Show DECORATE THE CITY Dr Faust Presents a Number of Good Suggestions To the Salt Lake Herald At the last m tng of the Foresters association the subject was discussed of planting trees making a park out of City Creek canyon and making what ought to have been made long ago a park of the Pioneer square A committee I commit-tee was appointed to confer with the city council and mayor and get the surplus trees from Liberty park to transplant in City Creek canyon The first question asked the committee was Where is the money coming from I am aware that Salt Lake City owes two and onehalf millions of dollars and that we are paying over 5300 everyday every-day that the sun rises and sets as interest inter-est and that it Will take 50 years to pay the debt Should we have to wait until that time to get the money to do the work necessary When President Brigham Young and the pioneers landed In Utah they had neither money nor credit They had a will and with that they went to work and made the country what i is My proposition Is for the present and future generations to uo soinetnmg MO that unu ire want and the to work to beautify the canyon squares in this city Mr Klettlng of the association has drawn plans for the park in the canyon and he will furnish fur-nish them free NURSERYMEN Every nurseryman In the city and county will contribute his share and surplus trees and it will repay them advertisement throughout as an adertsement People out the city will contribute their surplus trees and set them out themselves Every man woman and child in this city now and those who will come hereafter are Interested in the water question City creek has and will have to supply the water for this city The snow falling in the winter and melting in the summer makes that supply Now If that snow is shaded and protected from the sun and wind in the spring it will be slower in melting and will longer supply the springs during the summer The men employed to watch the waterworks wa-terworks could be employed to plant out trees and water them The irrigating irrigat-ing could be done during the high waters wa-ters in the spring The water thus used would sink and strengthen the springs in great part During the hot months and for a short season the irrigating could be done at night The prisoners of the city and county could be used In planting trees and working the roads PIONEER SQUARE Pioneer square after the Temple square Is the most sacred spot In the city and should have been made into a park long ago This block could be beautified in this wise There are plenty of people who would lease small portions for flower gardens vegetable gardens and nurseries A pat could be prepared and each person so leasing be required to plant so many trees and a hedge fronting the sidewalk according I I to specification in lieu of rent This lease should be made for a term of i years so as to justify good people In I leasing A hall of relics should be built when the money ca be had A space in the center of the blodk should be left for a miniature fort similar to the I t simia I old one This shoul be the place for I any and all monuments to the great I men of Utah Some day there will come I along a rich man who will want to do i some public good and leave a fund to j I build a monument to the pioneers or I a hal of relics of pioneer days Men have done these things in other countries I coun-tries and cities They will do so here Let us give them the foundation on that square This block belongs tothe I people and should be so kept THE UNIVERSITY BLOCK The University square was given to the territory by th city and it was stipulated in the deed that the grounds should be beautified but they are yet as they were received In a very untidy condition What is the matter with the professor and students They ought to do something Why dont they observe Arbor day and plant and transplant trees I can assure the younJ men that it will be a great pleasure pleas-ure when they become old to see In the place that gave them their education educa-tion a tree planted by them In youth and to feel that they had a hand in beautifying those grounds as well a the ctADORN ADORN YOUR PREMISES Spring is here Let usbeautify our own premises and thereby beautify our great Salt Lake City Let the owners go out In the morning and take a look at their premises Take a special look at the fence I it needs painting paint Jt or if whitewashing whitewash It I it is dilapidated remove i as there are no longer any cattle running at large to bother you I you think that you must have a fence have a good a one as your neighbor but I would say plant rosebushes and evergreens as fences and flowers instead of that dilap idated pile of rubbish that you now have The city of Greeley has no I fences at all yet It is one of the handsomest hand-somest places that I ever saw I Arbor day will be on April 15 On that day everybody is expected to plant I a tree so let all the good people of I Salt liake go up City Creek canyon and plant one each or as many a they are able to Make it a good day make it a day of all days to build a monument monu-ment to yourselves Let the teachers of all the schools set the example Let every preacher every bishop every teacher teach the young how to do good by causing two trees to grow where there was none before Let all sing of the old tree that will shelter you and me H J FAUST e |