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Show j RENAMING CITY STREETS. i I With a view to eliminating confusion confus-ion to. citizens and strangers-alike, the city has been renaming some of the J j streets which bisect the blocks. This (action has brought complaints from some of the residents on those streets, j Some of these complaints may arise from misunderstanding as to why the j city is making the changes. The general plan has been to give one name to all bisecting streets that are on the same line extending through the city so that if all these avenues were connected they would ' bear the same name. Under the old system each link would have a different dif-ferent name. In deciding which name should be retained and which dropped, it was the policy of the city to retain tho name of the link upon which there were the most residents. In following follow-ing this policy tho city officials regretted re-gretted "that some names which meant much in Ogden's history were drop- (pod from the engineer's map of city streets. Other changes were made because there were avenues in different parts of the city bearing tho same name. Lake street was an example. Sometimes Some-times the fire department made a trip : to the wrong address on Lake street ' and business houses found the situa Hon confusing. j Ogden Is following a progressive ! principle in decreasing the names of streets and avenues and systematizing systematiz-ing the whole. No slight is meant to any pioneers after whom the strecta I were named and ll may be possible in some other -way to perpetuate their names in Ogden. oo |