Show fe h MM M C M lEADING A A M K MEN A M M Of Sh OGDEN CONDEMN RACING SAME GAME Recent Splurge of Track Gambling in Junction t City Leaves Hardship and Ruin i in in Its Wake I Bankers and Other Business Men en Deplore Depressing Effect on Business and Demoralizing Effect on all the Young SENTIMENTS REGARDING THE RACE HERE ARE SOME MEETING BY PROMINENT BUSINESS MEN OF OGDEN Ogden ba baa learned a awas seu U It of or Ogden Alexander I L Brewer mayor that it will wW take Uk the city a r rUme an 1 was an expensive is I believe that the sentiment here bere hes now DOW time Ume to recover from cannot be conducted without ute t against horse hone racing ra If the sport port God Goo help Salt Lake of National bank 1 I have ave yet to James Pingree cashier at the race rac meeting here her I any person in Ogden Oen who won any an money mowey needed for UM the be D of life ute nit But nitI ButI it itI lots of ot persons wRo lost money they greatest evil ml experienced because became c lost the Use the thc money so H I do not regard influence it had bad on Oft our our yg yag the races haces here re The demoralising people is Ia moet moot to be regretted Rational National bank of Oden uw W We cater carter ca r to R H A Moyes paying ying teller First depositors who raftered most moat bec y 1 small depositors depo and it shameful tas 8 the the small way 11 y they were robbed Every eay ay de depositors I r of ot the races ra s It was 8 took it to the races and florin during the en entire and out money J De here drew in tn fifty of those who drew out tire meeting I wilt will 5 say Sit that not one HiO money mOMY back they did not bring bc c sa If Ir they brought it back backor or much as they drew out outI department store I want to say ay y jt jos M as I L Clark of Clark Cirk Sons Bonn decidedly said in the English Engl language that I am emphatically as can eRn be Ogden has hu Just JI had bad It 11 hue baa s ichi h race meeting ng as against another our and Berks It has Is b bed pressed business bu lne s it has bas demoralised of Ogden Osden shameful and I lo If the Ue J ed the city It was wa allow it to be te repeated repe ted Furniture company Put Pat nw me down M as manager Boyle James H Douglas with that race meeting and as one oi hopes hope tt thoroughly disgusted disgraced by b a similar event It certainly this city will III never Deyer of again merchant be in this tb city and it had a most moet de demoralizing d Injured the trade every moralizing effect on our men and women woolen Furniture Carpet company I Ogden Hiram manager meeting and that was wu we In this city u with a a race had bad but one experience than before and I never want another know more inure J Ore about It now spring I ba has proved roved that Utah cities cannot doni donito aoe experience of that kind Ogden Oden cliMe have bave prohibited to harbor an evil that other Commercial bank I may be wrong but I cant can O 0 M 1 Runyon cashier is about The TIle races ra were all an right In ht my holler honer see M e what all this lot tot of heeds heads and If we had a couple fill e merchants merchant l are a The fhe tion had bad It tt might wake them up a little Just juat meetings a year such a as OJ we i BY HARRY L CRANE Ogden O den June JUle 2 Ogden had h d it its fling fUng at tile the racing game r It bad days of exciting sport It went the t route rout and it paid the price It to in go ju mo 00 recover the citizens citizeN say put ut they Be no Believe lieve It will be a long long Ims tune before it with where Ogden will catch UP would have been II it not HOt down the bars bare and allied the iuva touts th tM the of or the he bookies the gamblers the blacklegs and crooks that Infested the city during those tho e fifteen days of racing Ogden welcomed the races with open arms this spring Ogden was hungry for tor excitement for advertising for publicity for Gr visitors Ogden now is If meet meeting meetIng not ambitious for another race ing lug Leading Loading citizens obscure citizens clUen prominent business men small busi bust business bustness business ness men laboring men clerks derks sales salet salesmen salesmen men and saleswomen bootblacKs pee peo people pIe in all walks of life in Ogden hope fervently that there will wili 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 number r of citizens Ogden n has learned arned a lesson and it welt well and it seems seem ms very doubtful if this thIt city elt will ever again g S n consent s t to another race lIW meeting I such as the one lately closed The city Is not busted but bat it l Is sadly bent bentMan Many Man who were planning lux luxuries luxuries uries urles for Cor this summer are now figuring to necessaries Ceras Cerasin on how procure In stores who ho had planned summer BUmmer va vu vacation cation trips have hare given them up u o Fam Jiam Families that had figured on improvements on homes have htwe made different ar arrangements arrangements now Everybody seems seams tH to have lost lust money mone And time the money in r I not now in The writer looked hooked into the situation here hele today extensively A large num number number ber her of persons per ons were ere Interviewed ed per persons persons sons eons in Itt all walks of life Th There Thre re were u n new alewa few