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Show OBJECTS TO THE ) POOR CMSEUVKL Citizen Writes The Tribune About Traction System of Salt Lake. BELIEVES CHANGE IN MANAGEMENT DESIRABLE Suggests That Practical Rail, road Man Might Be Tried Some Time. ESdltor Tribune Six new cars for the ftah Light and P.nll-v P.nll-v uy company were shipped from St Loul yesterday yes-terday Thej aro expected to reach Salt Lak in about two weska. News item. Yes, and whut do the people of this cltv get when these cars come but six morn cumbersome, hurd-to-get-ln. hard-to-get-out. Stuffy and logy out-of-date contrivances contriv-ances called street cars. There is not a solitary up-to-date cur running at tho present time on the two slraka of rust of the Smith Street Railway company, in the summer months, true, there aro a e; open carg that might (?) be i ailed up to date, and they are generally run "up to ijf .' f'.i- thej are always kept in servici until awaj after the cold, bleak weather sets in and all the compalnlng and kicking of the public avails nothing The public has no authoritiy to kick at what Ib doled icit to It b the hierareh It Is almost as bad as In the olden da; -"If you don't like tho way we run things, K'-t out of tho country " In your lssuo of N'ovcmh. r P.i apt,i.irs t he following. , i. The street-, or servl. .- In thl-i dty n- 1 1 TBjf f pi ement, to k-. p pace, with the growing Iff tlvitlei ol the cllj The Commercial ciiih ''"' took preliminary step.! to in- quire into th- aarvli i the company which has the control of the street-car service. It 1 found romt) things ami?, but modo no public report threon Would n..w not be a gid tlmo J to make further Inquiry, not only as lo w..at 1 Is but what oiiKhl to be to meet and help tft.t In. roaming n-. .! in thi line ,,i tl..j pc .pltliV V"" iho clt " v ' H Suggests a Remedy. Now. with all rlue respect for the Commercial Com-mercial club, there js only one way to Improve tills street-car service, and that Is to change Its management It l said ih hierarchy does not own a controlling Interest In the stock of the concern. If bo, why should it have the full nav-so as to should dictati i tv operating oi its lines'.' It Is the operating department of all railroads that the public Is Interested Inter-ested In, and there has never In all the history of this so-called siroet-ear system sys-tem been a railroad man at the head of i operating .,r train-service department No i". ow, unless he be n the high councils I f the Mormon (so-called) church could be trusted with such a position. And Just So long a men are kept In SUi h positions simply on account of their church stand-lug stand-lug and not fur th- ir atulitv t., operate a -fl railroad. Just so long the Salt I-ake public will have th.. pleasure of alwas kicking about the wretched and rotten street-car s. r Ice doled out to it. What One Man Has Done. It might be said that there arc many Gentiles In the employ of this company. Orant this; but there Is but ono or two who occupy anything more than eorjtc unimportant or menial position A year ..r ? ago it was found that the trackage needs had absolutely grown away from anv one whom the Lord's people could select from the flock, so a "railroad" man was forced to 1"' engaged to take charge of this department, and wherever he Is allowed to work his hand la seen and felt in the improved tim kage of tho bj item. Service Always the Same. Every little while oup reads In the press about General Manager So and So, or Superintendent So and So has gone East to examine Into the various street railway rail-way systems with the end In view of Improving Im-proving our home service Then, In about a year after, we read about several new-ami new-ami improved cars coming, etc , etc., but as the days, week, months and years roll hy It is the same old dirty car and rotten Bervlct that the public has to put up with Absolutely the v r worst all things considered o any car service In the country Cities all around us are Improving Im-proving their car service by providing better and more convenient cars, keeping them clean and running them for the con- vt nil nee of the public. It is money in the pockets of the company to do this, too hut the people in control of the I'tah l ight and Railway company, with all the valuable grants and fa. ors that have been extended to It and with all the promises It has made to the people, Is too biased to see this thing from a business standpoint. stand-point. And of such is the kingdom Of Zlon. iTi.i x Salt Lake ("it, January 6. 15W. -V : w |