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Show COMMERCIAL MTKKKT. Tho indignation voiced in The Times ' yesterday at the abandonment of tho i paving of Commercial street at this stage of the work is echoed by every interested inter-ested citizen. A gentloman gives vent to his feelings in the following commu- nication to Thk Timks: Have citizens no rlulit that the city council and the nsph:ilt company should respect f Three mouths ano Commercial ftn'Ot was closed to tratllc, to ie pavid. I have seen asphalt piiviiiK done In lluHalo, New York, St. Paul, KansisCity, and Topeka. and have secu contractors commence and llnlsh the KUttrlni and all, of a block as Inreas (Mmmerclal street, In less than twenty days. Every store keeper, every liuslnues man is Injured liy the unwarranted delay. Today Ovumerclal street reiemhles a etime yard more than a public thoroughfare. Why did the asphalt company undert ike the contra 't when they knew they could not fill ltf lias any city council the power to close a public t uimuehfare for mouths? Would any riuht minded Jury refuse to Kraut to business men duiuaKes done to their huslness by this unwarranted delay in case they should sue theclty? This represents many Indlirnant citizens of Commercial street including; subscribers to' your valuable paper. It seems to us the contractors are taking nn undue advantage of the people peo-ple and tho city council. If they aro reliable and experienced men they must have known when they started iu with the work how long it would take them and whether they could finish it before cold weather was liable to sot in. We don't believe, though, it is the cold weather that stopped the work for there has been ho cold weather sufficient suffi-cient to interfere with the laying of asphaltum, certainly none so severe as the contractors might have expected aud should have taken into calculation when they assumed to do the work. -The whole thing is a wanton imposition imposi-tion upon a patient and long Buffering people. |