Show Mr DIcberts Offers The following are extracts from a letter received re-ceived by Mr Fred Simon first vicepresident of the chamber of commerce It contains suggestions sug-gestions of a highly valuable and practical character char-acter and i acted upon and followed up would prove highly beneficial to the city in general The author is Mr Ferdinand Dlckert After Afer detailing some of the citys needs i the way of pleasure resorts i Its vicinity bq makes the following very generous offers He also refers to a ludicrous incident which occurred some two years ago II will subscribe S300 if the chamber of commerce com-merce opens a subscription and if there Is enough money raised to make a safe driveway for six or eight miles up City Creek canon with sideways for people to walk benches for rest ingand trees alone such walks 2I will subscribe 200 i there is enough money raised to make nice walks and benches and to plant trees etc in Red Butte canon for about three miles above the terminus of the railroads 3I will subscribe 8200 i enough money is raised to open a safe driveway up Emigration cation for three or four miles above Wagoners brewery 4I will subscribe 5300 to make a free bathing place for the poor at some point on Jordan river below Second South street to be in chaige of a swlmminx master People who can afford to do so to pay from 10 to 2 cents for their accommodations flI subscribe f2 to keep a special policeman to drive off horses and cows witqin a radius of three or four blocks from the postofllce center of town and as long as the crowded condition at the postofflce continues to keep them outside 1 out-side as I have seen not so very long ago a horse enter a millinery store next to the Salt Lake postofllce and quietly eat some hats throwing the propretres sinto a fit and making off again My check is ready at any time for the above propositions Very truly yours FERDINAND DICKEIIT |