Show 1 Smoke II SMOKY city is s wasteful and in two ways A 1 It t costs the merchants thousands of d dollars in m damage to their stocks of goods It costs the merchants of white white goods goods both cloth and paper thousands thousand of dollars in loss of their materials And smoke itself is an indication of a waste of fuel fuet When we see smoke pouring out of a a stack it means that so som much m ch fuel is is' is going out into the air inthe in the form of gas and from which no economic benefit has been derived of extra laundry and cleaning aning bills to 4 v. v All this thi to say nothing tile household and the individual V Pittsburg rg us used ad to be the Smoky City X- X XIt It is called that yet f j But today Pittsburg is more free fr m moke than Cleveland Ci Cincinnati Cincinnati- Cincinnati Buffalo or or nearly any soft soft- coal burning city ity And all all this with three steel mills practically in inthe the downtown district All this change in the city of Pittsburg iwas was as brought about 1 by the smoke i inspector and in a unique way It was accomplished without one single arrest on the on-the the part of an offender v He appealed to the producers of smoke 3 as a fuel saving measure as measure as a money saving measure He demonstrated to them that smoke was th tl the e result of too he heavy vy and infrequent stoking That the fire the heat was deadened deadened deadened-by by too heavy a bed of 5 fuel on top of the live coals that coals that the fuel was was cooked thus releasing releasing releasing re- re leasing the heat producing gas which passed out of of the stack in the form of smoke The smoke inspector of Pittsburg and his staff showed showed firemen fire fire- fire fire- men how to fire L They demonstrated to the owners of smoke offending places the economy of two firemen where one was overtaxed They urged the installation of automatic stokers in the larger in institutions 5 This Pitts Pittsburg burg smoke inspector did not say one one- word about sI smoke j ke nuisance but app appealed aled entirely to the sense of ot economy economy- profit And all this seems to indicate that people can be mad made to be good a good deal more easily and quickly by appealing to their common sense than to their fear of punishment fl y And every act of wrongdoing every offe offense e against g pu public good order there is bad economy somewhere I And the offender hi himself will often correct the evil if the i eon economy c i omy can be shown to him I t Reform is often a question n of salesmanship rather than punishment pun- pun s |