Show I N Nashville's Fire a Lesson A A. va vacant ant lot dry grass and weeds a small boy with a fondness for fla flames this this combination r resulted i in the l loss ss of one life and the d destruction on of residences in N Nashville Tenn with a total property property prop prop- erty loss loss' amounting to one and one oue half millions of dollars The rho same thing might easily happen to Salt SaIt Lake ake It is a donder don fon- won wonder fonder der it did not happen last summer when water pressure was dangerously dangerously danger danger- o low Salt Lake allows more weed patches on vacant lots than any up- up t date to-date date city should allow Every summer good h luck ck has helped us so so far maybe when the weeds become dry in in August this ye year r a careless careless careless care care- less boy in Salt Lake will do like the one one in ii Nashville Nashville light light a ball of yarn arn soaked in oil and throw it into a d dry y grass patch on on a vacant l Jot lots i. i It will be too late to clean up then 1 It will be a lot cheaper to PREVENT such a a fire as Nashville had hadt t than an to REPAIR after it has been put out The safe thing to do is to make the owners owner of va vacant lots cut the weeds as soon a as they come up this year th the dry spell comes in August Salt Lake should ld not be in a position n to suffer Nashville's fate It will vill be unless there is reform i f fr |