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Hon. Mayor and Board of Aldermen,

Gentlemen:

In making this my 4th, annual report, I must take
this occassion to heartlly thank the good people of our city for
renewed confidence bestowed upon me by re-electing me to the office
which I now hold. This election comes not as a personal favor to me
but, as I take it, as an indorsement of my administration for the
past four years. The gentleman who opposed me is a good man, per-
sonally popular and worthy, but in conducting my office I have al-
ways been guided by the interest of the people, suppressing and pre-
venting crime in all measures possible, and thereby insuring safty
to the people, and endeavoring to make life worth living. As to how
well I have succeeded let the public judge. In their indorsement I
I have in a measure satisfied them. To his Honor the Mayor, and you
Gentlemen of the Council, I must again thank you for the assistance
rendered me under all the circumstances arrising, during the past
year. Without your aid I could have done but very little.

I have some matters I desire to present for your earnest con-
sideration. The sanitary condition of the calaboose is in a deplor-
able state. The best that could possibly be done has been done un-
der the present unsanitary surrounds. New closets and sewering
in proper shape is absolutely necessary before the conditions can
be remedied. If this can be accomplished at once, I know I can make
habitable the city prison.

Another of some importance I think, and that is the confinement
of the youthful criminals with the hardened convict. It so often
happens that we are compelled to confine young boygs in the cala-
boose with old criminals, and in so doing we have no alternative
but to confine them with the prisoners there incarcerated. It fre-
quetly happens that some of the worst of the human kind are then
in durance vile, and, ofcourse, the boys are thrown with the men