Show TO THE COUNTY SELECTMEN Resolved That Selectmen Roberts and Geddes be appointed a special committee com-mittee of the county court to visit the city of Chicago and such other cities as may be necessary and to be present at the practical tests upon elevators for which bids have been received Provided that the company to whom the contract may be awarded stands the expense of said trip and said committee com-mittee Is authorized to let a contract for an elevator providing the price does not exceed the present bid of any company whose elevator may be se lected Such is the resolution offered in the county court Friday by Selectman Chrlstopherson and seconded by Selectman Se-lectman Roberts Selectman Geddes being be-ing in the chair It is a clear case of the Three Tailors of Tooley street declaring i de-claring themselves to be we the people peo-ple What do they propose to go to Chicago Chi-cago and other cities for To be present pres-ent at the practical tests upon elevators eleva-tors for which bids have been received They will go to as many cities as maybe may-be necessary So far as the county of Salt Lake is concerned it is not necessary that they go to a single city It simply means a junketing trip and nothing more The county court in its wisdom has provided that the company to whom shall be awarded the contract con-tract shall pay the expenses of the trip And of course that simpleminded simplemind-ed company will never think of charging charg-ing this expense back to the taxpayers of the county We do not desire to be offensive but we mean to be plain We do not believe be-lieve there is a man woman or child in all Salt Lake county who would pay the street car fare of Messrs Geddes and Roberts from the joint building to the Knutsford hotel to get their opinion opin-ion on elevators or anything else It simply isnt worth having They are not mechanical or electrical engineers and in the very nature of the case cannot be competent to decide upon the merits of any kind of elevators Is there an individual firm or corporation corpora-tion in the city or county that would call upon the county selectmen to give an expert opinion on an elevator or other piece of machinery The people have little confidence in the ability of the selectmen to do anything any-thing as it should be done and they will look upon this trip to see practical practi-cal tests of elevators as nothing but an excuse for a junket If they really wish to study elevators there are enough in the city to keep them busy until their term of office expires I |