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•’■ after. So tar ae my
H.°' extend’, there has
”g et o’* bu ’‘
H ’ What has been done by
B nil has been undone by
Enough money ba.
■pended to have given us
Brand re ,a,,g ' hk rs “
t X are apparent, there
■ p l a u nor system noth.ug
bs tl-al nor permanent. \e
B 3 ntented ourselv-s with
'■ rv expedients such as
3| crossings and the like
|ich L the long run have been
pensive than any other
Bdo not make these st ate
10t6|n any spirit of unkind
tici aof former administration
t mention this condition as a
aditiouandnot as a theory
wU L has come for a radical
■_ Rome is no longer a
B’*or a nursing infant but a
growing city, and
itheLar future the addition of
of our suburbs
greater reason why
■t turn ov-r a new leaf in
ir city work We should decide
I full, comprehensive sys
ostilplan of street work sewers
id thl like, and see to it that all
ork Hereafter done shall be a
irt jthat plan, and that every-
be done in the most]
Btia! and permanent
anner This is true economy. In
ie Bly can we obtain sa isfac
■y retenlt? from the annuel street
otArations and there is no
our city government that
more real satisfaction to
■Bpayere than to have our
■■in provements well done a«
a settled and definate
lam
■>' the past year the city
on streets and sewers
■o will be required for this
another year.
be n demonstrated that
e Brices of a city engineer
HBsolutely necessary to se-
work on the
teeth and sewers of the city,
■gineer whose time shall
■K wholly to the city and
■hall be required to map
draft a permanent sys
■f sewers and grades, to di-
B ie grading of the streets
■leys of the city, and the
■; of water and gas pipes.
Bands of dollars have boen
Bn account ol the constant
B’ng of the grades of the
Band in laying down and
■"? up gas and water pipes.
B the grade of a street is
■ and the street macadamiz
■morrow the work so done
B up to lay or repair water
B pipes or to repair leaks
| ch pipes, and in this way
Itreets of the city are nearly
B' s > at some point or anoth-
Jndered impassible and dan
fs. and much of the city’s
Fl’ is wasted.
f"i lnf orined that the last
f ll before raising the grade
I"' 1 Broad street notified
pter commission and Gas
f ail y to raise their pipes to
r" n mthe grade, burying
r "'l' a sufficient distance
l ath lhe surface to prevent
r'°’ as the work on that
, "’ as g° in g on ; and that if
ai 'e<l to do so they would
/ e allo 'vedto dig up the
J tor the purpose of getting
Many * ft hJ
r ar «now buried as much
bbl9W the 6U ’ faCe ° f
Kfred’-u Br ° ad BtreOt
kyi“u r T d, . h “' lhe G “
a aaa >n them at
an early date and lay new ones as
near lhe surface of the street as
possible, for their own benefit as
well as for 'h« streets of the
city. The water commission should
be required to conform to the or
der of the city above referred to
GAS AND LIGHTS.
This department will require $5,-
000 or SG,OOO for the fiscal year.
In my judgement it is more econo
mical and safer for the city to
pay for its lights, ss it has hereto
fore done, than it would be to
build a plant of its own. The city
is not able to build a first class
p'ant. Improvements are being
constantly made in electric light
ing. By waiting a few years the
city can, if it should be then de
sirable, construct a plant which
would perhaps be better than any
lighting system now in use. Be
sides this there is a liability for
damages to person who may be
injured that may fall
very heavily upon the city if it
s ould own or operate its own
plant. At present the amount of
money paid out to the Ehctric
Company is of vitaljbenefit to that
company and to the street rail
way system also, because the
lightning company pays lam in
formed all it receives the city to
the Electrict Railway company
for its power, and in purchasing
lights from the electric company,
the city wi'hout injury or loss at
all to itself, heips to sustain bcth
of these plants.
FIRE DEPARTMENT
We have perhaps the best vol
unteer fi.-e department in the
United States. The firemen
should be sustained to the ex
tent of the ability of the city.
