The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1914-02-04
Miscellany
The Smoke Nuisance.

When Mrs, Adams was elected presi-
dent of the Ladies Literary club and
was inducted into office, she wisely CON
cluded to take up some of the import
ant questions in the way Of civic sub
Jects that have been before the citl-
zens for some time, and aid in the move
ment for cleaner, healthier and more
beautiful city
To this end she appointed commit
tee of the ladies of the club to take
the matter in hand, and while they ac-
cepted the charge with reluctance, being
in, they have "enlisted for the war"
and propose to push the question of
the elimination of the smoke nui-
sance until there is a decided change
for the better,
There was n movement started some
months since to make this a city beau
tiful and this action on the part of the
ladies is to further that movement and
beautiful city twelve months Of the
year, instead Of being smothered in
smoke and SCOT six months at least,
when the fires for heating are in opera.
tion.
Many of the schemes suggested for
| the bettcrment and improvement of the
city are advances with the hint that to
defray the expense, the treasury Of the
city must be dipped into to pay the cost
of investigation and provide for the en-
| forcement of the ordinance but this is
not the object Of the ladies'
They wish to disavow any desire to
attack any interest or injure any par
ticular business, but it is to be cam
paign Of education, and it is one in
which every householder and property
owner and every citizen is vitally in
terested, for it affects their health, their
homes, the merchants goods, and it
has a vast influence upon those com.
ing here with the view Of settling in
our midst.
| The smoke nuisance is every man s
and woman's problem, and il can be
solved by unity of effort and influence
on the part OF all,
In California every man, woman and
| child seems TO be pulling for the up
building of their state and cities, while
here we disagree as to means and mo-
tives, and oppose any movement for the
betterment Of all Of our citizens and the
improvement of our city.
1T has been said OF written that God
despises a coward, and all fiction goes
to show that womankind admires q
man Of courage, and the ladies are nov
asking the gentlemen in charge of the
city's affairs to enforce the laws now
in force, and to enact such new ordi-
nances IA will effect change for the
better, without fear OF favor, and when
we are able to enjoy the charm Of sun.
shine in the months of winter as In
summer, the people will rise and call
them blessed.
To divert attention from their own
shortcomings, many assign other causes
for the dense volume of smoke that
bangs over the city during the winter
months, but we have no smoke 10 sum
mer, and it is wholly caused by the
smoke that issues from the chimncys OF
tho dwellings, office buildings, school
houses, hospitals and apartment house:
right here in orr midst. Tf all will co
operate we can abate the smoke nui
sance, and all viii be the better for II
The ladies have not entered upon thi,
undertaking and demand cure of the
evil without the thought and homo that
they might be able to contribute =
remedy that may go far in aidiug in