Show BURY THE WIRES Work That Should Be Done Before the Streets Are Paved Firemen Cannot Get at Slain Street Buildings Build-ings Under the Present Conditions The Conduit System Bury the electric wires The unsightly wire nuisance must be put underground I not this year it must be done a year or two hence and then the street pavement must be torn up This is one of the evils that demand heroic treatment at the hands of the city council and now is the I time to act I H Pembroke pioneered the movement I to establish a conduit system of electric wiring in this city When he was a I member of the council he introduced a i resolution on the subject which was referred re-ferred to a special committee but nothing was done at that time A few months ago another resolution on the same subject I sub-ject was introduced but nothing has been done Several members of the council I coun-cil are known to be in favor of the system and that is alleged to have been one of the matters inquired into by the junketers junk-eters while in San Francisco They ought therefore to possess sufficient information in-formation to act intelligently on the subject I sub-ject jectMr Pembrokes plan was to bury all I electric light telephone and telegraph wires on Main street between South Temple Tem-ple and Fourth South and for three blocks east and west but since that time so many large buildings have been erecjed on State and West Temple that those streets should also be included The desirability of placing the wires underground un-derground is admitted by all I would facilitate the work of the fire department in the event of a serious conflagration in an enormous degree An Ogden fireman was knocked senseless and seriously injured in-jured the other day by a stream of water coming in contact with a live wire But aside from the danger to the firemen it is simply impossible to get the aerial apparatus appar-atus near a large building 4 Just look at that building across the street J said Chief Stanton yesterday pointing to a sixstory block There are eight electric light wires running into it besides the telephone wires We could not get a truck within twenty feet of It without first cutting all of those wires I and who wants to take the chances of being be-ing killed by an electric current You see it is the same all the way up the street We have no chance to fight fires under I such conditions The telephone and electrio light people I admit that the wires must go underground under-ground within a few years It is certainly better for the city and the public to do I this work now than to wait until after the street pavements are laid I The council should settle the question at once A New Utah Map Pocket map of Colorado and Utahtwo i states in one coverhandsomer handier I better than any 50 cent map yet made seven colors in strongcover all counties rivers railroads postoffices Correct to date Also maps of all states in same style Vemai agents any samples wanted on receipt of eight 2 cent stamps Address The MatthewsNorthrup Co Buffalo N Y |