Show SALT LAKE IS SECONDS SECOND AMONG U. U S. S BIG SIG CITIES Of Ranks Next Nest to Top as Reg Re Re- g a 1 r d s Advantages A for Home and Business Life From a n standpoint of or general ad advancement ad- ad in which every phase of civic life lie has been taken Into consideration consideration consideration consider consider- scientifically Salt Lake Is shown i to rank second among the large cities clUes of oC the United States after a a. purvey of or thirty six of oC the larger cities m made do under un un- un- un der dor the tho direction of oC the Reed College of ot Record at Portland Ore When hen governors of ot the Salt Lake Lako Commercial club received copies of oC the sune survey In pamphlet form torm yesterday they expressed astonishment at the detail detail detail de de- tail exercised in n ranking the bigger cities of the United States The They were were of oC the opinion that the report mo may be regarded as the most complete and conI conscientious conscientious con con- t I undertaking of or the kind ever I I presented l for fOl consideration of or commer commer- I vial cial 11 b bodies Conditions on which the survey Is 18 based relate to water rates cost of ot living death rat rates s infant mortality proportion of or population married church members child labor parl parks s. s pavement pa fire loss public property libraries libraries li libraries li- li school attendance school properly property prop prop- ert erty erly teachers' teachers salaries number of oC puI pupils pupils pu pu- pils pUs to each teacher Illiteracy and I speaking English population Seattle Hunk by In Tn the great score of or the thirty-six thirty cities Seattle Is shown to lead Salt Lake by more than a trace The rho score of oC 2 5 Is la given both cities In the final Inal statement of comparison and without splitting hairs they may mar be considered evenly matched Seattle does rank ahead of Salt Lake In teachers teachers' teachers teachers' teachers teachers' teach teach- ers' ers salaries and school property libraries libraries libraries libra libra- ries and public property Relative to wa wages cl Salt tal Lake e Is re recorded recorded recorded re- re corded as a city of or the first grade cost of oC living second grade death h ath rates Infant infant in- in I j fant ant mortality and population married I first wade grade church members s second cond grade child cluid labor first grade parks s i j jand and pavement fourth great grade fire thc logs losa i first grade libraries and public property prop prop- I erty second grade school attendance I first grade school property second grade teachers teachers' salaries third grade g and pupils to each ach teacher illiteracy and spoken English first grade n Deis r n T cr aril Low Ios Angeles Next X While Seattle is placed at tt the head of or orthe the column in the g general summary o of the survey survey with Salt SaH Lake about matched lor honors other cities I rank In their rent respective oyd o T r ra ay Denel Denver Denser Den Den- ser ver el third th-Ird Lof Angeles fourth Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington fifth Portland Ore Minneapolis ic C Cincinnati r eighth Francisco ninth Boston Bos- Bos j Iton ton is thirteenth in line New York nineteenth Chicago twenty first t New Kew Orleans Ollean t thirty first and Birmingham Ala thirty Salt Lake Is la shown hoWn to rank fourth Inthe in inthe inthe the list as a to wage wase rates reduced from from ten groups of unionized laborers brick briel la layers carpenters painters plasterers I I plumbers and rued gas fitters day clay comi compositors com com- I In book hook and Job printing com I da day clay compositors in newspaper newspaper nH printing I Inight Inight I night compositors in newspaper printing print print- 1 j 1 I Ing Ing- and day and night linotype op op- op I The fhe cities cHIC's which lend lead Salt Lake relative to wages are arc Seattle San Francisco and Portland Ore T F elf Hi in u Living Il Co Cost t. t I Salt Lake is twelfth in the list o of cities relative e to low cost of living based on the cos cost t of ot clothing and seventeen seventeen sev sev- I enteen food commodities Tn In Minneapolis Minne Minne- Minneapolis apolis which leads the column n. n 7 cents will buy the same amo amount of ot food and clothing as 1019 will bu buy I in Salt Lake in Denver the cost is 96 cents and In Los Angeles 1103 From Irom the standpoint of ot death rates Salt Lake Lako Is b being sixth In lit Inthe I the tho list the column being led by Seattle Seattle Seattle Se Se- Se- Se attle whore the death rate Is ia to toI each thou thousand and in Salt Lake