THE CHIEF EXPLAINS but lot let him road tho the article thrice rejected EDITOR JOURNAL my attention has been called to an article that appe arci arcu in the last issue of tiie THE in regard to the firo f ire a at t win Apper leys barn in reply I 1 would state that I 1 was there and I 1 also ordered the machinery out that went to that fire it is a standing 0 rule in the department that the chemical goes to all fir fires es and that it is the first piece of machinery out every time I 1 can also state that we are not the only dehait ment that has ordered the rule but ogden and salt lake city have the same rules governing them ican I 1 can soy say also truthfully that if the chemical had bad not been there the bu buy bugg 01 y shed on the south side of the barn would have been consumed before the water could have been gottini gotten there some biased person might 0 say that it was not worth much 1 I care bothin nothing g about that suffice it to say that it was not burned down on account of the chemical hol holding dinc V the fire in check until the water got there I 1 was one of the purchasing committee and can say truthfully that we investigated the merits of the th different fire finh ling n apparatus and the chemical w was as becomer aided to be one of the best pier es 0 ol 01 IL machinery that we could I 1 et lof our department we ave visited ogden and salt gait lake fire bre departments and r ot the e opinion on of some of the most i efficient t firemen in in utah and AJ there was not a man but w bat at recommended itin it in the most glowing terms I 1 personally ved captain donnell te to 0 head insurance aduster juster of 1 c ct e pacific slope and lie he told me that if lopan logan did not get a letter better supply of fire fighting app par attus that there would certainly ille le a raise in the insurance rates lie ile stated slated positively that a chemical was one of the best auxiliaries that the fire department could get now in regard to the cost of charing charging char V ing 0 the chemical clie mical it costs in soun sound d figures 2 10 that must be an immense immense amount of money moncy wasted stile sine ifft if it did no good but such is not the cabe and I 1 think that there could be no keri out objections on that score you may put me on record ac saying that I 1 have endeavored to be as cageful of the public funds as I 1 am of my own personal pe property and in in regard to the saunders fire I 1 was there when the chemical got there I 1 know that the fire was neither out nor under control but ou on the contrary the fire gas coming out of nf the couth cast window and the cornice was on fire I 1 was with C B robbins and J S ballif when they entered the building and I 1 can verify their statements that it was impossible to go into the room until after the chemical was turned in in the city of chicago alone there is over 75 chemical engines in use and in salt lake and ogden 75 pel cent of all the fires are arc extinguished till 0 dished with the chemical and 70 per cent of tile the fires in the united states are put out with the chemical in their incipiency it does seem redi culous that the chemical che had to coine to logan to bo be tested on its M merits brits but till THE JOURNAL seems seem to know more than all the rest I 1 an am respectfully J C chief now we have no desire to get into a personal wrangle with mr air knowles ile he is about two hundred pounds heavier than we are besides lie he is a policeman and carries ries a club but we trust lie he will not stop his if we mildly suggest that a number of men wh who 0 yaw the fire at Apper leys place have said that the chemical had no effect whatever on the fire robert bewley keale saw the lie uro fire and he assures us that the flames leaped ashish as ever iu in places where the chemical stream was played immediately after the nozzle dozzle was turned away henry Ilay ball helped handle the chemical howe hose and lie he said eaid that it seemed to have no general effect whatever on the fire J P smith and charles charler L england angland 0 were there and know that hater alone put out the fire but enough un on that thai point now in legardo regard to a ch chemical emieal being of great value in large cities we agree with you mr knowles oTle largo cities are where chemical grimnes engines 0 should he be used fires that are confined to large business blocks interior fires are more cagily extinguished extinguish e d with a chemical than by other means but here in lugan logan where all the fires are in small small buildings generally cn ono one and two story frieg the chemical is not claimed even by its manufacturers to be any good it was on that ground you republican officials refused it it mr knowles Kno wlee so far is as your your statement regarding in the sanders fire is concego concerned rn ed we have no n desire to quarrel with y you ani yet we know that nier were in that room when the die clie ical arrived aud and we krow know that ln been in that boo I 1 ar j long before the chemical arr red ej I 1 we know that 11 J argi Sa aders aders job john M adya bardwill yard rd will agon vilson and others were in in t e room fighting the with will brets ll 11 ets ti of water be foro oro 4 hc chen chem cal arrived and nc be leve iove ahr th t tho the fire wag under 9 before bhore any hose was taken up tile the eit stairs airs bt bat other men have different or nimons and it may be that we all were more or less excited one thing should be borne in bat THE ille JOURNAL has none but the warmest praises for the firemen one one and all but the chemical once n ce rejected r e i e acte adaill by the mayor and council co u aci nci 1 is i s still rejected so far as we aro are concerns con concerned cerne d