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TOO MUCH MOCH SMOKE when the elements element wage war upon as in this thi quiet and populous valley a gloom sometimes some timea overspread the face ace of nature that to almost funereal fu aereal and sometimes this thin la Is the case when the air IR in at rest jest and the clouds give forth no moisture there are several causes principally but one to is mechanical and it is with this that we would deal we have reference to the dense voltin volumes les of smoke which are discharged from the hundred or more huge smokestacks smoke stacks in salt lake city and its ite environ trefle being augmented in no ne small email degree by the contributions from ordinary chimney or thereabout there about on any day that is ordinarily fair and there is in a blight quantity of humidity in the air the volumes of smoke moke hover over the city dikea like a pa pal 1 and d accomplish literally what was waa aa aalde 1 d figuratively of the parthian arrows they obscure the sun gun this is destructive of health and not conducive to exuberant feelings in the slightest de kree gree it is in recorded that the development of industrial n quiring squiring the aid of great furnaces has a tendency to destroy the beauty of the places in which they abe are located and also aleo to give undue business buei neus to dge doctors tors A writer in one of the prominent newspapers of london england recently made a trip through the pottery districts district of that country for the purs purpose of elaml examining ding into the working mens condition there he found those towns several in number to be exceedingly dismal places to live liv in for two reasons the annual dumping of hundreds hundred of thousands of tons of rubbish around the works by means meane of which the potteries pott erlei have become fairly the vast volumes of smoke which the work occasions sixty per cent of the workmen die of pulmonary consumption and while this unusually large proportion li in not altogether if even principally due to the effects of smoke upon the system there to is no question que atlon that it contributes its full share to the general destruction created in the potteries smoke consumers work with reason able success wherever they have been tried and it would seem to be imperative that they become universal the cost of using them cannot even approximate that of getting along without them and thus either eb engendering gendering disease or accelerating it where resulting from other causes |
