Show GROWLS ABOUT GRADING WHILE the paving of sidewalks is a public improvement and convenience the bulk of the benefit is presumed su med to go to the 0 owners w ners of property abutting upon the pathway treated to a smooth finish upon this theory the property holders are subjected to special taxation ti otherwise the levy would be unlawful because unjust some of the owners of property protest against the treatment they abe art are receiving at the hands of the city council in this connection they complain and properly too to that in grading for pavement purposes no attention is being paid to the contour of the lots with whose frontage the sidewalks run parallel this is notably the case with regard to some portions of the eastern section of the cement sidewalk laid along south routh temple street in some instances i ns the grading is of such a character that some of the property owners claim that they would have been better off had the sidewalk never been laid and that they have been taxed for what they deem to be an injury in place of a benefit to their property if tills this course continues to be pu pursued against the well grounded protests of interested citizens the council will undoubtedly reach a hitching place similar complaints are made in reference to ordinary street grading it is perhaps fortu fortunate hate for other 4 classes of citizens who have strongly objected to the method pursued in the matter of making sidewalks and streets that 8 some conspicuous liberals are indulging in sonorous growling on the same subject |