The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-12
Black Pail Which Is Belched
From Chimneys Mars
Beauty of City.
DEVICE THAT WOULD STOP
CLOUD WOULD BE BLESSING
Flakes of SCOT Ruin Many Arti-
cles of Wearing Apparel
and Ruffle Tempers.

There may he one possible exception
to the general interest everybody is taxi
ing In the abatement OF the smoke nuis-
ance. and that Is the laundry man. In
order 10 meet the excessive laundry bils
that come in. compared to which mill
inery bill looks like a church Donation
or rather to find way out OF IL there'
may be a new club organized TO be known
as the "Order OF Rubber Collars and
interchangeable Linen" Shirts with n
revolving rubber bosom with rubber col
lars attached will be the emblem OF the
order, A simple application Of soap and
I2O will eliminate the need OF q laundry
slip.
Fighting SCOT Flakes
Your neighbor has not suddenly gone
bug house. He is not picking imaginary
fruit out OF the atmosphere. but making
Wild passes at great chunks OF SCOT. After
a while, II you watch him. he will become
too exhausted to combat the menace and
will resignedly plow his way through.
letting IL do its Will against his clean
linen. Even the pretty little white dogs
SO popular with women are feeling the
closely at home. as too much washing IS
not conducive TO spiritual Improvement.
and to avoid the loss Of that rare article,
dear little dogge must stay In the house.
One innocent looking flake Of SCOT can
cover an entire white dress. Silently
as the snow flake, comes the little speck
| OF 0llscnlet. III IL llnuS llldl hnoluSl
flake has pre-empted your collar suffi-
clently TO cause you 10 denounce the
nasty thing In the proper terms, 1t Will
take up Its abode IN your sTo9chSal tqoss nged
/ with white. The word now is obsolete
| no more use for It,
child's World Invaded.
Even the childs world Is about 10 be
| invaded by the scourge. From the north :
! land comes the announcement that St.
| ho a n
Salt Lake on account OF having to order
an entire change of costume and may
be plans. Unless there is a change aerG; re-
| ST. Nick will have TO come robed In
black. Or as a last resort. leave salt
Lake till the last. or course. since old
Santa has made his engagement he VIII
not cancel it, but wouldn't il be too bad
II be couldn't come with the old-tlme
jingle and the flowing robes OF wnltc
How queer indeed he would look In black
black beard and black reindeer! No. u
mustn't be, Let the word be sent to him
that he will find Salt Lake no longer in
the grip OF the greatest nuisance which
Is Fostering the citizens Of fair Zion,
Difficult TO Locate.
II arrests are made. and they ere prom
ised. II would be hard to find the of
lender by locating his smoke stack. II
would take an airship 10 get line on the
real cause OF the trouble, as. big and IL
young smoke stacks, all are hid In their
own nefarious 'disgorgemcnts." But when
the time comes for the huecoats TO take
the names. little ice will the chlmneys
cut. The proud old chimney that rears
Its head toward the heavens Will be IN
the snme catalogue with the insignificant
little. tumble down affairs. All will he
taken into account in the same way. the
big will suffer with the little However
the high chlmneys in Salt Lake are few
When II comes 70 building them II seems
that tire main thing taken into account
is to get them Just high enough TO give
the air good circulation. thus aiding the
man behind the shovel In the engine
room. -
What It Means.
As A matter OF concern to the persons
pushing the smoke abatement agitation
there are a number OF owners Of fine
business buildings considering cleaning
the outside OF their buildings as soon as
they are sure the smoke Will not dis
color them in a few weeks. What pref
ty city this would be II the buildings al
were cleaned and the smoke nuisance nc
longer would hang over the city, spread
ing its dirt and gloom