who defended the race faCt lew lewa ew e very game as it was wae conducted c in Ogden O n this hi spring They were mostly saloon men seen cigar store proprietors restaurant keepers and hotel men No me merchants re bant were ere found who were not entirely die dis disgusted gustel gusted with the meeting who ho would not say cay y that the meeting had ha 1 neon Deen a decided setback to the business Inter Interests ests eMs of the city generally and who Wb would not strongly strong oppose e another meeting of the same me kind The first firstman man seen and interviewed on the sub subject subJect was wae a prominent merchant here He was asked for an expression of dr hi his sentiments and was at first reticent about talking for or publication He said aJ Change of Sentiment I am not inclined to kick The peo pee people peele Ille le of Ogden wanted racing and ami betting and they got it good and plenty plent The people of Ogden feel differently no now 1 think they are art satisfied I wanted rev rac raving racIng reving ing before I knew anything about n nI t tI I dont ont want any more of it It was It IS the Ute worst thing from a business bu standpoint stand standpoint point that could have happened happ ed to U this city vity We fe Ve nave have have not recovered yet U it Ilma may ma be months before we w do It not only emily Injured out ut trade while the rare race ra meeting was wason on but it tooK money out of the city that will wilt never get back there I do not wish to be quoted in thIs matter because there are many per persons perSons persons sons in Ogden Osden who still favor the races race We Ve have bave to depend for our trade u ti tithe the the ramblers gamblers the I restaurant men mea the th clear cigar car the he same hom other classes but bat I t tart mist t mind telling you that the merchant mercha wot ot this city would k meeting of this kind We cannot af at afford atford ford it The people cannot dOllI K Aside from the financial km 1 we have bave suffered Buffered it has hu had bad m a aJ III It v 1 t f t Mn effect on our citizens dt ena t Vj slinks It dl Md oar oss w the meeting u 2 was wae talked In the ton store the reiL m Everybody who case came to In to tit trade II i our clerks Jerks busy buoy bu y about diet horses horse the ride the odes odds od the chances I And the clerks neglected business II tp to talk about the race races among They were crazy over the Ute horses hocee I be ho believe lieve Have there is I one clerk In the store tore wl won some ome money mon the last It day of tIme the races by mistake and Is te a little ahead abea of ot the game I doubt if Ir you can Sad jail fi two tw other clerks In the whole store tore who are not behind the game a lot more than any of them can afford alford to be Some of at atour our salespeople had money in the bank before fore that race mee meeting they t got it now I 1 cant say that collections have been be bad because we do 40 a very limited creak cna business bu but Nt I know that people e who ought to be coming comin in here bere every J to buy good anode are hi by lb they y haven t got the money to toWe toWe We never want to see another such Buck men meeting In Ogden Open 1 Did Di She Lose Lee 7 Did you lose any money at the U races was asked of a blue hi eyed start t tat X of about 20 yean years at a glove counter to toMie of the Ogden Olden stores one hoe j J JC Did I lose loR any money she be beC r i Can C n you ou find anybody in inwon Ogden Who won any an money maney or anybody with ed d Mood blood who bet every coat cent they ty could ouid rake and serape scrape Say if ostrich plumes were i H It cents a lIMen there thee a girl I rI in this store that I knew e at who ho could buy enough chicken down to tomake tomake make one rosette if she ahe could get Pt It K on sa three months time The questioner r had bed to smile but the girl giri ln She appeared offended I Iwas w was In earnest Would you like to see Bee the Mice i iback S back to Ogden 7 she was asked Not for mine miner she asserted I catty Then she looked off olf a window and her eyes brightened and a smile curved her lips She presently tV exclaimed But oh H It 1 sport Gee it was the beat best fun I ever eYer had One Dais day I won M 40 She became again but presently pre enU resumed But ut I lost It all an 11 again pm and more too If It I been so 10 lucky that first u perhaps pe rha p s I have nae e lost lo s t any a ny m but when I lost loat I wanted to get It K Kand and I kept losing lolling more and more aad John he She stopped suddenly Well what about John was arg d Say you aint taking all alt u tk for publication an are you your T she se ed Pd You aint going pine to put Nt in Inthe the paper Well we are going Boine to write a ft sig 7 for GI the paper yes And ADd we would to hear bear of your experience too It might be a lesson I n to some other cM gill somewhere else elM you know MOW but we wet very well wen use your name flame when we dent sst know it It What about John The girl pol hesitated a moment and aad tINe th she pointed out of or the window win oW a down doAn the street to a large banner benner Continued on Page 6 I LEADING MEN OF OGDEN I CONDEMN RACING GAME GAMEl Continued from Page 1 i hanging over oer a furniture store The i sign read June Brides