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Show SO LES CES;Hn:; '-C'B0-Bl)T:;1l)TO--. - 0EAS5 EHR TO BAD KilCiLS1 this morning, a nan who has bad years of experience at an officer: "It Is a sham the way yoonf boys and gill ar , allowed to roam the streets of this city at late tours of the night, and It Is a pity that some of the parents do not keep better track of their children when they are out at nights." Ask anv member of the police force, from Chief Sheets down, and he will tell yon a story that will set you to thinking, unless you are a nijfht hawk or have got to tnat point in life whero vou care nothing for your fellow creatures. crea-tures. "Why has not Salt Lake a proper home for such girls as the two who are now In Jail?" Why 1 It that Salt Lake City has hot a proper place to tend young girls who hare erred and those who will err 'for want of proper homes and proper enrlrosments? Within the last year or two we hare had established the Morris school, the Canyon Crest ranch and the . fcfewhouse Betterment club all - for boys. It Is high time that something was done for the good of the girls; for the boys are not the only ones that are going to the bad or who need a good home and counsel and advice." .The speaker was Chief of Police George A. Sheets, and his remarks were v called forth by the arrest of two girls who gave their ages as 16 years. The girls, one of them still in short dresses, had been arrested by the police and locked op in the women's ward of the jan. Thai thev wer both fast going to the bad, if'they had not already gone, there waa bo question in the mind of the police- The officer who had arrested them did so only because he did not Vbow what else to do in the matter. Whal Shall B Done? But what is to be done with tbe Tairf Ther have no home of their own to go to at least, none that tbey feel they can live at. True, they may be committed to the Rate Industrial taaool at Ogden, but tbe idea of m"d rn reform is to keep boya and girls from such institutions as mu-h as rn sible, and to give them a chanre to re form outside of what to them is a prison. It is for this reason that sufh Institutions as the Morris school, the C&D3'on Crest ranch and tbe Newhouse Betterment club have been started. But, as Chief Sheets says: "What about the girls?" These two girls are good looking, the mark of sin has not yet made its imprint im-print on their faces, whatever it may have done to their minds. Both girls told their stnrv to n repre sentative of THE TKLKCRAM. one of tbem. the smaller of the two. with a toss of her head and a snap in her voice that showed that she was not nn used to the ways of the world. Qnly once during the conversation did she displav a bit of feeling, and that was when she referred to hr dead father, whom she declared that she loved, though he died when she was a habv. Had she a mother living? Ye, she was sorry to sav that she had. if sah a woman could be called a niothr. Refers to Her Mother. "She's somewhere in Halt Lake. I believe, but I haven 't seen her. and I don't want to see her," declared the girl, with a tone of hate in her voiee that showed sh meant what che said. "I was a ood girl until I came out j here. I lived in Denver, and for four j vears went to the Good Shepherd home there. I tried to be good. 1 didn't want to be the kind of a woman that people told me that woman who I called mother is. But what's the good? No bodv cares, and so you might nist as well have a good time a not while you can. "I don't care.' said ihi pretty six teen-vear-old gir'. with a m of fcpr brown hair and a srup at her cbewmg gum. Hie a Stepfather. The second girl is larger, and looks to be about 1 years of age. She has a good figure, a kindly fa.-e. with a pleas ant smile for she smiled put once during the conversation and coal- j blak hair. ... ' "Is your mother living?" T aked. "Yes", sir. she is living here in Salt , Lake." "Then why are you not at borne with her instead of being in a place like tbjst" was the next qaeetion. "My mother has married the second time. I left home because she and mv stipfather did not treat me right. 1 could not live with them; 1 tried, but it was no use. " "You have an aunt living at " mentioning a town in T'tab. "and an other at ' mentioning a mining camp in Utah!" I "Yes, sir. I have: but pleac don't ! let them know that I am in jail. They have both been good to me, and have given me a home when I wanted it, but T couldn't stay with them all the time. Please don't let them know that I am in jail." and here the girl broke into tears, and it was several seconds before be-fore she could go on with hr story. Mother Waa in Court. "My mother has not treated us children chil-dren as she should; only a few das ago she was up before the Juvenile court tor not taking care of my little brother the way she had ought to. It's pretty hard when you feel that you have no home to go to, where vou will be welcome wel-come and no one there that cares whether you come or not. I have been in Salt Lake for two weeks this time. Yes. I came here from the home of one of my aunts, but I have not seen my mother, and I don't care much if I never see her. "I want to be good I don't want to be bad; but What is a girl to do when she feels that there la no one who cares for her?" Here the girl broke into a flood of tears that lasted several minutes. min-utes. "It's pretty tough," said she, between be-tween broken sobs, "but what can a girl do?" Briefly, this is the story of two young girls who occupy a cell in the city jail of the great, modern citv of Salt Lake a story that was told with every mark of truth. If the story of these two girls is true, and it had every appearance ap-pearance of being such, then some one is to blame, and most seriously to blame. If their home life is as they describe it. there is no reson to expect that thev will go to that home life. But what is to become of themt Are they to grow up in a life of shame for the want of a proper place to go and someone to urge them, with kindness, to do what is right t Again the question of Chief Sheets comes to the mind: "Why has not Bait Lake a proper home for such girls?' ' Denver has such a home. Ogden. with less than a third the population of Salt Lake, and not one-half the temptations, tempta-tions, has such a home. Why not Salt Lakef These two girls are not the only ones of their kind in Halt Lake. There are others, many of them, who are going go-ing tbe pace. Said a member of the toUce force |