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Show LEADING CITIZENS -SEE. THE GAMBLING Apostle D." 0. McKay; H. L. Griffin, Hcber Scowcroft and Rev. El-derkin El-derkin Show the Mayor the Sights in Ogfden's Underworld-Meet Underworld-Meet With Strange Experience Trip Through the Alley. tlcally all Americans. At this place the proprietors and men in charge became uneasy and wanted to know what was up The guard at the door, who had gone down stairs,, appeared a few minutes later. As Rev. Elder-kin Elder-kin tramped up these steps In the lead there was an effort made by some one to run in ahead of him. but Elderkin. is somewhat of a sprinter himself and landed first and told tho resr to enter, f From this place the committee I started for the Turf gambling house. As the committee walked into this place some one said. "Here they come." and another said, ' Who?" The response was, "Those damned preachers." preach-ers." and a man ran up the steps and cried back, "I will have the door locked." lock-ed." The committee discovered that It wes not wise to enter this place and started down for the St. Louis gambling gamb-ling house with Elderkin In the lead. Here they were mei with a cold reception re-ception and a closed ;1oor and the committee turned down to the Grill and felt very hopeful. As they walked walk-ed up tho steps they eaw the fold-iug fold-iug door unfold to admit a workman, but when the committee pushed on the door It would not open. Evidently these doors were worked with an Th- lii.ucmu'nt league of Weber county, organized about one year ago, Las been carefully laying Its plans, for the Improvement of the morals of Ogden City and her people. Tho league has not been hasty In its actions. ac-tions. It organized a league of several hundred members In Ogden City and then had hranch leagues organized In the various parts of the county. Now It Is claimed that the league has sufficient suffi-cient votes to elect or defeat any man who Is put up for public office. The league, several months ago. appointed a special committee to Investigate, first, a committee on gambling, another an-other on saloons, another on Electric alley, another on card playing In the rear of cigar and other stores. The league has taken hold of this matter In a methodical manner, and the league is just ready for business. Following this article will be round letter served on the mayor and chief of police. When the committee called on the mayor, he carefully read the letter and said: "Now, gentlemen, I take It that yon and the memhers of your league are In earnest." They answered, "Yes." 'That you are using all tho power ! of your Betterment league to assist the officers to enforce tho law against I gambling?" I ihe utate law, which prohibits anybody any-body renting any building for gambi Jng purposes. That of course, will effectually stop the gambling. Wh--.ii Ihc property holder is hli he wi.l require a bond that no gambling r.ha'l take place. Following is Cue communication t-orved on the Mayor and Chief mi' i'nlicc: Betterment League Letter. 'To the Honorable Mayor and Chief of Police. Ogden. fifth. 'Gentlemen: With a desire to make belter the normal and social conditions of our eiiy, and lo assist t and unhold the olllclals In ihe en- I forcement of laws and ordinonces j which they have solemnly sworn to I execute, a number of prominent citi- I zens have leagued to study soHnl evils and to discuss ways and means of successfully combating them. "Camblinr. drunkenness and prostitution pros-titution are three most iclou9 evils undermining society today. The ordinances ordi-nances of Ogden are explicit in prohibiting pro-hibiting them, and if enforced, would greatly reduce the evils attending indulgence in-dulgence In these vices. "In regard lo gambling, we submit the following for your Information and consideration: "First It. is a matter of general knowledge I hat gambling houses aro wide open in Ogden. "Second It is generally conceded that the so-called "fines' paid each month by the keepers of these houses Is nothing more than a licence ' 3rd If this bo true the ordinance of prohibition becomes. In effect, one of permission, nnd the city, by accepting ac-cepting tribute money under the guise of fines becomes a party to the encouraging en-couraging and perpetuating of one of the mcst degrading of focial vices. "Fourth During the month of .June several hundred people were seen gambling at tables, roulette games, pol.er games, faro games and "21." In the St. Louis gambling house over the St. Louis Heer Hall, the Elephant gambling hou?e, the White Elephant, and other such resorts. "in all of these places from fifty to two hundred men gathered nightly, and bet on roulette games, cashed in chips, showing the winnings, and flagrantly flag-rantly and nninolestedly curried on gambling in various ways. "In view of these facts, we respec-fully respec-fully ask In behalf of the Betterment League of this rlty: "First That all gambli-ig houses be closed, and the law prohibiting gambling gamb-ling be rigidly enforced. "Second That the owners of the property in which gambling is carried on be notified that unless they cease to permit their houses to be used for such nurposcK, their names will be published, and proceedings instigated against them for violating ordinances which read as follows: "12C1 Gaming Defined Every person per-son who deals, plays, or carries on, opens or causes to be opened, or who conducts, either as owner or employe, whether for hire or not. any game of faro, monte, roulette, lansquenet, rouge et nolr, rondo, or any game