Show Complaints Made lIale b by r Automobile l Club and Individuals to lit Mayor l nor Citizens of or Salt Lake as individuals and the Utah Automobile club as an nn organization ors have complained 1 to tho the mayor regarding the manner In which the fire department automobiles have havo been ilven through the streets The mayors mayor's rep reply In cases an any reply re reply reply re- re ply was mado made was to tho the effect that tho the automobile equipment was geared so 80 as to make tift fifty miles an hour home the maximum Walter falter G. G Tuttle a local real estate man called on the tho mayor late Wednesday Wednesday Wednes Wednes- day afternoon and urged him to take some stops steps toward requiring the tho tire fire department to exercise more care inthe Inthe in the tho matter of ot speeding over the city elty streets and finally telling tho the mayor that ho he would swear to a complaint against tho the fire chief ohle and see that that he ho was prosecuted for Cor speeding If fast runs through the business district were repeated Tho The mayor mf replied says s 's Mr Ir Tuttle that the automobiles used b by the fire tire department were so flO geared that the they could not make mako more than fifty miles an hourI hour our I referred tho the ma mayor or to tho trio wa way tho the department crossed 1 Main street at nt Second Second Second Sec Sec- ond South only a da day or two a ago o said Mr Tuttle ruttle yesterday I believe bellevo m my statement was to the effect that the chiefs chief's automobile mado made the crossing at sixty miles mlles an hour The rhe mayor said that fifty miles an hour houi was tho the maximum maxImum maximum max max- speed peed It could make but I 1 am positive that the tho machine was being crowded to its limit limit- limitI I have havo been beon driving rhIn rh In ing a n. car myself for tor tho the last eight years earl an and 1 I know something about speed In ire an automobile and can jud judge o oIt It as well as tho the next man Earnest t About I I am ant In earnest about taking legal stops steps to compel tho the fire tire department to observe e tho the speed laws and If Ir necessary necessary necos- necos sary san I propose to see that a complaint Is la Issued and to follow tollow It up through the courts too I also spoke about this matter to Chief Bywater some Borne time ago and his response to a suggestion that more care should be bo exercised was that he lie had to get gel to tho the fires tires and got get ot there thero quick At tho the speed with which the equipment travels there Is the dan danger el elot of ot losing n a tiro at an any time and such with clear track an accident even cven a n means menns a n serious accident oven with tho the best of luck lucle The practice of at going Coln back to headquarters headquarters head head- quarters after fires at high speed was taken up UI last October b by tho the tut Automobile Automo Automo- mi bile club of at Utah and the board of ot d directors di directors di- di rectors o of the club communicated with the mayor asking him to t tl see that unusually unusually unusually un un- un- un usually fast driving on the part of ot tho department was aH stopped So far tar however however how how- ever over no reI reply I has hns been made malic to tho the letter Copy of L Letter tt r to In Mayor W W. D. D secretary of oC tho the club was 8 asked kod concerning this report yesterday yes yes- and at nt tho the request of ono one of at tho the club members who had taken an Inter Inter- Interest Interest est In the matter ho produced a copy CY o of tho the letter sent to tho the mayor maor w which I was as follows follow At a meeting of ot tho the Automobile club directors hold held this date tho the question of regulating automobile traffic in tine th streets of ot Salt Lake was wal discussed During Durin tho the discussion discussion discus discus- sion tho the action of ot tho the fire tire department depart dopart- mont moat In racing back to the headquarters headquarters head head- 1 quarters after atter a fire tire has haft been put putout putout putout out was discussed at nt length Tho The directors requested me to write you yon In a personal way asking you ou It if you oU dill did not believe with tho the directors directors directors tors that some Borne of or this rushing and anti speeding through h the streets is unnecessary unnecessary un un- un- un nece necessary It la 19 s not the fate desire of oC the tiro club to mako make this a matter of public die die- I but brit the they thought a quiet I l letter t tel to you Ou calling your Our attention attention attention atten atten- tion tion to this might bring it before the tho club r realizes your our mind While that it Is 16 necessary for tor tho the depart donart- mast ment to fief to a fire tiro as quickly as rea- rea possible there re seems to be bo no reason roa- roa son aon wh why why- the they should rush hack at such speed as to endanger the lives ot of e pedestrians e arc now note t taking up with the th chief of or police pollee a a. number of clauses in the city ordinance with a a. view now of preventing pre as al man many accidents as possible and it seems to Us this one ono matter should be handled by you Sou youn alone n 1 rt f t |