Show PARTY I I Editor of The rhe The Tribune of o October 30 says in iw ita ii Economy article that property owners have ilave the tIO privilege of laying own sidewalks by b applying ing to the board of public works better known to the property owners as tho tito boon bOOM of public workers The Tribune Is goldbricking its readers If I any auy realty owner tries its suggested plan once he will never do so 80 again In III tho tito first place he ha must apply to tho the board of public works to t get a permit to lay la his fifty foot walk For this the workers charge him not less lass l than IIo lie then 88 this permit to the city engineer who requires him to put up a deposit to pay lay for the thc engineering costs In about a week or tort ton days a team wagon driver and an four work workmen workmen workmen men appear and an work hard bard doing one hours bours labor a day Taxpayers have aTe you OU ever noticed one Olle of these parties at work I It would make you shed tears to see the honest bon est sweat pour from their wrinkled brows Then after the stakes are set the tho board of workers will send one of their hard workers up tip to prevent you robbing the thc contractor The hardest work I have seen any of them doing sq far is that of smoking a pipe or rolling cigarettes After you get through paying pa ing the tho engineer and board beaM of workers you will never attempt to lay a n walk again Now all this was furnished free by the city prior to the Tribunes economy gang getting in control In 1896 1696 I laid my iny own walk Engineer Engineering ing and inspection were furnished me by b the city cit free of charge If you want to lay a connection between curb and walk the board of workers gets you again You must pay them for this privilege ge not lose leas than Have you ever examined the walks laid by b tho the school board l These walks cost from lo 15 1 to 17 cents per square foot and tire are six inches thick The walks the city lays for you are aro two and to three inched thick and cost us from 16 to 20 cents per square foot The school board gets walks wt laid six inches thick while we get rotten walks laid two and to three inches thick that fall to pieces as soon as they are used Can the Tribune show one mile nile of good walks laid by them since they got possession pO of the city admin administration administration administration 1 If you ou can I have not seen them Look over the miles and miles of walks laid by this incompetent bunch and you will find them cracked falling to pieces and disintegrating The city cit lets lots our contracts from one to twenty miles at a time Every taxpayer er knows that large con cou contracts contracts tracts of this sort should be bo done for much less than the small walks laid by the school board But what are the i It coats costs us more for the tho veneer walks laid by the city than tho the school board pays for walks Labor is is no higher than it was six years ago and cement is very vory much cheaper Yet we pay from 20 to 30 80 per cent more now than then Taxpayers this tills Trib Tribune Tribune Tribune une bunch gets you coming and going goin You cough up the dough or there is nothing doing This is the gang that wants to run the county i To show you what this bunch will do to you I hold in in my possession at this time an tax receipt from the Liberal administration and anti by the by hy it is the same unprincipled gang now called American They called themselves Liberal then and they call themselves American now In 1889 my lIly m real estate on Third South was assessed at 1500 in in 1890 the immortal Clute banner bearer of the Liberals was elected assessor Ho He only raised this 1500 valuation fifteen times that is I was taxed on the same property at a valuation of going some The F J Leonard succeeded him in 1892 ho lie lowered this valuation valuation valuation tion to I always feel fecI grateful to my Irish compatriot for this reduction I would have haTe gladly in the same year ear though sold this tIus property for but I could not find a buyer buer The present nominee for assessor on the American ticket told me inc about two weeks ago that Gabbott had favored the tIle farmers and store storekeepers storekeepers storekeepers keepers in the country and that when hen he lie got in he would see that their assessments would be raised and equalized with city cit valuations that we wein wein wein in the city wore were assessed too high in proportion to the county valuation When he ho gets in look out you farmers He wont do a thing to you He will carry out the Tribunes orders and advance valuation like liko the im immortal immortal immortal mortal Clute did to me and all owners of city real estate tate in 1890 Taxpayers of the die city and county you think your present valuations are high enough for taxation If the gang gets in iu val valuation valuation al will soar so high that it will pay you to de deed l the gang your realty What Wu does their record show sine they got the city eity The Tilt tax rate they have advanced from irom 11 mills to 15 mills they hue have doubled dou the 1110 cost of sewers they thuy have advanced water rates from 12 1212 12 l to per Ier cent and aud charge you for full cost of water connection with city pipes pip which was vac free before We Y t pay from 30 SO to 40 n I ir r cent more for street paving pavin than Seattle Portland San Francisco or Los Ios Angeles We pay the board beaM of or worker workers for the tho privilege of laying our walks and pay lY the tho engineering engineering cost for grades for sidewalks which were free before this gang galls got in inThis inThiA This ThiA gang wants the money To get it every means they the can cm think of they work They own and run the stockade they work the gamblers the street walkers the opium joints and the dlf became because all of these reforming agencies enci s must lUit be protected and they need the money The Tho engineer in giving his estimates of the tIle cost of improvements should give the council a i correct estimate of the actual cost of all work to be done DOTS Dos he lie do it l So far this year his estimates have been from 20 90 to 30 per cent higher than the contractors CG bids Take the high pipe pi e line He lie was about higher than Morans bid Again on Friday night he was higher on walks four cents per por er foot or about 80 30 0 per cent cant than the contractors bid The same salUe occurred in bids on Third South street Ninth East First avenue and Second West est What is b the matter with the en engineer engineer engineer anyway and where does he lie get his Ills estimates eo The above is only one specimen of the methods of the gang that runs the city abole The T board of public workers is no better It recommended the payment pa ment for rotten walks wooden sewer pipe pille that wont work and cost coat the taxpayers OOOO more than the original contract t price to t make it work The inspectors they the employ dont know how sewer pipe ipe should be laid or the quantity of cement that tIu should be used with sand solid and amI gravel graveland graveland graveland and care less They sit on their haunches and crack jokes and auth God bless blesa the American party whence their blessings flow Mr Taxpayer think of these things Dont let this incompetent gang pull the wool over your our eyes any longer about abolt the Hierarchy It is a n bugaboo that we should lay by voting the Republican ticket and next fall throwing this thieving gang out of city affairs Signed JOHN CONNELLY O ELIY Salt City October 30 1910 |