Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 73, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 August 1925 — Page 9

THURSDAY, AUG. 6, 1925

RECENT STORMS CAUSE CITY TO DELAY REPAIRS Employes Working Overtime Fixing Damaged Streets.

Do You Know? Persona who submit complaints to the board of health or for the board through Mr. Fixit must give street addresses so that improvements may be expedited.

With employes of the department of Improved streets working overtime to repair damage to the wooden block paving in recent storms, work on other important improvements has been delayed, Otto J. Smelcer, superintendent of improved streets, informed Mr. Fixit today. That is why the property owners who wrote the following letters have had cause to complain, he said. The repairs and improvements will be made as soon as possible. DEAR MR. FIXIT: Wherever crossing signals are installed, as you know, it is necessary to cut the street. The cuts are just deep enough i.u cause a broken spring or bend an axle. Cannot these cuts be better protected, especially at nights, and then permanently repaired quickly after the job is completed? Some have remained for weeks before receiving attention. C. E. DEAR MR. FIXIT: The sidewalk in front of 217 W. South St., is in bad condition which was, no doubt, caused by trucks backing out of a driveway and breaking the cement. There are hundreds of us who have to pass over this sidewalk several times a day and it is very hard to walk over unless you walk around it. Further, the curbing sticks up and makes it awful easy to stumble over it. ONE OF OUR DEADERS. Smelcer promised to attend to this complaint this week, if possible. Let Mr. Fixit know if you fail to achieve results. DEAR MR. FIXIT: We have a very noisy sewer cap in front of 145 Me Kim, Ave. Almost every car that passes on this street hits it. Please see if you can get this noise quieted a little. A READER. W. P. Hargon, clerk of the street commissioner’s office, will quiet the clanging <it the lid, he assured Mr. Fixit. TO EAST SIDE RESIDENTS: The board of health promised Mr. Fixit to correct the obnoxious vault at once. DEAR MR. FIXIT: Isn’t there a law which prohibits the placing of signs on the sidewalk for advertising purposes? If so, why is it not enforced? The other evening I saw a poor blind man run into a large automobile tire sign at Thirtieth St. and Northwestern Afve. and hurt himself- There are several of these signs there which take up about half of the sidewalk. Shouldn’t something be done about this? A READER. Capt. Fred Drinkut promised Mr. Fixit he would investigate this state of affairs at once. There is an ordinance that prohibits signs on sidewalks. T. W. C. B.: Captain Drinkut told Mr. Fixit he would order an investigation of the crowded alley on N. Illinois St., at once. LIGHT RATES REDUCED Cut of 10 Per Cent Is Made by Power Company. Bu United Press WABASH, Ind., Aug. 6. —Electric light consumers of Wabash will get a 10 per cent cut in rates Sept. 1. The decrease was made voluntarily by the Northern Indiana Light and Power Company.

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Heart Throbs of Humanity

YOU see them every day, dozens and hundreds of men and women upon whose faces is indelibly written—a story. A woman, pitifully alone, on a park bench—watching with sad eyes the children who dance gleefully in a patch of sunlight. Another woman, also pitifully alone, though surrounded by doctors and nurses, dying in a grim, white-walled hospital ward. A girl so radiantly happy with love that she seems transfigured. Another girl, scarcely more than a child herself, gazing with big tragic eyes at the baby she carries. A careworn man in threadbare suit stopping to buy a single blood-red rose. A BOY from the country, swinging his carpet bag, whistling to hide his confusion, wondering where he’ll sleep that night. A tramp, tired and worn, edging into a 10c Bowery lodging house as though he were ashamed. “He has seen better days,” you muse. He has . His story will astonish you. Everywhere you see them. And you wonder, and wish you knew, and pass on, and forget because the wonderful tales you instinctively know are there, are inarticulate—beyond your reach. These are the people that O. Henry knew and

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