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Letter to Editor
February 6, 1901
Edgefield Advertiser
Edgefield, Edgefield County, South Carolina
What is this article about?
Residents near the train depot complain about muddy paths to the station and urge the town council to build a sidewalk using available cinders and sand, offering to pay a special tax to facilitate the work.
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Sidewalk Wanted Near Depot.
Dear Mr. Editor: We on this side of the town appreciate very much the spirit and interest our honored town council are taking in the sidewalks of the several and different streets of our town and hope very early to see this spirit and interest manifested over here about the depot. It is quite amusing and yet distressing to see passengers and the public generally trying to make their way to and from the station through the mud. We have no sidewalk at all leading from the depot to the big road, and the town council can very readily understand why it is amusing and distressing for the public to paddle through this mud. A sidewalk could be very quickly thrown up and there are car loads of cinders on the track of the railroad at the depot which could be thrown on this sidewalk and a little sand on that will make a very comfortable walking sidewalk. I often hear passengers exclaim, "Oh, my, what a muddy place." We are willing to pay a special tax to get this sidewalk rather than not get it. We hope the town council will spend one day over on this sidewalk with their entire force if no longer time can be spared from other urgent duties. We who have occasion to go to and from the depot are sadly in need of a sidewalk as we cannot ride always.
MUD SLINGER.
Dear Mr. Editor: We on this side of the town appreciate very much the spirit and interest our honored town council are taking in the sidewalks of the several and different streets of our town and hope very early to see this spirit and interest manifested over here about the depot. It is quite amusing and yet distressing to see passengers and the public generally trying to make their way to and from the station through the mud. We have no sidewalk at all leading from the depot to the big road, and the town council can very readily understand why it is amusing and distressing for the public to paddle through this mud. A sidewalk could be very quickly thrown up and there are car loads of cinders on the track of the railroad at the depot which could be thrown on this sidewalk and a little sand on that will make a very comfortable walking sidewalk. I often hear passengers exclaim, "Oh, my, what a muddy place." We are willing to pay a special tax to get this sidewalk rather than not get it. We hope the town council will spend one day over on this sidewalk with their entire force if no longer time can be spared from other urgent duties. We who have occasion to go to and from the depot are sadly in need of a sidewalk as we cannot ride always.
MUD SLINGER.
What sub-type of article is it?
Persuasive
Informative
What themes does it cover?
Infrastructure
What keywords are associated?
Sidewalk
Depot
Mud
Town Council
Passengers
Cinders
Special Tax
What entities or persons were involved?
Mud Slinger.
Mr. Editor
Letter to Editor Details
Author
Mud Slinger.
Recipient
Mr. Editor
Main Argument
the town council should build a sidewalk from the depot to the big road to alleviate the muddy conditions distressing passengers and the public; residents are willing to pay a special tax and suggest using railroad cinders and sand for construction.
Notable Details
Passengers Exclaim 'Oh, My, What A Muddy Place'
Willing To Pay Special Tax
Suggest Using Car Loads Of Cinders And Sand