Show QUESTION QUES IS UP TO 0 THE PUBLIC I It is within the power of Superintendent Read troll trolley y company to abate one of f the greatest public nuisances which a afflicts the Salt Lake Lale public by one stroke of the pen By simply issuing a ten ten- word order to his conductors Mr Ir Read ReDd ma may eliminate nate a condition which Health Officer King iCing declares to be a menace to the public health Open six in the of is all the top every car cur superIntendent superintendent super super- need say On three occasions Dr King has suggested to Superintendent Read that this be done But what is the result The ventilators in every car in th the city have been closed so as to make the tile car airtight It is said that Mr 11 Read Bead is considerIng considerIng consider consider- Ing a 11 plan to these ventilators It is In this way that the thc street railway manager receives re- re I a suggestion from the chief health officer of oft t l e. e Saturday night se ent three seventy passengers i. i were crowded into an tight airtight Third street car The They had luul just left a theater that was packed ed and jammed with human beings When persons pelson are into a car as H was the case with the Third street trolley they are compelled comp to breathe and re re- breathe he foul fetid atmosphere from which the vitality vitality vi vi- has been extracted an and which is freighted with germs We Ve have hare Dr King ICing as ns authority authority au au- au thor for tilis thiR statement The f ty c conditions caused by pe persons being crowded into airtight are favorable fa fa- for tor the propagation of or disease and expose the passenger el to contagion in every ery form Health and require require- that passengers shall not be crowded into so RO small sinai a compartment aa its the average aver w age SnIt Salt Lake tal street car without ventilation yet it itIs I Is constantly being done on the local trolle trolleys s Inno In Inno no DO other city in iii tb the world would this cond condition tion beI be tolerated Superintendent Read Head I seems determined to l Ignore nore the Gu suggestions of citizens and the tile health officer alike aUke It is IB time to institute proceedings I I- I both criminal and against this company which because it enjoys a a. monopoly has became as arrogant as as- asa a hard coal trust king Such street streetcars streetcar's streetcars streetcars cars car's as those which have been described are nui nui- There is an ordinance on the tile city's its statute books which provides for the abatement of such evils Go Good d lawyers sa say the trolley the trolley rolley company compan is not living up to the conditions of its franchise and that proceedings proceeding to revoke this grant m may y be successfully successfully success success- fully prosecuted There is plenty of or law to compel the thc trolley magnates to furnish the thc right kind of service It jf is ll up to the people to see that these laws Jaws are enforced The city sold the troll trolley company its franchise the consideration being an agreement to furnish an an adequate date up-to-date service Has lias that agreement been carried r ut r |