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Show truth A CL. -- walk of a couple of miles comes as a relief to their cramped and pampered It limbs. They need the exercise. and great them gives good; good, does them a sharp appetite, for either a late supper or an early breakfast. They usually reach home about 1:30 a. m., when they have nothing else to do but go to bed and enjoy a full three hours of quiet, restful and one-ha- lf up the ravelled' thus knitting sleep, 4 a. m. they come At care. of sleave forth again, strengthened, invigorated and ready for another day. These excellent hours, together with the corresponding amount of pay, are reserved for the men who have been long in the service, as a well merited reward for faithfulness. The new men have to put up with working much shorter hours. The advantages of early rising in the morning are great and many. Dr. Benjamin Franklin, many years ago, laid it down as the foundation stone of not only health and wealth, but of wisdom as well, when he penned those peerless lines: Early to bed and early to rise Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. These men go to bed early That early the morning). (in one can no rising is healthy, doubt, after once looking at the rosy visages of these same men. Besides, look at their children and compare their robust forms with those ot the lethargic, lazy, late sleeping children of the rich. The street car mans children are rarely, if ever, late at school. Their wives, too, are greatly blessed. They have their washing on the line by the time tne average woman gets a fire in the stove. All these great and growing benefits are but concomitants to me job and for which the company charges them not one cent. That wealth also flows from the same fruitful source is evidenced oy the luxuriant homes and pleasant surroundings of all these earstreet car men. ly rising Another feature of no small import is, that while the pay these men get is more than ample for the service rendered, it does not reach that stage of abundance that would incur, or invite, profligacy. Frugality and economy go hand in hand with the job. These men are not extravagant and while working eighteen hours per day, they have little, or no time to spend in saloons and other places of bad repute. It is almighty seldom that you see one of them drunk. Lastly, but by no means leastly, is the fact that these conductors after holding down the job of collecting fares for a few years, become very excellent stewards of the Methodist church, so habituated do they become in requiring everybody to chip in that when they pass the sasser in church, it always comes in well filled. Mr. Editor, I have had time only to touch upon the thousand and one beneficent features and great advantages that these men have over all other classes of wage workers, but I hope that I have pointed out enough to be able to show to the august legislature that they certainly need no legislation in their favor. Most ReWARRl.4 FOSTER. spectfully, a justice of the situation should be considered. It is generally admitted that salaries arc too low. Men holding positions of great responsibility In the municipal government and entailing much laborious work are not receiving adequate remuneration. Take for instance the city engineer, the superintendent of waterworks, the superintendent of streets and the elective offices of city auditor, city recorder and city treasurer. None of those officials receive sufficient pay for tlie work that is exacted from them. There ought to be a readjustment of salaries all round. A reasonable advance would not increase the expenditures more than $8,OUO or $10,000 all told. It is not in salaries that there is any extravagance. The city council will haggle for months over an advance of $10 a month in the salary of an official, while with great alac- - 5 ity it will make foolish appropriations of thousands of dollars. As an in. stance look at the thousands of dollars that was spent at Utah lake and then the project of dredging the Jordan river and thus increasing the supply of water from Utah lake abandoned. The money spent on it was. just as The same good as thrown away. holds good in regard . to the $35,000 spent on laying the new pipe line in City Creek canyon. Now there are two pipe lines up City Creek and not water enough in the dry season to either of them. Thats the way the money goes, not in. salaries. The following is an interesting statement of the amount of feity public improvements done annually for the past twelve years and the amount of salary paid the city engineer, who has charge of the work. When there was fill practically no improvements being done, his salary was $3,000 a year, and as work began to be done and increased it was gradually reduced to $1,800, the present figure: H a p PS i 3 Ho 0 op 0 O a p Ot 0 A P A A S& o S rto A. A n-(f- H P E OB 0v ag 2 A a A A 5 u . , late-worki- ng . 