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Show LIGHT WAGER ALWAYSCAREFUL! Danville Decker, manager of the Utah Light & Railway company made a vigorous denial last evening of thy assertion that It was one of the company's com-pany's trenches at Washington avenue ave-nue and Twentieth street that was found to be without warning lanterns Saturday evening when a number of complaints were sent in to the police and a young lady was reported to have been injured by' ridlug her wheel into in-to the trench. "Two weeks ago I gave strict orders that not a single trencu of this company com-pany should be left open over night, and the foremen have positive instructions in-structions to see that all trenches or other excavations made during the day are completed at night even if the work has not been finished and they hae to be re-excavated the next day. "It is cheaper, I have found, to fy for ,a little extra labor than to pay damages for injuries lecelved by people peo-ple who inadvertently orive or ride into excavatlous i left ror the night unguarded or poorly lighted by Inn-terns Inn-terns which are liable to confuse one in passing them," Manager Decker's experiment In ox-cavatlng ox-cavatlng in asphalt puv:ng c;i Washington Wash-ington avenue, near Twenty-stond street, attracted considerable attention from the street depariment Saturday. It has always been maintained that the only way in which a hole through the paving could be repaired was by the usual method employed by tho paving company, temporary cement or gravel filling having been found practically prac-tically worthless. Sometimes It takes several months to convince a construction con-struction company that repairs are necessary In excavating for a gas line at the point mentioned, Mr. Decker ordered that a long rectangular block he rut bodily from the paving and carefully preserved Intact This was done, the strip measuring about 18 inches in width and eight or n:ne feet In length. When the work Tiad been finished fin-ished and the excavation re-filled, the block of paving was carefully put. back In its original position and will now fill all requirements for many months to ooroo or until a bit of asphalt as-phalt filling can be placed in around the edges of the block to permanently repair it. |