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Show THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL. The Mayor and City Council are responsible tor the business of the city. Everything Is subordinate subor-dinate to their approval or disapproval. Every body who has built a house for years past In the city has been obliged to have his grades established by the City Engineer. They have built their homes, laid out their grounds and planted their trees with an eye to the grades. And now conges an engineer who performs very much as did the first bull who got into the first china shop the first time. The bull made a reputation for himself but It has not been a very enviable one; neither Is that which this now engineer is making. It looks as though his purpose was to bankrupt the property owners; to fill the sidewalks with quagmires and to generally gener-ally change tho face of nature so that old residents will not know the way to their homes on cloudy nights. Science is a groat thing, but when it is reduced to points so exact that common sense and a reasonable reas-onable consideration for the rights and tho property proper-ty interests of property owners are all ignored, then it 13 time for the superior authorities of the city, in the city's interest, to take a hand. If a man falls through a hole in the sidewalk and breaks a leg, the city has to pay the damages. If the City Engineer 'makes the hole the obligation obliga-tion of the city ought to be all the greater We suggest that the Mayor and Council take a day off, and keeping in mind that the richest property prop-erty owners have no disposition to be held up by city officers, and that the les prosperous prop erty owners cannot afford to be held up, as bus- iness men to see if something cannot be done to H arrest tho present raids of the Cit Engineer. jfl From the first, the intention hag seemed to be to reduce the streets and sidewalks of the city to j"Ulroad grades without regard to convenience, the j3nse, tho mutilation of the landscape or the M i. its of property owners; no matter if tho home of man on one side of a street is left In tho air B s nt he needs a ladder to reach his basement, jfl o Me resident on the other side has to enter H hi $; by a ladder from tho Sidewalk Into his H chlu , while not the slightest consideration has H been for the long rows of beautiful trees H which it was the work of half a lifetime to create. H It is time that the shameful foolishness should be H stopped. Mr. Robort Grant's home on Brigham street is one of tho fine homes in the city, but the M sidewalks on both fronts of it are cisterns which H might make a swimming tank in wot weather. The same phenomenon can be seen across tho street oast of Mr. Nelden's home. All down Brig- IH ham stroot the north side of the street Is Just H enough higher than the south side, to Insure a mud H hole all down the south side when tho dust is H blowing on the north side. Thut was done under H the old regime. It Beems to be w.orso now, and the H people naturally are wild. It is surely time for H the Mayor, and Council to move Itf tho matter. H |