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Show I SMOKE FROM THE WEEKLY PIPE H On Tuesday last the Tribune published the H following Item In accordance with dts well under- H stood agreement to say nothing but good about H the cheese of police and the department in gen- H oral! H "Expressions of confidence and commendation H for the chief of police, B. F. Grant, and the pol- H lice department are contained in letters received H recently by Mayor Samuel C. Park from proml- H nent business men and others in the city. The H letters decry the present police investigation and H compliment the department on the failure of its H accusers to 'producer the goods.' H "Among those who have written in this vein H are Gorge O. Relf, manager of the Hotel Utah; H A. H. Oe Nike, general manager of tho Mountain H States Telephone & Telegraph company; Charles H Tyng, president of the Wizard of the Wasatch; H , Herbert Auerbach of tho Auerbach company; K. H N. Byrne, managing director of Keith-O'Brien H company; Richard W. Young, George A. Eaton, H principal of the high school, and C. S. Martin." H But the above does not anywhere near tell H the story of the letters or how some of them were H secured. H One gentleman named above, was congratulat- H ed upon having written the cheese in such a vein H and instantly asked: "What the hell is a man H J) going to do when the chief telephones him and H j asks for a letter of that kind?" And therein lies B tho whole story. What a poor simp this Grant' B must be and why if writers of the letters were B requested to send them, did they not stop to think B for a minute that it took just as much moral B i courage to do it as it would have taken not to do I B Mayor Park and Chief Grant have received Bj letters on numerous occasions commending the B police department for their work upon certain oc- B casions. For instance, the letter written by Char- ,i les Tyng of the Wizard of the Wasatch, was just B such a letter as was written to every organlza-B organlza-B tion having anything to do with the success of B the affair. What had that to do with the sup- I posed investigation. Is there anything decrying tho probe or complimenting the department of 'the failure of its accusers to 'produce the goods,' " Bj ,j in such an esplstle? B I It shows just what construction the mayor Bj ' and the chief and tho Tribune are -willing to put Bj ( on any communication to suit their own conven- B t ience. Regarding the gentleman who says the B chief telephoned him for a letter of commenda- B tion, he is one of tho foremost business men in B tho city whose word Is perfectly good and who B I enjoys the respect and esteem of everyone. B I Does the cheese dare say that he didn't tele- B phone him, that the gentleman isn't telling the B ' truth? We know that he is and always does and B his remark shows up the cheese In a minuto. B Expressions of confidence, my eye! We leave it Bj; jl! to the public after having read the testimony B In the opera bouffe presented by the commls- B J sloners what they think of the police department. 1 i Vx By the way, what has happened to this Investigation? Inves-tigation? Has it just been dropped? Has the Scotch verdict been rendered ? Are the boys all through? Did you telephone to the rest of them cheese or were theirs just such letters as that of Mr. Tyng's written at various times when some special event was taking place? "What the hell Is a man going to do when the chief asks him to write .him a letter?" Well, it ought to be easy enough to do something unless un-less a fellow is too deep in politics or has something some-thing to fear. Commendation for the cheese, eh, boys? What are you doing, fellows, spoofing? Will O'Byrne presides over the mining page of the Tribune and the other day while engrossed In his work, a chap came in and bored him with a yarn on the wonders of a prospect he had located lo-cated down in the sagebrush somewhere. Courteously Courte-ously O'Byrne took the notes and told him ho would put the yarn together. Then the generous heart of the mining man opened. He laid ten cents on the desk and said, "Buy yourself a cigar." Thunderstruck, the happy O'Byrne lost his self-possession for a moment and was about to land with his vigorous right. Then his natural good nature asserted itself and he called him back and said: "Here you are, you have forgotten forgot-ten your carfare." Grave fears are being expressed as to tho safety of the dancing pavilion at Saltair, the increasing vibration during dances when the larger crowds are present being most noticeable. If there is anything in the rumor that the place Is unsafe, there should be a thorough inspection right away and a report made regarding the structure struc-ture from someone qualified to make it. If the pavilion pa-vilion is unsafe and there is a probability of a collapse in any quarter of it, something should be done at once to remove any possibility of danger dan-ger when crowds are on the floor. Seemingly a Scotch verdict has been rendered in the case of Chief Grant "not proven," but who shall say that every thug who Is contemplating a holdup will not be glad? Some colored gentlemen whose ways are dark but whose tricks are not altogether vain ought, likewise, to be glad. Here and there a lady who has changed enough to put a boarding house sign on her premises ought also to be glad provided she has not to pay too much rent. The verdict is good but prudent people will place extra bolts on their doors and windows. One would think that Salt Lake's reputation for outdoing other places might have made the temperature of a few days of the present week unnecessary. In the letters of congratulations to Chief Grant we did not notice one from Mr. WJlle of the Wilson Wil-son grill, or Mr. Wyatt of tho Louvre. What Is the matter with them? The San Francisco papers are laughing about the haircut of William Jennings Bryan when he was in that city recently. There is a barber at tho Palace named Bill Taft who cut the Bryan locks and after the Peerless Leader left the shop, one of the manicuring girls asked the barber: "Did ho give you anything Bill?" "Yes," replied that worthy, "He gave me the hair." By the way, Mr. Bryan accepted the Invitaton of the St. Francis while he was there to enjoy the courtesies of that hostelry free of charge. So did Theodore Roosevelt and Blllle Sunday, but Bryan had It over the other two, for when ho returned re-turned from the southern part of tho state, ho was the guest of Senator Newlands at the Palace. The senator Is a stockholder In the Palace, |