Show LEADING MEN Of OGDEN RAGING GAME i Recent Splurge of Track Gambling in Junction t City Leaves Hardship and Ruin in Its Wake Bankers and Other Business Men Deplore Depressing on Business and Demoralizing Effect on the Young HERE ARE SOME SENTIMENTS REGARDING THE RACE MEETING BY PROMINENT BUSINESS MEN OF OGDEN Alexander L I Brewer mayor of o Ogden Olden Ogden has baa learned a lesson e It Jt was wa an expensive experience an experience that It will wUI take the city a loner I time to recover from I 1 believe that the sentiment here now is against horse hone racing If the snort port cannot be conducted without Ute tAo boI God help Salt Lake James Filigree Pingree ree cashier of or National bank I have ban yet to hear at of 1 any person In Ogden who won WOR any money at the race meting hers here I know lID W WIota lots Iota of persons who o lost money mone mey needed for Cor the necessaries n of life Ufe But ButI at atI I do not regard the tile money mone so lost lo t the greatest evil experienced ec the races here The demoralising influence it had bad on Oft our our people is mo most meet t to be regretted R A Moves Moyes paying teller tetter tel r First National bank of Ogden We cater te to small depositors and It was has as the small 1 depositors who raftered moat mt of or the races race It was shameful the way y they were robbed Every day y po here drew out money moM and mini took It ft to the races and th tile the at attire tire meeting I will ill say that not one in tn atty of those who drew out y brought It back backor or If It they bro money mOReY bock back U they ey did not bring lIMIt back M as much as a they the drew out outI I L Clark of or Clark Sons Son department store I want to say y aa as emphatically as IlS can be said paid Id In the English En language that I aw sin against another such s ch race ra e meeting as aa Ogden Odea has baa teat t had bad It las has Oa Se pressed business it has bus demoralised our and erI It R has hes ed the city It was shameful an and I d doU ht If tt the Ute of or odeR wI er allow a It to be repeated repe ted James H Douglas manager mana Boyte Boyle Furniture company Put Fat me down dow M as thoroughly disgusted with that thai race nice meeting and aa u one wk hopes tt laM this city will wili never Mer again ag ln be disgraced by a similar event It n Injured the trade of or every merchant m JD this city and it had a most moat de demoralizing moralizing effect on our men and women Hiram Pingree manager er Ogden Furniture tI Carpet company I never had but one experience with a race meeting and aDd that was In this city ti spring I know more mere about it now than before and I never want another ur experience of that kind Ogden Oden has baa 1 proved roved that Utah cities cannot to harbor an evil that other GUIer cities clue have bave prohibited O a M Runyon cashier Commercial bank hank I 1 may be wron wrong but I cut cant see ee what all this holler holier is l about The races ram were all an right In hi my estima estimation tion Uon The merchants are a lot tot of 0 heads bee nd if we had h a couple of 01 meetings a year such as a we Just had it might wake them up a little HUI I BY HARRY HARPY L CRANE Ogden June 2 Ogden had Its Ita it fling at the Ita racing tame game It baa mG of or exciting sport It went the t tI rout and it paid the price It te Is going go jit recover lecOVer the 1110 B say 11 Wit put t theY Be Moo Believe lieve It will be a long king hM IE tune bins before Detore Ogden win will wt catch up with wit Where It tt would have bave been n ja Md Jt it i oat not u down don the bars bare and the of or the horses ahe he bookies the touts the th gamblers the blacklegs and crooks that infested ted the city during those fifteen days of racing r Ogden welcomed the races with open arms anne this spring Ogden was hungry for excitement for advertising for lor publicity for fr visitors Ogden now is II not ambitious for or another race meet meeting meetIng ing lug Leading citizens obscure citizens prominent business men small busi bust business bustness ness MSS men laboring men clerks sales salesmen salesmen men and saleswomen bootblacks peo pea people people pie in all walks of life in Ogden open hope fervently that there will never be such lIuch sucha a race meeting In Ogden again Ogden has suffered is still suffering but judging from the sentiments ex expressed expressed expressed pressed today by a large larg number of citizens Og n has learned Earned a lesson and It well and it seems very doubtful if It this city will ever again consent to another race meeting such auch as the one lately closed The city Is III not busted lest HIt it is 18 sadly dl bent bentMan Many Man Ian citizens who were planning lux luxuries luxuries luxuries uries for f r this summer are now figuring on how bow to procure necessaries In stores tores who had planned d summer va vacation vacation Vacation cation trips have given them up Fam Families Families that had figured on improvements Improvement on homes have hare made different ar arrangements now lw Every Everybody body seems to have hae lost Io t money And the money in Iii not now in The writer looked into the situation here