The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-10-30
BAD DOOR STILL
PERMEATES AIR
Plumbing Inspector Investigates
Infested District.
CANNoT STOP VILE SMELL
w. j. LEAKER BELIEVES TT TO
BE COAL GAS.

The city officials yesterday continued
their Investigations Of the buildings Of
the business section of the city i'm an
effort to ascertain the cause and. if
possible. TO stop the. unssavory odors
sthat have caused 80 much discontinue
TO those who have had 10 endure it,.
ne smell still continues, though it is
4 not so strong as a few DAYS ago. In
several cellars and even on the other
floors of buildings along Main. be-
tween First and Third South streets,
ana the neighbOring district, chloride
of lime and other disinfectants have
been scattered in profusion in the hope
Of couGteracting the effect of the nox-
ious gas.
William J. Leaker, city plumbing in
spector, gave it as his opinion last
blight tha- thu door was that of arti-
ncial gas from leaky mains. Those
whose olfaCtOry nerves have become
acute by constant training. call the
smell something worse than mere il
Illuminating gas.
Leaker Makes Inspection.
Mr. Leaker. after making a thorough
examination of the Jennings block on
sewer and plumbing We're in proper
condition.
II believe that the od0r is that Of
coal gas. ne continued land there is
nothing wrong with the sewers. The
weather is getting colder and the nights
longer. and more gas is being pumped
into the mains than for scme time past.
] ne ground has become soaked by the
1ali rains and he gas can no longer
reach the air that way. Tie mains are
otd and leaky, and the odor probably
nov mas to secure an outlet through the
cellars Of the Office buildings where the
resistance is the least
According TO the complaints. the
odor is most noticeable IN the night and
early morning The company turns the
gas into the mains at o'clock each
evening The stores are shut I'D during
the night and the gas accumulates in
great quantities. When the business
houses are opened in the morning the
smell is almost unbearable. After the
air has circulated about the odor grad
ually goes away until by dark it is al
most imperceptibe.
The engineering department has a
gang of men which is constantly at
work flushing out sewers. 1t cannot
we'll be sewer gas that is causing the
Inconvenience. Even if the gas that
IS escaping Is sewer gas. it viii not in
5Ure the health OF anyone, no matter
how unsavory il may be. The real poi
sonOus sewer gas is Odorless''
Finds Sewers All Right.
A plumber who was called TO locate
the source Of the gas i'm the cellar Of
the building at the northwest corner Of
Third South and Main streets. after
careful investigation could find moth
ing wrong with the sewer pipe The
plumber gave it as his opinion that the
-edor was thai Of coal gas. Inspector
Leaker had one Of his assistants inves-
igate the Galloway, Hoock < Francis
store early i'm the morning. as the own
er Of the place had complained that the
smell was the strongest when the place
was first opened up at the beginning Of
the day. The sewage and plumbing
were found to be IN a sanitary cOndi-
ton, but the cause Of the trouble could
not be asCertained.
Among the establishments which
have been Inconvenience by the bad
odoi' are Van Dyke drug store. Crystal
cafe. Galloway, HoOck & Francis
CrOckery store, Jennings block, Prog
ress building, Mulletts clothing store.
YOung's cafe and the Bismarck saloon.