The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-26

concern to those in charge of this gov- ernment.
 The city cannot pay its running ex- penses and has already incurred a large amount of floating indebtedness which 1t is now proposed to bond. It is conceded that the rate of taxation will have to be raised next year if the city is to pay its running expenses.
 In view of this situation the taxpay- CTS will undoubtedly hesitate long time before approving of an eXpendi- ture of upwards of $1OO,0OO for a mere fad which will be of no benefit to any one except a few merchants located at the intersection of Crown and State streets.
 Should Crown street be extended the only difference is that Wooster street will be reached by a street running diagonally at a sharp angle from the end of Crown street to where Wooster street now enters Union street. It is easy to see that the street cannot be a straight one, and that the proposed change will add nothing to the beauty Of the city. The distance from the end of Crown street, where it enters State street, to the end of Wooster street, where it now joins State street, is about enc hundred and twenty-five feet. The gain in distance from the end of Crown street to Wooster street is practically nothing; at all events, it must be only very few feet. When this matter was heard before the committee of the board of aldermen this summer it was urged that State street was frequently congested by traffic owing to the pres ence of the electric road. The electric road is to be taken out of State street and put in the cut, which will render it fully as easy to pass through State street as it is through Crown street.
 Crown street, if extended as propos- ed, will not be in a direct line of any shipping centers-that is to say, it will not connect any points of importance either for reception or discharge of freight or commodities. It is perfectly clear that the proposed extension is rot a necessity, especially in view of the fact that the electric road is to be talk en out of State street, and quite as clear that the advantage gained will be comparatively slight.
 MT. Arvine proposed an amendment that the committee investigate the mat ter and report back to the Chamber before calling the attention of the oity to the matter. After considerable dis cussion MT. Arvines amendment was lost and MT. Fox's motion carried. The committee was not appointed last oven ing.
 Attention was also called to the point that the extension would be of assist ance to the fire department upon the completion of the new Crown street en- zine house.
 Another suggestion made by Mir. Ar vine was that one of the principal arr guments made in favor of the ext'en- sion of Crown street is the steepness of the approach to the bridge on Woos- ter street. but as the cut is to be shifted to the eastward there is going O be plenty of room to reduce the height of that approach. There will De the same objections to bridge on Crown street unless the approach is made more gradual and there will be plenty of room on Wooster street to make it gradual. The slope on Woes ter streets is not natural; it is artificial. It cannot be made lower, and have the trains pass safely under it.