Ogden Daily Standard | 1909-08-19 | Page 4 | Women Are Unsafe in Salt Lake

WOMEN ARE UNSAFE IN SALT LAKE I I II I Here Horo Is II a news item from Crom a Salt Lake Lule Imper ImperI I Several complaints have been re I calved from Crom G A R It veterans and other encampment visitors wi with th ref rerI I to downtown rooming houses I lat at which the they stopped during encamp encampment ment Sonic Some of these bearing the SIgns o of hotels and room roomIng roomIng Ing hOll houses s presented a respectable lo ex cx tenor but the ho visitors learn d on slopping at these places that the they were far from respectable Some of these complaints have hae been brought to the of the tho count county at torno and the county authorities will investigate thom them Notice wIll be filed wIth property owners In the downtown section Informing them of the tho charac chamac ten tel of their tenants If the county au then ties become con Immoral places are ure being conducted at th these o I room rooming In houses prosecutions of the thep p property crt owners will vIll lie be begun under the law passed Lly by the last state legis which maLeH the tho property own Ors for hue tho conduct of their tenant t Arc Aro the lie of Salt Sail Lake or the tho higher authorities so bind that Ule they see this spread of the UIO evils elIs of the demimonde throughout that city who have hae been In Salt Luke Lake of late lato report a deplorable con Ien are arc accosted on the UlO streets and after 10 at night OIL corta I II streets particularly State street below Second South It is un tin or women PI girls of to bo be the street streetwalkers walkers having discredited all woman womanhood womanhood hood und and emboldened the libertines and rOlles At all times of da day women me 1110 ogled stared at by br corner COrDer loaf loafers ers and the atmosphere h is surcharged with tho coarse remarks of these mashers Salt Lake uever neer should hare hao ills Its ILs restricted Where the vice hind grown glown least resist resistance ance there It should shoud have hae been held with the best Until the world grows better the larger cities always will have hae this problem of to ponder over oer and so 50 fur far nothing promising than a restricted district has been of offered as a solution