Show TUB TIlE AMENDE A I The Tue Deseret vows News took ook the Standard severely to task tank some time ago neo for von ven venturing en turing to state that Salt Snit Lakes fire de department department was badly handicapped by a n poor water supply Yesterday there was wa wasa wasU waa a U repetition of that which tho the Standard referred to In commenting on the last big bl fire In that city According to the News own story stor there was not sufficient dent clent pressure In the been hoso lines to more thorn than force Coree the water out of ot the nozzles We Wo believe the News owes us an nn Am Amende ernie ende honorable That is from the time Ogden OIen Standard It Is another attempt to weave a thread of ot fact tact into a n garment of ot falsehood At Atthe Atthe Atthe the recent lire fire on State street the pressure ot of water was at first Insufficient dent cleat because of Its division dh lon Into sever seer several al nl streams But Dut itS s stated by br Super Superintendent SuperIntendent Superintendent limes and corroborated at the theonice theoflice onice omco of at the water department d and pub published In tho the Salt Lake papers as soon as the alarm was sounded the tho high lev Jev level Jevel el oh system was turned Into the State mains This was a In force at 1060 The alarm was ns received nt at 1043 1045 The pressure ns as shown by the guage placed acres ocroS the street str t from the fire I with Ith the engines pumping against t It was wall at 1055 1095 pounds pound at 1105 pounds at 1125 U seventy pounds at nt 11 1143 pounds Af At After Atter After ter 1 12 the pressure In th the the en gines was WIS only pounds and ontI the pressure In the pipes pounds I Just as DS It was nt at the fire on West Vest esl Temple street there was no lack of ot water as ns falsely stated Mated by the Stand Stanl Standard Standard ard Md but there was a II delay In tho the pres pressure pressure sure lIure for tor was fully tull ex ox explained but hut the tha Standard Stan ull persisted in Mating that tat there was not water nugh nough here to put ut out a I small email lIre fire and refused to make correction when the facts fact were made known The Tho amende honorable Is due but not expected from th tM Olden Ogden Standard |