Show beautification what our city wants to make her ifer ATTI 1 to stringer stringers mil and D to oar our selves clotin street ani and net next premises it is la A very strange thing to mo me that the people of ogden while going gom to such lengths to advertise the excellencies of the town tonn abroad will ne negligently li gently light what for the sake of i 1 name I 1 shall term homo home impressions if ogden bere ft ere situated like dr johnson Joh neone Is happy v alley valley with barriers round about her to render escape impossible to all who mho might chance within her precincts of course it would ft be b a mere matter of option whether people visiting her were pleased plea cd with the ap appearance of things or not wo e should bear in mind that of tho the thousands who visit ogden weekly only a very small portion have tho the sense or inclination to observe beyond what presents itself to them upon the first superficial glanco and the dupres impre sious which are wrought upon them tho the instant the hey y set foot upon our streets they will carry carev away for the tile instruction of the pu public alic abroad and their version v ermiona sn w ill in be lice heed d ed oil no matter what newspapers and circulars circular a may mav say to the contrary tito the function of newe advertis ine is is to bring people into our audet it then becomes our duty to please lease them and send them away happy thero there is la one tiling thing that zo sophistry can never beat out of the brain of a fastidious tourist tile same charm which hie his own ini macu late clothes exercises exercises over his hi lina imagination gi nation id ii exerted by an n appearance of neatness s in in the streets and dwellings of a town ton we e people of the west est have been to 0 o long enga engaged ed in forging the means of subsistence from rugged nature tint it is is not suri ouri that wo vre do not appreciate ditc itc appearances pe arances to this extent Tho The wonder ia Is that our tastes and perceptions fire ar As 1 aci cen n a they the are art but to return to the point ogden might be made as a neat as the moet most exacting could wish and aith no checial to tho tile city tint that vv which alone renders a city attractive aud and beautiful ta to tr ancient observation i as s purely the worl work of the individual independent of tho the corporation it lies entirely beyond the lat tere prerogative save in in case of a few unimportant exceptions tho city cannot order its servant servants into peoples people fl private grounds to clean and dress up r premi ci tho tile city cit cannot say to john doe trial Tn your walk and paint your our front steps to richard Ric liard roo 11 dress out ailt and adjust the vines about your ofir door to peter jonce jones tear dom down n the shanty thit that dis gracca our premises cultivate grass instead of m beds oil grounds intended for ornament keep your fence in in repair letti lp up hu tho vacant lot that h has is been used as i a dump for tile towns rubbish for tile pint ten vura and which you bao all that time been holding li lit in the hope that tho the adjoining idi oming property ty wanli is is kept sweet and anti attractive aa as ale in val and 5 ou inight m ight realize some fabulous price for your R are crow you have allou allowed ed it to become ro repulsive RS as to almost warrant a proceeds of abatement aba on tho the score of a public inco the cannot do this bait but these alic little services aro are essential to a a beautiful and anti w m ell ordered city there are du tie however in in which the corporation have a certain jurwick jurisdiction ion though pertinent to the citizen in an individual capacity for inri instance tance the numerous private 1 shade trees that are flying ing cotton much to the annoyance anno yanco of the public it should order to bo be chopped down tile numerous oui beer kegs thit that ornament lie public alls alks on oil main street it might condemn todome receptacle fur for town rubbish and beer votaries would bo be spared tho the announce annoyance and teetotal teetotalers cra the in in dis of stumbling over them il it might ask forgetful citizens uli rens and compell to grido grado or pave their sidewalks and keep leep tirra them in in a tidy condition the labor 11 or ex pense of all these is is ho petty as aeto to 1 place lace it beneath the tile consideration of an intelligent person yet in ill heni them tho exterior beauty af of A I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 fai e 11 I 1 I 1 y I 1 4 1111 i 11 I 1 |