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Show OFF ONJTS FACTS. Alderman Farsons Galls the Daily Prevaricator Pre-varicator to a Sudden and Unexpected Unex-pected Halt. SALT LAKE'S WATER SUPPLY. An Increase of Over Four Million Gallons Daily Over the Volume of Former Years. Alderman Parsons and Assistant United States Attorney Critchlow were swapping "anecdotes" when tho chronicler chron-icler entered the office of the former this morning and opened the dixcussion of municipal affairs. "The Herald is off on its mathematics and its integrity," said Alderman Parsons, Par-sons, "when it says the water supply has not been improved under the present pres-ent administration. Ordinarily I don't think groundless assertions entitled to the dignity of debate, but when a man or a paper wantonly misrepresents it is well enough to lift the mask that the public and the taxpayer may arrive at the facts. Now the truth is '" Tho Water Supply has never been so valuable as it is under un-der this regime. From City creek the flow is larger by one million gallons than it has ever been before. This is the result of work that has been done in the most economical manner and yet the Herald iuforms us that no improvement has been made in the water service." ','Aud does that respond to present demands!" , j "Just hold on; we have not reaobed Emigration yet, and then there is the volume from artesian sources. In Emigration Emi-gration canyon tho supply has been increased in-creased 3,000,000 Gallons and from the artesian pipes there is a flow of a quarter of a million gallons, making a total increase of four and a quarter millions daily." And yet the Herald volunteers the statement to its readers that the supply i no greater than it was under the old administration." administra-tion." "It does admit an increase in lawlessness, law-lessness, however." "Yes, to accommodate its abusive policy a joint policy between it and the other morning paper. Of course crime has increased ana so nas tae popuiouuu 01 ina t'liy. That is one of the evidences of local growth, but we can congratulate ourselves our-selves that it is not more aggravating than it is. The Thug, the Crook, the garroter and the marauder are all indigenous to a new boom whether it be in the well regulated regu-lated Quaker town or in the frontier metropolis. They will gravitate towards to-wards it and no manner of quarantine will prevent. I don't see, however, that we are overrun with crirao. Fel- I onies here are less frequent than in the large majority of cities and it is with pride that the inhabitant can point to The Court Calendars." "What of the necessary evil?" Excuse mo; but into that I have made no personal enquiry. 1 did confer with the police department as a result of the Herald's charges and ascertained that there were only about half the seraglios se-raglios now as compared with those that were tolerated by the old administration. administra-tion. It's useless to undertake to lodge facts for what they are worth in the la)) of so much prejudice, however, and I simply mention these things that some one more familiar with The General Line of Facte may take them op and answer the charges in detail. The figures I have quoted on the water service are the best evidence of what has been and is being accomplished, and while the results re-sults may not have made themselves very perceptible at this time a canvas of the city will demonstrate that they have been steadily going on. The Herald Her-ald should hire a man to gather facts. The subscriber is paying his money for them and not for groundless assertions. The Rapid Transit company are keeping the ice cleared on White lake and skating is first-class. Cars leave theater corner at a quarter before the hour. 1 |