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Show ABOUT THIS, I THAT AND TOTHER By D. J. G. I If were the owndr of a store in the business soctlon of Ogden I should disllko to see the red lines PAlnted upon tho ( urb which announce an-nounce to tho world. "No Parking Here." I should b afraid that whoppers whop-pers who come to town in automobiles automo-biles would get peeved upon seeing the red markings and would go some place elso where they could park. Of course come buslnem houses must have facilities to load their delivery de-livery enrr but tn-re aro other stores with "No Parking" sltrn.s in front of thorn, and these have alleys in which they could do their loading, thus providing more space for parking. And Ogden needl plenty of parking space Any observer of the situation situa-tion horn on Saturday known what o flock of automobiles comes In from the agricultural district. A trade monthly tells the story of a Ixs Angeles merchant who was i crowded from the business center by the high ronta He thought he was done for as he moved to tho outskirts out-skirts of the town But he had friends and he advertised. And lo and behold, he does as much business In the low rent district as he did In the high rnt district. Why? Because Be-cause he called attention to the fact that there was plenty of parkin? space at his new store. His customers cus-tomers and nearly all had autos could drive up to his store, park and shop without trouble They couldn't do It In the high rent section sec-tion Salt Lake had a one-hour parking ordinance It meant that shoppers who camf- to the business section In automobiles could not leave their cars parked agalnnt the curb for more than one hour without facing arrest. When the motor shoppers, however, began to do their trading in Sugarhouso instead ot in Solt I JJ-1 T, Un V (UJ , L I I UC7 I 1 IJll 111 part of tho business men to get the time limit extended another hour. There are lessons In those Incidents Signing himself "A Cave Man," a rffldcnt of Five Points writes to this column about the cav northeast of Five Points and Its discovery two years ago as follows "On Jun" 14, 1920, a party consisting con-sisting of a number of residents of Five Points made o trip aft'T nork-j nork-j lng hours to tho so-called cave, ox-' ox-' Istence of which previously havlnp been known to a number of North Ogden people The ne, located In ' What is loi ally known a3 Garner's canyen. has lt.s entrance about half way up In the face of a cliff on the I north side of the gulch The mouth of tho. cave looks up towards the sky at an anple of about 4n decrees. To reach the entrance ascent must be made up this perpendicular rock some twenty-five feet At the time of the above mentioned trip, access could be had Into about twenty feet of a very low tunnel. By breaking through a large stalactite and worming' worm-ing' our way through a fissure at times hardly large enough to admit ad-mit a mountain rat. we reached two small cavities which at tho time of entrance -wore hung with some formations for-mations of silica deposit. These, however, how-ever, were not as numerous as has been reported. "Now as to publicity. As soon as word went forth, as matters Bpread from mouth to mouth, vandallstlc Inclined hoodlums proceeded to the I spot, gained entrance and deliberately deliberate-ly or otherwise clubbed the few hanging hang-ing formations onto the floor of the I two small cavities. Now Mr, Ed-I Ed-I Itor. whv deceive the public? Theso mountains are scattrod with just such crevlcea and fissures caused by Percolation of water through the rocks. The cave in worth a visit to anyone who happens In that loealltv, but not extensive enough to Justify developing a campaign of publicity." As William Jennings Bryan, who was here lant week, ntnnds upon tho platform he gles the impression of perpetual tranquility and even temper. tem-per. However, he sometimes shows petulance and Irritation. During the Roosr velt-Taft-WUaon fracas. Bryan was sent to Ogden to campaign. He spoke at the Ogden theatre Bryan had been having a pretty tough job. speaking night and day His Ogden address took place about C o'clock and perhaps he was hungry' as he launched Into his talk for Woodrow Wilson, then little known. The late Roy NoggU. who was killed in an airplane accident, was Ogden'e only photographer who had tho instincts of a newspaper camera man He would go anywhere to get a picture. Noggle was retained to get a picture of Bryan as he harangued ha-rangued from tho stage of the Ogden Og-den theatre To do this Noggle had set up a fearsome flashlight apparatus ap-paratus and he had his camera on a tripod with this flashlight paraphernalia para-phernalia In the left front stage entrance. en-trance. Bryan had just got warmed up to his subject. The stage was rather dark and he did not see Noggle with his apparatus lurking In the .shadows, waiting for a climax. Finally Fi-nally Bryan reached one and assumed as-sumed n characteristic gesture "Zoom." said Noggle'a flashlight machine ma-chine Tnt whole audhmce was startled So was Bryan. He stopped and gave Noggle a decidedly long and hard look but finally went on, his good start spoiled. One of the newspaper men went to Noggle and suggested that perhaps per-haps It would be better to take another an-other plcturo as the one Just taken might prove faulty. One would think that the sensation caused by the first blast would cause the photographer to hesitate. But he didn't. He moved his apparatus over to tho other side and waited for another dramatic moment mo-ment When It came he let go again. This last was too much for tho Commoner's frozaled nerves. He stopped his address, turned around and read tho riot act to Noggle, who listened to him calmly and then proceeded to dismantle his apparatus. When Bryan again turned to his audience, au-dience, Noggle woe soon out and away. Beth pictures were fine. Whether the interruptions were to blame or his general tiredness, I don't know, but many Bryan admirers ad-mirers said his address that day was not up to his usual standard. |