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Show The Rampant Vice at Calder's Park. Salt Lake City is justly noted for its myriad of pleasure resorts within easy reach of tourists and the pleasure loving public. This enviable reputation reputa-tion should be fostered by the closest attention to the ordinary proprieties of clean enjoyment and anything which lowers the high-grade of this class of entertainment should be promptly suppressed sup-pressed as a nuisance which cannot but redound to the lasting shame of our fair city. The insatiable insati-able greed for gain which predominates at some of these resorts, resulting in lowering the standard of morality alike among old and young, is amplified beyond the bounds of decency at Calder's park. There is nothing clean or wholesome in the whole regime of so-called attractions which flood street cars with their flaming notices and cater to the lowest desires of the worst element of hoodlums and their "loidies" with which Salt Lake has ever been infested. Passing over the miserable service of the street cars which ply too and fro between business centers and the park, and which are the cause of constant unfavorable comment on the part of visiting tourists, a cursory sketch of an evening's pleasure (?) at the alleged "resort" from a most conservative standpoint may enligliten some of our citizens, particularly mothers, as to the immorality of this putrid blot on the fair name of Salt Lake's resorts. From 8 o'clock until midnight the grounds are at the mercy of a drunken, noisy, foul-mouthed gang of young toughs, who, not content to confine their ribald language among themselves, make passing ladies the butts of their vile remarks, crowding, jostling and leering at every lady whether with or without escort and exchanging ifilthy jests with their equally depraved female companions com-panions The dance hall is a high carnival of shameless vice, running rampant. Young girls not yet out of short dresses, ogle every man whom they pass, boldly challenge them to dance, indulge in obscene language whenever they can find anyone any-one who will listen to them and conduct themselves them-selves worse than the women of the town would ever think of doing. The dark shades to be found above the bridge along the banks of the lake are lined with young boys and girls, lying on the grass in positions and conditions which they would scarcely care to have their parents find them. Boys and girls in droves spend their evenings in this immoral resort, drinking, flirting and wallowing in the vice with which the place is steeped. The so-called vaudeville, with -its suggestive Darn-storming artists invites the usual crowd of young people within the canvas, pandering to degenerate appetites by their lewd songs, filthy monologues and general rotten class of entertainment. entertain-ment. The catch-penny fakes which encircle the ground are on a par with the general personnel of similar so-called resorts, and the sights which come under the observation of a sight-seer in a casual stioll around the grounds are too disgusting disgust-ing to be described in detail. There is but little doubt that the parents of these young girls and boys who are permitted to visit this filthy resort night after night, cannot be cognizant of the danger to which they are permitting per-mitting their children to be exposed in passing evenings without proper chaperonage within the grounds of Calder's park. |
