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matter becomes almost a source of Public amusement,
and challenges much criticism, but this
view is taken only by those who have no interest
whatever in the result, or think they have no
interest. The whole community have the most
deep interest in results, although they have perhaps
little voice in the actual methods employed to
ensure their safety and comfort,—safety by adopting
such materials and way of applying them as
shall be the most secure from accident to man
or beast, and even property—and comfort to obviate
as much as possible the discomforts arising from
those inseparable companions of busy trafic, Dust,
Mud, and Noise, and the not to be forgotten
element of smell.
A quarter of a century since all these
questions were, comparatively, and comparatively
only, in a state of temporary calm; as it is, there
is a definitely expressed opinion that improvement
is possible, and demanded, not only in the interests
of all, but to prove that the few, who represent
the many are equal to the responsible position
to which they are elected, by sparing no time,
pains, or trouble, in honestly investigating everything
that may show the way to an advance in
every direction where improvements can be made,
and though the Vestry of St James's as trustees
of the funds entrusted to their care are most
prudent in the application of the same, they have
always furthered the cause of well considered