| Show All You Need Do At This Hotel Is Just Jus Juso To o Sign ign the Register I There Is a hotel In Salt Lake that thatIs Is not In imi the tho city directory director It serves seres no meals has no hops bell and In fact the only onh tiring thins about It that smacks of or hotel life lire Is tho the register Ing lag the tho lack of or modern Improvements It Is well patronized The Tire hotel Is In Inthe Inthe inthe the basement at police headquarters and tire the patrons p. ore are known knowlI in police parlance p as sleepers Every winter r In Salt Lake and In all cities for that matter there Is a abating floating bating element clement composed of or men who do not possess enough h money to bu buy a place to sleep These men do what the they can call find to Td O and antl merley melley elce eke out un existence until the summer comes come Then they get employment as laborers rs as a 3 rule on public construction construction tion work While the number of sleepers vades vares varies va va- va- va des res ries considerably each night ht the thc number number number num num- ber hat hardly ly ever eyer runs under twenty- twenty five ive and often and otten twice reaches that num nuni ber They have rave a warm war place to sleep although no beds are arc provided pro and amid wh hen n morning comes the they are driven out like so many sheep To 10 get tet a place to sleep the applicant must go direct to the thc desk sergeant at police headquarters There he hc gives gl hi his name ago age nationality and occupation tion Then he hc follows the Jailer down the corridor and is ushered into the sleeping apartment t. t While It Is Ss supposed ed that tho the men will viiI not sponge pon e off the city and come conic comeback comeback back night after night nevertheless as long Ions as a sleeper behaves cs himself he need not sleep In the streets Now It Is Just as Important to register regIster reg ister at the time hotel run b by me tire police asit as 18 asIt It Is to register at any first class hotel In iii America Only a few tew nights ht ago ngo Jailer Ripley went to the tho desk sergeant and arid got the names of or the sleepers Then he hied bled himself to the basement and checked up To his iris surprise and also to the tire of ot surprise the ers ert he found that 13 had failed to register Tile The follows had slipped in ono one at a r time and ond did not think they would bo be caught It sometimes happens happen that a fellow tellow really of oC sonic some r and In hard luck applies H for tor a place to sleep One night recently r a young yount man stepped Into in into In- In to headquarters h s and asked for tor a. a place to sheen sleen When asked for tor hI his v fl Jak I he hesitated FInal Finally he hc gave ave his 11 name namo a 0 and blushed HB Roe sal said he was working his wa way to the coast and nud that It was the first time ho had ever begged hes for fora a place to I f The police pollee havo a ai reason n for tor accommodating ll com com- these men As s s long as they have a place to sleep p and can earn carn enough to pa pay for tor what the they keep out of or mischief If It the fellows I were not accommodated with sleeping quarters quarters- thc they would roam the streets ts and get Into trouble with the tho police I |
