Show This Rooming House Proprietor Proprietor etor Classes Children With Luxuries Salt Lake City July 25 1919 To the the- Editor of The Telegram Dear Sir SIr RegardIng Regarding this much thrashed out question of Children Barred From Rooming Houses an editorial on which appears In this evenings evening's paper will vill you consent to publish a series of articles upon this subject and give the other side of the question a fair show something which Is impossible in an ordinary newspaper reply of words I 1 have had a rooming house in this city for tor the past ten years ears and I believe I would be authority on the subject of Children and Dogs Par Par- rots Pussy Cats and Planolas in Apartment Houses and I am frank to say that such luxuries are not desiree desire and very few secure accommodations accommodations accommodations In my establishment As long as I pay the rent and obey the law I shall hope to continue the same poll policy C but whenever the law says that I must run a to please the unfortunates who got the before they got the nest then I will go to Provo and enjoy the quiet of a regular lunatic asylum and not pay some landlord for tor a house housein I in which to run a private one If the law forc forces s us to accept the darlings which even their own parents can hardly live in the house with To begin with The children who are dragged around from rooming house to rooming house have a shiftless class of parents anyway beI because because be- be I cause people raising a family should I I care enough n for that t family Il to get thorn them a home and not throw h them e i ithe Into the mixed atmosphere of rooming houses The law has already scattered scattered scattered scat scat- firebrands through every roomIng rooming rooming room- room Ing house In the city by its cleansIng cleansIng cleansing cleans- cleans ing process and while these poor unfortunates are kept moving on on still even the one week they sometimes sometimes sometimes some some- times stay Is sufficient to taint the morals of a child The general condItions conditions conditions con con- are not home influences at atthe atthe atthe the best and to insist upon unon forcing the Issue will make desirable rooming houses much more scarce than ever Even if the landlord and the landlady's landlady's land land- ladys lady's rights were ignored in land land-I this matter how abo about t quiet people who desire a quiet home and are willing willingto to pay for tor It What about their I rights Must these also be Ignored I Children the Children the dear little cherubs right from heaven turn heaven turn a rooming house into a second edition of the theother theother other place almost as soon 3 as the family arrives I have tried children arid dogs and pianos and I have them In my house at prest present nt but I have rooms for tor them m which do not Interfere interfere Inter Inter- fere tenants but hut to mix them through ugh the Uie house promiscuously well well I Ii Ij have tried it and let me picture j just st one instance A lovely family The husband Just wanted a sleeping room for tor two weeks while his kamily was away on a visit Sure I gave gave him one of my best rooms at sleepIng Bleeping rates A few days later a family breezed In consisting of ot an easy easy going worn out mother I with a crying babe of some 18 months of fretfulness and a year old captain who ruled the roost and turned the house into pandemonium I from daylight in the morning till long after midnight Jumping screaming and with a pup and when his tired but over indulgent papa would not play horse with him then he would yell and Jump up and down until papa did and the rest of the tenants above below and upon both sides were kept awake while papa and the captain enjoyed home comI comI com corn I forts Finally two of ot my quiet tenants tenants tenants ten ten- ants who have been with mo me for tor I years informed me me that they would have to move or the family as sleep was impossible because when papa and the kid were were not not keeping them awake with romping the baby was yelling for tor his bottle or his teeth or his stomach or his natural disposition but but he yelled the rest of the night mostly I warned them to cut out the rough house and even a a. tenant sleeping or I should say trying to sleep below them went up at almost midnight and asked them to stop the horseplay so they could sleep Then I moved the family on the ground floor and a new lot of ot tenants were I annoyed in almost the same manner l and then they got a chea cheaper per place and while we all fervently thanked the good Lord for tor deliverance the proprietor took tool a a. solemn oath Never again not again not that kind law kind law or no law because while I have never been in I I Jail I honestly believe it would be preferable le to such a class of family tenants I Now financially speaking This II I dear indulgent papa who Is raising I a a. captain or two while moving about I from pillar to post had rented the j i room for 5 Just half price for tor the I two vo weeks After they moved the 1 room had to be because I Buddy was vas artistic and had I scratched every available spot of the j side walls that he could reach with 1 I scratchy crayons crayon which forced a aI 1 I complete renovation of the room at atthe atthe 1 the cost of no 10 and the mattress was sent sent to the factory to be cleaned and andI I recovered five and a half more beI besides besides be- be I sides the disturbance j I Oh yes s 's families are desirable tenants and unfortunately nine tenths j lof of the moving tam families Illes are moving for tor similar reasons People who are desirable tenants locate with their I families and conduct themselves so that others can live In the same neighborhood at least but the general generali i run of families who seek locations InI in I rooming houses are the kind whose i children destroy the walls break j I dishes and furniture throw rubbish In InI inthe I the toilets causing plumbers' plumbers bills I I to eat up the room rent on a single Job They allow their children to scatter crumbs through the entire house spill Ink and daub paint upon rugs curtains and drapery until a aI I general change must be made before the rooms can be made even livable I for tor other tenants Nor is this the I worst of it After and i twice cleaning a room and putting t I down new rugs the tIle baby smell j I clung td It still and the room re- re vacant until we put in other children and this Is one of the many many reasons reasons why children are barred If parents would take care of their children and bring them up to respect the rights of others there would be beI beIle beles I Ile les objection objection- to children in rooming houses I If there were other places places' where these people could move Well Veil these places would not be desirable very long after the most of these do move Now this sympathy is all misplaced 1 I i because the land merchants are will will- I lag ing to sell homes on the Instalment I plan and If these families any good to themselves or the community I they w would ud get a proper place to raise i their kids and settle sown down own to the I business instead of ot dragging their progeny and an old trunk around In Inan Inan inan an express wagon to anno annoy some someI I neighborhood until unil the owner of the place finds an excuse to pass them along Just as us we have to do with the unfortunate women which the law wills upon us so we can have havea a clean 7 city 1 A ROO ROOMING IL G HOUSE Kl KE KEER |