The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-01-18
CITY NEWS.
The City Council Puts Its Foot on
Sunday Theatrical Exhibitions
appropriation for the
City's Poor.
The Inhumanity of Some Dallas Dray-
men..A Robber Bagged..Tle
Sidewalks.
An Opportunity Offered the Charitably
Disposed..Bank Officers
Reelected.
The Pacific Express Behind Time.
Snow in the Land of Sunshine.
Other Interesting Local Gleanings.
The Streets Again

They are frozen stiff it is true, and at
the present writing Street Commissioner
Boreas has done us good, if only tempo
rary, service. A citizen yesterday could
start across the main thoroughfares with
the reasonable expectation of reaching the
other side in condition that would secure
his recognition by friends. But this ice
lock will soon be undone and then-well,
the accursed horrors of an Irish bog in the
very lap ola boastful city of progress will
be presented to the contemplation oftwerty
thousand citizens and their guests.
1t has been bad and is about to be worse,
and vet we are admonished TO say moth
ing about it. at will niure our city''-says
the mud-puddle party of conservatism,
and should not be agitated in the Dallas
journals
Now, we utterly dissent from this view of
the situation. Prominent, if not pre-emi-
nent, among the trusts conhded to the
Council consisting of Mayor and Alder
mem is the care of the streets, crossings
and sidewalks. Who else can attend to
their care and improvement No citizen
or body of citizens can act, and it is only
the Council that can move in the premises.
If they are to be permitted from year to
year to ALLOW this quagmire to continue
without comment or complaint, we had as
well surrender az hopes OF letter .condi-
ton of affairs. If, too, fear of holding up
our city as improperly governed is to with
hold criticism from the press we see no
hope for future efforts to improve.
In dry weather we don't want any better
crossings or sidewalks-in wet it is too bad
to work. This may do for the Arkansas
traveller, but fortunately for Dallas, there
are other classes of tourists
constantly passing u., IT., through our
sullen maedictions against Dallas in a wet
season. These people proclaim our villain
Gus quagmires, and it is useless to Skulk
behind the idea that unless the papers no.
tice the iniquity the thing viii be passed in
silence.
The Council can and should attend to this
matter, and can and should have the money
to do it with. A little peteriug and potter
ing in the streets here and there will not ac-
complish anything, nor will filling mp
hsles with white, soft rock do
aught save mock the hopes of the inteli-
gent citizen. He knows the first rain will
wash it away.
We urge then the adoption of n system of
improvement in this regard-an abandon
ment of the niggardly policy already too
long pursued, and an unremitting devotion
of the Council to this subject until they
adopt practical and speedy plan for the
amelioration of our terrible streets and
crossings. Let the Council address itself to
the work as it did to the water-works busi-
ness, with the provision that they will finish
it up in week and proceed to push the
work. If not in their power to devise q
plan let them consult more practical men
hut, over and above all, let them do some
ling to redeem themselves from the mpu'
'pn " being Incapable or unwilling &c
.-s,uc our streets from their present beastly
nj Disgusting condition.