Show C CAN X NOT 01 KEEP I EP THEIR CO CONTRACTS CO Some Seine of oC tho mon men who havo entered Into contract with tho the city are arc said to have havo asked to to be released bo- bo causo cause the they can not see seo eo their wa way to mako make a profitable conclusion lon of or their engagements unless the they he be allowed allowe tho lie leeway accorded thorn thom In former years It has been the tho custom for tho the city engineer to tomake tomake make an estimate on tho the cost of or a n of oC special improvement Improvement Im Im- provement and thc then then tho the ns assessment has been levied a against tho the property owners on the tho basis of oC that estimate esti- esti mate male whether or not It proved ro to bo be the iho contract price Afterward the eft city advertised for bids and tho the lowest t official bidder got the contract The assessment became becam a lien lion on tho the property from the beginning and it remained ro- ro there to tho the end whatever end whatever and whenever that lint end might be The contractor did not have to do th the work He lie had only onh to collect pa pay for It Tho The citizen must suffer that cloud on his title and know that an interest charge chargo was piling up against him every day of the year and he could not hurr hurry the contractor There are man many furlongs of oC sidewalk contract InthIs in inthis inthis this eH city where the tho Hen lien Hen has existed for more than a year wl where ere the interest has hns run run or where tho the total Improvement ement has lyls s been paid for MORE l THAN A YEAR AGO and AGO and yet et not ono one of ot earth has been thrown in that work That has been the tho rule under the past s system stem of ot making street and and sidewalk improvements r It is n not t ju Just t to to tho the property owner It Is s not fair It Is a n. r rank imposition on the public And under the thenet new net law Jaw it is a system that will not be continued If It the business of ot contracting for public work of this character is not profitable without a year car of or leeway for the contractor then It Is Js time tho the business bo be aban aban- cloned If it Jt has come to the pass where a property owner must see his title questioned and must surrender his mone money and get nothing for it until a a. favored contractors contractor's contractors contractor's contractors contractor's con con- tractors tractor's trust gets read ready to build his hiss sidewalk or lay Jay his sewer then It Is time to change the s system stem And that the new law Jaw will do There Is no need complaining that the new law lawwill lawwill will prevent the extension of oC Improvement Improvement Improvement Improvement Improve Improve- ment has been actual actually paid for in tho the past and has not been extended has extended has not been executed The past rule has been anything but ut system The new rule will be Pa Pay for the work when tho rho work Is done And AmI that Is fair nir to cr c every one one and an injustice to I nobody I. I. I |