| Show AL CHANGE IN STREET NUMBERING Telegram Telegram Telegram-A ram ram-A A short time I ed your readers to tows ws s 's on the subject of reD re- re the streets of ofIe D' D Ie ms eta to me that merely reIs re re- JL Is time tJ Ih Ia not sufficient radU ii change In fn the theIn In L f nomenclature i p ace the the- present arrange arrange- streets street streets east east west u h should h-should should be abandoned 1 ky I be Ingenious fl Ual Is s s an in unmitigated nuisance aware the fact that Main MaiO Temple streets arc are used I heads ds to much confusion A Anding riding on Main Muir street at the lock ek and facing south finds the tho beginning of the street numb numbers rs on his left If It he I le street and faces fl at al the beginning of a a. tl c. c odd numbers on his left leCt Ut l on the C other th side of the C tanda n o on South us ge tm Temple the thc same phenomenon confronts him and again If he turns around and looks west A simple and easily understood plan lan would be to take the line defining the city limits on the west as a ba base c and have the first street running parallel therewith from north to south called First street the next one Second street and so jon on There need be no qualifying points of of- the compass attached Suppose In this wy Main street came In as Eleventh Elev street although It might well continue continue continue con con- to be known as Main then the what I Is S Second ond East be plain Thirteenth Thirteenth Thirteenth Thir Thir- street and anth th thA present Thirteenth East would be plain fourth Twenty fourth street I Instead of North or South Fifth West V st and South Fifth East there would be just Fifth and and Sixteenth le nth streets respectively Streets running Ea East EMt it and West Vest should be called avenues and the numbering should begin from the western end with odd numbers on left Thus at the southwest southwest southwest south south- west corner of First South and Main Mam the number on First South would be 1100 At Atthe Atthe Atthe the intersection of what is now Fifth East it would be 1600 and so on on ItO numbers to each block and easily located by any any- one ono The avenues could be named for dis dis- dis personages and places as Is done In Ip other large Jarg-e cities For FoOr example in place of First Second and Third South SO etc we could could- have Washington JefferS Jefferson Jefferson Jeffer Jeffer- S son Lafayette Lincoln Grant Young Woodruff Havana Santiago etc all In intersected in- in by streets numbered First to Twenty-fourth Twenty or whatever might be the the- limit It might be a good d plan to have the names of the avenues arranged In fn alphabetical sequence let n the Centre street section sometimes called th the Marmalade district on account account ac account ac- ac count of the number of streets named for fruits as the streets are arec mostly short and do not follow regular lines it might be necessary tp allow the present ar tir- tir nt t to remain as it is The lettered let let- and numbered streets numbered streets on th the north j ar-j bench isn sto should dl have names except f in the case of f some lettered streets ts which I h might I l pei perhaps haps be worked In as a continuation of certain numbered streets now running south of East South Temple Of course care would be taken to correct cor cor- cor- cor reet all all' cases eases of duplication now now existing an and to be complete any new system Include str street et signs plainly legible by day and night c c. c H H. S S. S Salt Sail Lake City April 19 1902 1002 |
