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Show STRAINED PRAISE. The effort of the Herald to give Mayor Morris the credit for working out the problem of how to sprinkle the streets by using the water running to waste in the gutters, would be almost pathetic if it were not so hilariously laughable. It was urged upon the authorities a month before by this journal, jour-nal, but it was not an original idea. Business men, especially those familiar with such work, had been pressing it for days; so had the chief of the fire department, and it was' not original with him, for it was used here by the old fire department in a limited way when he was a boy. The whole problem was simply to pump up some water that was running to waste and sprinkle the streets. But the effort of the Herald to magnify the mayor's part was a double give away. It was a notice that it was the first thing the mayor had ever been engaged in that the Herald could praise, and second, that when the job was put up by Uncle Senator Simon BamLerger to have Harteu-stein Harteu-stein vote for the franchise grab, which in the same moment gave the Light & Railway company what it wanted, and gave the senator the right of way for his cars over the L. &R. tracks, it included in-cluded the entire reconciliation of the Herald to the whole business and the agreement that his honor the mayor should be renominated to succeed suc-ceed himself as a Democrat, though subject, of course, to orders from the corner of State and Brigham streets. The Herald is evidently carrying carry-ing out its part of the contract in good faith |