Show t Gambling as It t Is IsA A 11 v r im w i Allowed in in Salt Lake From Mayor Ferrys Ferry's statement today today it would appear that h he as commissioner of public safety charged with the enforcement of criminal laws in Salt Lake had n no knowledge of the tile existence of gambling at at 55 0 West First South THE TELEGRAM desires to call the attention of the tile people of Salt Lake to the fact that it furnished Mayor Ferry with the address of this place and the names of the tile men running it thirteen days before be bc fore the tile story was printed The mayor was told what games were vere operated and the tile number of men in the rooms at stipulated times That was in ill fairness to the tile mayor His position demanded that the information be given him first One week later THE TELEGRAM again privately told Mayor f Ferry that the place lace continued in oper operation tion in open def defiance ace of state laws and city ordinances Besides that common gossip I the location of the gambling den and the tile identity of the proprietors Players th themselves marveled at the audacity of the manage- manage I All of this transpired after the m mayor yoi had been told where his men could find gambling and gambling paraphernalia The place was open to any of him men who discarded police uniforms Every Everyone I one had free access to the Bi Big House in the tile Nauvoo block Operatives for THE TELEGRAM went to and from the house I daily and no questions were asked They did not have to answer any questions at the door I No one olle questioned their presence in ill the tile rooms No one said anything when they left let N They were vere there as hundreds of others unquestioned It was an all open house The Tile door was open and anyone Jap or white man could enter All could find diversion after they entered Five and sometimes six games of chance from twenty one to roulette offered the the- lure of easy money I The rhe house was wa as open ope to policemen in plain clothes lothes as it was as asto to these men meil The mayor knew the place was Op open I because he had had- first information in information in in- TELEGRAM learned formation of what THE That information should have been relayed Delayed to tI the the- e. e police de de- S If it was not the tile mayor of this city is at fault If it was relayed an and no flO action came cam there is something wro wrong g with the police department Last night THE TELEGRAM told of gambling at the Wayne i club in the Wayne Vayne hotel on East Broadway s In ill the face of that the tile Wayne Wayne club club brazenly continued continue opera opera- pe a. a tion Did the police check that place last night Will it run rull fon tonight as brazenly as it has for weeks N vV i v V A |