The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-08-23

inS SitS soIonS last night unanl
mously adopted the recommendations
OF Mayor Glasmann that letter re
ceiyed from the board OF fire under
writer's be spread upon the minute.
OF the council and that it be made
public. The communications state
that with better water system the
city can easily save 100000 In three
and one-half years in the reduction
OF IRE insurance rates to the proper
ty owners. The mayors communi
cation to the council follows:
August 22nd. 1910
To the Honorable President and
Members OF the City Council.
Ogden. Utah.
Gentlemen:
For sometime the Mayor has been
laooring for the reduction of the fire
insurance rates in Ogden City. and
has secured a promise of re-ratlng
of the risks in our city.
] enclose herewith a letter just re-
ceived from Geo. V. Lawry. Secretary
Board Of Fire Underwriters of the
Pacific Coast. This letter was written
the day before our 16 inch mains
broke and the council viii see that
the fire board calls attention to the
danger OF one pipe running from the
reservoir TO the dlstrlbutive system.
and II VIII also be noticed that the
fire board demands that those i'm
proyementS be made. for which the
city ls now asking for, 100000 in
bonds, before any material reduction
VIII be made in the insurance rates
| ask that the letter of the Board
Of Fire Underwriters be read In full
and that the same be ordered printed
1t is my firm conviction that II the
100000 In bonds be voted and tho
additional conduit built from the
reservoir TO the distrlbutive system.
and the additional conduit from Cold
Water Canyon to the reservoir. that
the people of Ogden will receive such
reduction In insurance rates as will
sayo the 100000 In insurance alone
every three and one half years. Some
over predict that those carrying fire
insurance In Ogden would save the
100000 every year, but ns near as
i can get the estimates. of the pos
sible rate reduction, The people would
save the 100000 on an average eyory
threo or four years.
This Is such an important item to
the city that ! ask for this matter
your immediate and earnest consider
alton and, that the recorder be In
structed to notify Mr. Lawry not to
make his report on the resurvey OF
Ogden risks until after the bond cleo
ton on September 6th II appears
from the communication that the
Board of Underwriters cannot con.
slider that matter until the bonds are
voted
also recommend that the Fire
Chief be instructed immediately 10
prepare for alarm signals TO be given
from the fire station and elsewhere
In case of fire and upon the giving
Of such signals all lawn sprlnkling
must stop, and that the same be draf-
ted into an ordinance providing a
punishment for failure to
stop sprinkling In case of fire
Very respectfully submitted,
WILLIAM GLASMANN, Mayor.
Board of Fire Underwriters of the
Pacific.
Salt Lake city. Aug. 90. 1910.
William Glasmann. Mayor,
ogden, Utah:
Dear Sir-With further reference
TO fire fighting facilities at your city.
and In recognition thereof a reduc-
ton In insurance rates, covered un-
der your favor Of August S. and our
reply of the Sth instant. We beg to
advise that under todays mall there
goes forward to San Francisco for
presentation to the executive commit
den In connection Herewith our rec
concentrations for a reduction in
rates. If the committee can see its
way TO consistently adopt our sug-
gestlon. the work of publishing a
new book of rates for Ogden Will be
taken up at once, and while as we
believe you Will appreciate it will
take a month or so to accomplish
this. When published such rates Will
be dated TO become effective sixty
days prior to time of promulGation.
1t was found by our surveyors upon
their recent inspection that your new
reservoir is only partly filed, and
the old one is empty We have, how
ever, based our recommended per
centage of credit upon the combined
storage quantity of these two sup
piles. We were informed that the
new reservoir viii be full within the
course of a month or six weeks, and
that the old reservoir will be filed
carly next spring,
The new aerial truck to be pur-
chased by the city In the immediate
future has been recognized in the re.
port We have also taken into con-
sideratlon new street being cut
through your principal block. The
survey contemplates the rigid en-
forcement OF building laws. explosive
and combustible ordinance, and the
strict adherence to National Electric
al code In all wiring.
At the time OF our representatives
visit to the fre station only 55
pounds pressure was registered by
the device installed at that place
This low pressure we were told was
due TO lawn sprlnkling II would
seem essential, therefore. that suit
able signal be sounded from the cent
raj fire station for all alarms, at
which times 1t shall be required that
all sprinkllng cease throughout the
city. In our report the pressure has
been treated as standard, and such
condition we do not think can be de-
pended upon unless reservoirs are
kept full at all times and ordinance
as suggested strictly enforced.
We have not taken into considera-
ton the improvements contemplated
:, ~ ~.oroood SIM OOO bond ioeuo