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Show ZION TO FORE IN SMOKE PREVENTION George W. Snow, Chief of Bureau of Mechanical Inspection, Back Prom Convention. George W. Snow, chief of the bureau of mechanical inspection, returned yesterday yes-terday from Cincinnati, where he attended attend-ed the convention of the International Association for Smoke Prevention. "I found that our bureau is working along the same lines as are advocated by the leading experts of the country," he said, "and we are making strides comparable com-parable with the progress attained in most cities." He said further: Experts arc agreed that the solution solu-tion of the smoke problem lies in a long and steady campaign of education educa-tion and correction of faulty methods of firing. It was the opinion of most of the experts attending the convention conven-tion that it takes a battle of two or three winter seasons to make any great difference in the amount of smoke with which a city is afflicted. It is by constant effort of the authorities author-ities and by continuous publicity on the question that results are achieved. Mr. Snow was particularly impressed with the results achieved by eastern railroads rail-roads in abating smoke from their shops and locomotives. In Pittsburg he found that the railroads had improved the smoke trouble 100 per cent without any special appliances, showing that scientific scien-tific methods of stoking are. after all, the principal thing to be sought. |