Whatever reasonable demands
they make to keep up their
houses and other machinery
should be liberally responded to
by the city.
POLICE DEPARTMENT.
The salary account of the last
fiscal year, I am informed, was
over $15,000. The largest part
of this went to the support of
the police department. It is our
duty to economize in this de
partment as much as we can
without detriment to the service.
As it is we have 15 men and of
ficers on this force. In my judge
ment, eight policemen and a
marshal and his deputy would
be sufficient. I recommend that
the city purchase two horses for
the use of the marshal and his
deputy, and that these officers
be required to look after the
sanitary condition and patrol
the city and its outskirts, during
the time that they are on duty.
As it is, our suburbs are badly
in need of protection. The force
thus organized would be less ex
pensive and much more efficient.
I further recommend that this
council take under consideration
the advisibility of purchasing or
enlarging cur present cemetery.
lam informed that there are
very few lots vacant in the cem
etery proper,including the Bran
ham addition. A new cemetery
might be purchased for the ex
clusive use of the colored popu
lation of the city, if they should
desire it and will select the
ground. If the council should
see proper to adopt this plan,
a.id it is desired by our colored
people, I suggest that a confer
ence be had with them and a
tract of land selected and pur
chased for this purpose. And in
that event, I recommend that
thereafter no more burials be
allowed in that part of the pres
ent cemetery set apart for color
ed persons,except in cases where
colored persons are lot owners.
In conclusion let all the depart
ments of the city government
work together in peace and har
mony lor the best interests of the
city. City offices were not created
foi the benefit of officeholders but
for the good of the people. We are
the servants of the people. Let us
enforce the laws and ordinances
of the city fearlessly and discnarge
the true s coi tided to us faithfully
and honestly in all respects with
no hope of reward other than that
that Hows from the conscientous
<b*chi'.igi of duty remembering
that.
“ rimes sweeps away men and
kings as well as men and palaces
and temples as well as places.
Righteousness and its fjuitsuione
are immortal,”
j/’Vx Many a man
who would be
V wm ''.i, 1 ■’ i i i i i i z— startled at the
MP \ V-1 I H bare thought
.jU. —i |- sitting
IwWi‘ a ktiii drinking a
U / <IGSe ° f poi ’
, A Wi/ son, allows
Ik himself to be
■ j A regularly and
r I ’! * s' -■ "i:itic-
IjHRKr *■ ’ ally poisoned
dav after day
e*-—accutnula
~~ dons of bile
gOye £1 When the liver fails to
do its regular work of filter
—y ’ ns ' 'his bilious poison out
of the circulation, it goes on
poisoning the entire constitu
/ tion just as surely as if a man
was drinking prussic acid
Every part of the body is polluted. The
digestive juices are suppressed and weak
ened. The kidneys and skin are clogged
with impurities and the lungs and bronchial
tubes overloaded,with morbid secretion
which eat away the delicate tissue, and
bring about bronehitis and consumption.
All the diseases caused by this subtle pro
cess of bilious poisoning are cured by the
marvelous alterative action of Dr. Pierce’s
Golden Medical Discovery. It directly in
creases the liver’s natural excretive and
purifying powers ; gives the digestive and
blood-making organs power to manufacture
an abundance of red. rich, healthy blood.
It drives out all impurities, and vitalizes
the circulation with the life-giving elements
which restore perfect nutrition, solid mus
cular power, and healthy nerve-force.
" In August 1895, I was taken down in bed wiih
a burning and severe pains in my stomach and
under mv shoulders, and dizziness in my head,”
writes Ira D. Herring. Esq., of Needmore, Levy
Co., Fla. “ My home physician was called and he
said my symptoms were more like consumption
than anything else. I lingered in this way seven
months trying different kinds of medicine. Noth
ing that I ate would digest, and 1 had great dis
tt ess in my stomach. 1 was persuaded to try some
of Dr Pierce's remedies or to see what he thought
®f my case. I wrote him and received an answer
stating that my suffering was from indigestion
and torpid liver, and advising me to take Dr.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. The first
bottle gave pleasing results I have taken four
bottles of the Golden Medical Discovery’ and
three small vials of the ‘ Pie:; ant Pellets.’ lam
able to do my work and eat what I could not
before I took these medicines.”
