Show THE SMOKE NUISANCE The supreme court of Pennsylvania has ruled that a railroad company may be liable in damages for the injury caused to property from the soot and gases thrown off by locomotives This should be a hint to Salt Lake We Ve know lof of no way to keep th the smoke from I the great ore reduction works near the city but there is not a chimney or smokestack in in inthe the city that cannot be made harmless from smoke by the expenditure of a few dollars And Arid this expenditure would all be paid back in a few months in the saving through perfect combustion of the coal burned While this is true it is shameful that the throats of little children and the furniture in houses should be kept fairly fairy saturated by the smoke coal dust and gas as from local smokestacks |