Show HiEF PITT IS OUSTED IiI 4 BY MAYOR BRANSfORD i iI iChi I Chief Chi f Executive Removes Head of Police De Dc Department Department for Refusing to Transfer Fallen Women to the Restricted District t Council Concurs but Notice of Reconsideration Reco Is Filed t h Mayor M Assumes Full Responsibility for His Policy I Iu u I Once more Salt Lake Is without a aE chief E I ITom Tom D hiet of police was re rem removed j moved m ved from office e last evening by byM Mayor M 3 John hn S in a sent to the city council The council confirmed the of or the mayor mayor but vote Coun Councilman cilman J i J r Stewart eave notice of or reconsideration r on gives sies Chief hiet Pitt I an 6 additional lease ou o ne week on the I position 1 Th The removal Of hir of Police Pitt I office Offic is the culmination of or fric friction tion between the mn r the chief of police potice with reference t lie new re ye restricted restricted district Chief Chi Pitt declined to consent to 10 the iem removal al of o the wo women women women men of the underworld from the busi business business business ness district to the new district on the west weRt side and the mayor asked for or his Hs is resignation Chief Chiet Pitt ta t re me resign resign sign and an his removal moval followed With lith the letter of removal of the i thief chief of nes the announcement m by the mayor that the plan to move i the women of or o underworld to the i west side of ot the city has official anc sanc sanction tion The mayor ma or has never ne r before an announced announced announced his attitude on In the of or the new restricted district Now he has made public the fat fact fa t that tha he 11 is ibe be behind behind hind the movement to remove the tho dis district district district to the west vest est side from Its Inception Inception tion and It was because of or his hi I that the c was war wa com corn commenced commenced i Successor Not Determined Chief CIder Pitt it is 13 said wa 3 at one ne time in favor of ome some such much movement but hut later changed his mind iud md now no op 01 opposes poses P it Because of hin p to 1 the move his removal l has hag bc be jn Hl for tor by the mayor laorA Who lit his ucc or orWill will be has not l T been determined er r n nc Mayor or Bransford said he be JiaM 11 jl several men nen en in n mind b but that his selection Je i J had hadnot rt I not yet been made There The is no doubt hut bu that o rW j ili be tie m in harmony with the tSe t e may mayors ma mayors ors policy to change the time tenderloin tend district There Is scarcely a n possibility ity that any present pr gent member of the department will be made chief The determination to rem vs Pitt came to the mayor attar after an interview with the chief chiet of ot police Monday Tonda noon nn The mayor maor asked the chief whether or not he would w consent to the removal from the business section of or the city to the somewhat ome hat isolated stockade on tho the west side skie The rhe chief then said that he lie would resign before he would give his consent to such a move The mayor maor then asked for fr f r the resignation The chief chiet however de declined declined dined to resign In the evening before the council meeting Mayor Bransford met with several American members of ot the city council and told them that he had sent to the recorder his letter removing removing removing ing Chief Pitt Nearly all of ot them consented to uphold the action of the mayor ma or I I Mayors Letter Letteris Is Read ReadI At the council co meeting the following I letter from the mayor was read To the Honorable President and anti Mem Iem Members bers bern of o the City Council J I hereby remove with your YO ur consent Tom D Pitt chief of ot the Salt Lake City Cit police department and nd respect respectfully respectfully respectfully fully ask your our honorable body to con concur concur I cur in iii such removal This removal Is made Los for the good goodof of or the service I Respectfully submitted J S BRANSFORD BR Mayor layor MayorAs As soon as it was read rea Councilman C J J T Stewart moved mo ed that the communication be referred to the police nolice and prisons committee of which Mr Ir Stew Stewart Stewart Stewart art is the chairman This motion was I seconded by b Councilman Councilman F S Fernstrom was as im mm Immediately on his feet opposing Mr Ir 1 Stewarts motion Mr Ir Fernstrom F said that out of or courtesy courtes to the mayor ma or the thc communication should be acted upon at l once He lie said that It was the duty dut of i f the council M tf support rt the time mayor maor In all aU that was within reason Council Councilman Councilman man man Black said Mid that he agreed with Mr Fernstrom that out ut of or consideration a tion of the ct s executive c utHe the mem members members bers bees of or the council should act one way WR or the other on the matter at once Mr Stewart said that while he be believed belIeved believed that the police and prison com corn committee committee would recommend the approval of the mayors lie he believed that the matter should not be he acted upon hastily The council uncil could confirm tilt th mayors action just as well eil in another week week eek he said Mr Ir Ferry said aid he was afraid that i the council was losing the fact t that the mayor maor as