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AS TO PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS. Mayor W. M. Brown Replies to Our Remark*. Anent Subject. Editor Keowee Courier: I have read your column and a half edito rial headed "Public Improvements," and 1 must say that I am a lltt'e sur prised, and yet not very much either. You say "The private citizen should be compelled to conform, in making improvements, to definitely located property lines. How much more, then, should the town itself see that its property lines aro correct, espe cially in making some permanent im provements? lt strikes us most forci bly that there should have been no permanent paving on College street until the street line was definitely lo cated. lt ls a well known fact that, the building known as tho 'City Hall' sits far out on the sidewalk-3 feet and 7 Inches If memory has not played us a mean trick." Now, Mr. Editor, what we would like to know ls from what source you got your storehouse * of information that, after two and a half years' re tirement from the Mayor's office, that you would still remember that this particular property is 3 feet and 7 Inches out on the sidewalk? Will the editor please tell the officiais and the public at what point in the town of Walhalla you began your survey of the town to find as a final result that the "City Hall" ls out on the walk? The editor very well knows that there is absolutely no corner in the town of Walhalla from which a survey can be made, and be sure that you are absolutely correct. Then you question the wisdom of lowering the sidewalks on Main street, and say, "lt. would have been much better, we think, to have taken as a basis of grading here a direct line from the paving at the post of fice clear through to the end of the street." To do this would mean to build our sidewalks at this point about eight feet high above the street, and a continuation of your grade would possibly strike the Nor man house about half way from the ground to the second story, and then to cut. the street some more on the hill west of the post olllce would mean that the street would be about ten feet below the sidewalk. And it looks like the editor would still re member the results of high side walks, when lt cost the town of Wal halla $300 and other expenses from the fact that you, as Mayor of Wal halla, caused to be walled up a side walk so high that a man could not get on or off (except he fell off as did the man in this particular case, that cost the town $300), from thc depot for two blocks to the Walhalla Hotel, and people who might want to use the sidewalk at any Riven point from the depot to the hotel are forced to walk down the street, no matter how muddy the street may be. You seem to be very much in sym pathy with the property owners bf | tin ?.own, and yet yon would hiwo the town authorities to jump on the people and take 'heir land along I ho, streets thal they have been In peace able possession cit for mei'- thin) fifty years. And thou wited we go to the property owners and get their per mission to cut the walks down to something Uko a safe grade, and BO as to conform to the streets, you set up a tremendous howl and find fault with everything and everybody be eause they do not think just like you do. Now, Mr. Editor, I want lo refresh your fine memory, for if you still re member that the "City Hall is three feet out on the walk," 1 know that lt ls good. You talk about establish ing the correct lines before any per manent improvements aro done. When the writer began the grading for the erection of the building 1 now occupy, you at that time were Mayor Of Walhalla. You, with myself, de cided on certain lines, and about the same time Mrs. Oelbers, just oppo site me, had a cement block wall built in front of her homo, and under your direction or sanction. Now let's see about your advice as to estab lishing the lines before any perma nent work Is done. You know thal on the plan of the town that Main street ls 130 feet wide, and you have allowed two jobs ol' permanent work to be done on Main street leaving the street and sidewalks only 12."? feet, thereby losing to the town five feet -and YOU the Mayor. Then, again, you go on and knock the Council about doing all the work Oil Main street. .Now just be a little bit fair. What have we done on Main street? Well, bore it ls. Up on the west end of Main street there had always been a very bad mudhole, right in the center of Main street. The Wilson administration wont up there and pul in a good drain pipe, but before tho work was finally fin ished up. the present Connell was elected, and we though! it just and right to continue that work to a point where it would be both safe and sanitary, for, as you know, the water stood for possibly months at a time, and was a source of great an noyance to the people who lived near and also to those who had to drive through lt. Then the rebuilding of the sidewalk near the post Office, which has already been mentioned, ls all the work that luis been done on Main street, and the two places on Main street were very necessary lo be. done. Now. Mr. Editor, a little compari son: 'Pee present Council has been in office about four months, and it has been raining most of the time, so that it has been almost impossible to do anything anywhere. You was Mayor of Walhalla for nearly five years. Well, let's see. Take the mudhole you speak of away around on tho back street, down