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Show "give them a show. The Attacks on the Hot Springs Railway Company Nothing but Flimsy, Idle Vapnrings. THE PUBLIC IS INTERE8TED And will Protest Against Any Effort to Cripple an Enterprise of so Much Value. In tho absence of something else at which to direct its snarls ami shalts of limning hate Launau's Own arraigus the enterprising company who are constructing con-structing the line of railway to Hot Springs and Bountiful, and commends them to the prompt action of the city engineer. In justice to that dignitary who has learned all the details of the profession iu which he was engaged it may be said that he I is giving to the project all the attention that bis position exacts of him and in vindication of the company it may be tated that they have done nothing yet, nor do they propose doing anything to call for valid complaint or remonstrance remon-strance from any source. They are subjecting no one to any more inconvenience incon-venience than the consummation of an enterprise, whose benefits arc rellected on all classes, necessitates. The reporter re-porter has ascertained that the atrip along the public road into which the company is cutting a way for its rolling stock is owned by ir, and that it has a right to adapt it to whatever use it sees lit. so long as it keeps within the requirements re-quirements of the law. "I don't sanction this domineering practice of jumping on to a little railroad rail-road whose enterprise means so much for the city and its suburbs," remarked a prominent citizen this morning. "It is quite natural that building of any kind should temporarily annoy the voyager more or less. We must put up with it, however, and look to the achievement to compensate us for whatever inconvenience we may have been put to for tho time. Don't cripple such enterprises with idle complaints aud hollow vaporings, but encourage them to go ahead. The completion of the line to Bountiful means more than an ordinary volume for the commercial commer-cial prosperity of Zion. It means much, too, for the health-seeking public and for the workman work-man who will ultimately provide himself him-self with a home upon its course because be-cause he can't afford one in the heart of the city. The work is going on under un-der the direction of the city's representative repre-sentative and if a critic's eye fails to detect de-tect cause for complaint the public should be willing to reconcile itself to the belief that work is goiug on as is required by the ordinances and conditions condi-tions of the, franchise. Give the railroads rail-roads a show is my sentiments. The company is doing all within its power to hasten work on tne line and to get it in early operation. The public pub-lic are as anxious to have it done as they are to do it and is willing to submit sub-mit to a thirty foot drive way until it can get something better and a system of cheap transportation with which to parallel it. Nearly everybody can indulge in-dulge himself and his family in a street car rido at street car rates, but it is only the allluent few who can afford the cost of a livery outfit. Give 'em a show. |