Show VIEWS OF A VISITOR he talks about tramps ditches and sidewalks Side walka editor 1 we have arrived in the garden city once more and of course we must rush into print again with our troubles we arrived via a late R G W train yesterday and as we alighted were surprised to see a number of rough looking men crawl from under the cars where they had no doubt been ro on the brakes with considerable comfort without deigning to pay any further attention to our fellow travelers from beneath we seized our grip and started for up town but had not proceeded far when we were individuals or as they are rather impolitely termed by some people dead beats or tramps with a say mister give us a quarter to git a meal avitu als wont you aint had a bite since lawnin this time we were completely surprised we managed to retain oar presence of mind however and also a firm hold upon our grip for reasons that will be obvious to the reader we gaye him the quarter and were not at all surprised to seo him into saloon our in the the first and second instances were OG cassi ened by the fact that we supposed that the genus tramp had not arrived in the garden city to any great extent later in the evening we were informed by mine host that these gentlemen of leisure bad grown to be a common thing of late in the city we were told that several shops and stores had been burglarized one man had been knocked down and several ladies had been insulted by this class of individuals we were anything but pleased to learn of such a state of affairs as we had always looked forward pleasure to our visit to provo and this would certainly prove to be somewhat of a dampener on our pleasure now mr editor allow ua to propound a question suppose every stranger coming the gates of mhd city who had no visible means of support was taken in and clothed in a coat and pair of many a ring placed upon his ankle and a ball and chain attached thereto and taken fourth upon the streets alleys and public highways and there be compelled to rake rocks and perform other manual labor under the direction of a guard accompanied by a shot gun and in the event of his dealing to perform said manual labor that he be placed in a dark cell and fed upon bread and water until he arrived athis senses do you think mr editor that tramps thugs toughs and thieves would be quite so numerous in the city while we were considering the above suppositions and query we took an evening stroll and unwittingly strayed up into the northwestern north western part of town we opre walking along quietly smoking our cigar when the following conversation between a young lady and gentleman reached our ear he look out theres another ditch she and no bridge over it either ill that makes five on this block it beats the last block by one he correct but say this is one of the worst towns for ditches and flooded sidewalks aint it well I 1 should smi leits worse than salt lake at this juncture wo turned a comer and beam no more ko comments A VISITOR prove july 18 1890 |