The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-09-02

a discussion in the council. One main
point at first ii is to establish the new
grade for the different streets in the city, 50
that any one who wishes to build may be
governed by it. New houses, erected on
streets that are not filled up to the new
grade and may not be for some time to
come, may be built in such manner as to
be easily changed when the street shall
have been filled, and yet offer every de-
sirable convenience while the street re-.
mains at its present grade; or they may be
built so rs to require no change at all when
the streets are tC be filed. The grade once
established, there must be an end to the
cry about the paralysis of real estate inn
proyement, by reason of the uncertainty
respecting the permanence of the city'S
grade, The council will now probably soon
settle this matter, and then we shall see
! how much foundation there was for this
cry, Those who caused all the grumblng
on this score byindicaung desire to build,
! but giving as reason for not doing so the
uncertainty of the existing grade Of the
streets, will, when the council shall have
settled this matter, of course proceed
Immediately to prove to the public that
they were honest in their utterances, by
commencing at once to pat up their con.
ditionally promised houses, We know OF
several who now own uuinproved property
fronting on what will probably be the first
improvement district, who will Put up
valuable houses on their lots as soon as the
street shall have been filled, but who will
not build at all if the street is not filed.
We know Of another, the owner of a good
house and lot in said district, who will sell
his property at "a very reasonable figure If
| the street is not raised, and who will not
sell at all if it is. We know of but three
or four owners Of property in said district,
who are not clamoring for the improvement
to be made forthwith. There has probably
never been matter more clearly and
forcibly presented to any body OF men than
is the demand by the public here Tor the
beginning of this great improvement, and
the council, understanding this, will not
ignore it.
By way of carrying our its suggestion
to get the views Of some eminent foreign
civil engineers, fnsuciers and sanitarans,
with reference to the street filling
project, the Argus yesterday cap
tured Civil Engineer Charles
Thrupp, and induced that gentleman to eX-
press himself upon the subject in the three
fold capacity of civil engineer, sanitari4n
and faancer As civil engineer, Mr.
Thrupp pronounces the street filling pro-
iect as utterly unprecedented as santa
rian, he AYERS that, to raise the streets OF the
city twelve feet higher, "wouli produce a
sanitary condition that would be destruc-
tive to the health Of the place. and as pub
lie ,pancer he rep,rds SO seriou, ,,tempt
TO carry out the street filing scheme As
rujogus 10 both the cjty coronation and the
nronerty owner..o and Ti,but oFerjoo
SINGLE reason for ,ha faith .h,, ia in him he
r.r.rs.v. far yerifcs,inr nf his d,l,ful
u,,er,Dccs 70 Col. F,sdi of -,
T,ovi. Now ,b,ra il, pr,b,blv no
man in ,be civ who ba, a
more nr,rou,d ,especl tor Mr. Tbrupn as
civil eooinear than wr have, or who would
treat hi, oninioo, upon al matter, pertain.
inc 10 civil engineering with Greater deter.
eDcs; bu, when he tell. usthat street filling
in Car, ia imnracticahle opr mind ipvolun.
tarJy rpps mn ',hc Ohio to p,ducab and
a., III. rI,i,,i. Ce,,rol road :, Chic.,o and
sI,r, ,hs w,h,s5 ,o,i - New YORK civ
and p,s,on an, h,ck ,,,f, :, c,ir, IN tho
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