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Show If REDUCE SMOKE THIRTT-FIVE PEWIIT City Campaign' Reported to Be Big Factor in Cleanup Clean-up of Air The city's - campaign a rata art the moke nuisance U responsible for 15 per cent of a total smoke reduction this winter of 60 per cent over last year, according to a statement made last night by J. Cecil Alter, chief of the local United States weather bu- Teau' Bt A0 Rular weekly routing of the Totary'club at the Hotel Utah. Mr. Alter declared that the investigation in-vestigation conducted by the weather bureau and a compilation of atmospheric atmos-pheric statistics showed a total reduction re-duction in smoke this winter of 60 per cent. He attributed 25 per cent of this reduction to weather conditions con-ditions and 35 to the efforts of the . city's smoke fighters He declared ,a"t winter to have been the worst for imnki conditions in forly -save years and very unlikely of repetition for years to come. MUST PERSEVERE. Mayor C. Clarence Neslen, City Commissioner Crabbe, Harnes and Burton and Engineer Hiram Clark discussed the smoke situation from varied angles. All united in declaring that while the smoke evil had undoubted un-doubted y been minimized to some degree. Its final liminationqrina- terial reduction waa entirely a matter of eternal vigilance and a united cooperation on the part of the city and citizens. All congratulated the Rotary club members on the spirit shown In inviting the city officials before the club to hear their expressions ex-pressions of congratulation and approval ap-proval of the work thus far accomplished accom-plished in smoke elimination. "Thia recognition of the work of your city officials marks the beginning begin-ning of a new era in our city," declared Mayor Neslen. "It shows that you business men are ready to re-cognize our efforts to accomplish some good for the city and that meritorious services are in the future to secure commendation." 8UCGE8TS BIG PLANT. Commissioner Crabbe told of the! work of the city's smoke elimination: department and Introduced several ! engineers and inspectors now engaged I In the smoke campaign. He said that) , the construction of a new proposed : heating plant to furnish heat for downtown business places would go far to leesen the smoke, as well as the cooperation of the railroads in Equipping switch engines with smoke consumers. Work is to start on the j heating 4 plant extensions this summer, he uald. The present plant of 1100 horsepower Is to be increased to one of 11,000 horsepower. Mr. Clark declared that the city pro- I posed to go into every plant this summer sum-mer and urge the adoption of smoke . elimination devices and teach better IeV' stoking of furnaces so that by next winter the fight against smoke would be well in hand. He told of having se-; se-; cured many promises from violators ? to remedy conditions as soon as pos- i sihle and before another winter at the I latest. Rotarian Charles Tyng on behalf of , - the club extended the appreciation of Its members to the city officials for the smoke elimination work already ac- romplished and recommended as the oriHensiiH of opinion in he organiza-a organiza-a tion that another campaign of educa- tion to run through a specified week le c-omluc-ted that the public might be ' better minted with the various j angles of moke elimination work. ) FIRE CHIEF HEARD. ! Fire Chief W. H. Rywater asked the earnest cooperation of business men in ' reducing fire hazards. He quoted fig ures to show that there were many unnecessary un-necessary fires In Salt Lake and blamed them to carelessness and neg- lect in properly caring for premises. He particularly advised the hiring of f responsible men for night watchman i Outies and propounded a series of dnn'ts t'tr the care of properties against fire. - The chief came In for rounds of ap- f vUiuse at the close of his address and' much praise from club and city officers. offi-cers. At the close of the meeting Chief By-water By-water sent in a general fire alarm from the Hotel Utah to show club members and guests the efficiency of the Halt bake fire department and Its modern equipment The alarm brought many pieces of apparatus to the hotel and the run aroused much curlosHy on the part of citizens aware of the alarm having come in. |