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Show Hotels Crowded; Overnight Visitors at Jail Increasing HB Salt Lake city jail in the T public safety building, bereft of population generally aa a result re-sult of prohibition, took on new lifo last night, and the vacant' cells and sleeping places are commencing to fill up with overnight visitors. Lieutenant William Kcytlng, in command of the night police force, who does the booking and caring for pluables personally, believes that the in'iow of inmates will continue dor-ini; dor-ini; fair week. - There lias been no alarming increase in-crease in crime, and the persons being be-ing bouked are volunteers in need of a place to rest their bones and a pillow pil-low upon which to place their heads, hecaue, as visitors from outsldo .Salt T.ake discovered yesterday after can't. vasslng all the hotels and rooming bouses, "everything Is filled up " and even a snooze on a covered blllard table Is not lightly to be rejected. T.ie first application for shelter at the s.atjon from plainly respectable Visitors came rYlrlay night, when an elderly couple timidly approached the oesk and explained that, after villi ing the streets until tiiev uere foot I ?or nelr suitcases became too ncavy to carry further, thev mu on a curbstone until a patrolman an- r,7'wd', "Jh!n tl'e-v explained their plight he directed them to the nubile nub-ile safely building, where, he assured ineni, there were vacant couches The rush continued last night' and no relief is anticipated, with visitors to the fair and to the coming soldier celebration on their way to the capital of the slate. |