The independent. [volume] (Elizabeth City, N.C.) 1908-1936, 1919-06-06
THIS CITY SEES SOMETHING
REAL NEW UNDER THE SUN
New City Administration Announces Program of Co
operation and Progress and Starts Things
Moving For Cleaner and Better. Town
Nv w. o. SAUNDERS

elizabeth City has entered up
new era of progress, pros
,,:fx and good will, with it's
Citizenship pulling together in a
-ov that seemed altogether inn
m,sefi,]e when this newspaper
--.n3ed into the fight here eleven
Years ago.
IN Monday night of this week the !
.i,-za~s of Elizabeth City witnessed |
-,a.-tI.:ng entirely new to the present
-.,arlt:on. \ new Board of Aldermen
u.s f,augurated. And that Board of
.t:zr,nel settled down harmoniously !
...o-, an aggressive program of pro-
,-,ass and reconstruction with the CO. !
,r.-2t:or OF the Chamber of Commerce |
ri the Housewives eLague pledged |
AMI the best citizenship of the town
s~.,.r1ding every move. Nothing like
= l,as been seen in this town since M. !
y SAWYER settled in Elizabeth City
,.,rfv 4 quarter a century ago and
-,o, charge of things political. Saw
,>r's hold was broken in the recent
). last has a political administration
hat promises to function unselfishly.
The new Board of Aldermen began
:. administration Monday night by
s,.~.pping relics of the old order. Phil.
SAWYER is no longer Mayor and w. G.
Gather, Jr. vice president and cashier
- he First & Citizens National Bank
: low the city's chief executive. DR..
Gland B. Williams, the Mack Sawyer
machine health officer was also scrap
na5 and Dr. VIM. A. Peters, COM
na-3tively new man in the community,
n,t i, his place Martin Simpson, for
n,a- city attorney finds his office hlled
by the appointment of Walter L. Co
boa, 4 number of the old timers are
hanging over while the Board settles
mon the appointment of a City Mana
gar The new Board Of Aldermen IS
going to give a real City Manager free
rain in organizing the various depart
uauts of the city. The City Manager
viii pick his Chief of Police, his FIRE
C.jat, his Sanitary Inspector, his Audi
10, MS Tax Collector, his Street Com
missioner. A City Manager will be
Al out Of town man and will have no
local strings to him. The Aldermen are
trying to employ a man who is familiar
With water and sewerage problems as
we'll as general city management.
THE MARKET HOUSE
The new Board of Aldermen finds IT.
self facing many big problems. one
Of the big problems was the $4e'OO'
city market house abandoned oy INT
old politicians. The new board TOOL
hold of the market house problem IL
= decisive. business like way. A com
mittee was appointed to look after II
Within "a hours that committee hat
nut J. P. Kramer in charge OF maKin'
necessary repairs on the bulio1ns an'
already refrigeration expert IS ol
his way here to put the re1r1geratiii'
plant in the market house in hrst cias
condition. The Aldermen are now say
imp to the butchers and fish dealers
I'VE want you to pull together with
and corna into the market house wher
YOU belong" If the butchers anu us
dealers do not come in, the Alderme
will use the necessary law to forc
them.
A NEW MARKET ZONE
F;ur lust to show the town that the
io not purpose to impose unoue haru
ships upon any one, the ne" Dual
created a new market mouse zoir
bounded by Road and Harney stree'
and the northwestern limits. OIL Il
c:t-s. This is the mill district, ana u
NIL district is remote from the HILL ~
house The new Board of Alderme
sav they will permit at least one "es
nna~.-et in the mill district. provide
j. -ornos I'M to the sanitary standal
% the city market.
The new Aldermen have mace al
other good move in behalf OF u
market house; they are lookins
some way to bring country pro"u
dealers into the market house Oh &c
tain days, making the market noo
the great central food dlstrlou'i'
station it ought to be. There IS no w
At present to regulate cart peoole
who come into the town from the cou
try bringing poultry, butter eses' "e
products vegetables, fruits, canil
goods, etc, In the markethouse so
nedd1ers can be regulated. The tarIn
Who comes to town with things TO
can dispose of his goods with less
fort, command a better price anu
protected against unwholesome Col
petition.
THE SANITARY PROBLEM
The sanitary problem is likewise g
ing the new Board Of Aldermen mt
concern. The sanitation of the c
has been badly neglected For the
formation of those who did not KIN
that the town had a sanitary depa
nent at all, it is well to mention
Capt. "Bilr' Simmons has been
City Sanitary Inspector. He wants
continue in the job and even went
far as to have his son Josiah vote
members of the new Board, think
that would give him a look In. .
mons himself voted for the old g
and in the late state election "or
for the gangs Republican candle
for the General Assembly. Capt
mons will hardly come in for ser
consideration at the hands of the