Show Clear the Track As the city hose cart wasdashing desperately around the Wasatch corner yesterday on its way to the fire the horse straining every nerve and muscle of his fine form in his frantic effort to reach the scene at the earliest possible moment a man with more shirt collar than brains stopped a buggy in which he was seated immediately in front of the noble charger and necessitated the driver of the fire cart wheeling out before he could proceed to the scene of the supposed conflagration Chief Ottinger states that several other such instances have been brought to his knowledge since the paid department de-partment was organized and he thinks the public should understand that when a fire cart is on the way to a fire every obstruction so far as possible should be removed and foot passengers especially should tf stand from under This is so in other cities in London for instance if one remains in the way of a fire steamer on its way to afire a-fire it is almost certain death Every Londoner knows this and he gets out of the road as soon as he can The result is that but few accidents from that cause occur in that densely populated city If in the instance of yesterday the hose cart had taken a wheel off the mans buggy it would have served him very much as he deserved inasmuch as the firemen shouted for him to get out or the way and he stubbornly stub-bornly refused to do it though there was nothing whatever to prevent pre-vent it Bells are attached to every hose cart for the express purpose of warning people beforehand and It is noihing more than proper that they should take heed when they hear or see the firemen coming to make way for every moment is precious to them and any delay no matter how little only allows the fire to gain so much more headway Our streets are amply wide to give the firemena good broad right of way and it only requires a little forethought on the part of citizens to avoid accidents and stop all further fur-ther complaint |