Show at the regular meeting of tile the city council held last evening a motion prevailed providing lor for the engagement ot of sir AT C Steen house to work at the cemetery during durics the coming summer be beginning inning april by the terms of engagement mr aar Steen house is to spend his entire time at that labor using the forenoon in tile the cites interests with the privilege ot of using the afternoons in ili caring for tile the grounds of private parties a good many years this scheme has been talked ot of and discussed by private citizens who have a civic pride la in our city of the dead as well as a personal pride in their own property up tip there it is very ery inconvenient for the majority of the people to keep their grounds in the cemetery in ili nice condition especially it il anything has been planted which requires irrigation and for that reason it will be a splendid thin tiling to have a man on the grounds who is able to do the work lor for which citizens will gladly pay a reasonable price the proposition ought to be a paying one for mr Steen house also for iti in connection with tile the salary he will get from the city enough can be made from caring for private lots to net him a comfortable income the council is to be commended for this move and now ought to I 1 be loyal loval to themselves and if they 1 cannot c care ire for the grounds themselves turn the labor over to mr air steen house and lets have our cemetery made beautiful and do as the people of the old do in this regard I 1 americans generally are prone to ac capt the counsel let the dead bury the dead and never think much about efte the last ast resting place of loved ones alter it their remains have been conff consigned nei to the silent tomb |