Show HOTELS VIOLATE LAWS OF DECENCY 5 Deplorable Conditions at Belmont Belmont Belt Bel- Bel t mont and Imperial Are Used as Examples CHIEF ON WINE ROOMS Police Head Causes Changes 5 5 In lii Crime Ridden Saloons S. S of the West Side C That I vigorous olous action Is at once needed to raise laise time the moral standards stand ards in iii certain quarters of Salt Lal Lake Lale Is shown hown by the Iho fact that rooming S. S houses house are c operating In violation of or the 4 I law lav w. w Lax In their regulations Immoral S S In lit the conduct o of their l establishments S man many proprietors and bes c cwill 5 will come corne under tho ban of oC the law for tor or S. S failing ailing to lo obey it S The tate talc law which requires rooming rooming room room- ing houses of ten or 01 more rooms to 5 keep keei a register tel for or all g- g guests ests Is being beingS S e Cheap lodging houses loue occupied pled pied mostly by IW men are not as harmI harmful harm harm- S I ful Cui ul to 10 the morals of the community as asS S time iho rooming houses where wornon of S. S the streets and young oung girls Ils nr are arc allowed i to stop according to the officials official I j I. I In t their leir general efforts to purify Sail Salt Lake the police and antI Juvenile S court are pow now con conducting a vigorous VS S campaign A spineless police department depart depart- mont ment and lethargic city for or eighteen months allowed the morals mor mOI als of the tho city to 10 sink to lo such a love level f that there thelo ha had tt lt be lw u a general cr cry fo fur or orI I purification The flie new nc chief of police Mayor laor DI Bransford fold and the tho Juvenile 5 court atc are co operating with the thc count county J I.- I. officials to rid the tIme city of Incipient crime and anti to restore the proper stand stand- I 1 S aid ard of morality 4 F l l Law aw S Die lie rooming houses houes of bilt aIt Lake Lak I have ha defied the law lass l e ever er r since the thc carns party part came camo Into inlo power po Tho The Belmont and the Imperial both bolh bothon on oil State Stale street ma may be cited died as ns notorious notor notor- ious bus examples c The proprietors of those S establishments not only fail fall to require requireS S decent conduct on the part of oC their itinerant g guests but allow disreputable able aulo men and women to U use ue C the host host- S. S dries as m common brothels S The Time Belmont hotel sends s runners s to the depots to catch tourists who are looking for fol or a a. modest mollest stopping place while in Salt Lake Lalic The hotel as pictured plc- plc I I turell by br its ilS is clean up-t up up up-tg- date re respectable and In er e every way fil filled JU- JU ted led for 01 or the fastidious What hat do they find It may be related a as an Illustration that not long lon ago a a. troupe of oC musicians musicians musi musi- I clans stopped at the Belmont hotel All UI of oC the musicians were wOle boys under the Iho age ago of sixteen year ear The manager of the company compan did not know what ji kind of a 3 place he was going Into Int wh when n he took tool the runners runner's word for forS forIt forit S it and went to the The first firstS S night nIght and and It was the only night night night- I that the guests stopped at the hotel S the they were J kept Ct ake aake until nearl nearly by the rush of or women through the halls hans b by the sound of S. S mens men's voices voices- the rattle laUle of glassware and the popping of oC fresh bottles of oC booze S 7 r Hotel Va Wa Vaa a Brothel S S The attention of Former Chief ChIt Sheets was vas often called to the Belmont hotel He never took action In the S matter Ministers and le respectable people peo peo- hh Pie who p passed ed the place to and from Crom rein S 5 n nearby arb churches were attracted by the 5 ribald voices the coarse coarEe singing and noises which are V common about a place less respectable than a n. hotel 5 S Chief of Police Pollee Sheets failed Called to act th the policemen on the tho beat about the theS ther S j. j corner comer of Second South and State streets fa failed ailed ed to act acl S S When hen a well known proprietress of oC a Commercial street resort moved into 5 s 1 thi the lIlt Belmont hotel with a a. coterie of or fallen women the police knew of 01 it But there was never an S I attempt to protect pro- pro S I 1 iii teet th the unsuspecting public Strang Strang- I ers eli came and went The They stopped slopped at att t 1 the the Belmont and und I if the they were fortun- fortun I i. i ate enough h to secure