Show TIE SMOKE NUISANCE Ray Raymond Gives His Views on the Subject Smoke Necessarily there must be some fire where there is smoke as gushingly complained of these later days though it would seem that much of the fire burns brightly in private crucibles and mayhap for private ends If signs count for aught Taking up the smoke problem and viewing it fairly and Impartially what do we find We find that smoke Simon pure and unadulterated is being and has been for a long time emitted from numerous smoke stacks within our city limits The writer of this has on more than one occasion raised his small voice through the public prints that would in advocacy of measures wold tend to abatement And the writer is at this day and hour an ardent advocate advo-cate of remedial measures to that end believing that sooner or later a practical prac-tical solution of the vexed problem will be advanced and put in operation on lines just and equitable to all The question summarily brought up has certainly two sides to It and each side should be fairly dealt with The public weal should not be lost sight of when questions concerning the pubic are up for review Equally so should corporation interests be viewed They too have rights and when such rights are undergoing attempted subversion such methods but tend to excite distrust dis-trust in the minds of capitalists nowhere now-here and those who would follow Theres a way to do things to get the best possible results why not do it I J I that way From the sudden fanning I of embers within certain circles orife might draw the conclusions that some people were in this hour laying lines for theelectionwillcomeprettysoon and the smoke furore would let them in on a popular wave But it wont the veneering Is too thin Now about smoke consumers The writer isin no way giltedged ruthor ity on the numerous devices so called though probably more conversant with them and their workings than Is the average citizen or mayhap the great majority of those who would fain rise up on their feet and clamor camor for them In the first place these are smoke consumers that dont consume I con-sume worth a cent save under certain I conditions Corporation plants large or small are all bent on getting tlK greatest power with the least possible 1 outlay Thats business enterp j savoring of good enteIi plants have been constructed and ojX ated having in view the cost of us land l-and all the carefully considered principles princi-ples of combustion and to wholly upset up-set such calculations without the builders being given all necessary opportunity portunity to investigate and experiment experi-ment would be rank injustice nothing less Costly experiment with locomotives loco-motives on eastern ralways has not yet devised a smoke consuming apparatus appar-atus that is wholly a cep able to railway rail-way people though in some instances 1 they have been generally accepted < 1 with a view of bettermeiit in future Those people who clamor loudest 1 are they cognizant of the fact that such device is far more applicable to 1 locomotives than to stationary work I not it might be well to post upI up-I the Salt Lake City Railway company com-pany or any other company decline to 11 at once go into the market for alleged smoke consumers perhaps these I people have some prerogative In the matter Perhaps with all due respect for the comfort of the public likewise the wishes of some municipal people they might very properly be consulted 1 in the matter on somewhat dilerent i lines than those glinting on cold type 1 without prcpsr consideraion of all I that is involved I In the case of the Salt Lake City railway however even this argument does not apply for they have not only not declined to put in smoke cjnsamr ers but have in operation now andj have had for more than a year th most efficient smoke consumers yet invented in-vented while some public buildings have no smoke consumeis at ail and we hear of no propositions for putting any in 1 Wi It strikes the writer and at the sarnfe time it may appeal very forcibly to a fairminded public that some municipal munici-pal people should not cry woifin the face of the fact that there is something some-thing signally lacking abut the joint city and county building One can see it any day not a smoke consumer but real good oldfashioned smoke vomiting forth from that elegant pressed brick stack Theres smoke for you whaO are you going to do about it Wouldnt it be well to let a smoke committee get in its work in common with the others In conclusion let us hope that in view of the fact that some municipal people neglected to do with city and county funds that which they are now solicitous private corporations should do they will do well to muzzle the dogs of war even relegate them to their kennels until the leash s slipped under fairer and other conditions than those now existing The while I write in my quiet and unpretentious home in Waterloo I look from my window and see but too plainly the joint city and county smokestack smoke-stack in full blast the while a great black pall obscures all that region contiguous to it Consistency thou art a jewel RAY RAYMOND |