| Show A PUBLIC GRIEVANCE IF the editor of the engineering becard which is published in new york would only take a personal look at the streets of salt lake city and the work now being done on some of the sidewalks we believe he aie would express a very different opinion as 88 to the grading to that which appears in his paper of the dinst somebody signing himself A T taxpayer has written to the record asking the editors opinion of the engineering exhibited on the streets ts of this city he states that the engineer has been engaged in railway work for twenty years and aud that some of the citizens think he to is improperly applying the principles of railroad engineering to street grading which are facts he goes on to explain what the engineers views are as to the principles that should govern him in his work and states that the diverging are generally from two to thirty feet fetA gr grade adeina in a hundred the edit editor orex ex presses dresses some astonishment as well he might at tio streets with go 80 per cent brades and sd wonders what kind of motive power is used in ascending them he thin thinks ko it would be somewhat difficult for one b buggy aggy to pass pam another without the occupants holding on and putting patting their arms arm around each other 1 to keep their places in the wagon if the transverse grade exceeds three per endorses the course of the engineer as explained by the tax f payer JU but regards our city as laid out on the gridiron plan on the mountain side tt it is ie very evident that theR the coord editor does not understand the situation here therefore his commendations the general public 1 I 1 go for nothing much of the work now feard tte gard being done on the sidewalks and as the ta very acme of absurdity outrage on the residents of ad and an W abent property A sample sampled of this thia may be men on OD IV arst re t F east ast street streek from the eagle gate mouth to the theatre corner we fat fail w any propriety in it auy any feces lroy aly tor for it or any improvement effected T acy it there has never been any great difficulty in ascending that street neither either on the sidewalk or the roadway eoe the natural grade might have been owed wed substantially in laying ashe V e sidewalk pavement with a atle leveling and the prop arty arty have been left uninjured icar now it is most unsightly and I 1 it ti is 9 Adi culous and residents cannot ap och h their prom premises ins for some som 61 distance north of the theatre without a ladder we understand the engineer thinks nka abc 9 future inhabitants of the city will brove his work and we have no doubt that be thinks a rigid conformity to a certain certai a fixed grade hevery is the very vang needed but nevertheless the present inhabitants are only divided anger and hilarity those I 1 0 ho o do not laugh at the ridiculous ap canoe of his work vent their feel ceis in more or less vigorous expires ilono on of hot indignation 7 the taxpayer writing to the has in a few ays y that the engineer bases deviated from his arbitrary ln much to the satisfaction of the owners if that is correct yio perty I 1 we are advised that it is a few dinote ore such ouch deviations would be very daeing ea ing eing to the public and would save f a avast ast amount of expense and ill feel Kl if it can be done in a few cases it might be done doile in some others we have bave specially mentioned the work on first fast east street there are other placed which exhibit similar stupidity as it certainly appears to the he common eyes eye and while it may please a man who only looks at the sidewalks and the streets to one who looks at the houses either elevated away above the street level or sunk down many feet below it preposterous to is a mild term to use about the work while the effect is destructive of beauty and damaging to real estate we believe that a modification of the arbitrary rule established by the railroad engineer of twenty years experience would be of great benefit to the city as well as to the taxpayers with a personal grievance some borne regard for the lay of the land as well as the straight lines and rigid levels which are things of beauty in his trained railroad eye might be had without violation of any truly scientific fl c principle acl ale or essential ru rule ae of gradi grading ng it is time something was done in the matter or the expense and dissatisfaction that will be the consequence will be something Homet bing formidable if nothing worse |
