Show GOOD WORK AND BAD we do not know whom to applaud for the effective steps taken to control the waters of city creek during daring the flood season that is surely approaching but whoever the man is be deserves praise for his foresight and thanks for the thoroughness of big preparations old residents doubtless remember when the stream swollen far beyond its ordinary size by rapidly melting snows and heavy warm rains flooded street and put buildings on some of the most valuable blocks and apparently the safest of the city in desperate peril this not so much by reason of the tremendous flow of water as by the washing down of boulders and brush which choked up the regular channel leading directly and with admirable tall fall to the river A recurrence of t to is evil has now been guarded against not only are there various dams aid gates in the canyon itself with attendants at ech each who are supposed BUpp used to be always on the alert but a capacious catch basin in the lorm of a wide deep pond has been con strutted ted at the canyons mouth and beyond this such obstructions as are above spoken of can scarcely come in view of the narrowness of the channel on north temple street its complete codi dosing in in fact for a part of the distance so some such measure ot of precaution was necessary we rejoice to be able to state that aba it has nut eon neglected past and present operations along the be tenth south street canal its later als ale and the lands adjacent constitute quite another story atory we shall not dispute that men and teams in plenty whole armies in fact have been employed in carrying out the ideas of those who have the work of protection and defense in charge but we question most emphatically the soundness sou of those ideas for instance what possible good does the mere raising of the street accomplish yesterday and today a force of men are engaged in the and altogether barm harmless leas business of filling up tenth south street between third and fifth east to say aay nothing of the folly of dumping dry mud at a point where there is already too much of the wet variety thus thua making a bad matter worse the object seems to be to make the water channel which is already too narrow still narrower evidently there is no thought of or care for the along the outer side aide of the contracted canal if the beautiful streets can only be built up high and dry or even high without being dry the trick is done the problem arleed the danger averted full security restored in other words there seems to be a feeling that the only fear of the nims NEWS and of others who have ex expressed presed themselves on the question la Is that the street might perchance be submerged we suggest that a person who can be so BO culpably shortsighted as this who can see no furthering furt fur berin therin other words than the track rack along which hi bis a horse borse trots and his buggy rolls is hardly one to be entrusted with the care of peoples les le s property in an official capacity he Is too costly a hand to retain under any circumstances for he not only spends time and money at I 1 places lac es where there can be no basis for suits suite for damages but he also by this very course increases the danger dancer to those places laces were suits may appropriately lie e la Is there no one in the abe cites employ who has baa the authority and the courage to order the closed canals to be reopened that is the remedy and the only one that can be made effective this season if real estate speculators without permission have filled up the channels that have bave been found useful in the past let them be compelled to restore them at once if they have done it with permission let the city do da the work of re excavation itself this would be a confession of error it to is true but we have reached a point where nothing could be better for the municipal soul than such a confession the blunder has been made everybody knows it why make ourselves ridiculous by attempting to conceal ll it |