chief chef executive of I Ithe t the city was entitled to the respect and consideration of or the council i If It the th chief of police was out of or harmony harman I with the mayors successful IH he was In favor of his 1 al He said that It showed shoved a lacko r i respect and for the mayor ma or i iCor for Cor the council his a i tion to a r j Stand by the Mayor On the roll roil call on the motion to re refer r reer 1 fer er the time communication co to the po police II 00 committee Hodgson Stewart and nd Wood voted to have the th j communication referred r and und the other ot r t I nine councilmen present voted t against j Ik I In their votes ot s Mr Ir Hodg Hod F Fon t j on son saW said he lie voted for tor a further Investigation J ft 4 the matter because he ime dis disliked liked to vote a man out of office orfice with I being satisfied ed that tha he should be b removed I Mr r Hall said Mid he would vote ote against the reference because he lie had ha every ever con eon confidence nce in Mayor Bransford a and d wished to 10 sustain him though he would fe l better if it he knew more about the mat moat matter matter ter before voting on it Mr Wood said that he lie voted for the reference of the subject because beyond be the duty dut he owed O d the mayor m or his first fIn t duty was waR to his constituents and be e 4 cau cause e jhN move Is antagonistic to the best Interests of or his constituents for reasons that he said be lie did not care to state on the council chamber floor he would vote to have hae the communication tion referred Before the of or the roll call was a announced Councilman t Stewart asked leave to change vote from yes e to no po and then gave i f i of a reconsideration of or the tIte vote rote Char Chair Is Sustained I Councilman Fernstrom smiled as ashe he iii told Stewart Steart that thit his bluff was too raw tj to work that thit no parliamentary j erule rule admitted d the notice of ot a reconsider t ye the t il ilage age of or a matter Council mac Stewart insisted on nix hiM position and nd Mr 11 Fernstrom laughing l ly Is I said saul that if 11 Mr Ir Martin who wa was In Inthe Inthe the chair would rule with wit Mr Stew Stewart stewart t w art the minority would be b h f r rit it could tie up legislation b such meth methods otis just as often as it chose ch se lar lartin I Itin tin ruled that Mr Ir F ms point was well taken and that Mr Stewarts notice was out of or order x Appeal from the decision said Ree Li dall dali Stewart appealed and the tIle decision of the chair was sustained by b a vote of 10 to 3 Mr Wood and Mr lr voted with Mr Ir Stewart against the thede de decision cllon cislon of the chair Mr Yr Re dall who i advised the appeal deserted Mr Ir Stew Stewart Stewart Stewart art and voted with ith the majority The communication then came caine up for final disposal Stewart and andWood andWood 1 Wood voted against the removal of ot the tho chief chiet but before the result was an announced announced announced Mr Ur Stewart again changed his hi vote this time from om no to yes and amid gave notice of oC a reconsideration This ties up the matter tot for another week and ami the duet chief of police cannot be re removed rei I moved formally until by b a n vote ote next week tIme tile council refuses to reconsider the time vote ote removing the chief Mayor Position Mayor Bransford talked freely on the tIme removal of ot the chief of or police I ing lag but declined to give the name nam pf or of any Of 1 the time men whom he lie has under u dr r c ft consideration for tor the position Unless J Ja a new man is appointed d before the fi Il nul nal removal of ot the chief next week Lieutenant John Hempel yanking ranking r officer eer of the th department will be II chief of or police V i I if Mayor Ia or Bransford expressed regret that Roderick Mackenzie who a year yea 1 I ago ao was chief of ot police for a hort tUne 1 was walZ va not hot yet yOt a full tull citizen of the United I States Stales Were ere he lie a citizen and thus qualified to th hold hol the position the mayo f 1 would consider his police pollee problems f J JIved solved Ived HI In giving his hi reasons re ons forthe Corthe removal t L Lor of or Chief Pitt Jitt itt and the advocacy of or tho the new nen restricted district Mayor Brans Bransford Bransford ford said There has I i been beell some seine friction be between between between tween the chief of police and this office for several days claya with reference to the plan of handling the women omen of or the ten tenderloin r district 1 had hael occasion a few days da s ago to ask the chief to look after the wom n I told him him that they had left Commercial street and were either walking the thc streets street or scattering out iJ through the residence rel districts and be becoming becoming j coming not only on a public nuisance but buta a public menace The Th chief hief said that Continued on Page 3 ti t CHIEF PITT IS OUSTED I IBY BY MAYOR BRANSFORD BRAr Continued from Page 1 he hI h was ia not responsible for this condi condition c tion that Sheriff Emery had inter interfered i interfered ter In the matter bad had driven them from Commercial street and was mak making makIng makIng ing It very YeI difficult for tor the police to control the women I told him that I would arrange