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Show WHY ARE NOT WALKS CLEAREDOF SNOW Thero Is an Ordinance Providing Provid-ing Therefor and Should He Enforced. i OFFICIALS APPEAR TO BE DERELICT IN DUTY Street Sweeping Department Might Sweep Crossings at Night or Early Morn. j 4- ' "In case of a snow, hail or sleet storm, between the hours of 6 o'clock in the morning and 4- 5 o'clock in the afternoon, all paved sidewalks shall be cleared f of such snow, hail or sleet with- in one hour after such storm 14- ceases In case of a storm be- 4- tween the hours of 5 o'clock in the afternoon and 6 o'clock in the morning, the paved side- 4-4 4-4 walkB shall be cleared off before 4 4- 8 o'clock in the morning. Any 4-4 4-4 person violating any of the 4-4- provisions of this section shall 4 be deemed guilty of a nuisance, 4 4 and be fined in any sum not ex- 4-4 4-4 ceeding twenty dollars." 444-4-4- 444-- --4444 Resident? living in the paved district! "f Suit l-ake may he unfamiliar with the Hhove raragmph. hut it Is a city ordinance ordi-nance that ha-s been on the statute hooks of the city of Salt Lake since 1992. at least. Officers Don't Know Law. Judicine faff!) the apponrance of the paved district Wednesday, the city officers offi-cers of Salt Lke are as unfamiliar with 'he ordinance as the people at large seem to be. Members of the police force, whose beats take in a number of the uptown districts. waded through the viueh and slop of the rmrlf ncifl s-ldew.iik with never a thought of their duty as iubiic officers it probably l safe to (y that in the last ten years no resident "f Salt Lake has paid the penalty for not complying with this ordinance. Conditions After Eveiy Strm. Not that the ordinance has been complied com-plied with. By no mean. The condition condi-tion of the sidewalks Yedndny was a -ample of the condition every time a storm visits the City, from November un-ill un-ill May. For years this failure of the city officers to enforce the law has been a subject of adverse criticism from residents resi-dents and visitor- alike, and it Is suld 'hat In no city In the I'nlon Is this pr-'tcuar pr-'tcuar ordinance o flagrantlv violated TJp-Town Streets Neglected In most of the up-town districts prop-Tty prop-Tty owners compiled with at least the cplrit of the ordinance on Wednesday, that is. the snow in most Instances was removed by noon But even the up-town street were neglected i somi Instancet 'ntlrely, as prominent a thoroughfare as the south side of Second South, between the Cullen hotel and the Eagle Mock, with the exception of a t w feet, h-,ng pH overed with slush at dark Ihi night TYest Temple, hoih south and north of The Tribune was another neglected thoroughfare thor-oughfare and south of Second South the "idewalks on this same street wr scarcely touched with scrapers True of Other Districts. What is true of th. districts named Is also true of othei districts lying In the heart of the city s busy center, while no attempt was made to remove the an. -v. OB the long paved stretches extending north. J south, east or west Once in a while one ran across l stretch of walk In front of -ome public-spirited man s home and the walk, dry and clean, presented an ob-Ject ob-Ject lesson to every passerby. It made plainer than an screed the fact thai If every property owner lived up to thi one ordinance of the city pedestrians could walk dry-shod all over the flu Reform Badly Needed. .And while speaking of street cleaning, there may not be an ordinance governing govern-ing the time that street sweepers should do their work, hut the practice "f thc sweepers choosing th.- lats afternoon hours to remove the snow and mud from the paved streets Is calling down upon their heads the most Indignant protests of residents The snowstorm which be-n be-n to fall In this city Tuesday night had ceased before daybreak Wednesday I and yet as late at 4 o'clock Wednesday the street sweepers were spattering slush and mud over all who panrvc-d along the leading streets and were not nimble enough to escape. How Other Cities Work. In metropolitan cities street cleaning Is done at night or if done in the dav time Is done by squads of men with I'ruahes and brooms. Pedestrians suffer none of the inconveniences to which Salt Lakers are put every time a snowstorm omen. In Paris. London and New York -very vestigo of a snowstorm is, unless the fall Is unusuallv heavy, removed within two hours after It has fallen If in those, cities with their hundreds of mUes of paved district, this can be accomplished ac-complished in two hours, surely th,-should th,-should be able to han.Ke the few mlles-"-8S than six-extending through the busi-no" busi-no" ' bef0W 4 k p the after. |