Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-03-27

lakes, and st. Marks will be in sea and
not in a square.
The streets being as they are, it is nec-
essary to make the best Of them and
have them kept in as good condition as
the finances of the city will allow. Our
streets will get worn and dusty and can
only be partially controlled by the city in
this respect, but there is one thing the
city can do and should do, that/is, see
that they are not made the dumping
ground for all the rubbish the town
makes. 1t may be asserted without fear
of contradiction, that there is not street
in the city which is free from ash heaps,
and alongside of these heaps are old tin
cans, rags and all sorts of rubbish. But
the worst is yet to come, and in our
streets are found dead cats, dead dogs,
dead chickens and manure piles. The
unsightliness of these things is not the
most Objectionable feature about them,
but the stencil which arises therefrom,
breeding illhealth and disease. Com
plant is constantly made that we have no
sewers, and the city officers very justly
answer that the area of the place is so
vast that the city finances are totally
inadequate to the undertaking. This
is true, but what is to pre-
vent the City Council passing such
ordinances as may be necessary, if they
are not already in existence, to fully con-
troll the streets and prevent anything be-
ing placed there? We believe there is
more want of energy than of ordinances
in the matter, and if city officers would
but do their duty the streets would not be
as they are. The energy required is not
so great, either, the chief thing being to
forbid people using the streets as they do,
and when the ordinances are infringed,
have those who infringe them arrested
and punished; this will soon have its de-
sired effect. Then the mayor should see
that the supervisor of streets attends to
his duty as such supervisor, and if the
mayor has not the time to look after these
things, let him resign and some one be
appointed in his place who will. All our
city officers are we'll and promptly paid,
now let them well and promptly do their
duty, and there will be less complaint
and more health.
THE demand by the British government
for all Martini-Henry rifles throughout
the Kingdom to be Immediately returned
to the Tower is sure sign OF war. But
the name Martini-Henry will recall to
many Americans the fact that the United
States furnished the rifles for the Turkish
army in the Russo-Turkish war, and that
most of them were of the Remington
pattern. The fame of the Remington
rife in Europe is astonishing to an Ameri
can, and he is much surprised when he
goes to obtain permit to visit the Vat
lean gallery and loggia to have a Swiss
guard bar his way with Remington rifle
dilu NlldJ 10 Mdulou. 1IllS Q6-
mand is formal merely, and the permit
is always given-and charged for Then
again he is astonished when he crosses
the Pyrenees from Bayonne and comes
into Spanish territory and finds that the
picturesque and once famous infantry of
Spain are armed with Remington rifles,
and not with halberds and arquebuses
With what pride the Spanish soldier tells
an American that his rifle is a Reming-
ton, made in America, and shows you
more about it and tells far more of its
wonderful qualities than they tell at
Illion. 1t must be confessed that the
tale is fiattering to our national pride, and
we know that the Spanish soldier has
better weapon in the Remington than the
French soldier has in his chasse-pot