Salt Lake Tribune | 1906-03-02 | Page 10 | Salt Lake is Now Much Better Town

SALT LIE IS 1BV HDCHBETTER III Crimes of All Sorts Havo Shown Wonderful Decrease Under New Regime. Here Is additional evidence that under Iho municipal administration of the American party Salt Lako Is a bettor c!ty. That It Is belter from a business standpoint, because gambling has been closed, almost overy merchant will admit. But hero Is tho proof that there Is less of robbery, burglary, hold-ups, etc.. that under tho Morris-Lynch rulo made It unsafe un-safe for citizens to walk tho streets. One Year Ago. For February. IMo. the record Is not pleasant reading. Thero were fivo holdups, hold-ups, ten burglnrlns and not less than Ilflcen cases of larcony. In the majority of these cases the criminals were "ever caught nor tho goods recovered. The burglaries Included stores In the business center of town, houses In the best rcsl-denco rcsl-denco section, while the hold-ups occurred oc-curred anywhere and everywhere. Note the Contrast. For the month of February, 1308. the contrast Is worthy of note by every lover of law and order. There have boon only six burglaries, four of which were committed com-mitted by criminals who have already been convicted nnd are now paying tho penalty for their offenses. Thero has been only ono attempted hold-up, and tho rrcn Identified as tho guilty ones havo boon bound over for trial In tho District court. Scarcity of Beggars. Hero in another point that, while not appearing upon tho pollco records, will be recalled by every observing mlzen: Last year one could scarcely walk from Main to Stato street on First or Second South without being "mooched" by some bepgar or vagrant who had a hard luck Blory to toll. Few, Indeed, of this clans now Infest tho city. They wero hangers on about tho gambling holls, and they departed de-parted when tho alves wore closed.