today extensively A large lar num number number ber her of or persons were Interviewed per persons persons sons awls in all aU walks of life liCe Thre were H a I lew fewa a very few who defended the race I game as it was waa conducted In Ogden thia spring They were mostly saloon men cigar store proprietors restaurant keepers kee 18 and hotel men No merchants merchant were found who were not entirely dis die disgusted disgusted gusted with the meeting who would not say pay that the meeting had bad neon Deen a decided setback to the business inter interests Interests ests eats of ot the city generally and who would not strongly strong oppose c another meeting of the same me kind The first firstman man seen and interviewed on the sub subject subJect was a prominent merchant here bere bereHe He was asked for Cor an expression of t his hi sentiments and was at first reticent about talking for tor publication He salt Change of Sentiment I am ant not inclined to kick The peo pee people pie of or Ogden wanted racing ami am betting and they thuy got it good and lid plenty Th TOt people of Ogden feel fee differently now no 1 think they are srI satisfied I wanted rev ravin Ta TaIng reving in Ing before I 1 knew anything about n nI to toI t tI I dont waitt any more of it tt It w as ts the tiie worst olat thing from Crom a business bu n Mand point p that could have happened happe ed to t this tins city cit We Ve have hae not recovered yet it Itma may ma be months s before we do da it not only injured out trade white while the rILe rare meeting was on but it tooK money out Gut Gutof of the city that will wilt never get back there I do not wish to be quoted in till this matter because there are many per persons persons persons sons In Ogden who still sun favor the races race We have to depend for our trade u i ithe the saloonkeepers the gamblers the restaurant men the cigar c r desia ike he same from other 0 Iet classes cu bat blat I mind telling you that the th merchants et ot this b city would st strongly meeting meet of this kind We cannot af afford ford font foi it The people cannot afford dart It L Aside from the financial we have suffered red it has baa had b a JJ C Clid ising lid exert effect e on our oat o aw Yo tc clerks It cU our oar what w ft During the meeting was wu talked In the store t re but bet t the tM Everybody who came te In to hi trade tiMe i our clerks busy gossiping Z about A the horses hor e the riden the odds odel the And the clerks neglected business to te talk about the races lace among They were crazy over the Ute honea I be believe lieve there is one clerk in the store tore Ph won some money mony the last lut day of taw ti races race by mistake and Is a little ahead of the game I 1 doubt if you can not sid two tw other oth clerks In the whole store steen are not behind the game a lot more titan than any of or them can afford to be Some of r our salespeople had money In the bank It before that race meeting mee they t got it now nowr r cant say that collections have been bad because we M do 40 a very limited cvet bu business ine a but 1 ut I 1 know that people e wh wI ought to 10 be coming In here bere every 7 to buy roods goods are passing by loA nu they got the money to toYe toWe We Ye never want to see ee another suck sacs rea meeting in Ogden Did Dial She Low Lose Did you lose lone any money at ai hs races was asked of o a hi gar of about 20 ZO years yeans at a glove cowit Ia to toone Iaone Iaone one of the Ogden stores atom j Did I lose any money she r Ballad Can you find anybody in Ogden who won any an money or anybody with wha Pad vad Mood blood who bet every cent ceat they ur the could rake and scrape Say if plumes were 10 cents a doses there thee tnt a girl in this store that I know knew of who ho could uld buy enough chicken down t to make one rosette if she could get It K Ml as three months time I IThe The questioner had bad to smile but Mat tile the t girl ri She appeared offended S was In earnest Would you like to see the races back to Ogden she was wu asked Not SNot for miner mine she as asserted Then she looked off th thu a window and her eyes brightened and a a smile curved her lips Ups She exclaimed But oh H It spoil Gee it was wu the best fun I ever everOne laid had One day clay I won 40 r She became again but presently resumed But Bat I lost It all aU again apin and more too If It I been so 80 lucky that ant u perhaps I have loot loat say any mass but when I lost loat t I wanted to act et It bedi and I kept loving losing more and more ad John he She stopped topped suddenly L I Well ell what about John was waa Say you ou aint taking all tIda tk for publication are an your you she dee d ded i ed You aint going to put my oi III oiin in the paper Well WeD we are going oin to t write a o for the tIM paper yes And we e weal wook wo 6 to hear bear of your experience to te 4 might be a lesson to some othet othe C somewhere here else you know but we I Ivery i ivery very well ell use your OUr name when we know It What about John JohnT J J The girl pI hesitated a moment and am ti tishe she pointed out of or the window down the street to a large banne baa 1 t Continued on Page 6 5 l I X XI |