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Show THE MISERABLE MUD Is a Rerloui Detriment to AH Hindi of Travel. The mud still holds the streets in a wretched condition, and complaints continue to arise from various quarters. It has gotten so deep on some of the thoroughfares that the street car companies com-panies are experiencing some difliculty in running their vehicles. This accounts for the cars running somewhat slower than usual, especially on Second South street, whore the mud covers tho tracks and the space between the rails. "If we were to run as fast a accustomed," accus-tomed," said a conductor, "the mud would fly up and in a short time ruin the machine. There are live or six cars now in the barn under repairs, the damages arisiug from too much mud. Tho company has to 'contend with it and from prospects the trouble will continue for somo time. The public may growl about us not running faster but we are doiag as much as can be done amid such surroundings." |