Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-23 | Page 6 | Plaza Apartment Tenants Charge Manager Interferes with Delivery of Milk; Allege Tribute Demanded

PLAZA APARTMENT TENANTS CHARGE MANAGER INTERFERES WITH DELIVERY OF MILK; ALLEGE TRIBUTE DEMANDED Tenants of the Plaza apartments in the Orpheum theatre building today sent a petition to the mayor and city commission declaring the manager of the apartment house refuses to permit delivery of milk to be made to them unless the dairymen pays tribute to the manager of the apartments. The dairymen, also, has notified the mayor and commission of the alleged demand for a tribute. The dairyman, Charles Smith, sirjs tho tribute was paid unknown to him, by an employe. When the tribute in the form of milk and cream was stopped, Smith says he was denied entrance to the apartments apart-ments with his milk. Tho pctjton follows: "To the Honorable Mayor and Board of Comissioners of Ogden, Utah. "Gentlemen' The undersigned tenants ten-ants of the Plaza apartments desire to call your attention to the practice followed by the manager of this apartment, apart-ment, and earnestly request an investigation inves-tigation and adjustment thereto. "The Kleenmllk Dairy delivers milk to tho doors of the undersigned, and for this privilege tho manager of the Plaza apartments demands a tribute of $13.50 per month, payment to be made in milk and cream. The manager man-ager of the Kleenmilk Dairy declines I to pay. this tribute and has been forbidden for-bidden admittance to the Plaza apartments apart-ments to serve customers after May 1, 1920. "It will be neither practical or just for said undersigned tenants of (he Plaza apartments to meet their dairyman dairy-man in the street to carry their dairy products to the various apartments. ''Therefore, we, jointly and severally, several-ly, pray for an order restraining the manager of the Plaza apartments from interfering with the delivery of milk and cream to tho doors of our apartments apart-ments by the Kleenmllk Dairy company. com-pany. "(Signed) Mrs. W. L. Reichardt, W. E. Bates, Mrs. R. W. McKell. B. Rock-hill, Rock-hill, Mrs. L. Lynch. George E. Mitchell, Mitch-ell, Mrs. L. B. Kroft Mrs. J. H. Waugh, Mrs. G. M. French, 'W. S Law Mrs. E. B Estes, R. A. Brown, Mrs. B. Case, C. R. Beatty, William P. Parry, V. R. Mason, Mrs. E. Ramel, R. Stewart." Dairyman's Statement "Ogden, Utah, April 23, 1920. ' "Mr. C. S. Smith, manager Kleenmilk Kleen-milk Dairy company, deposes and. makes the following statement: "Unknown to me my milk delivery-:man delivery-:man has been paying the manager of (the Plaza apartments $13.50 per month payments being made in daily delivery of milk and cream for the privilege of delivering mijk ahd cream to -tenants in said Plaza apartments. "Upon discontinuing this said payment pay-ment of $13.50 per month, I have been denied admission to said Plaza apartments apart-ments for the purpose of delivering milk and cream to tenants after May 1, 1920. 'Charles Smith, Manager Kleenmilk Dairy Company."