiastic
wihoops for bonds of other communi-
tiles, held up to Ocala as models,
were made some months ago, before
the present depression set in. The
Star doubts very much that Lake
land, Barlow and other progressive
cities would be in amy great hurry to
issue bonds for paving their streets
at present.
Also, the opinion advanced that
| paving the streets will result i'm a
great saving by doing away with the
work OF the street force Is de1usive.
A hundred thousand dollars will not
pave all the streets in OcaIa, nor half
of them. We will have to go on i'm
proving and repairing other streets,
just as we do now. There may be a
smaller bin for street work for a
year or two, and then 1T will begin
to grow again. This is not said in
opposition to street improvement. 1t
is simply stating fact that the en-
thusiastic bond advocates have ne
elected to mention.
The civic center, with the hand
some, new buildings, will he mighty
nice thing to have, and the Star
thinks we should have it as soon as
we are able. 1t is the most orna-
mental of the proposed improve
ments and the least necessary.
BY all means we should improve
the waterworks and e1ectric plants.
The Star favors their being combin-
ed in one big group of buildings on
THE city lot In the norhh of town,
where we can have pretty park and
a big swimming pool, and their be-
ing equipped with up-to-date and
labor-savng machinery
We are not going to vote, how
ever, for this item on the ticket.
| A. eo- 30 49, IN, n = e.v.1xyrNrl-S oro non
cerued, we now have the bonds to
the amount of $4,000, made out
almost two years ago, end lying idle
now. The city government can sell
these bonds as well as it can sell q
new issue Tt could and should have
sold them mine months ago, when the
bond market was i'm good shape, and
could have had THE new waterwork:
plant almost completed by this time
There has been NO time that the PEG
would mot have voted the necessar!
s money ITO also improve THE e1ectri,
plant. That this hasn't been done
0 is the present councils big sin o
: omission
: AS long as this s55, 900 in bond
0 remains unused, the city govern
$ ment cam validiate it, sell 1T and adj
u it to the city debt any time it see
n fit.
Another reason why these bond
, COULD he used ait Ionce is THAT. whfl
l. the council has the authority to us
< them, 1T has NO authority to destro
Them. They unjust ibe put TO use o
u lie In the vaults until their time ex
p1res. And they are worth more t
ST the city now than they will be mex
" year or the year after, or any yea
VI that brings them nearer to the dat
~ of their expiration.
lg The Star opposes the proposed ic
III factory on principle-the princfpl
lie being THAT the city shouldn't go int
te business where it injuries a nriva !
e cluizen's business, unless there
1T some great and pressing necessit
s. for so doing.
e. There is NO such necessity her
IS, We have an ice factory which is SUI
IS. plying ice at reasonable rates. TT
ms city can't supply it much oheap,
of unless it sells below cost, whic
ne would he bad business as well as ba
of principle.
ed 1t is considered by many tn
there ds enough business i'm this tie
he ritory for another ice factory and
w is likely THAT another will be start,
&c. Within the next few years; mea
ay time, the one we have wild steadi
ep- increase in business, add to its fore
pm increase its payroll and continue
err bring money into town.