Show PIONEER SQUARE debor the NEWS feels to express its ita gratification fi at the prompt action of the city council in granting pioneer for depot purposed sep to the railway to be constructed from salt hakr city to the pacific coast this to la the first occasion when such a proposed road with ng tangible 0 on n w b lob to bass base hopes for its ita speedy construe alon has been dealt with by the municipality nici although several attempts commendable in their aim have bare been made in the past and have failed the times time are auspicious for carrying thil project forward to success and the business is is la in the hands of people wyome bands and brains are oot not idle and this combination cannot lail fail ot or le results it was hardly to be expected that the petitioners petition ers request would meet with no 60 little antagonism an ae it did nor to find that this antagonism waa not of a really unfriendly character this fact shows how anxious the people are tor for the proposed road and indicates the steady and practically en character of the support aupp they will give to it in this situation ion the promoters of the road have reason reacon to 10 be highly elated over the whole endorsement endore ement given their plan since we have ire referred to we will also call attention to the fact that in that from residents around the square it is stated elated by themselves to be merely suggestive gagg estive of the abe unguarded eti condition condill con ditl on of railway tracks 21 and stiv danger thereof in the past anere has baa been ame some reason to complain of this thie but as affairs progress pro greeB this cause of fear Is being steadily removed by the safeguards of municipal regulation and the she defensive nelve pie precautions cautions of the railway so eo that there need he be no fears on that boore with that ob jestion olo disposed posed of there is really no antagonism to the of the square tor for the purpose for which the council has bat granted it there has bas been a suggestion that a sort ort of traditional idea has existed from pioneer times that thai the square bould be retained as a public park in response to this we recall an event of twenty five years ago in the au lumn of 0 1871 president brigham young anil others broke ground on 00 pioneer square for a railway pa passenger lepot and the president predicted at that time that the place would yet become nota notable blein in that use and by solemn 0 rayer prayer be dedicated it to that bat purpose et 1 l has baa lain unused ever since by any railway but the be idea of its ultimate occupation from the pioneer standpoint has baa been the one to which that threat areat desoer and pioneer president brigham young decla declared nock it should be put a railway depot at which should arrive great and notable persons of 0 all batione oat ione who would come to see utah and her people a and nd leara ear n of their abut r waye way s rhe phe predictions on abi point apparently are approaching lul ful flim aliment ent |