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Highland Park News (1874), 26 Mar 1897, p. 3

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HOW pay the costs? Tin; assess- ment as, now laid in large; it was made so purposely :50 us not to have a deficit. which would imolw it flew set of court and other costs to lay How it shall be done. Just as now planned, a parkway through the centre similar to Centralié‘ast, with a paved 20-foot driveway on either side of the parkway. . In the west driveway put the electric road double tracks, from the electric light station to the viaduct under the rail- road. This will leave the east drive- way of twenty feet, clear always for teams. » Boulevard the east, side and keep all heavy tennis on tlw Wee-st side, on the trucks. and tlwn the (lust side will lw always flour for light teams. bicycle. motorcycles. Mo, etc. It has been Hnggestml also that the 92th sitlv driveway be renamed the Sheridan Road. so as to have the road one unbroken th‘ich under one nnnw from llw south to th? north line of the city. Wv mtlwr favor the idea. but it is not osm-ntinl to the street, though it should be bouleâ€" varded. I ’Sincé'the improvement of this main gym; of. tha city in the foremost topâ€" ic before the cit'iZeus at this time, we outline the plans as they are now in hand. FINALLY While we have-not reach- ed the extreme in our hard times. he has been reached in .lndia. where the government has lmen obliged to in- augurate great schemes of public im- provements {or the purpose of melpâ€" ing the working people tide over these times1 we should consider the claims of our Working people and push such a public improvement as this, which Will help them as well as promote city‘s permanent good. We do not urge this as the chief con- sideration, but it is one of them and should be borne in mind in decid- ing what to do. ‘ public has no interest, because home- seekers aye disgusted with that street. There, are plenty of men of means and taste who like the Park’s natur- al advantages, they can't help that, but our artificial drawbacks, of whit h St Johns 11-1 an important one disgust them. ST. JOHNS AVENUE. we mint bur 'city ' officials who have the matter in charge to impress on the Northwostern railroad folks the fact that they get ewry year large hums in freight for all thefle hll't‘l' t. sewer arid waterworks im- provements. Not a rod of‘pat'ed or macadamizml street can be built but they get a good freight bill out Of'lt; So of tile for sewws and iron pipe for water mainstandn}: all these ei- penms they pay nothing. We under- stand the contractor for the ShorL (lan road. south. paid the Northwest- ern in freight billa on that One job over $7) 000 in solid cash that sum mer‘ and the \ortliweetern did not pay a cent toward the improvement of the Htreet. Swami new homes were establi-ihed on that street as the resultof that improvement. the Northwestern gets every year from $53le to $1000 or more in extra pau- setiger film out of those'new home‘e. THE HIGHLAND PARK NEWS. “Now this will bring the expense down to a low figure for a good job. and we don’t want anything else. We understand the Northwestern folks are willing to allow the assem- ment to pass provided the city will give them the entire benefit of the electric road rebate of two-fifths the entire cost. We will do nothing of the kind; we will give them their propenportion, one-half; then let them fight it out in the courts if they wish to do so: if beaten in the end bythe :ailxjoad the city can pay it, for that is the great public thor~ oug'hfare and must be put into proper shape. another assessment. to make up the deficit. Make the astesement as charged to the people for collection just what the actual cost shall be when contracts are let. As the street railway company Wlll pave 8 feet wide for each track, and for their two trackh they will pave 1(5 of the west ‘20 feet roadway. That is. out of the two roadways of 20 feet wide each. or 40 feet total width, the street railway talks will pay two. fifths of the costs. Then give all the taxpayers 0n the east side of the street and the Northwestern railway on the west side of the street equal benefit of this reduction. Ar PRESING DUTY. ‘ We may add, tgat physician dour go dealing 0m blue pills; Keeh‘s ilymph belladonna or any other I thirlv- sex and trituration. ' Some of the cities in western Mae- sachusetts are‘having their charters modified so as to give the mayorqu power of appointment and removal. :40 as to focalize pOWer and responfii. bility in one man instead of “a com-- mittee who shift and Shirk responsi- bility. as a goose Sheds water. The modern trend is to 'ard' making one man responsible and then hold him to it; it means business and knocks out politics. We do gamma: The florthweatern known all about this, of course. but they donft run raierada for philanthropy, and it is no part of their duty to tell our 'of- ficiala what a profitable suburb Highland Park is becoming; but it is our duty to pnxl our own officials. And while you are at it, gentlemen, just ask. the Northwestern. how it is that it costs ua‘ three to four dollars more fwrthousand freight on pav- ing brick than it does Waukegan? There are. aome other facts and prob- lems. but they will wait"till another time. ' It is said tliat- -u local physician astounded one of our alder-men by writing out the following prescrip tionthe other day for a slight at tack of indigestion: 633333333336 988888888889 an: Artistic Printing A NEW PRESCRIPTION. desire- yonr patronage in our Job Printing (ls-partmem. We have facilitiea for every class of work from :m vnvelv npt' corner to 8 pam- phlet or catalogue. Best quality of ink and stock and careful attention to every detail enable (“Ho do SEQ-l. Leather. Rubber. 33 ()5. Fiat: 58ft” Bicyclr \n. l Sig. I an: {rt-quenth axdin-(u-d

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