Show INSURANCE ta T i COMPANIES LOOKING r k AN excuse 4 head of insurance companies charges that ogden fire started from inflammable rub bish piled up against building in back yards contrary to law says he warned warne ex mayor glasmann giesmann GI asmann just what would take place the ex mayor pays his Res respects to the self confessed predictor of fires 10 oral cral A manager of the ore fire insurance underwriters in salt lako city is out in arl an interview in the salt lake papers announcing that the lato late fire in ogden was the result of inflammable rubbish being piled up against tho babit of the buildings jn in this interview mr calls attention to a letter lie he had written to the mayor of last october in which lie he threatened to raise the rates in ogden tile the mayor at the time dressed the gentleman down dova so severely that he is still stinging from the rebuke administered ered therefore I 1 sir scheid in his public announcement in the salt lake papers ja id trying to place the re for the fire on the present ogden officials and the owners of the buildings burned down by charging that tho the rubbish piled up in the back yards caused vie the farb alro the ox ex mayor sent the following letter to mr scheid which will hold his temper at least until he discovers how the fire started mr air cari E scheid manager of the pacific board cl cf firo fire underwriters salt lake city utah my dear sir I 1 have just eee e seen ee your interview in a salt I 1 lake rike paper in which you conns very near proclaiming yourself your Belf it a prophet namely that you wrote a letter to the mayor of ogden last october wayning warning him of the danger of oc fire from rubbish at the back of business bu blocks and in this you assume that the late fire which wiped out several of our busi nesi nese houses wa was the result tit ot rubbish piled up tip against said business blocks in the backyard 4 and you warn the salt lale lake people that the case at og den should b be warning not only to that town in the future but to salt lake city as well 1 I have no objection to your interview except that you yon presume the file was started from rubbish being piled up at against aln st the buildings in the backyards now in view of tho the fact that there was wag no euch rubbish in the backyards of the buildings that were burned I 1 am air at it a loss to know how your warning issued last october had anything to do with said fire ahre second the here have been trying to locate the cause of this fire and have been unable up to the present time to state how the fire started you of course being in salt lake city and having written a letter to the mayor of ogden last october naturally know all about the fire how it started etc and I 1 am anxious to learn just juat what methods you have adopted to obtain this wonderful power of penetrating into tha mysterious and unknown 11 third I 1 am reliably informed that hat you yourself are responsible for this fire I 1 am advised that the fire first was s seen eon at the northeast corner of the burton implement company property adjoining tile the steam dye works this latter property was considered such a dangerous lire trap by you or your assistants si that yc u refused to write walto insurance on tho same yet you did not notify the burboa implement company or the lowe implement company the adjoining property pro party owners of this fire trap yoli yoi yourself refused to write insurance upon this fire trap or to permit othera to do so but you permitted this fire trap to exist without notice to the city officials or to the adjoining owners of property who would have caused the evil to be corrected at once perhaps you will be pleased to explain to your companies why you permitted insurance to be written upon the burton and lowe im clement companies when you yourself had discovered this firetrap adjoining them of course I 1 have known nothing of this allowed fire trap other than what has been reported to me since the fire again you assume that my letter to you basl october in which I 1 denied that rubbish was allowed to accumulate against buildings in the backyards applies to conditions eight months later I 1 do not know now what the chief of the fire department has done since january first as I 1 have ceased to bo mayor since then but prior to that time and tor for four years the fire chief mado made a weekly visit to the backyard of every business bouga houga in ogden and forced a compliance with n tile the city ordinances my illy letter written to you last october has nothing to 10 lo do with present conditions in ogden anyone knows that and none better than you but your announcement that tills fire started from rubbish in the backyards when you know nothing about the matter at all Is at least a little premature turc to say the least you havo have permission to publish this letter very truly yours WM GLASMANN 14 11 |