Show TO CLEAN GLEAN CITY I ON ARBOR RAY pAY 1 i Civic Improvement League Urged Mayor to Close Stores in Aid AidS Aidi S i of Plan STREETS AGITATED PARKING OF THOROUGHFARES TO COME BEFORE COUNCIL If the plans of the Civic Improve Improvement Improvement ment league carry ca r to completion Sale Sal Lake will be as clean as a pin the day dayt following Arbor Day which falls faller bY byi Governor Cutlers proclamation oni on Monday April 16 House Hous cleaning cle yard cleaning and street cleaning are ar arthe the methods urged d by the league mem members members bers belS bersIn bersIn In a letter to Mayor Ezra Thompson yesterday President Frank B Ste Stephens Stephens of the league asked that the mayor issue a proclamation to tie the ef of feet that all stores business houses bouse and offices close their doors part ot o Arbor Day In order to allow the em to undertake the campaign o cleanliness Before leaving for Chicago yesterday ye afternoon President Stephens delegated ted to Orson H Hewlet H of the board baud of ot governors of the league the authority to appoint a committee to wait walton on the th mayor in the Interests of ot the step This committee will be selected s today Success in Spokane The plans plan of the league for a general house cleaning are similar to those tho ran rei re recently carried out in Spokane Wash Washington ington In that city a day of cleaning was authorized and in a manner or ordered ordered ordered dered by the city officials During the thea th day a force of or more citizens citizen got out their th ir rakes and shovels andl andi brooms and cleaned the town ton inside and out The Tile result of that day made Spokane for the th nonce the cleanest city in itt the world In the coming day of cleaning par particular particular particular attention will be tie paid to some of the residences and yards In or close chose to the business section There are dozens of houses In this district pat par particularly between First South and Fourth South and from West Temple to Second East that are in a d condition It is th thes i iso so easily seen by b tourists arid ad al d tors to Salt Lake Late that the league hoPes nones to reach x xIn In his proclamation Batting elting apart April 16 as Arbor Day Da Governor Go Cu Culer Culer ler called upon the peOple Je of the th state to make the dRY day not nt t tl tree planting and garden opening oJ but one of or cleaning house yards ards and streets The ideas as set out in proclamation are the ones the league l ague will ask the mayor to follow the only difference being that the mayors proclamation will order the city street cleaners out to work Parking Plan Discussed The plan of parking of the streets told in The Herald some days da s ago Is Isnow Isnow Isnow now before the city cit council Some of oe the th councilmen have hae signified their in intention Intention intention of supporting the Innovation The plan so far as worked out lot is 1 simple and inexpensive says members member of the league It Is the Idea of or thet th league to have the council pass an or ordinance ordinance ordinance appropriating a portion of o each street possibly ten feet on either elthe side immediately imm adjoining the present presents curb lines for parking purposes This stretch of ground is to be planted lIb in grass On the street side a heavy curb will be laid so as to wagons wagon or persons from trespassing on th the grass The expense of maintaining tha thell th grass plots will be borne by b the city This expense it is said will not bei b large The sprinkling wagons now used to water the streets could be made to todo todo t do the sprinkling of the grass plots The cutting of the grass could be done by a mowing machine and andy would be Inexpensive It is probable that a special park commission will be b basked asked for to look after the streetS street parked after the league plan Sixth East street has been suggested for the th experiment Will Haul Shale Cheaply Superintendent W P Reed of tha th Utah Light Railway Railways company haa ha stated that he will haul to any point pointon on n the lines of the company for aj w nominal price per load all aU the crushed shale the city or league can use in th plans for macadamizing the streets Ai 1 large bed of shale is located neat near Becks warm springs on the line of the street car company An agitation favoring the sprinkling of macadamized streets with oil has been started It is claimed that this titis method of treating the surfaced streets will eventually prevent mud and dust This experiment is likely to tOP tobe t be tried tri d on Second street |