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Show M WL DELIVERY i day ram. io City Merchants Adopt the 1 Rules ; No Goods Sent on Approval. Kffcetive March 11. retail merchants of Salt Lake will make but ono do livery daily. If customers pet Roods oftener Uian that they will either cany them homo or somebody will be violating a rule that all merchants yesterday pledged themselves to observe to the letter. A regulations committee, selected at a general meeting of merchants a week 1 ao, yesterday reported to F. Jensen, 'specially appointed commissioner of torn-merchil torn-merchil economy for I'tah, a draft of rules to Rovern deliveries of retail k'"'1s. and abolishing tho time -honored system of ? nd out unods on a pproval. The regulations were, iidoptod and berume ci-fective ci-fective on tho date named. They are: Ht'Klnnlntf March 11, II' IS, retail merchants will not be permit t ed to make more than one delivery per day over a certain delivery route, or to any slnglo customer. More than ono delivery will bo permitted, however, , to restaurants, hotels, railroad stations sta-tions and ho.spitals. Iiowntown retail merchants aro requested re-quested to adopt a general plan of making deliveries to the western part of the city In tho morning and to tho eastern part of the uty in tlio aft ernoon. Merchants In the same lino of business busi-ness are re nested to confer, and to adopt by March 11 uniform timo fiehodules. .Ml deliveries to finv ono c us t oilier In excess of ono delivery per day are termed "special deliveries," and all iiM-rchants are requested to make and collect a minimum charKo of 15 cents for oath "special delivery." Tht1 practice of tiondimr articles on approval necessil at os ex t ra del Ivories and greatly 1 net i'Iimos t ho cost of hand link' niorcha noise, and merchants aro requested to di scout In no this wasteful practice and to refuse to ae-I ae-I cept tho return of Roods once purchased, pur-chased, except for Home fault on tho part of t ho holler. All merchants will ho required to file a report by M arch L'O on u form t hat will bo provided, such a report to stale In del nil tho delivery plaji a tl opt oil by each mereha nt to conform con-form with reulat Ions est a hi Is lied. Tho reu'a Hons commit t oo w as select -ed from various trades departments, and consist s of t he following : M. M. Howies, chairman: (bori;o Auerhaeh, J . ,, ,lp-tnnn. ,lp-tnnn. William Munlork, Walter l,ovis. Tho one-deli very-per-day movement Is In line wit h tho eminent 's poliey of economy of time, effort and material, n nd was adopti d upon HiiKi'estion nf tho food administration. To lis enforcement all ret a II merchant h a ro plodded n nd v dilations dila-tions will ho promptly reported to t'om-mlsslonor t'om-mlsslonor Jensen. Ono of the most Important features of t he reKiilatlotiH Is found in rule No. t;, which requires that all merchants shall return a report by March 20 d tailing tho Kvstton "f dcllvt'iv omployod. It ia vx-pectcil vx-pectcil that out of these reports may be evolved a system of central or co-operative delivery. with a number of merchants mer-chants utill.liiR a siimlo vehicle lor their purposes. |