Bad street condition

Mr. Editor,

Your readers have been looking to your paper for some stirring sentences that would have the effect of awakening our street department from their winter slumbers, for truly this is needed. We make every allowance for unusually wet weather, but all must agree that rarely if ever in our city's history has our front street been in a more disreputable condition. It is high time the street committee got to work and defined the duties of the street commissioner, for apparently he thinks his duties are very limited. Our crossings on Water Street number less than a dozen, and yet not once this season to the knowledge of the public, have they been cleaned by the town's workmen. Day after day maybe seen the residents on either side of the street, shoveling mud four inches deep from these crossings in order to get across the street, and even have to carry planks in some instances, which may be seen today in several places. This is not a fair deal to the citizens, nor to the reputation of our fair town.

And again the manner of cleaning or scraping the dirt in the center of the street in March last, accounts in a great measure for the deep mud and filth in some places on our street. The chairman of the Committee, if observant at all, should have seen that this was done properly, or not at all. Does the public believe that the condition of the street in front of Mr. Alexander's store would be as it is if excavation was done in the proper season? I feel that this protest is not half strong enough.

Yours truly, a dissatisfied Ratepayer.