Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-11-10

Third street tunneled from Hill street
to Flower.
The unused switch ON Second street,
near the cable road engine house, re-
moved at once. The compliments of the
public and OF the HERALD to Dir. Nc
Laughlin on this head!
First street paved at once from Hill
street to the river. This is the only
throughiare from the heart of the city to
the Santa Fe depot. Winter is right at
hand, and this avenue to the terminus
of one of the transcontinental line depots
ought to be put in perfect order.
The big Main and Tenth-street Hotel
built, so that this city may have adequate
and proper accommodations to offer the
great stream of tourists and visitors who
are pouring in here. The best class of
visitors will not come until we have the
best hotel on the continent to offer them.
Build the hotel.
A cross-walk made at the expense Of
the city on the north side of Second
street where it crosses Hill. The side
walk will all be good there soon, and the
crossing should be of stone, so as to last
The water runs there from the hills in
winter for weeks at time. The cross
walk is imperatively necessity.
A branch Postoffice established near
the center of the city, 80 that business
men may have modicum of time to do
something besides running for their
mail. The present arrangement is good
for street-car lines and shoemakers, but
it is death on the pockets of those who
pay fares and buy shoes. Besides, it is
worse than procrastination as thief of
time.
Second street sidewalked on both
sides from Los Angeles to Grand avenue.
Much OF this street is now sidewalked,
and some of that not already done is
now being done by the voluntary action
of the property owners. Will the Street
Superintendent take this matter up to-
day and push it along until it is COM
pleted with all possible dispatch?
First street opened from Hill west
ward. There is no reason why this
from Hill to Olive is better than on
streets, and between Olive and Grand
deed, it is nearly as good as the Second
street grade below Olive. Let First
street be opened and improved.
Active and organized efforts made to
keep the public streets in decent shape
this winter. Their condition last winter
drove many visitors away in week who
would have remained here from one to
six months. 1t drove them away never
to return, and it sent them East to give
us bad words instead of good report.
People thus disguised persuade all their
friends not to come here, who otherwise
would have joined the propaganda which
is actively engaged in turning all farces
this way. Let US have clean streets this
winter.
In the same category as the cleaning Of
the streets is the paving of those not yet
improved. And hand in hand with that
line of improvement goes the making of
good sidewalks. So much has been done
in this good work, and so great improve
ment made over what existed in the old
cow-county days that we have all got a
taste OF the comfort derived from travel
ing on good streets and sidewalks. Where
all is mud, cobble stones and
dirt hummocks we get reconciled
to the inevitable. We let our boots be-
come rusty and the ends of our panta-
looms become draggled. But to step off
q cement sidewalk which one has been
on for mile, into puddle OF mud is
hard indeed. Let US push forward the
good work and get good streets in all
parts Of the pueblo.