Sale You see Bee that sign she asked Yes EYes what about It IU The girl smiled again not a happy smile but rather sardonically She smoothed out the fingers of a a gray gra glove gloe placed the article artl le In a box and put the box on the shelf before she re ic replied replied plied Then she said If It there been any races In Ogden this spring I would have been a June bride myself Oh and John The girl nodded Yes she said saide We e both went crazy over the races I had 00 in the bank and John had al almost almost almost most It all went But were game It was our own on fault only Only what Well we hope there wont be any anymore anymore anymore more horse borse races In Ogden where there is any betting because If there Is we will sure go up against it again You cant help it If there was another meeting here land knows whether or not wed ever get married Another Girls Story There are scores of other girls young oung girls and old ol In Ogden who can tell harrowing experiences result resulting resultIng resultIng ing from the race meeting and the wholesale gambling allowed at the track and young men too A girl In another store in Ogden told of winning 45 the first day she went to the track She went to see Bee the fun She even know that there was any betting going on The young oung man who accompanied accompanIed her to the track showed her how to place her money and she bet 2 and won 10 Then she bet 2 and lost It Then she made a bet of 4 and won She won two other bets and had 43 1 when she went home She showed the money to her sister who had declared that horse racing was wicked and that she would not go near the track But the sight of the winnings changed the married sisters i ideas She too went to the track and I came rome aty a little ahead of the game Then her husband got sot interested and I quit his job to attend the races Before the meeting was over the young mar married married ried couple had lost all of they had saved to make their first start to toward toward toward I ward a home of their own and the man was wa out of oC work I The Mayors Views I Probably no citizen citizen of Ogden is more l I pronounced In his sentiments against horse racing and betting as It was con conducted ducted in that city this spring than is j Mayor Alexander L Brewer When he was asked for tor an expression of oC his I views he spoke without hesitation Ogden has learned a lesson It was an expensive experience an experience I that it will take this city a long time to get over When the matter was first broached the holding of oC such a race I meeting here I announced that as mayor maor I would do everything In my power to prevent It and if it it was start started i I ed to stop atop it I had seen the game in i iother i iother other cities clUes I was ts confident it would 1 mean a hard experience for tor the town Then after atter I had had my m say they the called a mass mus meeting of citizens and I believe bellee I was the only business man or I citizen in that meeting who raised his j i voice volee to protest against the meeting Many favored it They The pointed out how j i thousands thou of people would be brought j here how the city cIt would be advertised fell 11 over the country I held out against 1 j it but I wy ws alone and so the races came to Ogden O en Its different the I sentiment I believe bellec that the sentiment I here is now tiow as u strongly against horse hor i racing if the sport cannot be conduct conducted ed ad without the books as it was for it I before beCore the meeting Moraes Won es I love horses llOr s I love loe to I see them race Horse Hor e racing is certain certainly I I ly I the sport aport of oC kings It Is a great pa time It is Ia thrilling I like to see the horses race But I do not Ilot like to set see seethe the people fleeced fleece And that is what I the bookies did to the people of or Og I den They stole the money No one Oil had a chance to win The crowd we I got Ot Yes YH we e got lots of visitors the i iscum J scum of the ea earth th They were not ti t tile kind of oC people that brought money to toOl o Ogden Ol Jen They The were ere not the kind kina of or pro peo people pie that Ogden can afford to entertain May w we never have such another ex experience experience i God help Salt Lake In her hr i present affliction One Experience Sufficient Next interviewed was MRS Hiram Pingree manager r of the Ogden Furniture com om company pany the store over which till th Jur bride banner before referred to tn Mr Pingree was Wit very vory cry busy bUllY snowing goods to lo sonic some wholesale SIlle buyers but when he learned what was wanted h said he lie did not want Kant ant to miss the opportunity opportunity opportunity of expressing Ills his sentiments against the rare ra track gambling evil which Ogden had experienced I never had laid but out one on experience with witha vItha a race track meeting he lie said saas han and 1 that was the one we e had neur flere t 1 spring I know more mort about It now than I did before and I 1 never want another experience of oC that kind Nf Nr N Non one on knows what Ogden has lost of that meeting l ry merchant Tr TrO n Ogden O den I 1 believe will tell you mat a awas t was a blow to the city 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