Show HEADQUARTERS IN J I GAMBLING JOINT i. i Hatfield's Dive Is Office of the Colored Seekers' Seekers r Alliance I T. T CHIEF SHEETS BACKS IT UP UPi i Policeman W. W V. V li II Chambers lS l Is nt at Head of Society V for I lOti or of k Negro Interests r- r t r Surrounded Surround d. d by gambling i I. I n lla at hatfield's notorious dive al nt Ea East Tast t Second South street the tho C. C Home Homo Seekers Seekers' Alliance has opened t headquarters The Th alliance Is formed d to encourage the decent and andi i law law-a law abiding representatives s of nr the i colored race to th the Trib- Trib j line ime which scooped cooped th the world on the lie theW W story Sunda Sunday The rh story Is so o good it Is reproduced below with full till j cre credit lt to lo the Tribune 4 It Is the tho evident purpose of detect detec- detec t live rive William Chambers and the police pollee 1 t f I f department to lo do llo two liIne in lii th the I handling of th the local colored Ion tion The They Intend by hy every very legitimate tl mate nate means known to them thel 1 to aid and encourage the decent and law- law fl j representatives of or the race t and anti to male make lire lIfo a a. burden to lo the law luw lawbreakers breakers ri anti and vagabonds who nr are a disgrace to the tilt colored element clement In J f. f particular and the community In genI gen gen- I 7 1 eral iral t. t Chambers has Identified himself with the time permission of the chief of y a i f police with the Home Seekers Seekers' alHa allEaner al- al V tl Ha lEaner nee an association of or the best Jest colored people In Utah whose principal r i i pal purpose Is Js to secure cure employment employmentS t S tt I f for or and give gho all nil needed d advice ad to J r colored men and women coming coining Into i t k the lie state especially Into Salt Lake F City with the he Intention of or making makinI f i r their hell homes her here ber tit ti tol Work orl ork I. I N Is Appreciated i The members of time the alliance are arev v yf- yf l doing this generous work at their own 4 r. r expense and that their e efforts have ha Z x been and are alC being appreciated I Is c amply attested by y dally daIly letters of ti thanks sent fn tn by Its beneficiaries and andI I tt y p numerous Inquiries from rom colored t pel ons who have heard through 5 friends Js and acquaintances of the good work worl being done f r Mr Chaw Chamber ber has caused to be f posted In several places il a about out town a notice tu to nil all persons deV det de- de ICv V t siring the services of competent and andL L trustworthy colored citizens to telephone telephone telephone tele tele- phone the Home Seekers Seekers' alliance No Y Y for Cor Information While assisting the Iho deserving the alliance has no Intention of rela relaxing I Its vigilance vigilance- as to the doings of the undeserving It has In its hands mantis a sword word that cuts both wn ways s and there I Is every Indication that I it will be he wielded effectively in dealing with the opposing element of the ne negro ro race race race- the law abiding and the tho law la break break- Ing Where hero Chambers Holds Forth Chambers who holds his Job on the police force through the tho grace of J- J Police Chief George Georgo Sheets forgot to tor tot t- t if r tell the tho Tribune that the telephone the number of Y 2669 Is answering to at Hatfield's gambling joint The contract for the phone Is made with the Railroad Mens Men's and Walt Walters alters ere club r or of which E. E It R Hatfield Is clerk The Tho object of or tho the club in to play poker faro roulette to lo shoot craps crap and to Indulge in other r religious II lous pasS pas- pas S times By allowing Cham Chambers ers to become Identified with the alliance Chief Sheets Indorses the location of the headquarters He believes it will willbe willbe be h. h a good thing for strange colored I people Popie ople to seek eel Information from the thc competent and trustworthy persons who infest Inest the Hatfield joint The police committee o of the city council was recently asked to fire Chambers because he did not represent ent the tho best hest colored lored element clement In Jn the tho city and because because because be be- cause he did dill not enforce the law which he was az sworn to lo do This alliance m made nide de up of the best colored coloret people in n Utah held Chambers Chambers Cham Cham- bers hers on the force by going m to the police authorIties and telling them that they wanted Chambers A 4 Chambers a 3 city policeman Is at atthe the head of or the alliance and his headquarters Instead of being at the tIme V police station Is at the gambling Joint f t Why Ity dont don't you ou close the thc two colored gambling Joints Joints' was wa asked a member of or the police committee What Vt hat good would It do came the answer It would end this row between the friends and enemies of Chambers Knous s Where here to Find Them You Y u dont don't understand these thes joints said the committeeman i Any Ammy time Chief Sheets wants a negro who is Iii charged with breaking the law he lie tells tella Chambers Chamber to lo go ou out and get Jet him Chambers goes to fields field's and puts his finger lInger on th the man It Is a good thing to have ha a place here hero where the law breaking element of colored citizens citizen can cnn b he be found at al any time That's why th the police allow ollow the joint to be he run run It Is said that lint the ulterior r reason ason for organizing the alliance Is to send Mend out of town all ne negroes oes who refuse to visit Hatfield's ld Joint The temptation to roll the UH dice Is Isel el very great rat and und Hatfield lintfield lint Hat field has great confidence In hi his ability to coax th the coin from rom a visitor once he gets Interested In th the place dae Since the formation of the alliance al ni liance hiance several colored persons have called Y 2669 for Information and lund t. t have been eEn told that if It they will go tto o to the address address l 5 East Second South they the they will get et all the Information they want The rest Is I as pasy |