Show ova CITY the recent of 0 september contains a loner letter written from this c ity city which gives I 1 fust at a fair account of 0 tho the principle on oil which engineer DORE mui has carried on his bis engineering work in tills this city and says without the know ledge noce to judge coulso dently many of us asaro aro inclined to believe that wo we are inflicted by a bobby and for satisfaction have decided to appeal to aou ou for information as to lg whether the experience aud and practice in it other cities jwuc flog the rail railroad road tactics of our and for philon as to whether the course head ho adv viges lc and in fact insists upon Is lu fit the lh line of modern municipal engineering practice gild and as ho claims in III 00 direction of at an insurance against future change cha nf of Krail grade ci ii 0 or the hallucinations of a crank A full expresion through your journal w will III bo be appreciated to which tho Ricord replies as a follows so b one 0 fr r as can call bo be judged by the statement a I 1 our 4 it luke lake city try li if to III oa city engineer abo ot the grades of it streets lu in IL city laid out aubun oil ti abu 0 erld grid tion llo plan on CD it 1 ida with b ets i foot feet wide ald and tho the blocks 0 of I 1 an 1111 area or of ton acres a we a i 1 aljo 0 bao at salt lako lake city Is a work requiring g I 1 good dual of skin bull aud abu fart fact the present incumbent oc at tho the city office be but bad twenty y at ex porm e 1 la public works is very much to la bis bh favor th tho of 0 a restriction on the differ vince of alai donation attan between tho ilia two aided of the street Is and indeed Is essential to 88 safety fety and comfort in traveling along the street particularly ih ahk th true at the intersection ter of 0 cross crom streets sl root HUI and the cju requirement that the grading nl at the ilio hould not exceed 1 pur pup cent Is very tir kirver ver and with ii tro of lord level than that described aad ad a prefer or crown 0 we to the to throw the he water t 11 t iho be gutters it would bo be somewhat difficult for far one bury buggy to pass another without the occupants holding on oa and g if e I 1 r arms around each other to keep their placed intiso ID alio wagon ihal kind of motivo porcar Is used in ascending the streets mall 30 por par rent cent grades of which our speaks peaks fl no 0 do cot know wo we should thick the en cn knowd ginevr would adopt opt on such IL ut street I 1 ilia ho maltese plan and have ft stairway instead of a dext ter slope it such streets cun can bo be reduced to sit ail 18 16 per cent grade crado will b Is three tidle Us ILS steep us BUY oily city afree L ought to bu 11 tho the property owners should not grumble at the ilie cost of grading and building retaining wells walls I 1 bal taul engineer Is not I with WILI ft a h obby hobby la Is proved by tho the fact that in sonic eased tin tins lim a anil ad deviated from the ibo very proper role for general practice thit grade lines bo be straight along a block idd ad t bat the curb lines should be parallel 1 tt timber further knowledge of tho the details 0 tile cuo buo than our correspondent Us u wo we are of I 1 abo 0 opinion 1 n ion that the a co courso tetlow ran it Is fiill 1 4 fled by experience and in municipal work in other places and cannot be design bcd tactics in any y in proper and offensive annc we think that tile tho groat great cumo cause of dig saLk factiOn in fit this city through tho the L manipulations of the Engi engineer has cattle train tile tho over spreading of lit ills work A ork wo we think that had tho the work been begun at tho most densely populated u and frequented center of tho the city lor for tho ilia initial point that irom from there tho the work had radiated radl atod in every direction keeping in n mind that tho inet populated portion should receive ce ive tho ilia work that as a ilia work progressed the people havo have understood der stood that that lint was finished for all time thero there havo have ben been no dissatisfaction As it Is 13 work has is 5 been dono done a milo mile from the center of tb the 1 city ity C where there Is not much traffic where choro thero there aro are no deore trades grades be hero re tile the trees nere cre all beautiful and W here neither tho the property properly owners nor tile tho cit citizens generally desired any ex improvement and thero there the work I 1 in n many places ii lacea hn caused heart bui buining ning discomfort find and complaint from a scientific standpoint no ono can nor ery y much combat nhat has be been e n done from a bu hiess standpoint very much has been done which thore there wai no occlusion to do for two three four or even six all loara oars to caine lid hid tho the work alach A now low makes con plaint been begun at tho the center find and made to 10 radiate from the center in innery e cry direction it would havo have mado an object dessou aich vituld bould liac diac e been a 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