Show THOMPSONS THOMPSONS T TIn TRANCE In a moment of or generosity The Her Herald Herald Herald ald assumed yesterday that the Amer American AmerIcan American ican administration had waked up a little and would get action n on public lIc works so long delayed This wild hope h pe was aroused by the passage of oC an or ordinance ordinance on Monday night which was intended to facilitate work and enable the people to get sidewalks sewers and other Improvements paId for long ago I but not ot yet completed I Unhappily The Herald overlooked the mayor in in its calculations and right there it busted the watermelon Ezra like the hurry ordinance for several reasons rea ons In the first place he is opposed to precipitate action on anything This sidewalk business for tor instance has hung fire for tor about two years The people who paid for sidewalks side sidewalks walks in 1905 are are getting a little fussy about the delay they think that even an American council ought to get sidewalks laid within a year ear or two of ot the time the money Is collected ed Ezra however is still meditating his peren perennial perennial perennial nial trance is still working and he proposes pro proposes ro poses to stop the wild rush It If the veto yeto power Is worth anything Again Ezra objects to ta the new ordinance ordinance ordinance nance because It curtails Jake Take powers and enlarges the city engineers sphere The Herald confesses to some qualms about the city engineer and his methods but as compared with Ral Raleigh RaleIgh Raleigh the engineer Is in a manel marvel of celer celerity celerIty celerity ity a paragon of all the virtues Kelsey does get things done occasion occasionally occasionally occasionally ally Raleigh never Kelsey has been known to work there Is no na record extant of ot the day or hour when the street supervisor was caught laboring Kelsey does know something about his business whereas such knowledge as Raleigh may haveIt have If he has any has been Deen most carefully concealed The city engineers department has come come mighty close to being an annex of Pat Morans contracting business but even at that It Is a credit to the administration as compared with the disgraceful incompetency the utter disregard of ot public interests the vic vicious vicious vicious ious alliance of the street department i with the personal welfare of Its head which have been Its only characteristics tics Naturally Thompson might have been b en expected to take tate part because Ezra never picked a live Ue one in his life Ufe and if he had he have known it Sadly with ears ars and sighs it must be admitted that The Herald was too toa sanguine when it predicted a resumption resumption tion of activity In Improvements for far forthe forthe the city It forgot Ezra and his love for far Raleigh but It promises never to forget either of them again for long |