a quiet room loom they 55 i P didn't I know now the difference But conS con- con S X unions became so fia flagrant that quiet julet S l looms were scarce CalCe and the result res was impressions were carried awa away avay f T from front tho the hotel hotel and and Salt Lake S 5 Imperial 11 flit ami Others Oilier S The Thc 1 Imperial hotel hote further down 5 State street on the we west rest t sides side 11 e is as S bad had if not worse wone than the B Belmont lmont Denizens of Commercial street live 11 there men and women of or the under I W world H ld The rite 1 police recently announced L i 5 that the thc men who live 11 on the revenue I S of oC shame hame would woul have to lo leave o SaltS Salt S Lake There h has been heen no appreciable S falling of off In iii the population of or th the Imperial With other disreputable S e es es- close at hand the Ira Im- hotel makes the Iho west vest sub side o ol 01 S State Slate street from Second to ThIn w South streets a place Illace lo to bo ho shunned Respectable p people ople shy at that local local- J rt ay It lly- lly It ll is hs marked with the iho brand o ol 01 J 4 f r. r sin simi and Immorality f s Like the Belmont the Imperial ho 5 r t tel ha has u II convenient clinic chuto through which ih io is pom pouring Ing con constantly durin during during dur dur- in ing each ni night ht an un up arm stream o of booze bOo from flom n ft nearby saloon The tinkle of empty glasses Ia cs Is heard aRthe as aR the tra tray is again lowered for or tho the load loal The halls hails are arc with women anti and men and end solid comfort is never I known no n to a person who goes there thore for foi rest reit Rooming houses and hotels in al all parts of Salt Lake may b h ho mentioned along with these two The Tho harm of or them is In iii the fad fact that lint young oung girls and boys bos are arc allowed to gu go nt at their pleasure among the these c rc resorts orts Tho fhe h proprietors exercise no supervision a. a a asic k no questions concerning ago or anything el else c but as long as the money monc Is forthcoming aiu any one ol old or young ma may stop It Is a condition tho the peace will have hae to combat In their general crusade for Cor I I I I the betterment of Salt Lake Chief Found F Chief of Police Roderick in company with wilh Harry Joseph went vent slumming Friday All 11 of or the tho dives on un the west ost side were ere 1 visited and in speaking of or the conditions prevailIng Chief said saidI Id r I found a deplorable condition of or affairs We Yo e visited all of the saloons and in this tills section and I Intend Intend to lo have hao a general cleaning up I ordered the saloon aloon men to take the locks off the doors to the thc and nd to 10 remove remo tho ho couches at once Unless these places are ale conducted Ina Ina in a more macre decent fashion Cashion In the tho future I hall not hc hesitate to revoke the licenses or of f the saloon aloon keepers who violate the theol ol orders es e's given Shen them theta We 0 found hordes of f negroes living ln I in tenement houses which I believe e Is the breeding place for or many crimes hen When asked if he Intended to deall de- de tall all a to assist the tIme juvenile court ourt officers in their theil work Chief Mc- Mc Ic- Ic Cenzie Kenzie said The matter has been een called to my attention hut a ab as we are aie a little shorthanded shorthanded short- short handed landed at pre present it will be he ble le to spare a policeman for fOI this work worl but ut I 1 hope to be bo able to do so ISO in the thc neal ear future Of or course courte the d part part- art art- ment nent will co operate with the Ju court In its work always Enforce Curfew Law Iau Chief McKenzie stated that strict Instructions have been given patrolmen patrolmen patrol- patrol men to enforce the tIme curfew law to the I otter Jetter Speaking of or the poolrooms of the I ell city ity he said ald Saturday I shall shull eyer very every poolroom in the thc elt city kind and will give ive the proprietors orders that these laces must not be bo kept open on Sun- Sun lIars days I am nun determined that the law lawshall aw shall liall be enforced with reference to toliese th these liese se places as they are th tho cause of the he ruin of many young oung men inca Chief McKenzie's work Is the first that hat has been done by the Salt SnIt Lake Lalic police department in a year ear and a half toward the purification of Salt Lake The Thu juvenile court has conducted poolroom pool- pool room oom raids and the tho work will be prosecuted prosecuted pros pro to a finish |