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Show I'liuri) rilOIIRKSlNG. The Live Town Fast Assuming Metropolis Uo Aim and Pusaiug Right to the Front. MANY PSOJECTED IMPROVEMENTS, A Street Railroad Service Aisunsd Eioo trie Lights and W.terworks Aa Enjoyable Concert. l'lt'it". l"tah. July 2 (Smt'uI for-rostondenoo. for-rostondenoo. 1'roYo's cilUen will soon Imi enjoying the metropolitan con tenienoes of a street mi I load scrvioM, its Wm. lrobesl. the imperiiltciidoiit, loll for tho cast ) e.Mordiiy to purcb.v the rolling stock. When h retnrtis. tho lino will bo so far eomplolnd that it will be opened for ti atlie. It is due Mr. 1'ridM'st lo say that if it were not for his tireless rffort in behalf of this t nter-prise, nter-prise, and his urging our ritutm t take hold of it. wo would not now be so near a realization of soniethiiii that a year ago w only dated dream of as something vary remote, re-mote, Hut the titrdeu City is now ad-vanciug ad-vanciug so rapidly In material prosperity, pros-perity, that it is not only convenience but a necessity. It is now euoutially a 1'rovo institution, as all effort looking towards iut"i(tiug Salt mI rapa.vl resulted in failure, and our own peopto thou took hold of It and carried it on to a successful termination. The track Is now laid from the fovt of J street to it Intersection with Seventh, and on Seventh beyond the crowing of (he Hto (Irr.ndo and I'. 1'. railroad ami is now i.oing rapidly built lo Thorn -win & Drake's bathing resort, i.n Hi lUtidv beach of I'tah Lak. A motor has been recently received from Ogdea. w hero wo were also l obtain cars, but on account ot tn cnruitai tney count not bo "pared. Somo step have l-en taken with a view to opening thi lino to the public on July 2Uh with quite lniKMdng public ceremonle. vt jwr.n woiiKS. An ordinance, wa made by th etv council recently, authorising lho city lo enter Into a eouir.iot with a company tn supply u with water. Such a contract w as 'made last Friday night Iwtweeit Provo and Wieher Jnnrt of Salt Laku for furnishing an adequate water y-torn y-torn to this eitv Thi contract I a mont than usually fair ono. a It reaorvn lho right In tho city council to 11 qulubl raiea, etc. The noiiree. of lho water will be, tho l'rovo river near tho uiouth of thn canyon, giving a preasuro of about l.'il) pound. W ichor Jone and Judga Power, hi attorney, were In the eily yenlerdny settling detail and winding up the e-gal e-gal threads. Thn estimated coat of the works is alHiut tioo.ono. All of the pip for the. work will ba manufactured at home by Duvey & Sundhurg, of the Sua foundry, n.Errntc lioiit rouraar. Pole have now bwn ptarad ready fop lho stretching of tlm wire, on J atnwt. from Firt to Ninth, and on Seventh Btroot from K to L treets, and on E from Fifth lo Ninth, which compn all the business part of lho city. Tbi Provo F.lcctrin Light company arw doing ihi work, the plant for which I located lit tho woolen mill, and it i the Intention of the company, lu a nliort timo, lo InoorjKirato the euter-priso euter-priso with that of tha Prnfo woolen mill Seventeen arc light will furnished for illiiminaling tha city. Heed Suioot U lho suiierintendeol of thi work, w hieh ha all been douo nailer na-iler hi directing eyo. A DKI-lilllHl I. kNTCKTAiaMtXT. Last night Virgil A. Pinklev. an eminent emi-nent elocutionist, gavo an entertainment entertain-ment al thn opera houne of a raried programme, of Jame Whitcomb Riley' Ril-ey' poems and other work, omnprU-lug omnprU-lug tragic, comic ami wniinieuul. lb was nikied by Mi Lillian RoherUof this city, who ha but recently returned from a' two year' eoiirwi of tudy at tho Cincinnati coneervatory of uiuaie. (In her return nhe. wa tendered a complimentary com-plimentary concert Jiwt Saturday, which waa very largely atttednd and a lii't geiierou reception accorded ac-corded her. lu that concert aud thn t number which ho gar laat night, Mis Hubert demons! rated thl her studio had been wonderfully beoe-licial beoe-licial to her in amoothing ff th rough corner of her voice and in improving im-proving It In many waj. ller vol.it l a me..o eoprano ot considerable; power, good coiiipa and inoet eaeol-lent eaeol-lent quality. Indeed, therw are many profewdoual, and auuvemful one, to-j, who have not eo much natural qimlili-ration qimlili-ration a he. t-'otixidering hrr Vuutli, the short tune of her tudie and lack of experience in iiigmg florid atyui of mimic in public, b r lecuiquu U luM surprising. . She i not yet at Imuie or easy behinil the foot light and thi limidura make hi: r at lack. i met i in'- faulty, but thi limy l remedied bv an bu reau) v( per-otial per-otial euiilideiiie. Mi llobwrt l tha daughter of Wm. D llolairUnf thi city and l'rovo l very proud id her. After ,.-r vacation. will return to 1,'inclB-liatt 1,'inclB-liatt and reum.t her ludic for on ear more. whrl it It thought h Wilt 'adopt the oper.'Uio t.gn. Should iht in her tiido a'n oioro in epreioD. Kvmpaiby and prn.il (am aud abandon, aban-don, "he houid win u:et and public! (nor, in that very bard profession personally he l young, pretty, aud of good tisuro and ba a (rtm splendid voire a a foumlatioa on whic li to build a pier of musical architecture |