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Show STII L M0KI, tOMl I AIMS. i :steiid we voiced the com I laintR of numerous citizens about the con lltion of the streets in this city, in con'equenct of the drench In,; which takes II e j lace of sprink line. Today we echo a further com-llalnt com-llalnt which Is heard In concert with the other The stree's are obstructed too much for the storage of builuing material They are rendered In many places quite Iuiasable 'Not only is too large n space allowed in tin road ways for the urposc, but teams are permitted to stand aroun 1 the im mediate vicinity so that passers by cannot proceed There should be some regulation of these matters 'Nobody wants to binder the erection of buildings. The improvements now taking place In various jarts of town are Jeslr able But there Is no nted to ol-struct ol-struct street traflic that hou es nnd stores may U. erected or improved The City Council should see that this public nuisance I abated Then the roadways are sprinkled too freely with recks as well as water It Is impossible to dnvea light vehicle, without danger, through many of the principal streets What with piles of sand and brick, and stone and mortar, and the loose cobbles and boulders scattered over the street and the mud aud puddles interspersed the streets are a disgrace to tbe city authorities who are In control This has no reference to any forty or faction, and tbe grumbling does not proceed from any particular class. It Is general, forcible and well founded, and the City Council ought to roceed at oncv and remove re-move the causes of these universal comp'aints |