Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1922-03-07 | Page 4 | Salt Lake City's Smoke Failure

Im . - t IU SALT LAKE CITY'S SMOKE FAILURE After three years ot effort and the I expenditure- of thousands of dollars. Salt Lake's smoke campaign is declared de-clared a failure owing to nonenforce ment. In a statement to the City Ideration of Women's clubs. George I . Keyser stated: "There is not a commissioner who is heart and soul back of this smoke commission. Last year Osborne Mon nctt, consulting engineer of Chicago, who Investigated the smoke situation, declared that it would take $15,000 to properly handle the campaign for one year. Mayor Neslen promised that the appropriation should not be cut. but it was. This year, for reasons which pre purely political, three efficient men engaged by the smoke eommis sion were discharged and replaced by incompetent workers An inspector, an engineer of experience, hired as an Inspector of planus, was replaced by a j man who didn't know a boiler from i hole in the ground, but this man need od the job nnd for political reasons he was put on. "Commissioner M. R. Stewart has oreullar ideas regarding .;ruokc. He thinks that $12,500 is a good deal of tioney to impend on the elimination of moke. He behees that the only way io overcome the smoke nuisance Is by the use of smokeless tuel and not by the s stern of control advocated by Lbe United States bureau of mine-, and by Mr. Monnett, who advised th" latter plan. The use of smokeless fuel, such as oil and gas, is at presen impracticable in Salt Lake, as every-one every-one knows The Inspection oi plants and proper suprrision of firing in the business district, nnd the placing oi L I inspectors in the residence section ol the city who can give intelligent in strnction in regard to firing ot furnaces fur-naces and heating plants, is the only solution of ihe problem This cannot can-not be accomplished without money ' j Ogden's city commission has been j watching the experiments in Salt Lake, In the hope of gaining valuable niorinaiion which might be applied to 1 igden. nut this confession of failure, nfter large sums have been expended in Inspection and regulation, will tend to lessen interest in the Salt Lake venture. There are experts who contend the moke nuisance cannot be overcome until coke, oil or gas is substituted for the fuel now burned.