Show 9 I Automobile Fire Engines I MAYOR BR BRANSFORD has bas answered our inquiries ies concerning the pocket into which went the commission for the new automobile fire engine for forthe forthe forthe the eil city by the tho publication of the facsimile of a letter to Frank Botterill from the thc manufacturers of motor fire engines This letter shows that Mr Botterill was paid a commission of 1000 for the sale of the engine to the city The appended append cd explanation probably probably ably furnished b by Mr Bransford to his newspapers shows that Mayor Bransford went east cast to purchase the engine accompanied by the automobile dealer who eventually received the commission As to tho the denial that the commission amounted to twenty per percent percent percent cent every auto dealer in Salt SaIt Lake knows the truth about it The skeptical public can inform itself if it care to do sore so We re are unable to say whether Mr Ir Bransford considers considers con on siders his bis part in the the transaction in good taste to say the least about it The mayor may mayor or may not be a stockholder in ill the Tom Botterill Automobile company the general impression is that ho he is interested interested in interested in- in in that concern If the mayor is satisfied to let the matter rest there if he considers it proper for the tho mayor to be concerned in iii the sort of transaction transaction transaction trans trans- action which he confesses or his newspaper confesses for him we feel that the public can be depended upon to handle the matter to its Us own satisfaction The Ille right of the Tom Botterill Automobile compan company com corn pan pany to sell a fire firc engine to tho the city and collect the commission cannot be questioned it holds no That is merely good business We Vc do not feel however that the public will approve of Mr Bransford's part in the transaction Jf I. I |