Truth. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1901-1908, 1906-03-31

Salt Lake Office and found that among |
all the cities in his jurisdiction, the
eighth district, Salt Lake stood third |
in efficiency on the entire list, only two |
cities being ahead of it, with a strong |
probability that in the next rating 1t |
would be the second city in the dis
trct in point of efficiency. He said 1t
was a showing that Mr. Thomas had
reason to be proud of.
Everybody in Salt Lake knows the
cause Of the Tribune's animosity to
the postmaster, and from that ami
mostly springs the scurrilous and ut
terly false articles that paper pub
fishes about Mr.. Thomas and the post
office.
1t has been the usual custom in
years gone by for the sweeping and
cleaning of the streets in the business
districts of the city especially, to be
done in the night time, and every
night at that This progressive civic
administration, however has changed
all that and the street sweeping, what
] little there is of it, is done in the day
| time, when the business part is crowd
ed with both men and women. This
is done so that they may receive the
| full benefit of breathing the dust which
rises in clouds from the sweeping ma
chine. Another reason is that the
present administration is so good and
moral (this applies particularly to the
street supervisory that they disapprove
and discountenance persons being out
later than 8 p. m, when all good citi-
lZenS ShOuld he in he'd.
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A girl committed suicide a few days
ago in a room in one of the business
blocks of the city. She drank car
bolic acid, one of the most distressing
ways of shuffling off this mortal coil
While writhing in agony she was TAX
'en to the police station in the patrol
wagon, thence to a private hospital,
to which she was refused admission,
and from the hospital back to the po-
lice station, all this time without med
ical attention and suffering excruciat-
ing pain. She was dead when the po-
lice patrol vehicle arrived at the sta
ton the second time. There is some
thing seriously wrong with a system
under which such a thing could hap
pen. The police officers were not to
blame They did as humane men all
they could for the poor woman, but the
system, or rather lack of system, is
at fault. System is very intangible
thing in one sense, but it is often ex-
ceedingly helpful to those who are in
need of a scapegoat. A better system,
however, than now prevails, if there
is any system at all, for the handling
of such cases, should be inaugurated
OF course, the health officer and his
recently acquired assistant are not ex-
pected to be come-at-able when they
are wanted. Their heaviest duties ap-
pear to consist of drawing their sal
aries.
The case of this poor girl who
passed either to oblivion or to some
other sphere was a very sad one For
years she had been buffeted by the
sings and arrows of outrageous for
tune. She wanted honest work an
was capable of doing it. She resisted
the temptations which allure such as
she to the paths of sin, and it is said
, unusual temptations for one in her cir.
cumstances were placed in her path
What wonder If she yielded? There
is one man, called a sp9rt-a brute
would be more appropriate-at whose
hands she suffered much, both mental
ly and physically.
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