The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-03-31
That boulevard Question,

| Unexpected the Tribune would fly into
a rage when THE HERALD voiced the very
general public sentiment in relation to
the boulevard. We are not surprised that
instead of responding to our request for
''more light and less mud it treats US
to more mud and no light at all. Being
deficient of Illuminating fluid it falls back
ON its common expedient of attributing
the remarks of THE HERALD to an indi-
vidual and then lying about him. No
light in that, and it will not help the
boulevard.
Now as to the muddy streets. The Trt-
b1uae says: ';The muddy streets happen to
be where the paving, which is already
provided for, is to be put down as soon as
the weather gets good.'' Indeedl Are
the very few streets that are TO be paved
the only ones where the mud is ANGLE
deep7 Are they as bad as most of the
streets that are not likely to be paved for
many years to come? The streets have
been for a long time in a worse condition
than they ever were before since this city
has had anything like revenue for street
purposes.
! The trouble is that very little work has
been done upon the streets, except in a
few localities, that is of lasting nature.
Matchmaking on a solid basis might
answer the necessary purpose. But haul
ing gravel on them occasionally and in
small quantities is mere patch at
best, and the gravel sinks or the mud
rises, and the so-called roadways are
nothing but ,nire and dirt.
When this is the condition nearly all
over the town and the taxpayers in every
ward are complaining, the project to
construct such a boulevard as is advocated,
for the benefit OF a comparative few while
the many suffer for q lack of passable
streets, is not to be thrust down the
Threats of the public without some in
vestigation. The Tribune never has any
patience when its ipse dirt is questioned,
but we DON'T care dime for its passion
or its vituperation. We want reasons for
this scheme, not airy nothings mixed
with groundless assertions.
! Now. as to keeping the boulevard in
repair' after it is built. Here is what
the Tribune says in answer to our ques-
ton about the cost and who is to pay it:
''There ought to be a line of pipe
stretched along the outer line OF the
boulevard, with faucets at convenient
distances, and one man during the sum-
mer season could do the sprinkling for
the whole distance
Wonderful! The sagacity and practi-
cal road-making wisdom displayed in
that sentence render it gem. The miles
OF roadway contemplated in the scheme
is to be kept in repair by sprinkling done
by one man for the whole distance.
That is something new under the sun,
after all. The Tribune had better
have one man with a sprinkler on each Of
the shocking streets today to repair them;
they would be placed in splendid order by
a little more sprinkling, would they notq
But perhaps it means that the line OF
pipe would mend the road whenever il
gets out OF repair Well, who is to pay
for the miles of pipe stretched along the
outer line OF the boulevard?' 1t strikes
US that the taxpayers would have to fur
nish the pipe and pay the piper VIII enever
the boulevard needed any kind of work tc
place it in order.
| The HERALD has not yet opposed the