Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-12-24 | Page 14 | Scheid is Provoked by Chief of Police

SCHEID IS PRGVDKED BY CHIEF OF POLICE Commissioner Says White Has Placed Burden of Work on Superiors. LICENSES REVOKED Protracted Hearing Results in Decision to Close Seven Cafes. In the presence of tlio city commission, commis-sion, .. Parley White, chief of police, was charged yesterday by Commissioner Km rl A. fVheid with having thrown upon tlio city com mission the burden of his own official duties. ( 'oinmihsiuner Scheid 's remarks were provoked by the tedium of the hearings conducted by the cum mission for cat'e proprietors cited to appear and show catie why their licenses should not be revoked, in accordance with the recommendation recom-mendation of the police chief. The i ommisfdoner took tho ground that the city has a right to expect the chief to en lorce orderly conduct of cafes and that, property owners have a right to protect them from such conduct of res tan rants and cafes as must put their property in disrepute and so deprive them of their legitimate rental returns. For Extreme Cases. Com missioner Scheid explained that lie regarded the power of the commission commis-sion to revoke a license as a thing to lie exercised only iu extreme instances, and not by wholesale, as requested by the chief of police. After a protracted bearing of cases and discussion of them, the commission voted yesterday morning to revoke seven sev-en cat'e lice uses. Commissioner Scheid Msked to be excused from voting iu four instances, explaining that the cafes in ipiest ion were not, so far as he could understand, sufficiently different from other more reputed cafes of the city to justify his vote until ho could discriminate discrimi-nate more technically, unless like action ac-tion was to be taken with regard to the others. Licenses Revoked. ' Notice of the revocation of licenses ' was served upon the proprietors of the seven cafes subjected to adverse deci- sion immediately after the action of ! t he commission had become a matter of record. The cafes which were deprived of licenses were: Tavern, 1 Kast Third South street, II. A. MeGinnis proprietor; Opera cafe, -I'! South State street, Harry Gilmore proprietor; Bohemia or Palm cafe, 2S West Third South street, Frank J. Smith et al. proprietor; Liberty cafe, L'7I West Second South street, D. A. Dougherty proprietor; Imperial cafe, '7 West Second South street, John I I Sfin proprietor; Great Elas cafe, 544 1 j West Second South street, Gus Polizo- ; gopoulos proprietor; Minerva cafe, 09b' u'est Second South street, John Pete proprietor.