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Show II Mayor Glasniann Is Shown, Gambling Dens antl Red- 1 i Light District. fT PARTY IS HEADED BY ; THE REV. MR. ELDERKIN It Is Announced That Prosecu-j Prosecu-j tions Will Follow as Re-1 Re-1 ' suit of Tour. Special to The Tribune, i OGDEN, Aug. 4. Mayor "Bill" Glasmann Glas-mann has at last discovered that thero fare five gambling houses operating In Ogden city, lie has also found out that there is a personage known as Bello London who controls and maintains the red-light district of Ogden, and that there arc nearly three score women from :' whom tribute is exacted by the mistress J of the underworld for inhabiting- her dis-' dis-' trict each month. Of course, the mayor l has never seen the police docket upon j which the names of the gamblers and j the women of the underworld are In-j In-j scribed each month opposite tho amount c of "fines'" which they are required to pay I to the city for police protection. So how ) "1 could the mayor have known that there 1 t was gambling and prostitution flagrantly I conducted in Ogden unless he was adult adu-lt ally shown? Apostle David O. McKay, II. L. Griffin, Grif-fin, Hober Scowcroft and Rev. Noble Strong Elderkln, as a committee from the t ' Ogden Betterment league, decided that '. Inasmuch as the mayor remained in total ignorance of what was going on in his j own city, they would give him an oppor- tunity to personally observe the workings ,1 of the underworld. This committee l waited on the mayor last night and In- formed him of their purpose. They ; agreed to head a personally conducted - tour of the underworld, with the mayor r as their guest. Without allowing the city executive time to demur, the slum-1 slum-1 mlng trip was begun with the sworn agreement that the mayor would not tip J off the gambling halls and houses In Electric alley to forewarn the inmates of ; their approach. '. ' Chambers a Member. : While visiting the chief points of intcr- I est, Fred W. Chambers, state fish and j game commissioner, was met and became member of the party. Rev. Noble v ; -Strong Elderkln, who recently resigned ! t 1 from the First Congregational church j after thero had been a considerable row started among members of his congro-5 congro-5 gatlon because of objections raised i against some of his "pulpit editorials" which dealt with civic evils, headed the pn rty. 5 The sightseers entered the gambling j house of J. F. Smith & Co., where they were offered lemonade by B A. Bowman, the manager; the Elephant gambling ) house, conducted bv Hamner & Co., and the Turf gambling house. At the first ; visit to the Turf -the doors were slammed against the visitors, catching the Rev. Mr. Elderkln's foot, .which required the assistance of the others to extricate. i Later, the members of the slumming , party effected an entrance when the vlcl-' vlcl-' lance of the lookout man was relaxed At the St. Louis and Grill gambling ! houses, the doors quietly folded In the faces of the visitors, and the raps from "! the outside were received without response. m -titectnc iuiey visited. I Still led by the Rev. Mr. Elderkln, tho party turned Into Electric alley, where ; Belle London presides over nearly 100 ; fallen women and maqucrcau'x. The Jap attendant allowed tho party to enter the 5 parlor house, but the woman In charge )r divined the purpose of the visit, after recognizing some members of the party, .', and did not make her appearance or per-; per-; , mlt any of the other women to receive ; the visitors. After listening to tho la-f.. la-f.. bored tunes of an electric piano and J- feasting their eyes on the decorated 1 walls, tho party was ushered to tho outer J door by the Jap attendant, i The slumming tour was conducted in a i quiet manner, as the members of tho , Betterment league had not mentioned i . their intentions to any one. for fear there I would be some hitch in the programme As a result, the story did not get out - until today, j Of course Mayor "Bill" Glasmann had : never realized that there was so much evil In Ogden, and, having been "shown," promised to swear to warrants at once ' for the arrest of the keepers of tho gam-m, gam-m, bllng houses. Tho mayor said today that J the warrants will bo Issued and that those who accompanied him on the lour ' will bo called as witnesses. The members of the Eetterment league say that they 1 will at once start proceedings against tho owners of the houses where gambling is permitted, for renting their buildings for J? this purpose. When the committee cnlled on tho mayor, it presented him with a petition I signed by Apostle McKay. H. L. Griffin I and Ilebc-r Scowcroft. Tor the league, nsk-i nsk-i j. 'np that steps be taken to suppress gam-l gam-l i Ming, quoting the state law in the peti- ; tion- |