Show SALT LAKE IS ALL RIGHT She Will Not be Liable for the Use of the Electric Door Opener It is quite likely that there will be somo hot litigation between the patentees of the self opening doors for stalls in the fire departments de-partments of the west and many largo cities Tho fun has already commenced and there will be more suits to follow It is over the Bragg system which was patented in 1875 It provides for the release of horses in fire stations by electrical action The horses are kept inTox stalls at the rear of the engine room As an alarm comes in and the hammer of the alarm gong raises for the first stroke it touches a small trig ger The trigger drops a weight acting through a system of wires lifts the latches of the doors which are on spring hinghes I Open flies each door and out of each scampers scam-pers an excited beast This system was J < considered a great scheme when It was first put before the people and the apparatus appar-atus sold nearly every city in the country adopting the plan I has worked well ever since The towns using it have contented themselves with the belief that they had the nest thing out Indianapolis parties bought Braggs patent pat-ent right for the states of Ohio Michigan Indiana Kentucky Illinois Missouri Wisconsin and Minnesota Then they began be-gan to gently whisper about royalties The cities which kept their fine horses in Braggs boxes laughed them to scorn The Indianapolis people went to law For a test case they selected an easy mark the little city of Terre Haute There was along a-long suit suits always are long these I days Judge GresDam finally gave a decision de-cision in favor of the patent holders The cities must pay royalties Thanksgiving night the Terre Haute board of aldermen met and with anything but thankful faces grewsomely paid down 53100 100 forever for-ever 1 000 people in Terre Haute This ended the Indianapolis peoples interest in Terre Haute and now with the precedent on their side they are looking about for another victim They will find one or more in every state Chicago will be the next to be asked for a little of her wealth and then poor old St Louis will be awakened from her slumbers and asked to contribute Salt Lake however will be exempt from this litigation as tho Bragg system is not i I used here The old rope service introduced intro-duced by Chief Ottingeris said to be fully equal to the electric appliance and in some respects is the better of the two |