Show CAN BE SAVED WHAT THE CHIEF OF POLICE WOULD DO J he favors making a detention home of part of the city jail building 1 As a partial remedy and aid to confirmed inebriates chief browning of the police force is endeavoring to have the residence portion of the city jail turned into a detention hospital the basement he contends can bo used as a kitchen while the city jailer can be housed apart from tho jail a condition HIM would prove more agreeable to all concerned there are in the city wasted men whose lives are spent between the city jail and the nearest saloons repeatedly they are picked up by officers dragged from the alleyways and oven gutters and hauled to the station their names are written on page after page of the register and every time they are brought up for a new sentence or to servo out an old one they are just a trifle farther along the downward path it Is these that chief browning would put in the detention hospital anil attempt to save for there are some he asserts worth saving not only men but a number of women are numbered with tho inveterate consumers of intoxicants occasionally they are driven out of tho city as there being no detention hospital in ogden nothing can be done to reclaim them and long terms in the city jail only whets their appetites they promise ind swear by all that is sacred not to touch another drop but the authorities have learned what they mean when they make such declarations la rations by treating them as human beings it is claimed by the chief that anany of them could be made to abhor the life they lead and be turned to more worthy pursuits the city jail he declares is no place tor a family when prisoners are obstreperous it is necessary to place them in the dungeon and their cries of profanity and obscenity penetrates to every corner of the building As outlined by the chief the plan is being considered and there is a fair chance that the mayor and city council will act favorably |