The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-16
MAIN Street IN
I STATE OF CHAOS
A Hodge Podge of Holes, Mud
Banks and Contractors
Materials.
ONE MUST SWIM TO CROSS
RESIDENTS REDUCED TO STATUS
OF CAVE JEWELLERS.
ONE MUST SWIM TO CROSS

1t is evident that the people who reside
on Main street south of Fourth South
street have a kick coming 1t is ten to
one that the contractors have a kick
coming and furthermore. it is a lead pipe
cinch that there are going to be some do
ings if conditions do not improve
Beyond Fifth South there is about as
frightful street in appearance as can
be imagined; indeed, the condition ex-
tends nOrthward of that point and south
ward until Seventh is reached.
Iney are doing all sorts of things to
Main street down there. The water main
contractor has the street full of holes for
his water pipes the street car has its
right-of-way torn up and embarked with
mud in putting i'm its new tracks; p. J.
Moran has the paving contract and has
plOwed up the street so that confusion
is reduced to chaos.
The residents along the street have the
complaint to make that the period is far
are IN the blossoms and their lawns at
the best, and that the fellows who are
roofing up the streets are a menace and
q peril and a threat to their property.
Work Under Difficulties.
u don't see how man can do much
IN this kind of weather. said the fore
man of gang of men who were putting
in water mains. You see our men stand
ing more than knee deep in water in our
ditches-what can a man do trying to
take out or lay pipe under conditions like
this2 The weather makes me tired.
Some people complain because We are
not getting our pipes in fast enough.
Well the truth is the people asked for
a change in the width of the street be
tween Fifth and Sixth, for one thing, and
paving up to the curb on either side of
the street and adds twenty feet to the
width of MOran's job. but it adds a heap
more to our job because we have got
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engineer is fighting our boss. Percival
and putting dog on his trail every
time he can.
"But so far as work is concerned. how
can we do anything in this slop?' And
''slop'' was putting il mildly. The liquid
that lay in the bottom of the trenches
was as dense and as opaque as chicken
house site in the south. Men were fish
ing around in the bottom of this exca-
walton for a grapple on piece of pipe,
but they were never sure of getting it.
The Street Car Lines.
There is little question that the peo-
pie down here have a kick coming" said
the boss of gang of street car men.
The street car company is putting in
sixty-yound and eighty-pOund rails-as
heavy and heavier than railroad rails on
the summit service in mountainous dis
tricts. When completed, this improve
ment will set PAGE for every other city
in the land.
we have been devoting the most of
our time and our energies to the cross
street intersection work 1t is ticklish
work and must be done right in the first
place, or it will have to be torn out
again after the paving is laid. We are
nearly ready for the ballast on the curves
and on some of the track. Straight track
laying is simple and easy. save that we
are interrupted so often by passing cars
We sometimes temporarily spike down
rails for the passage of a car that have
to he taken out again and permanently
fixed. On Main street there are so many
cars that we are often handicapped; II
we delay a car five minutes it disarranges
the whole service and we are UP against
IT. We are putting in our steel as fast
as we can, although we have been ham
pered by this weather
Terse and to the Point.
when the other fellows get their stuff
down and when they give us a chance to
Law this paving. we lay IT. were
ready as soon as the word is given" Such
was the words of the man who said he
was looking out for the paving end of
the disturbance.
rant for their complaint against the con-
tractors and against the city, There are
piles and piles of ballast that are to be
used by the street car company. There
are racks Of bricks which are to be used
70 in the defensive works against the cav
ing of sewer pipe lines, at one time a
. vexatiOus problem. There are big holes
i'll the ground ana long stretches OF tntHl
to accommodate the new water pipes, and
imposing heaps of earth, the result of the
digging of men who make these trenches
and excavations.
: What the Citizen Says.
F. w. Jennings lives at No. 642 South
Main street From time almost imme-
morable, Mr.. Jennings has been unable
10 look across the street into the lawn
of the family over there. When Mr..
Jennings has occasion TO cross the street
he has to walk several blocks. for the
reason that there is no crossing possible
for man unless he wears hip boots.
Mr. Jennings says: THE people in our
section of the city do not think we are
unreasonable in our request that this
street repairing be pressed with q little
more vigor. Here we have a street.-the
main street of the town-lined and inter-