Show The Streets To the Editor of THE HERALD Tho contention of THE HEIULTI the other day against any narrowing of the streets a good The city was laid out on a liberal lib-eral scale as to width of streets and it would bo poor shortsighted policy now to restrict them Many an old and populous city would b glad i it had our wide streets Most of them some time or other will have railroads running along them to say nothing of the many posts and the wino network of the various electric systems sys-tems It would indeed be well i each of the largo tenacre blocks had been cut through the center with 1 four rod street ant preferably cut that way which would have touched all the lot and reduced their twenty rod length It may have t be done yet but it could have been done with little et expense years ago Now it will cost considerable con-siderable and the longer itis delayed the moro it will bo likely to c st As to cultivation of the streets in anyway any-way it ought to bo discouraged and perhaps per-haps prohibited both a to planting trees except the sidewalk rows and turning the < sidewalks Into lawns a there is not and a n never will b water to spare for that purpose pur-pose in the summer and fall without rob iing the lots of their share which would be > very bad policy The twentyfoot sidewalks arc certainly of generous width but they should not be narrowed on any account as they might be kept in excellent condition at a very trifling expense by being thinly covered every two or threo years not with mud nor cobble stones nor boulders as is generally the case but with genuine fine gravel I they were sloped sufficiently to run off water freely and the ditches and waterfurrows wee properly flumed that Is all that would be > necessary except for the business parts cry of the inexpensive city and it would b comparatively CITIZEN |