Show That Boulevard Question expected < the Tribune would fly into a rage when THE HERALD voiced the very general public sentiment in relation to the boulevard We are not surprised that instead of responding to our request for more light and less mud it treats us to more mud and no light at all Being deficient of illuminating fluid it falls back on its common expedient of attributing the remarks of THE HERALD to an individual indi-vidual and then lying about him No light in that and it will not help the boulevard Now as to the muddy streets The Tribune Tri-bune says The muddy streets happen to be whore the paving J which is already provided for is to be put down as soon as tho weather gets good Indeed Are the very few streets that are to be paved the only ones where the mud is ancle deep Are they as bad as most of the treets that are not likely to be paved for many years to come The streets have been for a long time in a worse condition than they ever were before since this city has had anything like a revenue for street purposes The trouble is that very little work has been done upon the streets except in a few localities that is of a lasting nature Macadamizing on a solid basis might answer the necessary purpose But hauling haul-ing gravel on them occasionally and in small quantities is mere patchwork at best and the gravel sinks or the mud rises and the socalled roadways are nothing but mire and dirt When this is the condition nearly a lover l-over the town and the taxpayers in every ward are complaining the project to construct such boulevard is advocated for the benefit of a comparative few while the many suffer for a lack of passable streets is not to be thrust down the throats of the public without some investigation in-vestigation The Tribune never has any patience when its ipse dixit is questioned but we dont care a ditna for its passion or its vituperation We want reasons for this scheme not airy nothings mixed with groundless assertions Now as to keeping the boulevard in repair after it is built Here is what the Tribune siys in answer to our question ques-tion about the cost and who is to pay it There ought to be a line of pipe stretched along the outer line of tho boulevard with faucets at convenient distances and one man during the summer sum-mer season could do the sprinkling for the whole distance Wonderfull Tho sagacity and practical practi-cal roadmaking wisdom displayed in that sentence render it a gem The miles of roadway contemplated in the scheme is to be kept in repair by sprinkling done by one man for the whole distance That is something new under tho sun after all The Tribune had better have one man with a sprinkler on each of tho shocking streets today repair them they would be placed in splendid order by a little more sprinkling would they not But perhaps it means that the line of pipe would mend the road whenever it gets out of repair Well who is to pay for the miles of pipe stretched along the outer line of the boulevard It strikes us that the taxpayers would have to furnish I fur-nish the pipe and pay the piper whenever the boulevard needed any kind of work to place It inorder THE HERALD has not yet opposed the n r > 1i U tirt L t boulevard scheme but has simply expressed ex-pressed the views of a whole lot of taxpayers tax-payers and asked for a little information on matters connected with it in which every citizen is interested By way of answer we getthe essence of politeness and engineering science displayed in the sprinkling method of road repairing and other lucid remarks of the Tribune THE HERALD is of the opinion that the original cost of the boulevard as estimated esti-mated is but a small part of the expense it will entail on somebody The whole I matter ought to be understood before the undertaking is begun The disposition I shown by the Tribune to shuffle over this important question and to abuse anyone who asks for light on it is an indication that there is something about it that prefers pre-fers darkness Again we say > referring now to the Tribunes response give us more light and less mud |