Show THE STORY OF AN AWNING Knocked Off Policemans Hat and Got its Owner into TroubleS Trouble-S L Tobias who runs r store on Third South street was pulled Into the Police court the other day for a violation viola-tion of the ordinance which distinctly slates that no canvas or other awning within the business district of the city shall be less that S feet from the grade of the sidewalk Ills arrest was caused by the fact that a certain policeman po-liceman was strolling along the street and happened to have his headgear disarranged by this particular awning Then the policeman entered and asked I tho owner of the shop why in the name of Christianity and n few other things II he did not comply with the law in relation re-lation to awnings and save a member of the police force from having his I I hat knocked off and being humiliated j I by the laughter of sevoral small boys I who were near at hand The man of tho sugar and the pickles hinted that It might bo a good Idea for the gen human of the bluo and the brass to buckle his club behind him and then take a chase around the block with tho Idea that he could overtake the club Tho brilliant sally of the pickle and sugar man arousod the latent Old Ned In the policeman and he swore to a complaint charging the sugar and the pickle man with having violated the 1 awning ordinance There was nothing left for tho man to do but to plod I guilty Even tho eloquence of Morris Sommer would have been wasted on tho air of tho courtroom But the man of tho pickles and the sugar was allowed to go upon making a solemn promlao that he would have his awn Ing raised to the proper height not enough to show the anklea of the store and thus lay hlmsolf liable to arrest for exposure but Just high enough to Conform to the ordinance and thus al low tho police to make such an examination J exami-nation of the store as they might please no niatter what thp hour of the duy or of the night Thin the c sugar and the t plcklo man did And now he I Is lost In a deep brown study Ills rc flections are Why In the googly I I googly was I selected tot a horrible example There Is not uample an awning In tho city that Is eight feet above the established grade save when It is pulled up or reefed In some way That same questIon Is agitating other oth-er people a also There is scarcely a night when ladles who are attending places of amusement are not annoyed by tho awnings of the business portions por-tions oC tho city I cannot be Bald cither that the average Salt Lake woman wo-man Is of a height to exceed eight feet even whon she hn her feathers on A lady asks The Tribune why If the man who sells ulckles and sugar on Third South street is compelled to raise his awning to height to comply with the ordlpance other place of business should not be compelled to abolish the nuisance The matter Is I Police respectfully referred to the Chief of f |