Show NOW LET SOMETHING BE DONE the two or three officials OffIc islIN to whom the city council has delegated full authority in thu the matter of guarding against and controlling the high water are men who ought to be quail tied fled by observation and experience for the responsible duties imposed we are Int informed ormed however that one of them Is IB so BO absurdly deficient in both these qualifications as to express the sneering opinion aall all this here talk about high water and damage t to property is id rot there faint no danger JP I 1 of course this man if he has been correctly quoted will do nothing toward meeting the danger save in an unwilling and perfunctory sort of way one of his bis associates to is reported as a being of much the same temper this would leave the whole active part of the response res ability upon the shoulders of one man which is exactly the best thing under the circumstances provided that one man be the right one the NEWS has great hopes of engineer doremus Dore mue it believes he to is neither indifferent to nor ignorant of the danger that threatens it is prepared to hold up his hands bands in the exercise of the powers conferred by the recent action of the cou council mil and it hopes he will yield bis big judgment to no friendship not nor be deterred from the line of his duty by no fear in ordering the useful canals opened the silly billy dams torn tore out the weak places made firm and a of sense sens and effectiveness restored in place ot of the colossal collection of chimeras chimaras chi of which there has recently been so impressive a display |