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Show IMPORTANT STREET QUE8TIIN. Too Much Valuable Property Utilized by our Public THorouglifurci. A few citizens are complaining that Forest street, oast of the Court House, is not sufficiently wide to! accommodate the traffic along that thoroughfare. There is talk of petitioning the City Council to enlarge en-large the street. Considering only the appearance of a city, the wide streets are preferable, pref-erable, but this sacrifice for beauty alone, is a costly one. Today, over one-third of the City is usurped by streets all entirely too broad. Kevcral hundred acres of otherwise valuable property are needlessly thrown away in atrcets. It cotts ! the people no trifling amount of mon .y to keep this large area in presentable condition. Why, it would be hard to find a. single city of a million inhabitants that has more than one public thoroughfare half the width of Forest street. The traffic over our ntreets could be increased a thou-Band thou-Band fold and still they would be unnecessarily wide. No; rather narrow down our highways; converting half the property prop-erty now utilized by them, into building sites, orchards, gardens, etc., than throw still more away into the streets. Solomon. |