Omaha daily bee., 1883-09-27
DR.. West, dentist. ID Pearl street.
STREETS AND SIDEWALKS.
me bungling and Slow Way in Which
improvements are Made.

A good deal of tho time of the last
council meeting was spent in discussing
street and sidewalk improvements and
justly SO, and yet if there was less dis
cussing and less cussing, and more down.
right steady work it would be better.
Broadway is in horrible condition. esne-
cially lower Broadway, where it was
ordered filed up. The filling up was let
by contract and then permission was
given to private property owners to fill
up in front of their own property if thew
preferred to do so instead of letting the
city contractor do it. Several have ak
pressed themselves as preferring to do
their own filling, and while waiting for
thcm TO do 30 they in turn have been
waiting for others to grade nm
10 them, 30 that their 6fI
would not be a solitary dunn
In the street. By thus wait;ng
one for the other, and the citv for tbe%
all, there has been no work done of late
and what has been done seems onlv to
keep the water from running off. Snd
TINS gathers it ia great pools, The div
dallying way of doing business has cams.
9 q broadway to become in a horrible con.
ditioni, and now as cold weather nm.
Proaches there seems a pretty good nrns
for the work to remain in n had
all winter. The council has
";aa ereu 'he contractors to 60 right ahead
the work and complete it at once. ;
,us 'ne contractors hesitate some as they ,
ave some doubts about the legality Of :
proceedings. The whole matter :
eems badly naked, as the mud itself .
shloh now makes the street almost inn. !
'assaoie, and the sidewalks dangerous =
ven TO waders with rubber boots and
Nv '
inc condition of Main street il also :
ad; thus the twoprinciple streets. Main 5
broadway, are made a disgrace 10 :
CITY, as well as q great hindrance 10 =
q CROWN and business. Some time 400 \
erhaps there arc old residents still i5v' y
who can tell when, the work Of =
ringing MAN street up to grade com =
fenced. The filling has been done. and y Il
,me OF the stone curbing put in, but =,
1li there are long gaps of the latter and ~ =,
ing stretches where there is no sidewalk !
AL. The council has issued another :
81 that brick sidewalks, ten feet wide :
built along both sides of Broadway
ON sixth avenue TO Sixteenth avenue
W there is about the same rospect of 70
,iay ana trouble in executing the order III,
nat characterizes the other worl ra
,.en'pte by the city. There are ~,
49, soo9 plank walks down Pc
spots, and these win probably bo I"ft -
laiStur6ed. Then those who have nv
ak at all will kick because those VIZ II
ave plank walks arc not comnelIed ~ cs a
INC order and lay brick. There oro Y,
'no tots untitled, and the filling of the v
will hardly support n bri"t "a
AK, as 1t washes away gradually aeS v
ilere is no way to brace nm tho III" "nu VI
Que Oh plank. In fact there is MI
OF trouble threatened before ~
9ewaIk order can BIO enforced. II
mere is also complaint that whore H. y
company has laid pipes tbere bee
Q ridges IN some places and sunIan IL
o's III Others, making the streets had II
] teams The council has issued an II
aer 70 nave the company fix all those Sou
~ seems evident that there must he u,
ne radical change in the system of car. ID
forward public improvements in viii
uhci Bluffs. There are enough &C. less