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Show STOKB MAY OPEN"' SATURDAY NSGS1T Movement to Grant the Clerks a Half-Holiday Wednesdays and Keen the Business Houses Open Until 9 0 'Clock at the Week's ! End Banks Will Continue to Close at Noon. I i J tied a counter movement, started to-! to-! day, will have to be given consideration. considera-tion. When It was learned that the clothing men had practically agreed to the Wednesday half holiday and y o'clock Saturday night closing plan, those Immediately Interested in tho other plan of shortening tho hours j got busy, and are now putting forth an earnest effort to get the advocates of the clothing store Idea to with-' with-' draw irom the held and permit the ! present regulation to stand. Just ! what the outcome will ho is problematical. problem-atical. Rumor had It, loo, that there arc many who are- dissatisfied with the Saturday middav bank closing order, claiming that It Is turning the saloons into veritable banking houses Saturday Satur-day afternoon. The heads of the bnnking Institutions Institu-tions of the city havo been conferred with on the quel-fl. in, and they state that the' objection Is far fetched , They instituted the Saturday closing at 12 o'clock rule upon the earnest solicitation of the leading business men of the city and. since tho rule went into effect, tho bankers state, there has not leen a single complaint . made to them. They say also that It I Is a universal rule in the cities of the United States, and that as soon as tho people of Ogden become accustomed accus-tomed to It they will not notice tbo difference between tho closing of the banks at 12 o'clock Saturday. It appears that the Saturday night 7 o'clock cloying rule I.s not alto-ge.her alto-ge.her satisiactory to Mho merchants of Ogden. and a movement has been on since yesterday morning to Inaugurate Inau-gurate another plan of furnishing better bet-ter hours for the clerks. It Is contended that there are some business houses in the Miv that will not aree to th rule -.tabli-'hod last Saturday, namely, a few clothing Vmses. and that the Sal unlay nignt trade will necessarily be turned to them, inn b to ihe detriment of other clothing houses in The city, and. It Is also said, that inan men working I 1 for wages do not get away fiom their j work until 0 o'clock In the evening, and that if tho stores of the city close every night in the week at an early hour, they have no opportunity to purchase clo'.hing and shoes and I other goods that they need; Uiat the early closing hour Saturday night I greatly impairs tho trade of clothing and hoe houses and works a hardship hard-ship on the working man. To correct this, several clothing hoi:es h.no decided to give a half-holiday half-holiday on Wednesday of ea"h week and close the storey at 0 o'clock on Sa'urdny night, ihe closing time for Saturday night to apply, however, only to the male clerks, the lady eloiks and bookeepors t be permitted to leave their work at 7 o'clock If they so deslie. If this rule bo established estab-lished it will be continued during tho months of July and August. Nearly all the clothing bouses have agreed 1 to this plan j Hut . before the matter is fully sot-I sot-I , - |