Show FOR THE BOULEVARD Ill Mr rr Walter Meeks 1 teok tells us that in an hour or two he got sot 2000 subscribed yesterday esterday morning toward completing the improvements to bring a boulevard from Capitol hill around through Fort Douglas and on south to opposite Eleventh South Southill in ill this city and thence down to Main lain street It seems a necessary preliminary is to add the little block of land through which Main 1 street runs from Tenth South on two blocks That must bo bp added to the city eity and that is all arranged for Then it seems the city and the people have bavo done nothing to get the right of way through the reser reser- That ought to be attended to at once by a joint urgent letter to our senators and represent represent- We do not know but presume the officers at Fort Douglas would indorse it And in the judgment of Mr 11 Media Meeks the whole thing can be completed the street paved cast east from front Eleventh South for sixteen blocks to the point of junction i with the proposed boulevard boule and the whole business business busi busi- I Iness ness be arranged for and carried on rapidly to com corn It docs does not require much money to do the do the whole work Mr 1 Moran l was yesterday making estimates of what it would cost t to pave Main ain street through Eleventh South and Twelfth South and then from from- Eleventh Ele South east sixteen blocks A few feU more dc dollars will complete the boulevard to the reservation reserva reserva- tion then with the tile right of way to go through the reservation obtained there is nothing in the way of having the grand drive completed within the next very few weeks And o our lr people people should stir themselves The majority of them do de not begin to realize what that will be for the city We know of no other city that will have havo any other such magnificent drive From the heights northeast of f the city on that boulevard a person can see nearly to the end of tile tHe world so to speak and er c. every avery object under his hise e eye e would be a pleasing one It is the last proposed proposed proposed pro pro- posed improvement and it will not be expensive There is nothing like it for the same money to be obtained in the world and no other city eity it a will have anything lik like it for the edification of visitors and for the comfort and happiness of its own people So altogether let us hip I hip hurrah hur hur- I hur-I rah for the new boulevard 1 I |