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Show '1 ; . 1 1 i i ii i rr - i .1 . Cive .Us ,ti Srno!seIe$s City TOs Sammer. ' X number of big smokestacks still pour dense black smoke over the city in the face of the Council's Coun-cil's instructions, to the Chief of Police to abate this nuisance. One offender, a most persistent one, is the light company. While this concern has installed consumers in its main building it continues to vio-y vio-y late the law by sending skyward great volumes of sooty smoke from its plant in the street car powerhouse."" power-house."" Every user of a boiler which comes within tha provisions of the smoke ordinance has had ample am-ple time since the Chief of Police was installed to enforce this law, to install consumers and abate the smoke nuisance. , Mr." Sheets has just come into office of-fice and has hot had time to take up the work in this line which his predecessor left undone. Chief Sheets has begun . his administration in a way that Shows be means business. Let him increase his popularity with the masses by carrying out the directions di-rections of the Council and arresting every violator of-the smoke ordinance. Then let the City Attorney Attor-ney vigorously prosecute the offenders. The imposition impo-sition of a few heavy fines would bring these smoke distributors to their senses. If the ordinance is invalid in-valid then by all means test it at once. Summer is almost on us and Salt Lake would be a new city during the heated period with the smoke nuisance abated. Let's have a smokeless city this summer. |