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Show I THE BUCKET OF BLOOD IN SALT LAKE. The reform administration seems to have fallen far short of Its mls-gion mls-gion in Salt Lake. The "Progressive" "Progres-sive" of that city describes an establishment estab-lishment in a basement at the corner of Main and Second South streets, as follows: "This place is referred to by the men about town and rounders as the 'Bucket of Blood" and 'Mad House ' Fights are frequent and on Christmas night they produced for the edification edifica-tion of its patrons a free-for-all In which beer bottles were the faorito weapon. Several were hit over the head and badly damaged. Blood and gore were spilt in quantity This place is frequented by the underworld of both sexes, and unknowingly girls of tender age and respectability are taken there by their escorts, who do not realize the real character of the place. There they are thrown in contact with the very' lowest of humanity, hu-manity, and started on their down ward path. There are a number ol other places in the city in the same I class, wnere our young maies ana men are started on the route that pulls them In the gutter. Somebody is to blame for allowing such places to exist in the very heart of the city. Ogden has its bad places, but nothing noth-ing to compare with the "Bucket of Blood" in the capital. When this city was on an equality with Salt Lake in licensing the liquor traffic, there was a constant demand from the reformers in Salt Lake that OgdeD be closed up Of late there have been regular prize fights, open sa loons and midnight revelries in the capital, but no one, other than the Progressive, Is at present concerned. The purifiers evidently feel content to rest By the way, we understand that a quiet campaign is on over the entire state to make Utah "dry" by 1916 Some people high in authority have been consulted and the crusader? have been encouraged to go on with their propaganda. Interesting de velopments are promised |