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 $3,000.00 3,000.00 3,000.00 3,000.00 2,500.00 2,500.00 2,000.00 2,000.00 1,800.00 1,800.00 1,800.00 1,800.00 1,800.00 Total Average $349,587.55 Senator Loves pure food bill, is a good measure, only it is too prolix. He ought to send it to some good newspaper paragrapher and have it condensed and then it should pass. It Is high time that something of the sort was adopted here in Utah. Our stomachs are being ruined by the use of this preservative, formaldehyde. We get it in our milk, in our beef, pork and Ash, in our oysters, in our canned goods, in nearly everything we buy and it is destroying our digestions. Then too we buy milk, and pay these dairies two prices for it, from which the cream has been skimmed at least twice and that should stop. It is related of a little girl born and raised here, who went to the country to stay on a farm last summer for the betterment of her health, that on looking at the milk which had been standing over night she declared there was a nasty, yellow scum on the top of it. The child had never before seen cream, because her parents patronized one of these city dairies which make a practice of separating all the cream from the milk before they sell it and endeavor to delude people by adding some coloring matter which will give it the appearance of richness. This feeding of cattle on garbage collected from town ; on brewery offal and such like foods, should be stopped as proThe tinned vided in the measure. stuff we buy reeks with formaldehyde as analyzation will demonstrate. It is a good idea to stop this sale of baking Alum is powders containing alum. most the energetic astringent known and it should be made a high crime or misdemeanor to sell it at all. Never mind the branding of it; no person should be permitted to use it, whether they so desire or not. Prohibit it absolutely. The general provisions of the measure are all right and should be incorporated into law. o $500 FOR A BROKEN LEG. Ogden, Utah, November 1, 1902. Mr. Warren Foster, General Agent, G. F. CULMER . Salt Lake City, Utah. Dear Sir: I was in Denver yesterday BRO. and presented my final proof of claim to the Union Accident Stock Company, and on doing so my claim was immediately passed, and a check was presented to me for $500.00 in full and satisfactory settlement of my claim on acconnt of a broken leg sustained by me some months ago while in Oregon. I desire to thank you aud the Company for the uniform courtesy extended me in this matter, and will gladly render you and your Company any favors at any time the occasion presents itself. Yours respectfully, 20 EAST FIRST SOUTH. New Era. m2 Paints HAVE NO EQUAL Tbe Electrical fluid Electrical Jo eleo-trlela- na Inter-Mount- ain Chas. M. Beason. That excellent organization, the m controlled and arranged for ua ii a per- board of county commissioners, passed fect servant. Does everything it is re- a resolution a few days ago, requiring quired tods. Does It well. The use of the clerks in the offices of the clerk, . . . well made sheriff, recorder and auditor to commence work at 8:30 a. m. and cease Goods at 5:30 p. m. The dear men possibly did not know that tlie state law proof the latest designs by experienced vides that the employees of these ofgives to our work that quality ficers are prohibited by law. Section whleh all men of judgment approve. Wiring for Bella, Telephones, Annunela. 548, Revised Statutes, from working That is tent Burglar Alarms and Xleotrlo Light. more than, eight hours. enough, too. When any man or woman has pounded a typewriter or writT'lepbooer, Cbiodtliers, Etc. ten on a record with a pen for eight hours, he or she, as the case may be. is entitled to quit right then and there. It is a great deal harder than shoveling or chasing a plow. emsmcmtassssmapBe i 8ALARIES. The question of a raise in the salaries of city officers wnich is at present being considered by the city council is creating a good deal of interest and is productive of diversified opinions. That the city's financial condition is not what could be desired is certain, but at the same time the revenue from licenses and other sources is increasing and will this year probably show an increase of at least 25,000. But apart from that the 51,255.38 19,327.87 11,227.76 5,449.30 146,434.23 115,893.01 342,993.99 $692,581.54 98,940.22 $ Nine months. o MUNICIPAL .. $18,241.65 $3,272.00 3,927.00 35,614.33 23,799.22 2,881.u5 23,966.05 1,928.45 b9 1,266. 17,465.03 18,997.02 1,065.15 14,807.20 1,185.03 14,137.90 1,666.49 12,027.35 1,608.66 2,091.26 16,423.54 2,168.05 31,076.72 19,697.63 2,238.15 25,486.61 3,530.53 $271,740.25 $2S,828.41 21,312.96 2,261.05 LOVES PURE FOOD BILL. Electric Co. |