played with cards, dice, or any other device, feir money, checks, credit, or any other . representative value, and every person who plays or befs at or against, any of said prohibited games, is ?nilty of misdemeanor. "12G2 Permitting Gam.ng In House Fvery person who knowinglv permits any of the games mentioned in the preceding section to he played, conducted, or dealt in any house owned own-ed or rented by such person, in whole or in part, is punishable as provided In ihe preceding section "In conclusion we assure you of our hearty support In all your offoits to enforce rigidly the ordinances of city nnd the laws on the statute books but wish to say emphatically that progressie citizenship cannot sauc lion and unhold officers who know of Ihe violation of the law and who permit per-mit it just because they arrogate to themselves Ihe justification that gambling will be carried on anyhow, and the city might as well have the revenue: neither -will progressive citizenship cit-izenship approve of the city ofllcials becoming a party to gambling by receiving re-ceiving a license under the guise of 'fines.' 'Respectfully submitted. DAVID O McKAY. IT. L GRIFFIN. HEBER SCOWCROFT. Committee in behalf of Ogden Betterment Bet-terment Lea?ue. electric applinnce from the bar. The committee now turned back to the Turf resort, believing that the keepers were unguarded, Elderkln again In the lead. Just as the committee com-mittee neared the steps there was a hasty running of the guard who attempted at-tempted to shut the door, but Elder-kin's Elder-kin's foot "was placed In the opening open-ing and was caught and he tried for help, "nut, by the lime the rest of tho committee came up, a dozen or more of men on the inside got back of the door and It proved to he wisdom on the part of Mr. Elderkin to withdraw his foot. "Darn It." said Mr. Elderkln, "If you fellows had been a little bit quicker quick-er we would have gotten in." It was now 11 o'clock and but two places had been entered, and tho committee com-mittee decided to take a look at Electric Elec-tric alley. The alley seemed to bo very quiet. Here and there stood a group of Japs, a group of Greeks and in most of the places the doors and windows were open and silting in modest positions were seen girls of all shapes and sizes. Some were fat and some were ihlu No effort was made to tempt any of the committee, excepting ex-cepting one littie black haired girl who appeared as beautiful as Ethel Lcneo and who pointed her linger at Heber Scowcroft and said, "You look good to me; come on In." Heber promptly turned a double shade of red and said. "Different here." If any of the other eomitteemen felt any signs of jealousy over the preference given to Heber. they did not show It. In the middle of the alley a great pretentious buildlne came to view and one of the committee asked, "What is that?" and the Rev. Elderkln said. "Why, that's Belle's place." "Come on." said Mr. Elderkin. "we will go inside." He knocked at the door and a very polite little Jap pre sented himself, and. recognizing Mr. Elderkln, promptly let in Ihc committee. commit-tee. The committee was taken Into one of the parlors, nicely furnished with a star electric device In tho calling. call-ing. When ""e committee were comfortably comfort-ably seated in the upholstered furniture, furni-ture, the polite little Jap said "The girls will be In pretty soon." He dropped drop-ped a nickel In the electric piano and It played. "Go Way Back and Sit Down," A Tier the tune w as over the members of tho committee looked at each other The house was as quiet as any respectable neighborhood at early morn and the members looked uncomfortable, when the mayor suggested sug-gested that they had better go and try another gambling house, and quietly quiet-ly the committee stole forth and retired re-tired without seein; any girls. At the door the polite little lap put his arms around the mayor and said, "You are the mayor." iney said, cs "You are ready to make sacrifices to accomplish the results you desire?" "They said, "Yes.' "In that event,' said the mayor, "we can suppress gambling, but only with the understanding that the Betterment Better-ment league backs the officers and helps to create public sentiment in favor of the abolishment of gambling find tho securlug of wltuesses.' The mayor told the committee that, as he understood It, there were places In which gambling was taking place, and that he had instructed the ohieers jto get the evidence against any of 'these gambling places as often as possible pos-sible without neglecting tho protection protec-tion of the people and the city, but that the trouble was a guard stood at ach door and only those who were Ivnowu to be favorable to gambling were admitted The committee visited the mayor and said that tho gambling was wide open and that anybody could go in; : that the special committee on gam-' gam-' liing, which was headed by Bishop Frank Stratford, walked Into every gambling house in tho city without the least objection, and that the committee com-mittee had the evidence complete of each and evefyr gambling resort. The mayor then said such evidence was good, and that he would cause all the gamblers to be arrested by the police fore nd that the matter would be tried .. Its merits with an effort to convict the gamblers. But he was of the opinion that Immediately Immediate-ly after the prosecutions the guards would be moved to the inner door nd everybody would have to have a password to get in, and secret gambling gam-bling would prevail, which, the mayor said, Is a hundred times worse