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Show LADY OFFICER FOR POLICE FORCE Whether Ogden shall have a lady police officer Is a question up to the superintendent of public sutety and the hoard of commissioners to decide, as the various women's organizations of the flt hav- petitioned the commissioners com-missioners to consider the advisability of appointing such an officer and the mutter was referred this morning to t ommissloner T. S. Browning, superintended super-intended of public safety The organizations that ar petitioning petition-ing for a lady police officer are the W C. T U., the Ladies' Federated unions of all the wards, the Home Culture and the Child Culture clubs, and the Ogden Historical soclet The women have no particular grievance, but they state in their petition that there are a numher of nlaces in the city where a woman police officer could accomplish much good, among them being the "recesses and stairways stair-ways on Wanhlngton avenue, from Twenty-third to Twenty-fifth street," particularly on the east side of the avenue; Qranl avenue, between Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Streets; the northeast corner of Twenty-third street and Washington where stands the ruins of the Parry block and the old Utuhna park pavilion on Twenty, fifth street Immediately east of the Ogden theatre. No one has been suggested for the position, but the women stntf that a name will he forthcoming if the board of commissioners decide to give them representation on the force |