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Show BEFORE WE PAVB. Whilo the strike is drawing attention to the street cars it may not-bo amiss to say a word concerning the overhead wires that are being strung along the lines of its system, which is identical with the best parts of the city. These wires are going to cause considerable trouble some day if they are not removed re-moved underground bclime. Some serious se-rious accidents 8nd several hairbreadth escapes have already occurred and they will multiply in the'future as the company com-pany extends its service. Overhead wires may do for the smaller townssbut where a city like Salt Lake is encumbered encum-bered with a network of them, ths danger dan-ger of iires and electrocutions from the crossing of telephone wires with light and motor wires is ever present. The lime ' will como when the motor car company will lincl its service seriously interfered with by the crowding of high and low current wires and it will be forced to lay its wires underground as a matter of self protection, just as the same companies are doing in other cities. , As the change is bound to be made some day in tho near future, why would it not bo a good policy to commence with it right now, before the system is completed, aud especially before tho streets are being paved? It will never be so cheap again as today. By and by the work will necessitate tho uprooting of pavements in tho streets with all the attending inconveuienco, blockade and expense. We have no idea that the company will act upon our advice since its policy . is . one for the day, but it would nevertheless bo a good stroke of business and a most desirablo thing for tho city to have the unsightly forest of poles' lining the middle of tho streets removed from view, ... |