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Show J SUGGESTIONS WORTHY OF, CONSIDERATION. In a communication addressed to the "Editor of the Booster Department De-partment of The Telegram," an esteemed subscriber makes two sug-, ' gestions that it is well to consider in connection with the coming prosperity pros-perity in Salt Lake. His first suggestion is that rents for houses occupied by people . of moderate means are too high. "Twenty dollars a month for four Finall rooms in some back yard, with the price of foodstuffs as, it is in this city," he says, "is not very inviting to the man wboworks.' His complaint is not ill-timed. It is too frequently the case that homes for working people in Salt Lake are not what they should be and that rents for small .badly-constructed houses are too high. The suggestion opens the way for property-owners, to consider the problem prob-lem of bettering conditions. It is a study, not for philanthropy, but for practical business judgment. The man who can devise practical homes for working people at reasonable rental will reap a reward for his investment. Ground is too plentiful in Salt Lake, and the demand for modern houses too active that working people must perforce pay high rents for uninhabitable adobe shacks in 'courts and back yards. It is for men pf money to devise plans for ameliorating this condition. -- Another suggestion made by our friend, while eminently pertinent perti-nent and much to be desired, is, we fear, beyond the realm of the possible pos-sible at this time. He says: "The street car system is certainly the limit.- Xo city . in the United States is so poorly served. I hope the new City Council will ) -try to regulate it, at least between the hours of 6 and 8 a. m. and 5 Wnd 7 p. m., so that the people who work may be carried into town I more promptly." ' The' Telegram conducted a campaign more than a year ago that resulted in a partial betterment of street car conditions during the , rush hours, but the street railway corporation has not lived up to its i promises in this regard. Then the City Council, over the earnest pro- I test of a majority of the people, surrendered the city's right to control j" the street railway corporation Whatever the transportation trust does now in the way of improved service will be of its own sweet will j und not out of any regard for the rights of the people. 5 - The Telegram, however, welcomes the suggestion and trusts that even this soulless corporation may be brought to a realization of the Inadequacy of its own service. |