Show tyas 7 ww SALT LAKE LAIKE SCRAPS the oil Com paules and the irth ward poor pilot i from our EDITOR HERALD one of the question questions that is making the stiffest kind of a local breeze in in salt silt lake is 13 that of allowing the standard and continental Con fluen ta I 1 oil companies cow n i to keep their storage tanks for toa kerosene within the limits of the populated part of the city city it appears that the city council ACTED prematurely in the premises by empowering a committee some time since to consider sider an application from these companies com paines about locating buildings for tanks the committee having power to act located a site in the ward the inhabitants of which part of the corporation are raising a vigorous and well ground ed howl how the standard company of california are putting up their buildings the council seeing it made a blunder ia ba adopt adopting the action of the committee i 3 ius doing ing its best to RECTIFY THE MISTAKE that honorable body has appealed to the standard company askim asking 0 them to stop progress until au in ordinance or finance regarding the storage stura ge of oil is passed they have been informed of the strong public senti meat ment on the subject but the standards reply is in substance like unto that of the noted mr vanderbilt the public bed be d d the great explosions and fires in the tile east E ast of oblate late have added new alarm to the warders who are clamorous in their demands against the contemplated existence of such large quantities of destructive stuff in close proximity to their dwellings it is more than probable pr 0 bable that the council will pass an ordinance limiting the right of STORAGE OV OF KEROSENE KE and other explosive fluids to a cora comparatively arat ively insignificant quantity should it come to a legal fight and the pro proposed Rosed ordinance be sustained the wings of the oil companies will be correspondingly clipped our honorable mayor and city council werk work as a rule rule for the ge general benefit of the community it appears that in this matter they have stuck their foot into the wrong but it is 6 always kace le e in men when they the endeavor to draw their feet out ot of the mud instead of f stubbornly insisting on remaining in a disadvantageous position because of a mulish determination not to acknowledge mistakes which are common including in eluding the genus known as the cit city F fathers a th era 11 in the issue of yesterday the salt lake tribune figuratively laid the I 1 little le lihi pilot across its lip laband and gave it A A MOST VIGOROUS SPANKING the cause of the administration of this scathing athing ec flagellation was some benoe senseless 1 prattling rattling of bf salt L lake tap papers seeking to injure ogden which by the way i is not the case the with the friendliest motives in the world ld we assure the pilot that in the estimation of sensible leopla ai as we hear them express themselves on the outside it is making A nuisance of itself in this business one would think that making m a nuisance of itself would be enough in the line of invective but again it goes on the impression here is that natural and business laws will settle tho the status of both places and that neither the anger nor the stupidity clity of the pilot will haye the effect to change those laws in the slightest alight Mt degree THE LITTLE makes a point in prat prating ilig about independence but ita its position verifies the old saying that barking dogs dont bite and the biggest cowards make the most blow the imbecile little sheet of your t town own does not exhibit the courage of a sheep for it has not dared to anwer answer thi ais attack with even the faintest at kind of a bleat it h ha 23 not oven even the bildne bold ne of a mouse as it answers not even with a protesting squeak but bhea to attack atack t anything whick tc lic arcely deigns d to noti notice ce it 1 the them poor 0 ar thing keeps up tip a continuous ous bray wont somebody ave save the poor filst lot fm fx oa its friends YN yao 0 SALT SILT LAKE CITY may loth 1883 |