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Show CilS COMPELLED TO PUT UP LICENSE Chief of Police and Other Officials Create Sensation at Grounds. Special to The Tribune. OGDEX, July 7. What might have resulted in a "clem ou the lot" was narrowly averted today when a squad of officers, under leadership of Chief of Police T. E. Browning, appeared at the circua grounds, Washington avenue and Twenty-seventh street, at noon today ready to prevent the sale oi" tickets for the John Kobiusou shows in tho absence ab-sence of a municipal license. Difficulties Difficul-ties were bridged over when the city commission finally decided to grant the circus a license. The trouble resulted from the failure of the advance man for the circus to apply to the city board for -a license when he visited Ogden several weeks ago. Due to the use of the Twenty-seventh Twenty-seventh street lot as a carnival grounds, property-owners in the vicinity recently petitioned the commissioners to abolish the so-called nuisance. The board passed a resolution prohibiting carnivals and circuses the use of the grounds until un-til application for license had been passed upon by the commission. When the Robinson circus booked Ogden Og-den several weeks ago the advauce agent negotiated with the D. H. Peery Estate company for the use of the Twenty-seventh street property and permission was obtained. Before a representative of the circus had appeared ap-peared at the city building today for the license all of the show paraphernalia parapher-nalia had been unloaded and the big top and all the little tops were in position. posi-tion. Determined at first to stand by the spirit of the resolution recently adopted, Mjiyor A. R. Heywood and the other commissioners at first declared there would be no license forthcoming. The manager of the show was just as determined de-termined tha't the afternoon performance would go on. Chief Browning was instructed in-structed to mobilize his men in readiness readi-ness to arrest the circus, elephauts and all, the minute the first pasteboard went out of the ticket wagon for the afternoon after-noon show. After the circus manager took a look at the forces drawn up by Chief Browning Brown-ing in the advance trenches he made another an-other trip to the city building. Jn view of the fact that the advance man had probably not heard of the commission's new ruling a truco was declared. The show manager parted with $1 lio, the price of a municipal license, and the police po-lice chief was instructed to call off his men. "We havo no desire to be arbitrary in this matter," said Mayor Hey wood this afternoon in discussing the affair, "and we decided to allow the circus to proceed with its performances after learning from several residents of the neighborhood that they were not particularly partic-ularly bitter against the one-day shows. But this does not mean that we will show the same leniencv in the future. It is our intention to rigidly enforce the order requiring all applications for circus cir-cus and carnival licenses to be passed upon by the board before the day the show opens." |