Show GAMBLING RUNS IN FOUR PLACES Tiger Is Loose in Zion Under the Very Eyes of the Reform Police IS BEHIND CLOSED DOORS MANY PRECAUTIONS TAKEN BY ADMINISTRATION FAVORITES Gambling is behind closed doors In Salt Lake L ke City Despite the fact that the present prent pr t administration promised to close up up every house permanently the favored ones who supported Mayor Ezra Thompson in the recent election have opened up club rooms Open gambling was ws closed Jan 9 and the th next day d y the boosters and roustabouts roustabouts roustabouts bouts were ordered to leave town The element of the gambling fraternity which was to receive special privileges was par particularly particularly particularly pleased ped pl with the ilia situation and ond commenced pocking pe off oU their gambling gi g paraphernalia Most of it was trans trails transferred to some storage stor e establishment establishment establishment but the poker pokeD tables and the faro layouts were deposited In one or two saloons When the time came cain o m they were taken to the club rooms and the best known gamblers and boosters are now working in these places Running In Four Places Four club rooms were located last night where men were wroe seen n to come and go and the news that a s little game on the quiet can n be found f und is rapidly spread spreading spreadIng spreadIng ing Following are the locations of the clubs now in operation The club inline Inthe In ethe rear of the Kenyon Kenvon i tr l i iThe The Keyting club on the second floor of the D B F Walker building The Montana Montane club 3 East Bast Second South street j The White House club in the rear rr of the th White House hotel Fifty men were counted last night go going going going ing and coming from the club in the rear of the Kenyon hotel From the hotel hot l lobby the th door can be watched Over the door Ioor Is ls a bright electric light so 50 that whosoever r comes mes up and pushes an electric button can be seen from fram the blind The door is opened by means of a string which springs the lock Inside the door a partition Is built and those admitted find themselves in s adark dark hell hil h hilway ll way A few yards ards back ba thore is a knot knothole hole in a door which serves as aa a guid guiding guidIng ing light This door was last night by Sam Galeazzi The The hallway from thI turns at right angles to the left laft 1 and td funa tuns uns back ick about ten feet Into the d room Three Thre poker games were td t operation P there last lut night and 2nd occasionally the die faro fare board was wa flashed out and a few deals made thade when there was enough mon tuon money money ey In sight This club Is evidently owned by the tho favorite bunch Some of the best dealers have been in Salt Lake for the text laM fr P y a WOr ing the tha place Several of oi the most mast nt t successful l boost boosters ers were wae supplied with meal tickets du during during during X ring th the past pe pa t two or three weeks and I 1 held l the club were opened and I then put to work Two were working for the club last 0 night on the street and picked pic ed up several veral live ones who were tipped to the game and taken to the room One Place Is Select The Keyting club has been running for some time and a more select crowd gathers there The main hall hafl on the west ivest wing of the building is boarded up The door Is Js covered by a curtain and a push button is to be found on the west wall L The han hall is kept dark clark and the entrance to the dub club Is in the extreme end of the hallway Attempts to get in last night were futile The doorkeeper took a glimpse through the curtains but said aid there was w s nothing doing The rat rattle rattie tl tie tle of the chips could coul l be heard hearl distinctly in the hallway h It was learned from sev seve eal Ej e I persona who had hail gambled in the house howse hou that there were two and sometimes sometime three poker games running It is pos possible possible possible sible to get g t in front of a faro taro table but orly certain favored ones are Bre admitted The Montana Montane club is also aiso secreted be bo behind behind hind a series SerI of at o doors but enough men passed in and out of the place during the evening to warrant suspicion Many of them were gamblers who left loft the place piece last night and a number of ot Jap Japanese Japanese Japanese anese including a booster of that nationally tty entered the place J The entrance is on East Second South street st The first door is covered mth a blind The second 8 COnd set of doors is on the first landing of the stairs There is another door at the head of the stairway where a peephole is 18 1 cut through Every Eve body b y c b who comes up the o arother aT other door built up in a 8 narrow hall hail hallway hailway way W a Through this an entrance is gained to the club rooms After passing down downa a hallway several veral s yards it turns to the left and the club room are ace situated situ ted in inthe inthe the rear re r of the old Wasatch Waatch gambling house At the White House HouseIn In the rear rr of te e White House hotel another t r ng Few ar i il O pl pla e 8 and d they are generally gener picked up on the street and touted there by boosters Thu Tho gme gr me is prosperity however and its pat patronage is js growing gr n nightly Othar small sp ll games are axe In r Iz t UJ fe ft rear r r of sev several several several eral saloons in the city A slough game is easily changed Into a 8 game of draw poker The rhe chips coat cost fifty cents cent a I stack The hand is dealt when nobody Is around who looks suspicious sUS and there is 1111 generally one man playing for the house The same conditions prevail now as did during durIn Mayor Thompsons admin administration At that time eight gambling houses were running in full blast The proprietors were wr t were not ar arrested rested Every Tda t o i 3 ace safe was In operation o fr m t ulette r wheels ls fixed with an battery batte to o phony dice and short card gameS gamete When Mayor Thompson took his seat for the second term he served he pledged himself to stop gambling At first every game in the city was shut shit down but a arow afew trw row months later the favorite ones on S were allowed to open Up lip behind closed doors as the games are now being run No effort has h been made by Chief of Police PoUce George A Sheets to close up the games The police poUce know where the clubs are and one or two patrolmen said last night that thay they were satisfied that gamb gambling ling games were running ru |