Show 11 loun jour oun CITY aird AND ITS STREETS I 1 1 i dypry v r intelligent v visitor I 1 1 hitoi wh who comes f to tb our oun r olt olty city is struck with the width of our I 1 streets and sidewalks side walks and the expansive manner in which the city is laid out outi we have heard beard many from eastern gentlemen on the fore bight feight of the founder of the city and bis big companion pioneers in allowing I 1 seo teo much i space to start with for the site of the 9 city this feature is looked upon with surprise by many because they cannot lers and how men coming here as the tha pioneers pio plo beers did into the midst of sl A howling wilderness could have bought ou 1 that this thil poul woul would ever ver be a place of any importance or would want streets of such width in a country town streets five rods wide are thought ample for all purposes and they are too but with the prescience which characterizes all the tho movements of president young be he knew that we would bave have a great city here and never losing sight eight for a moment of our future destiny nor forgetting that time would surely bring ua us eind and our chief city and country into juto prominence be he had the streets laid out eight rods wide now that the city is being settled up and trees are growing on all our sidewalks this width for our streets is one of the most beautiful fea rea features turis in our city we appreciate it visitors admire mire bire it and avery every year addato adap ito the credit of the pioneers for the wisdom foresight and liberality they evinced in thus laying out the city i the san sin francisco papers are complaining ilg of the condition of that city the dreadful epidemic which hasteen hasi has been raging gin gid g for some months there has awakened public attention to the effial 1 of the city and i one paper the vies fies in jn akong speaking a about boutt it bays says 64 tn in laying put this city but little atten bab has las a been paid at anytime any time to teb future needs of its inhabitants and the tha theories of of those who have had a hand in tho wark seem to have been beep bed hed upon the supposition that the place would never la be much larger than it 1 is s now san ban francisco Franci francl sw it is claimed wants longs the streets are ho riot wide twide enough there are not enough public squares every acre of ground demanded for public squares hns has been bestowed grudgingly and there have never neven been wanting people who have asserted that sueh such reservations ions lons were mere waste able land it is thought that id 14 fast tast chifai when regret will be IVI felt fele for the want of foresight in laying lay ing 0 out the not t with a greater number of ope open a peace spaces 1 the maintenance of open spaces at intervals isnow advocated in that city as ai being as important in a sanitary point of view as the placing of windows in lik the side of a house bouse the planting of thebe these squares deeme deemed d necessary the limes that madlof many of its readers will vill be surprised to learn that plant plants sare lard absolutely necessary necess shy Ehy to the purification of thip jhb atmosphere man exha exhale teg leg carbonic acid in large quantities and lind vitiates the air plants in the tho day time absorb the carbon and give back oxygen to purify the air it is the excess of carbonic car bonio acid in the air that predisposes dit dil poses those who breathe it to disease the planting of trees without delay is being urged to purify the atmosphere and ano to improve the sanitary condition of the city I 1 the latter daz dar have havo taught ang ani are still teaching the wb world lla lia ild ni many n lm important p octant lessans they will yet yep set them th an in example in building beautiful a and n wn h healthy cities time twill swill r show how what we shall doin doln do in this respect i |