Show alir OUR oun true P POSITION as DEFINED 1 A of the tho alta Alla calior i ma nia san francisco has lately crossed the plains horn the tho east to this city jn in coming here he has been greatly dis appointed whet Thet poor fellow de deserves berkes sympathy lie he says the city has always been overrated for taste beauty of improvements generally jt it is not surprising that flashy and find excitable writers should unconsciously sly siy ex 1 styls actual condition bub but heis neither flashy excitable nor so california is to get a truthful description jo n from his pen peo of things as they thoy are ilo iio he starts out by say admitting we have hilve a population of there is not another city in the northern states which does not excel our city in overy every particular particular save its plan of irrigation but he thinks wo deserve no credit for this the water the almighty furnishes and necessity compels compel s us to have recourse to water cout courses ses and we could have made them in no cheaper op or easier way ways with due regard to the streets and sidewalks side walks than by the tha plan we have adopted our streets are wide and at right angles but we have iab irb no pubic pares parks nor fountains nor statuary ta our ii public edifices are not finer chhn than hundreds in the states the Tl theatre leatra has been mentioned lie he says as the distinguishing architectural structure but to his artistic and critical eyes it is pot not so he has seen better buildings even the tabernacle does not dot suit 11 him im be finds fault unsparingly with I 1 it t though ka when the galleries ar are e erected lle ile lie he says people can be seated comfortably 1 I 1 ele he credits the masonry of the temple with being massive and aud as being the most elegan t ili in the city but then tha it is unfinished no neat deat walks through green swards awards studded with ornamental shrubs very little evergreen shrubbery are to ti be seen all of which are so plentiful he says in gentile cities in fact according to this writer the business lio iio houses bouses uses and residences si of salt lake city do not ilot compare with those of san francisco he denies that we have done wonders won woud deis dels eis els or excelled or even matched gentile improvements prove ments 11 new york has gone ahead of salt lake city new hew york has a central park has foun fountains bains has bas statuary washington bas has excelled salt lake city the capitol the white house the patent office the post office Off nice lice treasury ardd arid other public buildings are at it san francisco iq proba bly blanot abt behind salt Lake City all ail these the seare are gentile cities nitie how Hows could writers permit thease ivea ives to give publicity to such flashy and excitable statements as that salt lake city W was as a iwonder wonder and its progress vory very remarkable when such cities as new york v washington and aud san were in existence I 1 this sd sapient Prent discern discerning ing correspondent has good catie catle cause to mond band fault with aud and blame biame the writers who have him in our eity city to lemds lim tim ils fhe the igi eat credit of ili rii lii iii ii li i i signing ua us our true truer position in in the world z i in addition to 0 ek eab eif e ehe he finds fault with our city eity 1 oil oll and the management of althira ail alf airs here gen igen 1 tile ofle property is destroyed 11 he li says maybl laud and land their ilves lived whose liv lives ilves estlie estlle the pro hogt ys liv lives ilves taken talen with impunity 11 S urther orther ailiese saints look ucb 1 t el biu piu a bli bil at 0 th tint tift railroad with nearly aati aari as pilo sl ardd the ike dwa dua I 1 I 1 ill 11 A li fa ith of city alty W frol re reading reiding iding thi suir atiat it had been con with the 4 virginia or at farther w with it I 1 aa P pilgrim leathers at b rock would any body that kasnot was not an art idiot expect aspect to find public bubli e parks fountains and statuary in ili a city I 1 ty twenty years old and laid ou out oui in the midst of a desert as this was wa and then to indulge in jn dreary nonsense about the tho absence of neat walks through green swards awards studded with ornamental na shrubs and expect intelligent people to accept his bis correction of previous writers how the family of such p man map can trust him to make mabe a t trip ri p across the plains without being unde under r the abe carlof care of a guardian is lias lins passing sing strange after writing in ili the e strain that he has about tha improvements i here liere we are not pot surprised at 4 his statements about Cl clautie eutie property and their thein lives or about the feelings of the people of utah respecting c t ing the railroad if we have any surprise it ig 14 thattie aita alia fact i effimia would ucla uela aider balderdash alder dash fa into to its colu columns mno i |