The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-05-01
PATIENT CITIZENS
ANGERED AT LAST
Owners of Property Beautify
Lawns, But Street Used for
Dumping Ground.
JOIN IN LOUD PROTEST
OPINION IS UNANIMOUS THAT
CITY AUTHORITIES MUST ACT.
A PARKLEsS PARK.

A PARKLEss PARK.
II you lived on a street
Where the homes looked neat
And civic pride tusged at your
Would you look on with smiles
As they dumped rubbish piles
On the part that should look the
Not yet.
Or II they should tell you
While trying TO sell you
Some parking that cost rather high,
That lawns would be seeded
As fast as was needed,
Would you pay the price with n
Quite likely.
Now, the truth of the matter
Devoid of all clatter-
Is that this little system was worked,
And the taxpayers are yelling,
As they warm TO the telling,
OF the way the parking was shirl<ed.
All yell!
CHORUS.
Oh, we've waited twelve months
For the lawns and such stunts
To make our streets look neat.
Now we're after the gang
Who raised such a cIang,
And made a dump ground of our
street.
(Sung to any tune from "Annie
Laurie'' to 1.-THE Merry Widow Waltz
Residents of Twelfth East street.
from South Temple to Second South,
have Joined with the property owners
Of Seventh East in protests to the coun-
Gil or the appearance of their street
which should. by this time, be among
the beauty spots of Salt Lake. Some
II months ago asphalt was laid on
Twelfth East TO Second South street,
with beautiful curve north and south
at the hill, and on Seventh East street
from South Temple to Third South
street.
On Twelfth East street the curves
are there, sweeping and majestic as
ever, but the middle of the street is
an excellent representation of a city
dumping ground. Likewise, Seventh
East street.
An emphatic protest was sent to the
council early last week from Seventh
East street property owners, in the
shape of a communication obJecting to
the manner in which their street was
left And yesterday along came sim
liar protest from Twelfth East street
Both protests are in the city record
er'S office and will be transmitted to
the city council Monday night The
city is about out of funds for this and
other work, because. because OF the
concerted protest it is probable that
about $1,000 will be set aside by the
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so badly needed.
Citizens Disappointed
The asphalt work was done by P. j.
Moran last summer, the curbs were
put in place, and residents on both
sides of each street put in new lawns
and made other improvements to help
out the general effect, expecting that
the middle of the street, "a feet, would
be leveled, seeded and Watered, TO come
up in fine grass plots the same as on
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gravel and other kinds of earth were
dumped in the future grass plots, and
that is as far as the work has gone
All last fall and winter the heaps
Of gravel and soil have stood In the
middle Of the street, an eyesore to res
fdents who do not even live on the
street. The average resident OF the
street wouldn't be permitted 70 express
of respectable residence, and he
would have to use asbestos paper TO
transmit his thought to writing:
This spring, when thousands Of lawns
have been put in all over the city,
the same piles of gravel seem to grin
derisiveiy at the residents along the
two streets each morning The prop
erty owners were patient long time,
but have finally sent in protests ana
declare they will follow them up and
insist that some work be done.
The city board Of park commission
ers asked the council for Sz,0OO' OF
as much thereof as may be necessary,
TO punch these piles down 10 g given
level and then SOW grass seed in that
portion reserved for parking. But the
council decided it didn't nave the
money, and even the so much there
of" was Topped off with the official
financial ak 1t is the intention or
the administration not to run the city
overdraft up too much this year-as
# is already more than half million
doIlars-and such little items as S2,OOO
nave been butchered right and left,
But IL is probable that this work VIII
he ordered this spring, II the outraged
property owners along Seventh East
and Twelfth East streets once get
hearing before the powers that De-