| Show MERE SHELLS NOT KOT HOUSES it there is one city ordinance more than another which is in th the utmost outmost need of amendment it would seem to bathe be the particular article which has reference to the erection of buildings within the city limits and the duties of the tile building inspector in connection therewith it is unnecessary to call to mind bat but one instance int tance on one ol 01 the principal business corners of the city there ia is now under construction a large one olie story building covering g several rode rods front by perhaps eighty feet in depth with no in termed ter mediate late connecting waits walls and with nothing save the root that is to be to hold bold its outside walls together these tatter latter are of the magnificent thickness of tight eight inches and the frame partitions which subdivide sub divide the building into several stores are of four inch stud dings the probable intention being to complete them with I 1 lath and plaster when questioned 4 4 as to the propriety of allowing uch such a h e I 1 rl 1 ie d n iua lue owner nas has I 1 coma come just within the terms of tha the ordinance ordin anca and may not therefore bo be interfered with the reader will remember lie the agitation last fill fall over the question of tin can bouses houses and bow how deeply the public mind was stirred over what was felt to be an intuit insult to the town hero was probably another case where tim ordinance was on the eide side of the owners of the metallic boxes yet the feeling feel became so high that farther further structures of the kind were prohibited nevertheless we d di not hesitate to aay say that on the score of safety to life and property tha the tin can houses were preferable to each such a flimsy and menacing affair as that first described in case of fire the whole thing would tumble in like a bouse jonseof of ashes and a fresh canyo a wind boull shake it to its foundation it is tile duty of the tile city attorney and the council to pay immediate at to this matter oden ogden has rejected with proper indignation the idea that ebo she was willing to be a tin can town she wishes now with equal emphasis to declare herself against walls of pasteboard and houses of tend THE primaries tomorrow to morrow evening at 8 dont forget it |
