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Show FAULT OF ENGINEER. The muddle over the Brigham street pavement is due to friction between the city engineer and ' the board of public works, a condition which has existed beyond the memory of the oldest pioneer in the valley. Changes of administration and consequent con-sequent changes in the administration staff have had no effect toward bringing about amicable re-v re-v lations between these two departments of the city government. In the present instance it appears that Chairman Chair-man Wall of the board of public works has been almost entirely ignored by the city engineer. The latter official's attitude toward him has been overbearing, over-bearing, if not insolent. It appears about time the city engineer were acquiring an adult impression that he isn't the entire municipal machinery. There is nothing in his record or that of his predecessor prede-cessor to justify any vast display of pride or arrogance. ar-rogance. This whole paving business has been bungled from the beginning; trees have been officiously of-ficiously torn down and streets chopped up in such grotesque fashion that residents are either sub terra or cliff dwellers, and a city that should have been beautified with such improvements in many sections presents a ridiculous appearance. And the fault lies solely with the city engineer. The city would have been far better off had the engineer's office been advised and in a measure controlled by an advisory board consisting of such levelheaded level-headed men as Colonel Wall. The heavily inclined in-clined streets running south to Brigham will be dangerous if the present plans are carried out, and residents will be gratified if Colonel Wall's idea in the present case is adopted. Quite sufficient suffi-cient damage has already been done through incompetency in-competency and over-hasty work, and the council should support Colonel Wall in his present effort to prevent the recurrence of old mistakes. |
