Aliens Will Be Sent Home

 Marietta Daily Times, June 24, 1919

Columbus, O. - Aliens in state institutions will be shipped. The first vanguard of a wholesale exodus of undesirables will probably start within a month.

The board of administration wired today to the government immigration bureau for 150 sets of deportation papers.

Investigation of 20 state institutions disclosed that there are aliens of 59 different nationalities being supported out of state funds.

In the fiscal year ending Saturday, 976 out of 2,662 persons admitted to state institutions were foreign born. Germans, Russians and Hungarians lead in the order named, the investigation showed.

The campaign to rid the state of undesirable wards will not end with the deportation of the first 150, President Riddle of the board of administration said today. "We will clean them all out. We need room at the institutions for American citizens," he declared.

Sewerage

The Marietta Leader, February 1, 1893

It may not be generally known that plans and specifications have been prepared for a complete system of sewerage for this city, but such is the fact and the Council by a recent ordinance has adopted them and divided the City into sewer districts. 

These plans cover nearly every street and designate the depth, size of pipe, etc. for each street. Of course the depth of sewer trenches must relate to each other in such a way as to secure a rapid flow from one to the other and finally through the main trunk into the river. 

One of the mains will go down Putnam to Front, down Front to Butler, and thence to the river just below the railroad bridge. This will be 24 inches in diameter and fully sixteen feet deep and will probably be the first to be laid.

The sewers as planned will be for sewage, not for surface drainage; roof water, however, to a certain extent will be admitted. At convenient intervals will be constructed catch basins with automatic syphons for flushing purposes. These syphons will fill with water and when full will discharge into the sewer and flush out all impurities. 

These sewers will be constructed on the assessment plan. All the property in the sewer district will be assessed according to its valuation on tax duplicate pro rata, to pay the expense of construction. 

The City issue bonds for such amount as may be necessary to complete the district sewers, and these bonds will be paid off by the assessments as they fall due. The payments can be distributed over such period as the Council may determine. In some cities the bonds run for ten or more years, thus making the burden easier to bear. 

Everyone interested ought to begin to think about this matter and add the weight of their opinion to the general expression on this subject. The Council certainly will not move in this matter if any decided opposition shall be made. It will be done, if done at all, with the expectation that it is for the best interests of the City to have a complete system of sewerage - and not to please any faction or small minority.

It is certainly desirable to put in sewers ahead of street paving, and the sewers should be started far enough ahead of paving to enable the pavers to obtain a good foundation.

If any large amount of sewer work is to be done this season, no time should be lost in getting ready, as it takes about as long to get ready to lay sewers as it does to lay street pavement.

   

New Bell Will Sound Alarm

The Register-Leader, January 9, 1907

At a special meeting of the Board of Public Safety held Tuesday evening in the Mayor's office, it was decided to place the fire alarm bell, which will be purchased, in the tower of the City Building, and in probably two weeks, the locations of fires may again be told by the numbers tapped the bell.

Bids for the bell were submitted by four local hardware firms, all on a bell made by the C. S. Bell Co., of Hillsboro, Ohio, and the bid of Seyler Brothers being the lowest, it was accepted, while Levi Cowell, having submitted the lowest bid for placing the bell in position, was given the contract of installing it in the tower.

It will be a steel alloy alarm bell, will be four feet in diameter at the bottom and will weigh about 2,000 pounds.

Before the bell is accepted Messrs. Holst and Kaiser will go to Cincinnati to inspect it and the trip will probably be made the latter part of this week.

The Board expects to have the bell here and erected in the tower in two weeks. The bell will cost $106.00 and the cost of placing it in the tower will be $75, which figures being in accordance with the lowest bids furnished at the meeting Tuesday evening. H. P. Theis, The Union Hardware and M. A Kropp were the other bidders to furnish the bell.

Other business of importance was up for consideration at the meeting, and it was decided to have the fire wagon of the West Side company completely repaired and repainted, the work to be done by J. H. Oesterle, who built the new wagon. While the new work is being done, the old wagon, which was in department No. 1, will be used on the West Side.

In the future, four chemicals will be carried on each wagon instead of two as heretofore and an extra supply of chemicals will be ordered at once.