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c, SHOWING HOW A CITY " A city ordinance passed July . 22, 1912, requires that "any per son firm or corporation oper 'flting an ambulance to convey a jsick or injured person shall notify the police within half an hour af ter such removal of a sick or in jured person, and within twenty jour hours after such removal hall cause a complete written re port containing name, address and nature of injuries of the per gson so removed to be filed with :he police department." j. The wording of this ordinance jvould seem to be plain enough. Yet, when Horace Eliot, chief bf the bureau of records of the olice department, was asked if e had heard anything about the recent accidents in Siegel, Cooper 2& Co.'s and Carson, Pierie, Scott & Co.'s department stores he said Jjiat he had not. T A representative of The Day Book then pointed out the ordi nance to Eliot, and asked him how about it. This was Eliot's answer: "I didn't know the ordinance was so sweeping." " . Eliot amplified this by saying: fc"Unless these cases at Carson, Pirie, Scott & Co. and Siegel, Cooper & Co. were carried in an .automobile or taxicab they cer tainly come within the scope of ,his ordinance, and the cases should have been reported here." They undoubtedly should. But jthe point is that they were not, jand that Eliot, the chief of the ureau, "did not know the ordi nance was so sweeping" a rath- ORDINANCE IS SNUBBED er lamentable state of ignorance in the case of one of the "servants of the people." Eliot was then asked if an al derman would have access to the records of his department. "No," he replied. "If aldermen ask us what they want we shall try and get it for them. But alder men would not be permitted to examine our files." It is quite interesting to know that the aldermen, elected by the people, and given the power to create the bureau of records by the people, and authorized to ap propriate the people's money to ' pay the salaries of the officials of the bureau of records including that of Mr. Eliot would not be permitted to examine the bu reau's records and find out how the bureau was justifying its existence. Twenty-five Days of Department Store Happenings. Dec. 21, 1912. Freight eleva tor falls in Siegel, Cooper & Co. Dozen women injured. No report made to police. No investigation by authorities. The Day Book only newspaper in city which prints anything about it. Dec. 24, 1912,-Decorator falls 15 feet from scaffolding in Car son, Pirie. Scott & Co.'s. Basal fracture of skull. May. die. No report to police. No investigation of accident. The Day Book only newspaper in city mentioning ac cident. Jan. 2, 1913. Electrician caught in elevator in Carson, HMI