Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-03

and associates with dogs Of high and
low degree every day. He also thinks 1t
is possible that some of this dogs COM
ranions go home and play with the
children living in much more preten-
tious houses than the one with the pla-
card on. Great is quarantine in Sioux
City!
There Ia another little matter that
needs attending to in Sioux City, and
that is putting up street signs for ten
derfoot visitors. The citizens are very
polite to strangers. answering questions
and telling you where to go, ETC., but
after climbing hills 10000 or more feet
high one would like to know where he
is at" OF course one can ask whether
he has passed -steenth street, and
nearly all of the houses are numbered,
but a great convenience would be street
signs on the corners. This implies that
one walks. Only strangers do that.
Citizens ride in electric cars, and to her
credit 1t must be said that Sioux City
has fine system. One can go anywhere
every fifteen minutes and get there in
five minutes afterward, for when one is
riding every car goes down hill at the
rate OF 100 miles an hour. When you're
Walking everything is up hill. There is
just a little bit of improvement needed
IN their electric car system. Sometimes
they have conductors, and then they do
not. To avoid any unpleasantness. If the
conductor is absent. you can put nick
el In the slot at either end of the car;
,,,1 cir fnys
your money point firmly but distinctly
at the slot machine, and that settles 1t.
The motorman, the writer believes, is
better pleased if patrons don't pay than
IL they do. for there is not the best of
feeling between the dear people and the
car company. The people want con-
ductors on the car: how unreasonable
when SO many can ride SO cheaply with
cut being asked to pay! The motorman
wants conductors on his cars, probably
for the company's sake, when he gets
way out on Four Hundredth street
where lots sold for $1,000 during the
boom period and are worth some less
than that today. But just the same
Sioux City is doing business at the old
stand. There's healthy growth today
that is, worth more to the future OF the
city than any boom ever was. Some i'm
mensely big buildings are being finished
in the business portion of town and resi-
dent property has had a material adj
vance during the past two years. AL
most any kind of desirable house now
rents from s25 to $40 month, few
bloated bondholders paying as high as
S75 to 500 a month. In addition to her
electric car system, Sioux City has
splendid quality Of water for household
purposes, and her system of sewerage Is
almost perfect. Why shouldn't it be.
when every house is on hill, every hill
being a small mountain? Self-admiring
Sioux Cityans have, however, remark
able system for getting home different
from any other city on earth. John
Jones lives at 1916 Roosevelt street. The
residence OF Jones by the government
survey is $4,000 feet above the sea level!
Jones asks friend home to dinner.
t.te." What about the hills?" "Oh.
We'll go up Mckinley street and avoid
the climb" And in some mysterious
way they walk and arrive at Jones
house located where the snow does not
thaw out at this level even in July, al
most three miles in the air, without
climbing hill This explains why the
electric car company declares such big
dividends. They save the wages of say
100 conductors at 81 day and the cars
gun down hill all OF the time, SO there Is
little expense for motive power.
Newspaper-wise the same curious sit
uation exists here as in Des MoineS.
Here. since the oldest inhabitant can re-
the Journal has attended to all
republican matters. including the post
office, the government building and the
big bridge. In Des Moines we all know
how the Register runs things. But
when war broke out last summer the
Journal remained with the regular
army. Refused to join the Cummins
crowd till after the convention. Then it
swung into line and gave good support
to the republican nominee, thing you
can always count on in the Journal. But
in the meantime the Tribune, like the
Leader of Des Moines, dared to support
Cummins. The idea Of these papers in
terfering with the prerogatives Of the
Journal and Register! Why. republicans
to this day actually take" these demo-
cratic sheets. This was bad enough, but
now up here the democratic Tribune
presumes to advise, suggest, remon-
strate. threaten. promise and denounce.
in fact, does everything about Sioux
City's next postmaster that repub-
lican daily would do. Hence the pecul-
lar feeling around the Journal Office.
Some citizens here claim that the text
and sermon now SO prominent feature
III the Sunday Journal are frequently
aimed at the Tribune. And another
thing that strikes the Looker-on is that
where one gets on a high hill and looks
down the city, and sees what "a picnic"
these two papers have in having but
little competition from the Chicago dali
lies, this in city OF $4,000, one is forced
to admit that both of these papers fur
nish such good daily publications that
outsiders hesitate to enter field where
they would have such strong competi-
ton.
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