Show OGDEN COMMENT The events of the week in Ogden have been su h as to keep Ogden peo people pIe thinking on various things The doings of the new city council on sev several several y eral propositions have furnished food for considerable reflection r One of the conclusions reached by the regular at attendants attendants at the council meetings is that the administration Is As not to be as eco economical nomica as Its party platform and speakers led the dear public to believe 0 2 0 There is the legal lepi department for instance The new attorney had hardly been een in office a week until he presented a bill bil of 10 for r r special services Somehow the idea was scattered by the Republicans during the campaign that there would be no extras in the city attorneys attorney s office and rid that additional counsel would not be required in order to o condemn the waterworks system s stem and turn it over to the city within ninety days da s Yet In just a month after as assuming assuming assuming suming office the council voted to give the he attorney assistant counsel In order to think up and put into execution a aplan aplan aplan plan for getting a waterworks system for Ogden and yet ret only olly fiftysix I ft sL days da s remain within which the administration tion in order to redeem its pledges should hand the system over to Ogden City or plead guilty to obtaining under false pretenses 3 One of the surprises of the week was I the Jie frank and public statement from Robert H Chambers that he had been beena a Republican for two years ears and pro proposes proposes proposes I poses in future to do all in his power to aid that party No Xo one questions Chambers right to change his politics but nit the incident simply shows that one on half he lie world does do s not know w how the theother other thinks Chambers was be beIl Il ved to t be he a Democrat crat all along wasa was nas a deputy sheriff under Belnap a fre frequent frequent frequent I quent delegate to Democratic conven COllen conventions conventions and a steady visitor to Demo cratic headquarters during the last campaign ign 0 2 0 S That there was was no n loss 1065 OSS of at the Ute big gas ga explosion Tuesday ap appears appears appears pears almost a le Besides the two of the establishment who were near when the explosion occurred there were the two firemen with the chemical engine who were close clos beside j I i the blazing structure when the explosion explosion I sion occurred and although all were I seriously injured all tiU will recover There has been much sharp criticism of the new n w fire chief for ordering or al allowing allowIng allowing lowing the men close to a fire tire where such an explosive ex was stored in butk bulk No one questions the bravery of Mr Graves or that he will in time make a good chief chie but he was appointed I over an old experienced man in the I face of a protest from froin practically every business man in the tIle city and these men are re not slow to assert that an experienced chief would have prevented the disaster The whole affair agair Is a strong argument against appointing a aman aman aman man simply because he be Is a Republican Republican lican or because he Is a Democrat to fill a responsible city position |