Show raving and Sew erase It is n fact that several mouths ago our city council fired with the spirit of public improvement passed an ordinance forpuv ing the s dcwalks and constructing street crossings and it is also a fact that tho ordinance or-dinance is practically a dead letter Now as the season is far rdvanced and taking into consideration that only bad weather has prevailed during the entire fall with promise of its continuance throughout the winter it will perhaps be as well to endure the ills complaiued of until the advent ad-vent of settled weather next spring when the ctv council having had more time to delicrate cau tike a fresh start and maybe aoniethiug practical toward im pro IntlJe streets and sidewalks This is a question that will bear a great deal of reflection and deliberation The samo problem that confronts our city authorities au-thorities has been before the city council of ever other live and progressive city and In j some instanecsjunduo haste has resulted in baukrupting the treasury Speaikng upo this subject the Denver JVetw says The irrational hasto that has been urged in respect to an improvement that should be done in the best manner regardless of time is wholly of artificial and asphalt origin There is abundance of time to secure the simplest information and no attention should be paid to such manufacture t manufac-ture evidence as has been drummed up by agents of the asphalt combination and circulated cir-culated in this community Twenty cities in tho United States have been duped by that species of cheap fraud and are now in the courts wrangling with the people who victimized them Facts would satisfy many persons that they have been inexcusably inex-cusably deceived as to the respective merits of cheappriced asphalt and good stone block pavement Our city council expect to come into possession pos-session of a large sum of money for public improvements before many months and as nothing practical can be done in this line during the winter it will do to bear in mind that storm sewerage and water mains should precede street paving and that the question of material to be used can be decided de-cided at leisure |