Lako it is 1 I a n. thousand Charleston S. S C. C which is at the bottom of or the lie list Is shown to have 31 deaths to each 1000 pop pop- I. I Omaha leads the column for Cor low infant in In in- fant mortality with deaths to every cery 1000 Infants born and Salt Sail Lake ranks fourth with deaths for lor each i I 1000 infants born Charleston S. S C. C at the bottom of the list Is shown to have 15 1502 1092 2 deaths to each 1000 Infants born on nn H. H While Cleveland leads In the column devoted to proportion o of population married showing i per cent of ot adult population as being married Salt Lake Is fifth firth In lino with il I per cent San Francisco co Is at the bottom I of ot the list in this respect having a record of or marriage marriS' of or not more than I ob i por pOI cent of the adult population I I Los Angeles records but 62 per cent I Denver Den per cent and Boston GO per cent From the tho standpoint of or church mem mem- Louisville leads with 68 com coin communicants to each 1000 population and Salt Luke Lake is tied with Milwaukee for fourteenth place with an attendance attendance attend attend- ance of to each 1000 population Los Angeles Angelea is fourth twenty In line with Denver thirtieth with and Portland Ore last laRt with 27 church chulch attendants to each population of oC 1000 Little Child Labor The child labor situation Is based on the census of ot 1910 InO in iii which the lie percentage per pcr- of or children from flom 10 to 1 11 years enl of age Inclusive gainfully employed employed employed em em- In industry shows Salt LaJ Lake to be the sixth In line Los Angeles Angele is ill eighth In In Inline uric line and Seattle seventh se with Ith Minneapolis leading In regard to parks per inhabitant In I Continued on Page I 12 I fl T RANK 0 I CITIES This table is based on points ol of demerit Tt it will be observed that Salt Lake and Seattle arc tied for first l. l honors each with marks of demerit de merit which arc less than the demerits of other cities j rn en J en ido id 8 j I o 0 o 2 O 0 0 eo 0 p G C- C Cf r. r I I i t O J or Q g g S Q r g 3 t n rc g 0 ii s 4 e p b r 1 o 0 j A n 0 a r t 0 0 0 0 0 t I 0 0 t n 8 rr C f v f 7 ti r f a rr r. r r v r y r r 1 Seattle 1 2343 i S 14 1 5 21 2 Salt Lake CU City I 12 6 4 5 v H 11 6 33 36 2 H 15 Hi S n 9 lu n Hj 3 Denver Den 6 5 3 7 17 16 18 30 10 14 22 G 6 28 8 4 3 1 14 15 r 5 G 6 21 1 Los Angeles 9 31 i 7 5 21 24 B 8 6 34 28 i 10 5 51 21 6 I 1 1 Ii 17 2 11 5 D D. 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C l 29 2 29 30 O 17 4 2 7 7 9 21 1 i 7 5 i 11 4 22 3 G 6 Portland Ore 3 3 9 2 3 I 35 36 2 26 6 29 33 18 7 17 6 10 2 12 I j 7 Minneapolis 30 1 3 1 7 24 26 1 33 34 20 0 5 j 6 16 9 15 9 11 8 Cincinnati 14 5 20 2027 9 27 27 16 24 11 J 12 29 tI 1 4 12 11 12 24 1 9 San Francisco 2 12 3 2 1712 16 1623 3 2 4 34 5 7 10 St. St Paul 6 2 3 8 3 16 1610 10 24 2026 27 11 Omaha 19 13 10 1 25 34 5 9 26 30 11 23 j 7 7 73 23 4 10 19 12 Cleveland 1619 8 30 20 H 8 10 2 15 20 22 a 1 19 1935 35 86 13 Boston llo ton 12 2 28 28 2822 23 32 3 14 22 2 35 2131 2 13 1 8 3 32 16 13 14 Buffalo Burtalo 8 27 15 14 26 1 15 12 19 ill 33 15 St 81 Louis r 7 19 10 23 13 26 2617 17 9 19 19 16 29 2910 10 8 29 2914 14 25 2 g 16 Kansas l 14 20 35 16 31 15 32 16 1 17 9 8 14 17 Milwaukee l 23 4 i 17 2 H 27 1 1 30 10 26 28 18 27 1336 18 Newark 4 i 5 7 15 1 19 q New hen York City 5 26 1913 f 15 31 10 10 1 18 1 33 27 29 20 Pittsburgh 1 24 20 27 15 22 18 25 19 11 3 14 24 17 26 31 21 Chicago 5 11 16 21 S 19 1917 17 29 13 18 25 5 29 22 11 5 jr 35 18 30 32 22 Indianapolis f 20 0 18 8 15 9 92 n 24 2 1 12 21 21 1 33 3 16 13 4 5 5 9 94 4 9 94 4 11 1 22 2 38 23 Louisville Louls L. L 23 2330 30 24 20 29 1 21 1 10 6 67 7 22 7 21 28 2 29 22 24 2 S 24 Detroit 0 O G 6 13 21 I 4 9 34 34 5 22 2215 15 27 7 28 14 15 21 23 32 25 Springville Ill 25 1 17 i 20 26 17 G 6 12 19 24 2 24 21 31 21 HI 19 23 33 11 21 1 18 26 Nev Hav Haven n e. e 3 35 5 13 11 i 7 23 3 8 23 20 32 12 2 26 27 29 29 20 27 Philadelphia 3 32 27 7 27 7 26 6 29 18 3 4 I 12 29 27 1 19 21 25 19 23 j 28 Baltimore 5 10 30 1 n 2 21 1 Ir 16 1 1 11 2 21 1 16 36 3 30 in 16 1 n o 29 Memphis 16 15 34 18 26 33 32 13 7 32 12 25 33 27 32 6 32 10 30 Providence 3 14 33 19 2 28 S 1 31 3 13 29 32 14 30 26 1 19 30 26 31 3 New Jew Orleans 25 21 32 34 a 31 s 21 24 18 9 17 31 32 33 31 13 S 16 32 Scranton 22 13 1831 31 7 3 35 25 3 35 32 25 21 28 20 O 34 31 28 33 25 2534 34 3 vu 12 20 13 32 2 3 11 6 36 10 31 1 I 34 Atlanta 19 33 2 16 12 36 36 20 23 27 25 31 35 3 4 6 41 35 Charleston S. S C. C 29 36 36 33 11 20 4 Hi 15 fi 5 31 35 36 32 34 U 31 36 2 2115 36 Birmingham 20 2036 36 U 31 6 31 2330 36 36 34 I 35 IS 35 |