| Show SHALL THERE BE SHALE A SHORT time since some of those who nave have been pushing the city council to make improvements suggested that the streets be laid with shale to keep down the dust the council in made ade a move to act upon this hint this caused speculators to make a dash fo for r the shale lands contiguous to the city they took the initiatory steps to secure them for their own benefit this patriotic act caused us to intimate that it would be in order for a still more eager shout for shale on the streets to go up into the open ears of the municipal fathers as a market would be wanted fr for the article this soft insinuation was met b by a statement that the shale philan tr at stood ready to donate enough of oi th the commodity to cover main maia street a distance of several blocks it is to be presumed that the people are now to accept of the proposition that the lands were ere not laid hold bold of for the purpose of drawing the dimes out of public into private coffers in other words that they were secured for the express purpose of donating donat ioa shale to cover a portion of the chief business street i there are some considerations however that do not seem to harmonize with this aspect one is that it if the land had not been taken by private parties ake corporation could have obtained the shale without putting anybody tol to the trouble of donating dona zIng it another is that it never has been the intention to cover main street with the material in question but the outlying thoroughfares g f area merely so no proper fau fault 1 t may be found with people who look leok out for the main chance 11 but bat where philanthropy and patriotism are not genuine cons titu eats spasmodic attempts to inject them is not a delectable operation |
