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Show Insulting Conduct. We trust we shall be spared any charge of excessive grumbling this week, upon the subject of order, if we mention still two more cases of disorder which at the time of their occurrence, were, it seems to us, proper subjects for the attention of the police, had an officer been at hand. Soon after the performance at the theatre [theater] had commenced, on Thursday evening last, three young ladies, who had just left the fair, approached the entrance, when one of them remarked, "I guess we can get good seats by paying for them, even if we are late." As they neared the door, the crowd of "hoodlums" who surrounded it, commenced to jeer them, make remarks to and about them, and jostle them in such a manner as to prevent their entering the building. The young ladies were therefore obliged to have the spot after being grossly insulted, and deprived of an evening's entertainment. The theatre [theater] was out the price of three tickets, and an abominable piece of hoodlumism went unchecked and unpunished. Immediately after this incident, a gentleman who had been witnessing the play, rose and went out. No sooner had he passed out of the door than he was thrown against the wall of the building with great violence, by some member or members of the crowd that thronged the entrance. It being quite dark he could not tell with certainty who assaulted him, and in quite an excited tone he offered ten dollars to any person would tell him who did it, but the culprit was not discovered. From personal experience we have been led to believe that such incidents as the forgoing occur frequently at and near the entrance of the theatre [theater]. The management have complained to us that they pay a license, ostensibly for the purpose of defraying the expense of police for their protection, and yet their interest are not protected from injury, not their patrons from insult and abuse at the hands of the mob that ordinarily surrounds the entrance of the theatre [theater] on evenings when a performance takes place there. We speak of these matters, not in a spirit of fault-finding at all, neither do we wish to be charged with being hysterical or with mention trivial incidents that are unworthy of notice. We consider such infractions of the peace and good order of our city to be serious and legitimate subjects for public denunciation and criticism, and we hope that the agitation of, the subject of better order in our city will not cease until our former proud boast that "ladies in a ‘Mormon' town are always safe from insult," can truthfully be again applied to Logan. |