Show THE JAIL FIZZLE The Black Hole Will Continue to Do Service for the City Probability That No New Jail Will Be Erected This Year The Money Is Needed for Something Else No new city jail this year That is the drift of city council sentiment at present according to one of the members Although Al-though the present filthy bastile has been vigorously condemned by several successive grand juries and denounced as a villainous black hole totally unfit for the confinement of human beings and although the city council has ordered the jail committee to secure plans and receive bids for its construction construc-tion which has been done the wise men who rule the city have about concluded that the old trap will do for a year or two longer Councilman Bell who favors a postponement post-ponement of action j gave as his reasons that it was now too late in the season to commence operations and moreover the new structure should not be built on the site of the old building but should be located lo-cated somewhere near the joint building The council had also been unable to agree on the cost the bids were unsatisfactory and matters were in a general tangle I A suspicion lurks in the minds of many that the abandonment of the jail project is brought about for the purpose of diverting di-verting the 25000 to other uses The present council has been cutting a very wide swath in the matter of public expenditures ex-penditures and it requires no very astute financier to foresee a serious shortage before be-fore the contemplated improvements are paid for I Take for instance the gravity sewer for the construction of which the city council has set apart the last of the bonds amounting to 300000 The lowest bid i for the work was 381000 and the entire construction will doubtless not fall short I of 1400000 Here is a deficit of 100000 that must be made up from some other I fund and no one is able to tell just where it is to come from Some of the departments depart-ments will also demand and get more money than was estimatea at the commencement com-mencement of the year and our million dollar council may be forced to abandon i more projects than the new city jailin I order to make both ends meet or devise sources of revenue other than the double tax on merchants and fo assessments on Ii electric wire poles |