Arizona republican., 1899-03-26
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 As a resident of enc of the eastern additions, Collins, l feel that l have
 a kick and am puzzled as to whom 1 am
 to direct it against. I live in that in-
 definite area bounded on the south by l Washin gtOn street and on the north by
 Van Buren street, on the west by the
 city and on the east by yet unsubdi-
 vided tracts Of sage brush, greasewuod
 and mesquite. My part of the town Is
 laid off in streets and alleys and looks
 as well on the map as any other ad-
 ditiCn to Phoenix CT as Phoenix itself.
 Most of the streets are open or have been at one time, but there are no
 bridges over the i-Tigating ditches so l that at the end of each street an i'm | passable pond has been formed The | bridges on the county roads leading | into this secluded neighborhOCd I am
 describing are a half mile apart, With | in the last three weeks my milkman 1 has broken his wagon twice and my bakers wagon has been broken Once. Both has given notice that they will discontinue their visits at the end of the month on the ground that the cost of repairs exceeds their receipts from
 that isolated community, rendered al- most impregnable by these neglected
 ditehes The county is not to blame for these streets are not county roads. The city can have no interest in inn
 provements outside its limits. Then who is to blame? I don't know; but
 dc know this, that the persons who are
 interested in keeping up the value of property in fthe central part of the Mur-
 phy and Collins additions, say along
 the eastern extensions of Adams and
 Monroe streets, would find it to their
 advantage to render that district nab
 itable If one is deprived of bread and
 milk ard other necessaries of life there
 he is nothing more than recOncen-
 trado.
 It is announced that H1r. L.rmcr Stoddard is endeavoring to make play out of Dr. Mitchelrs Hugh Wynne.' I am sorry to hear this, for there IS no reasonable dlcaIbt that this story, all though by far Dr. Mitchell'5 best work, will meet the same fate on the stage as Gilbert Parker's fThe Seats of the Mighty" It is not 2 narrative suitable for dramatic treatm nt ;n.l in order to have it fulfil the requirements of pupU. lar taste the plot will nave tC be p:ac- tically rewritten and reaTranged. q process that will surely destroy it's charm. Playwrights sefm not to have learned that a popular novel may be a very dull and unpOpuia" affair as a drama. They would do well to con- sider other characteristics than mere pCularity before attempting 10 make q play cut of material thar does net lend itself to legitimate dramaJization.
 A wanderer about the field of litera- tCre sometimes stumble: over 2 liter ary Snag that produces sensations of a painful nature ard causes Jim to wish he could have taken some other path. | The RCbert-Eiizabeth -Dr )wning-luVc- | letter cult is one Of them. Mir H. D. Traill has written a sort ot ccnversa- tioEal review of ''The Letters of Rob- ert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett | and he is pleasei to speak | Of the book as "a literary love story One is glad tcl have the thing named | and dignified as a literary production. for people can now Ield :ln epistClary account of a very commonplace Cuart- ship and marriage without being ac- cused Of maudlin curiosity i}H' l am sure the wCrld will be thankful when the Browning resurrecCioLi>,. trG3a their goulish digging into ihe private affairs of a man and woman whose sole claims upon poster;ty conSis.s in the S T.. 1 poetry, and the ether wrote a k,rd of poetic jargon that has Ouly served 10 worry the understanding of persons who think they know gool poetry when they read it.
 
 1 must confess that l fail to under tand the motive that actuates the res dents Of the additions who oppose an lexatiOn to the city. It seems to me, md I have been unable to see it other wise, that they are working against heir own interests, paradOXical as that statement may sound. There has not ,een Q case of extension of city limits Il the growth of all the great cities of he land that has not been followed " increased values of property in the lnneXed additions. It will be so in Phoenix and that is why I favor an Lexation, even though residing outside he city limits now resident CT North Center street said to me few lays ago he was opposed to anneXa- ion because it would raise his taxes nd when he came to figure it up found is increased taxes wouIu not amount o forty dollars year, and he's leavy property holder too, while hls increased fire protection alone would ,e worth more than that to him, and n increase of ten per cent only in the aluation of his property would pay lie extra taxes for ten years. The comments of an eastern visitor in The a few days ago in which he alled attention to the irreparable amaze that would be done Phoenix in he next census if the additions are Ct annexed particularly impressed . ae. I agree with him too, and con dently believe the town would re- eive 6 blow from which it would not ecover in the next half dozen years, 0 say nothing in the mon2y loss ln values of property. Jhis $ n age of expansion. Everything shows |. The house worker gives way to the actories small factories are consoli- ated under one general head just as he half civilized lands are coming un- ,.,1In cf civilization :