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Most of our streets are eighty feet wide. Make a 

 drive-way in the center thirty-five or forty feet wide, which 

 for this purpose is now and always will he enough; make 

 the sidewalks eight feet wide, which will give ample room, 

 and leave the intervening space on either side for grass 

 plats and trees, and we will have streets that are convenient 

 and present a tasteful and elegant appearance. 



When this is done, and the trees have had a few years 

 to grow, the increased heat our improvements have made, 

 will be materially modified and our death rate lessened in 

 proportion. 



I am happy to say, that a move in this direction was 

 made last year on Madison and some other streets, and I 

 hope it will be extended throughout the city generally. 

 "When these improvements are completed, it will be com- 

 paratively little expense to gravel or pave our streets. 

 Then with our location and surroundings, which for variety 

 and beauty are unequalled, surely not surpassed, and with 

 the general cultivation of good taste, to which these would 

 lead, we would have one of the most cheerful and pleasant 

 cities in the world. 



