The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-01-24
SHOULD BE LOOKED AFTER.
Boys Who Are Contracting Very Bad
Habits.

That the police are needed in the
eastern part of town again is evident.
For some six or seven years past there
has been a tough element CT boys, rang
lngi in age from II years to q, who seem
TO delight in making their rendezvous
around Ninth East M Second South
streets. The older ones, of course, are
to blame, for, d~elighting in petty vices
themselves, they seem to invite and en-
courage the younger boys to Join them.
Some year or two ago this congre-
cation would assemble nightly and, at
the intersection of the streets men
toned, insult ladies as they passed,
smoking, swearing, building bonfires
n sitting around them playing cards,
reading dime novels, ETC., until ladies
were afraid after dark to pass. Things
went on to such an extent that the po-
lice were sent there several times to
disperse the crowd, and for awhile there
was an Improvement, but after a time q
store and barber shop was run on the
corner with a billiard room, etc, in
the back apartments, where things
were also carried on to such an extent
that all decent people in the vicinity
were disguised. The party running the
place finally had to leave, and later,
some six months $780,, the whole corner
was destroyed by fire. which. to an
OANCill, 0CClllS " DdN2 ulSDGlleu the
crowd, but now another evil is caused
by younger boys, and if information
is correct, officers should be sent to that
part of town and break up these
crowds.
In a little shack on the southeast cor
ner Of Ninth East and Second South
two boys are said to sleep, their father
living in a little house close by. The
building is a one-stOry affair, and con-
TninC 0C,-0lx- n .cr1nl1 hAI-%l,I - -
little stove. The boys of the vicinity
seem to delight in congregating nightly
at this place, sitting around on the floor
until midnight - after. The older
boys will not admit the young ones
without they, once or twice a week,
bring their nickels to help buy fuel, Gig
aretteS or such as the case may be,
and if they cannot do this they must
furnish a sack of coal every so often
in order to gain admittance. If they
have no nickels to give or money TO
buy coal, they must bring the same
anyway, whether taken by younger
boys, with no intention of soing wrong,
from their w folks coal sheds, or if
not that, from sheds of the neighbors.
We are informed that some congre-
gate there, their parents not knowing
where they are, as they return to their
homes early, and they suppose they
have merely been playing around:
Others have gone so far that their par
ents seem to a v no control over them.
This should all be stopped and the
places broker up.
Last Saturday evening a family liv-
ing on Ninth East street thought they
heard, about 10 o'clock in the evening,
some n in the coal shed of the family
next door. The next morning it was
reported, and from all appearances
three or four sacks of coal had been
taken, and that THIS was correct. was
shown by the fact that small pieces
were dropped from the back yard to
the gate, where no further trace could
be seen. While it may not have been
these same boys that stole this coal
still. for the good of the community and
the boys concerned. these congregations
should not be permitted.
1t is understood that there is a place
to this OF Second South street.
between Eighth and Ninth East, and
on Eighth East, between Second
and Third South. where about the same
things are carried on, if not nightly, at
least very often.