Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-10-02
MATTERS MUNICIPAL.

a Few Thoughts Suggested by the Last
Nights Council Session.
It was stated last night in the council
by Alderman English that the expert
mental stone crosswalk at the lnterseo-
tion of Third and Walnut cost $4S-only
Q trihs more than q plank crosswalk
would have cost IN the same place. This,
then, records the success of al economic
move which has been urged by the news
papers for the past five years. The stone
walk is an everlasting affair and if its
original cost WAS four times that OF q
plank walk there would be economy in
TIE stone. It is intimated hat stone
cross walks may be put down for even
less than the cost of the experimental
structure. This would bring them be.
low the cost of the fast d%ecaying plank
concerns. The council has ordered three
more car loads of stone which will be
| converted into crosswalks.
The public can now take q rest along
| with the aldermen. The Pine street
grade has been relegsted to the oblivion
of defeat-not exactly on its merits, for
Pine street should be graded on its slope
and the apex of its bluff. Three hand
some new residences have sprung into
existence along this slope, their builders
relying upon fair treatment in an ex-
peoted improvement which would cost
less than $500. They argued that they
were taxed for water works, fire depart
ment and electric light and received no
benefit from these luxuries and that O
modest return would be the removal oil
a little earth from the Pine street bluff
Just enough to fill the lakelet beyond
But they took a wrong measurement Of
aldermanio intentions. Their little pro-
ject was smothered by the west end.
The most approved plen for grading
down @ hill, O west end invention, lie tt
first find a depression that needs fill
ing--then apply logic and argument
to tie street commissioner. If he sees
it in the right light the hill will be cart
ed into the depression. This is q pro,
cess by which street improvement If
paid for out OF the general fund. College
hill people are not up to snuff.
1t is related that street improvement
are always taxed against abutting prop
erry. Once upon a time Third stree
was graveled. How was it then? Az
!, there are instances along DouRla
avenue which might be followed by al
Interrogation point.
! In the not very remote past the cleo
trio light company made e~ndeavors t
3 secure the waste water from the cit.
srtesien we'll for mechanical purposes
but municipal water guardians were no
. easy to deal with and the electric ligh
company pnlled off. Now the waite
s committee of the council has been di
rooted to industrIously interview tn
b GlGCtElC l1kut obo RoSstc
prevail upon 1t to take the water an
9 put it where il will cease to depredat
upon the back yards and cellars OF wes
Q endere. Winter is approachjpg-th
season when the waste water sluic
dams itself and the moisture strays q
over the neighborhood. There is a tim
n for all things. The time TO make tern
n for waste water is just before the wint'
: freeze up.
BY the enactment OF a new ordinanc'
: at the request of she Northwest tels
phone company, the city gets one tel
phone free, q discount of twenty-h'
10 per cent on all other telephones az
/. free use of telephone poles for q Fl
10 alarm circuit. You may be sure q