Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1885 — Wide Streets. [ARTICLE]

Wide Streets.

When George Augustus Sala visited Omaha he was astonished that the town should have devoted bo much space to streets. He wrote of the folly and cost of such a plan, yHo would have written the same way about Glxicago had he seen the town in 1850. But now, with streets from sixty-six to 100 feet wide, there are certain portions of that city where the thoroughfares seem rather narrow, and unquestionably dark on a dull day. The men of America had “empires in their brains." y The first generation in any American City as well situated as is Omaha must bear the burden of wide pavements or relinquish the hopes upon which the town is usually founded.— Tin Current.