by "Mon key Rancho's," entirely off Main street, whore very few people ever travel, (and tho editor has a very much bettor way). Suppose thal, ni tor so much rain as wo have had, there should be a little water and mud and a fow weeds. (Well, we'll get them "by and by!") is that any thing to comparo with tho mudhole up at tho D. IL Rowland placo? Then 'igaln, noar Dr. Thodo's, and then down right in tho very conter of town, in front of Mrs. Maxwell's home, where tho mud and wator stood for months at a time, making lt almost Impossible to pass with teams, and a hot bed for fever, and ^ you, Mr. Editor, was Mayor, but did not do one thing to relieve the situ? ation, but left it years, and until the Wilson administration said fix lt, and lt was Axed. Now, Mr. Editor, there are two ways; and only two, to reason thiB matter out: One 1B that you did not have the judgment or executive abil ity to do the work. Or that lt was gross negligence ou your part, and yet you set your opinion up ar. the model by which the present Council should gc You also allowed a very bad mud hole to exist at the depot during vour entire administration, and when Mr. Wilson had lt fixed you liked to have fainted, and cursed out every body and everything that had any thing to do with the work, and you are still k.eking. I will again call your attention to some more Improvements that wero made by tho property owners during your administration. Take the ce ment block wall of Mrs. Fahnestock, opposite J. F. Craig's; and thou take Mr. Craig's cement block wall, op posite Mrs. Fahnestock's. The walls are about 105 feet long, and there is a variation of eight Inches in that distance, making the street eight inches narrower at one part than at the other. This looks like laying things out to the line. You are very much distressed about the shrinkage in property valons, and cito to the Mrs. Eaton old home as an example of the depre dation In property values, and would have the general public believe that this .property ls almost worthless. Again, I want to ask that you he just a little blt fair. Have you ever been in and around the premises for some time and took a little look around? If so you will possibly see that some very needed Improvements would he in order, and besides, of my own personal knowledge, the place could have been rented had these Improve ments boen made and the rent put on an equal rating with other buildings near this place. Now, as to thc shrinkage In prop erty values: If the editor will secure a good title to the property at the price that Mrs. Eaton asked for lt before the street was graded, please have the title made, and 1 will lind a man who will pay the money for the property, and who Is not such a very cheap dirt skate either. So don't let the value shrinkage In real es tate worry you, especially where the streets and sidewalks aro graded down to where people can walk with out danger to their lives. Your sym pathies go farther along financial lines than for tho safety of the lives of the people who walk our streets. You also speak of "arbitrary cut ! ting down of streets and sidewalks without regard to such rights must Inevitably result In the material low ering of property values." Now, Mr. Editor, will you please be generous enough to tell the public of one sin gle Instance where the Council has done any cutting down where they I did not have the full consent of the property owners? And not only! that; others are only walting until Such time ?fi WO may bo able td get lo their places to httv? their suie- j walka out down so tlioy will have ? I ! deC'enj looking lyjaih tu front of theil' homes, and not a cow trail propped up on stilts. Now, getting back to Improvements on Main street: We have done fully as much on the side streets as we have on Malu street, and yet. a one eyed man can see that all the work that lias over been done until the present Council went in power has hoon done on Main street. If I have hoon able to keep anything like a line on the work that has been done in the ?last, I would say that tho only thing of note that has boen done on the side streets was to kill a little pepper grass, and continue to prop our sidewalks up on stilts. Very lit tle1 grading, If any, was done during your entire administration, and, if any at all, it was all done on Main street. You very scrupulously avoid ed pulling down the hills that you recommend to the present Council as being tho best thing to do. (Why didn't you take your own medicine?) Now, Mr. Editor, I am a good deal like the old darkey: "If you'se got nu ff, I sse got miff," and we will pro ceed along lines of improvement that seem to tho Council lo be for the final upbuilding of our little town. Yours very truly, W. M. Brown, Mayor. Walhalla. June 7. 191 2. When your child has whooping cough bo careful (o koop the cough loose and expectoration easy by giv ing Chamberlain's Cough Item od y as may be required. This remedy will also liquify the tough mucus and make it easier to ex pee to rn to. lt has hoon used successfully lu many epi demics and Ls safe and sure. For sale by all dealers. 25 Men Killed in Card (jame. Knoxville, Tenn., Juno 8-Twenty five men were killed last night at Dante, Va., in a drunken row precipi tated In a card game. It ts reported that the dead men are Italians and mountaineers who made their homes at Dante, a mining town of about G. 000 inhabitants. 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