The New Daily Appeal

PROTESTING
FEMALE PRAYS
FOR
NEATNESS
AND
ORDER
IN CARSON.

[FOR THE NEW APPEAL.]

MR. EDITOR:—Although you have intimated that your desk is filled with articles which you have been forced to exclude from your columns, yet we venture to beg a small corner for a few suggestions, that you may see fit to lay before the public, especially to the Street Commissioners or other public functionaries, whom it may concern, believing as we do that they naturally affect the interests of Carson, the seat of government of the Silver State—Nevada.

Before making this place our home, we were told that Carson was the "gem of Nevada"—and at midsummer, when embosomed in green, it was an emerald set in the everlasting, glorious hills that surround it. But now that the rude frosts and wintry winds have swept away our verdant foliage, how changed the scene! On looking out upon our city, what do we see before us? Rivers, or mountain streams, which often rush through our streets, with an impetuosity which only the strongest barriers can resist, almost or entirely without bridges; sidewalks, of loose boards, across these streams, imperiling the lives of all pedestrians, and especially dangerous to our children, who will be more anxious than ever to be at school in all weather, with our new teachers and commodious school house to attract them; quadrupeds, of the least agreeable kind, running at large, and occasionally intruding upon our domestic peace; and, more distasteful still, a dead carcass, left undisturbed in our pathway. These and many other nuisances, equally uncomfortable, are open to the view of the most casual observer.

Now, MR. EDITOR, what is the remedy? Shall it be left to each householder to do what he or she can do on their own premises? Much may be done in this way, and we would venture to suggest to those owners who are so neatly enclosing their yards, that they may confer a public benefit by laying a few planks on the outside—but will this be sufficient? Now that the election is over, and our public offices all well filled, will not our chivalric gentlemen take this matter in hand, and put our streets and sidewalks in good order before the meeting of the Legislature?

We ladies, who thus petition, do not belong to that order of "strong-minded women," who wish to control the ballot-box. We are contented with the sphere which Providence has assigned us, and would only exert that quiet influence which has never been denied us, to promote the welfare of the community in which our lot is cast. With such views, we would desire to see the above-named evils remedied, and to see such a change in Carson that, when our legislators, Governors, and other high officials shall assemble this Winter, they may carry away with them a pleasing report of our city, and Carson may be as renowned for its order, neatness and good governance, as it now is, for the hospitality, refinement and cultivation of its society.

Respectfully,

A number of ladies of Carson.