Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-12-10
CITY DADS HOPE
TO MAKE RECORD
Mayor and Commissioners
Have Done Much During
Al First Six Months.
WILL BUILD A CITY HALL
TO Improve Waterworks Sys-
TEN, Build Boulevards and
| Improve Health.

With tho purchase OF a site at the
Intersection of Fourth and Cincinnati
for the erection OF municipal build
ing. Mayor John II. Simmons and the
board OF city commissioners have
placed the keystone Into a temple OF
achievements which they hope VIII
stand forever as q monument TO thelr
administration.
Six months OF administration OF af-
fairs by the present city officials has
seen many changes In all departments
of the city government. There IL not
department that has not been reno
waited, remodeled and repaired until
now, the citizens OF Tulsa have their
municipal affairs carried on with the
same accuracy, the same business-likc
initiative and deliberation that Is TO
be found In the strongest private in
stitutlons of The city. The pledge OF
the present set Of officials before
their election was business" and this
pledge has been lived up to TO the
very letter and spirit.
Mayor simmons. as the head OF the
department OF the city government
went into the chair and gave up "A
large portion of his private business
to do so. His reason, lie declared, was
that he saw many things to he dono
by mayor. He has done many Of
these things. and has detailed plans
for all that is to be done.
All Work In Harmony.
The self-sacrificc OF Mayor simmons
Is not more than that made by Com
missioners A. ID. Walker. a. l.. Funk.
G. $. Younkman or a. w. Brink. These
men, In charge of their respective de-
partmertS have worked In spirit or
harmony that is unusual. They have
plated and planned together to give
10. rt.lg l. .sttN IA a
is possible. How well they have sue
ceoded can best be understood when
IL Is remembered that taking the
facilities OF their department which
they are serving n city of more than
fifty thousand persons. and are receiv-
ing the commentator of these people
for their efforts.
II realized when ! became mayor"
said Mr.. Simmons recently while re-
viewing his work for the past six
months" that there was much to be
faced by a city's chief executive. Tulsa
was growing faster than the majority
of her citizens believed. The mayor
and the commissioners thrown about
him were TO take the blame for all
that went amiss. and To receive the
commendation OF those we pleased.
But to please all, ! realized was inn
possible. But to do the best that was
Wlthln our power Ior tne HaJoiltS'
was not impossible, and this we have
tried to do
1t is this mayor. who is doing his
best, and working in harmony with
the commissioners who Will spend,
during his administration, approx
mately s750,000 in making improve,
ments needer for the rapidly growing
city of which he is chief executive.
Faced by Problems.
When Mayor Simmons went into
the seat nj the head of the city COM
missioner's council table. there lay
before him a ned OF a city hall. For
years the people of Tulsa had been
demanding improvements in tho
waterworks conditions. The fire in
surance underwriters were demanding
better protection for property; more
adequate sewer system was needed in