Show STRIKE IS A SERIOUS MAUER MATIER FOR MERCHANTS OF SALT LAKE The Th most moOt serious S situation Salt Salt Laka Lakil merchants have hare experienced In years pre prevails rails vails here this morning as s a result of the strike of ot the street car ar men Managers of the big stores store declared de last las night that a n continuation of bt the street streetcar streetcar I car for any length of time will ViII mean moon a tI loss of hundreds of thousands of I dollars to the store owners When It was wasI I learned late last night by the managers manager managerI I that tho the strike promises to last several days das at lit t least efforts were made m e to t find rind out to toll what t an extent the stores could depend on the street car company for I light and und power General Gen Manager Wells of or he the street car company issued repent repeat repeated I ed ad assurances that the power houses of ot the company will not be affected by the strike of either the electrical workers or orth orth orthe th the street car men mea Managers of laundries laun ries repair shops shop bakeries and every other establishment 11 tn the city using electrical power ower made ev or every cry ery effort last night to find out Just how serious the situation is with regard tc to the possibility of the electric power be being beIng beIng ing shut off All AU are exceedingly anxious ious Ions a of the power plants would cripple the commerce and industry causing a loss in dollars and cents to t merchants and manufacturers not rot easily reckoned Hundreds of ot clerks office girls and stenographers trudged long weary milea mUe to work this morning and they thOy th y may Clay have to walk home tonight after a bard hard days das work on their feet test Business Ss men came downtown in carriages automobiles and an anI cabs C bs Private conveyances of ot every Vel de do description I are carrying heavy loads on the streets this morning bUrning Express Empress and dell delivery I cry ery men are ara ar carrying passengers when whenever whenever ever possible and charging from 10 to 25 5 3 cents cent Every line of or business In tho the city Is af at affected affected atI I I Real estate men last right night that they will suffer suffern a heavy hea loss iossIf If the cars arS are not running in a very short time Ume The most serious situation however prevails with the retail r merchants It ItI I will lUbe be utterly impossible Im for the great I body Of feminine shoppers in Salt It Lake LakeI I to get to the tho big stores with the tile car ser I vico suspended or running in Ia a I haphazard ard art way va and liable Hable to attack The cessa cessation cessation a i tion Uon of ot this trade trado will cause an immense Immens loss to merchants |