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Show Heard In a Cafe. Joel Priest Hey, Tommy; I want to see you tomorrow. Tommy O'Brien I'm just as well fixed tonight. to-night. The City Commission has awarded the Deseret News the publication of the city notices on its bid of thirty cents an inch. . The Commission is to bo congratulated on S3-curing S3-curing the publication at such a figure, which indicates what tho News must think its columns are worth, and should also be a criterion for general gen-eral advertisers who may be figuring on a little contract the co'ming year. If a city newspaper thinks it is worth no more than thirty cents an inch, it should receive all of the business of those people who think it worth while to use the space. At a cost of between fifty-five thousand and sixty thousand dollars a year, Salt Lake, particularly particu-larly the business section, is one of the poorest lighted cities in the west. Main street after dusk only lacks a few busy smoke stacks that are at work all day to make it pitch dark. The rows of ornamental street lamps that adorn both sides of the street, erected a few years ago with a fanfare of trumpets and loud promises to make the thoroughfare a second White Way, gli'mmer not. The more prosperous residence districts of town are lighted as well as can bo expected ex-pected under the present situation and the cost assessed as-sessed the city by the company furnishing the light. Main street, however, is a disgrace, and every Salt Laker is and ought to be ashamed of its appearance appear-ance after nightfall. On tho principal downtown down-town corners at six o'clock people and objects a few feet distant are indistinguishable and it is only when pedestrians are opposite the lighted (Continued from Pago 9.) H SMOKE FROM THE WEEKLY PIPE. B (Continued on Page 12.) H windows of the shops that they can walk with H safety or comfort. 1 We have no desire -to assist the newly elected B commissioners in rnnning Salt Lake, but certain m $ ly nothing should receive quicker attention from M ' them than the unlighted condition of Main street. H Whoever is responsible for the operation of the m ornamenlal lights ought to be obliged to see m that arrangements are made for using them im- M mediately, and if it is not up to the merchants, M then the first work of tho commissioners should M be the consummation of a plan for putting them M into use. Isn't it possible a franchise to the Tel- fl luride company might assist in solving the prob- H lem? H Hj It would be a splendid idea for the heads of M at least three local trusts operating in restraint ft of trade to read carefully the testimony at the V trial of the packers now going on in the east. H Not that it would show them any quicker route M by which they could make themselves liable to fl be indicted, but possibly it might serve as a wain- M ing even to the most brazen that the public is M not entirely ignorant of the way they are oper- M ating at home. H . h One of the best things that has appeared H locally for some time was the editorial in a K morning contemporary on French and California H still wines, the former being designated as gen- H erally adulterated and the statement made that H California still wines are as good as any, and B purer and better than the imported wines and M more wholesome to drink. B The entire article shows that the connoisseur JM who wrote it knows absolutely nothing about the IH situation, for while California produces many ex- cellent still wines, it is absurd to compare them with the genuine still wines of France just as absurd as to compare American champagne with that which comes from Reims. For years Americans Am-ericans have tried to raise the same kind of grapes as those in France and treat them in the same way, but the soil and climate are not adapted to them and so far it has been impossible impos-sible to 3ecure such products from them as are impo'rted from France. Experts have been brought over here, every process and theory has been given a fair trial, but it is impossible to equal the French wines. It is true that much adulteration goes on and that many California wines are labelled with counterfeit foreign labels, but the sweeping statements in the editorial mentioned only go to show that the writer knows very little of what he is talking about. It is a far hark from the Rue de la Paix to Zion. 4 It is now thought that it will be a wise move on the part of the commission to appoint an official fortune teller. There is only this about it, if the commission appoints a real one and she tells the truth about what is going to happen, hap-pen, she will be dismissed half an hour after they employ her. As yet no one has been appointed interperter for Lieutenant Carlson of the police force. It is understood that Chief Grant reads his prohibition lecture to first offenders among the drunks. We swear off. Our old friend Curly Callister has made the best remark we have heard to date regarding the city election and the new commission. Curly says that there was really no reason for the election, elec-tion, as it was a fight purely between Gentile and Mormon Democrats. The former administration was Democratic conducted by a Gentile. The present is also Democratic, but In danger of be ing directed by a Mormon. |