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Show I I'l SMOKE NUISANCE IN OGDEN. Hi Editor Ogden Standaid: Has Ogden City a smoke ordinance and if so can you explain why ii is not enforced All dny yesterday yes-terday this beautiful city was covered with a heavy pall of thick black smoke that reminded many old country people of unpicas- I ant experiences connected with the heavy fogs in London. The chief offender, as far as one could observe, was the smoke stack of one of the bi buildings from whence black smoke was belching forth during the entire day. The offender, evidently an unexperienced or negligent stoker, shouJd b- -ailed i ' to account for such conduct It is a well known fact that fur lltj.k naces can be operated in such a manner as to produce but little smoke. Some furnaces are so operated in this city and a!! should be compelled to be operated in such a manner as to elim knv.t inate the smoke nuisance. It has been said that the city smoke ordinance has not been enforced in the past because a cal merchant occupied the office of city commissioner, I don't know how true that is, but woulc' like to take this opportunity of asking you what will you do in the matter if you aic elected to the office of mayor a1 the coming municipal election '? I lours very truly, 1 JL ( Signed) ALFRED GLADWELL, 279 Thirtieth Street. Ogden Dr. S. W. Badcon, in company with the edtior, stood on Twenty-fourth Twenty-fourth street acrors from The Standard office yesterday and saw i great black clouds of smoke come up from the northwest part of the city and he said . "There you have ill health and c'irt and grime for this city." The editor's reply was : "This is one of the problem: thct must be met and solved. Ogden I cannot afford to go on as in the past, allowing the smokestacks to pollute pol-lute the air, fill the 'hroats and lungs of our people with irritating, disease-creating foreign matter and soiling the clothes of everyone. My own idea is that a government man, trained in overcoming the smoke nuisance, should be invited to goern the local situation and suggest a remedy, even looking to the future, and then the city authorities author-ities should insist on complia-c with whatever regulations are deemed iii |