Show low on whim me property owners of the prin ca pal business block of oad on are do voting two hundred thousand dollars worth of real estate to tive purposes so far their action is their own concern the loss being their own and the public may ariti else while it cannot coerce but it in thus devoting valuable land to tha property owners are maintaining in the heart of baon a pestilential spot the concern ceases to be private it becomes bublie and criticism may jaitly talethe shape of legal coercion A petition which was presented in the city council last evening asking to have a street opened from no th to south through the block in question brings this subject before the mun cl PAI government in a way to denland a present settlement rett lement of one part of the i sane f it is well known that ane constantly advocated not only the division now prayed for but also a division of the simei block from baut to west the reasons which have caused this advocacy are certainly strong though they appear to have lacked convincing power with some parties interested they will bear n here the block at present Is aw feet square giving to nearly all the lots it they were evenly divided as to kongth a depth of feet it Is impossible to utilize so vast a depth for store buildings bearly one halt of the entire tract of ton acres if the block be kept intact must remain practically waste laud or be turned into tenement slums the division A of the present square into four equal blocks would add more that 2000 linear fiet of business frontage of a present balue not less than it would give concentration to com T mercial interests and save thousands of miles of walking ami dilly to bus and time citizens it would clear out and keep clear what must otherwise become a dumping ground for refuse a disease breeding and a tempting opportunity for it would give us two short business streets of fuch regan able width that they could be paved without ruinous expenditure against these reasons we yet to hear oro word of logical contravene con traven tion one would naturally that if the foregoing reasons am correctly stated the interested property owners would ruh to trio opportunity for gaining such a vast and sudden re cession of va aalt h it they do not care to grasp the chanse the are but ex but if the city counci II 11 shall flad that saml tary and business reasons derland the opening of the bloche that boda r will ba but exercising IV public right in condemning land for aliceta and cutting the present square into either two or four equal parts of this one thing the people of og sy rest assured the division will W made sode time if not in it a arese prese at generation lot propels holders certainly in the next be I 1 tz t z cause financial arid sanitary re on if not now strong surely augment to strength until such a result will be compelled it Is merely a question of now or then today to day the cost of the division would be trifling the gain peat and sudden at some future time the expense might be y greater and the |