In the Inaugural Address of Samuel R. Honey, Mayor of the City of Newport, R. I., January 4th, 1892, we get a glimpse of what it was like to move about the city in the days of the horse and buggy. In speaking of streets he said, "In my judgment our principal thoroughfares ought to be carefully swept during the night and well watered early in the morning. It is a barbarous practice to permit the raising of a great cloud of dust on Thames street or Bellevue avenue (for instance) by employees of the city during the time those streets are in use for business or pleasure." He continued with recommendations for paving specific streets. On the subject of sidewalks, "We have every variety of sidewalk in Newport, from the excellent concreted walks at the upper end of Church street down to the spongy morass which skirts the Bradford estate on Ayrault street. And we have also every variety of control of them. In the recently published proceedings of one of our corporations we see a resolution of its board of directors authorizing the planting of a pole on the sidewalk in front of its property and charging five dollars rent therefor; and in another part of the city a number of unsightly poles, which had been placed on a sidewalk, were, a short time ago, chopped down by the abutters before an admiring crowd." "On a rainy night it is far wiser for passengers to take to the roadway in many of our streets than to travel on the sidewalks. On the former they merely encounter mud; on the latter the chances are that they will tramp through puddles which will soak them up to their ankles. Why should animals have better accommodations for travel than men?" Susan W. Pieroth