The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-03-02
Such cruelty to children should be

Such cruelty to children should be
punished, and punished severely.
A crowd of hoodlums are growing up in
the Park, who some day viii make things
i!yeIy Tor the community in which they re
sac. Ihey make night hideous now with
ehSlr ooscenlty and vulgarity, and are fit
SUBJECTS Tor the reform school. The con-
ultlon OF these boys is directly chargeable
70 lhelr parents. for too many of them
turn oot their little ones on the streets
70 grow up as best they can almost as soon
as they are able to walk. Many little ones
HoI over six years can be seen, pulling
away at cirgarettes and swearing like
troopers" These boys never realize the
dressings and comforts of a home life, and
become hardened sinners before they are
out of their knickerbockers. The passage
OF the anti-tobacco bill, the strict enforce
ment OF the city's curfew ordinance and
the sending of a few Of the 'toughs' to
the reform school, would no doubt have a
beneficial effect. Something in the line of
reformation should be done in this direc-
ton.
Only one case came up before the police
court this week. "0ld Jack'' CARPENTER
was arrested Sunday night for indecent
exposure and on Monday was given
twenty days and S25' by Justice
Hayt. His arrest was the outcome of a
general row that occurred at his residence
on Heber avenue, sometimes known as the
Carpenter Dive" Mrs. Carpenter. Mrs.
Beckett and Mrs Reese "entertain'' at
this place and some high old times are in
dulged in. Old Jack was not satisfied with
the way things were going Sunday night
and laid cut Scotty Hunter, one of the
gentlemen visitors, with an aXhandle.
The officers were called but Scotty had
disappeared and as Carpenter was
still ranting around he was taken
In on the above charge. The Car
penter "home" is one of the lowest
Of the low, and something should be
done by the proper authorities to break it
up. Almost any kind of Il case of the AZ.
and L." order could be made up, and few
OF its occupants placed where they belong,
uncer the restraint of the law.
THE HERALD and Tribune have been re
Gently discussing Salt Lakes water ques-
ton and the possibility of securing Big
Cottonwood creek as permanent source
of supply and have dismissed the subject
on account of the immense outlay that
would be necessary to secure it. Neither
paper has touched on the question OF
storage at the head of the creek, in which
we believe IS the solution of the water
problem for Salt Lake city At the head
OF Big Cottonwood callon are eight lakes.
Brighton's lake, the two Twin lakes, lake
Mary, lake Martha, lake Catherine and
Phoebe and Dog lake, each of which is q
natural reservoir. Brighton's lake, lake
Mary, Dog lake and the Twin lakes, at q
very small cost, can be so increased il
size that millions OF gallons of water car
be stored which in the fall, winter anc
early spring runs TO waste. We believe
enough water could be stored in these res
ervoirs, and the right of no one infringeC
/ upon which with the present supDly froU
City Creek, would furnish city Of 100. O0
inhabitants. 1t may not be possible, bu
the matter should be talked up, and, i
possible, the lakes secured by the city be
fore private parties work up scheme t
establish reservoirs, which is now beinl
thought Of.
G. A. S.