San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-03-19
GETTING DOWN TO WORK.

The proceedings of Mondays coun-
Gil show more symptoms Of work
than any meeting of that body held
| i'm a coon,s age. The only question
now pending is whether the symp-
toms will materialize into something
tangible. The city has so often been
disappointed in this preparing to be-
gin, to commence, to undertake to do
something that it is not within the
bounds of human creduality to pin
as much faith upon the promises of
yesterday evenings session as is de-
sirable. The LIGHT, however, has
no desire to undervalue in any way,
shape or manner, the promises of
work therein foreshadowed, and will
hail with genuine establishment, but
at the same time with genuine glad
ness, any movement in forward
direction, looking to the improve.
ments so long promised, so long I'M
accomplished. The proposed work
on East Commerce street, it is to be
hoped, will be undertaken at once
and pushed vigorously. A passable
road to the city of the dead has long
been needed, prayed for, hoped for,
and despaired of. The street commits
sioner has his orders to do that work,
graveling the roadway for width of
twenty-six feet. This official will
now have the opportunity of his life
to show what metal he is made of.
1t is to be hoped that, unlike his pre-
decessor, he will be left unhampered
and impeded in his work by the very
officers who should give him every
aid and encouragement.
The improvement of West Houston
street also between Cameron and Frio
streets is much needed, and if proper
ly carried out will do much to relieve
West Commerce street from the un-
due amount of travel passing over
that thoroughfare. The amount APP
propriated for that work, $2,0S4.20,
should put the street between Came
ron and Frio in such condition that
teams would not bog in damp morn
ings. The movement to gain posses
sion of the old Grenet property is
move in the right direction, but it is
most devoutIy to be wished that no
such bleeding of the city VIII follow
as was the case when the narrow strip
on Soledad at the old Smith corner
was purchased for that purpose. The
resolution of Boelhauwe looking to the
opening of good road to the fair
ground is good starter for some
decent means of communication De-
tween the city and the fair grounds
and should be followed up until some
definite results are achieved. Inc
means of communication last fall
were most execrable and prevented
thousands from visiting the grounds
who would otherwise have been
present time and again. That the new
city hospital should be reported in a
deplora BILE condition and need special
report upon the same at the hands
of competentarchi sounds rather
alarming. There is a decided am
biguity about the language of his
honor and it leaves much room
for conjecture and surmise and sus-
piciOn. The building as his honor says
is comparatively new, and If even
now its very walls, or foundations, or
whatever it may be, are in a deplor-
able condition after standing two
years, one naturally enquiries why ?
Has somebody Numbered, as usual
These things make the average citizen
tired and the taxpayers restive,- and
those who want an efficient super
vision of work ordered get discor-
tented and disappointed and lose a. l
heart in all that concerns the munich
pality. IL is most devOutly to be hoped
though perhaps hardly to be expected
that some report will be made upC n
shat "deplorable condition" which
will inform the taxpayers just what
1t is and by whose fault. AS before
said, last Mondays session promises
something and the LIGHT waits,
hoping against hope for the promise
to blossom into fulfilment.