To The City Fathers

(xenti,emkn - The season of the year ís upon ua which ha8 alway8 proved to be the most dangerous from fires, and it is your duty as well as the duty of every individual to guard as best ha can against the " devouring element." You have removed the pump from the well at the Court House Square -trom that pump the reservoir at tha Southwest corner of the aquare was aupplied with water. There is a pipe leadiug from the well to the reservoir, and every person who got a pail of water, or even a drink, from that well oontributed to the supply for fire purposes. Ia it not your duty to put anotlier pump in that well and have that reservoir aupplied with water free of oost K I would cali your attention to the manner of working the streets, and suggest a plan vvhereby hundreds if not thousauds of dollars can be saved every year, and the streets made better. Thoae who have had control of the street work have bought gravel and paid for hauliug and spreading it upou the streets, when if they would scrape the mud off as Aldermau Dow did they would come to just as good gravel, without further cost, as eau be buught at auy of the pits. This mud is nothing but powdered gravel. The streets are too high, by scraping them every Spring as soon as the frost is out of tho grouud, and while they are muddy, they can be lowerod to a proper grade and improved at the saine time. In this city a few inches below the soil is as good gravel as need be for streets ; then what is the use of taxing the people io buy gravel. We have had all the " ridge road " that we shall need for the uext huadred. years.