Every day now brings us heavy ship
ments of standard and seasonable fur=
niture, and with the coming of spring
we have already received a
CAIMAJAI)
OK BABY
CAIRRIAIGKES
All of them beauties and many of
them dainty little vehicles, combin
ing the essensial points of beauty and
strength •
MATTING-S.
HTJGFS. <
CARPETS
In this department we have received
for the spring trade one car load of
mattidg which we imported direct
from Japan. Here you can find new
patterns and the prettiest of designs
and at remarkably low prices.
-STOVES-
Do you need a new stove in ycur
kitchen? Then call on us and you
will go no where else. W e have the
best and that means an economic
stove in every sense of the word.
THE HANKS
MITE CO.
305 Broad st- Phone 52-
Undertakers, Embalmers, and Fu
neral Directors.
THE nODEL LAUNDRY’S
will tell you something in tomorrow’s
issue- Be sure you see it.
HACKED TO PIECES
Maddened bg JealQilsy He
Uses a Botcher Knife.
ON HIS SWEET-HEART,
With Fatal Result, Then Made
Good His Escape-
Ahrut 8.3 G, Saturday night,
Charley Marshall, a negro desper
ado, cut a”d mortally wounded
I’utt Harwick, at Cedar Bluff.
Marshall had been showing the
negress attention for
,-ome time, but she did not return
his affiections, and when he found
she had been shoning another
negro more attention than she had
him he got enraged went to her
house with a butcher knife and
proceeded o hash her anatomy to
pieces to such an extent that it
took 159 stitches to sew up the
wounds.
When ihe doctors got through
with the job she loooked more
like a “crazy quilt than a humau
being.
He then made good his escape
and has not been apprehended by
the officers.
The negro is supposed to be
niding in the vicinity of Rome.
The woman Is in a dangerous
condition and will probably die
from the effects of wounds.
If it’s good to eat you’ll find
it at Lloyds.
Keep
Everything in the drug line
and a full line of druggists sun
dries.
Sed.
Your especial attention is called
to the fact that our prescription
department has been the feature
of our business for years. Its
well earned reputation is now a
matter of pride with us. Your
orders solicited.
I
C. /%. TREVITT,
331 Broad. Telephone 110-
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I carry a full and complete line of jewelry, iuclu- Mfi
ding Diatn mds . Ek
My stock of silver notions and novelties was nev- ijii
er more complete.
WEDI) ING PRESEN FS A S PEC IA LT Y.
fl J K Williamson 1
ii«t u fl
I OO Bicycle 4
to go regardless of
010 ISIT PI Rlll Ol B.
You can get just what you want of
BL BL, FOBBES.
* *. ' * *
We have NEW Bicycles from
TWELVE DOLLARS UP
and they will be sold at prices to suit the purchaser.
Pianos -- Organs
and several makes of
SEW MACHINES. 5
which will be sold at prices never
before known i i Rome
We also have in stock 1,000 copies
POPULAR SHEETMUSIC
at ioc per copy, s:nd for catalogue
of this music. We also handle j
MANDOLINS.!
GUITARS.
VIOLINS.
STRINGS;
and will rent pianos or organs with purchasing privileges. Our
piano case organs are great sellers. Call and see them.
F E Forbes' 327 BROAD ST| * EET -
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SEx, DAVIS, Managfer.
LIVERY, SALE AND FEED STABLES,
Offers the public the finest teams, best convey
ances and most polite and courteous drivers.
The best stock of horses and mules on sale con
stantly.
306 AHQi 308 BRQADI STREET. ROME. GEORGIA*