The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1873-10-02
A FEW SUGGESTIONS.
The Opinions Of q Tax-Payer.
He Maps Out Numerous City Inn
pr0vementS.

10 the Board Of Trade, and City Comnea Of
LearenTorta City
GENrLENES Hard times are upon u.
Dizziness has characterized every avenue Of
trade for three years, and the money market
has continued to grow stringent. Live stock,
provisions, lumber, &C., a well ~ railroad
and bank stocks, have been unsteady and
tiuctuating, and profits have grown smaller
and smaller, until eliminating in positive
loss. Now, a general bank suspension is the
result. Business cannot be carried ON with
out the banks. Let prejudice be ever so
great against the banks. the commercial
world cannot move without them When
banks suspend, business suspends. Every
branch OF industry Immediately becomes
paralyzed. And this Is but the beginning.
1t is the spark that lights the vast prairie.
When l hear q man say that, ''Oh, this
will all blow over in few
days-in week or two TIE times will be
better than before" l. think that he il
very short sighted, or tina, am fool. II
is no use our trying TO dodge this crisis. We
canno, evade it by endeayoring to argue our
selves into the belief that it Is short-lived
and amounts to noting. II Is but y step
from the cause to the result, and the result
il serious. And without wasting time to in
ves;igate causes let US come right down To
the question of ''What shall We 10 ?" Those
who are possessed of INT ans can take care oil
themselves. But ''ihe poor We have always
with you" The Lord hath spoken it.
Among the lsboring classes We generally
find the dependents poor. In times like
these when we may look for a suspension Of
public and private enterprise, every tow
| and city mus, do one of two things; ethel
support the dependent poor out OF the pub
lie charities or furnish them labor. Ths
starvation process in this Christian country
is not 10 be thought OF. The laboring mar
without means and employments, and hi,
family must be fed, and clothed, and warmed
at the public expense, or he must be fur
nished with labor and paid for it. Nov
| which is the best way 1t is for you gen.
| tlemen. the Board of Trade aud the City
Council TO answer.
| Allow me as citizen and a taxpayer Il
suggest an idea, and it will be for you, gen
tlemen, to recommend it or some other anC
better plan. Suppose the city should mari
out some plan of internal improvements Il
| be accomplished the coming winter. Let III
see. The greatest and most needed improve
ment in the city ia 1.-THE Strengthening of Three
| Mile Creek from broadway to Fourth street
| /, would cause the water to run of, and MOI
stand in pools to the de:riment OF health
| And it must not be forgotten that this creeh
| is the main grand sewer Of this whole city
| Again, there would be no more back water
to damage private property and to the dam
age also of the city treasury. Again, The
culverts over it would not need to be near &c
| large, thereby causing great saving to the
| city treasury Choctaw street should bt
| graded from Seventh street west to Lawrence
avenue, and culvert built over Three Milt
| Creek at its intersection with Seventh street
The citizens living on this ungraded portion
| of Chocraw ought to be better accOmmO
dated. They pay their taxes year after year,
| and have no conveniences Of egress and
ingress afforded them. A calvert should
| also be built over the break on Third street
| Not another wooden bridge should ever be
| built over Three Mile creek. Neither al
iron bridge. We want the work all don,
here, and the money all spent at home
Main street should be graded TO the Reserve
| The east and west ends Of Spruce stree
should be graded, and the property ownen
| ought not to demonstrate against it. Broad
way shONiu also ne 'Heheu anu sTsueu u
| the south limits of the city; also Third
| Fourth and Fifth streets.
The city council should Immediately con
| denim all the grounds between Choctaw anC
Short streets, south of the new markets, fol-
market purposes. The present grounds arr
| too much crowded fer a wood and hay mar
ke,. The city ought to be ready and willing
| to make every culver, on every street ant
alley that property owners are willing Il
grade.
The next question il, "How Is the city
| g0in. 10 he able TO do all this work 20 slibly
! laid gu; ?" Answer-Let her issue twenty
year bonds. The people will vote them. I,
for one. am opposed to giving any mors
bonds to any company, public or private
only ;or internal home Improvements.
believe in bonds when they will return to u
| like bread cast upon the waters, and builc
| up our city. These improvements being &c
complished, an incalculable amount o
binding and private improvements would
follow. The end of two years would wit.
nezs row OF brick buildings on Choctaw
from Fifth to Seventh street, and 40 on.
Will it no. be better to furnish our labor
ing class with employment in this way, thar
40 support many Of them in idleness and &c
TO return ENTERPRISE.