Show consistency 1 ON the night of friday last may governor west in a speech before tae chamber of commerce alluded to the spacious streets street of salt lake lined with shade trees and enlivened with running streams of water they elicited his admiration and he thus paid a passing compliment to the foresight aad judgment of the founders of tuis this city la in the midst of the villainous attempts on the part of comparatively newcomers to throw the heroic and intelligent labors of the pioneers of this section of the rocky mountain region into the shade of oblivion and cast discredit upon the magnificent work they have bare accomplished in the kedem redemption of the wilderness even so small a recognition as that tendered by mr west is ref refreshing re shing coming as it does from the central group of tire the clique with which lie he has seen seea fit to ally himself the manner in which this city Is laid out is a subject of admiration to those who have an eye to the beautiful it is in exquisite harmony with the spacious grandeur of its surroundings it is in refreshing contrast to the larger larger portions of most of the great cities of the east and of the old world where human beings are crowded and jammed together to suffocation to the sordid utilitarian who would grovel in ill tile the ground and sacrifice health beauty harmony and convenience jor for gold broad ample and airy streets constitute but so much waste of land that might be more closely occupied for the facilitating of trade such as these would have our blocks cut up into smaller fragments and crossed by narrow lanes and contracted ing salt bait lake to lose its identity at as a thin thing of beauty sinking her to the leveloff those old towns where humanity is crowded into localities in central swarms with concomitant of depravity this idea of meek block segregation is one of the pet theories of that everlasting blower of jaundiced anti mormon proclivities colonel 0 J hollister Hol hster we he demands sewerage recommending that the river jordan be the dumping place for the futh of the oft city without considering the probable erobb ze plague breeding effects of such a step he calls for other substantial I 1 improvements movements rove ments in a manner which under the circumstance sis quite remark able he demands that a pressure akin to an assault be employed to have those views carried out as witness his words bring such a pressure to bear upon thecia the city government asto as to force them to do it still urging an elaborate expenditure of public funds he exclaims the cost of these things would be nothing comparatively if lit it be true that cheek be the leading leadin tC qualification for a book agent insurance agent a seller of lightning rods or a cloth peddler in that particular the colonel could evidently have filled the bill in either of these occupations pa pat t ions his assurance may be said in fact tobe abnormal reaching that el elated pinnacle when it may be claimed to have attained to the point of sublimity all that it required to render reader it complete was for him to habein have in the article iv iff which he pushes these propositions ions omitted the initiate initials YH and affixed the nom ne lie plume of tat that proverbial bore in every community indignant taxpayer the reason we make this suggestion sugg will be obvious when it is stated that an examination of the city tax roll reveals we fact that the name of 0 3 hollister is there to be found conspicuous on account of its absence this reminds one of artemus artemas ward who announced that he be was willing the last drop of blood of his rila relatives tives should be shed in defense of his bis country during daring the war this being as far as his bis patriotism extended 0 J H is evidently willing that the last dollar I 1 r of his fellow citizens be spent in ia improving the city that appears to be as far fai as he is ready to go on the he boom question he said speaking of the proposed improvements 96 talking and writing wont do them it is work that Is required yet like the parson who used to say do as I 1 say but not as I 1 do the colonel keeps frantically ins ing up the the chief city of this intermountain out region by blowing with his mouth and with his pen |