Show ARE AGAINST FRANCHISE Real Heal Estate Association Asks Mayor to Veto It Communication I From Prom Scheid The Ogden Real Estate Mens lens association association tion yesterday esterday appointed a committee to appeal to Mayor Conroy to veto eto the wa waterworks waterworks Waterworks company compan franchise It is pot not thought that the mayor will heed this appeal In addition to tho the stand they hey took on the water franchise matter the real es estate estate estate tate men took up the question of he price of lumber and made the announce announcement announcement announcement ment that responsibility for the prevail prevailing prevailing prevailing ing high prices had been traced to the dealers Karl A Scheid manager of the board of fire underwriters for Utah sent another communication to the association in which he lays stress upon the fact that the ape cial committee appointed by the mayor ma or to Investigate the recent large fire had not as yet ct made its report He then deals with the matter of reducing insurance rates and says You ask for suggestions su that will se so secure secure cure in the fulfillment a reduction of in insurance insurance Insurance rates As a result of a visit to Ogden last week we k I want to call cail your our at attention to certain deplorable conditions which must first of all be corrected to entitle you to even such rates as you now have First I find that between the hours of approximately 6 G to 9 a m and 3 to 6 p m your water pressure runs as low as five or even ven sixty pounds and that it would take some thirty minutes to in increase increase increase crease the pressure As fire de dc department department equipment is for gravity ser service service vice this inadequate pressure during the I periods stated becomes a serious menace The thirty minutes required to Increase the pressure would be the doom of your pur town in case of general conflagration I therefore recommend that immediate steps be 60 taken to secure permanent pres pressure pressure pressure sure of from eighty to one hundred pounds at all hours of the day and night Second Flagrant violations of build building buildIng building ing laws are being perpetrated without opposition Your city ordinances stipulate stipulate late that no buildings s with outer walls in any an part of wood shall be tolerated Yet I can point out at least four such buildings erected within the congested con ested district during the past few months Hence I recommend that by proper pro provisions provisions visions further violations of this measure be prevented The present building ordinances ordinances ordinances nances are altogether alto ether Inadequate Par Particularly Particularly as permitting party walls nine inches This ridiculously inadequate re I trust will be remedied by bythe bythe bythe the revised ordinances now being printed Third I found a general impression strongly prevailing that the recent se severe severe severe vere fire in your city was not properly handled I understand that a committee of investigation was appointed by Mayor Conroy but that this committee has ren rca rendered rendered dered no report I strongly urge ur e that the proposed Investigation be made and the results submitted If ex ox exists exists in the department it be known and prompt action takui tak 11 i o 0 remedy the weakness If not the department should be vindicated |