The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-03-25
AGRICULTURAL PARK.
A Vigorous Protest Against the
Fence Proposition.

By THE HERALD of last Sunday, the
citizens of Salt Lake learned, with much
dismay, that the fair grounds in the
Tenth Ward are to be rendered un-
slightly as preliminary step towards
identifying them. It is proposed by
the committee to erect a close board
fence, seven feet high, complete y round
that fine block, and just inside the fence
AS if this DETACHMENT alone were not
sufficient outrage-to build lumber
stalls, or sheds, with the roofs sloping
| from the fence.
This proposition. shorn of its business
like aepe t, is regarded by the people of
the eastern part of the CITY as al I'M
warrantabie imposition on the public, q
disagreement of publ c property.
resulting in a financial depreciation of
neighborlng private property, an insult
10 public taste, and a menace to public
morality. CoW-sheds and a rough
board fence, seven feet high! Ye gods !
What is this hideous thing? This orna-
ment to our city This tributs to the
aesthetic taste and the artistic appreci-
alton of our citizens!
Do the committee who have recon-
mended this ludicrous measure know
the cost OF such fence and cow-sheds?
Do they know how much money
will be left for the buildings? Have
they already employed competent
architect to make the plans for the
building and to lay off the grounds? If
so, the public should know what the
plans are. If not, why the unseemly
haste to fortify the premises? No one
trespasses on these grounds; and the
people hereabouts will take pride In
protecting them The present fence
will answer all purposes until we are
ready to erect a neat iron or Ticket
fence; and goodness forbid that even
the latter should be seven feet nigh. If
such Chinese wall is TO be erected, a
moat ought to accompany it. Let the
square belong wholly to the dark ages
or wholly to the nineteenth century
either a fort and dungeon or public
resort. For if the rest of the steps ar
to be in the direction of the one above
mentioned, the peorle will demand in
righteous indignation that the folly
be discontinued.
We object to having our fine Tenth
Ward Square turned into an immoral
rival of the Eighth Ward nuisance. The
opportunities and temptations of the
latter public disgrace are we'll known;
and its reputation is sufficiently vile TO
cause the people of our district to pro-
test against the creation of another
such den.
We claim down here to be patriotic.
We sacrificed our own feelings for the
public good in voting for the
canal. This has provided US with
impure water in place of our old
Emigration stream, has befouled our
wells, drowned our cellars, Slapped the |
of some of our houses, ard
has left US with an expensive lawsuit |
on our hands About the only knowl- |
edge we get of the existence of the city |
government at all, is the regular ap- !
pearauce of the taX-collectors and the |
Increase of our taxes painful reminders |
Of how we'll the city supplies Us with |
police, gasIight, city-water, and fire !
protection; and of how we'll il protects |
US from chicken thieves, house-breakers |
and hoodlum gangs. Let it be under |
stood, however, that we never have |
and are not now COM !
planning of these things. but we do |
complain of this contemplated outrage |
on our public square.
Heretofore. we have spoken with |
pride of the proposed fair buildings and |!
and We anticipated, |
with hopeful relish, that the instruc- |
tons of the Legislature. express or
implied would be fairly carried out;
but once more, it seems, the good in |
tentlons of our statute-makers are |
about to miscarry.
The only way in which the committee |
can escape the censure of the pending |
Indignation meeting. is at once to |
modify their Ill considered determine
ton. The public await their reply.
CITIZEN.
A choice line of Spring Wraps and |
Walking Jackets just received at