The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1909-12-02
D ELI We r Y
TEAMS ARB
ABUSED
PEOPLE ARE PRINCIPALLY TO
BLAME FOR CONDITIONS.
Grocery Stores Arc Forced 70 Make
Many Deliveries TO All Parts
OF the City.

To the Standard Noticing the de
livery boys out In the rain and cold
urging their tired ponies on through
the mud In the afternoons and even
: ings and over rough. frozen ground
. In the mornings. up hills and down
/ hills. across street car tracks and
other joltins. jerking places, one is
bound 20 conclude that here Is one
thing which. TO considerable extent,
causes and accounts for the high
prices OF groceries and meats. These
boys are terribly destructive Of
horses and wagons. They are as Il
general thing utterly reckless and en-
tirely Indifferent 10 the consequences
OF The furious rushing about. not
seeming 10 care whether they XIII the
horses OF break the harness. or smash
the wagons. or only run over some
person, or into some other person 8
vehicle. or do all of these things at
once, and kill themselves 10 complete
the general scheme OF wild adventure
and daredevil accomplishment.
When the boys are spoken 10 and
advised 10 exercise some reason, q
little care for others. and a thought
for the welfare OF the horses. they
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! demands OF the owner Of the store
that the goods be delivered. that the
wagon is required to make certain
places at certain times-and it must
be done.
When we go after the merchants
we arc told that they do not desire
the boys to do that way but, when
pressed. they admit that the people
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such a course unavoidable. and that
the merchants are helpless under
this command OF the people.
II appears TO be useless to argue
with the merchants that they have
spoiled the people in teaching them
20 expect sucn an unreasonable thing
! as delivering any little article any.
where in the city within an hour or
two after the order is given, and that
II rests with the merchants 10 cor
rect the expensive. useless and fool
ish practice, thus cut down expenses,
give the boys reasonable hours fol
work and relieve the poor. lame,
broken-down horses They simply
say that with all OF their organiZa-
tion and power OF doing some things
! through organization, there is no way
Of correcting what they admit to be
| useless. foolish and eXtrayagant in
the delivery system as now carried
on.
So il seems that. II anything is TO
| be done about these evils. II must
be done by the people. Ii the people
will be reasonable. thoughtful and
just the expenses of the delivery of
| goods can be cut in the middle and
| one-half left out This would start
the prices on the down grade.
If the people disregard the welfare
! OF the BOYS and horses. don't care TO
see the streets properly and safely
used. only sclnshly seek to have their
| own unreasonable demands gratifed,
If the housekeeper, instead OF order
ing considerable at one time. or buy
| ing when down town and carrying
| the things home in buggy or auto
! or In the car, calls upon the mechant
| by the all-too-convenient telephone.
or by personal presence in the store
and directs that a small article be
carried to the house in the forenoon
! another in the afternoon and another
! some time before midnight on Satur
days, then |. personally. hope that
the merchants Will stick on" the
prices. but / do think that they ought
TO encourage thoughtful and cousid
crate persons by taxing the people
who make such demands. and not the
others There ought TO be a sensible
settlement OF this afIair and abate
ment OF the delivery nuisance in some
way. and if no better way is found
Immediately. the merchants and the
boys will have TO be and must bC
punished for the cruelty TO the ami
mails
Also the lumber dealers and Others
who overload wagons to be pulled M
the street onto the bench. should b,
arrested by police officers and sher
ms and be punished until that com
mon scene disappears from th'
streets OF Ogden (Signedl
VOLNEY c. GUNNNELL