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Show A JOB F0RT1IE VAGS. An Opportunity for the Lazy Genius to Contribute an Indirect Tax to the Oity. A PICK AND SHOVEL BRIGADE. An Economical Method for Keeping the Gntters and Crossings Free from Filth. The liquidescent condition of the thoroughfares at the present time is a sloppy premonition of what will be experienced ex-perienced when the weather clerk does turn down his collar and slides into the lighter garments of spring. The outlook is blue. It is blue for the man whose life pursuits pur-suits impose on him no end of leg work. Blue for the drayman who is forced to accept the shortest distance between two points. Blue for the man who has a sewer connection to make. Blue for the dude with the toothpick shoes and blue for the votary of fashion who must have her spring (bonuet and a new shade of kids, Supervisor Paul who presides over the streets has been among the first to detect this array of blue facts in the black setting and is now casting about for a remedy. An economist by nature, he does not feel himself disposed to recommend any ex-travigant ex-travigant policy. There are already too many things nursing at the municipal muni-cipal crib, and to reach this some special spec-ial process must be improvised. The scavenger can't afford to invade his own constautly increasing appropriations appropria-tions that have yet failed to reach a figure sufficient to keep pestilence in subjection, nor is there any other department de-partment the head of which is philanthropic philan-thropic enough to share its resources, so that the supervisor is left to rustle for himself. The streets all of them are wearing an unsightly mantle. Tho recent snow storms have heaped their units in guuera anu suueu uiu uaiurai channels for the off-carrying of tilth. The street car tracks have raised themselves so far above the grade of the streets as to wall in the water and mud that might drift to the gutters and sidewalks in many localities furnish the basin for a miniature pond. All these things must be remedied. How is it to be done Marshal Young says the remedy offers itself at very little expense and volunteers to supply it any time within twenty-four hours. At present tho jail is stilling with idle labor. It isof a vigorous vig-orous growth and should not be permitted per-mitted to waste itself in dreams and prison reflections. A regiment of those able bodied sojurs could be recruited re-cruited in very few hours. The dives and resorts are swarming with them. Every corner offers a half dozen or more, and many of them are raaiipit)iV,Tv if not fashionnhlv. drpsseri. Make use of them, and vagrancy in Zion will soon be abated. They are of no earthly use to themselves, and might bo utilized by the city. Provide each of them with a pick or a shovel and distribute them along the crossings and glitters. Won't work? That is, the aristocrats won't. Then, says an officer, put a ball and chain on 'em and let 'em pose as ornaments. orna-ments. They do It in other cities, why not here? Tlie vag is the natural broom for a spring clean up. He is cheap material, ma-terial, and if the city will permit the police department to furnish Captain Paul with a few squads, the present condition of affairs that is bound to hl-eed contagion and death will be remedied. |