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Show TRAVELERS WANT CLEAN SHEETS Clean sheets, large enough to drapo the moet portly commercial "traveler, are asked for In a. bill which will be introduced intro-duced in the legislature today by Senator Sen-ator W. Mont Fen'v of Salt Lake at tho request of the United Commercial Travelers. Trav-elers. The bill would require all hotels In the slate to give good accommodations and to be sanitary at all times. Bv the terms of the hill each bed must have two shcots and pillow slips. The shoots must bo not less than 39 , Inches long ana wide onough to cover completely tho mattress and springs. Tho sheets and pollow cases bust be washed and Ironed, so that each guest may have a clean set. Any proprietor who permits bedbugs to exist to the discomfort of tho traveling men and other hotel gucsta Is guilty of a misdemeanor. The time-honored Institution of tho roller towel in the washroom of the country hotel Is doomed by the bill. Tho proprietor must furnish clean towels for each guest, both In the rooms nnd In tho public washroom. Every hotel which Is moro than two stories' In height must be equipped with ample fire escapes within six months after the passage of the act. Each room must have at least one window, a door and a transom. Each hotel must have proper plumbing, lighting and ventilation. ventila-tion. Tho state dairy and food commissioner is designated as the officer to enforce this law and each hotel is required to pay to the utate an annual license fee of J2 In order to cover tho exponso of the Inspections. |