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Show MANY PEOPLE ANNOYED BY DUPLICATED NAMES ) OF SALT LAKE STREETS streets are three. An avenue adds one. There are two Plum streets and an alley. . i . Poplar is a popular name. Tnree Poplar streets,' Poplar arcade. Poplar road and Poplar row. Pugsley's court and Pugrsley's row are misleading. There are two Ilice streets In this pudding. Two Riverside avenues on the banks of Jordan are not encouraging encourag-ing to dellverymen late Saturday night. The President would probable feel flat-tered flat-tered if he knew that two avenues here were named for htm. Hustle court and Rustic row remind one. ' that changes must' be made or strangers will conclude that this la a rustic village. Second street is well known. Second avenue is not so well known, as it is out in Waterloo. The same is true of Sixth street and Sixth avenue. South avenue and South boulevard are far apart. Another Change Needed. I The name of Spring street or Spring avenue should be changed before' fall. Stanley street and Stanley place; Stephenson avenue and Stevenson street conclude the confusing names under the nineteenth letter of the alphabet. al-phabet. Taylor' avenue and Taylor terrace begin the "TV and are sometimes teasing to the iceman who has received an order from a new customer living in one of these places. Tremont street and Tremont avenue add trr the bill collector's troubles. Uintah Uin-tah street, in Poplar Grove and Uintah place on Fifth South are sometimes a source of worry. Two Union avenues add to some one's troubles dally. Two Vine i streets and a Vine avenue are bothersome. Two AVnlnut streets are hard to crack. Five Washington streets, avenues ave-nues and places Is the record. There are also a Wellington court and a Wellington Well-ington avenue. Whitney avenue has a twin.! So has Wilson avenue. The Commercial club has taken hold of this matter and it is hoped that its influence will greatly assist in overcoming over-coming the evil. There are nearly 100 duplications or repetitions of names of different streets in this city. This is a reproach for a city of this size, and would be to any of less than five times the population of Salt Lake. Salt Lake is on the verge of the greatest era iof growth and prosperity the has ever known. New streets will be opened and built up. New additions will be created, and there should be no Increase in the number of duplicated street, avenue, alley,errace or court names. 1? time the City Council took active measures to insure the eradication of this evil for evil it is. Fire Chief Bywater has frequently complained of this, and insists that residents on streets of duplicated names cannot be given adequate Are protection. There are manyj rases on record In the office of Chief Bywater, showing telephone alarms from Rtreets, the names of which were duplicated, and showing that the department . started for a wrong street of the same name. Many Persons Afflicted. Mall carriers, route boys, merchants and bill collectors are annoyed by this duplication: It is a constant source of trouble and aggravation. The majority of residents of the city do not realize the number of duplications duplica-tions there are to be found in the streets.' The Telegram will tell them. There are, to begin with, three "A" streets, in as many different parts of the city, each remote from the other; there is Amos court and Amos ayenue, and when so frequently court3 are called avenues, the possibility of confusion con-fusion is made apparent. Thers are two Apricot streets and two Ashland avenues, Austin streets and Austin avenues; there are three "B" streets. Baltimore and Baltimore avenue3. With the third letter of the alphabet more trouble begins. There are two "C" streets, a Capital avenue and a Capital hill, widely separated. There is a Center street and a Center avenue; a pair of Central avenues; Charles street and Charles avenue; Clark street and Clarke street; two Cleveland avenues; ave-nues; Cliff street. Cliff avenue and Cliff place; Colorado street and an avenue by the same name; and Commercial street and Commercial avenue; Cooper street and Cooper court may never have heard of each other, but Cottage court and Cottage row are both in the same block. Little More of Same. There are two Curtis rtreets; and two Davis streets; Dearborn street and Dearborn avenue; Denver avenue and Denver court. There are also two Division Di-vision streets and two Douglas uve-nues. uve-nues. Earl's court and Earl's terrace might confuse one for a time. The two Elizabeth streets 'have undoubtedly un-doubtedly made the coal man swear more than once. Elm. Elm avenue and Elm place might easily be mixed. Emma Em-ma must have been opular. because two streets were named fbr her. There is a pair of Euclid avenues. Salt Lake must be the . center of swelldom, because there are two Fifth avenues. There also is one Floral avenue t nd one Floral lane and two Folsom avenues. There are two Fourth avenues. There is but little difference between Frank-lyn Frank-lyn and Franklin avenues, when telling about it over the "pho-.e. Freemontand Fremont streets might easily be mistaken. mis-taken. There is a Front street near Agricultural park, and another in Pop-perton Pop-perton Place, of which Judge Colburn likes to tell. Three Garfield Avenues. .uThei;e are thre Garfield avenues in this city, two chances for the Are department de-partment or the police patrol to go wrong Two Glen streets and an avenue ave-nue of the same name are perplexing. Oordon street and Gort'on avenue are often confused with each otHer. The two Grand avenues and Grand lew avenue; two Grant and two Green streets, show the need of reform in naming the short streets of the city Grove strca is in the plural to the tune of three. Two Harrison streets sometimes some-times confused the paper carriers for The Iclegram. Hazel street and Hazel court r a bad combination. There are also two Hooper streets. One might get geographically lost., and think himself n Hoosier while locating lo-cating Indiana street and Indiana avenue. ave-nue. There are two Jackson streets and a West Jackson. Two Jeffersons show that some Democratic spirits still remain. The two Jennings avenues are far apart. So are the two Johnson streets Jordan street and the two Jordan avenues ave-nues end the list under that letter of the alphabet. ' Two Kensington Avenues. There is a pair of Kensington ave-, ave-, nues. Kimball alley and Kimball ave-, ave-, nue sound alike to a messenger boy in a hurry. There aie to Lake streets and a Iiker, also a Leaker. Leslie avenue is a mil from Leslie court. Liberty avenue ave-nue is not fai- distant from Liberty court. There are four Lincoln avenues Locust street is near Locust court There arc two Logan avenues and Logan Lo-gan court. Maple street and Maple avenue; Margaret Mar-garet and Marguerite streets and Marguerite Mar-guerite court: Marlon avenue and Marion Mar-ion boulevard are all troublesome Martin's ally and Martin's row are also bad ones. There are two Mill avenues and a Mill street: .Mitchell street and the avenue by the same name. Two Monroe Mon-roe streets trouble strangers and Montague Mon-tague street and Montague place are also troublesome. Morris avenue Morris Mor-ris court and Morris row are not so bad, but still they require a little fixing. The same might be said of Morton's court and Morton's row. There are two Myrtle streets. Twe two Oak streets, one of which runs northwest from the corner of Currant Cur-rant and Main to Pear, between Center and Wall, and the other in Folsom's addition, send many astray. Ontario street and Ontario place are sometimes considered a nuisance. Orchard street is in Brlchton addition, and Orchard square runs west from r.r;6 South First West street. Three Park Avenues. Three Park avenues, all about the same size, and a Park road and Tark terrace are certainly a plenty. The Peach streets are two In number, as are the Pearl avenues and the Pennsylva-' Pennsylva-' nla avenues. Terklns avenue Is In P G. V. addition and Perkins boulevard I is on Twelfth South street The Pine 1 t |
