The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-30
EetterS tc tbe Gdftor
Street Improvement.
Editor The Advertiser;

1oltOr Ine AQVertiSer:
 The city expended. sss.ooo for the pur' nually provides N,S00 to keep It up and no way to get to 1t. The South half of Montgomery Is the most beautiful portion Of the city, and yet there is not single Dexter Avenue. Beginning at tEe corner of Adams and Bainbridge, and extending in southwesternly direction, there are steep hills on 'Bainbridge. Alabama, Scott Decatur. High and Grove. Eventually, these hills ought to be reduced to grade SO as to give the city a convenient ap- proach to the park. When one is dam- aged, benefits considered. reasonable compensation should be made. Streets are for the convenient travel of man and beast. and hills defeat the very purpose for which they were designed. c. adsd roads are more important in a city than the country, because of the greater num- Der served. the rush of business, and the general strenuousness ot city life.
 By making haste slowly, the difficulties of one street can be finished before as- suming those of another; and thus. one by one. all can finally be placed upon the best grade possible, the improvement be- ing not for this day only. but for all time. Since observing the convenience everybody wants them; then why not have them? The cost can be included in the baby-bonda issue. and the people have twenty years in which to pay for them LiiC ptOpeAtJ l6N1hk db OiiGG uOuDiCO HI value, because located on beautiful av- enue.
 There is no objection by us in letting Adams and Alabama Street severely alone, but 1t is wrong to sQuander 26,OOC in building obstructions to their proper improvement in the future.
 The intersection of Alabama and Batn. bridge is q basin, the land rising in three directions, comparative level in the other. To the west, steep hill Is the approach to Decatur Street School; just beyond is the Lomax fine engine, which cannot descend this hill In safety with Alabama Street Is St. Margaret's Hospi- tai, beloved by all Montgomery An in jured man, descending this hill in an ann bulance. would have to be scotched to keep him from sliding about.
 The north side of the basin Is the pin nacle on Adams Street, recently discuss ed; hence. there is about to become per- manent, not only pinnacle. but a basin fill the other; not in the country, but Tn a city, the queen of the South, only two blocks from a States Capitol, the birth place of "a storm-cradled nation that fell"
 Where Is our civic pride. that we re- move not every blemish possible from the face of our common mother, fair Mont gomery?
 of the Council will personally inspect the ground, before casting his vote in this matter.
 We have the highest regard for the present administration, and we do not attack 1t in any department. but we dc attack the policy. pursued tor ten years of not grading streets, when making per manent improvement, and We appeal to this administration for relief.
 The rights of one should yield to those of 50,000, especially when the 500O0 are willing to pay for damages, which seldom occur.
 We are not alone In our position, for we have every reason to believe that it Is freely shared by a very large majority of the people, r. W. Jackson.