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Show TRUTH i cars in San Francisco, and other cities. in San Francisco, Denver and other Fenders in front of the cars are reasonable wages, they cities, and for the protection of the public. would workpaid better and pay more attenThey have saved many lives in cities tion to the business of the road. The where they are in use and the cost of public would also get better service. their attachment is not very great. In was a poor, struggling If the case 0f an accident in which any one concern, company there might be some excuse, feu jn fr0n't of a moving car the result both for indifferent service and low could hardly be other than that the wages, but it is one of the wealthiest cruel wheels would crush out his or corporations in the State and is makher life. If the cars were furnished ing money in plenty. With fenders the prostrate person would be thrown off the track and saved from death. The absence of The Salvation Army is preparing to fenders amounts almost to criminal give the annual dinner for the poor on carelessness. Thanksgiving day. Last Thanksgiving the army fed nearly 1200 poor people. The conductors and motormen are All who are ready to help in getting up dinner should notify the staff captalking of organizing a union to en- the W. P. Wood. tain, able them to withstand the impositions practiced upon them by the company in the matter of long hours and starCongressman Sutherland has gone to vation wages. The shifts are long and Washington to attend the coming seswearisome and while city employees, sion of Congress. common laborers, received $2.25 or $2.50 a day of eight hours, the street car man gets only $1.44 for the same period of labor and for ten hours on the cars, when the wintry winds are blowing, the new men get only $1.80 and the older hands from $1.90 to $2.10. Their lot is not a happy one. ne-ei-sa- . war, the captain After the end ofa the home regiment ana I returned to England, where he received promotion. kngnsn his decoration and to receive the young society was ready for a season, lionized was he hero and too swift foraman who The pace was T''T J , 1 i exchanged into An institution which is thoroughly anathematized at the present time is the Consolidated Street Railroad and Power company. The street car ser vice in Salt Lake was never very good, even when there were two companies operating, but since the consolidation has taken place It Is a great deal worse During the past few weeks the com plaints of residents on the Third and the Sixth street lines, which are probably the best paying lines in the city, have been the most bitter. The oldest and worst cars owned by the company have been put on the former line, and the condition of the track is such that delays are continually occurring by cars getting off the rails, while on the Sixth street line the cars run only with absolute disrewhich may be of schedule any gard supposed to be in force. The delays and accidents almost invariably occur in the mornings, when business people are hurrying to town, and in the evening between 5 and 7 oclock when they are returning, and many a spoilt dinner the car company is responsible semi-occasional- ly, for. ' M. i 5 Attorney J. T. Richards was at Nephl on legal business Thursday and Friday. Engineer W. P. Hardesty lias revisit in the turned from a ry The day shift men come out at 6 a. m. and get off in the evening all the way from 6 to 7, with one hour off at noon. Now as the order is to eat at home, these men must get up at 4 or 4:30 a. m., and as a consequence their wives must do the same to get their breakfasts. The young unmarried men mostly live within from three to four blocks of the barn, as they rent rooms and board at restaurants close in. The married men live from fouf to twenty blocks from the bam, hence they must get up so early, and the mother with four or five children, may be, must be up from 4 in the morning until late at night in order to wait on her husband. The car mans wife has plenty to do during the day and plenty to put up with as it has been, without making the change in regard to meals and making them the sufferers. The swing shift has to leave the barn from 6 to 7 a. m., and are likewise subjected to the early rising. They are relieved at noon and go on again in the evening from 5 to , and are then out until from 10 to 11:30. It is unbearable to the men to again have to arise at 4 a. m. The night shift men go on at 11 a. m. and work until 12:15 the next morning. They leave home in the morning at 10:30 and do not get home until 1:15 and 1:30, thus making a total of from fourteen to fifteen hours. Of course they are off an hour at noon, but they might as well be at work, for if they live any distance from the barn they have barely time to get home and back in one two-mont- hs East. J. H. Padglram of Salmon City, Ida., is in the city on business. Dr. C. H. Solier, superintendent of the State inshne asylum of Wyoming, is in Salt Lake visiting friends. Alma D. Katz has gone on an extend- ed business trip to Idaho and Wyoming. He will probably be away a month. George T. Pyper is confined to his rdom with what threatens to be an at' , tack of Hoyt Sherman has gone to New York and Washington on business connected with the estate of his deceased uncle, John Sherman, Hon. W. M. Roy lance was in from . , Springville Wednesday. OFFERS CHOICE OF TRAINS THROUGH 3-FA- ST DAILY- -3 AND Scenic Routes. Three Distinct ORDINARY SLEEPING CARS PULLMAN PALACE AND TO Denver, Omaha, Kansas City, St. Louis, Chicago, WITHOUT CHANGE. FREE RECLINING CHAIR CARS, A PERSONALLY CONDUCTED EXCURSIONS, PERFECT DINING CAR SERVICE. For rates, folders, etc., inquire of nearest Ticket Agent specifying the Rio Route, or write GEO. W. HEINTZ, Gkaksi Asst. General Passenger Agent, Salt Lake City. FOR THE CURE OF DRUNKENNESS - The derailments and delays most frequently occur on the Third street line typhoid-pneumoni- a. OPIUM, at the switch on Brigham street, be- hour. tween Second and Third East streets. A single track from the Eagle Gate to They have to be on their feet from E street is altogether inadequate for to fifteen hours a day. On fourteen the traffic, and the company should be some of these lines the men have just made to lay a double track for that distance. It has been talked of at in- time to go from one end of the line tervals for a long time, but the com- to ths other, and often have stops on pany makes the lame excuse that the every corner and in the middle of the location of the conduit renders it imand with the strain, as they possible to obtain room for a second blocks, to be constantly on the watch, have track. The excuse is not good for the too to expect of them. The is much it reason that the conduit where it inter- 400 men employed by the company feel feres with the building of another hardship has and is being track could be moved back at not a hurt, a on them. Nine or ten hours is very large cost. The company could worked men to have to stand on sufficient for certainly very well afford to make the the front of the car, especially in the in the conduit and lay a much winter. change often work overtime, for They needed second track, which would do which the but single company pays away with the necessity for a switch time. If the men were treated better, and would prevent the unreasonable and wearisome delays, which now occur and their shifts arranged as they are at both ends of it. The street railroad companies have been very generously dealt with by the Thay aave received all the franchises they asked for, practically on own terms The grants and use or lu the streets are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, for which the . COCAINE, And All Drug Using, CIGARETTE AND TOBACCO HABIT8. 164 E. First South St. W. M. BROWN, Medical Director and Managar. Keeley Lock Box 480. Institute of Utah. lHLaTMnE21E&9 Lessee and Manager ?ulnpany does no Pay Hie city anyIa consideration of all that it should he made to give the public at least reasonably good car service. one- fi The limited number of new cars the company has recently put on are a sreat improvement on the old ones, but not one of them is furnished with fenders such as are attached to the a I A;-V'- Office in Deseret National Bank I Capital $75,000.00. 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