a conference with Mr Ir Emery Emer and the chief of police In my office for Saturday afternoon Chief Pitts Manifesto Accordingly I called up Sheriff Em Emery Emery ery cry and made an appointment to meet him at my office e on Saturday after afternoon afternoon afternoon noon I had intended conferring with i him and the chief of police and find findIng finding Ing Ins out whether or not the police de department department department and the sheriffs office could not agree on oa the best method of co cooperation cooperation cooperation operation In restricting the vice Ice to a segregated district As 0 agreed Sheriff Emery came C me to my m office but Chief Pitt I did not come I was busy in my inner I office and after waiting for some time the sheriff went away The following day I saw sa an inter interview Interview view with the chief of police pollee in a morn morning morning morning ing paper In this Chief Pitt Is hi i quoted as saying The new red light district will never neer open I will not permit a woman to oc occupy cupy up those houses for the illegal pur purposes purposes purposes poses In view ew I am keeping in close touch with all that goes on In the new district and the first en enters enters enters the place and receives guests Is going to be landed behind the bars barsI I went to Chief Pitt and asked him whether or not he had given out this interview He evaded my m question and andI I asked him if what appeared aDD eared in the paper expressed his views on the mat matter matter matter ter He said that it did and that he would resign rather than consent to the removal of ot the women to the pro proposed proposed proposed posed district I 1 then told him that I stood ready to receive his resignation n Then he said would not n t resign Therefore I sent in his removal for confirmation by the council With reference tp the proposed new district the houses of which are In process of construction I wish to say that I am thoroughly In favor of It and that it was at my suggestion sugg tion that the work was begun besun Were it in tny my power I would prefer to see the city In a condition where wh re there would be no houses at t alL nIL That is of course the ideal which I Iam Iam Iam am sorry to say is at present un unattainable unattainable unattainable attainable This vice has always ex existed existed existed isted and It always will exist There is not a city In the United States or orin orin orin in the world free from it Acting on the assumption that the evil vil must exist city governments the world over oyer have sought to regulate It and to t render it capable of a minimum amount of harm With ith this In view and with the power vested in me as mayor of Salt SaIt Lake City I propose to take these thes women from the business section of the city eit and put them inra district which will be one of the best bestIf If not the very VCr best regulated re restricted restricted restricted districts in the country When I first became mayor business businessmen bu ine 3 men of all parties and an citizens of all classes lasses came to me nie and urged that I Ido Ido Ido do something to this vice vl e from Crom the business district of ot the city eit I spoke to the councilmen about it Every one of them was hI In favor of oC the he removal of ot the district but each was somewhat puzzled as to what should sho ld be done with the women and as to where the district should be located More than a year ago I went ast cast with Councilmen Mulvey Tuddenham and Holley Bolley to look over the various arious systems of municipal lighting and other questions of government in many of the larger cities of the country On that trip we also took occasion to con consult suit sult with city officials with reference to their methods of handling the ten tenderloin tenderloin tenderloin problem and to examine into these methods I Selection of Location On our return we examined the lo location location location cation of the present pres rt proposed district and decided it was wa the place to which to move moe the district Mr Ir Tuddenham Mr Holley and Mr Hr Mulvey all favored the location Not satisfied with the approval of the councilmen alone I spent days in consultation with prominent prominent prominent nent residents of Salt Lake and re received received their advice on the matter I took prominent business men of all parties and former city officials in my automobile to the proposed site and all agreed that It was the place for such mch a district J I wanted the buildings of ot the place constructed In a manner that would cause canse them alt all to face tace the interior of the block blo so that the whole thing would be kept within the block and that there would be 00 nothing on the streets passing the district that would Indicate that there were such a a district within I wanted too to U have the dis district district district regulated n a manner that would abate the n as much as possible I Ido Ido Ido do not blame the people of ot the west vest westside we t side Eide for objecting to the t e proposed dis die district district dietrict I expected that The problem was to find a location where there would be the smallest number of peo people pIe injured by b this removal I believe we have found that district Ogden People Interested I asked Mr Mulvey |