LOWER RATTRAY STREET.

Evening Star, Issue 14638, 7 August 1911, Page 5

LOWER RATTRAY STREET.

TO THE KDITOIi. Sir,—" The disgraceful state of Lower , Rattray street" is a common phrase with those who live or work in the neighborhood _of this above-named thoroughfare, bat since the hard frost set in last month it has been something awful. " A sea of mad" is the most apt term for anyone seeking to describe it. Pedestrians going up and down this street have mud to the right of them and muck to the left of them, for the railway yards are also in a a!thy state, both summer and winter. Mud and dirt is constantly being literally carted from the yards to the road and from the road to the yards. One has to keep a good look-oat when carts are approaching if one does not want to be splattered with mud. Such an incident happened to a farmer with his wife and family strolling down towards the wharf on " Thursday last. Just as they reached a cart entrance a coal cart came out to the edge of the pavement, and as the heavy feet of the draught horse were set down in the liquid mud at the boundary of the vard it splashed up, with the result that* the » poor woman's dress and the face of her boy were bespattered with the muck. .No wonder the lady's anger rose, but whether the Minister of Railways or the Mayor was the subject of it 1* do not know.—l am, etc., GO FOIt THE GOVKEXHEXT. August 7.