than open gambling under police surveillance, surveil-lance, and that only with the help of a strong organized league, puch as the Betterment league, and the sentiment of the public backing it. could these fecret gambling places be closed and abolished. The committee met the mayor at his ofllce last evening at 10 o'clock and invited him to join them and see that wide open gambling was in progress prog-ress In Ogden. There was nothing for tho mayor to do but accompany the committee. The committee consisted con-sisted of Apostle D. O McKay. H. L. ', Grlttta ot the Giiffirr Produce com- pany, Heber Scowcroft of the Scowcroft Scow-croft & Sons company, and the Rev. ; Noble Strong Elderkln of the Congregational Congre-gational church, but just before the last gambling house was v isited, Fre l Chamber?, coming up the street from the depot, was practically forced to go with the committee. The above committee and the mayor started out to see the wide open gambling. .The committee, be- fore starting out, told the mayor they wanted a square deal on this, nnd did not want the mayor to go to any telephone tele-phone and tip off anything. The latter lat-ter agreed to stay right with the com mltiee and, if any tipping wos done, it would be done by the committee. When the aggregation met at Be-crafi's Be-crafi's corner the question was y.s to who could point out the gambling bouses. Rev. Elderkin promptly volunteered vol-unteered to act as guide. The commit com-mit le first walked up the steps of John I1. Smith & Co.'s gambling bouse. Ex-Constable Lambert sat at ihe head of Ihe stairs In a chair acting act-ing as guard. Just as the committee started up the steps a big fat man flopped up to talk with Lambert, nnd tv-hlle thus engaged the entire coin-jnlttee coin-jnlttee slipped by him and into the Rambling house. There must have ieen three hundred people in this gambling house and some twelve to lifteen gambling devices. The Instruments Instru-ments were all strangers to the committee, com-mittee, excepting to the Reverend El-rierkln, El-rierkln, who was able to explain what faro bank is, the crap game, stud poker, twenty-one, etc., etc. The committee had no sooner pained entrance than ex-Constable Lambert stepped up aud said to the mayor. "I guess I made a mistake let Mng you In.' The mayor said. "I don't mow about that," and the ey-onstable ey-onstable undertook to Invite tho Diayor down the steps, but the -latter ieslred to stop with the committee ind remained at thin resort about thirty minutes. B. A. Bowrnau, formerly for-merly the manager, proprietor and editor of the State Journal, who is manager of this big gambling house. f( J. F. Smith Sc. Company, offered to reat the entire aggregation to a lem-onnde, lem-onnde, but the committee preferred "'o feet a lemonade at the Culloy Drug are as a bet had been made between er Scowcroft and the mayor as to 'Miruber of foreigners and Ameri-flllps, Ameri-flllps, tlpatronizing these gambling re- Ptoro to lbti ma.vr.c,,,ln,cd that ovet of them were foreigners, but '(POnderS Cis hardly a foreigner among three belo h,ID,,rr''I People ami tho llllngly took the entire com-Oltely com-Oltely corn u Cully's Dnig .store Tor a jach, and-; ;VUT tM "'I1coTlllC8 e Llephant gambling house me Only ILby Hamner & Company In there were one-half dozen ices, but only aioi!t twen-:aced twen-:aced in gauibliDjr, prao On entering Twenty fourth street. Fred Chambers was discovered and was forced Into service. This time it was agreed that the committee dl vide In couples, and that Elderkin and Chambers alone try to get into the Turf resort, as it was thought that the presence of the mayor, whom everybody ev-erybody knew, was what kept the guards vigilant. The committee thn started off again with Elderkin in the lead. As soon as Elderkin got In front of the Turf resort he made a bee-line up the steps and the guard undertook under-took to stop him. telling him that the doors were locked 'That's all right," said Elderkin. "we are going to see if they are." Being on the inside, with Chambers lollowlng, the rest of the committee gained entrance. Here thirty to forty people were playing games, but ii looked quiet compared with the placi-of placi-of J F Smith & Company, the first p.'ace visited. Tho committee having thus been successful, decided to visit the two lower gambling houses, the St. Louis t'ni Grill. This time H. L. Griflln ond Heber Scowcroft were sent in advance, ad-vance, but the doors in both of these places seemed to open for others. b:it were locked when the committee undertook un-dertook to get In. The committee then separated and wandered homeward and none ol them got to bed earlier than 12 o'clock. Before separating the Mayor poked the committee how evidence could be secured against the two rKces that were locked. The state law makes gambling a misdemeanor, which does not permit the breaking down of doors to get Into the build ings where it is supposed gambling is being done. If the state legislature , vould cause gambling to b... made a felony, then the gambling bouses could be suppressed because every citicer could take an ax with him and chop down the doors and enter. Of course, under the low, the Mayor having seen a much as he has. must swear out warrants for the arrest of the keepers of the gambling houses tnd he will cite his distinguished compauy of last evening as the wit-pesjies. wit-pesjies. The Betterment League mcmbeis. J.owever, has a betu-r proposition In view. They propose to have the men v. ho own ihe buildings wh..ro garabl-, garabl-, ing takes place, arrested for violating |